Treat yourself to a blissful evening practice in the yoga dome with massage therapist and yoga movement specialist, Kerry Walker. Come and experience the benefits of restorative yoga and healing bodywork. This two-hour class will start with a gentle yoga sequence to warm up muscles to maximize release and relaxation. Then you will be guided into relaxing restorative yoga postures with the aid of belts, bolsters and blankets. The instructors will further relax you with massage. Class is limited to 6 people.
$55 per class.
Limit 6 participants
Pre-registration required.
This in person series is designed with beginners in mind. You do not need to be in shape, flexible or know what you are doing. Of course you are welcome to come if you are in shape and have done yoga in the past. We will move slowly through basic yoga poses, work with props to find ease and proper alignment and learn to tune in to our bodies so that we can each determine the right amount of stretching, strengthening and relaxing that we need at any given moment.
We will meet in the beautiful Yoga Dome (63 Willis Farm Rd) which has mats, blocks, bolsters and blankets. All you need to do is put on some comfortable clothing, fill your water bottle and show up. Kerry is an experienced yoga teacher/yoga therapist and is able to adapt the class to all bodies.
We all are drawn to yoga for different reasons. Some want to increase their flexibility, some want to gain strength, some are recovering from an injury and want to find balance in their bodies, some are looking to reduce stress... No matter why you are interested, we hope you will join us, and begin (or begin again) your practice. Your mind and your body will thank you.
Breathwork for reclamation, a series of summer workshops is dedicated to supporting an individual in reclaiming their voice, power, true vibration and essence. Allowing the breath to be the path back within, connecting us more deeply to our physical, energetic, spiritual and emotional body. With this connection, we enhance our ability to feel our intuition. Through the guidance of each intuitive nudge, our choices, direction, and way through life will be deeply aligned with who we are. We will no longer be entangled in the limiting beliefs we have about ourselves because we will understand that these stories were never our truth. Our truth is soft and gentle; our truth is rooted in love.
Through
this journey, we will free ourselves from the shackles of
limitations and barriers that
have
kept us small and step fully into our light and true nature.
Breathwork
for reclamation is about reclaiming who we have always
been.
Join
Ashley Hodgetts, a trauma-informed breathwork facilitator in the
dome every last Tuesday
of
the month from 7:30-8:30 pm to experience a meditative breath
session.
TRE®
& Yoga is a simple, gentle and profound practice that
facilitates the lengthening and relaxation of the psoas muscle and
the release of physical and emotional stress and tension. During
this TRE® & Yoga workshop, you will learn about the stress
response, polyvagal theory and how yoga and TRE® can support a
healthy nervous system. I will guide you through a series of
exercises and yoga postures designed to elicit the tremor response.
TRE® is intended to be used as a self-help method that is easily
learned, has immediate effects and can be integrated into a simple
daily routine to help restore a sense of inner-peace and
relaxation. This method is based on Dr. David Berceli’s technique
of Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises® (TRE®).
http://www.<wbr />traumaprevention.com
Pre-registration
is highly recommended due to limited capacity. Handouts and access
to a Google Drive with resources will be made available to
participants.
This practice combines yoga & TRE® which stimulates the body’s natural, therapeutic shaking response. This shaking response in humans, much the same as the instinctual shaking in animals (read: dog in a thunderstorm), is the nervous system’s way of discharging long-held tension, or unconscious muscle contractions held in the body (sometimes as a result of accumulated stress, trauma, injury, surgery, or habitual contraction patterns/posture variations) in order to restore the body to a felt sense of wholeness. When the nervous system identifies a threat, vibration or shaking in the body is designed to occur automatically. However, negative social constructs and beliefs around what it means to allow ourselves to shake, tremor, or show vulnerability, condition us out of this innate release mechanism at an early age. TRE® reawakens your body’s intrinsic shaking mechanism for optimal health. For more info go here: https://maitrisomatics.<wbr />com/the-tre-workshop/
About Joann:
Joann tried her first TRE® group class as a participant to bring more ease to her own experiences living with complex PTSD. Joann credits TRE® for bringing more balance and healing to her bodymind. Since tremoring regularly her incidences of chronic pain (back & neck), irritable bowel, sleep disturbances, tmj and anxiety, that interfered with her ability to work and thrive, have all reduced significantly. Joann studied with Jay Gleason MS, LCMHC, LADC of Burlington, VT and assisted several TRE® provider Level 1 & 2 certification training. Joann is committed to offering TRE® to people as an affordable and accessible strategy for healing pain, stress, and the symptoms of stress and trauma. Joann teaches Hatha Yoga and Yin yoga in Vermont. She holds a Personal Training certification through the American Council on Exercise and is a Balanced Body pilates instructor. Joann is a certified TRE provider (Tension & Trauma release exercise) and a 500 E-RYT Certified Yoga teacher. You can learn more about Joann and her approach at www.maitrisomatics.com.
Breathwork for reclamation, a series of summer workshops is dedicated to supporting an individual in reclaiming their voice, power, true vibration and essence. Allowing the breath to be the path back within, connecting us more deeply to our physical, energetic, spiritual and emotional body. With this connection, we enhance our ability to feel our intuition. Through the guidance of each intuitive nudge, our choices, direction, and way through life will be deeply aligned with who we are. We will no longer be entangled in the limiting beliefs we have about ourselves because we will understand that these stories were never our truth. Our truth is soft and gentle; our truth is rooted in love.
Through
this journey, we will free ourselves from the shackles of
limitations and barriers that
have
kept us small and step fully into our light and true nature.
Breathwork
for reclamation is about reclaiming who we have always
been.
Join
Ashley Hodgetts, a trauma-informed breathwork facilitator in the
dome every last Tuesday
of
the month from 7:30-8:30 pm to experience a meditative breath
session.