Subtle Yoga with Kristine Weber

08/16/2025

5 Vagal Toning Practices to add to your Chair Yoga Classes. Check it out!

Check out my FREE training for yoga teachers here: https://yes.subtleyoga.com/successHere are 5 Practices that you can weave into your chair yoga classes to ...

08/16/2025

This week’s blog is out.
It’s called “What the Yoga World is Doing Better Than the Medical World “
Here’s a blurb:
“Back in the early 2010s when the yoga world was having its come-to-Jesus moment around self-proclaimed (predominantly male) gurus who were abusing their students, there was a huge surge of interest in trauma. Maybe the practice of sleeping with students or draping themselves all over student in class and calling it “adjustments” needed to be re-examined.
So we started studying trauma.”
Read the rest! Link is ⬇️

08/13/2025

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/17BjYyqVAc/

I was spending a weekend with a yoga trainer colleague in New York.

08/13/2025

The whole world needs to do yoga right now. Here's a short video I made recently for working with people who are brand new to chair yoga.

Check out my free training for Yoga Professionals here: • 3 Proven Shifts To Becoming Successful Teaching Slow, Mindful Yoga: https://yes.subtleyoga.com/succ...

08/13/2025

Here are 5 Practices that you can weave into your chair yoga classes to help folks stimulate the Vagus Nerve:
1. Chair Twist
2. Assisted Neck stretches
3. Progressive Exhale - rather than starting out with a 4-8 breath, gradually get there.
4. Bhramari - or humming breath. Do 3-5 breaths.
5. Vagal Face and Neck Massage.

08/12/2025

08/09/2025

Here's a baby elephant being silly.
Which means I wrote a new blog.
Although it has nothing to do with baby elephants (it's about yoga and the vagus nerve, with an anecdote about taking mushrooms in Oregon at a Dead Show).
I hope you will check it out and leave a comment 👇

08/05/2025

Y'all, I keep seeing posts for courses on how to integrate somatics into your yoga teaching - and I wanna say something about that.
If your practice and your yoga teaching aren't already somatically oriented - then what the heck have you been teaching?!
Please consider retraining.
Viniyoga, Kripalu, and other styles have ALWAYS been somatically oriented.
And here's a graphic to better describe how I feel about this situation.

08/04/2025

I know that your feed is full of bad news right now, so here's something I hope will help if you are feeling depressed:

Maslow got it wrong - survival is NOT the primary bio-imperative.
Love and connection are.

In 1978 researcher Mary Ainsworth showed that a caregiver who is consistently responsive and available to a child helps that child create security and comfort - and this isn't just emotional, it's based in neuroscience.

Early attachment experiences shape the development and adult structure and function of the brain - with a less reactive amygdala and a more inhibitory PFC (prefrontal cortex). A healthy brain is a connected brain. if you didn't get that from your primary caregiver, it's okay, brains can change. You can change.

A healthy life is a connected life - full of love, attachment, and the security that goes beyond the material and even the impulse for survival.

Now, here's the intersection - according to yogic theories - especially those influenced by Bhakti Yoga and/or Gaudiya Ta**ra - with regular yoga practice attachment, connection, and a sense of deep, universal love expands and grows creating an unshakeable haven of connection and attachment. Attachment shifts from a caregiver to the inner higher Self.

Practice plugs us into the infinite, limitless flow of cosmic love - the wellspring of love that can never dry up, that no one can take away from us ever, that will never abandon us, and that gives our lives deep meaning and purpose.

When you understand and embody that this limitless, cosmic love is the fabric of the universe - life becomes magical, dark times become bearable, and action becomes inevitable - as a young yogic monk once said to me when I asked him why he decided to become a monk, "I practiced so much meditation, and my heart was so overflowing with love that there was no choice other than to offer my life in service."

This is not spiritual bypassing - it's actually the strongest resistance available to the dark forces. Insight into the love that weaves the universe gives you the security to move forward, do the right thing, stand up to injustice, and change the world.

The universal river of love is calling to us all. Love is what overcomes everything. Love calls us to stand in our truth and act from a place of courage and righteousness.

Keep the flame of hope alive in your heart and nourish it with the energetic flows of love (the rasas) that are all around you, always. Catch them and surf on them in your chanting, your asana practice, your pranayama, and your meditation, and let them inform every action you take today.

07/31/2025

Most "sequencing" workshops teach you how to create new "flows" or to progress biomechanically toward a “peak pose"

But few teach you how to actually change the nervous system.

And that's what Sequencing Alchemy is about. It's the complete online recording of the live training I taught in Edinburgh earlier this year.

I developed it specifically for yoga teachers who want to work with stress, trauma, anxiety, and nervous system dysregulation — in a way that’s safe and incredibly effective.

If you want to learn how to craft sequences that regulate and rewire — enroll in Sequencing Alchemy today for a great discount (limited time offer).👇
​Yes, I want to master sequencing for the nervous system​

If you’ve ever felt limited or unsure about what you were taught about sequencing, this is the workshop that will give you the tools and confidence you need to help people deeply and effectively.

07/23/2025

Why are "Krama movements" and why would you want to do them? Please check it out here

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