21 Jan 2025 Feb 22nd: Reset & Restore
Reset & Restore with Letitia
Saturday, Feb. 22nd, 2025 • 1-3 pm
Join us in-person or online for this special event!
$32 ($28 for PY828 Monthly Membership Students)
14 in-studio spaces • Live attendance not necessary for online students • 30 days access to recording for all
Practice vital self-care with Reset & Restore to improve your ability to manage stress, cultivate compassion for self and others, and reconnect to the light within you and the joy in your heart.
Practicing self-care is an intentional act that helps us understand, support, and acknowledge our complex, layered, and ever-evolving selves. It is more than just self-soothing. While self-care is often presented as an individual undertaking, community activists have long stressed the intersectionality of self-care and civil rights.
In her 1988 book, A Burst of Light, written during cancer treatment, Audre Lorde observed, “I had to examine, in my dreams as well as in my immune-function tests, the devastating effects of overextension. Overextending myself is not stretching myself. I had to accept how difficult it is to monitor the difference. Necessary for me as cutting down on sugar. Crucial. Physically. Psychically. Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
As a community of practice, we have always emphasized the path of yoga as radical self-love that expands into actions of love in our community—the one is supposed to coincide with the other, by design. And conversely, we can’t show up for our community as the fullest versions of ourselves when we are depleted, stressed out, stretched thin, or just plain exhausted.
We can't practice compassion with other people if we can't treat ourselves kindly. – Brene Brown
Restorative yoga uses props to help the body relax deeply into poses, releasing tension and calming the nervous system. Regular practice can provide the 7 types of rest identified by Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith: Physical, Mental, Emotional, Sensory, Creative, Social, and Spiritual.
In this two-hour workshop, Letitia will guide us through Heartfull Meditation to center awareness inward (Sensory, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual rest), followed by gentle movement and myofascial release (Creative and Physical rest) to prepare for deep relaxation in restorative poses (Physical rest).
Join us online or in-person for this beautiful workshop to recharge, reconnect with yourself, and return to the world refreshed and better able to support your community.
The following props will be helpful for this workshop. We’ll have all of this for students to use at the studio. For at home participants, to get the most out of this experience, the following props are recommended:
- a yoga mat
- a yoga strap (8′ with buckle)
- at least 2 yoga blankets
- a pair of yoga blocks
- a bolster
In-person attendees are capped at 14. Live attendance is not necessary for online participants. All students will receive the class recording and have access to that recording until March 22nd. We will have a designated demo model for online participants to be able to view at all times.
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