yoga
Workshops & Events
Pranassage Your Valentine
February 11, 2012
5:00-7:30pm
@ Pure Prana Yoga Studio
$75 per couple - Sign up early because space is limited. SOLD OUT!
Grab your Valentine and Unwind!
Dinner and a movie not your thing? Romance your Valentine with love and healing touch in this partner yoga experience.
Treat Your Senses
By candlelight, Jen will show you how to apply touch and pressure to help each other unwind and deeply relax. You will also guide each other through gentle stretches and partner yoga postures to help soothe aching muscles and release tension. You’ll find that giving and receiving bodywork promotes compassion, mindfulness, and a deeper connection to one’s own Self and each other.
Read more about Pranassage.
Spread Your Wings!
Therapeutic Yoga for the Upper Back, Neck & Shoulders
April 14, 2012
2:30-5:00pm
@ Pure Prana Yoga Studio
Our unique human musculature evolved over millions of years so that our body could stand and walk upright and generally be much more physically active than it is today. But over the last century, most people have shifted from physical to sedentary lifestyles, causing our muscles to grow weak and stiff. With the rise of computer-based jobs, long commutes behind the wheel, and increased overall stress, it’s no wonder that many of us experience soreness or even chronic pain in the upper back, neck and shoulders.
In this therapeutic yoga workshop, we’ll discuss the major causes of pain and how yoga can support you through the healing process. We’ll practice a range of therapeutic yoga postures and movements to help you reconnect to the wing-like muscles of the upper body, increase flexibility, strengthen and balance weak muscles, and reduce pain in this area. By unlocking the upper body, many also experience a renewed sense of energy and freedom to breathe deeply.
All levels and bodies are welcome, including pregnant women who are still comfortable on their back and belly. While therapeutic yoga is gentle compared to other forms of yoga, we will be exploring a wide range of motion in the neck and shoulders as well as practicing weight-bearing postures such as cobra and down-dog. If you are recovering from an injury please consult your doctor before attending. For more information, please contact jen@be-sati.com.
Past & Future Offerings
Yoga Therapy for the Hips and Lower Back
TBA
While the low back and hips provide important support and stability for the entire body, these areas are also incredibly vulnerable to wear and tear and injury. Yet most low back and hip conditions are caused not by injury but by our stressful, sedentary lifestyle. According to the National Institutes of Health, 8 out of 10 people experience back pain at some point in their lives. In reports released by the American Chiropractic Association, 31 million Americans are experiencing low back pain at any given time.
In this therapeutic yoga workshop, we'll take a look at the major causes of pain and how yoga can support you through the healing process. Then you’ll experience a combination of Yin Yoga, core conditioning movements, Self-Awakening Yoga, restorative postures, and meditation, all to ease pain and discomfort in this intricate area of the body. Each of these quiet yoga practices are also uniquely designed to soothe the nervous system, allowing for a deep sense of relaxation and overall well-being.
All levels and bodies are welcome. Although the movements in this workshop are gentle compared to other forms of yoga, we will be exploring a wide range of motion in the lower back and hips. If you are currently receiving medical treatment for conditions in the low back, please consult your doctor before attending. For more information, contact jen@be-sati.com.
Restore the Core & Pelvic Floor! Postpartum Yoga Tune-up
TBA
Pregnancy and child birth take a huge toll on a woman's core. Weakened abdominal and pelvic floor muscles leave us open to lower back injuries at a time when we need our strength the most.
In this workshop we'll explore the importance of core stability and practice yoga conditioning movements and balance ball exercises that get the lower body back in shape for the demands of motherhood and beyond. No yoga experience is necessary.
Students should bring their own balance ball (inflated) to the workshop. Generally women can return to exercise 6 weeks postpartum (8 weeks after C-section), but please get the OK from your doctor before attending the workshop. One-on-one postpartum yoga sessions with Jennifer are also available. Contact jen@be-sati.com for more information.
Conscious Couple, Mindful Parents
TBA
We parents often feel isolated in the struggles and demands of parenting, particularly the impact parenting has on our relationship as a couple. While we realize that taking care of our intimate relationship is crucial for a loving home, in the midst of daycare drop offs and soccer practice sometimes the “how” can escape us. Referring to our lives as parents, spouses and individuals, noted clinician and researcher John Gottman, PH.D. offers these words of wisdom: "we are all in the same soup."
In this discussion and movement workshop, learn how to spice up your soup to nourish and enhance your marriage and family life. Drawing on her 30-year career in Marriage and Family Therapy and Yoga, Jane Carey, LCSW, RYT will share tips and techniques to help parents keep the spark alive as a couple. Following the discussion, Jennifer O’Sullivan, wife, mom, and yoga teacher, will guide each pair through relaxing Pranassage sequences (partner yoga) designed to foster intimacy and communication.
All levels are welcome, and no yoga experience is necessary. Wear comfortable stretchy clothing to facilitate the flow of movement.
Metta in Motion
TBA
Bodhicitta, awakened heart, is the basic goodness in all of us. We are all radiant beings, no matter our thoughts or their manifestations. Extending concept into practice, boddhicitta is the compassionate wish that all beings realize enlightenment, not just one’s own self. To cultivate the wish for the enlightenment of everyone necessarily leads to the enlightenment of one’s self. There is not one without the other.
Metta, or loving kindness, is the first of a series of meditation practices offered by the Buddha to cultivate the four qualities of love, thus awakening bodhicitta. Practicing loving-kindness (metta bhavana) begins a process that leads to a more accepting, kindly, and caring relationship towards one’s self and others.
In this workshop, we’ll practice yoga postures that release the neck, shoulders, and upper back while opening the heart center to prepare the body for receiving and offering love and compassion. Asana practice will be followed by guided meditation.
This workshop is open to anyone with some yoga experience.
