WINTER 2018 | Friday Round Up | Week 5

WINTER 2018 | Friday Round Up | Week 5 | Integration Week #1

Published: Fri, 02/09/18

Hey ,

Welcome to Winter 2018 Yoga Session first integration week.

What the heck is integration week?

This is when we put a pause on new information and learning!

Going to multiplicity of yoga teacher trainings and retreats have taught me that integration time is the most important piece of healing process. This is when all the learning / growing actually happens!

New information - both physical and intellectual - tends to float on the surface of our awareness until we give ourselves the opportunity to pause, to be, and most importantly to feel what is right and valid for us.

Integration week is the time of processing - we make use of whatever makes sense for us and discard the rest. Integration week is the time to purge and declutter, if you will!

Before you get reading - how are your classes working for you?

This is just a 2 minute - short survey; please let me know what is working and what isn't so I can course - correct to teach better!

Now off to our reader's digest - a collection of articles that went out in January:

Please Introduce Yourself:

Welcome to Friday Round-up – a weekly class follow up e-mail that breaks down and explores in a more detail some of the concepts / alignment principles that we employ in class and on the mat.

I've shifted to teaching a 90 minute long classes several years ago - it seemed that we were forever running out of time in 75 minute classes. Friday Round Ups are a continuation of that process: the idea here is to catch the spill over of concepts, ideas and conversations - things we can't fully cover in the class environment.

How To Get The Most Out Of Your Yoga Practice:

If you have attended any type of yoga retreat or training away from home, you know that learning the curriculum is only half the battle.

In the beginning, it is difficult to feel arrived and settled into the routine of retreat - one's head is still spinning from traveling and still occupied with all the home stuff. Just as you are finally starting to feel rooted and comfortable, the whole thing is over, and now you've got to travel back.

How To Move Forward Safely - Pain Care Yoga Principles In Action:

In this week's class we talked about moving forward safely. Or, more precisely, applying Pain Care Yoga principles to your practice to ensure that you are moving forward safely.

In order for us to fully employ Pain Care Yoga principles, we need to understand some of the pain science behind them.

Here is the gist of it - I tried to condense it as much as possible, but as you have probably surmised by now, being concise is not my greatest gift.

Breathing + Bonus Breath e-book:

This week is all about the breath!

Breathing seems so natural and ordinary; what could it possibly have to do with pain, stress, or emotional balance?

See you on the mat!

Julia + TEAM SATORI