Heal your nervous system – A somatic healing Yoga therapy workshop
Moving beyond your past conditioning is possible!
In this workshop, you will be invited to slow down and shift from attending to externals to focusing on your self.
Simply opening to listen, to feel, what is here at the surface of your being that needs attending to.
A time of self-reflection through a lens of compassion and kindness, a call to living mindfully…
You will be supported in healing your nervous system, gradually recognizing that you can shift your perception, and make choices that expand your possibilities. Perhaps, lean into a sense of openness and trust in all of Life to experience more clarity and create more freedom.
In our time together, you will:
- Inquire into why you may be feeling stressed or anxious a lot of the time
- Recognize the patterned mental/emotional habits that you unconsciously engage in that have kept you or keep you feeling stuck in a negative loop
- Gain an appreciation of how your autonomic nervous system functions (sympathetic/parasympathetic states), how to self-regulate (balanced response to your environment)) and a brief overview of the polyvagal theory
- Acknowledge that you have choice (with the right understanding and support you can begin to alter your response to your past, harnessing your capacity for neuroplasticity, to create positive change)
- Learn practical tools to calm your nervous system and create safety in your body and begin to notice how you return to a calm state of mind.
- Here are some of the practical tools and skills that will support you connecting with yourself:
- breathing practices that calm
- Somatic embodiment practices (grounding exercises and movement exploration, guided meditation, voice as healing tool, vagus nerve stimulation)
- self-inquiry/journaling/ and group sharing (optional)
- creative exploration and self-reflection time as a way of processing emotions and connecting to self
- Gain a sense of inner knowing that a new way of being is within reach, as you find you’re able to respond to inner and outer environments from your whole self. (You can live in this state of heart/brain coherence more of the time)
“We humans have no real idea of the capacities of this body in which we live. It can sip the nectar of a star when it’s correctly attuned. It can make sweet love to another person just from thinking about them. The body is a mirror of the macrocosm. It has so many jewels and treasures within it that we couldn’t explore them all if we had aeons. Our bodies are the last great, untamed wilderness. They’re the frontier, not the final frontier, they are the only frontier. We’ll never exhaust their abilities or their capacity for love and ecstasy.”
Richard Rudd (author of the Gene Keys)
Dates: Sunday, March 23 and April 6
Time: 1 – 4 pm
To pre-register contact lyne@lyneyogatherapy.com
Pre-registered : $180
first 5 registrants, $150, a maximum of 10 participants
Location: Yoga by the Sea Centre for Wellness,
1055 Roberts Creek Road, Roberts Creek
To pre-register, contact Lyne at: lyne@lyneyogatherapy.com
Embodying Spirit – A transformative journey into your chakras
Get ready to say Yes! to your healing, to your expansion, to your Life!
Our past emotional experiences, especially those that wounded us, are imprinted in our cellular body. These memories and unresolved emotions, stored in our cells remain unconscious, and have a powerful impact on our physical body and emotional health, influencing our thoughts, our beliefs, our feelings and emotions and directing our behaviour. Equally important, when they manifest as physical symptoms, chronic tension, or illness, they limit our self-expression and our ability to live our life to the fullest.
Through this journey you will delve deeply into your subtle energy anatomy–the chakras, to get to know yourself at a soul level through somatic and self-enquiry practices. You’ll uncover blockages, misalignments, and areas where energy is stagnant or unexpressed. This new understanding of self will support you in processing and integrating what has held you back from your past. From this new elevated self-awareness you can renew your connection to your body’s natural healing abilities, embrace new possibilities for more flow, emotional elevation, increased resilience, and a shift in your beliefs toward more positive, expansive ways of being and relating.
Over the course of this 4-session series (we meet once per month from Jan to
April for 3 hour sessions) you will :
- Get to know yourself through the lens of your subtle energy anatomy, the chakra system.
- Develop an in-depth understanding of the chakras and how they relate to the stages of human psycho-emotional development from conception, birth, and all subsequent stages through to adulthood, leading to a conscious realization of yourself as a spiritual being.
- Understand what constitutes healthy development for each chakra, as well as how imbalances show up, including how they can lead to pain, illness or disease.
- Gain an understanding of how energy blockages in your subtle body impact your physical, mental and emotional health. For example, low back pain, and arthritis of the hips are related to the sacral chakra, whereas experiencing low mood and anxiety are more complex issues and may be linked to the sacral, the root, and/or the heart chakras.
- Engage in breathing practices, yoga-based movement, mantra and sound healing, visualization, guided meditation and self-enquiry to explore issues that may be held in the chakras. Through these explorations you will gain a more holistic perspective and understanding of your life, to uplevel your experiences.
- Be prepared to choose new ways of being and relating in your relationships, experience greater self-love and acceptance, wisdom and joy, and connect with your Expanded Self!
“We humans have no real idea of the capacities of this body in which we live. It can sip the nectar of a star when it’s correctly attuned. It can make sweet love to another person just from thinking about them. The body is a mirror of the macrocosm. It has so many jewels and treasures within it that we couldn’t explore them all if we had aeons. Our bodies are the last great, untamed wilderness. They’re the frontier, not the final frontier, they are the only frontier. We’ll never exhaust their abilities or their capacity for love and ecstasy.”
Richard Rudd (author of the Gene Keys)
Dates: 4 Sundays,
January 26, February 23, March 23 and April 27
Time: 12:30 to 3:30 pm
To pre-register contact lyne@lyneyogatherapy.com
Early-bird registration: $264 *first 10 spots, until January 14, 2025
After Jan 14: $298 (or 2 instalments of $150)
Location: Yoga by the Sea Centre for Wellness,
1055 Roberts Creek Road, Roberts Creek
To pre-register, contact Lyne at: lyne@lyneyogatherapy.com
Therapeutic Yoga Intensive for Healthy Fascia and Improved Mobility
Help for poor posture, misalignments, restricted joint movement, or tension in your body!
- Learn what fascia is and how it behaves as a continuous, 3 dimensional matrix of structural support for functional movement.
- Introduction to the Tensegrity Repair Series, a practice of mindful movements to increase your fascial system’s mobility
Benefits:
- Reduces and reverses cumulative wear and tear to joints, muscles and deep fascial layers
- Promotes proper postural alignment and lessens symptoms of chronic tension and pain
- Improves mobility in neck/shoulders and pelvis, and promotes overall flexibility and core strength
2 Sundays
October 6, 1:30 – 4:30 pm
and
October 20, 1:30 – 3:30 pm
TO REGISTER contact lyne@lyneyogatherapy.com
$99
Early bird – until September 15, $84 (NOTAFLOF)
Location: Yoga by the Sea, 1055 Roberts Creek Road, Roberts Creek
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Vagus Nerve Reset and your Breath
A Therapeutic Yoga Series
The Vagus Nerve as a doorway to renewal, regeneration and connection.
- In this series, you will be guided in a practice of therapeutic yoga, engage in breath regulation, and use the sound of your voice and self-massage to promote deep healing.
- Understand the gut-brain and body-mind connection and the role of your breath in inducing a state of calm and renewal in your nervous system.
- Learn practices that stimulate your vagus nerve: To mitigate chronic pain (arthritis, migraine, etc) and counteract the negative impacts of stress on your health.
2 Sundays
November 3, 1:30 – 4 pm
And
December 1, 1:30- 3:30 pm
TO REGISTER contact lyne@lyneyogatherapy.com
$88
Early bird – until October 20, $76 (NOTAFLOF)
Location: Yoga by the Sea, 1055 Roberts Creek Road, Roberts Creek
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Returning to Your Self
Mindfulness and Embodiment for life navigation
Learn ways of coming home to yourself…
We will start with mindfulness of the body as the foundation.
You will be guided in a body-scan to become more present to your experience in this moment.
Cultivate breath-awareness and learn simple breathing practices and Yoga sequences you can use daily to recalibrate your nervous system.
Be led in a guided meditation to grow self-acceptance and cut through confusion and stress to bring calm back into your life.
Date: TBD
Location: Yoga by the Sea, 1055 Roberts Creek Road, Roberts Creek
To pre-register, contact Lyne at: lyne@lyneyogatherapy.com
Freeing Your Neck & Shoulders – A Yoga therapy workshop
Do you often feel like your neck and shoulders are stiff and immobile or that you carry “the world” on your shoulders?
Chronic neck and shoulder tension not only zaps your energy, it can cause shallow breathing which gives rise to aching muscles, headaches and jaw tension, leaving you stressed and fatigued.
In this workshop, we will enquire into our unconscious habits. We will use conscious breathing and release chronic tension in muscles to release our habitual holding patterns. We will restore range of motion in our upper back and shoulders to create ease and unwind the neck.
Leave this workshop feeling a sense of lightness in your upper body, and a deeper and easier breath.
No prior yoga experience necessary. However, being in good physical health and condition is important.
This workshop is offered on November 5, 2023
At the Sechelt Aquatic Centre
10:30 am to 1:30 pm
$50 (3 hr class with 2 short breaks)
Register Directly through SCRD Recreation
For any enquires please contact me at lyne@lyneyogatherapy.com
Move and Walk with Ease: Gentle Yoga to Release your Hips
Prepare to navigate slippery surfaces as we head into the fall and winter seasons! Regain ease of movement in walking!
This 2-hour workshop will focus on:
- Re-aligning and freeing movement in your hips and pelvis
- Releasing tension and improving range of motion in and around your hip joints to help alleviate low back pain
- Understanding the impact of breath and the role of a balanced psoas in freeing the pelvis.
- Integrate this knowledge through a guided practice of breath and body awareness, as well as active and therapeutic yoga postures.
- Walk away with greater awareness and a few simple exercises to keep you feeling light and buoyant on your feet.
This workshop is offered October 1, 2023
At the Sechelt Aquatic Centre
10:30 am to 12:30 pm
$50 (2 hr class with a short break)
Contact me at lyne@lyneyogatherapy.com to join
Register Directly through SCRD Recreation
Understanding Your Hips, Pelvis, and Lower Back: Yoga Therapy Workshop
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Pelvis – hips – lower back
Learn the anatomy of the pelvis/hips and understand the connection between the feet, legs and pelvis.
- Learn how to use your breath to release tension.
- Connect with the force of gravity to create levity in your body.
- Explore the entire range of movement possible from your hips.
- Integrate this knowledge through a guided practice of active and restorative yoga postures.
Psoas release practice demonstration
- Learn the anatomy of the pelvis/hips and understand the connection between the feet, hips and lower back.
- Understand the impact of breath and the role of a balanced psoas in freeing the pelvis.
- Integrate this knowledge through a guided practice of active and restorative yoga postures.
- Walk away with greater awareness, and a few simple exercises.