Workshops to Down Regulate

Better Sleep Tonight: Brain-Based Relaxation

Experience deep relaxation with these mind-body techniques you can do at home. Yoga Nidra is a practice from India designed to systematically release tension, calm the mind, and improve rest while sleeping. Spend a few minutes moving the body to get it ready for stillness. Lie down for a guided practice. A pillow and blanket are recommended.

Yoga & Sleep: The Magic Ingredients

Gain insight into how different aspects of yoga shift your body and mind from busy-ness to bed ready. Learn effective and realistic ways to wind down and feel ready for easy sleep. This workshop will include yoga postures, breathwork, relaxation, self-kindness and may include essential oils.

Healthy Sleep Habits

Learn new tricks to downshift before bed and turn off a busy brain. Reflect on your sleep habits and discuss strategies for creating a bedtime routine to downshift. Practice a yoga-based sleep routine that includes physical postures, breathing & relaxation tools.

Meditation for Type A’s

Yoga Nidra, or wakeful sleep, is a style of guided meditation that releases deeply held mental and physical stress. This technique is useful for insomnia: to get to sleep and stay asleep. Yoga Nidra has been shown to decrease stress in the homeless, victims of sexual assault, and soldiers. It is a recommended complementary and alternative treatment method for PTSD by the Department of Defense. It is great for workplaces where employees are going through company-wide changes, work overnight shifts, or have insomnia.

Yoga for Stress Relief

Learn how yoga can be a stress relieving practice through present moment focus, breathing, and physical movements through the full range. In turn, this can improve the body’s natural ability to heal. Using yoga’s ancient wisdom we will switch on the relaxation response and turn down the fight, flight, or freeze response. When yoga is practiced regularly, practitioners may feel an enhanced sense of resiliency to take on life’s challenges. And when one feels better, the effect spreads.

Daily Relaxation

Many of us experience the disease of busy-ness with no break until we collapse into bed at the end of the day. If we don’t learn how to return to a calm baseline, our stress may grow through the day and lead to long term, chronic stress. Learn body-based techniques to weave relaxation into the day.

Breathing for Resilience and Adaptability

Our stress response is mirrored in our breath. When we are stressed we hold our breath or breathe shallowly. Poor posture can also influence our pattern of breathing. Regulated breathing exercises can shift our inner wellbeing from anxious or depressed to a feeling of balance or calm.

Yoga & Relaxation for Stress Relief

Yoga can be a daily stress relieving practice using the techniques of present moment awareness, breathing exercises, conscious relaxation and physical movement. In turn, this can improve the body’s natural ability to heal. We cannot awaken the natural ability to heal if we are in a constant state of stress. Using yoga’s ancient wisdom we will switch on the relaxation response and turn down the fight/flight/freeze response. When yoga is practiced regularly, practitioners may feel an enhanced sense of resiliency to take on life’s challenges. And when one feels better, the effect spreads to the community.