THerapeutic Group Series
My approach to teaching Yoga has kindness and mindfulness at heart. Group series classes are slower paced, inclusive, and adaptive for an individual’s body, needs, and goals and each session and series is designed with the therapeutic benefits of Yoga in mind. Props are encouraged to support everyone’s unique physical body and can include blankets, blocks, bolsters/pillows, and chairs. Questions, comments, and feedback are welcome during the practice to facilitate understanding and integration.
Therapeutic Group Series
Therapeutic Essentials Group Series with a holistic approach including Yoga and movement, meditation, and breathing practices. Each series is taught through a trauma informed lens with a focus on creating an inclusive, accessible, and inviting space. No previous yoga experience is required and all series are suitable for absolute beginners, seasoned practitioners and everyone in between.
With each group series, no matter the studio, you’ll receive:
Join classes either in-person or online and access to the recorded class for 7 days
Recorded videos of shorter classes (10-15mins), PDF guides of yoga poses, and/or audio recordings of meditations and breathing practices to support you each week
Educational resources that cover the theme of each week’s class
Small class size to foster community as we move, breath, and learn together
Finding Your Calm - Therapeutic Yoga for Anxiety, Stress and BurnOut
Join Maria for a three week series of therapeutic yoga to help with everyday anxiety and stress and to foster overall wellbeing, calm, and resilience. Taught with self-kindness and self-compassion in mind, this series offers attendees evidence-based practices that help to calm and nourish the nervous system including mindful and accessible yoga, breathing, meditation and relaxation tools such as restorative yoga.
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At Nova Yoga, 125 Long’s Hill
Saturdays at 1:00pm (90mins)
October 19, October 26 and November 2
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What you'll learn:
How anxiety, stress and burnout affects the body, the mind and the nervous system
Yoga poses and sequences to cultivate calm, steadiness and inner peace
Breathing practices and mindfulness techniques to help with anxious and stressful times both on and off the mat
Self-inquiry, self-compassion and self-care practices to foster kindness and gentleness in challenging times
Yin Yoga and Self-Myofascial Release
A three part therapeutic series with Maria Hillier, Certified Yoga Therapist, that mindfully combines Yin Yoga and Self-Myofascial Release to ease and soften your body from head to toe, with special attention to areas where we often feel stiff, tight and tense.
The practice of Yin Yoga, with longer held yet supported poses, will focus on easing tension in specific layers of connective tissues (fascia, muscles, tendons, ligaments and joints) and Self-Myofascial release (aka self-massage with massage balls, yoga blocks and other props) will provide nourishing massage to muscles and fascia. Combined together, both practices will facilitate ease of movement, foster healthy tissues and help you feel better in the body you live in.
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At Embody Yoga and Wellness, 10 Forbes Street
Sundays at 10:00am (90mins)
November 3 – Happy Hips, Legs and Feet
November 17 – Upper Body Bliss (chest, shoulders and neck)
November 24 – Supple Spine ( upper, middle and low back including the SI joint)
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What you'll learn:
What Yin Yoga is and how it affects our tissues (fascia, muscles, tendons, ligaments and joint)
What Self-Myofascial Release is and how to affects our tissues (fascia and muscles)
Variations of Yin Yoga poses and Self-Myofascial Release techniques to target specific areas of tension and tightness and options to serve and suit your unique body