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This workshop is not designed to diagnose a back issue but to offer exercises and movements to stretch, strengthen, and soothe your spine while teaching you to move through your life with more postural awareness and less discomfort. We will incorporate a combination of strengthening postures that engage the back and core muscles for posture, and relaxation postures that will help reduce tension in the spine. The back discomfort we will address is due to muscle tightness, imbalance, or improper alignment.
Donna’s themed classes offer a unique fusion of alignment, anatomy, and strength while delving into the deeper meaning of Yoga. She specializes in modalities for healing in all levels, gentle, and specialty classes that target specific areas of the body or ailments. All of her classes... Read More →
A yogic lifestyle (via love & service) is a full-body prayer. This trauma-informed healing session integrates the ancient eastern wisdom traditions of yoga and ayurveda with western tools for recovery to enhance the participant's understanding of yoga as therapy for recovery. This session offers a trauma-sensitive framework weaving specific practices (asana, pranayama, mindfulness, etc.) designed to reduce stress, anxiety, depression, and other co-occurring symptoms. We will explore a comprehensive approach to emotional sobriety by embodying concepts including surrender, letting go, acceptance, growth, awakening, gratitude, and selfless service as an inquiry into the physical, energetic, mental and emotional body. Come discover the interaction between body, breath, mind, intellect, and emotions - moving towards integrated health and well-being.
Takeaway Certain of the practices are easily replicable. I will bring handouts. This is an introduction to a 100 hour yoga as therapy for recovery training and a yoga for recovery workshop we offer.
Special Instructions to Particip Bring whatever you need, and regularly use for your practice, you might want to bring a journal
A strong core stabilizes the spine and provides support for posture and movement. The spine also is the epicenter for mobility and the vertebrae are designed to move like "pearls on a string". Balancing these two forces is the source of back health as well as the challenge in creating a healthy back practice. In this practice we will explore movement to connect to your core. A flowing sequence of yoga poses will help to unlock the spine and correct muscular imbalances for a pain free back.
For eighteen years, I have been sharing the healing benefits of yoga through the practice of meditation, philosophy and asana. Physical and energy anatomy fascinate me which I incorporate into my classes. I teach a variety of styles from Yin/Restorative/Nidra to Hot Yoga and Aerial... Read More →