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Yoga for Anxiety and Depression Workshop Part 1
February 20, 1p-5p
Yoga for Anxiety and Depression is back! It's restructured, stretched out an dsoooo yummy.
For either one or two Saturday afternoons you're going to invest in yourself. You're going to give yourself time and space to shift. For four hours each Saturday you'll give yourself a break from worry, panic, lethargy, and catastrophizing that can be challenging in the best of times, but especially these days.
You'll soothe your nervous system, work out your tight, tired and/or stressed body, learn some new tools to nourish your brain and shift it's chemistry when you're feeling angry, sad, overwhelmed, edgy, irritated or exhausted. You do not need to be well versed in yoga or have a diagnosis to benefit from this healing healing workshop.
When you sign up, I will send you the Zoom ID and password. Then you just show up at least 5 minutes before we start to get settled in.
Our purpose? To consistently relax into Wise Mind, the place where experiences are neither good nor bad, but challenge us as we navigate our lives.
You'll learn:
Easy yoga poses for your nervous system
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills
Journaling for healing
Nutrition and recipes for brain health
Breath work and mindfulness
You'll meet other like-minded people, connecting and creating community.
Additionally, there will be worksheets, discussion and breaks, to help us develop a personal practice to support our own well-being and develop resilience.
Yoga for Anxiety and Depression Part 2 February 27, 1-5p
An expansion on what you learned in Part 1. We'll review the tools and skills and discuss practical ways to use them day-to-day, sharing experiences and reflections from our week apart. You'll have more time and space for yourself. You'll practice yoga, breath work, meditation and journal. We'll take lots of breaks and you'll have time to process.
You'll go deeper and learn more poses and practices to put in your tool box. In the future, you'll be able to pull them out at anytime life is feeling uncomfortable, heavy or hard.
It's most helpful if you take Part 1 first, but it's certainly not required. You will get a great practice and time to reflect, breathe and discuss concepts from Dialectical Behavior Therapy with the introduction in Part 1.
I offer this workshop twice a year, so you don't have to stress about taking both sessions right now. If you really want to immerse yourself, the place for more intense learning and healing, you get a discount for taking both sessions together. Scroll to the next section to choose this option.
You'll learn:
Practical applications to yoga poses. You'll do a longer, gentle practice repeating some of the poses from Part 1 and learning some new ones.
How your body builds memory and creates a relaxation response
How to find the middle ground, Wise Mind, in every situation
More Dialectical Behavior Skills to help soothe your nervous system and make Wise Mind easier to access
A Yogi Kitchen recipe cards to help you always have something easy to prepare that's great for your brain health. We'll talk about the whys of the recipes
Journaling to help you process
In the weeks following our time together, you'll get
Two 20 minute check-in sessions with me through Zoom or on the phone
Journal Prompts emailed to you
Again, each part can be taken separately, but the magic happens when you join us for the two sessions and work on practicing the skills during the week in bewtween.
Yoga for Anxiety and Depression Parts 1 & 2
Ready to jump in and immerse yourself in two Saturdays of healing and learning? Join us for just $150, a $20 discount! You will never regret taking some time for yourself to connect, release, relax and learn.
You'll leave armed with fantastic skills to help you manage the next bumpy few months that will serve you well for the rest of your life. It's going to be a wonderful two days. Join me!
Practices for Peace Workshop May 2, 1-3p, $25
Are you ready to make a shift? Times are so challenging and it feels like every week there's another disturbing story in the news. I get how hard it feels. I'm feeling it too.
A few years ago our world was filled with a lot of violence and uncertainty. So, I created this practice to help us stay grounded and stand in love.
Cause when the world feels crazy, it's natural to want to run and hide. My experience, though is that we need to stand in love and radiate peace.
Join me for a two and a half hour practice that is so yummy, you will feel it ripple into every part of your life for weeks. We'll focus on heart openers and restorative poses.
This class is for you, regardless of your experience level, age or flexibility. Grab your best friend and join us online.
Join us for this gentle, contemplative practice. Email mel@ayogikitchen.com with questions.
On Hold For Now
Beginners Yoga
Beginners Yoga
Learn to relax, release and heal your achy and creaky-cranky places. Learn how to align your body for ease and comfort. Gently strengthen and stretch. Each class, we'll tackle the same beginning concepts of yoga and mindfulness Learn to move your body in a new way, expand your awareness of the moment and quiet your mind. Pick which is best for you.
Yoga for Everyone is an all-level basic class. You'll learn sitting, standing and lying poses. Perfect as a compliment to an already active lifestyle. Have an injury or chronic illness? Yoga can be the perfect companion to manage your life.
Fabulous Fifty and Older
As we age our health needs shift. This gentle practice teaches you how to adjust movements to accommodate changing health needs, including menopause. Perfect for anyone that wants to go a little slower, while still challenging you body, mind and spirit. You'll learn a few things that you can do in a chair and anyone needing a chair for the whole practice is welcome.
Seniors
This gentle class introduces you to movements that will increase mobility, soothing joints and strengthening muscles that support them. You'll learn breath work that quiets the mind and increases circulation. Do you want to increase your activity level while mobility and activity level, not limited to seniors we will do most of the poses sitting in chair or standing with support.
Joint Freeing Series NEW DATE! On Hold For Now
Profoundly healing two and a half hours to change your life. Seriously.
Join me for simple, easy movements that absolutely anyone can do to help your joints unlock, lubricate and move freely.
Based in yoga, you learn movements to take home with you that practiced regularly can heal your pain and keep you healthy for longer.
Whether you're super active or sedentary, in daily pain or just achy sometimes, these simple sequences of easy movements will help with alignment, help you feel better, enjoy life more and find ease.
Special Price! $29 for Leap Yea
Yoga for Anxiety and Depression Retreat!
Oh Hold For Now
In addition to the experiential learning, I have worksheets and journal prompts to help you process and remember the information.
I'm cooking yummy, healing and nourishing lunch for you. We'll sit with our tea and journal, meditate and reflect.
I've created the retreat that I would love to take. I hope you'll join me for some big work and deep connection, while you relax intensely!