Less is More | fluid restorative

Trauma Informed Yoga

4 SESSION SERIES

This series is for the exhausted and overwhelmed. I welcome you to do less, while receiving more rest and more nourishment. This month I’m organizing classes a bit differently. Each class in this series follows the same structure: 30min of fluid movement, followed by 30min of grounded shapes with longer holds, and a breath practice. Take as much as you need, leave the rest.

Session 1: Permission To Do Less

Low back + hip flexors.

Affirmation: I give myself permission to do less.

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Session 2: Move At Your Own Pace

Hamstrings + twists.

Affirmation: I give myself permission to move at my own pace.

Poem for contemplation:

“on days you can’t hear yourself

slow down to

let your mind and body

catch up to each other”

-Rupi Kuar

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Session 3: Hope Blooms Here

Chest, shoulders, front + back of heart space.

Contemplation: “What else helps us overcome suffering if not by giving hope a chance to bloom.”

Excerpt from Nikita Gill’s poem, Where Hope Comes From.

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Session 4: Rest In Hope

Hip flexors, piriformis, sciatic nerve.

Contemplation:

"The seed is in the ground.

Now may we rest in hope,

while darkness does its work."

- Wendell Berry