Welcome to the NCL celebration yoga class! If you have your own yoga mat, bring it along, and we've also got props to borrow for use. Time available before and after class to shop the boutique!

This workshop is for anyone who could use a little reset while learning some readily available techniques to calm the nervous system quickly and effectively.

A critical part of your parasympathetic nervous system, the vagus nerve carries sensory and motor signals to and from your neck, heart, lungs, and digestive tract.

Learning to tone your vagal nerve helps improve muscles for swallowing, speaking, regulating your heart rate, blood pressure and breathing while impacting digestion. It is the primary connection in the gut-brain axis.

This workshop won’t be an anatomy lesson. That would just be boring!! But we will focus on yoga poses, meditation, breath work and more tips that can benefit you always and especially during stressful times.

Into Stillness workshops present body awareness and flexibility processes that foster greater body-mind-soul communication through meditation, imagination, and a series of quiet, gentle movements. These movements are designed to strengthen your perception of your body’s natural movement that is fluid, easeful, and free of tension and pain. Over the course of the workshop, you’ll move more and more into a state of profound stillness — a stillness formed out of deep communion with your body, where ease and grace arise.

Based on the Bones for Life^® program of Ruthy Alon and the Feldenkrais Method^® of Moshé Feldenkrais, a foundational goal of our work is to promote an easeful state of being by developing an ever-growing understanding of how your body moves naturally.

Our physical forms are designed to move in graceful arcs, circles, and spirals that work best when the entire body participates. When parts of ourselves are prevented from participating in movement due to trauma, pain, tension, or habits, the entire movement is affected, which can in turn exacerbate pain and tension.

As you go through these gentle, guided movements, you will come to recognize where you are holding and how to let more of you participate in each movement, thereby releasing your body’s tension and pain, and activating its full potential for joyful movement. As the process continues, simple movements are combined to form larger, more complex movements, each step carrying forward your awareness of how to make the movement simpler and easier by including more of you.

The workshops are 3 hours long and generally include a series of floor processes that lead you through natural movements designed to develop an internal perception of how the body works organically from deep within rather than being imposed on the body by our mental ideas of how the body should work. Over time, these experiences build a different sense of the internal organization of natural movement, creating greater ease, flexibility, and well-being.

Into Stillness workshops are open to anyone, at all levels. Most often, you will be lying on a mat on the floor on your back, but sometimes on your side or sitting. Please dress in comfortable, loose clothing. Make sure to bring your curiosity about the deep rewards of intentional, mindful body awareness.

3-hour workshop $75 (Unlimited SoulShine members get a $5 discount with code UNLIMITED)