THE CALENDAR OF WEEKLY CLASSES, CLINICS AND WORKSHOPS.
To find full opening in the hips one has to find awareness and stability of the pelvis. If you keep the pelvis strong and stable, you will isolate the movements in the hip joint. This will lead to happier hips as well as happier low backs, knees and feet!
Many of the poses we’ll practice use the leg as a lever to stretch open the hip. At times this may be aggravating for the knee. It is not appropriate to feel knee pain in any of the poses. If you do – come out of your pose.
Learning materials included. With Brant
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The three principles of Yin yoga are: 1) Come into an appropriate depth for your body in each pose; 2) Become still; 3) Hold for a long time. This can mean up to 3-5 minutes per pose. What is important is not what a pose looks like, but what it feels like… we use many props in Yin yoga to support our bodies in releasing into the connective tissues rather than specifically stretching the muscles. Yin yoga is not restorative yoga, in that we are still looking for some stress to the tissues in order to create optimal health. Yin targets mainly the connective tissues of the hips, pelvis and lower spine.A slower moving class focusing on floor postures. All levels welcome.“We don’t use our bodies to get into the pose, we use the pose to get into the body”, according to my teacher, Bernie Clark.
Healing Foods for Your 40’s and Beyond- Diet and Lifestyle can play a huge role in supporting the transition into and through menopause. Each woman’s experience is individual and unique. The more you know, the more you can do to support yourself through the transition and beyond. This course is for any woman who is approaching menopause, currently experiencing menopause, or has successfully made it through the menopause transition. We will talk about all stages and ways to support your body, reduce symptoms, and address issues like bone density, weight gain. mood swings, and more!
Tuition is $30. For more information and to register: contact Kristin Kinnie MScN, MSW at Fully Alive Nutrition, fullyalivenutrition.kk@gmail.com, or 971 770-3400.
Let’s meet outdoors and practice meeting the open air, outdoor sounds, open sky, and perhaps let our feet feel the earth’s surface for a change.
This is a class with no tuition offered to those who can bring a yoga mat and necessary props to be safe and well aligned on the lawn in an open setting. You may contribute something via the booking system if you wish; class pass or membership. Nothing required. Just show up and share!
All levels of practice are welcome though you must, you must modify your movements to be safe for your physical situation.
There is a limit of twenty and I ask that everyone stay 10 feet from their neighbor, use a mask, and practice social distancing in any way you can according to state health rules. as you travel and arrive for our informal class.
Let’s meet outdoors and practice meeting the open air, outdoor sounds, open sky, and perhaps let our feet feel the earth’s surface for a change.
This is a class with no tuition offered to those who can bring a yoga mat and necessary props to be safe and well aligned on the lawn in an open setting. You may contribute something via the booking system if you wish; class pass or membership. Nothing required. Just show up and share!
All levels of practice are welcome though you must, you must modify your movements to be safe for your physical situation.
There is a limit of twenty and I ask that everyone stay 10 feet from their neighbor, use a mask, and practice social distancing in any way you can according to state health rules. as you travel and arrive for our informal class.
The three principles of Yin yoga are: 1) Come into an appropriate depth for your body in each pose; 2) Become still; 3) Hold for a long time. This can mean up to 3-5 minutes per pose. What is important is not what a pose looks like, but what it feels like… we use many props in Yin yoga to support our bodies in releasing into the connective tissues rather than specifically stretching the muscles. Yin yoga is not restorative yoga, in that we are still looking for some stress to the tissues in order to create optimal health. Yin targets mainly the connective tissues of the hips, pelvis and lower spine.A slower moving class focusing on floor postures. All levels welcome.“We don’t use our bodies to get into the pose, we use the pose to get into the body”, according to my teacher, Bernie Clark.
Over the years I have always invited my students to orient themselves toward curiosity and interest whether in mindfulness practice and during the experience of mindful movement. Inevitably this invitation is toward allowing the freedom of attentive presence to guide a creative exploration of life’s experience in the present moment.
There are the more intellectual and analytical approaches to enhancing creativity. As with most of our ways of conceptualizing and controlling things to get what we want there are laundry lists to things to ‘do’ to stimulate creativity. While these may or may not be helpful, much like the check lists of a diet may or so often may not affect your weight, the heart of transformation lies in sensing the deeper more inherent realms of one’s life.
We can approach those more elemental realms of creativity and imagination through contemplative practice. Such practices are not limited to formal meditation practices but settle into the realm of listening deeply to our lives in many forms; poetry, music, sitting meditation, mindful movement like yoga or chi gong, moments of attentive stillness regularly practiced, and much more.
To evoke, as the romantic poets like John Keats articulated, the beauty that radiates from imagination that is free of the unnecessary distractions that clinch our bodies and minds. The imagination that is the source of one’s deepest calling. He and the others of his understanding of our nature defined imagination not as thinking up new ideas but the willingness to allow one’s life to flow toward one’s deepest intuitions of creativity and calling.
“I am certain of nothing but of the holiness of the Heart’s affections and the truth of Imagination – What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth – whether it existed before or not – for I have the same idea of all our passions as of love: they are all, in their sublime, creative of essential beauty.” — John Keats, November 22nd, 1817
Come and share this session to explore the path to greater freedom of creativity and flow. Whether you are an artist, writer, engineer, mathematician, architect, parent, athlete, or anyone who would savor the freedom of creative in life and profession you will be invited to learn and practice opening the door to your inherent creativity and imagination in this session.
Learning materials included. With Brant
The three principles of Yin yoga are: 1) Come into an appropriate depth for your body in each pose; 2) Become still; 3) Hold for a long time. This can mean up to 3-5 minutes per pose. What is important is not what a pose looks like, but what it feels like… we use many props in Yin yoga to support our bodies in releasing into the connective tissues rather than specifically stretching the muscles. Yin yoga is not restorative yoga, in that we are still looking for some stress to the tissues in order to create optimal health. Yin targets mainly the connective tissues of the hips, pelvis and lower spine.A slower moving class focusing on floor postures. All levels welcome.“We don’t use our bodies to get into the pose, we use the pose to get into the body”, according to my teacher, Bernie Clark.
Let’s meet outdoors and practice meeting the open air, outdoor sounds, open sky, and perhaps let our feet feel the earth’s surface for a change.
This is a session with no tuition offered to those who can bring a yoga mat and necessary props to be safe and well aligned on the lawn in an open setting. You may contribute something via the booking system if you wish; class pass or membership. Nothing required. Just show up and share as you wish! Registration let’s us anticipate the size of our group.
All levels of practice are welcome though you must, you must modify your movements to be safe for your physical situation.
There is a limit of twenty and I ask that everyone stay 10 feet from their neighbor, use a mask, and practice social distancing in any way you can according to state health rules. as you travel and arrive for our informal class.
Let’s meet outdoors and practice meeting the open air, outdoor sounds, open sky, and perhaps let our feet feel the earth’s surface for a change.
This is a session with no tuition offered to those who can bring a yoga mat and necessary props to be safe and well aligned on the lawn in an open setting. You may contribute something via the booking system if you wish; class pass or membership. Nothing required. Just show up and share as you wish! Registration let’s us anticipate the size of our group.
All levels of practice are welcome though you must, you must modify your movements to be safe for your physical situation.
There is a limit of twenty and I ask that everyone stay 10 feet from their neighbor, use a mask, and practice social distancing in any way you can according to state health rules. as you travel and arrive for our informal class.