Category: Workshops

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Let Love Spring Forth Through You:  A Movement Celebration

6:00  – 7:30 PM  Thursday, March 21st
Mountain Stream Meditation Center
710 Zion St.  Nevada City, CA
Suggested Donation
$15-$20

Join Tracy and delve into your body through easeful flow,  joyful movement, fluid and open breath.  Thaw from winter’s cold and gently circle joints open, invite spaciousness into muscle tissue and mind, and gently rock the nervous and endocrine systems towards a more relaxed state as we practice nurturing the body, mind and heart as we open to spring warmth.

Drawing from Vipassana, Qigong and Yoga Therapy, Tracy will guide participants towards a deep and loving present-moment celebration of the bodies we inhabit.

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Spine, Shoulders & Neck– Building Postural Awareness to Avoid or Relieve Back Pain (Revisited)

Wednesday, February 21, 3-4:00 PM PST

Location: Zoom

Cost: $25

Register:  tracy@fulllifeyogastudio.com

Description:

In this one hour course we will continue to learn to relieve pain along the spine from the pelvis up into the neck.  We will evaluate postures, feeling  for shifts in our pelvis, spine, shoulder girdle and neck.

We will learn some anatomy on the screen and then do exercises to feel into those specific areas. These exercises are designed to empower you to find balance in your own unique body.

We will play with the relationship between hips, shoulders and neck finding our tight places and our weak lengthened areas.  Then we will try on various exercises to help us build balance.  We will feel into what activation and release we can concentrate on in yoga poses, Qigong and Pilates exercises to bring harmony to the physical body.

We will learn to see how a postural shift in the hips can impact the thoracic spine of the rib cage and the cervical spine of the neck. We will learn cues that can help students place pelvis thoughtfully- helping them to align the diamond of the pelvic floor, and  postural awareness rings.

This will build on our last workshop while also standing independently.

Hope you can join me!

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Love Your Body Now: A Yoga Therapy Approach to Joyous, Full Body Awareness As We Age

Love Your Body Now:

A Yoga Therapy Approach to Joyous, Full Body Awareness As We Age

A Week-Long Yoga Workshop/Retreat

With Tracy Lease

@ Esalen Institute

Big Sur, California

 

Dates: September 30-October 4th, 2024

Press Here for a Full Description of This Retreat Online @ Esalen Institute

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If interested in a scholarship, apply as soon as possible.

If you have further questions, feel free to reach out to Esalen for help by email @ info@esalen.org or  by phone: (831) 667-3000, Monday – Saturday, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Pacific Time.

Whether you have been to Esalen or not, this is a chance to treat yourself to the rugged beauty of the Big Sur coast, the deep relaxation of the hot springs, the quiet of the meditation hut and gardens, delicious, healthy food made for you, and a week full of yoga growth, learning and joy.

The more we awaken to our bodies, the more we can care for them well~ and the better they will take care of us.  In this workshop, we will learn, through Qigong, to move into our yoga postures with ease.  As we take time to experience our poses and posture we will become more aware, feeling into our joints and movements. We will learn to relax even as we work in a practice. We will study the nuts and bolts of good alignment and expand our consciousness in the body through embodied inquiry.  Come find the joy in getting to know yourself better through all eight limbs of yoga.

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Half-Day Retreat Welcoming in the New Year

Relaxed & Awake: Welcoming In The New Year

Expanding Our Heart capacity through The Five Invitations

With Tracy Lease & Miyu Tamamura

Mountain Stream Meditation Center                                           

710 Zion St.   Nevada City, CA

January 14,  1-4 PM

*Pre-registration is required. Please register first before sending dana. Thank you!

20 person limit
No one turned away for lack of funds.
Suggested donation (dana): $75 – $115
(Dana is greatly appreciated and shared equally amongst MS, Tracy and Miyu).

To register and if you have any questions about the retreat, contact Tracy at: tracy@fulllifeyogastudio.com

Please send Dana to complete the registration:
By Credit Card:

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By Check mail to:
Mountain Stream Meditation Center
Attn: R&A 1/14/24
PO Box 2510, Nevada City, CA 95959

When we bring our whole self forward, we include our brokenness. We make room for the blemishes as well as purity, strength as well as vulnerability, success as well as screwups.  Judgment focuses on what’s wrong; it feeds an “either/or” mentality.  Embracing wholeness is a loving act of reclamation, a “both/and” way of meeting life.”    Frank Ostaseski
We invite you to bring your whole-self to this retreat and, in doing so, to expand your heart’s capacity. Together we will greet the New Year, drop into our hearts, align with our intentions, and invite the gifts of the New Year to emerge from the inside and out.
This retreat was inspired by Frank Ostaseski’s book, “The Five Invitations: Discovering what death can teach us about living fully.”  The cofounder of the Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco, Frank has paused on the precipice of death with more than a thousand people. From these experiences he learned what many, in those vulnerable moments, valued most in life. From these experiences Frank offers us five Zen-influenced invitations to help us live fully.
We will practice these “Five Invitations” in community, through the flow of Qigong and breath, various meditations, contemplations, and restorative yoga. These hours will be deeply supported by the therapeutic vibrations of crystal singing bowls and moments of silence.
No prerequisite is necessary to attend this retreat. You are welcome to read the book to deepen your experience. Or, perhaps the retreat will inspire you to read the book later. Regardless, everyone and all levels are welcome!
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Spine, Shoulders & Neck– Building Postural Awareness to Avoid or Relieve Back Pain

Wednesday, January  17, 3-4:00 PM PST

Location: Zoom

Cost: $25

Register:  tracy@fulllifeyogastudio.com

Description:

In this one hour course we will continue to relieve pain along the spine from the pelvis up into the neck.  We will evaluate postures, feeling  for shifts in our pelvis, spine, shoulder girdle and neck.  We will learn exercises that will help us stabilize the pelvis and balance strengthening long, weak muscles with stretching short, tight muscles so our bodies feel balanced and open.

We will play with the relationship between hips, shoulders and neck finding our tight places and our weak lengthened areas.  Then we will try on various exercises to help us build balance.  We will feel into what activation and release we can concentrate on in yoga poses, Qigong and Pilates exercises to bring harmony to the physical body.

We will learn to see how a postural shift in the hips can impact the thoracic spine of the rib cage and the cervical spine of the neck. We will learn cues that can help students place pelvis thoughtfully- helping them to align the diamond of the pelvic floor, and  postural awareness rings.

This will build on our last workshop while also standing independently.

Hope you can join me!

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Hips, Spine and Foundation: Postural Alignment in Asana & Life

Wednesday, September 27, 3-4:00 PM PST

Location: Zoom

Cost: $20

Register:  tracy@fulllifeyogastudio.com

Description:

In this one hour course we will evaluate posture, feeling down from the pelvis into our feet and up from the pelvis into the spine.

We will play with the relationship between hips and feet and hips and spine through postural awareness exercises– tilting, rotating, and shifting the pelvis to look for the impact on spine, knees and feet.

We will learn to see how a postural shift in the hips can impact the thoracic spine of the rib cage and the cervical spine of the neck. We will learn cues that can help students place pelvis thoughtfully- helping them to align the diamond of the pelvic floor, and  their iliac crest. We will also discuss, osteoporosis, scoliosis, and other spinal alignment issues that may require we offer modifications to keep students safe in yoga postures.

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Feet, Knees & Hips~ Building Whole Body Awareness

Wednesday, September 6, 3-4:00 PM PST

Location: Zoom

Cost: $20

Register:  tracy@fulllifeyogastudio.com

Description: In this workshop we will continue to make connections, exploring the relationship between our feet, knees & hips.  We will see how these areas of our body and their alignment impact each other. We will learn exercises that will help us stabilize the feet to support the knees and hips. We will feel into the hips and the impact they have on knees and feet. Hopefully, we will all have ah-ha moments in our own bodies.

Many people injure their knees in yoga.  In this workshop we will take a close look at essential practices for protecting your knees in yoga and in life.

Come to class ready to get to know your feet, knees and hips and their relationships with each other more intimately :-).

This is a Svadhyaya, self-study practice.

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Explore the Relationship between Your Feet & Your Knees

Wednesday, August 2nd, 3-4:00 PM PST

Location: Zoom

Cost: $20

Register:  tracy@fulllifeyogastudio.com

Description: In this workshop we will explore the relationship between our feet and our knees.  We will see how feet and knees impact each other and we will learn exercises that will help us stabilize the feet to support the knees, and align the knees to place healthy weight on the feet.

Many people injure their knees in yoga.  In this workshop we will take a close look at essential practices for protecting your knees in yoga and in life.  One example: Flexing the feet in specific stretches protects the knees.

Come to class ready to know your feet, knees and their relationship more intimately :-).  This will protect your hips too!

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Foot Friendly: A workshop on how to care for, open & strengthen feet

Tuesdays, May 16th & 23rd, 3-4:00 PM PST

Location: Zoom

Cost: $20/workshop or $35 for both

Register:  tracy@fulllifeyogastudio.com

Description: In this workshop we will dive into practices and techniques that support the feet.  We will learn about the arches and how to strengthen them so they can support the body (and help to align the hips and knees) well.  We will learn how to massage and stretch the feet.  We will learn how to open and create space in the toe box and ankles.  We will then try out our new understanding of the feet in standing poses.

We will also explore the feet in motion.  What happens in an optimal series of steps?  Let’s analyze the motion of the feet and play with heel strike and push off for fluid and easeful motion.

The feet are so important to healthy posture, comfortable movement and a happy life.  Join me in this fun-filled workshop and take away some great ideas of how to care for your feet.