Encouraging Connection

Restorative Yoga + Meditation

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A 5-week Series

7:15PM Wednesdays

Fall into deep relaxation and inner peace in our Restorative Yoga + Meditation class. This gentle practice is designed to calm the mind and rejuvenate the body through a series of supported, restful postures. Poses are held for an extended time, allowing you to release tension and fully relax. Each session will include a guided meditation, helping you cultivate mindfulness and a sense of calm that you can carry through the rest of your week. Perfect for all levels, this class offers an opportunity to bring tranquility and balance into your daily life.

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Soundbath Experience

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10:00-11:15 AM on Sunday, September 18

Join us with special guest teacher Lauren Miceli with one of our seasonal Southbath Experiences! She uses the energy of sound to penetrate our bodies and souls for this 75-minute restorative experience. We begin with breathwork and guided meditation before venturing into a Yoga Nidra state of ultimate relaxation. Lauren uses chimes, gongs, singing bowls and other forms of vibrational medicine to take us into a deeper relaxed state.

Reserve your spot – this is an event that regularly fills to capacity!

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Moving Meditation

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A Sunday Morning Special Event

9:30 AM Sunday, June 5

Part Yoga Book Club, part restorative yoga, part spiritual experience. This event is designed to be a reflective embodiment of our readings.

It’s expected all participants will have finished reading This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley. We will open with discussion of the book with personal reflections – perfect for sharing your underlines, highlights and questions.

We’ll then move into a slow, reflective series of poses to help invite the themes into our own experiences. There will be no flow, and you will use your own body to support the standing, seated and reclined poses. Several restorative poses will utilize props.

Plan for a 90-minute class and get started on the book now.

$21 | Members: $19

Purchase book online

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Get a Better Body [Belief System]

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2022 is the year to finally shed those unwanted negative beliefs about your body and how it’s “supposed” to look. If your relationship to food has made eating less enjoyable and more work, then this series will be a welcome launching point.

Using information about the mind and how beliefs work, along with personal reflection and experiential tools of hypnotherapy, Diane will guide you through a process of exposing negative beliefs and reframing them toward self-compassion and curiosity.

Week 1: Examining Body Beliefs
Week 2: Building Self-Love
Week 3: Cravings Communicate

$90 for all three sessions for the biggest benefit and cost savings

$45 single-session price

Saturdays, January 8, 15, 22

10 AM at Woven Yoga

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Mindfulness & Self-Care Resources

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Next week I’ll be visiting with the team at Angeline Schools & Industry to share about the importance of self-care and utilizing mindfulness as a means to practice it. I’ve presented to numerous groups on this topic and love to share resources.

Guided Meditation:

Traveling Breath

(Script from Zensational Kids Educate2Be Training Resources)

Alternate Nostril Breathing

Resources :

Podcasts to subscribe to:

  • Ten Percent Happier
  • On Being
  • How to be a better Human
  • Armchair Expert: Experts on Expert (*Language warning)
  • Brene Brown: Unlocking Us

Books:

  • Becoming Wise by Krista Tippett
  • How to Be Here by Rob Bell
  • An Alter in the World by Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Inward by Yung Pueblo
  • Think Like a Monk by Jay Shetty
  • When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron

How to Thrive Under Stress a podcast on 10 Percent Happier.
Kristen Bell on Anxiety Part 1 (The Robcast) – great info on the physiology of anxiety, the nervous system, and tools for shifting responses.
Kristen Bell on Anxiety Part 2 (The Robcast) – a way of thinking about anxiety that doesn’t view it as a pathology.
On Being: Interview with Richard Davidson A Neuroscientist on Love & Learning
On Being: Interview with Ellen Langer Science of Mindfulness and Mindlessness
Hey, Sigmund: Articles and practices for working with anxiety in children and teens.
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear (Elizabeth Gilbert) – In the first section Liz deals with fearful living vs. allowing curiosity guide us in life.
Mind Body Health Associates – mental health practice approaching the mind/body connection with mindfulness in Findlay, Ohio. Specialties in trauma and addiction treatment.
Stop, Breath & Think app – a guided meditation app
Zensational Kids – classroom training and resources.

References:

Study: Writing about worries eases text anxiety (Chicago Tribune reports)
Writing About Testing Worries Boosts Exam Performance in the Classroom (Gerardo Ramirez, Sian L. Beilock. Science 14 Jan 2011: Vol. 331, Issue 6014, pp. 211-213 DOI: 10.1126/science.1199427)
Teacher Stress & Health: an issue brief by Penn State & the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Ayurveda & Fall Reset

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Yoga is far more than a series of poses you perform on your mat. Yoga – yoking, linking, connecting – is a way of living.

The winds and changes of fall affect us all…

Ayurveda, the “sister science of yoga” is an ancient way of seeing the world using elements, textures, tastes, and sensory experiences. By understanding the qualities of what you eat, watch, breathe, and think, you can understand how to restore balance and make effective changes in routine that don’t require rearranging your entire existence.

This fall at Woven Yoga we will host a 90-minute workshop on the basic premises of Ayurveda. We’ll explore the Doshas and provide a framework for understanding your unique constitution so that you can approach the changing season with grace and ease.

This workshop will be held at 6 PM on Sunday, September 13. Cost: $35.

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Use your newly discovered understanding of Ayurveda to transition into fall unlike any other detox experiences.

The last half hour of the workshop will include an outline of self-care practices to engage during the fall Vata season and introduce the Fall Reset experience. This week includes changing habits related to diet, movement, and mental well-being to re-center and ground yourself in nourishment and care.

Woven Yoga will also host a guided Reset experience the week of September 14-17, following the workshop.

The guided Reset experience includes:

  • Outline of daily self-care practices
  • Most necessary ingredients for the kitchari mono-diet
  • Oils for abhayanga (self-massage)
  • Daily guided meditations
  • Daily pranayama (breath) practices
  • Priority scheduling for daily yoga practices
  • Community and support while processing the experience
  • End-of-week group reflection and personal intention-setting practice (Thursday, September 17 at 5:30 PM)

Cost: $70 | $40 for Unlimited Members

*Those on the Surviving September pass, email me for discounted pricing codes

Sign up for the Fall Ayurvedic Reset