Category: Workshops

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Understanding & Practicing Qigong

Thursday, February 27, 3-4:30 PM PST

Location: Zoom

Cost: $25-$45 Sliding Scale.  No one turned away for lack of funds. Pay what you can.

Register:  tracy@fulllifeyogastudio.com

Description: 

In this 1.5 hour workshop we will better understand the development, history and philosophy of Qigong.  We will practice qigong movements and better understand how they open and relax the body and guide us towards deep concentration and meditation. We will practice qigong standing meditations and learn to look for blockages to the qi, gently aligning ourselves for optimal flow of energy. And finally we will discuss six directional awareness, visualizations and paradoxes that can help us better develop awareness and ease.

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Offering the Spine Love through Strengthening the Core: A Yoga Alignment & Awareness Workshop

With Tracy Lease

Saturday, February 22, 1-3 PM PST
Location: South Yuba Club, 130 West Berryhill Drive, Grass Valley, CACost: SYC Members: $10-$20. Non-members: $20-$40, sliding scale. 
Register:  tracy@fulllifeyogastudio.com

Description:  The Central Channel of our Spine is the apple core of our bodies.  We move from the central core of our pelvis.  We can learn how to take care of the spine and move with fluid ease if we better understand the core.  This awareness can help us with any activity we do, from swimming to pickle ball, weight lifting to Pilates and Yoga.

In this workshop we will learn how to activate the inner core muscles, to awaken our awareness of them so that they turn on before the outer core and keep the spine safe.  We will learn to strengthen, activate and lengthen around the whole circumference of the spine so our yoga poses and other activities are safe and integrated.  This will be an informative class and an active yoga exploration.  Come learn so you will be empowered inside your own body!

(Any person who attends this or other SYC yoga workshops with Tracy before through April 30 will receive a one-time $50 discount if they join the Full Life Yoga Teacher Training at the South Yuba Club May 23-Sept 28, 2025)

 

 

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Alaska | February 2025

~ Alaskans, Let’s Explore the Inner Landscape!
with Tracy Lease

February 7-9, 2025

In this weekend workshop, hosted by Marsha Munsell at Heart Stream Yoga, we will explore movement through a deeper understanding of the myofascial matrix and the fascinating nerve tree of the body. 

This underlying information will weave through practices that address your requests~ how to take good care of our spines, shoulders, hips, knees and feet as we practice yoga and live our daily lives. We will really think about myofascial slings and how we are really all one– everything is linked together… and we may be better able to care for ourselves if we remember this.

Marsha and I would love for people to commit to the whole retreat! So please let us know soon if you are interested. And those of you who can only attend some sessions, let us know what you can commit to and we will add you in where possible.

Dates:

  • February 7-9, 2025
    • Friday, Feb. 7: 5:30-7:30
    • Saturday, Feb. 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM,  4-6 PM
    • Sunday, Feb. 9:  9:30 AM- 12:30 PM

Retreat cost:  $175

Participant Numbers:   20 Person Limit

Press Here for the Heart Stream Registration Link

Questions about Registration?

 
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Esalen – Big Sur Coast, CA | March 2025

~ 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: March24-March 28th, 2025

Press Here for Full Description of this Retreat  @ Esalen Institute

Press Here for  Information on Accommodations & Costs

Press Here for Scholarship Information

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.

Treat yourself to the rugged beauty of the Big Sur coast, the deep relaxation of the hot springs tubs, the quiet of the meditation hut and gardens, delicious, healthy food made for you, and a week full of heart-filled yoga growth, learning and joy.

 

The more we awaken in 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 with fluid ease. We will consider the role fascia plays in movement and rehabilitation and we will explore our nervous system and ways to work with it to find joy and ease in the body as we age.

We will have time in this retreat to share our fears and hopes, to explore movement, breath and deep relaxation and to enjoy delicious meals and good conversation.

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  nuts and bolts of good  alignment and expand our consciousness in the body- getting to know our center channel, our core and how to use the bones as spacers in our myofascial being.  Come find the joy in getting to know yourself better through practices designed to deepen awareness in ways you can take with you back to your lives after this retreat..