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 iRest®  Fundamentals - 8 week series
with Susanne Hutchinson
Mondays, September 14-November 2,
6:00-7:15 pm
 online via ZOOM!
$75 for the series, or drop in to any single session for $10. You can also use your class pass for any single session.
Preregistration required.

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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 - Sept. 14
Week 2 - Intention and Heartfelt Desire - Laying the foundation of Sankalpa: making commitments that support our heart’s longing - Sept. 21
Week 3 - Body sensation - Sensing and welcoming the body as sensation - Sept. 28
Week 4 - Breath sensing - Experiencing the breath as a flow of energy that moves through the body - Oct. 5
Week 5 - Feelings and emotions - Understanding the difference between feelings and emotions, and experiencing them as messengers - Oct. 12
Week 6 - Cognitions - Experiencing thoughts, beliefs, images and memories - Oct. 19
Week 7 - Joy and Well-being - Welcoming joy independent of objects or circumstance - Oct. 26
Week 8 - Sahaj and integration - Realizing our Essential Nature, and Everything Just as it is - Nov. 2

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.

Therapeutic Breathing Exercises
with Linda Oshins
December 4-6 and January 9-10
online via ZOOM! Schedule below
​$195 by November 4/$220 after November 4

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Online via ZOOM! Preregistration required to receive zoom link in your email.

Weekend 1
Friday, December 4, 3:30-5:30p Pacific Time
Sunday, December 6, 10:30-1:30 Pacific Time
Weekend 2
January 9 & 10, 10:00-1:30p Pacific Time

In this workshop, we will do a number of practices that show us, in our own bodies, what a healthy breath feels like, take apart the mechanics of that breath, and then learn how to help others feel that same full breath themselves. Linda will introduce you to ways to promote healthy breathing in your students that can be done when working remotely and ways to work together when we can actually be with one another in person and use touch as a treatment asset. You will receive a very detailed manual with this course that references scientific studies on the efficacy of these breathing techniques and that includes audio recordings of the main practices.

Given the focus on breathing that has come along with the Covid-19 pandemic and the fact that breathing is one of the easiest ways to help people relax and feel grounded in their own bodies and expansive in their hearts, now might be a good time to take a healthy breath!

Tides and Cycles:
Yoga for Hormonal Balance
with Deborah King
December 13, 10:00 am-12:30 pm (Pacific time)
online via ZOOM! 
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Sunday, December 13
10:00 am-12:30 pm (Pacific Time)
This workshop will be offered via Zoom only. Please preregister at least one hour before workshops start time to receive your zoom link in your email.

In this workshop, we will focus on learning to use yoga to bring balance to the hormonal system. Adjusting the practices to address challenges from PMS to hot Flashes to joint stiffness that can arise from hormonal changes within a single estrogen-based cycle or through a lifetime’s journey will be addressed, with an emphasis on turning inward to hear the body’s wisdom.
 
There will be an overview of active practice, but we will emphasize the use of restorative poses, breath work, and supported inversions to balance the hormonal and nervous systems and uncover the benefits of deep relaxation.
 
Using different modalities in different parts of our cycles and using the practice as a way to attune into rather than ignore the rich communication of the changes in the estrogen-based body’s internal initiations month to month as well as through the major phases of hormonal life can dramatically ease discomfort with transitional symptoms, as well as overall hormonal health including energy regulation, metabolism, and the process of discovering a healthy relationship with body weight.
 
Students will leave with a deeper connection with the inner workings of their body, and an understanding of how to use both gentle and active practice to bring balance into hormonal transitions.
 
All people experiencing hormonal cycles are welcome! All levels, all bodies are invited, no experience necessary.

The Resilience in Your Fingerprint:
Yoga for Anxiety and Depression
with Deborah King
Sundays, January 10-February 14,
​10 am-noon
online via ZOOM! 
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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, 2021 (next summer!) 
 Aldermarsh Retreat Center on Whidbey Island
​$600 by June 4/$625 after June 4

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PLANNING AHEAD FOR SUMMER 2021!!!!!!
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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