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A Restorative Yoga class that adds the relaxing and healing power of Reiki. Students will be lead through classic restorative yoga poses that create gentle openings, and facilitate bringing the body back in to it''s natural alignment. The body will be fully supported in each pose allowing the muscles to relax and open while encouraging the release of tension and stored up toxins that can cause illness. While in these poses students will be receiving hands on Reiki, a form of energy therapy that enhances the natural healing system of the body and creates relaxation and and a sense of wellbeing. When one receives Reiki their brain goes into an alpha state similar to that experienced during meditation or right before falling asleep. Reiki has also been shown to relive both chronic and acute pain, ease depression and anxiety, and to increase the white blood cell count which gives a much needed boost to the immune system. The combination of Reiki and restorative yoga poses co

Back pain sufferers take heart! Come and find relief and discover new options for your home practice. Whether you have general backache, stiffness, or soreness in your upper spine, scoliosis, SI joint dysfunction, or sciatica, this workshop will teach you how to relax and traction the spine. Once the spine elongates and decompresses, ease of motion is restored, as is free and easy breathing. You’ll go home knowing how to set up simple pose that alleviate discomfort and get a new lease on life. Learn the difference between healing and curing and leave here with the best sense of body mechanics and proper posture that you have ever had.

One startling discovery is that pain in the knees is often referred there from the hips. Consistent yoga practice two benefits: looser hips and more flexible knees. Stiffness and immobility can become a thing of the past. And for students with special needs, yoga helps injuries recover from trauma more quickly. Yoga claims that increasing circulation and oxygenation to any body part renews its life. The mechanics of rotation, flexion, and extension will be taught in the supine, prone, standing, seated and inverted positions.

Gravity can have a devastating affect on our bodies over time. Lack of exercise, bad postural habits, and poorly designed work and home environments, all can lead to major health impacts on the neck and shoulder. It is common to see people with sagging, caved in chests, accompanied by rounded or hunched backs. All of this is unnecessary and reversible with a consistent application of yoga. Opening the frontal chest alone does wonders for restoring vitality and deep breathing. Add to that relaxing the back muscles and you will change the way you stand and appear to the world. Come prepared to name a pose you do that doesn't feel good in the neck or the shoulders and have Gabriel show you what you can do differently to make that pose feel better and pain free.