Great Big Yoga

02/06/2024

GUESS WHAT?! I'm heading back to PATHS for a 7-class series offered through Portland Adult Education. Join me from 6-715pm on Tuesday evenings, Feb 27th to Apr 9th. Register online at:
https://portland.maineadulted.org/classes/categories/fitness-dance/

Class Description:
There is no wrong way to have a body and there is no wrong body for yoga. The practice of yoga benefits every body and this class is especially designed for people who may not feel like they fit the description of the typical yoga student. While you do not need to be a specific size, shape, or ability level to attend, special attention will be paid to modifications for larger bodies and bodies with mobility and/or flexibility challenges. Classes will move through a modified slow flow and offered in a manner that respects and celebrates differences and encourages strength building, balance, flexibility, and self-acceptance. Breathwork and meditation will also be explored

11/21/2022

Hey, friends! Whatcha doing tomorrow night? How about you join me for a donation-based gratitude yoga class in support of Sea Change Yoga!
Class will be from 6-7PM at SCY's studio space (175 Lancaster Street in Portland) and also offered on Zoom. Register online at: https://seachangeyoga.kindful.com/?campaign=1225397
P.S. In-person participation is limited to 11 people. 🧡

08/10/2021

Friends! I am so excited about Sea Change Yoga's new YTT scholarships, and super proud to be part of an organization that is doing the WORK to become *truly* rooted in justice and equity "by helping train teachers with the same shared and lived experiences as their students."

Here's some more info from SCY's website:
"We recognize a responsibility to remove barriers to diversify the yoga teaching community and promote equity within the yoga and wellness communities....Sea Change Yoga commits to evolving the yoga teaching population of Greater Portland, elevating community leaders and facilitating opportunities for our students to work within their own communities."

Support SCY's work to bring the practice of yoga to marginalized communities by spreading the word!!!

This scholarship was created to further support Sea Change Yoga students, partners, and our greater community. We recognize a responsibility to remove barriers to diversify the yoga teaching community and promote equity within the yoga and wellness communities.

08/05/2021

Check out some of the important work that Mindbridge is doing around healing and centering marginalized voices. This is YOGA IN ACTION.

Too often, healing is an afterthought to harm. When evaluating trauma, we ask the following questions:

1) How are we considering the ways in which individuals and communities persevere under difficult circumstances?
2) What are the means by which we restore mental, physical, and spiritual health following decades of discrimination and bias?

Learn how we use neuroscience and psychology to support healing --> by visiting Mindbridgecenter.org

12/02/2020

Dear White yoga teacher, You may love yoga. Maybe yoga has even saved your life or healed your soul. Perhaps you may go to yoga class to leave feeling relaxed, as well as to deal with daily anxieties you face. Maybe as a yoga teacher or practitioner, you aim to create a safe or comfortable space (in...

11/02/2020

Need to calm those election nerves? I know I do. Join me from 6-7pm tonight for Yoga for Sustainable Activism through Sea Change Yoga. Tonight's hour-long slow flow will focus on the power of breath to activate the parasympathetic nervous system (i.e. calm us the heck down). Sometimes the only thing to do, when you feel like you have no control over an outcome, is to just focus on the next breath. The next few days will be a great time to practice!
Join in community and get grounded through intentional breath and movement. Take your practice off the mat and to the voting booth tomorrow. Inhale, exhale, repeat. ❤ (Find the Zoom link here: seachangeyoga.org/lovewarriors)

09/23/2020

This.