This session examines our inherited, cultural, and conditioned views of the body and offers an invitation to reflect on how to befriend our body and treat yourself with kindness, gentleness, and dignity.

This session presents an understanding of the diaphragm, its importance in breathing, relaxation, and healing. We will explore the stress response and ways to activate the relaxation response. Practice will include yoga breathing and movements that are an invitation to experience our bodies in new and safe ways.

This session explores emotional intelligence and what it means to honor, befriend, and understand, process, and integrate emotions. We will use storytelling to learn ways to reframe our emotion experiences and we will practice how to process emotions somatically through yoga movements and diaphragm breathing.

This session explores arts, crafting, and other expressions of creativity to access non-verbal intelligence, intuition, and non-logical ways of accessing wisdom. We will share ways to be creative and learn how to become more expressive and artistic in how we live our lives. This session will include trauma-informed yoga and a visualization.

This session explores the commonality between yoga, Non-Violent Communication, and conflict resolution. We will explore these three fields through the lens of non-harm, honesty, and authenticity. Our discussion will be followed by intelligent yoga moments that help us to feel safe and at ease in our bodies.

Non-violent Communication (NVC) is a life-affirming way of communicating without blame or judgment. Explore when NVC is appropriate, when it is not, and what it means to communicate without projecting blame, harm, or violence. This session will include a yoga practice with the theme of compassion and loving-kindness.

This session examines ways to be assertive and set boundaries respectfully and skillfully, and sometimes fiercely and directly. We will discuss specifically how to be assertive and empowered as it relates to health and medical interventions. Practice yoga movements that build inner strength and strengthen determination and will.

Learn about the Dosha Clock and how to align your body with natural rhythms for better sleep, better digestion, and better concentration. This session is followed by a Yoga for Sleep routine that you can use to help you prepare your body for sleep.

This session introduces participants to ayurvedic self-care practices that honor the body and help to reclaim touch. Participants will learn safe ways we can use our hands to connect with our bodies and bring healing and soothing to our bodies through touch. We will practice a self-hug and a foot massage. heme of self-love and compassion.

This session explores rituals, ceremonies, and ways to prioritize self-care in the context of a busy, urban life that pulls us in many different directions. Practice simple yoga stretches and gentle movements and reflect on what caring for yourself looks like for you.