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Self-Care in Everyday Life

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$15 or $25 sliding scale | Please register in advance, a zoom link will be provided via confirmation email.

Love may be the most powerful force on earth — but we’re not very skillful at delivering it to ourselves! This workshop will explore the many ways to shine the light of love on our own selves without being selfish – giving consideration to our attitudes, choices and options. Self-care is of vital importance to us all.

Swami Divyananda Ma is one of Integral Yoga’s senior monastics and foremost teachers. Over the years she served as director at the Integral Yoga Institutes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Coimbatore, India and as the Ashram Manager in Yogaville. Presently she teaches and conducts trainings in the US and around the world, and leads an annual tour to the sacred temples and ashrams of India.

2020-08-11T13:49:37-07:00August 7th, 2020|Tags: , , |

Surfing the Sea of Change: Yoga for Stress Management Part 2 of 2

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Price $15 or $25 | Please register in advance, a zoom link will be provided via confirmation email.

Stress is an inevitable aspect of human life that can help us build new strengths or cause great suffering. While we cannot avoid difficult events, we can learn to respond skillfully to life’s challenges and maintain our equilibrium.

In this second of two parts, we will focus on how we can cultivate inner steadiness and resilience through regular practice, and how we can use the teachings of Yoga to break old patterns and cultivate the mindfulness to cope with stressful situations as they arise. Ultimately, we can learn to stay centered in the deep, healing peace that resides within us and remain unshaken by the ever-changing world we live in.

Surfing the Sea of Change: Yoga for Stress Management Part I of II
Wed. August 26 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm PDT

 

Swami Ramananda is the Executive Director of the Integral Yoga Institute in San Francisco and a greatly respected senior teacher in the Integral Yoga tradition, who has been practicing Yoga for over 45 years. Ramananda offers practical methods of integrating the timeless teachings and practices of Yoga into daily life, and transforming the painful aspects of human experience into steps toward realizing one’s full potential. He leads beginner, intermediate and advanced level Yoga teacher training programs in San Francisco, and offers a variety of programs in many locations in the U.S., Europe and South America. Ramananda co-developed the Stress Management Teacher Training program with Swami Vidyananda, has trained many teachers to bring Yoga into corporate, hospital and medical settings, and has taught mind/body wellness programs in many locations. He is a certified Yoga therapist and founding board member of the Yoga Alliance, a national registry that supports and promotes yoga teachers as professionals. He is a co-founder of The Spiritual Action Initiative (SAI) which brings together individuals committed to working for social justice for all beings and for the care and healing of our natural world. His warmth, wisdom and sense of humor have endeared him to many.

2020-08-21T15:38:45-07:00August 7th, 2020|Tags: , |

Hatha Yoga Series – Moving Inside, Outside & Beyond Our Hatha Practice

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$25 | Please register in advance, a zoom link will be provided via confirmation email.

Hatha Yoga Series Part 1 – Building a Doable & Daily Asana Practice

This 3 part series meets on the first Wednesday of the month.

Many of us know that a hatha practice is useful and beneficial and we hope to practice daily. But we’ve either over-committed, under-commited or simply became inconsistent and lost momentum. Maintaining success with a daily practice and making the time to practice will be highlighted in this workshop. Allowing yourself to feel the benefits from a brief, daily practice versus an occasional or very intermittent 60 or 90-minute practice can be a useful approach. In other words, even if the bar is low and you practiced that day, that equals success! Having additional inspiration, support, knowledge and even an accountability partner can make the difference. Getting something in place now can better assure us that stressful and difficult times ahead can be met with better tools of resilience. Set up at home and be prepared for a mixture of lecture, workshop and asana practice. Practice sheets will be offered and sent via email for those who would like some guidance and optional sequences for 15, 30, and 45 minute hatha practices.

Marc Mukunda Morozumi, ERYT 200, CMT began practicing Ashtanga yoga in 2001 while a full-time modern dancer with Joe Goode Performance Group in SF, CA. Due to injury, Mukunda retired from his 12 year dance career in 2004 and entered the events industry from 2004-2016. A 2-month personal trip to India in 2007 paved the way for landing in Yogaville in 2009 for his first teacher training with Swami Divyananda and staff. One month after returning from graduation, Mukunda began teaching a Saturday morning class at the SF IYI which he maintained for over 10 years. Mukunda has co-led Integral Yoga retreats since 2011 and has staffed or co-led Basic Teacher Trainings since 2013. He has opened and managed small group yoga studios in SF since 2017 and in early 2020, he opened and then reformed a yoga center post COVID-19: Mukunda Yoga – Activation and Well-being Center in SOMA, SF, CA. To learn more, visit yogamukunda.com.

Part 2 & 3 of the series:

Hatha Yoga Series Part 2 – What Happens on the Mat Doesn’t Stay on the Mat!
Wed. October 7 @ 6:30 pm – 7:45 pm PDT

 

Hatha Yoga Series Part 3 – Practicing Yoga for the Internal and Universal Body
Wed. November 4 @ 6:30 pm – 7:45 pm PDT

2020-08-28T15:12:59-07:00August 7th, 2020|Tags: , |

Navigating Stressful Times for School Age Children and their Families through Yoga, Breathing and Somatic Movement Activities

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$40 – Early bird expires 8/30/2020

$45 – Regular price

Please register in advance, a zoom link will be provided via confirmation email.

Yoga Therapy Clinic presents: Navigating Stressful Times for School Age Children and their Families through Yoga, Breathing and Somatic Movement Activities with Shawnee Thornton Hardy

This workshop will offer tools for parents, educators, therapists and anyone who works with children and youth to help them navigate the stressful times we are currently facing. We are experiencing a global trauma that is significantly impacting the mental and emotional states of children. It is not unexpected as parents or adults who work with school age children to be seeing an increase in agitation, frustration, anger, fear, sadness and anxiety as they try to make sense of changes in their daily routines and disconnection from their peers, families, teachers and other important adults in their lives. We will discuss the impact stress can have on a child’s nervous system, how this impacts their mood, behavior and learning and how we as adults can be the co-regulators and offer tools to support children with connecting to their bodies, sensations and emotions in order to express their emotions in a healthy way, self-regulate and build resilience and capacity on their nervous systems.

Continuing Education: 2 hours with Yoga Alliance. Certificate given upon request from the teacher directly.

Bio
Shawnee Thornton Hardy is a Certified Yoga Therapist, M.Ed, Educational/Behavioral Specialist, Intermediate Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and the Founder of Asanas for Autism and Special Needs and Founder/Director of Yoga Therapy for Youth. She has worked with children and youth of diverse abilities and backgrounds for over 20 years. She authored Asanas for Autism and Special Needs – Yoga to Help Children with their Emotions, Self-Regulation and Body-Awareness and is the creator of the C.A.L.M.M Yoga Toolkit, a yoga and mindfulness curriculum designed to support children’s diverse sensory, communication, emotional, physical and learning needs. Shawnee leads workshops and trainings throughout the US and Internationally on Yoga and Mindfulness for Children and Youth with an Emphasis on Making Yoga and Mindfulness Inclusive and Accessible to Children of Diverse Needs and Backgrounds. She is passionate about supporting youth with developing self-regulation skills and building resilience. asanasforautismandspecialneeds.com

2020-08-10T15:33:16-07:00August 3rd, 2020|Tags: , , |
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