Workshops



Eat, Pray, Local...

Contemplative Yoga and Kayaking on the Dan River

Does your spiritual practice include your body and its resonance with the world of nature? Are you longing to engage more deeply in the environment you inhabit, but feel too busy much of the time? Have you wanted to get out into our local mountains and rivers, but don't 
know where to go?

In this day long retreat into nature, we will give ourselves permission to take our time, gradually slowing down enough to come to a place of deep listening. The day begins at Moore's Springs Camp with a gentle yoga practice designed to prepare our ears for listening, our eyes for seeing and our bodies for kayaking. Afterward, we savor nutritious juices prepared with love by our local foodie Debra Edds. The kayak trip down the river in the afternoon will be a 2-3 hour sensory awareness practice, much of it experienced in silence. At the end of the day we return to camp, recover with a short yoga practice, and enjoy a vegetarian feast and celebration around a fire.

Friday, April 26, 2013
9:00 am until after supper (planning to eat in the 5 o'clock hour)

Fee is 175.00 and includes yoga instruction and river guidance by Sydney Hughes-McGee, kayak rental and shuttle service provided by The Dan River Company, a juice breakfast and vegetarian supper provided by Debra Edds and day use of Moore's Springs Camp (mooresspringscampground.blogspot.com.) Price will be adjusted if providing your own kayak or food. Overnight camping available for additional charge.
No yoga or kayaking experience necessary.
To learn more please contact Sydney Hughes-McGee, RYT500
336 775 7313  or wsyogatherapy@clearwire.net 


Yoga for Anxiety 
In this workshop you will learn how a yoga  practice can help you navigate through experiences of fear and anxiety.  You will develop skills that have been proven to change the nervous system from the sympathetic to parasympathetic response- from stress to relaxation.  By slowing movement down and increasing sensory awareness, as well as employing specific yoga breathing techniques, you will discover the ability to change your physiological response to stress. 
We will also study yoga teachings on the nature of the mind, which invite us to befriend uncomfortable and even intense feeling states while recognizing them as transitory. The goal is to find an internal presence that both holds you in compassion and allows you the freedom to change.

$75.00
Saturday, March 30, 2013
12:30 - 6:00 pm
Winston-Salem Yoga Therapy , 2424 Reynolda Road 


Sydney Hughes-McGee, LMBT 1243, RYT500 is a Viniyoga instructor and has practiced as a massage therapist for over 20 years.  She taught the Viniyoga Stress Reduction Program at Aetna in High Point, NC, as well as Yoga for Stress Management to medical students at Wake Forest University.  At her studio students come into a new relationship with their bodies by finding breath, attending to sensations and discovering their living anatomy.
To register contact Sydney at wsyogatherapy@clearwire.net 
or 336 775 7313.