Faculty - Tracey Eccleston

Our breath is a powerful tool, and it is a direct gateway to shifting our Central Nervous System (CNS) Learn some Therapeutic Yoga tools to support awakening and relaxing our mind, body and spirit through the practice of pranayama techniques

This workshop is designed to bring awareness and solutions to the challenges faced when working with a mature population with a variety of special needs - including but not limited to Arthritis, Alzheimer?s, MS, Osteoporosis and limited mobility and movement. It will include adapted poses both on the chair and using the chair as a prop.

Shift your teaching and practice for life by learning how proportions, compression, tension and orientation effects our body when moving into and through asanas. Learn how to adapt, teach and support bodies that don’t naturally “fit” into many yoga poses. Offer the gift of a few simple techniques to make Asana more accessible.

In this session we will learn to enjoy the benefits of the seated joint opening series, 8 spinal movements. Paying special attention to safety and the joints range of motion in order to conduct a focused session for Joint challenges. While exploring the sensations in the body, you will learn how to adapt the series to multiple levels of flexibility to ensure a safe and comfortable experience for everyone in class.

Has your practice hit a wall? Do you feel like you?re not making any progress? If you keep doing what you already know, then you won?t grow. Learn how small shifts can transform your practice. Learn how to safely transition out of your comfort zone during your Yoga practice by using the tools of mindfulness, play and somatic movement.

Yoga Therapy promotes self-care is a key element of living a healthy balanced life. Learn the techniques of Do-In and Lymphatic Cleansing massages combined with Pranayama to support detoxification and release of stress from the mind body and spirit.