Yoga Tree Workshops and Retreats

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iRest® Fundamentals: 8 week series
with Susanne Hutchinson
Mondays, 6:00-7:15 pm, beginning January 4
 online via ZOOM!
​$75 for the series, or drop-in for $12

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Mondays, 6:00-7:15 pm, via Zoom, beginning January 4
$75 for the series, or drop in to any single session for $12. You can also use your class pass for any single session. 
Preregistration required to receive your Zoom link in your email.

​Whether you are brand new to iRest Yoga Nidra, or have been taking classes but are wanting to spend a bit more time exploring the fundamental aspects of the protocol, this Fundamentals Series is for you. 

Each week, Susanne will guide you through an in-depth exploration of a different step of the iRest protocol. Class will consist of some lecture, discussion, and a guided practice. 

This series can serve as a great place to begin before taking one of Jennifer’s Thursday advanced series, or as a supplement to the weekly drop-in classes. 

Week 1 - Inner Resource - Discovering our felt sense of security and well-being - Jan. 4
Week 2 - Intention and Heartfelt Desire - Laying the foundation of Sankalpa: making commitments that support our heart’s longing - Jan. 11
Week 3 - Body sensation - Sensing and welcoming the body as sensation - Jan. 18
Week 4 - Breath sensing - Experiencing the breath as a flow of energy that moves through the body - Jan. 25
Week 5 - Feelings and emotions - Understanding the difference between feelings and emotions, and experiencing them as messengers - Feb. 1
Week 6 - Cognitions - Experiencing thoughts, beliefs, images and memories - Feb. 8
Week 7 - Joy and Well-being - Welcoming joy independent of objects or circumstance - Feb. 15
Week 8 - Sahaj and integration - Realizing our Essential Nature, and Everything Just as it is - Feb. 22

This series will run continuously, every 8 weeks. So if you miss one week, no worries! You can catch it the next time around, or drop in to any single session that you want to spend more time exploring.

The Resilience in Your Fingerprint:
Yoga for Anxiety and Depression
with Deborah King
Sundays, January 10-February 14,
​10 am-noon(Pacific Time)
online via ZOOM! 
Preregistration required. $120 for the series

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Sundays, January 10-February 14
10 am-Noon, via Zoom
Preregistration required. You will receive a Zoom link in your email roughly one hour before class start time.
$120 for the series, Drop in for single session for $25

The Resilience in Your Fingerprint: Yoga for Anxiety and Depression
A six week workshop utilizing polyvagal theory in yoga practice to heal the nervous system

This workshop will help you understand the ways you can adjust your yoga practice for your own unique system.
Based in my utilization of polyvagal theory and extensive work and teaching yoga techniques to address trauma, anxiety, depression, pain, and other issues, this workshop will help you read the messages of your nervous system and personalize practice in the process of healing.

My passion for therapeutic adaptations is ultimately about my passion for the individual finding their practice. Because each person is unique, each practice will be unique. One thing I have found key in using polyvagal theory as a lens is that the uniqueness in the way a person’ s nervous system responds is often the key to the way they need to work.
Your nervous system is like your fingerprint. It is unique in all the land.

Finding the resilience of the way we have survived, and the ways we are surviving, gives an opportunity to both respect and honor the journey while simultaneously making space to shift responses that cause distress.

So our resilience really is like a fingerprint- it is both unique and part of who we are- it doesn’t need to be acquired, just uncovered and trusted. In that way, it is the essence of yoga, which is about finding the wholeness you already are.

Week 1: Boundaries, Autonomy and Choice
Week 2: Orienting: Coming into present time and space
Week 3: The Gunas: Using Movement to discharge, melt, and calm
Week 4: Grounding
Week 5: Centering
Week 6: Breath

All you really need to practice yoga is yourself. But it can be helpful to gather some props for your workshop, to help support you and bring awareness to both movement and stillness. If you have a yoga bolster, blankets, blocks- great. If you don’t, you might want to gather some cushions from your bed or sofa, some blankets or towels, and some books that are similar in size. You also may want a chair. If you don’t have access to these things, don’t worry- just let me know and I will offer other ways of working.

Master Your Peak Pose: 4 week series
with Jenny Rhodes
Fridays, 9:30-10:30 am, beginning February 5
 online via ZOOM!
​$80 for the serie

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Fridays, 9:30-10:30 am, via Zoom, beginning February 5
$80 for the series.
Preregistration required to receive your Zoom link in your email one hour before class begins.

Master your Peak Pose in 4 weeks!
Challenging poses have the potential to cause physical harm when not set up & moved into properly, and they can rock your confidence, both of which keep you from progressing in your yoga practice.
This workshop-style, online community series helps you move past some of these hurdles with intention to build lasting strength, confidence and balance in your unique peak pose expression and….
accepting where you are in your season of life is crucial in helping define what proficiency means for you in any yoga pose.


Cuz, just because you saw it in a book or magazine, doesn’t mean that’s what it should look like for your body, and so often the pictures we see aren’t even safe for the health and longevity of the model!
In this series, we’re interested in what it feels like in the body as opposed to what it looks like–building lasting strength in muscles, joints and mind.


So, Join Me!
This workshop-stye series is designed to set you up for success (plus some laughter)!
Peak Pose Theme: A Single Leg Balance- Eagle Pose (Garudasana)
You’ll receive a zoom link in your email roughly an hour before class start time.
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What you’ll need:
Yoga strap, mat, 2 blocks, a chair (optional), space at a wall (optional)

Coming Home to Yourself:
An In-Home Winter Retreat
with Jennifer Cabanero and Susanne Hutchinson
February 5-7
online via ZOOM! 
Join Jennifer and Susanne for a cozy retreat from the comfort of your home!

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Join Jennifer and Susanne for a cozy retreat from the comfort of your home.
February 5-7 via Zoom, preregistration required. You will receive your Zoom link in your email the morning of February 5.

Friday, February 5, 6:30-8:30 pm
Saturday, February 6, 9:00 am-12:00 noon, 2:00-4:00 pm
Sunday, February 7, 9:00 am-12:00 noon
All times Pacific
$300 for the weekend

Jennifer and Susanne come together to bring you a cozy weekend of gentle, restorative practices designed to help you realize your inner peace that is always present no matter the changing circumstances. It’s a weekend of coming home to yourself. Jennifer and Susanne will guide you through relaxing and nurturing practices of gentle movement, pranayama, and iRest® Yoga Nidra Meditation. There will also be journaling prompts for self-reflection.
Our focus will be approaching our yoga practice and ourselves with love and compassion. Participants will enjoy a total of 10 hours of formal instruction, with plenty of breaks for contemplation and reflection. This is your time for self-care, relaxation, and renewal.
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Appropriate for all levels. No experience with yoga or meditation necessary.

Pranayama Teacher Training
​with Linda Oshins
Begins March 6
 Online via ZOOM!
​$547 due by January 20

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This seven-month training involves a series of weekday meetings and weekend workshops as shown below. The final weekend workshop will take place in person if it’s safe to gather together again, but will be recorded for people unable to be present in Columbus, Ohio. During the training you will learn basic pranayama techniques and many beginning to intermediate variations upon them. Most importantly, you will learn to sequence techniques for different purposes and different effects. Some of those effects are energetic (stimulating, calming, downward flowing, upward flowing, centered in and illuminating specific points or landmarks in the energy body), and some of them are self-revelatory in terms of spiritual practice (stimulating different parts of the brain in preparation for meditation, meditations on the breath, heightening prana for spiritual development). Many of the variations introduced here are not commonly taught and a consistent pranayama practice, which you will develop as you work through this course, is necessary to approach them.
Before each meeting you will read an assigned section of the course manual, and then during the video conference Linda will lead the assigned practice(s) and discuss it with you. Between sessions you are encouraged to teach the practice to someone else (another person, a yoga class) if possible. Some of the more advanced techniques are suitable for your practice only, but not for those without a regular pranayama practice, and you won’t be expected to teach them.
During the mid-program weekend workshop we’ll talk about sequencing the techniques learned to that point, and we’ll meet for a final weekend to put it all together and work with one another to hone our skills.
REQUIREMENTS

• Attendance on the one-hour video conferences; these will be taped so that you can listen to them if you miss them, but you must be present on all but 4 video conferences during the course of the program
• Teaching the assigned technique if possible
• Attendance at the weekend workshops
• Required reading: Pranayama: A Compendium of Practice by Linda Oshins (available through the studio)

PROGRAM DATES (begins March 6)
Sundays, 1:00-2:00
March 21, April 4, May 2, May 16, May 30, June 13, June 27, July 11, July 25
Required Weekends:
March 6-7, 10:00 am-12:30 pm both days
May 8-9, 10:00 am-12:30 pm both days
August 7-8, 10:00 am-12:30 pm both days
This is eligible for 25 hours of credit toward continuing education credits through Yoga Alliance.
COST
$547.00 due by January 20, 2021
Re-sitting the course for those who would like to take it again: $200.00 (contact Susanne at info@yogatree.com)

For more information please contact Linda Oshins at Linda@PhillipsOshins.com or call 614-519-8407 after 12:00 noon.

Yin Yoga Workshop
​with Dr. Kavita Gulati
March 20, 2-4 pm, $40

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March 20
June 19
Sept 11
Dec 18 
2-4 pm, $40


Join Dr. Kavita Gulati for a one of a kind Yin Yoga workshop, featuring specialized focus on an individual joint each quarter such as Yin Yoga for Shoulders or Yin Yoga for Hips. Dr. Gulati will give detailed instruction regarding the anatomy and physiology of the targeted joint and guide you through a carefully-designed relaxing practice of Yin Yoga and slow-moving asana. ​

More information coming soon!

The Feminine Face of Yoga
​with Anne Douglas
April 9-11
 Online via ZOOM!
​$225 Early Bird through March 26
​$250 after March 26

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April 9-11 with Anne Douglas
Online via Zoom! (and hopefully in person too!)
$225 Early Bird through March 26
$250 after March 26
 
Friday, 6:30-8:30 pm Pacific
Saturday, 1:00-4:00 pm Pacific
Sunday, 1:00-4:00 pm Pacific
 
The Classical teachings of Yoga arose in a time of patriarchal rule, with a masculine perspective for a male audience. Presently there are over 40 million practitioners in North America, yet most are women. How does this powerful gender shift in the users and teachers of yoga impact the evolution and flowering of the practice?
 
The Feminine Face of Yoga embraces the corporeal experiences of emotion, gut intuition, sensuality, embodiment and connection with nature, while building on the masculine yogic path of renunciation and transcendence as a path to Freedom. This integrated view could provide answers to global environmental and political crises.
 
Join us this weekend to explore the feminine principle at the heart of the Yogic Teachings. All genders welcome. 
 

• Explore the pre-historical, feminine roots of Yoga and review the foundational masculine philosophies.
• Experience expressions of the feminine from yogic texts including the Vijnanabhairava, the Spandakarika and the Pratyabijnahrydayam, and the practices of Tandava, Rasa Yoga, iRest® Yoga Nidra, & Shakti Pranayama.
• Build a conscious vision for the future, embracing both the feminine and masculine.

 
Anne Douglas has been offering yoga and meditation classes, workshops, retreats, trainings and private yoga therapy for over 30 years. She is the creator of the iRest Daily - 14 Day Meditation Program, has over 3.5 million listeners to her meditations on the Simple Habit app and is the past Director of Trainers for the iRest Institute. Anne’s boundless enthusiasm, depth of wisdom and gentle humour create fertile ground for inspired learning.

iRest® Yoga Nidra Silent Retreat
with Jennifer Cabanero
June 25-27 
 Aldermarsh Retreat Center on Whidbey Island
​$600 by June 4/$625 after June 4

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With Jennifer Cabanero 
June 25-27, 2021
$600 by June 4/$625 after June 4*
  
Aldermarsh Retreat Center on Whidbey Island
6436 Maxwelton Rd.
Clinton, WA 98236
 
*Price includes shared lodging and delicious, vegetarian meals. No refunds after June 11. Refunds prior to June 11 are subject to a $50 administrative fee.
  
Silent retreat is a chance to connect with ourselves at a deeper level. With fewer distractions we become tuned in to our inner life, our hopes, and our dreams. We also become aware of the beliefs that we have about ourselves and the world around us.
With time, as the stream of thoughts begin to slow down, we experience mini-moments of true calm and peace. In this way, silent retreat can yield fresh perspective, and bring clarity to our state of mind. Coming out of silence, there is often a renewed sense of gratitude for ourselves and for life just as it is.

The ancient non-dual teachings behind iRest Yoga Nidra help us to reconnect with our essential nature; the part of ourselves that is grounded, whole and unchanging no matter what occurs in our lives. Retreat is a precious time that we can set aside to dedicate our selves to nourishing our inherent wholeness.

This retreat offers the perfect combination of guided iRest meditation, body-sensing movement, breath-sensing, sitting, walking, and co-meditation. It is through practicing meditation in movement, stillness, and with others that we experience first hand how these teachings come alive for us as a practice of life.

This retreat is open to students of all levels who wish to sample the fullness iRest offers for health, healing, and wholeness of being. Come prepared to explore stillness, movement, laughter, and delight.

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