Do your knees feel stiff, achy, or vulnerable during yoga or daily life? Join us for “Happy Knees”, a nurturing and informative yoga workshop designed to support long-term knee health through alignment, awareness, and smart movement.
In this workshop, you'll:
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Learn how to protect and strengthen your knees in common yoga poses
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Explore the role of the hips, ankles, and feet in knee stability
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Practice modifications and prop supported variations to avoid strain
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Gain tools to build resilience in your knees for both on and off the mat
Whether you're recovering from an injury, managing chronic discomfort, or simply want to move with more confidence, this workshop is ideal for practitioners of all levels.
Leave feeling empowered, educated, and happier in your knees!
WHEN: Sunday, May 25th from 2:30pm - 4:30pm
COST: $40 per person
Radiant Rhythms Ecstatic Dance is an interactive immersive experience where everyone is invited to free expression through dance and movement. You can move however you like, there is no right or wrong way. All emotions are welcome, joy, sadness, love, grief, but mostly, it's joy! The goal is to get out of your head and get in touch with your body, surrender and let go of judgment. In ecstatic dance, we co-create a safe space to be our authentic selves. You are free to be beautiful, silly, free, and be you! The benefits of ecstatic dance include: relieve stress and tension, mindfulness and relaxation, somatic healing, exercise and play, being our most authentic selves, community and connection.
No experience necessary! We will provide instructions and ease you into the practice. The event begins with an opening circle where we get to know each other and share intentions, followed by an hour and fifteen minute playlist, and a closing circle to share reflections. We will spend time before and after the dance connecting in community. During the dance, there is no talking. This helps us to connect with our bodies and each other nonverbally. The result is often a trance-like and ecstatic experience.
An Inclusive Space: All ages, genders, sexual orientation, and abilities welcome.
Music: A mix of new age, worldbeat, tribal, EDM, trance, arranged in a dance wave, from slow to fast to slow. It is typically 50% non-lyrical.
What to bring: Water bottle, short sleeve, loose clothing, expect to get sweaty! Yoga mat (optional).
Contact: Reach me at cfang2@gmail.com
Clara Fang is the founder of Green Tara Consulting, a consulting firm that specializes in diversity, equity, and belonging. She is an experienced facilitator of ecstatic dance, meditation, and authentic relating. She lives in Germantown, MD.
May 31st | 6:45pm - 9 pm | In Person | $30/Class
INSTRUCTOR
Robert Anderson is an executive, educator, author, and a life-long student and practitioner of the martial arts. He is the Founder of Balanced Arts, an education company specializing in wellness, self-care, and personal development.
He has spent over 30 years providing fitness and wellness instruction as a certified personal trainer, a decorated martial arts instructor, an adjunct professor, and a researcher/writer specializing in the topics of health, fitness, business, and personal development. His clients include athletes, executives, human resource teams, mental health professionals, active seniors, teens, special populations, and social emotional learning programs.
WHAT IS TAI CHI:
Tai Chi is a gentle, low-impact exercise that originated in China
as a martial art. It involves a series of slow, controlled
movements and postures, along with deep breathing and a meditative
state of mind. Tai Chi is often called “meditation in motion”
because its designed to harmonize the body, mind, and energy
levels. It can help with a variety of health concerns, including
flexibility and strength, balance and coordination, stress and
anxiety, depression, and pain relief.
Tai Chi has evolved from a martial art for combat and self-defense into a sport and form of exercise that's increasingly practiced all over the world. There are five popular styles of Tai Chi, each with its own unique methods, principles, and lineage.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP:
Balanced Arts workshops around Tai Chi are designed to introduce
students to the Yang style of Tai Chi. Using seated, standing, and
moving forms, the workshops leverage partner drills (push hands),
as well as some Tai Chi ball and Chi Gong. Workshop participants
experience introductory basics as well as advanced movements and
exercises in order to gain a full understanding of Tai Chi’s
philosophy so that they can begin to incorporate it into their
everyday wellness practice.
In this workshop, experienced and beginning students learn Tai Chi’s four core mental health benefits: calming, grounding, letting go, and creating. Tai Chi’s gentle, low impact mind and body exercises incorporate graceful, relaxing movements that help generate physical and mental balance. E-book workbook included.
Cost & Dates
The cost of this workshop is $99 and covers all dates. (6/1, 6/8, 6/22, 6/29) from 1:00pm - 2:00pm.