08/09/2025
Hi! I made this quick summary video and outlined this upcoming offering at the Chaska Community Center. Please note that I mention the wrong date in the video. Whoops! Actual dates and signup link below.
Therapeutic Yoga - Fall 2025
You don’t need more pressure in your life - you need tools that actually fit it.
This 6-week therapeutic yoga series isn’t about touching your toes or forcing your body into shapes. It’s about finding steadiness, clarity, and connection through movement, breath, and awareness. Whether you’re brand new or returning to your mat, you’ll leave each week with something you can use in real life - to calm your mind, ease your body, and feel more like yourself.
Week 1: Forget Everything You Know about Yoga
Focus: Gentle breath exploration and movement. Self-inquiry. Building a stable foundation.
Start fresh. Release expectations of what yoga should be. Approach with a beginner’s mind. Explore yoga as a tool for presence, not performance. Think of this series as coming home to yourself. No flexibility or experience required - just curiosity. We’ll begin building trust from the inside out and set intentions for the journey.
Week 2: Move with Breath – Viniyoga Foundations
Focus: Matching breath with movement. Using the breath for mental focus.
Feel what happens when breath leads the way. The goal isn’t a perfect pose. It’s a steady mind and regulated nervous system. Discover how small shifts in your breath can create big shifts in your mood, focus, and energy. Learn how to take this off the mat into real life.
Week 3: The Subtle Body & the Chakra System
Focus: Awareness of energy centers. Learning the 5 layers of the body. Using breath and movement to find balance.
Step into the inner map of your body. Learn the chakra system and how this ancient framework overlaps with modern science. Analyze and influence energy through movement, breath, and awareness. Understand how to use these concepts to positively affect your life.
Week 4: Using Your Voice
Focus: Finding your voice. Expanding breath capacity.
Add your voice to the practice. We’ll blend movement with sound, exploring simple Sanskrit mantras, how sound calms the mind, and how your voice can stimulate the vagus nerve. You’ll also learn some basics of sound healing and leave feeling more connected to your inner and outer expression.
Week 5: Natural Rhythms – Yoga & Ayurveda
Focus: Routine and self-study. Breath and reflection.
Your body is wired to work with nature, not against it. This week we reconnect with the cycles of the day, the seasons, life, and your own needs. Learn simple Ayurvedic routines (dinacharya) that ground and steady you. Optional homework: create a short routine to support your well-being. I’ll offer personal feedback next week.
Week 6: Coming Home – Integration and Rest
Focus: Yin/Restorative postures, integrating tools, yoga nidra, guided reflection.
Weaving it all together. This final week is about rest, reflection, and remembering your inherent wholeness. Through longer holds, deep breath, and yoga nidra, we’ll integrate everything we’ve learned. So you leave with tools you can return to again and again.
If you’re ready to explore yoga as a tool for your whole self - body, mind, energy, and spirit - I’d love for you to join me. Spaces are limited so we can keep the group small, supportive, and personal.
Reserve your spot today, and let’s begin.
Sign up here: https://anc.apm.activecommunities.com/chaska/activity/search/detail/14847?onlineSiteId=0&locale=en-US&from_original_cui=true
Sundays at 3:30
Dates:
Sep 7
Sep 14
NO CLASS Sep 21
Sep 28
Oct 5
Oct 12
Oct 19
