Spring is time for
the...
GODDESS REVIVAL!
for more info write info(@)healingthegoddess(dot)com
April/May/June Workshops
Deepen and enhance your current yoga practice
of any tradition. Explore the healing benefits of yoga for
women interwoven with yoga, dance, and the goddess metaphor.
The goal of this workshop is to give you a solid experiential
understanding of yoga, healing the feminine, and embodyment
of your higher Self to inspire you to keep your yoga and other
spiritual practices fun and integrated in your life! No yoga
experience necessary.
Sandy uses the SvaroopaTM style
as the foundation for this class and then integrates some
of the ideas of Kripalu and of Angela Farmer and Victor Van
Kooten. SvaroopaTM yoga uses
props to support people where they are tight and enable tension
held deep in the spine to release. The teachings of Angela
and Victor include grounding through the feet and sitbones,
lengthening muscles and creating space, self-massage of the
fascia, using breath to release, and using intuition and flow
to guide your yoga practice. Lastly, we explore and experience
the chakras through asanas, bandhas (energy locks), and dance;
and we will end with meditation instruction.
Workshop
Details
Sandy does not offer yoga classes anymore
but does do workshops by request. Three people are needed
to make a workshop happen. Get a few friends together or family
members, or email to start a waiting list.
Wear warm clothes and layer them as the style of yoga I teach
is slow and very relaxing. Be sure to tell me of any health
conditions you think I should know about, especially pregnancy,
high blood pressure, asthma, a history of detached retina/glaucoma,
fibromyalgia, back/neck/shoulder pain, recent surgery, ...
You know your body and your body's limitations best. NEVER
do anything that hurts or doesn't feel right. If a pose is
being held too long for you or if you ever feel pain or light-headed,
take care of yourself and pull out of the pose! When you honor
yourself in this way, you get much more out of the yoga than
if you were to push yourself.
Courtesy Request
Please refrain from wearing scented lotions
or perfumes as some people are extremely sensitive to them.
If you are a smoker, please plan to shower and wear fresh clothes
before coming to class so that the nicotine does not transfer
from your clothing and hair to the yoga blankets. The yoga blankets
will have to be washed if you forget, so please don’t
forget! Thank you!!!
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The
Yoga of Motherhood
mini-workshops to help you...
Supporting Your Daughter
Coming of Age
Learn what our local public schools are teaching
and not teaching our children about puberty and sex and consider
how you want to supplement the info. Learn empowering information
(about female anatomy, STDs, and transgender identity issues)
that is not widely available. How do you make it safe for her
to talk? Consider and share ideas for affirming puberty and minimizing
shame. How do you identify and heal unresolved issues around your
body image or sexuality and how do you keep from passing them
on to your daughter/children?
Goddess
Kwan Yin 
is portrayed here in a Tibetan thangka as her male incarnate,
Chenrezig, the Boddhisatva of Compassion. This thangka was
purchased and framed for Goddess Yoga to invoke the spirit
of the Chinese Goddess Kwan Yin and Tibetan Goddess Tara,
embodyments of Compassion. Compassion for Self is essential
for healing. When women heal and open their chakras, men will
heal and open their chakras, feminine energies will rebalance
masculine personally and globally. The planet has chakras
too and can heal and rebalance as well. It’s that simple!
Not easy, but simple.
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I have found the metaphor of the goddess
a useful one in my yoga practice and in the developing of my work
serving women and girls. My business has evolved and continues
to evolve out of my own healing work. Like the Sumerian Goddess
Innana, who arose from her descent to the Underworld, I have been
completely transformed. I went through a process of stripping
my identity as wife, environmental activist, and biology teacher,
as I knew it, and found that when I let go of these identities
that there were gems within I had forgotten. I found and reclaimed
my innocence, charm, trust in the divine, ability to sing, to
love, to assert. I found my self-confidence strengthened and more!
SvaroopaTM yoga, the style I teach,
taught me how to become self-aware, surrender control, and let
go. With these skills and foundation, I was led by my intuition
to explore energy healing work which accelerated the healing process.
Read my Personal Statement for more details.
As a result of these openings, I see more gifts I have to give
the world through my playfulness, art, dancing, and singing.
Sandy is open-minded with the way she teaches
… The class helped me to envision myself doing much greater
things…Jade, ACS Student
It was amazing how relaxed I became, and
(Sandy was) really helpful in explaining everything…Alison,
Ithaca High
Goddess Yoga is my hour to learn how to love
and listen to my whole body. I am moved to honor something special
about me following every class…I have more confidence and
self-respect because of Sandy’s class. Rebecca, 24,
CU Grad Student
I practice being, not doing at the class
and by the time I leave I find I have been able to restore my
energy by shutting off my mind and better opening my heart.
Lisa, 51, Writer/Admin
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