June Quickie Kundalini Yoga: PLUS Functional Movement for Healthy Aging

For this four week session (as usual, twice a week for 20 minutes; recorded if you can’t make the “lives”), we’ll be doing some of our favorite Kundalini yoga, but each day, I’ll also add in some basic “PT.” By the end of the four weeks, you’ll be totally covered for basic, daily sorts of body and mobility “maintenance.”

Once people are registered, I’ll ask if you have any specific areas or issues you’d like me to target, but I also know what’s typical for most humans so I’ll add in things you probably don’t realize you need!

This session will go back to the TUESDAY/THURSDAY pattern.

For this session, some props will be needed but you don’t have to have the ACTUAL props. There are lots of options:

• 2 yoga blocks — or a couple of different thickness books

• Always have a blanket and some pillows nearby

• A yoga strap — or a man’s tie works or a theraband

• Lacrosse balls OR tennis balls (depends on how much density feels good to you)

• A half round — or again, a book

• A foam roller (this is something I think everyone should have in their house and I can’t think of a replacement for it) — I prefer the 36 inch version

And because I get asked about this, I highly recommend having some sort of reflexology mat in your tool box, like this one.

JUNE KUNDALINI PLUS (20 Minute Quickies)
Tuesdays/Thursdays: June 8/10, 15/17, 22/24, and June 29/July 1
TIME: 10:30 AM (Eastern United States). I get online at 10:20 for chatting or if you have any questions.
COST: $50

June Movement Arts Classes: More Fun, More Fire

REMINDER: Go here to learn HOW to do these Zoom classes. Classes are live but are recorded so you do not have to be present during the live. You also can be present and not have your camera on if you’re uncomfortable for any reason.

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Tuesday and Thursday classes will have similar patterns this time around, with slightly different goals and focuses.

Tuesdays we’ll be focusing on RELEASE. Each week, we’ll have a different theme. For example, one week we’ll work on releasing anger and the next perhaps frustration. (I’ll have the first week designated but will wait for input from students on your needs.)

Thursdays will be all about increasing our individual levels of physical challenge through PLAY.

You can take BOTH classes at a discount.

The PATTERN of each class (if you’re new to this):

Class always starts on the floor, exploring circular and spiral movements, especially in the spine. This is the most that the class is led in any traditional sense of that word.

For most people, the class is done either with closed eyes or downcast eyes so that they can focus on themselves and not be distracted. This is not a dance class with mirrors where people are staring at you and you’re being judged and corrected. (If I haven’t already made that clear.)

From that beginning, we make our way through explorations of joints, muscles, and segments of the body. No matter how long you take these classes, we’re always looking to learn something new about ourselves and these bodies. We try to approach our movement art practice each week as if we've never done it before.

Finally we start playing with the poetry of the body… FEELING our way into moving, followed by either some partner or group work to reground in community. (Yes, even virtually this can be done.)

REGISTER HERE (Go all the way to the bottom to register for BOTH)

JUNE TUESDAYS
TIME: 5:30 to 6:30 PM (Eastern United States time)
Dates: June 8, 15, 22, and 29
Cost: $65 (or $120 for both/below)

JUNE THURSDAYS
Time: 5:30 to 5:30 PM (Eastern United States time)
Dates: June 10, 17, 24 and July 1
Cost: $65 (or $120 for both/below)

BOTH TUESDAY AND THURSDAY
June 2021
Cost: $120

Time for Us to Step Up, Yogis

If you’ve benefitted from yoga in your life, you can thank Ma India.

And as you know, Ma India is suffering right now in ways we’ve not seen except in wars. They are fighting a war, for sure, and I fear, what will be lost to the world?

One way you can immediately help is with money. Yep. Money. Even just a few dollars. EVERY AMOUNT HELPS get them more hospital supplies, including OXYGEN.

Another way to help, of course, is to spread word of the need for help.

Dedicate your yoga and spiritual practices to India.

And may all beings be free from suffering…

GO HERE for a reputable site to give money.

6 Week Quickie Kundalini Yoga for Your Nervous System: Live or Recorded, Twice a Week, 20 minutes a class

NOTE: this session, live yoga will be on Wednesday and Friday, but again, you can also opt to watch the recordings after.

If your nervous system doesn’t feel pretty damn fried after the last year (four years), then I’m not sure what planet you’ve been living on, but whoa… for those of us who are feeling fried, Kundalini is here to help with that.

Kundalini is extra for brain health. With repeated movements, we’re actually working to reset and redesign brain. We’re also working on all the major glands.

Add in breath work and internal focus and you leave even a short class feeling calm but energized and focused (says this girl with the most scattered — SQUIRREL !! — brain who also has been battling depressive episodes for her whole life).

To read more about what an actual Christine-alini Kundalini yoga class looks like go here.

If you’ve never taken a ZOOM class with me, PLEASE GO HERE AND READ CAREFULLY. Pay special attention to how we handle music.

WHAT YOU GET:
ACCESS TO TWO 20 MINUTE PRACTICES A WEEK, WHICH YOU CAN WATCH LIVE OR YOU CAN WATCH THE RECORDING WHEN YOU HAVE TIME. IT’S ALL UP TO YOU.

Again, all practices will stay available to you for a week past the end of the session.

TIME ZONE: I’m in the Eastern U.S. Time Zone. For those of you for whom that might not mean much, I’m in the same time zone as New York City.

ALSO NOTE: Classes, though online, START ON TIME. You can jump in late, but I won't be waiting.

COST: $75 for SIX weeks, twice a week and unlimited access to all recordings during the session (and for one week beyond the session)
TIME: 10:30 AM (I get on about 10:20 for some chatting!)
Wednesdays: April 21, 28, and May 5, 12, 19, 26
Fridays: April 23, 30 and May 7, 14, 21, 28

Spring Movement Arts Classes: You Deserve to Feel Good and to Be Fascinated

PLEASE NOTE: if you’ve not yet taken a Zoom class with me, please read all of this page over here carefully and pay extra attention to the music aspects.

What will these classes look like?

If you’ve never taken a class like this with me, start by reading over here.

SIX WEEK SESSION, STARTING the week of April 18th

For this six week session, you’ll have two evenings (or recordings) to choose from or you can do both at a discount!

On Tuesdays, we’ll get hyper focused on the anatomy of movement that makes you feel good. Think about this like a moving massage class, where we dive into muscle and fascia and work in a detailed way with each of our joints.

On Thursdays, we’ll work to let our bodies talk. We’ll use methods to explore the narrative that our lives have left imprinted within our cells. “The body never lies,” as Martha Graham said.

MORE DESCRIPTION OF EACH BELOW.

TUESDAYS: REJUVENATIVE BODY PARTS
April 20, 27 and May 4, 11, 18, 25
5:25 to 6:30 PM Easter U.S. Time (OR WHENEVER YOU WANT TO WATCH THE VIDEO)
COST: $85 (OR at a discount for both; see below)

THURSDAY: BODY NARRATIVE IMMERSION
April 22, 29 and May 6, 13, 20, 27
5:25 to 6:30 PM Eastern U.S. Time (OR WHENEVER YOU WANT TO WATCH THE VIDEO)
COST: $85 (OR at a discount for both; see below)

BOTH TUESDAY AND THURSDAY
COST: $155

FURTHER DESCRIPTIONS

TUESDAYS: REJUVENATIVE BODY PARTS

Movement should feel good. And after you move, you should feel even better. The goal of this class is to help you feel amazing in this body so that you can feel even more amazing in your life.

We’ll use the breath and fine tuned attention to get deeply into our muscles and fascia in a way that systems based on postures cannot. We’ll use water as our primary motivating metaphor and the circle/spiral as our basic template. We’ll work through the parts of the body from the ground up, from every angle, and THROUGH every plane.

THURSDAYS: BODY NARRATIVE IMMERSION

Your life’s stories do not simply get stored in the memory of your mind. Everything that has ever happened to you is left in some way in some space in your body. We talk about this often in relation to the after effects of trauma, but the joyful and happy moments are there also. We’ll work with all of it or whatever of it wants to come up.

Body will be the boss. And like a language immersion, we’ll spend time listening and then allowing our understanding of our own unique vocabulary to grow over the six weeks.

Though we won’t be spending a ton of time with words, I would recommend having pen and paper nearby in case you need to capture an insight or two.

April Yoga Philosophy Practice: Asteya (Nonstealing) (With a little note about where I've been...)

When I started this practice this year, I said there are 10 of these practices so we’ll have two months to review at the end of the year. HA! March got eaten up by the whole process of buying and then closing on and then moving into our new home in Columbus. If you wanna be nosey (and who doesn’t!?), it’s right here.

I cannot explain to you what a freaking miracle this purchase was. I never thought we’d find something in Victorian Village, mere blocks from the main arts district. But here we are. If you knew our home in Erie, this space is that square footage, BUT there’s an undeveloped attic space here that shows a ton of promise as an art and music space for Craig and general storage. We’re settled in and excited.

Now to begin again with our yoga inquiries…

Nonstealing seems pretty obvious, right? Don’t take what’s not yours. We tend to limit our thinking around this to the material world, to concrete objects that do not belong to us. So, most of us, can feel pretty good right away about ASTEYA… most of us can immediately say, I’m good here! I don’t steal.

But that is the most simplistic level of this yama (restraint).

Over the coming month, think about and observe yourself relative to the following questions. Try to observe and not also layer on shame. Guilt is okay; it can tell us something is off. But shame is not productive.

1. How often do you steal from YOURSELF? This one is freaking VAST, right? When we’re not true to who we are, we’re stealing. Every time we don’t honor our own needs, we’re stealing. When we give too much to others, we’re stealing from us. There is so much we steal from ourselves: energy, time, integrity, care, love, trust, faith, belief… the list could truly go on and on…

2. How often do you steal from others? Do you pop someone’s excitement balloon? Do you rain on friends’ parades? Do you not tell them something they need to know? Again… this list could take many pages.

3. How much do you steal from this earth? I can barely begin to start the list of questions here. Follow yourself through your day and just notice…. did you leave the water running? Did you drive when you could have walked? Did you waste food? Sigh…

4. Are you stealing from the future? We are someone’s ancestors. What are we leaving behind?

I would love to hear from you on this one. Even if we all just added more questions, that would be helpful to the community at large.

Quickie Kundalini Yoga: Live or Recorded, 4 Week March Session

Kundalini Saved My Life and Prepared Me to Return to Dance….AND this kind of yoga is for people who think yoga is “not for them…”

That’s not an exaggeration. I was deep into a severe and life threatening and long term cycle of depression and anxiety. My willingness (and I have no idea where that came from!) to try yoga and then to try Kundalini did something magical to my brain.

The focus on breath work and the quick movements of Kundalini — rather than the stationary poses of more “mainstream” yoga — washed my brain in serious amounts of happy chemicals, and yes, that would go away mere hours after practice but it was enough that it stayed in my memory and made me go back again and again. The longer I practiced — over months and years — the longer the effects lasted after each session.

To read more about what an actual Christine-alini Kundalini yoga class looks like go here.

If you’ve never taken a ZOOM class with me, PLEASE GO HERE AND READ CAREFULLY. Pay special attention to how we handle music.

THIS SESSION

Cost: $45 for two 20 minutes classes a week for four weeks with one additional week of access

WHAT YOU GET:
ACCESS TO TWO 20 MINUTE PRACTICES A WEEK, WHICH YOU CAN WATCH LIVE OR YOU CAN WATCH THE RECORDING WHEN YOU HAVE TIME. IT’S ALL UP TO YOU.

Again, all practices will stay available to you for a week past the end of the session.

TIME ZONE: I’m in the Eastern U.S. Time Zone. For those of you for whom that might not mean much, I’m in the same time zone as New York City.

ALSO NOTE: Classes, though online, START ON TIME. You can jump in late, but I won't be waiting.

COST: $45 for Four weeks, twice a week and unlimited access to all recordings during the session
TIME: 10:30 AM (I get on about 10:20 for some chatting!)
Tuesdays: March 9, 16, 23, 30
Thursdays: March 11, 18, 25, and April 1

JOYBODY Movement Arts: March Classes (Live or Recorded)

For this four week session, you’ll have two evenings (or recordings) to choose from or you can do both at a discount! On Tuesdays, we’ll get hyper meditative and breath focused in our movement work, and on Thursdays, we’ll dive into explorative work that takes us past this physical form and into our emotional and psychological landscapes (the space within us where our wordless truth resides).

Of course, both are meditative and breath focused and both are explorative. This is about where the primary focus is.

PLEASE NOTE: if you’ve not yet taken a Zoom class with me, please read all of this page over here carefully and pay extra attention to the music aspects.

What will these classes look like?

If you’ve never taken a class like this with me, start by reading over here.

Tuesday’s meditative/breath focus will be a lot about long stretches of music that support long stretches of quiet time. I’ll be guiding you but minimally throughout so as not to interrupt the deepening of your own experience.

Thursday’s explorative work will be more prompt focused. We’ll be using the Zen Koan technique of confusing the mind chatter to get to our true selves. We’ll also investigate finding new ways of moving to allow for new ways of thinking and being.

MEDITATIVE SESSION BEGINS TUESDAY, March 9th
WHERE: ONLINE, via Zoom

TIME: Tuesdays, 5:30 to 6:30 PM (Eastern Time) (I get online at 5:20 for chatting!)

DATES: March 9, 16, 23, 30

COST: $65 (or $120 for both Tuesday and Thursday evening classes. See below.)

EXPLORATIVE SESSION BEGINS THURSDAY, March 11th
WHERE: ONLINE, via Zoom

TIME: Thursdays, 5:30 to 6:30 PM (Eastern Time) (I get online at 5:20 for chatting!)

DATES: March 11, 18, 25, and April 1

COST: $65 (or $120 for both Tuesday and Thursday evening classes. See below.)

BOTH TUESDAY AND THURSDAY

Cost: $120