Twice weekly (Monday & Wednesday’s) we offer public Gentle Somatic Yoga & Feldenkrais therapy Lessons.
Cikitsa is a Sanskrit term meaning “Care, or Medicinal Treatment”.
“The body never lies….the body says words we cannot”.
The ancient teachings of therapeutic energy medicine – a branch of traditional Yoga is offered in each weeks clinics. Here you’ll be invited to consciously move with greater awareness. Sessions are guided to assist in engaging self-healing. Pranayama and meditation is included to restore wholeness. As you re-discover the wisdom of your inner Medicine Chest your physical, mental, and spiritual awareness, overall wellness will blossom, the way nature intended.
This studio is a branch of yoga, which with your practice of Asana becomes a real path to self-healing.
Classes are intimate (4-6 students), so be sure to reserve your space.
Every Monday 6pm to 7:30pm we explore Energy Medicine Yoga. You are invited to learn to create space, healing and increased vitality for optimal prana, tejas and ojas / vitality. All sessions are individually focused and theme to develop greater mobility, awareness, stability, strength and calm.
You can expect to learn to move with gentle traditional Yoga postures. Classes are primarily Restorative using Gentle Somatic Yoga techniques to unwind the body and we may integrated QiGong energy movements.
Maximum 4 registrants needed for a class.
The experience of guided, therapeutic (Cikitsa) Yoga is a treat. We show you how to utilize the fluid energy (prana) of the body. Techniques of Vinyasa (flow), Iyengar (steady), Ashtanga (asana), Bhakti (devotion), Hatha, & Kunda (spine) for greater health & pranayama (breath) for increase vitality. We always end with Restorative postures and meditation.
I’ve been asked a few times: “Why do you
& other people do YOGA?
Most people come to experience yoga with a mindset of becoming more flexibility. Others reasons, stress relief, health & physical fitness. (all good) This is how I started.
In my experience & over time, a large percentage
of people grow into the ‘practice’, eventually having a change of heart for continuing
with Yoga.
The reason for the Shift? To cultivate Spirituality & Self-actualization. Developing spiritually becomes the theme &
with that a sense of fulfilling our potential begins to bloom.
Yoga, in all it forms, nurtures the shift as it
engages in self-reflection, the practice of kindness, self-compassion, &
growth toward greater awareness, to name a few.
The health benefits of Yoga, well they are very real,
my friends. With time yoga can increase
flexibility, improve balance & lower blood pressure, decrease cholesterol,
stress hormones, depression & anxiety, etc.
Our brains & bodies like to learn new things. Yoga
is best at providing healthy creative-interaction ways to keep our brain young
– firing up new pathways. Yoga helps the brain grow, like the thousand petal
lotus.
As a result, the ‘practice of yoga’ becomes so
blissful that the benefits actually ripple out – into Oneness. Our true
essential-self experiences more joy & happiness, so everyone benefits. Yoga encourages us to feel good, as we seek
to be comfortable & still in the posture, breathing, relaxing. Modifying (using
as many props as you need) also
helps keep us in the comfort zone –
think breath-body connection.
Yoga’s aim is to transcend (above and independent of the
universe, time, space etc.) all
things.
Aligning our True Self, Transcends all Things
When people explain to me how they want to try yoga
but aren’t “flexible enough,” I tell them yoga isn’t about attaining
the perfect pose – oh & head stands
are not what we all strive for….. Becoming friends with your body, as your friend, is key.
Yoga asana practice
draws us into present awareness, being you in the moment sometime with movement,
sometimes in stillness – here & simply now. Presence brings us to become genuinely our true self & genuine with
other people & in our community around us.
A Sanctuary of Inner Peace
Yoga will change your heart – not just blood pressure. Yes, in more ways than I could have ever imagined, Yoga changed my life & my heart, for the better.
