HOLISTIC HEALING SERIES
Thursdays, 6-8pm
These mini-workshops offer new yoga sequences and approaches as well as alternative body work methods that support your Yoga for Back Care and/or Scoliosis practice as well as supplementally aid in healing.
The presenters in this series are the best of the best! Some of the presenters will be familiar to you and some are visitors who we at Samamkaya would like to have a continued presence.
You may take these Thursday evening classes as a whole series, 5 out of 7 class series, or one at a time.
October 15 – Rachel Lynch-John: Finding Movement Support Through Developmental Pathways
Join Rachel to look at how we relate to gravity and levity to find our foundation to support us and freedom to move us through space, utilizing and building upon an understand of basics developmental movement patterns we explored as infants, to find support and ease in our bodies.
October 29 – Lou Asselin: A Special Daily Yoga Sequence for Your Sacrum and Low Back
Wonderful Lou Asselin is back for a visit!! She will teach a sequence she learned from her teacher in France to heal her sacral pain. Lou has been living alternately in Paris France and Pune India studying with the Iyengar family since Fall 2014.
November 12 – Anne Hammel: Introduction to CranioSacral Therapy and Visceral Manipulation
A CranioSacral therapist and Visceral Manipulator, Anne’s sensitive hands can release pain in the body or move your organs so they function better. Focusing on back pain, pain from postural imbalance and scoliosis and post-surgical imbalances from Harrington rods and other spinal fusions, Anne will demonstrate how structural and energetic release is elicited on the deep layers of the body creating more harmony. The presentation will include lecture, demonstration and movement. Anne Hammel is a Presenter at Cornell-Weill NY Presbyterian Chronic Pain Unit and gives study groups in CranioSacral and Visceral Manipulation. We are honored to host her at Samamkaya Yoga!
December 3 – Alicia Allison: Herbs for Pain Management in the Musculoskeletal System
Western herbalist, wildcrafter, wellness educator, yoga teacher, and doula, Alicia, Founder of Clover and Timothy, will present herbal tinctures and plants that help with muscular and nerve pain.
December 10 – Wendy Baranello: Meditation, Clarity, and Connection
Our own Wendy “Santoshi” Baranello long awaited workshop on meditation practice. Wendy’s years of study with Satchidananda and her own meditation practice will help you get started. Your meditation practice can support your yoga practice and help to address pain and other issues in your life.
December 17 – Deborah Wolk: Tressler, Stump, Bench, and Box: Addressing Vertebral Rotation and Displacement
Samamkaya has one of the best equipped studios in terms of classical Iyengar props in New York City. After defining some of the movements of the asymmetric spine, this workshop will address the spine with great specificity using some of the largest props in the studio: the Tressler, Stump, Setu Bandha bench, and Viparita Karani Box. Deborah will also show how you can gain some of the same effects with objects, walls, counters, and props you have at home and those we use every day at the studio.
*One year asana experience or teacher’s permission is required to attend this workshop.
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Any 5 Classes: $160 (please indicate which classes you would like to attend at sign up)
Single Classes: $35/class in advance; $40/class day of
