Lately, I wake up in the morning imagining titles for workshops that I want to create. There are so many facets of yoga and anatomy that I want to delve into more fully, and explore with others.
The workshops and special classes that I plan to continue to develop and teach repeatedly through the years are Yoga for Anxiety, Nine Winter Sundays (a winter meditation class), Developing Core Strength (a multidimensional approach) and Eat, Pray, LOCAL (day long meditation retreats into nature.)
I also am dying to develop a series of fascial based anatomy classes for yoga teachers using Tom Myers Anatomy Trains. If only I could find someone who wanted to pay me to take a day off a week to experiment and write!
Winston-Salem Yoga Therapy
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
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
Sunday, March 17, 2013
This morning is the last of the 9 Winter Sundays classes for the year. What a sincere and dedicated group of practitioners we have had gathered here on these Winter mornings. And now, how wonderful to feel the sap rising!
This morning's chant translates as:
The True Self is real.
It's light radiates through all my life's circumstances.
It is a source of joy that is always there.
I am the True Self.
I am.
Monday, March 11, 2013
Yoga for Anxiety Workshop
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.
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Welcome to Winston-Salem Yoga Therapy. We're here to support your yoga practice.
WSYT is the project of Sydney Hughes-McGee, RYT500, LMBT1243, who is a Yoga Instructor in the Viniyoga Tradition, Yoga Therapist in training, and Licensed Massage and Bodywork Therapist.
Sydney is dedicated to supporting individuals in the Winston-Salem community by connecting them with methods from yoga and other meditative disciplines that foster body awareness, personal growth and clarity of mind. Her goal is to help people feel the confidence and conviction to practice at home.
Sydney offers classes in the Viniyoga Tradition, one-on-one therapeutic sessions for the purpose of developing a personal practice, and hands on bodywork for supporting body awareness, body acceptance and structural change.
Sydney is dedicated to supporting individuals in the Winston-Salem community by connecting them with methods from yoga and other meditative disciplines that foster body awareness, personal growth and clarity of mind. Her goal is to help people feel the confidence and conviction to practice at home.
Sydney offers classes in the Viniyoga Tradition, one-on-one therapeutic sessions for the purpose of developing a personal practice, and hands on bodywork for supporting body awareness, body acceptance and structural change.
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