Teaching Presence

26/05/2023

Your nervous system has a normal range but can be tuned sharp or flat… guitar image and explanation from class yesterday…. Where are you on this spectrum and what brings you to sharp/flat/back to center? :)

24/05/2023

habits of attention diagram from class today - my students are such cool, special geniuses who are already expanding so much!!! 💫💫💫

24/12/2022

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09/09/2022

Two New Classes for fall: Embodied Boundaries and Embodied Scene Partner Work! - https://teachingpresence.com/online-classes

09/09/2022

New class just launched: Embodied Boundaries!

Boundaries are a tool to keep us safe in relationships and circumstances, so that we can connect in ways that feel healthy and respectful to ourselves and others.
So what are Embodied Boundaries? Well, you might think of the term boundaries as something you would work on in a Talk-Therapy session. And yes, when it comes to relationships, boundaries are things we sometimes need to talk about and express and understand in words. But boundaries are also something that we feel in our bodies. Our bodies tell us when something feels safe and comfortable and when something feels too much, too close, unsafe or overwhelming. Sometimes, when we are trying to solve a problem by talking through it, we can go in circles, but if we can listen to our bodies and our feelings, we might already know what might help make us feel safe.

This course will guide you, individually, through a process of discovering and listening to your own embodied boundaries. Noticing preferences in various categories of boundaries. Once you have this knowledge about yourself, it is easier to navigate your workplace, your relationships, your home and your relationship with yourself and keep your nervous system feeling more safe and your integrity feeling more respected.

Learn more and sign up through the link in bio! Currently classes are 10% off so sign up soon!

07/09/2022

Just launched a new class for fall: Embodied Boundaries on Sunday evenings!

“Our bodies tell us when something feels safe and comfortable and when something feels too much, too close, unsafe or overwhelming. Sometimes, when we are trying to solve a problem by talking through it, we can go in circles, but if we can listen to our bodies and our feelings, we might already know what might help make us feel safe.

This course will guide you, individually, through a process of discovering and listening to your own embodied boundaries. Noticing preferences in various categories of boundaries. Once you have this knowledge about yourself, it is easier to navigate your workplace, your relationships, your home and your relationship with yourself and keep your nervous system feeling more safe and your integrity feeling more respected.”

Learn more and sign up:

EMBODIED BOUNDARIES Boundaries are important to maintain healthy relationships at work, with family, friends and loved ones and even with ourselves. They can feel intimidating to create, as it can feel like creating walls or being cold with people, shutting down connection. But, in reality, bounda

12/11/2021

Who feels like their glutes and hip flexors could use some gentle release? As we settle into fall and temperatures drop, our bodies are naturally moving towards stability, curling inward, energy preservation and hibernation. Rest is so important at this time of year. If you live somewhere that has changing weather, temperatures are affecting your joints, and also the terrain might be getting slippery or slushy soon.
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Yin offers a gentle release around the hips to create more flow in these joints, so we are finding balance through micro- movements and imperceptible sways and not in gripping and tightening. Keeping a little bit of warmth and movement in these joints throughout winter allows them to respond to changing terrain and conditions by finding new ways of balancing, rather than reacting and tightening.
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Yin practice is every Monday and Friday night on zoom - links in bio to join and it’s pay what you can! 💛

02/09/2021

We have currently raised $734 for Afghan girls and Haiti earthquake relief! We want to reach $1000 by midnight! Donate and share with your community now! Concert starts at 7pm tonight and we have an amazing line-up!!!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rhythm-to-the-rescue-a-musical-fundraiser-for-haiti-and-afghanistan-tickets-168645028821

An Online Concert fundraising for the Zohra Women's Orchestra in Afghanistan and Earthquake Relief on-the-ground in Haiti

21/06/2021

21/03/2021

Tomorrow (Sunday): Self-Care for Your Eyes Pop-Up Class!! - https://mailchi.mp/453f4c31bbf1/navigatingtheholidays-5160534

12/03/2021

For me, Movement is not about fitness or perfection or changing what my body looks like on the outside. Movement is about changing how it feels on the inside. Movement is about discovering my patterns of thinking and feeling and exploring what’s outside of those patterns… Discovering what else is possible for me to feel and perceive on a daily basis. Movement is about finding freedom and pleasure in the sensation of just being alive.
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In my Movement classes, we turn our cameras off and we have full permission to go away from our computers. My students don’t imitate my movement or try to replicate what I’m doing. Most of the class you can’t even see me. Instead, I guide you through your own practice following my cues that encourage you to explore and discover what your body seeks right now: what feels good, what wants to open and free, what wants to close or squeeze, what objects and surfaces in your surroundings give you support and inspire your movement... movement is an exploration. It’s about returning to the child in us all who doesn’t define the world around them but experiences it as if it’s brand new. 💡
I’m offering two movement classes every Sunday. One from 11:30 to 12:30 Eastern with and one from 1 to 2 PM Eastern through - links in bio for both! I hope you can join me and take an hour to listen to what your body is communicating to you and set it free! ♡ ♡ ♡

12/03/2021

Yin Yoga every Friday night • 8:30-10pm EST • link in bio
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I love yin yoga because it slows me down. My thoughts can go very fast, especially now with spring on its way but this virus still keeping us from fully breathing, exploring and adventuring.... expanding into the world.
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I wear a mask at work and I have to consciously practice re-expanding my breath when I am home and yin yoga is a great way to do that! Also, if you are following the same movement patterns in your home every day, this is a great way to free your body from this movement pattern.
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Hope to see you tonight!

09/02/2021

2020 VISION: NAVIGATING TRAUMA THROUGH SCREENS & SELF-ISOLATION Written by Holly CinnamonWhite / Canadian / Cisgender Woman / Q***r / Millennial[1] Edited by Diane Hovenesian Note to readers: This article will explore the effects of screen use on our nervous systems and emotional wellbeing. There is very little anecdotal and theoretical writing on this subject and even less research....

https://hollycinnamon.wordpress.com/2021/02/09/2020-vision-navigating-trauma-through-screens-self-isolation/

2020 VISION:  NAVIGATING TRAUMA THROUGH SCREENS & SELF-ISOLATION Written by Holly CinnamonWhite / Canadian / Cisgender Woman / Q***r / Millennial[1] Edited by Diane Hovenesian Note to…

04/02/2021

Tip of today: wake your brain up. Your iPhone is seducing you. Your attention is the world’s greatest commodity right now. Don’t let it be stolen from you. Stay awake. 💫

28/01/2021

24/01/2021

Gentle Yin Yoga
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Have you been sitting in a chair all day and feel tightness and compression as result? Moving through the same patterns in your home and in your thinking as we remain in isolation?
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Yin Yoga (the opposite of Yang Yoga) offers a gentle release. We work with gravity, finding support from the earth, to undo some holding patterns of tension from your daily life. Allow the weight of whatever you are holding to melt away on the mat.
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Mondays 7-8:30pm est & Fridays 8:30-10pm est
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Sliding scale pricing ($10-35)
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Class details in the link below!

https://teachingpresence.com/online-classes/yinyoga

21/01/2021

Healing Movement & Gesture

We are all experiencing cabin fever and needing healthy ways to release excess energy before it surfaces as anger, blame, anxiety or rage at the situation we are in.
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Let’s channel that energy into self-healing, expressive movement, self-compassion and global healing on Sunday's at 1:00 pm EST.

Pay-what-you-can

Class details in link below

https://teachingpresence.com/online-classes/authenticmovement

21/01/2021

Gentle Yin Yoga
Are you looking for deep tissue release?
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Deep tissue release yoga class offered Mondays and Fridays. Come with your mat, we will melt away tension in the body through passive postures held for 3-5 minutes.
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Pay-what-you-can
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Class details in link below
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https://teachingpresence.com/online-classes/yinyoga

16/01/2021

SCIENCE CONFIRMS THE HEART OF MY TEACHING PRACTICE! https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/vision-and-breathing-may-be-the-secrets-to-surviving-2020/?fbclid=IwAR1u00jo3-O22qRAn4VsZaMW_yLzaw-E0qegw5HwDxr0UHu8mvwcxmy5oAs

Stanford neurobiologist Andrew Huberman discusses the two things we can always control, even during a high-stress election and scary COVID pandemic

15/01/2021

Offering yin yoga pay-what-you-can tonight! Two 45 minute practices at 6:30pm & 8:30pm eastern (starts in half an hour!) Join here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/v5Uod--pqzou7i3QzSnQo9pofqoBxj1h3Q

Ease into the weekend and let go of the tension you have from sitting all day in a slow-moving yin class. Yin Yoga (the opposite of Yang Yoga) is gentle, passive, works with gravity instead of against gravity. This is not a work out class. This is deep tissue release. Melt into fascia and connective...

29/12/2020

New Year Reset Retreat Lineup:

(Last Day) Tuesday, December 29th, 2020 EST

Take a Mindful Walk 1:00-2:00PM

The Five Senses in Support 3:30-5:00PM

Gratitude Eating Meditation & Closing Circle 6:00-8:00PM

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See website for sign up and class details:

https://teachingpresence.com

Study Alexander Technique with Holly Cinnamon. Learn how Holly applied Alexander Technique to her on-camera auditions as a working actor in New York, and landed a recurring role in Netflix's Daredevil. Discover tools to own your work in the audition room and become grounded and present immediately.

29/12/2020

Our last workshop tomorrow will involve a mindful eating practice!
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Gratitude Eating Meditation & Closing Circle
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December 29th 6:00-8:00PM Eastern Time USA
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We will end our retreat by eating a meal together with mindful awareness engaging all five senses and a gratitude practice. We will eat our food slowly, noticing it's color, texture, taste, origin, energy, smell, sound and history as the energy from the living beings we are consuming enters our bodies and becomes part of us. We will celebrate the cycle of the Earth and the cycle of the energy we receive from our food.
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Link in Bio • pay-what-you-can

28/12/2020

Today I am offering Embodied Intention Setting from 3:30-4:30 est and Yin Yoga 7-8:30 est ! Pay-what-you-can! Sign up below: https://teachingpresence.com/new-year-reset-retreat-1

Happy New Year! All workshops are pay-what-you-can. You can attend all of them or select which workshops you would like to attend. Please use the buttons below to sign up and you will receive the zoom link for each workshop - the link to join will also be re-sent just before the start of each worksh...

28/12/2020

New Year Reset Retreat Lineup

Monday, December 28th EST:

Eye Fatigue Recovery 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Embodied Intention Setting 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Yin Yoga 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

See full schedule & details:

https://teachingpresence.com/new-year-reset-retreat-1?fbclid=IwAR3L7NwILqPd3kKrt9TlKDd6W_8uy-UrvwW9v_3wugJaNdCbmA3Q_mx7F2c

27/12/2020

On Now: New Year Reset Retreat: December 27th-29th, 2020 - Pay-What-You-Can! - *https://teachingpresence.com/new-year-reset-retreat-1*

27/12/2020

NEW YEAR RESET RETREAT begins today! Drop into any workshop - all pay-what-you-can! Journaling, intention setting, yoga and meditation to transition into the new year with a renewed spirit!

https://teachingpresence.com/new-year-reset-retreat-1

Happy New Year! All workshops are pay-what-you-can. You can attend all of them or select which workshops you would like to attend. Please use the buttons below to sign up and you will receive the zoom link for each workshop - the link to join will also be re-sent just before the start of each worksh...

26/12/2020

Retreat begins tomorrow.... on zoom.... pay-what-you-can!
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Tomorrow will include a breathing & meditation workshop!
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Meditation & Mindful Breathing
December 27th 6:00-7:00PM Eastern Time USA
In this workshop, we will start with a few gentle yoga poses to prepare for meditation, and incorporate some breathing and sound-making techniques from yoga and Alexander Technique to release tension, anxiety and any energies we no longer need to carry into 2021 on the breath. 💫🙏🏻🕯

24/12/2020

Gratitude Journaling & Mindful Drawing

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December 27th 3:30-5:00PM Eastern Time USA
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One of the workshops in the New Year Reset Retreat!
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In this workshop, we will use embodied journaling practices to map our gratitude for what the year 2020 has brought to us. We will then explore some creative drawing techniques to observe and play with our ideas of ourselves, our lives, our habits and clarify our intentions. No drawing skills necessary - this is not about the result of the drawing, but about the insight that the process offers us.

Link in bio to join 💫 pay-what-you-can

24/12/2020

Join on zoom on your phone for a mindful walk together, informed by Alexander Technique. We will orient to our surroundings, and notice ourselves in relationship to the world to increase perspective, awareness and balance.
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One of the workshops in the New Year Reset Retreat called "Take a Mindful Walk".
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December 29th 1:00-2:00 PM Eastern Time USA
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Link in bio to join ❄ pay-what-you-can

23/12/2020

New Year Reset Retreat: December 27th-29th, 2020 - Pay-What-You-Can! - https://mailchi.mp/d76629ede7f5/navigatingtheholidays-5117662