| Gentle Yoga for Pain Relief
Welcome to this specialized gentle yoga class, tailored to students seeking a regular practice for their pain care plan or just respite from life's aches and pains. Here you can embark on a transformative journey towards improved mobility, strength, balance, relaxation, overall health, vitality, and less pain.
Creating a safe, soothing space for healing.
🪷 This gentle, one-hour yoga practice is specially designed for those living with chronic pain.
✨ In a supportive group setting, you’ll explore effective techniques to calm your nervous system, move again with ease, and reduce pain—without triggering your body’s protective responses.
🧘 Through a blend of mindful movement, breathwork, and guided relaxation, you’ll discover tools to help manage and transform chronic pain over time.
Embrace the Gentle and mindful Path to Wellness
Life's trials will often manifest in our bodies, leaving us with aches, discomfort, tension and stress. This gentle yoga class is thoughtfully curated to honor your unique journey, whether you're managing arthritis, stiffness or living with a type of chronic pain. This invitation is to embrace yoga as not only a gentle path to wellness, but a proven practice in which mindful movement becomes a form of bodily retraining, self-care, and healing.
During our sessions we will explore a variety of a warm-ups, fun and gentle flows, yoga postures to target different areas of the body, re-energizing and centering breathwork, all while ending with a wonderful final guided relaxation.
Receive Guidance and Support
You will be guided and well supported in these online classes as we blend traditional yoga practices with modern knowledge of pain science. Each session is carefully planned to accommodate a range of physical abilities and limitations, ensuring a safe and nurturing experience for every participant. Modifications and props are also suggested to suit your individual needs and comfort levels.
Join this Nurturing Journey
The gentle yoga class is not just an exercise routine; it's a therapeutic practice designed to honor your body, mind, and spirit. Discover the transformative power of gentle yoga and let it enrich your life, one peaceful pose at a time.
There are 2 options to join classes. One is online, from the comfort of your home, on Wednesday mornings from 9:15-10 am. The other is in person at a magical yoga studio called The Shed on Nun's Island (free and easy parking and only about 3 minute walk form the REM), on Saturdays from 4-5 pm. Details below.
Please do not hesitate to message me for any questions or concerns. I am happy to set up a free 15 minute call to see if this class is right for you.
Benefits Tailored to You
This gentle yoga practice offers an array of benefits tailored to meet the unique requirements of adults dealing with intermittent and ongoing aches and pains:
1. Pain Relief: Gentle stretching and movements can help alleviate chronic pain and discomfort, promoting better joint health and reducing muscle tension. The guided relaxations and breath work will help to activate the rest, digest, repair and restore aspects of the nervous system “disarming” and calming the nervous system when it is in pain. Practice working at the edge of pain to retrain the nervous system and change pain.
2. Improved Flexibility: Carefully selected poses enhance flexibility and range of motion, empowering you to move with greater ease and grace.
3. Enhanced Relaxation: Techniques for relaxation and meditation incorporated into the practice promote mental clarity, reduce stress, and improve sleep quality.
4. Strength and Balance: Low-impact exercises help build muscular strength and balance, supporting your overall stability and preventing falls.
5. New levels of joy: Yoga is a timeless practice that promotes inner peace and strength. With regular practice, we find joy, happiness, contentment and even nurturing a harmonious balance within ourselves and our environment.
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