Online & in-person
$32 | $26 Early bird RELIEF exp. 11/11
5 Quick Yoga Steps for Stress Relief
For the Middle of Your Busy Life
This workshop gives you simple, effective tools to intercept stress right in the middle of your busy day—especially when you:
- don’t have time for a full yoga session,
- can’t change your clothes,
- can’t get down on the floor,
- just ate,
- and really need some peace of mind.
You’ll learn a collection of 1- to 5-minute yoga practices leading you through a simple 5 step process designed to intercept the stress response as it arises—because that’s exactly when you need it most. We’ll focus primarily on chair and standing yoga. These practices are easy, accessible, fun, and adaptable to any level.
You’ll be amazed by what even a little bit of yoga can do—slipped into your hectic life—to help you rise above the chaos and surf the waves of stress with more grace and clarity. Don’t believe it? Come and see for yourself!
This workshop will be recorded for later viewing and shared for 2 weeks with all enrolled students.
Yoga Alliance CEUs are available to teachers upon request.
Swami Vidyananda has been teaching Integral Yoga since 1973, and practicing Yoga Therapy since 1979, specializing in Yoga as Stress Management. Vidyananda co-developed the Integral Yoga Stress Management Teacher Training with Swami Ramananda, and taught it for over 30 years. She has taught in many therapeutic programs, including Smith Center Cancer Retreats, Yoga for children with Down Syndrome, Yoga for university students with eating disorders, and chair Yoga for seniors. She is also trained as a hospital chaplain, with an emphasis on end-of-life issues.
Vidyananda has created therapeutic yoga programs for clients with stress-related mental and physical challenges, anxiety, sports and other injuries, and complex trauma. She uses a multi-leveled approach to Stress Management, including adapted stretches, breathing, relaxation, centering and wisdom teachings, to bring wellness to the body, emotions and mind.
Before becoming a Yoga teacher, Vidyananda worked as a broadcast news producer and reporter. Since 1983 she has produced and edited dozens of Yoga Videos, audios and documentaries for Integral Yoga. She also served as conference translator into French for her teacher, Swami Satchidananda, and other notable Yoga Masters. She has been a monk (Swami) since 1983. She founded the Integral Yoga Teachers’ Association and serves as the Director of the Integral Yoga Therapy Training Program. She lives in Satchidananda Ashram, VA, and travels and teaches internationally.