Please join me Tuesday evening, April 28th for an interactive online power yoga practice from 7:00-8:30pm.
I’m reserving the first 15 minutes for saying long-overdue hellos and settling in. We’ll have a 60 minute practice followed by 15 minutes to hang around and talk, just like we would if we were in studio.
Please email me to receive your link and password to join. I’ll be using zoom, so if you haven’t already, please download and get familiar. If you have questions, concerns, or hesitations, please email me. I’m happy to help!
You can always find me teaching Gentle Yoga online webinar style (non-interactive) classes Monday/Wednesday 9:30-10:30am with Mind Body Align, and you can sign up to register for those at the MBA website.
If we find that going forward Monday evening is a nice day and time for power yoga, we can keep it up. My standing Monday night commitment has been cancelled for the foreseeable future, so we can slide right back into our old routine.
Spread the word! Share this info with your active and retired military service members and their families.
Free Online Yoga For Veterans ~ Mindful Movement for Resiliency
Saturdays, 11:00am – 12:00pm Free
During this time of social distancing, we are currently teaching our Yoga for Veterans Classes live online through either Facebook or the Zoom platform. Please join the Veterans Yoga of Mid-Ohio facebook group to gain access to livestream. And reach out for details on how to sign up to receive a link to join if/when we try out interactive classes on Zoom. You can email me here, or message the Mansfield, Ohio Veterans Yoga Facebook page.
Veterans Yoga in Richland County was founded by Dale Warren as a way to support veterans and their families. Area teachers take turns leading free weekly classes for veterans, as well as their family members.
Yoga for Veterans ~Mindful Movement for Resiliency classes will focus on mindful breathing and moving, the relationship between the body and mind, and the ways in which a regular yoga practice can help relieve stress and uncover a sense of balance and ease in daily life, as well as in particularly stressful circumstances.
We will explore various breathing practices, gentle movement and postures, deep relaxation, and gratitude meditation. All are encouraged to move at their own pace, take breaks, and ask questions. Please feel free to use any yoga props and supports you might have available, as well as a chair if you would benefit from a seated practice.
Yoga for Veterans Mindful Movement for Resiliency offers students the space and time to explore, remain curious, challenge themselves, be gentle with themselves, and ask for and receive support. This class is open to active military, veterans, and family members.
To find out more, please email questions to Dale at veteransyoga@aol.com and keep in touch with veterans yoga via facebook.
I have been thinking of you and praying for you during these weeks of Lent and these days of unknowns. I hope you are being gentle with yourself and giving yourself as much grace as you would your dearest friend or the smallest child.
I’m writing to invite you this year’s Body Prayer practice. Several of you already know and love this pray-filled yoga experience. The 40 Sun-Salutations can be as gentle or as challenging as you’d like. Either way, it will definitely be intense — if you let it!
Many of you have never been able to attend, but now that it’s online and you find yourself at home, you have an opportunity to try it out.
Hosted by my friends and teammates at Mind Body Align, Body Prayer 2020 takes place on Zoom this Good Friday, April 10, from noon-1:30. Register by visiting mindbodyalign.com and select “schedule.” Or just click here.
There is no set fee. We offer this experience for donation to the Mind Body Align Charitable Fund, which supports projects that nurture and empower members of our community to lead happier, more fulfilling lives. Some examples include, but are not limited to: alternative wellness, women’s entrepreneurship, yoga for under-served populations, healthy foods initiatives, arts & culture, and professional development. You choose the amount you donate, from $0 – $10.
Body Prayer is a God-Centered Yoga practice that embraces the fluid movements of the sun-salutation as a way of offering our whole selves to God, body, mind, and spirit. This particular session of Body Prayer falls on the Christian observance of Good Friday and one day after the Jewish Celebration of Passover. This presents a wonderful opportunity to make this a prayer of thanksgiving, though any form of prayer is encouraged: a prayer of praise and adoration, prayer of petition, a prayer of contrition, a prayer of blessing and others.
Our practice will begin with a moment of silent dedication followed by a few warming postures. After this, we will move into the sun-salutation practice, which consists of four variations progressing from gentle to more challenging and back again for a total of 40 in all. Remember, this practice will be as gentle, as challenging, or as moderate as you choose. We will end with a few restorative postures and deep relaxation.
Body Prayer is an all-embracing event; people of all faiths and spiritual traditions are welcome, and no prior yoga practice is required. Indeed, no prior prayer experience is required either!
Registration and the Online Platform for Body Prayer 2020
You may register up to an hour before our start time and will receive your link to the Zoom meeting 1/2 hour before the class begins. Just click here.
This event will take place on the Zoom platform. If you’re not familiar with Zoom, please check it out now so that you can be ready. Once you join the meeting by clicking your invitation link in your email, you will be able to choose to turn on your video or not. I’ve lead online classes in the webinar format in which there is no interaction. This will be my first experience leading class in a meeting format which gives us all a chance to see and hear each other. I will open the meeting about 10 minutes to noon to give us all a chance to say hello and figure out any technical difficulties. Please remember to always leave your audio on mute. Only unmute yourself when you are actively speaking. This cuts down on all the wild and crazy sounds happening in our homes, like kids, dogs, appliances, etc. So, “join with audio,” and then click or tap the microphone icon to mute. If your zoom settings are already set to “always enter meetings on mute,” then you’re good to go.
When you’re ready to join the practice on Friday, take time to clear out any clutter and set up your space with a fresh flower or two from your yard. If you’d like to create a small altar, that’s great, too. Gather any blocks or blankets you’d like to have handy, as well as a sheet of paper and a pen. We’ll have time to write our prayer intentions at the beginning, and if you like, you can write or draw your reflections afterward on your own. As far as the other people in your home are concerned, you have some options: 1) invite them to practice with you, 2) set some agreements around respecting and honoring your prayer practice time, or 3) with a smile, embrace whatever chaos presents itself!
Generous Wisdom | Spacious Heart 