Strong Back, Steady Mind, Open Heart

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If you had to describe, with one word, your relationship with your body what would it be? If you had to describe how you relate to your mind, or heart...? Are the words that come up for you, words that feel nourishing or... not?

For many of us, we relate to ourselves (body, mind, and heart) with a harshness or dismissal that is unlike how we strive to treat our families, friends or even strangers. Wherever you are in your relationship with your body, cultivating a more intentional connection is a gift.

In this series, we will create an intentionally compassionate connection with our bodies. We will work with a balance of strengthening and stabilizing postures, and deep listening, accepting, and allowing the body to be as it is. We will strive to approach the body with kindness and care, utilizing somatic practices to invite more ease in the way we relate to our experience of being in the body.

Using meditation we will explore practices to bring a steadiness to the mind.  We will cultivate a relational awareness that is anchored to the body, anchored to the present moment experience.

We will invite an investigation of our energetic, emotional states through connection with the breath. We will utilize breath techniques (pranayama) to lift the energy where it needs lifting, to soothe the energy where it is overactive and to draw the energetic experience toward a greater sense of balance and ease.

Through movement, mindfulness, self compassion, and self Inquiry we will polish those habitual ways of relating to ourselves into something radiant!

This series is open to all levels of practitioners.  The asana will be simple and adaptive. All are welcome!

This is a 10 week hybrid series which will include:

• 6 in person sessions held at blosm studio: 6-7:30 PM March 28, April 4, April 25, May 2, May 23, May 30 (final class will include a 30 minute sound bath!)
• 2 online integration sessions (over zoom): 6-7:30 pm April 11, May 9
• 2 self practice weeks (with recorded practices in a content library): weeks of April 18 and May 16

Investment: $250 (if you feel drawn to this series and need a partial scholarship email kim@wholelifeyoga.com)

Please register at Whole Life Yoga

The studio does not have a designated parking area, however free street parking is available.  On evenings and weekends, you can park across from the studio on the east side of 28th Avenue, but please don't block any garage doors of the Bill Pierre facility.  

About the Instructor:

Kim Tull-Esterbrook is an E-RYT 500 hour level Yoga instructor and current owner of Whole Life Yoga. Kim teaches adaptive, breath centric asana, pranayama, and meditation. Kim uses yoga as a tool to help her know and understand herself and the world more fully. Kim is a certified mindfulness teacher through the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program designed and led by renowned meditation teachers Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach. She believes deeply in the power of these practices to ease suffering, enliven joy, strengthen resilience and create a more compassionate and caring world!