CURRENT WORKSHOPS: 
These creative, comprehensive workshops focus on specific common physical issues. Students will develop awareness of habitual misalignments and learn skills to alleviate pain,  We will also explore the deeper emotional and energetic benefits of specific areas of our bodies. In addition to the current schedule, these are available for bookings at yoga studios, health clubs, wellness centers, hospitals and businesses. 




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Sole to Soul   Yoga for Happy Feet
 
While most of us love shoes, our feet are a different story.  We hide them and ignore them, ultimately losing awareness of what’s even going on down there.


In this workshop you will learn ways to:
  • Correct/prevent/minimize bunions, hammer toes, flat feet
  • Strengthen and stretch your toes, arches and ankles
  • Relieve tension and pain through self massage
  • Become calmer and more grounded as you connect with the earth
  • Improve balance and tap into the reservoir of energy trapped in your soles.
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                                                             The Athlete's Best Friend  
Yin Yoga for chronic tightness and muscle tension 

Yin Yoga is a simple, yet powerfully therapeutic practice that targets the body’s deep connective tissues. Done mostly while seated or lying down, poses are held for 2-5 minutes. This helps hydrate, detox, and protect ligaments, joints and bones and is especially effective in increasing mobility in the hips and spine.
  • Ideal for stiff, inflexible and tight bodies.
  • Prevents muscle burn out from activities like running, cycling, or weight training.
  • No prior yoga experience needed.
  • Increases/maintains range of motion
  • Improves mobility 
  • Quiets the “mind chatter” and relaxes the nervous system. 
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                                                         Trauma informed yoga and healing singing bowls

Trauma-informed yoga is taught in a very specific manner, emphasizing control over one’s own experience, honoring the limits of one’s own body, and inviting trauma survivors to explore their individual experience in every breath and every pose. ​

Using yoga, sound, relaxation techniques and breathwork, this class offers a safe and supportive environment to help survivors:
  • Reconnect with your body
  • Calm your minds
  • Experience emotions directly
  • Regain a sense of control.
  • Learn to re-regulate your nervous system
  • The addition of the soothing sounds of singing bowls, played live by master musician and sound healer, Bernadette Yao, facilitates deep relaxation and optimal healing,
 
This class is appropriate for those over the age of 18 who have experienced violence, abuse, conflict, disaster, and other traumatic events.
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 Walk Like A Parisian  Yoga Posture Clinic

Today’s sedentary and technology-focused lifestyle is a constant challenge to                         proper posture. Yet the importance of good posture is essential to so many areas of our
well-  being including ease of movement, better balance, injury prevention, and all around improved  emotional and physical health. Not to mention turning heads when you walk down the street!
                             

​ In this class, we will:
  • Identify chronic misalignment.
  • Imprint correct posture.
  • Learn ways to strength and stretch the muscles needed to hold our alignment.
  • Explore the energetic effects of eliminating slouching.
  • Enjoy the physical and emotional benefits of healthy posture
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​Yin Yoga for Spine and Joint Health
 
Yin Yoga is a simple, yet powerfully therapeutic practice that targets the body’s deep connective tissues. Done mostly while seated or lying down, poses are held for 2-5 minutes. This helps hydrate, detox, and protect ligaments, joints and bones and is especially effective in increasing mobility in the hips and spine.

  • Ideal for stiff, inflexible and tight bodies.
  • Prevents muscle burn out from activities like running, cycling, or weight training.
  • No prior yoga experience needed.
  • Increases/maintains range of motion
  • Improves mobility 
  • Quiets the “mind chatter” and relaxes the nervous system.
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Release the Weight of the World   
Yoga for Neck, Shoulders, and Upper Back

Atlas was condemned to carry the weight of the entire world on his shoulders. You don’t have to suffer a similar punishment.
                            
 In this class, we will: 
  •  Identify chronic misalignment
  •  Increase flexibility and softness in our upper backs
  •  Explore what we hold emotionally and energetically in our shoulders
  •  Understand the role of the scapula 
  •  Enjoy the opening of the wings of our heart
  •  Release long held physical tension
Wholehearted Yoga with Susan • 978-239-6690