PAST EVENTS: December 2011: Restorative Yoga & Yoga Nidra
What is Restorative Yoga?
Prepare to slow down to heal & nurture the body & mind. Experience a kind of peaceful serenity that leaves you with less negative emotions, less tension, and with more compassion and grace.
Restorative yoga uses yoga props to manipulate the autonomic nervous system into stimulating the parasympathetic nervous.
The yoga props open and close the body to create ease. Ease arouses empowering emotions-love, compassion, joy, bliss-which allow the body to relax and heal. Restorative yoga has the ability to counter high blood pressure, diabetes, and obesity. Restorative yoga is the antidote to stress!
What is Yoga Nidra?
Yoga Nidra is a deeply relaxing and rejuvenating tantric practice that helps calm the mind. You are in a state of “conscious sleep”.
Yoga Nidra is practiced in a supported position resting on the floor or seated. Props help to support the body physically to allow deep relaxation to occur. You may choose to explore Yoga Nidra for many reasons: deep relaxation, elimination of stress, solving personal problems, resolving or neutralizing trauma, entering deep meditation or assistance in unraveling such questions as Who Am I? Yoga Nidra in essence is a practice of self inquiry derived from ancient yoga teachings.
About the Presenters:
Kerry Escobado, RYT,
When Kerry took her first Yoga class in 2000, she had taken the first step on a path of profound transformation. After experiencing the extraordinary benefits of Yoga, Kerry awakened to a deep realization, “I want to share Yoga with everyone!” Through Yoga and meditation Kerry has connected to a deeper place within her body, mind and soul. She teaches with compassion and focus to expose that sacred space of stillness that resides in each of us. She is a 200-hour registered yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance. She is also a trained Relax & Renew© Restorative Yoga Teacher, certified and trained by Judith Hanson Lasater. She is the past Website Manager for YTOC.
Karin Bustamante, E-RYT
Karin believes Yoga is more than physical exercise; it’s a way to strengthen and stretch the body while exploring the reality of mind and spirit. Helping her students rediscover their true nature is her great joy. As an experienced registered yoga teacher, E-RYT 500, registered with Yoga Alliance, she constantly deepening her skills. She completed over 1000 hours of Hatha Yoga training taught by Hansa Knox at the Prana Yoga and Ayurveda Mandala in Denver, Colorado. She holds the designation of Integrative Restoration Institute, Certified iRest Teacher, a specific approach of Yoga Nidra as taught be Richard Miller, PhD. Yoga Nidra is a powerful healing path of self inquiry that assists in meeting, greeting and welcoming your whole SELF! And she continues her study of Sanskrit (language of the gods) at Naropa University. In addition to regularly scheduled yoga classes Karin offers workshops, advanced study classes, yoga teacher training and is available for private consultation. If you would like to learn more about Karin please visit karinyoga.com.
Held on December 3, 2011
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