A Rest Revolution for Well-Being, Vitality & Productivity in the Workplace & at Home

This is for YOU if you are a:

• a business or organization seeking to help your employees reduce mental fatigue & stress, boost energy, increase efficiency & productivity

• a business or organization seeking to cultivate teamwork & morale and to teach self care

• a teacher, school or administrator in an educational institution seeking to increase tools for staff or SEL and down-regulation skills for students

• corporate wellness liaison or leader

• a wellness organization seeking to evolve its company culture

• a wellness event that is centering practices like rest and rejuvenation

It’s time to reimagine what our workday, work week and work-life looks like and that means — reimagining REST.

We need rest on a physical, mental, emotional and soul level. There are seven main types of rest that can facilitate our healing, and each person has the ability to create their own “rest medicine basket" that will serve their individual needs. I enjoy sharing many rest practices, including the very foundation for how rested we feel - getting quality sleep at night and our daily routines. In addition, specific rest practices from the yoga tradition such as restorative yoga, yin yoga, meditation, prāṇāyāma and in particular, yoga nidrā (yogic sleep) are all potent tools. Finally, rest can be found in short 1-10 minute practices that we can easily filter into our day. I can help you to explore how you might create a pause in your day that brings the quality of rest into that moment.

As a Certified Daring to Rest Facilitator, I am committed to seeing the world unlearn busyness and re-learn each person’s birthright - which is to rest.

The world needs more rested people.

Please reach out to me so that together we can curate your perfect event or offering.

Some options:

• 2 hour workshop

• Half-day or full-day sessions or mini-retreat

• 21 Day Online or In-Person program

• 40 Day Online or In-Person program
  21 and 40 Day Online and In-Person programs

ALL are welcome

Investment: email for info

Decolonizing Yoga - A Deep Dive into Yoga’s Roots

This is for YOU if you are a:

• yoga studio

• yoga teacher involved with a training program

• yoga business or other yoga-based organization

• educational institution focused on yoga
  

With the advent of social justice movements, there is a growing collective awareness that the yoga industry both perpetuates and is perpetuated by white supremacy and systemic racism.
BIPOC, LGBTQIA and other marginalized groups are systemically denied inclusion or oppressed in yoga spaces, representation and access. Everything is backwards, and it needs to shift.

Together, we can create change.
These sessions are designed to support yoga-based organizations and educational institutions who find themselves in a growth and evolution phase, feeling called to value, acknowledge and honor the roots of yoga, but needing guidance and a way forward.

This work takes place in two iterations, each session is a half day’s work.
This is going to be a deep dive. This is a brave but necessary undertaking, and requires us to immerse in the yoga of discernment at the individual, leadership, and organizational level. Only then can we better honoring the roots of yoga both internally — structures, framework, leadership and staff — as well as externally in dissemination to teachers and students within trainings, curriculum, website, mission and goals.

Part I: External Inquiry — Awareness & Acknowledgement

In this first session, participants will work to develop critical thinking skills and cultural consciousness through a historic context. Understanding the yoga industrial complex requires a dive into its origins, evolution and distribution, which is part and parcel to the landscape of systemic racism and white supremacy that upholds it. This session will explore the meaning, intent and practice of yoga, exploring its many types and paths and concurrent ideologies, all alongside casteism, colonialism and capitalism. The roots of cultural appropriation, specific types of appropriation and the residue of lived experiences in modern times will provide fertile soil as we seek to understand the spaces we occupy and how we occupy them.

Half-day session

All are welcome

Private office hours included

Investment: email for info

Part II: Internal Inquiry — Collective Reflection & Action

The second session offers a deeper understanding of cultural exchange, appropriation and appreciation, along with strategies and best practices to address appropriation. Ample time will be spent acknowledging individual and collective reflections around one’s relationship to yoga and how to honor yoga’s roots. Building on awarenesses and acknowledgments from the first session, participants will be guided to engage at the level of individual and organization, exploring the intersectionality of yoga and diversity, equity and inclusion along with cultural sensitivity and broader social justice themes.

Half-day session

All are welcome

Private office hours included

Investment: email for info