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Finding Our Way to Healing with The Breath

 

"Happy New Year" seems an inadequate phrase for what lays ahead in 2024. In our post-pandemic, war-torn world, “Happy” and “New” feel a bit unattainable. With the dramatic increase in rates of anxiety and depression ─ especially for women and young people  where do we find happiness? With old conflicts and ethnic hatreds erupting for homelands and resources, where do we look for new resolutions? In our singular experience of being, how do we contribute to bringing in the New Year with any kind of joy?

 

Yoga’s practices provide us a map for doing exactly that. And like a treasure map, we need to study it and re-examine it regularly to see what we may have missed in our potentially overly cursory approach.

 

In the second half of 2023, we rethought our posture and dove into embodiment, focusing on what Yoga TuneUp® founder Jill Miller calls “the feels.” Staying with and allowing sensations in our bodies can be both pleasant and disconcerting, but it provides us with real data so we can examine and explore our patterns of being.

 

The week of January 8th, we’ll begin a series based on the breath – the foundation of not only our yoga practice, but of our life. We can exist for three days without water and three weeks without food, but just three minutes without air.

 

Resources for this exploration include Jill Miller’s new book Body by Breath: The Science and Practice of Physical and Emotional Resilience and A Life Worth Breathing: A Yoga Master’s Handbook of Strength, Grace, and Healing by Max Strom. Watch Max Strom’s compelling TEDx Talk Breathe to Heal here:

I hope you’ll join me on our collective, continued journey towards a truly happy New Year filled with the newness of deep healing.

 

Peace,

Anne

2024 Offerings

 

Sacred Calm Restorative Yoga Teacher Training

Sat. and Sun., Feb. 24 and 25, 2024, from 12:30-6:30pm

Studio 108, Independence – In Person

Register here: https://www.wellnessliving.com/rs/event/yoga_108_with_tracy_rhinehart?k_class=606816&k_class_tab=38366

 

Join me and Kaley Tocco for a training in this specialized style of yoga that’s so critically important for our post-pandemic nervous systems. Learn how to prop students – and yourself – for optimum down regulation and relaxation. Learn the language of release and the anatomy of restoration. This training offers 12 hours of Continuing Education credits with Yoga Alliance and is open to both teachers and yoga students who regularly practice restorative yoga.

 

Anatomy Workshops

 

Knowing About Nerves

Sun., April 7, 2024 from 12:30-3:30pm

Studio 108, Independence – In Person & Virtual

 

What do you know about nerves? Most of us are familiar with our longest and largest nerve – the sciatic – which can give us a jolt of pain down the back of the leg. Maybe you or one of your students have experienced numbness or tingling in a wrist following a yoga practice? Or compression in the neck or shoulders? Come learn the difference between radiculopathy, peripheral neuropathy, and cranial neuropathy and understand challenges associated with nerve entrapment sites so you can promote functional, healthy movement. This workshop provides 3 hours of Continuing Education with Yoga Alliance and is open to yoga teachers as well as interested yoga students.

 

The Anatomy of Anxiety

Sat., Nov. 2, 2024 from 12:30-3:30pm

Studio 108, Independence – In Person & Virtual

 

In 2011, The World Health Organization predicted that by 2030, mental health disorders would be the leading cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. With the added burden of the global pandemic, anxiety disorders grew even faster than expected. Many people turn to yoga for help with anxiety. Come and learn about the anatomy of anxiety and how we as yoga teachers can promote physiologic calm in ourselves and in our students. This workshop provides 3 hours of Continuing Education with Yoga Alliance and is open to yoga teachers as well as interested yoga students.

 

Monthly *Free* Virtual Restorative Yoga Classes

Select Wednesdays from 7:30-8:45pm

Zoom invite via email

If not on the list, email Anne to be added: anne@theyogapathonline.com

 

Jan. 17, 2024

Feb. 21, 2024

March 20, 2024

April 24, 2024

 

Move, Sit, Write, Read: A Thursday Night Writing Circle

Select Thursdays from 7:30-9:00pm

Zoom invite via email

If not on the list, email Anne to be added: anne@theyogapathonline.com

 

Jan. 18, 2024

Feb. 22, 2024

March 21, 2024

April 25, 2024

 

Join Anne for a little gentle movement and meditation followed by free writing in response to prompts based on a topic. Participants can share their responses and ideas or just listen. 

 

Weekly Classes

All weekly classes are on Zoom on Mondays, Tuesdays & Fridays, except for a live class the first Tuesday of the month at the United Methodist Church in Chardon from 9:00-11:00am. See Anne’s website for details: www.theyogapathonline.com/yoga-schedule.html

 

In-Person Sessions with Anne

Anne continues to see clients at Awareness Massage in Mentor. Contact Anne to schedule: anne@theyogapathonline.com

Anne Recommends - Jan. 2024

Book Recommendations

 

Body by Breath: The Science and Practice of Physical & Emotional Resilience by Jill Miller. Coming in at well-over 400+ pages, this book is a tome but includes many practices as well as the science of breathing.

 

A Life Worth Breathing: A Yoga Master’s Handbook of Strength, Grace, and Healing by Max Strom. Exercises and spirituality from one of the world’s leading teachers of the breath. (Don’t miss his TEDx Talk above).

 

When Things Stick: Untangling Your Body from Old Patterns by Sue Choi. A short, fascinating guide to exploring our personal patterns of movement from a somatic perspective. The eBook includes videos with movement exercises.

 

Anatomy (The Anatomy Duology, #1) by Dana Schwartz. Set in Edinburgh, this fun novel is about a woman who wants to be a surgeon in the early 1800s. Be aware there’s skulking around cemeteries for corpses to dissect!

 

Immortality: A Love Story (The Anatomy Duology, #2) by Dana Schwartz

SMARTROLLER® Sits

Cool, New Product: Smartroller® Sits

 

I’ve just ordered these little pads to use under my sits bones – instead of just using a blanket – to explore imbalances. Developed by a physical therapist and somatic movement educator. Check it out online here: https://www.optp.com/SMARTROLLER-Sits

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