Home Studio Classes

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2nd Sunday or 4th Sunday

9-11 am Interdisciplinary Yoga $10-15

11am-1pm Expressive Visioning Process $10-15

 All levels.  No experience necessary.

Please bring something for the altar that represents the most authentic part of you. Reflective writing, drawing, movement, sharing. Paper supplied but bring a journal if you have one.

9-11am Interdisciplinary Yoga:  Neural Re-patterning and Toning the Vagus Nerve

Basic Yoga postures designed for all levels. Combining yoga and the understanding of Neuroplasticity with the understanding of the Vagus Nerve join me for an interesting exploration of your inner self. Wake up to the new science of how to change your brain for healing and vibrancy to live your truth with an open heart. 

Vagus means “wanderer”. The Vagus Nerve is the 10th cranial nerve, “wandering” and touching most of the body’s organs. Splitting into two branches through the head, down the spine, to the brain, larynx, pharynx, esophagus, tongue, ears, lungs, gut, heart, liver, spleen, gallbladder, kidney, pancreas, intestines, reproductive organs, and ureter. Yoga practices stimulates the Vagus Nerve improving communication between your body’s organs. Research shows increased vagal tone through breathing patterns, prayer, meditation, chanting, laughing, singing, coughing, gargling, socializing, exercise, and stretching. Vagal toning in Yoga supports digestion, blood pressure, glucose stabilization, bile production, decreases inflammation, supports tasting, swallowing, speaking, eye contact, human emotion, and releases oxytocin, the relationships hormone.   

$25

https://positivepsychology.com/neuroplasticity/

https://selfhacked.com/blog/32-ways-to-stimulate-your-vagus-nerve-and-all-you-need-to-know-about-it/#3_Yoga
 

11-1pm Expressive Visioning/Shamanic Journey Process

Visioning as a Healing Art: Why It Works and Exploring the Missing Link

Be delighted by this unusual combination of experiences linked together to leave you feeling inspired to explore your next step with ease and grace. Using the drum beat to create Theta Brain Waves, connecting the pineal gland, adding arts to foster self-expression, insight, creativity, visioning, and expanded states of consciousness we will spread our wings and fly free. Gather visioning tools for Lucid dreaming / Shamanic Journey to explore the multi-dimensional quantum universe connecting with many sources of guidance to manifest your desires. $20M

Fall and Spring Equinox  9-11am   Interdisciplinary Yoga: Creating Inner & Outer Balance

The equality of the dark and the light within as we enter into the changing season. A joyful journey of integration and reflection in motion and stillness infused with experiences to expand intuition and inspiration by integrating the Arts, Mindfulness, 21st Century Medicine, and Positive Psychology. Current Neuroscience research shows meditation increases dopamine/ serotonin, lowers cortisol/adrenaline, increases focus, attention, processing speed, balance, brain volume and cerebral blood flow. Jump start a new way to be in the world as you tune into 21st century healing wisdom and apply it for the Autumn Equinox!!  All levels.  No experience necessary. $25

https://mysticalraven.com/spirituality/8399/the-spiritual-meaning-of-the-autumn-equinox-and-11-ways-to-celebrate-it

In addtion to the Seasonal Theme of Inner and Outer Balance following the equinox, I will continue to introduce concepts of  Myofascial Yoga &Toning the Vagus Nerve.

https://upliftconnect.com/12-ways-unlock-powers-vagus-nerve/

Explore the Vagus Nerve, Myofascial Release and its relationship to Yoga Practices. Vagus means “wanderer”. The Vagus Nerve is the 10th cranial nerve, “wandering” and touching most of the body’s organs. Splitting into two branches through the head, down the spine, to the brain, larynx, pharynx, esophagus, tongue, ears, lungs, gut, heart, liver, spleen, gallbladder, kidney, pancreas, intestines, reproductive organs, and ureter. Yoga Practices stimulates the Vagus Nerve improving communication between your body’s organs. Research shows increased vagal tone through breathing patterns, prayer, meditation, chanting, laughing, singing, coughing, gargling, socializing, exercise, and stretching. Vagal toning in Yoga supports digestion, blood pressure, glucose stabilization, bile production, decreases inflammation, supports tasting, swallowing, speaking, eye contact, human emotion, and releases oxytocin, the relationships hormone.  $20/$25

https://www.yogajournal.com/lifestyle/what-is-fascia

http://freelyhuman.com/myofascial-yoga/

11-1pm Expressive Visioning Process: Natural Cycles, Inspired Evolving

A very special time to be in a community to honor the inner work of your natural visioning abilities to honor the seasonal change inside and outside yourself in a unique and powerful way.   Be delighted by this unusual combination of experiences linked together to leave you feeling inspired to explore your next step with ease and grace. Using the arts to foster self-expression, insight, creativity, visioning, and expanded states of consciousness we will spread our wings and fly free.  Gather visioning tools for Lucid dreaming / Shamanic Journey to explore the multi-dimensional quantum universe connecting with many sources of guidance to manifest your desires. Reflective writing/drawing/dancing/moving/ sharing. Paper supplied but bring a journal if you have one. 

Interdisciplinary Yoga: Meditation  

A multisensory, interdisciplinary, multicultural, yoga experience using Silverton and surrounding parks as the classroom. Take Yoga outdoors! Get out of the lab or the office, off the computer or phone, away from your daily tasks, and take yoga, breathing, walking break exploring the campus in a new way with yoga investigations. Rejuvenate and renew with gentle to moderate walking, incorporating environmental education, mindfulness practices, Neuroscience, and Earthling/Nature healing including reflection, walking meditation, postures that stretch, strengthen, and balance mind/body into your daily routine.  Learn how you can use curbs, trees, stairs, chairs and benches for yoga. Explore the outdoors with a new perspective to help bring clarity every time you step outside with a heighten awareness of the present moment. Yoga is one of the oldest systems for personal development in the world, encompassing body, mind and spirit. 

Interdisciplinary Yoga: Mindfulness Skills

A multisensory, interdisciplinary, transformative study into the cross-cultural understanding of mindful non-judgmental attention (Mindfulness) through a fun, creative variety of personal and group practices. Students will be introduced to a life-long personal awareness skill set with which to live to ones highest potential with resilience to navigate the challenging ups and downs of personal and professional endeavors. 

COURSE CONTENT: 

Journey to the seen and the   unseen through a multi-sensory, interdisciplinary, transformative study of   mindfulness utilizing a fun, creative variety of individual and group   mind/body practices applicable to everyday life and across academic   disciplines. Develop your own imagination, intuition, inspiration,   integration, and interpretation including 15 sensory perceptions to live   to your highest potential with resilience to navigate the challenges of   personal and professional endeavors.  You will unravel the mysteries of   why the 8,000-year-old science of Yoga is all encompassing, integrated with   Positive Psychology, Physics, Neuroscience, Human Biology, and grounded in   the eight-part awakening process. From STEM to Liberal Arts, from Education   to Sports, from Political Science to World Health, students from any   discipline will co-create a research-based platform from which to expand   self-awareness to support your particular contribution to the world.

This course is designed to introduce   students to the practice and understanding of interdisciplinary yoga with a   focus on mindfulness skills. The style   of yoga presented in this course originated in India thousands of years ago.   It is one of the oldest systems for personal development in the world,   encompassing body, mind and spirit. This course   is an integrated, experiential, multisensory study of mindfulness principles   through the experience of the basic level 1 Yoga postures, various forms of   meditation, breathing practices, reflection and sharing. Based on broad, all   welcoming, practice of Kripalu Yoga, Experience the smoothness of vinyasa   flows, the intensity of holding postures and the freedom of your own personal   style: Asana, Breath, and Meditation all happen simultaneously. 

Each  class will include: Coming into the present moment by centering the body,   mind, and breath. Warm-up exercises that synchronize   breath with movement, as means of inducing concentration and preparing the   body, Creative asana sequences designed to stretch, strengthen and balance   the body including standing and balancing, forward and back bending, spinal   twists, lateral bends and inversions. Classes   often include meditation-in-motion; Classes   close with integration through relaxation and meditation.

Module   Overview

The progression of this course   is fully integrated and experiential with the following outline of   experiences as a framework from which to pull. In alignment with Honor College pedagogy,   there will be opportunity for student choices and the curriculum will be   flexible to accommodate student interests, suggestions and insights.

Mindfulness   Definition: Thoughtful non-judgmental   attention to the moment including mindful reflection, meditation,   contemplation, drawing, writing, and holistic health. 

Week   1/2: Beginners Mind

Week 2/3 Creativity: Pathway to Joy

Week 3/4 Embracing Personal   Power

Week 4/5:   Open Heart Open Mind

Week 5/6 Authenticity:   Living Your Truth

Week 6/7/8:Letting   Everything Be Your Teacher

Week 9/10-10: Meeting Your  Mindful Self 

Yoga Workshops Once on month Saturdays dates TBA

9-11am   $20 per class or 7 classes paid in full for $120

Ages 18 and up!

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Interdisciplinary Yoga Topics

Yoga + Brain for More Cognitive Gain

Myofascial Yoga: Unwind and Release 

Yoga Dancing Makes Us Smarter

Yoga Beyond Happiness to Joy

Equinox Yoga for Inner & Outer Balance

Yoga & The Neuroscience of Gratitude

Yoga Mindfulness Skills for Creative Resilience

Interdisciplinary Yoga: Yoga+ Brain for More Cognitive Gain

Current Neuroscience research shows meditation in motion or stillness creates happiness by increasing dopamine and serotonin.  Focus increases cortical thickness increasing attention. Cortical folding increases for faster processing.  Whole brain function increases, balancing hemispheres and brain waves patterns. Stress relief is natural by down regulating cortisol and adrenaline. Cognitive function improves by increasing grey matter, brain volume and cerebral blood flow. WOW! It is amazing! Join me for an enlightening morning practicing meditation in stillness and motion to change the brain. A joyful journey of meditation in motion and stillness infused with experiences to expand intuition and inspiration by integrating the Medical Yoga, Mindfulness, and Positive Psychology.

Interdisciplinary Yoga: Myofascial Yoga: Unwind and Release 

Fascial tension is often times the culprit for un-diagnosable chronic pain. Your fascial system and your belief system are intimately linked. When you unwind your body, you unwind your life. Join me as we look at effective techniques within the yoga practice with a shift in awareness to the nature of fascia. Fascia is a web-like structure that is made of collagen, elastin, and polysaccharide gel complex that is a connective tissue around everything (YES! EVERYTHING) in the body. Join me to unwind the fascia which holds your whole life experience causing strain, stiffness and tension.  A joyful journey of meditation in motion and stillness infused with experiences to expand intuition and inspiration by integrating Medical Yoga, Mindfulness, and Positive Psychology.

Interdisciplinary Yoga: Yoga Dancing Makes Us Smarter

Open in this easy movement practice that moves energy in the body allowing for healing and opening the consciousness to new thoughts, creativity, and freedom. Freedom for your spirit to move in your own unique way on the dance floor and in the world. So joyful and fun, touching and open-hearted, you’ll feel as though each class is a mini retreat. All bodies! All Levels of moving!  

Dancing increases cognitive acuity at all ages. Dancing integrates several brain functions at once — kinesthetic, rational, musical, and emotional — further increasing your neural connectivity. A 21-year study of senior citizens, 75 and older, was led by the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, funded by the National Institute on Aging, and published in the New England Journal of Medicine.  Their method for objectively measuring mental acuity in aging was to monitor rates of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease.  They studied cognitive activities such as reading books, writing for pleasure, doing crossword puzzles, playing cards and playing musical instruments.  And they studied physical activities like playing tennis or golf, swimming, bicycling, dancing, walking for exercise and doing housework. One of the surprises of the study was that almost none of the physical activities appeared to offer any protection against dementia.  There can be cardiovascular benefits of course, but the focus of this study was the mind. There was one important exception: the only physical activity to offer protection against dementia was frequent dancing:  Reading: 35% reduced risk of dementia, Bicycling/swimming: 0%, Crossword puzzles at least 4 d/wk :47%, Golf: 0%, Dancing frequently: 76%. 

Interdisciplinary Yoga: Yoga Beyond: Happiness to Joy

What is the difference between Joy and Happiness? Cheryl McDonald PsyD, says: Joy is something that lasts. Happiness is something that is temporary. Joy is an inner, conscious belief…Scientists say this emotion (Happiness) can be studied and measured because people can reliably and honestly self-report their increases and decreases in happiness levels. Joy is a state of mind, a combination of emotions, and in the spiritual context is localized in our heart. Joy contains elements of contentment, confidence and hope. Joy upgrades your hormones and neurotransmitters. Connection with nature and people provides oxytocin, associated with behavioral and psychological support for meaningful relationships. The more we activate joy, the stronger joy filled neural pathways become due to Nueroplasticity. Join the fun for a joyful journey of meditation in motion and stillness infused with experiences to expand intuition and inspiration by integrating Medical Yoga, Mindfulness, and Positive Psychology. 

Interdisciplinary Yoga: Equinox Yoga for Inner & Outer Balance

Spring equinox opens the heart bringing together Body, Mind, Spirit to rekindle our childlike wonder, our passions and dreams. It is the evolutionary impulse to plant the seeds of the new creation of our life like a sprouting seed moving out of the earth to express and initiate a new world of opportunities. Reflect on balance on the mat and off the mat. Expand into the new beginnings of the upcoming spring equinox!! Jump start a new way to be in the world as you tune into 21st century healing wisdom and apply it for the Spring!!  

 Interdisciplinary Yoga: Yoga and The Neuroscience of Gratitude.

Join me for a morning yoga session to upgrade hormones and neurotransmitters though Appreciation/Gratitude . Simple gratefulness provides oxytocin, associated with behavioral and psychological support for meaningful relationships. Gratitude increases activity in the hypothalamus, the master hormone gland. The more we activate gratitude, the stronger gratitude neural pathways become. Neuroplasticity, the brain's ability to form new neural connections throughout life, will help us recognizes and change negative thinking before it has brought us down. All levels.  No experience necessary. 

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_gratitude_changes_you_and_your_brain

 Interdisciplinary Yoga: Mindfulness Skills for Creative Resilience

A multisensory, interdisciplinary, transformative workshop into the cross-cultural understanding of mindful non-judgmental attention (Mindfulness) through a fun, creative variety of personal and group practices. Using Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction's (MBSR) 7 Attitudes of Mindfulness ( Non-judging, Patience, Beginner’s Mind, Trust, Non-striving, Acceptance, Letting Go), Students will be introduced to a life-long personal awareness skill set with which to live to one’s highest potential with resilience to navigate the challenging ups and downs of life. Addressing current Mindfulness research:  Neuroscience, Genetics, Technology, Ecology, Psychology, Education, Business, and Sports, we will expand self-awareness through time-tested practices. 

Chakra 1 Yoga: Grounding

Chakra 2 Yoga: Joy in the Pelvis

Chakra 3 Yoga: Moving From the Core

Chakra 4 Yoga: The Marvelous of the Spine

Chakra 5 Yoga: Arms of the Open Heart

Chakra 6 Yoga: Soundings

Chakra 7 Yoga: Wisdom 

Expressive Visioning Process Basic Workshop

Gather visioning tools for Quantum Visioning / Lucid Dreaming / Shamanic Journey to explore the multi-dimensional universe connecting with many sources of guidance to manifest your desires. Enjoy an unusual combination of experiences linked together to leave you feeling inspired to explore your next step with ease and grace. Using expanded states of consciousness we will spread our wings and fly free.   Explore anything your heart desires and solidify your truth.  What am I working with to feel like I am living to my fullest self- expression?  What are the obstacles?  What supports me?  What are my life’s goals/deepest calling?   What is my next right step?