Sharing stillness, embodied and attentive presence, openness, poetry and readings with one another during this contemplative practice each evening, three days a week; Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Designed each evening to work with who arrives and how we might best encourage, nourish and support ourselves and one another. No special prerequisites. Show up as you are and we’ll support one another and ourselves as we practice meeting this difficult era. About 30 minutes each evening on Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings.

The general form of poses, simple flow, introduction to yoga breathing and the practices of mindfulness

A safe and friendly introduction to yoga, appropriate for those wanting to try an accessible form of mindful movement or for those who have had injuries in the past. We will practice movements that teach alignment and movement in ways that are available to most everyone. We will practice relaxation as well as develop strength and flexibility. Easy and modified yoga poses will be explored. Your physician should release you for general physical activity.

We introduce a physically more lively practice including Inversions, backbends, rigorous flow. Mindfulness during practice emphasized

Sharing stillness, embodied and attentive presence, openness, poetry and readings with one another during this contemplative practice each evening, three days a week; Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Designed each evening to work with who arrives and how we might best encourage, nourish and support ourselves and one another. No special prerequisites. Show up as you are and we’ll support one another and ourselves as we practice meeting this difficult era. About 30 minutes each evening on Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings.

Sharing stillness, embodied and attentive presence, openness, poetry and readings with one another during this contemplative practice each evening, three days a week; Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Designed each evening to work with who arrives and how we might best encourage, nourish and support ourselves and one another. No special prerequisites. Show up as you are and we’ll support one another and ourselves as we practice meeting this difficult era. About 30 minutes each evening on Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings.

We introduce a physically more lively practice including Inversions, backbends, rigorous flow. Mindfulness during practice emphasized.

The general form of poses, simple flow, introduction to yoga breathing and the practices of mindfulness.

Breath is a fundamental element of our lives and yet happens by default.  We have the ability to be aware of our breathing and to manage and control our breathing yet seldom do so unless we are victim to illness and forced to change breathing for therapeutic reasons.  Many of us have taken breath for granted and even subjected ourselves to pathogenetic activities like smoking and breathing in or snorting drugs.

There is incredible evidence that we can work with our breath to enhance our state of ease, health and essential vitality.  Yogis long ago attended to breath work with a variety practices grouped under the methodologies termed pranayama (working with life's energy).  Let's go beyond that with contemporary methods and science to guide us in some simple practices.

Let's share this series over two session, two consecutive Saturday afternoons, to practice a bit and then do some homework to see how this might be helpful for us.  After all this is an era with a pandemic that threatens our ability to breathe.  Perhaps this will be helpful and in this series I will provide research evidence that shows it may well be so!

I will follow the superb recent book about breathing, Breath, by investigative journalist James Nestor  who practiced many breathing methodologies over a decade as he researched his book and interview experts all over the world.

Much Love  --  Brant