Meditation for These Times
What would help you thrive now with all the challenges of our families, communities, politics, wars, and climate chaos? What would help you not just get up in the morning, but get up with a sense of mission and delight. What might help you deal with the despair that is so prevalent—not by transcending or ignoring it, but by diving in, finding your nuggets of gold, and then moving forward. What practices might help you relax so you can respond to life from ease and wisdom, rather than reaction? During this course we will consider these questions and more, drawing on many renowned practices and perhaps make up a few of our own. We’ll connect with each other for support, connection, and creativity because none of us can do this alone. We’ll come together in class and maybe even in life. Choose from one or both 6-week sessions. We got you!
In person at Radiant Yoga and Wellness, and online through Zoom. Recordings available for each class.
Dates
Wednesdays, August 21 through October 9 (skipping 9/11 and 9/18)
5:00 to 5:30p ET (We generally stay together until 5:40 but the meditation always ends by 5:30.)
Cost
$108
Recordings will be sent after each class and will be available for 3 months.
While this is a series class, and will build week to week, each class will also be a complete experience in itself and is available as a drop in.
Location
***Please Register for the livestream option before 2:30p on August 21 so that we can make sure you receive the link to the class.***
Meditation for These Times
What would help you thrive now with all the challenges of our families, communities, politics, wars, and climate chaos? What would help you not just get up in the morning, but get up with a sense of mission and delight. What might help you deal with the despair that is so prevalent—not by transcending or ignoring it, but by diving in, finding your nuggets of gold, and then moving forward. What practices might help you relax so you can respond to life from ease and wisdom, rather than reaction? During this course we will consider these questions and more, drawing on many renowned practices and perhaps make up a few of our own. We’ll connect with each other for support, connection, and creativity because none of us can do this alone. We’ll come together in class and maybe even in life. Choose from one or both 6-week sessions. We got you!
In person at Radiant Yoga and Wellness, and online through Zoom. Recordings available for each class.
Dates
Wednesdays, October 16 through November 20
5:00 to 5:30p ET (We generally stay together until 5:40 but the meditation always ends by 5:30.)
Cost
$108
Recordings will be sent after each class and will be available for 3 months.
While this is a series class, and will build week to week, each class will also be a complete experience in itself and is available as a drop in.
Location
***Please Register for the livestream option before 2:30p on october 16 so that we can make sure you receive the link to the class.***
Reiki Reconnection & Attunement
In this FREE online gathering, join Reiki Masters Marcia Miller, Linda Oshins, Luann Jacobs, and others for a Reiki ritual on Zoom to support us during what for many is a stressful political season. What if, instead of fear and animosity, we invoke the loving energy that is Reiki, within ourselves and our group. We will re-attune everyone who joins, so as individuals and as a group we can reconnect with Reiki energy and each other. Re-attunement is a powerful meditative experience. As we feel this connection to infinite loving energy we can joyfully rededicate and recommit ourselves to bringing light to the many challenges of the world. We need each other and the world needs our LIGHT!
Anyone who has previously been attuned to Reiki from any lineage is welcome to join us. You need not be using Reiki regularly to join. We’ll end with a giant send to any and all challenging situations, people, animals, plant life, water creatures—anything that is near and dear to our hearts. We predict you will leave this event feeling lighter, more at ease and more filled with energy rather than feeling the density and anxiety that is so common these days. Those who register will receive more info closer to the event.
You can absolutely come for free AND donations will be accepted.
This one-hour Zoom session is Sunday, November 3
1:00p ET
Noon CT
11:00 MT
10:00 PT
EVENT LEADERS
Marcia Miller, Linda Oshins, and Luann Jacobs
COST
Free or $10 donation
Dancing with Dragons Reiki Program
We are starting up a new DWD cohort this fall! We are excited to offer again this program that is at the heart of everything that I (along with Linda Oshins) hold dear in our teaching.
From Linda: Dancing with Dragons is the marriage of Reiki and Clean Language. We all know the power of Reiki itself. Even after nearly 30 years of Reiki practice, I am still amazed at its healing transformations, still shocked when intractable pain vanishes for a time, when profound restlessness melts into stillness, when heartache transforms through embrace, when understanding dawns, when the physical, mental/emotional and spiritual layers of the self are revealed. How to talk about this? The sensitivity to energy itself is often impeded by describing it. Words are too small, too finite. But Clean Language, a method of asking specific, non-obstructive questions developed by the psychotherapist David Grove, stays within the flow of the experience. It doesn’t seek to analyze or even understand it in the usual sense. It simply describes it and in doing so illuminates it clearly in the moment. Metaphoric description moves as energy moves. Speaking in metaphors while receiving Reiki flows. This is hard to understand without experiencing it. Come to a free information session to come closer to this practice yourself.
Workshop on Grief and the Nervous System
The loss of a beloved can be one of the most agonizing, even obliterating, times in a person’s life. If the death was unexpected or through violence, there will likely be shock and the inability to comprehend what has happened as well.
What does the nervous system have to do with all this? Everything! When we can add wise work with the nervous system to the experience of grief, there can also be a sense of sacred presence to what is happening, as well as ideas of what might be helpful, if anything. There is also the possibility for deep connection: with family, community, and eventually something bigger, even as the pain of grief is present. There may even eventually be a sense of connection to the person who is physically gone.
When you feel safe and supported in community, your grief will have a very different flavor, one that bonds you to others. Since we live in a culture that is death-phobic (a phrase coined by Stephen Jenkinson), it is especially important to care for ourselves and each other during these life-altering experiences, and to explore and create meaningful rituals that support the needs of the whole community.
Together we’ll explore the trajectory of grief through states of the nervous system with support through poetry, writing and drawing, conversation, movement, and a few good questions.
Saturday, Aug 3, 1:00 to 3:30p ET in person and online through Zoom. Because of the personal and shared nature of this experience, you must attend in real time.
TEACHER
Marcia Miller
COST
$55
Location
Reiki Master Practitioner Weekend
In this weekend training you will deepen into the mystery and the practicality of Reiki and gain insights in being guided by the energy itself. You’ll
receive the Master Level attunement and a new symbol
learn ways to work with the Master Symbol in conjunction with the other symbols
deepen your experience with self-Reiki
deepen your work with contemplation as a method of developing intuitive understanding of your experiences of giving and receiving Reiki
learn to formulate questions for contemplation
practice exercises that heighten sensation in energetic centers (chakras, hara line, central channel, for example) and emphasize states of being with certain energetic properties (koshas) so that you develop a personal, felt experience of them.
learn tips and ideas for offering Reiki sessions and Reiki Shares
receive a manual
This Hybrid course will include In-Person and Online attendance. In-person will be limited to 8-10 people. If you are attending on Zoom, you must be with us live, in real time
Location
It will be held at my house, a beautiful and peaceful rural setting, just west of Rt 270, near Columbus, OH
Cost
$395, with some scholarships available. Payment plans are also available. Payable by check or through PayPal (use register button below.)
Time
10:00a to 4:00p ET both days with 1 follow up Zoom call after session; time to be determined by the group. If you are attending on Zoom, you must be with us live, in real time. There will be no recordings.
Who should attend: those who have completed Reiki Level 2, those who have already received master training somewhere else and want to keep deepening their practice. This training is also welcome to UZITs who have completed Reiki Level 2.
This workshop is a prerequisite for the Master Teacher Training and can also be taken on its own.
Reiki Reconnection & Attunement
In this free online gathering, join Reiki Masters Marcia Miller, Linda Oshins, Luann Jacobs and others for a Reiki ritual to begin the new year. We will re-attune everyone who joins, so as individuals and as a group we can reconnect with Reiki energy and each other. Re-attunement is a powerful meditative experience. As we feel this connection to infinite loving energy we can joyfully rededicate and recommit ourselves to bringing light to the many challenges of the world. We need each other!
Anyone who has previously been attuned to Reiki from any lineage is welcome to join us. You need not be using Reiki regularly to join. As part of the ritual, we will invite you to create a personal sacred space or altar wherever you are. Consider what special items you want to have with you, possibly including rocks, crystals or plants, pictures of beloveds (some of whom might not be among the living), anything reminding you of your ancestors, candles, flowers, etc. Have a journal handy as well. We’ll end with a giant send to any and all people, situations that are near and dear to our hearts.
This one-hour Zoom session is Sunday, June 23
1:00p ET
Noon CT
11:00 MT
10:00 PT
EVENT LEADERS
Marcia Miller, Linda Oshins, and Luann Jacobs
COST
Free or $10 donation
Dorsality and Your Belly
As we have learned in the Polyvagal workshops over the last few years, one of the states of the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) is the Dorsal Vagal (DV). Most of the nerves in this system are located like a web in the belly, and when activated (as the Polyvagal Theory goes) take us into a collapsed and dissociated state. This is a very good thing if you are being eaten by a tiger—you don’t want to be consciously there for that—and now some of us are wondering if there is much more to what happens in this state. In fact, Gabriel Kram (one of my main teachers of the ANS) thinks that there are at least 3 dorsalities, and how we get into our collapsed state determines what might help us to come back into our lives. He suggests that the three entry ways into dorsal vagal are shock, burnout, and grief. I have had many experiences in my life that lead me to believe this is true, and as a yogi, I have explored practices that support each of these experiences back into connection a connected (Ventral Vagal state).
In this workshop, we’ll lay out the ideas and then enjoy practices that will enliven our bellies in gentle yet powerful and even fun ways.
Class will be in person (space is limited) and on livestream. Recordings will also be available for those who can’t be there in person.
TEACHER
Marcia Miller
COST
$55
Writing and Drawing Meditation Series, Part 2
The first part of this course was one of the most popular meditation courses I have ever taught. The group demanded Part 2 and I’m happy to offer 6 more weeks. New people can join for this series.
Below is the description and a blog I wrote about the practice.
There are an infinite number of ways to meditate. Journaling is one tried-and-true meditation practice that isn’t always named as such. Yet writing has a number of benefits including being a way to stay focused on what is happening inside, and making room for different voices within us. Sometimes it’s important to write and throw away, and other times, when you are done, you can look back and remember the journey and follow your progress over time.
In this 6-week course you’ll learn a variety of ways to approach writing meditation. We’ll create and ask interesting questions and write about whatever wants to be known within us. And, if it seems appropriate or useful, we’ll add a few pictures along the way. Whether you draw “like a kid” or have art training, this aspect of tracking our experiences can be revelatory, especially for those who have never drawn or who have drawn and felt judged. Especially you, please come, please come.
DATES
Wednesdays, June 6 through July 17 (skipping July 3)
5:00 to 5:30p ET (We generally stay together until 5:40 but the meditation always ends by 5:30.)
TEACHER
COST
$90
Recordings will be sent after each class and will be available for 3 months.
While this is a series class, and will build week to week, each class will also be a complete experience in itself and is available as a drop in.
Location
Writing and Drawing Meditation Series
There are an infinite number of ways to meditate. Journaling is a tried-and-true meditation practice that isn’t always named as such. Yet writing has a number of benefits including being a way to stay focused on what is happening inside, and making room for different voices within us. Sometimes it’s important to write and throw away, and other times, when you are done, you can look back and remember the journey and follow your progress over time.
In this 6-week course you’ll learn a variety of ways to approach writing meditation. We’ll ask interesting questions and write about whatever wants to be known within us. And, if it seems appropriate or useful, we’ll add a few pictures along the way. Whether you draw “like a kid” or have art training, this aspect of tracking our experiences can be revelatory, especially for those who have never drawn or who have drawn and felt judged. Especially you, please come, please come.
DATES
Wednesdays, March 27 through May 8 from 5p to 5:30p (skip 4/17)
TEACHER
Marcia Miller
COST
$90
Recordings will be sent after each class and will be available for 3 months.
While this is a series class, and will build week to week, each class will also be a complete experience in itself and is available as a drop in.
Location
Reiki Reconnection Recap
A recap of the January 21 Reiki Reconnection and Attunement.
Teachers
Marcia Miller, Linda Oshins, Luann Jacobs
Cost
Free
Portals to Connection Part 3
A WORKSHOP ON THE NERVOUS SYSTEM THROUGH THE LENS OF POLYVAGAL THEORY
In Part 1 we set a foundation for this exploration and covered about half of the portals to connection. Join us again as we continue our study and practice together. With the foundation set we can focus even more on the portals and the practices we can embody. There is so much more to share.
“You cannot heal beyond your ability to access connection.” Naturaleza Gabriel Kram
Healing depends on enough safety to allow integration of unresolved stress or traumas. In this workshop, we continue our exploration of the nervous system by focusing on improving access to connection through the social engagement (ventral vagal) system. What are the portals to connection? Hint, some are fairly universal and others may be personal to you. We’ll also explore strategies for staying in connection, even when faced with stress. Yoga practice is relevant for many of the portals and some of the practices will be outside of yoga.
This workshop is designed for anyone curious about their nervous system. While part of an ongoing series, it is also appropriate for someone new to this study.
In person and Livestream. Recordings will be available to all—sign up for livestream if you know you won’t be able to attend on the day.
The assumption for Parts 2 & 3 will be that you attended or have seen the recording of Portals to Connection, Part 1. This recording highlights the foundational ideas of what we did in Part 1. It runs about 50 minutes.
TEACHER
Marcia Miller
COST of Workshop
$55
Cost of Part 1 Recording
$20
***Please make sure you are logged into MindBody before clicking on the link above. After purchasing the recording, you will receive a receipt by email that includes the link to the recording. Please be sure to include your most up-to-date email on your MindBody account. If you do not receive the receipt, contact info@radiantyogaandwellness.com.***
Reiki Level 2 Training for UZITs - INFO SESSION
Reiki Level 2 for UZITs - SAVE THE DATE: March 8-10, 2024
As a UZIT, you have been attuned to Reiki Level 1, practicing many hours during the training and through your work. Level 2 deepens your Reiki experience both personally and professionally, so that we can continue to explore the magic and mystery of this special practice and life itself.
In this training, you’ll receive a new attunement. You will receive and learn three symbols, including their meanings and how to use them. You will also learn: how to offer Reiki from a distance; more about using Reiki as a form of personal and community care; and how to incorporate what you are learning into your UZIT sessions.
You will be in community with other UZIT Reiki practitioners and have time to explore your experiences and ask questions.
This program is for anyone new to Level 2, as well as those who would like to repeat Level 2 with fellow UZITs in our lineage.
Instructors: Marcia Miller, UZIT senior faculty member and Director of Reiki. Several guest teachers, who are UZIT Reiki Masters
Where: This will be a livestream and interactive program. We will share the sign up link in January 2024
Dates
Friday, March 8 from 6 to 8p ET
Saturday, March 9 from 12 to 4p ET
Sunday, March 10 from 12 to 4p ET
Cost
$450
early-bird price: $399, paid in full by Feb 28
to apply for or fund a scholarship: please contact marcia@marciamilleryoga.com for more information
Questions? Join Marcia for a 45-minute info session on
Reiki Reconnection & Attunement
In this free online gathering, join Reiki Masters Marcia Miller, Linda Oshins, Luann Jacobs and others for a Reiki ritual to begin the new year. We will re-attune everyone who joins, so as individuals and as a group we can reconnect with Reiki energy and each other. Re-attunement is a powerful meditative experience. As we feel this connection to infinite loving energy we can joyfully rededicate and recommit ourselves to bringing light to the many challenges of the world. We need each other!
Anyone who has previously been attuned to Reiki from any lineage is welcome to join us. You need not be using Reiki regularly to join. As part of the ritual, we will invite you to create a personal sacred space or altar wherever you are. Consider what special items you want to have with you, possibly including rocks, crystals or plants, pictures of beloveds (some of whom might not be among the living), anything reminding you of your ancestors, candles, flowers, etc. Have a journal handy as well. We’ll end with a giant send to any and all people, situations that are near and dear to our hearts.
This one-hour Zoom session is Sunday, January 21
1:00p ET
Noon CT
11:00 MT
10:00 PT
EVENT LEADERS
Marcia Miller, Linda Oshins, and Luann Jacobs
COST
Free
Portals to Connection Part 2
A WORKSHOP ON THE NERVOUS SYSTEM THROUGH THE LENS OF POLYVAGAL THEORY
In Part 1 we set a foundation for this exploration and covered about half of the portals to connection. Join us again as we continue our study and practice together. With the foundation set we can focus even more on the portals and the practices we can embody. There is so much more to share.
“You cannot heal beyond your ability to access connection.” Naturaleza Gabriel Kram
Healing depends on enough safety to allow integration of unresolved stress or traumas. In this workshop, we continue our exploration of the nervous system by focusing on improving access to connection through the social engagement (ventral vagal) system. What are the portals to connection? Hint, some are fairly universal and others may be personal to you. We’ll also explore strategies for staying in connection, even when faced with stress. Yoga practice is relevant for many of the portals and some of the practices will be outside of yoga.
This workshop is designed for anyone curious about their nervous system. While part of an ongoing series, it is also appropriate for someone new to this study.
In person and Livestream. Recordings will be available to all—sign up for livestream if you know you won’t be able to attend on the day.
The assumption for Parts 2 & 3 will be that you attended or have seen the recording of Portals to Connection, Part 1. This recording highlights the foundational ideas of what we did in Part 1. It runs about 50 minutes.
TEACHER
Marcia Miller
COST of Workshop
$55
Cost of Part 1 Recording
$20
***Please make sure you are logged into MindBody before clicking on the link above. After purchasing the recording, you will receive a receipt by email that includes the link to the recording. Please be sure to include your most up-to-date email on your MindBody account. If you do not receive the receipt, contact info@radiantyogaandwellness.com.***
New Year's Day Class
Start this new year with yoga practices and explorations in joyful celebration with community members whether in person or livestream. This decades-long tradition continues at Radiant Yoga + Wellness and will include our dance party to start, followed by playful yet powerful asana, deep rest and Angel Cards.
Cost
$35 - All proceeds go to fire victims in Maui.
Portals to Connection
A WORKSHOP ON THE NERVOUS SYSTEM THROUGH THE LENS OF POLYVAGAL THEORY
“You cannot heal beyond your ability to access connection.” Naturaleza Gabriel Kram
Healing depends on enough safety to allow integration of unresolved stress or traumas. In this workshop, we continue our exploration of the nervous system by focusing on improving access to connection through the social engagement (ventral vagal) system. What are the portals to connection? Hint, some are fairly universal and others may be personal to you. And we’ll consider strategies to maintain connection, once there, to bring more skills to challenging situations. Yoga practice is relevant for many of the portals but some of the practices will be outside of yoga.
This workshop is designed for anyone curious about their nervous system. While part of an ongoing series, it is also appropriate for someone new to this study.
In person and Livestream. Recordings will be available as well—sign up for livestream if you know you won’t be able to attend on the day.
TEACHER
Marcia Miller
COST
$55
Sing the Body Electric
As I keep studying the human nervous system and the polyvagal theory and its implications, I am more fascinated than ever at the brilliance and complexity of these bodies we live in. We are designed to stay safe enough wherever possible, and when learned traits that may have kept us safe in the past are revealed to be not so useful anymore, we can change the way we operate in the world. Appropriately sourced yoga practices can be very useful.
One of the most interesting books I have read this year is Sing the Body Electric: Essays on the Mysterious Beauty of the Deep Nervous System, by Gabriel Kram. Gabriel has taken the information developed by Dr Stephen Porges and Deb Dana, LCSW, and organized it visually with new creative additions that have kept me thinking about this book all summer.
I would like to share some of the ideas and images in this booklet with you in this next workshop, and as always, relate them to our work as humans and teachers of yoga and meditation.
In this workshop we’ll spend time looking at the nervous system continuum as described by Kram in his beautiful and useful slides, that give us multiple and nuanced ways of understanding our Autonomic Nervous System. Further delineation of the basic and blended states may suggest different ways of working with each response.
This course is offered in person at Radiant Yoga and Wellness and livestreamed. If you can’t attend at the time and would like to receive the recording, sign up for the livestream course.
TEACHER
Marcia Miller
COST
$69
The cost of this workshop includes the small price of the book so you can familiarize yourself with it before the workshop. Also, I strongly recommend that everyone spends a dollar for an intro micro-course on the nervous system created by Kram and his beautiful visual designers.
Once you register, you will receive a link to the book to download to your computer or to print.
Reiki Master Practitioner Weekend
In this weekend training you will deepen your Reiki practice and gain insights in being guided by the energy itself. You’ll
receive the Master Level attunement and symbol
learn ways to work with the Master Symbol in conjunction with the other symbols
deepen your work with contemplation as a method of developing intuitive understanding of your experiences of giving and receiving Reiki
learn to formulate questions for contemplation
practice exercises that heighten sensation in energetic centers (chakras, hara line, central channel, for example) and emphasize states of being with certain energetic properties (koshas) so that you develop a personal, felt experience of them.
learn tips and ideas for offering Reiki sessions and Reiki Shares
receive a manual
This In-Person course will be limited to 8-10 people to build connection, trust and intimacy.
It will be held at my house, a beautiful and peaceful rural setting, just west of Rt 270, near Columbus, OH (exact location will be sent after registration).
Cost
$299 early bird price until April 20, 2023
$350 after April 20, 2023
Some scholarships available. Payment plans are available.
Time
10:00a to 4:00p ET both days
This workshop is a prerequisite for the Master Teacher Training and can also be taken on its own.
Polyvagal Theory Re-Adapting Workshop
When we are young, even pre-verbal, we learn adaptations to the world around us that help us thrive, and in the case of challenges, survive. This is the nervous system doing its job! As we age, those same adaptations, where are nearly always unconscious, are still acting on us, sometimes even running the show. Because of this it can seem as if we are several different people. Sometimes, we are capable adults with great problem-solving skills and the ability to connect with loved ones, and other times we seem like toddlers throwing a fit—not capable of even remembering that we have skills. Other times, “simple” triggers cause us to slide into the state of the nervous system we experienced when we were disappointed, afraid or nervous.
In this workshop we’ll explore ways to bring these patterns into our conscious awareness—a good start, but one that is not generally enough to change them. Next we’ll take one pattern and try out a new, never before taught exercise, that can be useful in your life, as part of your meditation practice or something to be used with a trusted other.
This program is available online and livestream. If you are not able to be in person but would like the recording, please sign up for livestream.
This workshop is part of an ongoing series about Yoga Therapy and Polyvagal Theory designed for yoga practitioners, yoga teachers and therapists of all kinds. If this is your first one then please read this.
Yoga Alliance CEs are available for this workshop.
location
COST
$55
New Year's Day Class
Start this new year with yoga practices and explorations in joyful celebration with community members whether in person or livestream. This decades-long tradition continues at Radiant Yoga + Wellness and will include our dance party to start, followed by playful yet powerful asana, deep rest and Angel Cards.
Cost
$35
Polyvagal Theory & Meditation
Our deepest human need is to be in connection with ourselves, safe others, and the natural world. Since this is not always possible, how do we gauge which practices are important for us when we are disconnected? And what do we practice to enhance and extend connection when it is present?
In this workshop these questions will guide us to explore where we (and our students) are in our nervous systems and what practices might return us to connection. It makes sense that someone who is afraid and anxious might need something different than someone who is collapsed and dissociative. And, because we are complicated humans, we won’t assume that “this” meditation is for “that” state, but we will have some starting places and experiment from there. As always, the experiences of the people in the group will inform our learning. There will be brief reminders of some basic PVT principles and practices we have done in other workshops, but almost all the material for this workshop will be new.
I believe that one of the reasons people stop meditating, even though we “know” it’s good for us is because we are not using the right practices for our needs. Discover what might help you enjoy and want to make time for these powerful practices.
This program is available online and livestream. If you are not able to be in person but would like the recording, please sign up for livestream.
This workshop is part of an ongoing series about Yoga Therapy and Polyvagal Theory designed for yoga practitioners, yoga teachers and therapists of all kinds. If this is your first one then please read this.
Yoga Alliance CEs are available for this workshop.
location
COST
$55
Yoga Therapy Through the Lens of Polyvagal Theory
As we continue to explore a variety of practices through the lens of PVT, we return to pranayama and meditation. In the previous two workshops we took each one in turn; in this one we’ll blend these practices in the workshop as we often do in our yoga lives. We’ll cover practices we didn’t cover in previous workshops and continue to deepen our understanding of the states of the nervous system and how to be present to ourselves and others, especially when we are triggered in a trauma response. In this workshop we’ll also look at the range of responses related to “freeze” and why this is particularly important for meditators.
From her many decades of experience with meditation and pranayama, through times of relative ease and others of deep trauma, Marcia believes that we all need a variety of practices to draw on depending on our needs of the moment. Some practices can even be counter-productive for certain states of the nervous system. Let’s come together and explore.
This is part of an ongoing series of programs on the nervous system, though each one stands alone as well. If this is your entry into the study of the polyvagal system please read this article before coming.
Read a story about the personal benefits of polyvagal theory here.
In-Person and Livestreamed. If you are not able to attend that day you can register and receive the recording.
location
COST
$55
MEDITATION THROUGH THE LENS OF POLYVAGAL THEORY
As we continue to explore all our practices through the lens of PVT, we return to meditation. What is the meditation technology that will support us to stay in connection when it is safe to do so, and how do we use meditation to support re-connection when that is appropriate? From her many decades of experience with meditation, through times of relative ease and others of deep trauma, Marcia believes that we all need a variety of practices to draw on depending on our needs of the moment. Some meditation practices can even be counter-productive for certain states of the nervous system. Let’s come together and explore.
This workshop is part of an ongoing series about Yoga Therapy and Polyvagal Theory designed for yoga practitioners, yoga teachers and therapists of all kinds. If this is your first one then please read this. Yoga Alliance CEs are available.
Cost
$55
Location
YOGIC BREATHING THROUGH THE LENS OF POLYVAGAL THEORY
Yogic Breathing (Pranayama) includes many relaxing and energizing techniques that help bring balance and joy to our lives. But which practice for which person? And for what time of the day or their life? This workshop will be a blend of studying principles of Polyvagal Theory and the physiology of the nervous system combined with many breathing exercises. We’ll practice together and share what we notice so we can learn from each other’s experiences.
This workshop is part of an ongoing series about Yoga Therapy and Polyvagal Theory designed for yoga practitioners, yoga teachers and therapists of all kinds. If this is your first one then please read this.
COST
$55
Location
Yoga Therapy and Polyvagal Theory—An Ongoing Series
In this new workshop we will be exploring the structure of the head, neck and shoulders and how healthy alignment can keep the path of the vagus nerve open to facilitate the most conductivity of information from your body to your brain and back. We’ll start with some relevant anatomy and then do an asana class with the focus on learning to integrate the head and neck into poses where that can be a challenge, especially backbends and standing poses. In the second part of the workshop, we’ll experiment with breathing practices designed to bring balance to our systems. We’ll practice together and share our experiences so we can learn from each other. Depending on which part of the nervous system we are starting from (ventral vagal, sympathetic, or dorsal vagal) we may have differing results from the same practices. Let’s learn from each other how to fine-tune what we choose to do for ourselves and teach our students.
This workshop assumes some experience with PVT. If you have not attended any of the previous workshops, contact Marcia for simple ways to get ready.
In-Person and Livestreamed. If you are not able to attend that day you can register and receive the recording.
location
COST
$55
Polyvagal Theory & Yoga (In-Studio & Livestream)
Earlier this year Marcia led 6 hours of training on Polyvagal Theory (PVT) and Yoga that included didactic information paired with practices designed to support the nervous system. She has worked with this material in her own life and in regular classes since then and learned much from you—the community who engaged in these practices with her. In each of these new workshops, we’ll focus on one main aspect/question related to PVT with lots of time for new material, conversation, personal stories of what works or not, and practices we can do to keep moving with ease through all parts of our nervous system.