WSY - TAKOMA PARK
Yoga Studio in Takoma Park , MD
Takoma Park , MD , 20912
WSY - TAKOMA PARK
6930 Carroll Avenue, Suite 100 Share on:
Menstruating bodies deserve a little extra care, extra support. This workshop is designed to teach you about and to practice yoga poses that may help your body to ease through the stormy seas of your menstrual cycle. Gentle stretch and Restorative poses come together for your comfort. Every body and everybody that menstruates is welcome. This is an all levels practice.
You will need a few props:
- 2 yoga blocks or 2 large books
- 3 blankets or 3 full size towels or 3 toss pillows from your couch
- 1 bolster or 1 couch cushion or 2 bed pillows wrapped in a towel or throw blanket (to create firm support)
- 1 yoga strap or 1 belt or 1 long scarf or 1 necktie
This workshop will meet online; Zoom meeting links to the workshop will be sent out before the workshop begins. Please enroll at least 12 hours in advance.
Join Penny for a workshop series to explore the how our doshas express in areas that may challenge the various relationships in our life. Our constitutions can affect how we relate to and approach decision making, planning, organization, and time management; careers and finances; affection, love, fidelity, sex and more.
Introduction to Ayurveda would be helpful, but is not required, for the following workshop sessions.
Sunday August 16th
Sunday, September 13th
Sunday, October 11th
This workshop series will meet online; Zoom meeting links to the workshop will be sent out before the workshop begins. Please enroll at least 12 hours in advance.
Restorative poses designed for your comfort, rest and stress relief. Every body and everybody is welcome. This is an all levels practice.
You will need a few props:
- 2 yoga blocks or 2 large books
- 3 blankets or 3 full size towels or 3 toss pillows from your couch
- 1 bolster or 1 couch cushion or 2 bed pillows wrapped in a towel or throw blanket (to create firm support)
- 1 yoga strap or 1 belt or 1 long scarf or 1 necktie
This workshop will meet online; Zoom meeting links to the workshop will be sent out before the workshop begins. Please enroll at least 12 hours in advance.
With the disruption that
currently surrounds us, it’s easy to feel stressed and
overwhelmed. Yoga Nidra, a
guided meditative practice, can help you find a source of internal
stability and resilience. It can ease tension and fatigue, calm the
nervous system, and restore energy.
In
this workshop you’ll:
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Learn centering and relaxation techniques
- Practice gentle asana stretches for joints
and muscles
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Explore yoga breathing techniques
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Be guided through a complete Yoga Nidra
practice.
Yoga Nidra is practiced in a
comfortable lying or seated position. No prior experience needed —
everyone welcome.
This workshop will meet online; Zoom meeting links to the workshop will be sent out before the workshop begins. Please enroll at least 12 hours in advance.
As we enter Autumn, we harvest the growth of Spring and Summer and, like the trees, bring our energy inward to lighten up and release old “leaves” we no longer need.
Autumn is the most potent season for intuition and vision and is associated with the Metal Element in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). In this workshop, we will focus on rejuvenating and invigorating the Organs and Meridians (energy channels) of the Metal Element - the Lungs and Intestines and the transmutation of their negative emotional characteristics.
The Metal energy of Autumn is an expression of new Yin. We will balance the Yin nature of gentle, cleansing asana stretches and breathwork with complementary Yang practices, whilst using meditation, journeying, and deep inward listening to open to our intuitive gifts.
Students of all levels welcome.
This workshop will meet online; Zoom meeting links to the workshop will be sent out before the workshop begins. Please enroll at least 12 hours in advance.
A number of students who participated in our workshops on overcoming trauma and anxiety have said it would be helpful to continue to meet on an ongoing basis. We will start monthly Zoom sessions beginning Sunday, October 4 from 5–6p. WSY yoga teacher Cheryl Kravitz will facilitate the meet-up, which includes discussion, yoga and meditation centered around relieving anxiety.
Join the Accessible Yoga Movement!
Accessible Yoga is an international advocacy organization focusing
on sharing yoga with all. The Accessible Yoga Training focuses on
how to make the yoga teachings available to everyone, regardless of
their level of physical ability. We'll focus on creating integrated
Accessible Yoga classes where all students can practice together.
We’ll explore the many ways that yoga practice can be variated to
suit students with disabilities and physical challenges as well as
seniors.
We'll consider how to make our classes welcoming to everyone, and
to approach students in a trauma-informed way. You'll learn sample
Accessible Yoga classes, chair yoga classes, and even bed yoga
classes. We'll also look at ways of bringing the yoga teachings and
meditation into your classes, and how all of yoga can be used to
support health and healing for every body. We'll review some common
medical conditions so that you have a basic understanding of these
issues.
This course includes 9 additional hours of required pre-course
homework that is to be completed before the start of the course.
Graduates of the program become Accessible Yoga Ambassadors and
connect with a network of Accessible Yoga teachers and students
around the world. Participants who have completed a 200-hour yoga
teacher training will receive 30 Yoga Alliance CE hours.
Limited scholarships are available; apply here. Application deadline for scholarships is September 1, 2020.
This workshop weekend is for movement educators as well as the general public.
It includes four workshops taught over the course of two days and will include the exercises and sequences from Trina’s new book, Yoga Deconstructed®: Transitioning from rehabilitation back into the yoga studio. Participants may sign up for one or all of the workshops. However, it is highly recommended that you attend the first three workshops in preparation for the fourth one.
All four workshops are all-levels and qualify for Yoga Alliance CEC’s.
Workshop 1: Incorporating Somatics and Rolling Patterns
in Classes
Saturday, January 23rd, 12:30–3:30p
Somatic exercises serve as regressions for traditional yoga poses and allow us to teach osteokinematics in a way that is embodied and down regulates the nervous system. This workshop will teach you how to select and sequence somatic exercises in supine, side lying, and prone to help your students improve movement patterns and prepare their bodies to navigate external load and asana.
You will learn how to:
- Incorporate somatic exercises into different styles of yoga classes, such as vinyasa and hatha.
- Create mini sequences that include non-linear movement in the transverse plane and rolling patterns that transition from lying down to seated.
- Prepare the body for seated, kneeling, and standing poses.
- Use feedback from the ground to improve proprioception for students who are hypermobile, experience joint discomfort, or struggle to sense where their joints are in space.
- Reduce feelings of stiffness or tightness through neuromuscular re-education.
Workshop 2: Using Primal
Sequencing to Evolve Passive Postures into Active
Movements
Saturday, January 23rd,
4:30–7:30p
Traditional asana involves many passive kneeling and seated positions. While this alone is not an issue, many of our students are not well adapted to sit on the floor and find it difficult or uncomfortable to assume these postures and transition to kneeling or standing. This workshop will give you strategies and mini sequences to incorporate into your classes to improve mobility, strength, and power in a way that is fun and challenging!
Learn how to:
- Use primal movement to reestablish better motor patterns by incorporating exercises that move through the early motor development stage.
- Flow together primal postures that relate to classical yoga asanas, including Sukhasana, Virasana, Ardha Matsyendrasana... and more!
- Use mobility drills and preparatory exercises to self assess for joint limitations and prepare the body for loading in end ranges of motion.
- Utilize bands, blankets, and blocks to adapt traditional kneeling and seated poses from passive to active ranges of motion.
- Incorporate animal locomotion movements, such as beast pose and gorilla hops into your classes.
Workshop 3: Applying Progressive Load and Control to
Standing Transitions
Sunday, January 24th,
12:30–3:30p
Many standing poses involve holding one position at your end range of motion for a sustained period of time. While this may promote isometric strength at your end range, it doesn’t build strength in the transitions. This workshop will explore how to apply strength training principles, such as progressive overload to standing poses and transitions.
This workshop will teach you:
- How to prepare the body to transition through common vinyasa sequences, such as Warrior 2, Extended Side Angle Pose, and Half Moon with fluidity, stability, and ease.
- Preparatory exercises using resistance bands, cork blocks, and blankets as external load to build strength in standing transitions.
- Strategies to improve control and coordination in single leg balance movements.
Workshop 4: An Interdisciplinary Movement Approach to
Yoga Sequencing
Sunday, January 24th,
4:30–7:30p
Are you struggling to connect the dots between yoga and all of the movement modalities that you’re studying? This workshop will teach you how to incorporate everything you’ve learned in the previous three workshops into full length classes. It will draw on the sequences outlined in my book Yoga Deconstructed®: Transitioning from rehabilitation back into yoga studio.
During this workshop, we will also create sequences as a group and you will have the opportunity to collaborate with other teachers to create and practice teaching your own sequences.
Learn how to:
- Develop your critical thinking skills for sequencing your classes and private sessions.
- Expand your problem solving abilities when creating sequences and planning classes.
- Teach from a skills-based approach that prepares your students for asana and real life.
- Incorporate progressions and regressions to meet the different levels of the students in the room.
*Please note: it is highly recommended that you attend the first three workshops in preparation for this one.
Tadasana is the foundation pose of most yoga practices. But how well do you see yourself in Tadasana?
How well do you see yourself as you go about your day?
This workshop will change the way you perceive and feel your body in space. Making simple changes to the way you stand in yoga and in life has a profound effect on your daily life, pain issues and athletic performance.
Saturday, April 17th, 1–4p: Yoga For Hips And Balance
Initiating movement from the core of the body is essential to moving well, healing successfully, and aging gracefully. To do that, we need good tone for all of the muscles in and around the pelvis for strength and balance and fluidity.
This workshop focuses on the pelvic muscles that facilitate balance and healthy movement patterns.
The psoas is the most important muscle in the body, acting as the main hip flexor and the engine of walking. A free and happy psoas allows the body to move with peak efficiency and little strain. Issues with the psoas can lead to any number of problems throughout your body—both physical and emotional. Lower back pain and other joint discomfort as well as disturbances to the nervous system can be linked to the psoas.
This is not a yoga class. You will spend the afternoon awakening, learning about, and releasing the psoas and understanding its core function within the body.
Sunday, April 18th, 1–4p: Yoga for Strength and Stability
Moving from the core requires balanced muscle tone and fluid joints, and in this class you will breathe, focus, move, stretch, and balance to create a more solid center. Core abdominal tone improves nearly every pose, allowing us to move with purpose and ease. Strength built on the mat informs your life when you step off of the mat, allowing you to live work and play to your fullest.
This workshop focuses on building a solid center from which healthy movement patterns originate.
Sunday, April 18th, 5–8p: What Is CoreWalking? (And Why Do I Need it?)
The CoreWalking Program provides pain relief, healing, and techniques for aging gracefully. Using simple adjustments to the way you walk, stand, sit, and exercise—CoreWalking can have life-changing results. It offers specific bodywork tools that you can easily integrate into your daily routine to reverse whatever has been holding you back from your fullest life.
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