Category: Current 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

Press Here for  Information on Accommodations & Costs

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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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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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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.