Yoga Workshops with SARAHJOY MARSH from Portland, OR
The human mind develops patterns of conditioned response from its first moments. In this weekend, we’ll explore the Six Stations of the Mind, including the ways in which these mental orientations develop in response to trauma, neglect, abuse, or fear and how to re-create the skillful means of each of the stations. The six stations include Self-Other, Past-Future, and Aversion-Grasping. Healthy manifestations develop our intra-personal leadership, also called agency and individuation, as well as our interpersonal capacities for compassion, collaboration, diversity, and respect. Using yoga tools, including asana, pranayama, mindfulness, meditation, brain science and discussion, we’ll explore the development of healthy agency, volition, clarity, perspective, stewardship, and collaboration.
Friday 7 – 9 p.m.: Discussion and Asana: Wise Stewardship, Living Your Dharma (at Community Yoga Center)
$30 if paid by Sept. 5, $35 after
Saturday 12:30 – 3 p.m.: Discussion and Asana: Volition and Clarity: Remedies to Grasping and Aversion (at Om Shala Yoga Center)
$35 if paid by Sept. 5, $40 after
Saturday 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.: Discussion and Asana: Perspective, an essential element of healing present, past and future (at Om Shala Yoga Center). $30 if paid by Sept. 5, $35 after
Sunday 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.: Discussion and Asana: Agency and Collaboration: discovering your essential self in collaboration with life (at Community Yoga Center) $30 if paid by Sept. 5, $35 after
FULL WEEKEND PRICING FOR ABOVE CLASSES: $110 if paid by Sept. 5, $130 after
For teachers, students, mental health therapists, or addiction counselors:
both classes include discussion and asana
Friday 2 – 5 p.m.: Yoga and Neuroscience
Understanding the left brain – right brain hemisphere coordination and the elegance of the triune brain informs our understanding of cognitive, emotional, and physiological processes for our students and clients and enables us to make trauma-sensitive decisions. Specific yoga practices, including breathing, movement, mindfulness, and mantra, will be taught to develop the tool kit for teachers and therapists. APA CE credits available. (at Om Shala Yoga Center). $42 if paid by Sept. 5, $48 after
Sunday 2 – 4 p.m.: Yoga for Addiction and Recovery
Addiction is a process of relief-seeking behaviors and thoughts that unexpectedly take over a person’s life and interrupt their personal leadership. It attempts to alleviate pain, overwhelm, angst, anxiety or depression but tends to deepen rather than relieve suffering. Yoga is a self- development process empowering students to regain personal leadership over their thoughts and behaviors, balances brain chemistry thereby lessening anxiety or depression, and teaches the essential life skills of recovery from pain, trauma, or addiction. APA CE credits available. (at Community Yoga Center) $30 if paid by Sept. 5, $35 after
REGISTRATION: Pay in class, or send or leave payment (checks only) in envelope in wooden mailbox at Inner Freedom Yoga, 890 G St, Arcata, 95521. Pay with credit card at Om Shala – call (707) 825-9642.
Please make checks payable to Inner Freedom Yoga and send to Inner Freedom Yoga, 890 G St, Arcata, 95521.
Listen to a live interview with Sarahjoy Marsh and Robyn Smith here
Sarahjoy is dedicated to the heart’s awakening through yoga, meditation, and self-inquiry. Her approach is encouraging, collaborative, and compassionate. She draws directly on her own life experiences, which include serious injury from a motor vehicle accident that required a total hip replacement at age 42, years spent living in intentional community at a dedicated retreat center, graduate studies in transpersonal counseling and art therapy, professional background in mental health with emotionally challenged adolescents and adults, early life challenges with disordered eating patterns and body image issues, years of teaching yoga in prisons and rehabilitation centers, years of personal practice with her teachers, and physical therapy mentorship from her colleagues at Therapeutic Associates, Inc.
