Has yoga had a profound effect on your life? Have you felt stuck in talk therapy and craved something that addressed more than your analytical side? Come to these experiential workshops on yoga therapy to learn what yoga therapy is, how it is different than yoga classes and also different than talk therapy. Each month’s workshop will focus on one particular life challenge and will include lecture, movement, meditation, artwork, and take home tools you can use for your own mental and emotional well being. All are welcome.
Workshops are one Friday/month from 5:30-7:30pm $20 February 19: Grief March 11: Trauma April 15: Body Image May 6: Anxiety
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Are you interested in joining an 8-week series on Yoga for Resilience or Yoga for Lovingkindness? Join us for a free sneak peek!
*We will also be hosting a donation-drive for the new encampment site at . Please consider bringing canned food items, socks, hats or other clothing to be donated at the end of the week.* Tuesday, March 15 10:30-11:45am: Yoga for Resilience 6:30-7:45pm: Yoga for Lovingkindness
Thursday, March 17 10:30-11:45am: Yoga for Lovingkindness 6:30-7:45pm: Yoga for Resilience
Does trauma, depression or anxiety feel stuck in your body and mind? Are you looking for tools to help you bounce back and navigate the storms of life? Resilience is “the power or ability to return to the original form, position, etc., after being bent, compressed, or stretched; elasticity” and “the ability to recover readily from illness, depression, adversity, or the like; buoyancy.” Many of the challenges we face (trauma, depression, grief, etc.) knock us off our feet. Yoga and meditation can be helpful tools in cultivating resilience physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. In this 8-week series you will: – cultivate community – foster a safe container for your own individual healing – calm the nervous system – meditate using a particular style of meditation called yoga nidra – learn yoga philosophy that supports resilience – optional group discussions before and after movement Series starts: Tuesday, April 12 from 10:30-11:45am or Register . Thursday, April 14 from6:30-7:45pm Register .
: Supporting Rate: $199 Sustaining Rate: $149 Sponsored Rate: $99
Do you want to strengthen your kindness muscles? Are you looking for tools to help stop self-critical thoughts? Join this community focusing on building our muscles of compassion, forgiveness and equanimity. Metta, literally translated as gentle friend, is a practice that encourages intentions for safety, emotional health, physical health and peace. The practice has been shown to decrease pain and depression and increase connection. In this 8-week series you will: – learn meditation that fosters compassion and empathy – learn to speak more kindly to yourself and others – practice compassion and forgiveness in yoga poses – learn tools to use for support when life feels hard – discuss bringing these tools into your daily life, family, community and world Series starts: Tuesday , April 12 from 6:30-7:45pm or Register . Thursday, April 14 from 10:30-11:45am Register .
: Supporting Rate: $199 Sustaining Rate: $149 Sponsored Rate: $99
How do I find my voice as a yoga teacher? Now that I’m RYT200, what am I going to do with that training? How can I make a living at teaching yoga? Do I want teaching yoga to be my livelihood?
Growing Yoga Teachers is a program designed especially to help find answers to these questions and more. Designed around the needs of recent yoga teacher training program graduates who are finding their voice and want more connection and feedback. The program is a series of 10 monthly 4 hour workshops covering issues that come up in class, enhancing your teaching, and business issues that come up as a yoga teacher. Each month for 10 months these small group workshops will provide community and support to yoga teachers. Material covered will be a honing and deepening of the subjects you were introduced to during your 200hr Yoga Teacher Training in order to help you discover what kind of a teacher you want to be. All styles and lineages welcome. We’ll provide support around creating workshops, the challenging student, integrating yoga philosophy and the 8 limbs into our lives and teaching, and much more. We’ll also guide you through the process of making your yoga teaching dreams cometrue, regardless of if your goal is to teach one class a week, or to have a whole career in yoga.
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“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection,” the Buddha said. Maitri, or lovingkindess, is a practice for cultivating gentle friendliness towards oneself and others. Come practice and explore this transformative practice through movement, meditation, journaling, discussion and silence. This is a primarily silent retreat, which can be a powerful practice to slow down, take time to be with ourselves and practice getting in touch with the kindness that lives inside of all of us. This retreat is appropriate for both beginning and experienced yoga and meditation students. Go to learn more and register.
Come find balance on Whidbey Island while we explore the practices of yin yoga, yang yoga and yoga nidra. Yin yoga is a cool, quiet practice of holding poses for several minutes for the purposes of stretching and flexibility. Yang yoga is a heating, active practice used to build strength. Yoga nidra is a guided meditation used for deep relaxation. Go to learn more and register.