Restorative Yoga for the Chakras
With: Vicki Forman ERYT500 Dates: May 23rd (Sunday) Time: 2pm to 4pm Cost: $30 Drop-In: $35 * In this workshop we will learn about what the ancient yogis believe about the seven chakras or energy centers. * We will practice seven restorative poses for each energy...
Pure Pilates Offering Free Mat Pilates and Gentle Yoga Class
To register for the "In-Studio" class - please go to Pure Pilates website at https://www.purepilatescentralcoast.com At the end of September, we will be offering two classes that will share the Momence online classes along with the “In Studio” class. The dates for...
How Restorative Yoga helps reduce stress and anxiety
What are the best Restorative Yoga poses to release stress? How does Restorative Yoga release stress? The real answer is that all yoga release stress, but in different ways. The deep breathing we practice in yoga helps calm you, lowering blood pressure, decreasing...
Can Yoga be an tool to help you lose weight?
Get the best of both worlds! Yummy Yoga stretches with core workout. This is suitable for the beginner or active senior student. Lots of great informative instruction for the newbie to feel comfortable.To play this Video on Youtube - Click HereFor Yoga4Man members to...
Roll & Release: A Total Body Treatment
Date: January 31, 2021Time: 4pm to 5:30pmCost: $30With: Vicki Forman ryt500 Treat yourself to some much needed “me time” with this amazing workshop for a complete body treatment. This therapeutic, yoga-inspired workshop will ease pain and tension in the...
The Rightness of Wrong
By Emily Hawkins Humility. It seemed like the theme of my life. Parenting efforts resulting in little progress. Painfully embarrassing experiences as I fumbled my way through something new, in front of people I respect and admire. Why is it that I seemed to be failing...
Yoga as Rehab for Striving
“I think your favorite type of read could be considered a self-help book.”
My husband was right — and I didn’t like it. He was gently pointing to something deeply ingrained in me. This drive I have to always be doing more, doing better, and just generally improving. But do I really want my favorite books to be the ones in which “experts” to tell me ways I can become a “new me” or a “better version of myself?” Ones where someone else profits off of my urge for self-improvement? When I think about it that way, not really.
To Be a Tree
By Emily Hawkins I watch people fall and try not to fall myself, as I stand in yoga class, balancing in tree pose. In this particular pose, I breathe and and stand on one leg. I see the arms of my classmates. Some reach skyward, and some spill from their posture....
Yoga for All Bodies
Yoga for All Bodies Written by: Emily Hawkins What comes to mind when you think about yoga? I used to imagine a woman in expensive attire, performing an inversion on a beach. But is this what yoga really looks like? Despite how it's often portrayed in today's culture,...
The Upside of Falling on My Face by Emily Hawkins
Something happened in yoga class. I was at my favorite studio, in a particularly challenging class, when our teacher invited us into crow pose. Crow pose looks unnatural. Hands placed beneath a body that lifts hopefully but tenuously into the air. However, having...