Women's Yoga for Healing, Weekly Yoga Love & Upcoming Therapeutic Yoga Offerings!

WEEKLY YOGA LOVE OFFERINGS 

$6 Drop-In, Passes Available 

MONDAY, 7/10/17, 7-8:15am

Rise & Shine Yoga

@ Tucson Yoga - 148 S 4th Avenue 

FRIDAY, 7/14/17, 7-8:15am

Rise & Shine Yoga

@ Tucson Yoga - 148 S 4th Avenue 

SUNDAY, 7/16/17, 3:30-4:45pm

Yin Yoga

@ Tucson Yoga - 150 S 4th Avenue  

$12-15 Therapeutic Yoga Offerings

@ 3 Locations in Tucson

MONDAY, 7/10/17, 5:30-7:00pm

Women's Yoga for Healing -

Full Moon Offering

@ Palo Santo Wellness - 3045 N 1st Avenue

$15 Drop-In, $50 Full Series

*MUST PRE-REGISTER - LIMIT 5 PARTICIPANTS - 

email Tiffany @ EmpowerTucsonYoga@gmail.com

TUESDAY, 7/11/17, 7-8:30pm

Yoga for Anxiety

@ Tucson Yoga - 148 S 4th Avenue

$12 Drop-in, 2 Class Passes, $5 Member Drop-In

SATURDAY, 7/15/17, 8:30-9:45am

Yoga For Trauma with TRE®

@ In One Peace - 5132 E Pima Street

$15 Drop-In

*MUST PRE-REGISTER - LIMIT 5 PARTICIPANTS - 

Call Maggie @ (520) 302-4116

SATURDAY, 7/15/17, 5:00-6:15pm

Yoga For Depression 

@ In One Peace - 5132 E Pima Street

$15 Drop-In

*MUST PRE-REGISTER - LIMIT 5 PARTICIPANTS - 

Call Maggie @ (520) 302-4116

SUNDAY, 7/16/17, 10:30-11:45am

Yoga For Trauma with TRE®

{7/9, 7/16, 7/22 & 7/30}

@ Palo Santo Wellness - 3045 N 1st Avenue

$15 Drop-In, $50 Full Series

*MUST PRE-REGISTER - LIMIT 5 PARTICIPANTS - 

email Tiffany @ EmpowerTucsonYoga@gmail.com

SUNDAY, 7/16/17, 12:00-12:45pm

Yoga For Kids - Summer Series

{7/9, 7/16, 7/22 & 7/30}

@ Palo Santo Wellness - 3045 N 1st Avenue

$7 Drop-In, $20 Full Series

*MUST PRE-REGISTER - LIMIT 10 PARTICIPANTS - 

email Tiffany @ EmpowerTucsonYoga@gmail.com

Monday, 7/17/17, 5:30-6:45pm

Hatha & Restorative Yoga for Depression

{7/17 & 8/14, & 9/11}

@ Palo Santo Wellness - 3045 N 1st Avenue

$15 Drop-In, $35 Full Series

*Must Pre-Register - Limited to 5 participants - 

email Tiffany @ EmpowerTucsonYoga@gmail.com

What Is THERAPEUTIC YOGA With TRE® ?

What is Therapeutic Yoga With TRE®?

TRE® (Tension & Trauma Release Exercise) is an innovative series of exercises that assist the body in releasing deep muscular patterns of stress, tension and trauma. TRE®  safely activates a natural reflex mechanism of shaking or vibrating that releases muscular tension, calming down the nervous system and encouraging the body to return back to a state of balance.

Therapeutic Yoga with TRE® is a unique practice that combines yoga postures (asana) and breathing exercises (pranayama) with the body’s natural, therapeutic shaking response called Self Induced Therapeutic Tremors (SITT). Therapeutic Yoga with TRE® is a simple, gentle and profound practice that facilities the lengthening and relaxation of the psoas muscle and the release of physical and emotional stress and tension. During a Therapeutic Yoga with TRE® practice, you will safely self-induce therapeutic vibration using yoga postures and breath. Often vibration begins in the legs and may spread throughout the entire body.

Whether you are a parent or spouse who would like more patience with your family, a survivor of violence or an accident, a soldier suffering with PTSD, or simply someone who wants to become more resilient and healthier, you can benefit from Therapeutic Yoga.

Reported Benefits Include:

• Release of chronic tension and increase of energy and stamina
• Discharge of buried emotional and physical trauma
• Freedom from symptoms of sciatica and fibromyalgia
• Decrease of aches and pains
• Improved sleep
• Improved circulation
• Improved mood
• Improved sense of feeling grounded and focused
• Improved flexibility

Upcoming Therapeutic Yoga with TRE® Offerings

Yoga for Trauma with TRE©

Saturdays, 7/8, 7/15, 7/22, & 7/29

 8:30-9:45am

@ In One Peace - 5132 E Pima

$15 Drop-In

*MUST PRE-REGISTER - Limited Space

Call Maggie at (520)302-4116

Hatha Yoga for Trauma with TRE®

Sundays, 7/9, 7/16, 7/23 & 7/30

10:30-11:45am

@ Palo Santo Wellness - 3045 N 1st Avenue, Suite A 

$15 Drop-In, $50 Full Series

*Must Pre-Register - Limited Space

Email Tiffany @ EmpowerTucsonYoga@gmail.com to register!

Healthy Psoas with TRE®

1st Tuesday Every Month

(Upcoming Offerings: 8/1, 9/5 & 10/3)

7-8:30pm

@ Tucson Yoga Studio - 150 S 4th Avenue

$12 Drop-In, Passes Available

Kids Yoga & Therapeutic Yoga at Palo Santo Wellness!

I am excited to announce that I have recently joined the team of therapists at Palo Santo Wellness, where we are dedicated to helping you live a healthier and happier life while growing in the awareness of the integration of your body, mind and spirit! Palo Santo is one of the only private clinics in Tucson that offers low-cost, sliding scale therapy. If you don’t have insurance or can’t find a therapist through your insurance, please contact us at (520) 539-6455.

 

Beginning in July, On Sundays and Mondays, I will be offering the following small group Yoga Therapy classes in the Community Room at Palo Santo Wellness; which is located at 3045 N. 1st Avenue, Suite A, Tucson, AZ. 

There is limited space for each of offering, therefore pre-registration is required; please contact me at EmpowerTucsonYoga@gmail.com to reserve your spot! 

 

HATHA YOGA FOR TRAUMA WITH TRE® - SUMMER SERIES  

4 Sundays, 7/9, 7/16, 7/23, & 7/30,

10:30-11:45am (75 minutes)

*Limited to 5 participants per session, Must Pre-Register, $15/session or $50 full series 

In this Therapeutic Yoga class you will experience a blend of Hatha Yoga, trauma & tension releasing exercises (TRE®), and self-induced therapeutic tremoring (SITT®); all techniques proven to help in releasing excess stress and tension from within the body. The class will conclude with a guided relaxation to ease the mind, body, and spirit from the effects of trauma, pain and suffering.  

 YOGA FOR KIDS - SUMMER SERIES

4 Sundays, 7/9, 7/16, 7/23, & 7/30

12-12:45pm  (45 minutes)

*Limited to 10 participants per session, Must Pre-Register, $7/session or $20 full series 

 In this Kids Yoga series children will learn how to focus and center themselves with various breathing and visualization techniques. They will improve strength, flexibility, and coordination as they learn self-respect and respect for others with the practice of fun and challenging poses, partner and group poses, yoga games, and basic anatomy.

 HATHA & RESTORATIVE YOGA FOR DEPRESSION

3 Mondays, 7/17 & 8/14, & 9/11

5:30-6:45pm  (75 minutes)

*Limited to 5 participants per session, Must Pre-Register, $15/session, $35 Full Series

In this Therapeutic Yoga class you will experience a blend of Hatha & Restorative Yoga practices to empower your mind, body, & spirit. The class will conclude with a guided Yoga Nidra meditation, an ancient practice proven to ease the effects of depression and relieve suffering. 

 RESTORATIVE & GENTLE YOGA FOR ANXIETY

3 Mondays, 7/31 & 8/28, & 9/25 5:30-6:45pm  (75 minutes)

*Limited to 5 participants per session, Must Pre-Register, $15/session, $35 Full Series

In this Therapeutic Yoga class you will experience a blend of Restorative, Gentle and Yoga Nidra practices proven to help ease the mind, body, and spirit from the effects of tension and stress and to alleviate the symptoms of anxiety. 

New Office at In One Peace, Upcoming Therapeutic Yoga Offerings & Make Your Own Mala for Summer Solstice!

Come check out my NEW YOGA THERAPY OFFICE at In One Peace! 

I am both honored and excited to announce that I recently joined the team of integrative therapists at In One Peace Counseling Services at 5132 E. Pima; Tucson, AZ 85712. 

I currently have regular office hours for private and group yoga therapy sessions on ~

Tuesdays, 7-4:30pm

Wednesdays, 1:30-8pm

Saturdays, 10-4:30pm

 

As a team of therapists in Tucson, AZ practicing psychotherapy and behavioral health care, we specialize in helping people work through problems, have better relationships, improve their communication skills, and increase their connections with their loved ones.

WE WORK OUTSIDE THE BOX.

In addition to conventional therapy sessions with individuals, couples, families, teens, and kids, at In One Peace we also offer integrative health services such as; Yoga Therapy, Meditation, Natural Health Interventions, Acupuncture, and Massage Therapy.  

Contact our office manager Maggie to book your appointment today: (520) 302-4116! 

 

UPCOMING THERAPEUTIC OFFERINGS

Women's Yoga for Healing

 New Moon Offering 

featuring Live Music by Mariah McCammond 

Monday, 5/22/17, 7-8:30pm

148 S 4th Avenue - Tucson Yoga

This women's only therapeutic practice places an emphasis on women's health and offers techniques to align oneself with the natural rhythmic forces of our bodies, our environment, and our Universe. 

When we don't incorporate Nature and her rhythms into our day-to-day lives, we are ultimately going against Source, we don't feel well physically, mentally, or emotionally, and don't know why.  Our Universe, planet, ecosystems, human bodies, and the systems inside of our bodies are all naturally compatible members of a rhythmic network. It's time to "re-member" these rhythms in order to once again tap into Nature - Source's "alignment" solution for ideal function and flow. 

Beginners are welcome, this practice is appropriate for ALL LEVELS, WOMEN ONLY.

$12 Dropin/2 class passes/$6 with unlimited pass

Upcoming Dates

Monday, 6/5/17 (Full Moon)

Monday, 6/19/17 (New Moon/Summer Solstice)

Monday, 7/10/17 (Full Moon)

Monday, 7/24/17 (New Moon/Lammas)

Monday, 8/7/17 (Full Moon/Lunar Lammas)

Monday, 8/21/17 (New Moon)

 

Therapeutic Tuesdays

Retrain Your Brain

4th Tuesday of Every Month, 7-8:30pm

150 S 4th Avenue - Tucson Yoga

Retrain Your Brain is a 90-minute therapeutic yoga practice offering tools and techniques (such as meditation, pranayama, restorative & gentle yoga, and yoga nidra) to help free oneself from habitual thoughts, emotions and energy patterns that limit one's consciousness.

$12 Dropin/2 class passes/$6 with unlimited pass

Upcoming Offerings 

The first four Tuesdays of every month will be a different therapeutic-based class (7-8:30pm)

1st Tuesdays - Healthy Psoas (next class: 6/6/17)

2nd Tueadays - Yoga for Stress & Anxiety (next class: 6/13/17)

3rd Tuesdays - Yoga for Depression (next class: 6/20/17)

4th Tuesdays - Retrain your Brain (next class: 6/27/17)

If there is a 5th Tuesday of the month - no class!

UPCOMING WORKSHOPS

Summer Solstice - A Yoga, Mantra & Make Your Own Mala Celebration

Saturday, 6/24/17, 2-5pm

150 S 4th Avenue - Tucson Yoga

Registration - limited to 12 participants

REGISTER BY MAY 27th for $65 ($75 after)

 

I'm partnering up with my soul sister Kim Knebel to offer another seasonal Mala-Making workshop! Come enjoy the afternoon with us and celebrate the Summer Solstice crafting a Mala for yourself or as a gift for a loved one.

What’s been growing for you? What no longer is producing the fruit you desire? What has outgrown its usefulness and needs to be let go of?  What do you wish to nurture and grow into its fullness?  What do you want to tend to see bear fruit? Now is a wonderful time to sit with such questions.

This offering includes a restorative yoga practice led by Tiffany to relax you and allow you to look inward to find what it is you want to nurture and grow. Kim will then help you weave that intention into your very own, hand-crafted Mala. We will chant Mantra together and everyone will receive a set of Mantra Cards to take home and work with along with your Mala. Mala kits include traditional rudraksha beads, choice of 6 gemstone beads, spacers and tassel.

*Additional gemstone beads, upgraded spacers and charms are available for purchase at the workshop, if desired. Please bring extra cash for add-ons. Credit card accepted for purchases over $10 at time of workshop. 

 

WEEKLY YOGA LOVE OFFERINGS

Rise & Shine Yoga

Mondays & Fridays, 7-8:15am

148 S 4th Avenue - Tucson Yoga

 

Yin Yoga

Sundays, 3:30-4:45pm

150 S 4th Avenue - Tucson Yoga  

 

Showering you with NEW CLASSES this APRIL!!!

In addition to my existing Therapeutic Tuesday yoga offerings (currently on the 2nd & 4th Tuesdays of the month) check out these 2 new offerings & help spread the word Yoga Lovers!

Therapeutic Yoga with Tiffany

Tuesdays, 7-8:30pm

(1st - 4th Tuesdays Only)

150 S 4th Avenue - Tucson Yoga 

$12 Drop-In, $5 Member Drop-In, 

or 2 Class Passes 

Tuesdays - (NEW! Starts 4/4/17)

.::Healthy Psoas::.

This Therapeutic Hatha Yoga practice will offer techniques and practices to maintain Psoas, Sacrum and SI Joint health. The offering will conclude with a guided Yoga Nidra meditation to ease the mind, body, and spirit from the effects of trauma, pain and suffering.  

 

When the body begins to tremor, it releases chronic tension. Through this release process, the body tells that story. The places where the tremors move through, along with the places where they are unable to move through the body, reveal the physical aspects of the body's history. Which emotions are released and which are not released reveals the specific emotional aspects of these experiences. The memories or thoughts that are evoked by the tremors reveal the cognitive aspects of the same experiences. The body is unveiling each aspect of its history when it is tremoring. 

All spiritual practices emphasize that in order to connect with the spiritual dimension of ourselves, we must live in the present moment. All our life long it's been natural for our muscles to contract because of dangers the body mind felt it needed to protect itself from. But when this tension isn't released and hence becomes chronic, it prevents the body from being fully alive in the present. It's ability to express it's organic liveliness is restricted by the patterns of muscle tension. When the body is allowed to tremor, the tremors release this tension, thereby allowing the body to come more fully into the present moment.

As we experience a shift in our consciousness, our energy level, and our vibrational frequency, it produces a sense of lightness in the physical body, greater clarity about our true self, and the more obvious connectedness to others.

 

.::Yoga for Stress & Anxiety::.

In this Restorative, Gentle and Yoga Nidra practice you will learn about and experience evidence-based practices and techniques to ease the mind, body, and spirit from the effects of tension, stress and anxiety. 

Anxiety comes from fear. Humans evolve the ability to fear for the same reason every other self-respecting mammal did: survival. We fear things that will hurt us. However, since we are social creatures we don't just fear physical injury. We fear that we will miss something important, look stupid, lose something we love, or have to do something we hate, among countless other things. Even though these fears are very different than the fear we experience in a dangerous situation, our bodies only have the one central nervous system with which to respond. 

Like most drug addictions, stress and anxiety have side effects: weight gain or loss, insomnia, muscle tightness, irritability, distractibility, memory failure, frequent urge to pee, high blood pressure, and so on. And like most drug addictions, the cure is not to treat the symptoms but the source: fear.

 

3rd Tuesdays - (NEW! Starts 4/18/17)

..:Yoga for Depression::.

This Therapeutic blend of Hatha and Restorative Yoga postures will empower your mind, body, & spirit. The offering will conclude with a guided Yoga Nidra meditation to ease the effects of depression and relieve suffering. 

 

"In a world obsessed with psychopharmacology, (Yoga for Depression) is a refreshing reminder that, in some cases, the tools we have to cure depression reside not in a pill, but our own bodies, if we are willing to try." ~ Lauren Slater, author of Prozac Diary 

More than 25 million Americans are treated with antidepressants each year, at a cost in excess of $50 billion. But the side effects of popular prescription drugs may seem nearly as depressing as the symptoms they're meant to treat. 

Through specific postures, breathing practices, and meditation techniques one can ease suffering and release life's traumas and losses. 

Take the natural path to mental wellness with me EVERY 3rd TUESDAY (beginning on 4/18/17), 7-8:30pm. I will share empowering practices and techniques that have helped me in overcoming depression and will offer a better solution than the Western mindset of prescription drugs. 

 

4th Tuesdays - 

.::Retrain Your Brain::.

In this Restorative, Gentle and Yoga Nidra practice you will learn about and experience evidence-based practices and techniques to bring awareness to the mind's unconscious and habitual patterns for improved health and happiness. 

 

"All sentient beings developed through natural selection in such a way that pleasant sensations serve as thier guide, and especially the pleasure derived from sociability and from loving our families." ~ Charles Darwin

Each of us has two wolves in the heart, one of love and one of hate. Everything depends on which one we feed each day. While the wolf of hate gets more press, the wolf of love is actually bigger and stronger, and its development over millions of years has been a major factor in driving the evolution of the brain. The size of the human brain has tripled in the past 3 million years; much of this growth is devoted to interpersonal capabilities such as empathy and cooperative planning. 

As the brain grew in size, early humans needed a longer childhood to develop and train the brain; and as childhood grew longer, our ancestors needed to find new ways to bond parents and children and other members of the tribe in order to preserve 'the village it takes to raise a child.' Meanwhile, the wolf of hate also evolved. Hunter-gatherer bands frequently engaged in highly lethal violence toward each other. 

Cooperation and aggression – love and hate – coevolved synergistically. Their capabilities and inclinations remain with us today. The wolf of hate shrinks the circle of 'us,' sometimes to the point that only the self is left inside it. The brain routinely categorizes 'us' and 'them,' and then automatically prefers 'us' and devalues 'them.' Ironically, sometimes the wolf of hate is set outside the circle of 'us.' But there is no killing the wolf of hate, and denying it just lets it grow in the shadows. We need to acknowledge the wolf of hate and appreciate the power of the wolf of love – and then restrain the one while feeding the other.

 

Women's Yoga for Healing ~

Shakti Lunar Rituals with Tiffany Georgia 

*Select Mondays, 7-8:30pm*

148 S 4th Avenue - Tucson Yoga 

UPCOMING OFFERINGS:

Monday, 3/13/17 {Full Moonin Virgo}

Monday, 3/27/17 {New Moon in Aries}

CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS & FULL LIST OF UPCOMING OFFERINGS!

 

CHECK OUT THESE UPCOMING WORKSHOPS!!! 

 

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER BY 3/14/17 & $AVE!

 

SPACE IS LIMITED: CLICK HERE TO RESERVE YOUR SPOT TODAY!

 

THIS WORKSHOP REQUIRES PRE-REGISTRATION BY 3/26/17! CLICK HERE TO RESERVE YOUR SPOT!

Find Healing this February with these Upcoming Therapeutic Yoga Love Offerings!

 

In Chapter Six of his book The Periodic Table of Spiritual Elements, author Barry John Johnson discusses the Spiritual Element of Equanimity and explains that through quiet and Stillness within, our Divinity becomes known and we gain access to all good stuff that comes with that; we get Heaven on Earth. 

Why would we want this scenario not to happen?  Maybe we avoid it by holding chaos, conflict, drama and the latest gossip because we feel unworthy of our own Divinity at some level. At some point, however, acting (or reacting) in a particular way becomes a choice. 

Equanimity at least gives us an opportunity to see what is occurring within, making our choices known. 

Why choose chaos? To deny the natural bubbling up of Equanimity that comes with a quieted mind is to deny our true nature and the Divine. 

Come, join me for a quiet practice TODAY that will offer you the space to re-establish your connection with this innate quality of your Soul's Divinity.

.:Yin Yoga with Tiffany::.

Sundays, 3:30-4:45pm

150 S 4th Avenue - Tucson Yoga 

www.TucsonYoga.com

 

“Om. With loose flowing tresses, poised with equanimity, with the radiant half moon upon her head, her three eyes are shining like the full moon.” – Durga Puja

We live with the confusion that we believe ourselves to be this body and attached to every thought of this mind, and we feel burdened by the difficulties of the world. 

We forget that, in actuality, we are Divine beings in a Divine world, and that we have a Divine purpose.

Durga is “She Who Removes All Confusion,” or the “Durgam” from our lives. Mother Durga is the Goddess who guides us beyond all confusion to the place of stillness and clarity. There we can perceive Durga’s infinite energy in all aspects of creation.

Come, join Mariah McCammond and myself THIS MONDAY NIGHT for our Full Moon Women's Yoga for Healing offering where we will invoke the Great Mother Goddess for Inner Strength and Protection. 

.::Women's Yoga for Healing::.

{Full Moon in Leo} featuring Live Music by Mariah McCammond

MoonDay, 2/6/17, 7-8:30pm

148 S 4th Avenue - Tucson Yoga

www.TucsonYoga.com

 

****UPDATE: The Winter Yoga for Healing Trauma Series has been CANCELLED. Please check back for future offerings. 

Next Trauma Series open to WOMEN ONLY begins 3/19/17 at Tucson Yoga, Space is Limited - Register TODAY!****

This therapeutic yoga series starts NEXT SUNDAY! If you have thought about registering, please REGISTER TODAY! 🌞 .::Healing Trauma with Yoga::.

{Winter 3-Week Series} 

Sundays, 2/12, 2/19, & 2/26, 12-2:00pm

148 S 4th Avenue - Tucson Yoga

$75 Full Series - Limit 12 participants 

www.TucsonYoga.com

When our bodies are feeling uneasy, they give us messages. The purpose of these messages is to inform us that something inside doesn't feel right and it needs our attention. If these messages go unanswered, over time, they evolve into the symptoms of trauma. The symptoms of trauma can be stable, that is, ever-present. They can also be unstable, meaning that they can come and go and be triggered by stress. Or they can remain hidden for decades and suddenly surface. Usually, symptoms do not occur individually, but come in groups. They often grow increasingly complex over time, becoming less and less connected with the original trauma experience.

Come, join Tiffany for this upcoming therapeutic yoga series that will encourage you to let these symptoms have their natural flow so they can then begin to diminish and resolve. In this practice you will experience trembling, shaking, vibrations, waves of warmth, fullness of breath, slowed heart rate, relaxation of the muscles, and an overall feeling of relief, comfort, and safety. 

 

When everything is comfortable and pleasant, human beings become complacent. It is being under pressure that makes us sit up and think of what has yet to be done to reach our goals. Awareness is not increased one iota unless we are put under pressure. 

Pains in the neck are either self-created or come from others who will not bend to our will. The surrender that we must make in our asana practice is a symbol for the surrender of our Self-will to the Most High. 

As the physical pressure is released, the body comes into balance; similarly, as the ego lets go of the weight that, in it's self-importance, it has imagined, the burden is removed. As convictions and strong opinions allow themselves to be swayed, we realize that there is no up, there is no down. The authority of the Self-will is undermined.

Come, join me in a practice that will allow you to surrender to the inevitable ebb and flow of life. As you let go into a space of stillness, giving your physical body a rest, your mind will be soothed by the accompaniment of sweet string guitar melodies offered up by Rich Rodriguez. 

Both offerings include a meditation,  restorative & gentle yoga, and yoga nidra. Aromatherapy is added to help alleviate the effects of stress, tension, and anxiety. Come, join us for these upcoming therapeutic Yoga Love offerings! 

.::Yoga for Stress & Anxiety::.

2ND TUESDAYS, 7-8:30pm

•Tuesday, 2/14/17

•Tuesday, 3/14/17

•Tuesday, 4/11/17

.::Retrain Your Brain::.

4TH TUESDAYS, 7-8:30pm

•Tuesday, 2/28/17

•Tuesday, 3/28/17

•Tuesday, 4/25/17

Classes offered at Tucson Yoga Studio in Downtown Tucson, 150 S 4th Avenue.

$12 drop-in, Passes & Membership Available *Consider Dana for Musician*

 

Yoga for Stress & Anxiety: EVERY 2nd Tuesday at Tucson Yoga Studio featuring Live Acoustic Guitar by Rich Rodriguez

Healing Yoga Love TONIGHT! 

 

.::Yoga for Stress & Anxiety::.

featuring Live Acoustic Guitar 

by Local Guitarist Rich Rodriguez 

EVERY 2nd Tuesday, 7-8:30pm

150 S 4th Avenue - Tucson Yoga

www.TucsonYoga.com

"Indeed, the sage who's fully quenched 

Rests as ease in every way;

No sense desire adheres to him 

Whose fires have cooled, deprived of fuel. 

All attachments have been severed, 

The heart's been led away from pain; 

Tranquil he rests with utmost ease. 

The mind has found its way to peace." 

~ The Buddha 

(Cullavagga 6:4.4)

Our sympathetic nervous system and stress related hormones "fire up" to help us pursue opportunities and avoid threats. While there's certainly a place for healthy passion and for strong strands against things that are harmful, most of the time we're just overheated – caught up with some carrot or struggling with some stick. Then we feel driven, rattled, stressed, irritated, anxious, or blue. Definitely not happy. We need to lower the flames. This class will cover many ways to do just that. 

Yoga for Stress & Anxiety: EVERY 2nd Tuesday at Tucson Yoga Studio featuring Live Acoustic Guitar by Rich Rodriguez

Healing Yoga Love TONIGHT! 

 

.::Yoga for Stress & Anxiety::.

featuring Live Acoustic Guitar 

by Local Guitarist Rich Rodriguez 

EVERY 2nd Tuesday, 7-8:30pm

150 S 4th Avenue - Tucson Yoga

www.TucsonYoga.com

"Indeed, the sage who's fully quenched 

Rests as ease in every way;

No sense desire adheres to him 

Whose fires have cooled, deprived of fuel. 

All attachments have been severed, 

The heart's been led away from pain; 

Tranquil he rests with utmost ease. 

The mind has found its way to peace." 

~ The Buddha 

(Cullavagga 6:4.4)

Our sympathetic nervous system and stress related hormones "fire up" to help us pursue opportunities and avoid threats. While there's certainly a place for healthy passion and for strong strands against things that are harmful, most of the time we're just overheated – caught up with some carrot or struggling with some stick. Then we feel driven, rattled, stressed, irritated, anxious, or blue. Definitely not happy. We need to lower the flames. This class will cover many ways to do just that. 

Women's Yoga for Healing: Full Moonin Cancer

.::Women's Yoga for Healing::.

{Full Moon in Cancer} 

featuring Live Harp & Vocals 

by Mariah McCammond 

MoonDay, 1/9/17, 7-8:30pm

148 S 4th Avenue - at Tucson Yoga Studio

www.TucsonYoga.com

 

I've chosen to invoke the Hindu Goddess Lakshmi as the theme for tomorrow night's  Women's Yoga Love offering. 

Like the natural flow of breath, the natural action of the Lakshmi Shakti expresses itself in the fine balance of giving and receiving. In Vedic times, this idea was expressed through the fire sacrifice (yajna) in which the fruits of the earth were offered into a sacred fire along with mantras and prayers. The fire ritual was both a physical ritual and a metaphor for keeping in the right relationship with the Earth, the ancestors, and society itself.

In the Bhagavad Gita, one of the most potent texts on right living in religious literature, Krishna - Vishnu's avatar - explains the unspoken contract between Humanity, the physical world, and the higher powers of the subtle worlds as a mutuality of giving and receiving. The heavens offer gifts to the earth – both the physical gifts of Sun and rain that make crops grow, and also the subtler gifts of fertility and growth and happiness that we can feel inwardly when we tune into the Soul of the natural world.

In return, human beings conserve the earth and offer back gifts to the Shaktis that play as the world. You give with your body – giving part of your wealth to others, offering service where it is needed. You give with your speech – saying kind words, or sincere praise, or chanting mantra us, or giving blessings. And you give with your mind – maybe through prayer, by dedicating whatever you do to the benefit of others, or perhaps by starting your meals remembering all the living organisms who worked or gave up their lives so that you could eat. You express not only gratitude, but also the hope that the food nourishes you so that you can, in turn, nourish life. 

 

It is in the balance that Lakshmi manifests. Without receiving, you feel dry and undernourished. Without giving, you become narcissistic, arrogant, and entitled. When you can allow yourself to receive with the feeling that you deserve the gifts of life, and then give with the feeling that others deserve them also, you find yourself in an auspicious state of mind, the state where Shri is simply flowing through you. You feel Lakshmi's presence s internal abundance and also as gratitude and I has the desire to bless others. It's then that you can begin to feel Lakshmi's energy as your own.

Come, join me in tapping into the healing energy being offered up by the upcoming Full Moon in Cancer, our first Full Moon of 2017!

 

Women's Yoga for Healing: New Moon in Capricorn/Winter Solstice - Dhumavati: Crone Goddess of Disappointent & Letting Go

 

Perceived as the Void, as the dissolved form of consciences, when all beings are dissolved in sleep in the in the Supreme Brahman, having swallowed the entire Universe, the seer-poets call her the most glorious and the eldest, Dhumavati, Crone Goddess of Disappointment and Letting Go. She exists in the form of sleep, lack of memory, illusion, and dullness in the creatures immersed in the illusion of the world, but among yogis she becomes the power that destroys all thoughts, indeed (she is) Samadhi itself. 

 

Dhumavati is one of the group of 10 Goddesses known as the Mahavidyas, or Great Wisdoms. They are Goddesses who incarnate different stages on the path of Self-Realization, or states of unfolding consciousness. In the Tantric tradition of the Mahavidyas, Dhumavati represents the void stage which we all must go through on the path of higher awareness. In any creative or growth process, there is a difficult but necessary stage of void. All our efforts have been fruitless. We know there is further to go but we don't know how to get there. 

At such a moment, the only way through is to let go of expectation, hope, and our desire for comfort, money, recognition, or eve spiritual experience. These are the times in life when we come face to face with our inability to control outcomes, when our skills seem to have deserted us. We find ourselves in a state of emptiness and vulnerability, broken open by disappointment or loss or by our own failure to live up to our expectations of ourselves. 

In failure, Dhumavati is our guide. She takes us down into the cave if the soul, and when we follow her, she shows us the spring that bubbles up out of the empty places in the heart. Dhumavati is one of those Shaktis who looks fierce but us actually tender hearted. She's supposed to give her devotees whatever they desire - when we look lovingly into the face of disappointment, we tap into her love and power. 

 

Come, join me in honoring the recently passed Winter Solstice and the upcoming New Moon in Capricorn with this restorative and gentle yoga therapy practice themed on the Goddess Dhumavati; which includes a live music offering by the talented vocalist & harpist Mariah McCammond, journaling, aromatherapy, and yoga nidra to help you in your own releasing process during this auspicious time of year, when it is both End and Beginning. 

Women's Yoga for Healing - New Moon in Capricorn/Winter Solstice Offering

featuring Live Music by Mariah McCammond 

MoonDay, 12/26/16, 7-8:30pm 

148 S 4th Avenue - Tucson Yoga Studio

 

Healing Trauma with Yoga - Upcoming Winter & Spring Series

 

 

When our bodies are feeling uneasy, they give us messages. The purpose of these messages is to inform us that something inside doesn't feel right and it needs our attention. If these messages go unanswered, over time, they evolve into the symptoms of trauma. 

The first symptoms that are likely to develop immediately after an overwhelming event include hyperarousal, constriction, dissociation and denial, as well as feelings of helplessness, immobility, or freezing. 

Hyperarousal may take the form of physical symptoms such as an increase in heart rate, sweating, difficulty breathing, tingling or muscular tension. It can also manifest as a mental process in the form of increased repetition of thoughts, racing mind, and worry. If we allow ourselves to acknowledge these thoughts and sensations, in other words let them have their natural flow, they will peak, then begin to diminish and resolve. 

When we respond to a life-threatening situation, hyperarousal is initially accompanied by constriction in our bodies and narrowing of perceptions. Our nervous system acts to ensure that all our efforts can be maximally focused on the threat in an optimum way. Constriction alters our breathing, muscle tone, and posture in order to promote efficiency and strength. Blood vessels in the skin, extremities, and internal organs constrict so that more blood is available to the muscles, which are tensed and prepared to take defensive action. At the same time, the digestive system is inhibited. We may also feel numb or shut down. 

Dissociation protects us from being overwhelmed by escalating arousal, fear, and pain. It "softens" the pain of severe injury by secreting nature's internal opium, the endorphins. In trauma, dissociation seems to be a favored means of enabling a person to endure experiences that are at the moment beyond endurance. 

Denial is probably a lower level energy form of dissociation. The disconnection may occur between the person and the memory or feelings about a particular event (or series of events). We may deny that an event occurred, or we may act as though it was unimportant. For instance, when someone we love dies, or when we are injured or violated, we may act as though nothing has happened, because the emotions that come with truly acknowledging the situation are too painful. In addition, dissociation may be experienced as part of the body being disconnected or almost absent. Frequently chronic pain represents a part of the body that has been dissociated. 

If hyperarousal is the nervous system's accelerator, a sense of overwhelming helplessness is its brake. The helplessness that is experienced at such times is not the ordinary sense of helplessness that can affect anyone from time to time. It is the sense of being collapsed, immobilized, and utterly helpless. It is not a perception, belief, or a trick of the imagination. It is real. 

Many other symptoms can begin to show up at the same time or shortly after those just discussed. The symptoms of trauma can be stable, that is, ever-present. They can also be unstable, meaning that they can come and go and be triggered by stress. Or they can remain hidden for decades and suddenly surface. Usually, symptoms do not occur individually, but come in groups. They often grow increasingly complex over time, becoming less and less connected with the original trauma experience.

Come, join me (Tiffany Georgia) for this upcoming therapeutic yoga series that will encourage you to let these symptoms have their natural flow so they can then begin to diminish and resolve. In this practice you will experience trembling, shaking, vibrations, waves of warmth, fullness of breath, slowed heart rate, relaxation of the muscles, and an overall feeling of relief, comfort, and safety. 

.::Healing Trauma with Yoga::.

{Winter 3-Week Series} 

Sundays, 2/12, 2/19, & 2/26, 12-2:00pm

148 S 4th Avenue - Tucson Yoga

$75 Full Series - Limit 12 participants 

Register for Winter Trauma Series (Click Here)

 

.::Healing Trauma with Yoga for Women::.

{Spring 3-Week Series} 

Sundays, 3/19, 3/26, & 4/2, 12-2:00pm

148 S 4th Avenue - Tucson Yoga

$75 Full Series - Limit 12 participants 

Register for Women's Spring Trauma Series (Click Here)