Classes - Spring 2020
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WEEKLY ZOOM CLASSES
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Be Kind to Your Spine
Thursdays, 10:30 – 11:30 am online via Zoom
May 21 – June 25 (6-wk session)
This offering is a yoga class for those wishing to promote optimal back health. We will work on building core stability, improving posture, increasing flexibility, connecting to breath to better support us physically and energetically, and inviting ease & grace into our experience as we mindfully (and heartfully) move towards a more centered body & mind. This is a floor mat class that will have on the floor and standing poses and explorations. Adaptations will be offered for those who find positions on hands and knees uncomfortable.
The class, in a live format, will be streamed Thursdays 10:30 – 11:30 am via Zoom. I will be recording the live class. This allows individuals to have access to the class even if they cannot attend live. This recorded class will be available to watch by streaming and/or by downloading directly to one’s computer so that it can be watched offline. Anyone who registers for the class will have access to all these options. Once you register for the class, you will be given a link and password to join the 6-week class series.
Suggested Donation Options for the 6-wk series
*Community (Discounted): $30 ($5/class)
*Sustainer (Pays for You): $60 ($10/class)
*Supporter (Supports Community - helps someone attend the class who may not have the resources to do so at this time): $90 ($15/per class)
Send Payment via one of these modalities
Venmo: Jennifer-Speiden
PayPal: mandaradance@yahoo.com
Check: Made out to Inner Awareness and sent to
Jennifer Speiden, 657 Coal Hollow Rd., Christiansburg, VA 24073
Please note: If you have paid for in-person classes that have been put on hold, you may apply that credit to these classes. Just let Jennifer know how much of the credit you would like to apply to these classes.
Please contact Jennifer at joyifer@yahoo.com or 540.552.2596 to register and if you have any questions.
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Be Kind to Your Spine
Thursdays, 10:30 – 11:30 am online via Zoom
May 21 – June 25 (6-wk session)
This offering is a yoga class for those wishing to promote optimal back health. We will work on building core stability, improving posture, increasing flexibility, connecting to breath to better support us physically and energetically, and inviting ease & grace into our experience as we mindfully (and heartfully) move towards a more centered body & mind. This is a floor mat class that will have on the floor and standing poses and explorations. Adaptations will be offered for those who find positions on hands and knees uncomfortable.
The class, in a live format, will be streamed Thursdays 10:30 – 11:30 am via Zoom. I will be recording the live class. This allows individuals to have access to the class even if they cannot attend live. This recorded class will be available to watch by streaming and/or by downloading directly to one’s computer so that it can be watched offline. Anyone who registers for the class will have access to all these options. Once you register for the class, you will be given a link and password to join the 6-week class series.
Suggested Donation Options for the 6-wk series
*Community (Discounted): $30 ($5/class)
*Sustainer (Pays for You): $60 ($10/class)
*Supporter (Supports Community - helps someone attend the class who may not have the resources to do so at this time): $90 ($15/per class)
Send Payment via one of these modalities
Venmo: Jennifer-Speiden
PayPal: mandaradance@yahoo.com
Check: Made out to Inner Awareness and sent to
Jennifer Speiden, 657 Coal Hollow Rd., Christiansburg, VA 24073
Please note: If you have paid for in-person classes that have been put on hold, you may apply that credit to these classes. Just let Jennifer know how much of the credit you would like to apply to these classes.
Please contact Jennifer at joyifer@yahoo.com or 540.552.2596 to register and if you have any questions.
ONLINE CLASSES
Purchasing and Receiving Information
The below classes have been pre-recorded.
To receive access to these videos for home practice and viewing, please follow these 3 steps ...
1) Select a sliding scale rate for each individual class that works for you at this time. (Please note: If this is not affordable for you, please email Jennifer at joyifer@yahoo.com to inquire about a lower payment. No one will be turned away due to funds).
Community (Discounted): $5
Sustainer (Pays for You): $10
Supporter (Supports Community): $15
2) Send Payment via one of these modalities
Venmo: Jennifer-Speiden
PayPal: mandaradance@yahoo.com
Check: Made out to Inner Awareness and sent to
Jennifer Speiden, 657 Coal Hollow Rd., Christiansburg, VA 24073
Please note: If you have paid for in-person classes that have been put on hold, you may apply that credit to these classes. Just let Jennifer know how much of the credit you would like to apply to these classes.
3) Send an email to Jennifer at joyifer@yahoo.com with a note as to what classes you are requesting to receive. She will send you a link to access the classes to the email you send her. You will be able to stream and download the video to watch where and when works best for you.
Current classes available for purchase. Please scroll down for more details for each class.
1) Grounding Your Vata:
An Asana Practice to Help You Feel More Rooted in Anxious Times (65-min)
2) Soothing and Centering Your Pitta:
An Asana Practice to Help Tend the Fires of Anger and Irritation (64-min)
3) Enliven Your Kapha:
An Asana Practice to Help Energize and Mobilize Feelings of “Stuck-ness” (58-min)
4) Yogic First Aid for Challenging Times (75-min webinar)
In this 75-min webinar, Jennifer Speiden, a certified yoga therapist, will share some simple, accessible tools and “pocket practices” we can use to help us stay out of overwhelm and to deal with feelings of shut-down.
5) Yoga for Grounding (58-min)
The intention of this mat practice is to help you feel more rooted in the midst of turbulence, find peace within times of chaos, and reduce the negative health effects of stress and anxiety on your body, mind, and spirit.
6) Yoga for Energizing (58-min)
This hatha yoga practice is designed to help you mobilize stuck energy, develop more curiosity & fluidity, and uncover & reconnect to the light and joy that lives in the space of your heart at all times.
7) Self-Massage for Self-Care (50-min)
You will be guided through some self-massage techniques that serve to help you create some ease in your being.
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Purchasing and Receiving Information
The below classes have been pre-recorded.
To receive access to these videos for home practice and viewing, please follow these 3 steps ...
1) Select a sliding scale rate for each individual class that works for you at this time. (Please note: If this is not affordable for you, please email Jennifer at joyifer@yahoo.com to inquire about a lower payment. No one will be turned away due to funds).
Community (Discounted): $5
Sustainer (Pays for You): $10
Supporter (Supports Community): $15
2) Send Payment via one of these modalities
Venmo: Jennifer-Speiden
PayPal: mandaradance@yahoo.com
Check: Made out to Inner Awareness and sent to
Jennifer Speiden, 657 Coal Hollow Rd., Christiansburg, VA 24073
Please note: If you have paid for in-person classes that have been put on hold, you may apply that credit to these classes. Just let Jennifer know how much of the credit you would like to apply to these classes.
3) Send an email to Jennifer at joyifer@yahoo.com with a note as to what classes you are requesting to receive. She will send you a link to access the classes to the email you send her. You will be able to stream and download the video to watch where and when works best for you.
Current classes available for purchase. Please scroll down for more details for each class.
1) Grounding Your Vata:
An Asana Practice to Help You Feel More Rooted in Anxious Times (65-min)
2) Soothing and Centering Your Pitta:
An Asana Practice to Help Tend the Fires of Anger and Irritation (64-min)
3) Enliven Your Kapha:
An Asana Practice to Help Energize and Mobilize Feelings of “Stuck-ness” (58-min)
4) Yogic First Aid for Challenging Times (75-min webinar)
In this 75-min webinar, Jennifer Speiden, a certified yoga therapist, will share some simple, accessible tools and “pocket practices” we can use to help us stay out of overwhelm and to deal with feelings of shut-down.
5) Yoga for Grounding (58-min)
The intention of this mat practice is to help you feel more rooted in the midst of turbulence, find peace within times of chaos, and reduce the negative health effects of stress and anxiety on your body, mind, and spirit.
6) Yoga for Energizing (58-min)
This hatha yoga practice is designed to help you mobilize stuck energy, develop more curiosity & fluidity, and uncover & reconnect to the light and joy that lives in the space of your heart at all times.
7) Self-Massage for Self-Care (50-min)
You will be guided through some self-massage techniques that serve to help you create some ease in your being.
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ONLINE CLASSES AVAILABLE
Class & Series Descriptions
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Embodying Ayurveda:
Practices to Help You Balance Your Being Through the Elements
Ayurveda, often translated as the science of life, is considered the sister science to yoga and serves to help individuals attain and maintain optimal health and well-being. In these classes, Jennifer will introduce you to this ancient system of living in accordance with the rhythms of nature through embodied practices. The information shared can help you recognize how the elements (earth, water, fire, air, and ether) and the doshas (vata, pitta, and kapha) can serve as tools to help you promote health, remember your true nature, and to celebrate your uniqueness.
Dosha literally means “that which is at fault.” However, doshas are not a problem until they become imbalanced and there is too much of any particular element in the system. Getting to know and feel them in your body, heart, and mind, is extremely helpful because then you can sense when they are out of balance. With that awareness, then you can take action to bring them back into balance where you can use their gifts skillfully in you life. There are 3 doshas: vata, pitta, and kapha, and they are the combinations of the five elements.
Vata is space & air and is the energy of movement
Pitta is fire & water and is the energy of transformation
Kapha is earth & water and the energy of structure and lubrication (cohesion)
To find out more information about Ayurveda, please feel free to check out these resources …
http://www.innerawareness.net/ayurveda.html
Online Classes in the Embodying Ayurveda Series
1) Grounding Your Vata
An Asana Practice to Help You Feel More Rooted in Anxious Times (65-minutes)
Vata is composed of the elements of air and space. When there is too much vata in our external and internal environments, we might feel unstable and unrooted. Knowing this, we can mindfully create balance by inviting nurturing, warming, grounding, and rhythmic qualities into our yoga practice. This can help pacify anxiety, nervousness, fatigue, and digestive issues that tend to be more prevalent when vata is out of balance.
2) Soothing and Centering Your Pitta
An Asana Practice to Help Tend the Fires of Anger and Irritation (64-minutes)
With too much pitta (which is comprised of fire with water), our external and internal environments can begin to feel a little overheated in body and mind. Come join us as we explore an experiential practice to help us balance and center our fire with an Ayurvedically informed yoga practice that encourages compassion, acceptance, and relaxed effort with a cooling quality. Learn how to tend your fire skillfully (and with some flexibility) so that it does not get out of control and burn your being.
3) Enliven Your Kapha
An Asana Practice to Help Energize and Mobilize Feelings of “Stuck-ness” (58-minutes)
Kapha is a combination of the elements of earth and water. In balance, it feels nurturing and compassionate. Too much kapha can lead to feelings of heaviness, sluggishness, and prolonged sadness. This practice serves to move stuck kapha to help create a sense of mobility, warmth, and open-heartedness that can help connect us to our joy and our light in life.
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Class & Series Descriptions
***
Embodying Ayurveda:
Practices to Help You Balance Your Being Through the Elements
Ayurveda, often translated as the science of life, is considered the sister science to yoga and serves to help individuals attain and maintain optimal health and well-being. In these classes, Jennifer will introduce you to this ancient system of living in accordance with the rhythms of nature through embodied practices. The information shared can help you recognize how the elements (earth, water, fire, air, and ether) and the doshas (vata, pitta, and kapha) can serve as tools to help you promote health, remember your true nature, and to celebrate your uniqueness.
Dosha literally means “that which is at fault.” However, doshas are not a problem until they become imbalanced and there is too much of any particular element in the system. Getting to know and feel them in your body, heart, and mind, is extremely helpful because then you can sense when they are out of balance. With that awareness, then you can take action to bring them back into balance where you can use their gifts skillfully in you life. There are 3 doshas: vata, pitta, and kapha, and they are the combinations of the five elements.
Vata is space & air and is the energy of movement
Pitta is fire & water and is the energy of transformation
Kapha is earth & water and the energy of structure and lubrication (cohesion)
To find out more information about Ayurveda, please feel free to check out these resources …
http://www.innerawareness.net/ayurveda.html
Online Classes in the Embodying Ayurveda Series
1) Grounding Your Vata
An Asana Practice to Help You Feel More Rooted in Anxious Times (65-minutes)
Vata is composed of the elements of air and space. When there is too much vata in our external and internal environments, we might feel unstable and unrooted. Knowing this, we can mindfully create balance by inviting nurturing, warming, grounding, and rhythmic qualities into our yoga practice. This can help pacify anxiety, nervousness, fatigue, and digestive issues that tend to be more prevalent when vata is out of balance.
2) Soothing and Centering Your Pitta
An Asana Practice to Help Tend the Fires of Anger and Irritation (64-minutes)
With too much pitta (which is comprised of fire with water), our external and internal environments can begin to feel a little overheated in body and mind. Come join us as we explore an experiential practice to help us balance and center our fire with an Ayurvedically informed yoga practice that encourages compassion, acceptance, and relaxed effort with a cooling quality. Learn how to tend your fire skillfully (and with some flexibility) so that it does not get out of control and burn your being.
3) Enliven Your Kapha
An Asana Practice to Help Energize and Mobilize Feelings of “Stuck-ness” (58-minutes)
Kapha is a combination of the elements of earth and water. In balance, it feels nurturing and compassionate. Too much kapha can lead to feelings of heaviness, sluggishness, and prolonged sadness. This practice serves to move stuck kapha to help create a sense of mobility, warmth, and open-heartedness that can help connect us to our joy and our light in life.
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Yogic First Aid for Challenging Times (75-minutes Webinar)
We are all currently riding the wave of some intense and overwhelming times. In this 75-min webinar, Jennifer Speiden, a certified yoga therapist, will share some simple, accessible tools and “pocket practices” we can use to help us stay out of overwhelm and to deal with feelings of shut-down. We’ll cover some basic physiology of how we handle stress. Then we will learn some somatic, body-based tools to settle and calm the nervous system so that we can find ways of coping that honor our different vulnerabilities and resources. We will learn how to build our resilience as we travel through these unique times together with our yogic first aid toolkit for challenging times.
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We are all currently riding the wave of some intense and overwhelming times. In this 75-min webinar, Jennifer Speiden, a certified yoga therapist, will share some simple, accessible tools and “pocket practices” we can use to help us stay out of overwhelm and to deal with feelings of shut-down. We’ll cover some basic physiology of how we handle stress. Then we will learn some somatic, body-based tools to settle and calm the nervous system so that we can find ways of coping that honor our different vulnerabilities and resources. We will learn how to build our resilience as we travel through these unique times together with our yogic first aid toolkit for challenging times.
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Yoga for Mental Well-Being in Challenging Times
Yoga for Grounding (58-minutes)
For many of us, the stress and challenges in our daily lives can be a source of fear and anxiety. In this class, you will be guided in a hatha yoga practice to help you develop a grounded strength and quiet focus. The intention of this mat practice is to help you feel more rooted in the midst of turbulence, find peace within times of chaos, and reduce the negative health effects of stress and anxiety on your body, mind, and spirit. This practice contains a movement practice, guided body scan relaxation, and a mountain meditation.
Yoga for Energizing (58-minutes)
Sometimes a response to stress is to shut-down and turn “off”. This can leave us feeling a quality of numbness, stuck-ness, and / or heaviness. This hatha yoga practice is designed to help you mobilize stuck energy, develop more curiosity & fluidity, and uncover & reconnect to the light and joy that lives in the space of your heart at all times. This practice contains a movement practice and a heart breath practice.
Yoga for Grounding (58-minutes)
For many of us, the stress and challenges in our daily lives can be a source of fear and anxiety. In this class, you will be guided in a hatha yoga practice to help you develop a grounded strength and quiet focus. The intention of this mat practice is to help you feel more rooted in the midst of turbulence, find peace within times of chaos, and reduce the negative health effects of stress and anxiety on your body, mind, and spirit. This practice contains a movement practice, guided body scan relaxation, and a mountain meditation.
Yoga for Energizing (58-minutes)
Sometimes a response to stress is to shut-down and turn “off”. This can leave us feeling a quality of numbness, stuck-ness, and / or heaviness. This hatha yoga practice is designed to help you mobilize stuck energy, develop more curiosity & fluidity, and uncover & reconnect to the light and joy that lives in the space of your heart at all times. This practice contains a movement practice and a heart breath practice.
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Self-Massage for Self-Care (50-minutes)
Being that we navigate the world in physical bodies, chances are that you experience a few areas of tension in your body. In this 50-min. class, you will be guided through some self-massage techniques that serve to help you to reduce pain and muscle tension, improve your body sense, and create some ease in your body as you come back home to you.
Being that we navigate the world in physical bodies, chances are that you experience a few areas of tension in your body. In this 50-min. class, you will be guided through some self-massage techniques that serve to help you to reduce pain and muscle tension, improve your body sense, and create some ease in your body as you come back home to you.