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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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