'Let Your Heart Be Light’: A Hatha/Laughter Yoga & HeartMath Meditation Workshop with Alli & Jay
Dec 11th, 2022 (Online) NOTE: Registration closes for this event on Thursday, December 8th.
Feeling the emotional stress of the holiday season (or the past year)? Are you ready to lighten up from the inside out? Combining heart-focused hatha yoga, laughter yoga and mindfulness/heartmath practices, we’ll chase those holiday blues away. Join us and LET YOUR HEART BE LIGHT this season! The positive effects will last long after you step off your mat.
When: Sunday, December 11th, 2022 from 11am to 1pm Pacific Standard Time (2 pm to 4 pm East)
Where : Online via ZOOM (Participants will receive a Zoom link before the workshop)
What: We’ll begin with a heart-focused, mindful approach to hatha yoga to relax and rejuvenate the body followed by Laughter Yoga - using laughter as a physical exercise, leading to joyous natural laughter - and conclude with an uplifting and grounding, extended HeartMath meditation.
Cost: This is a donation based workshop with a suggested 'love offering' of $40 - $45 ~ Please give what you can, whether on this scale or not. Money should never prevent anyone from coming!
Open to ALL LEVELS of practitioner, from newbie to advanced
*note to fellow teachers: Counts towards 2 hours of contact hours for Yoga Alliance Continuing Education
About Laughter Yoga and Hatha Yoga: Laughter really IS the best medicine. Laughter yoga is based on the science of laughing for no reason. Benefits include reduced stress and tension, increased endorphins, blood flow, energy and oxygen levels, a stronger immune system and heart and a vastly improved mood! Hatha Yoga (the movement oriented yoga you’re likely most familiar with) can do much of the same including increasing range of motion, lubricating joints and building healthy tissues throughout the body. Additionally, a heart-focused, mindful approach to yoga relaxes and rejuvenates the body, helps us integrate emotions, and brings a calm stillness to the mind.
About HeartMath®: The heart has a brain of its own – an intrinsic nervous system that can sense, feel, learn and remember. Research at the HeartMath Institute has shown that our feelings and emotions, both positive and negative, powerfully affect our hearts. Furthermore, when we intentionally practice renewing emotions like appreciation, love, care and kindness, the shift in heart rhythms creates a favorable cascade of neural, hormonal, and biochemical events that benefit the entire body, bringing multiple systems in to synchronicity - what HeartMath calls "coherence." Coherence leads to mental clarity, creativity, and resiliency. Through the guiding principles of the heart, HeartMath tools and techniques help people manage stress and build resilience in all areas of life. more: www.heartmath.com
Your teachers:
Alli Martin-Attix is a Certified Meditation Teacher (NLP based meditation), Certified HeartMath Coach, Certified Yoga Instructor (E200RYT/RYT500), and Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider (YACEP). She’s also certiifed to coach Paddleboarding Yoga and SUP. Since 2005, she has been leading Yoga, SUP Yoga, meditation classes, workshops and bi-coastal ‘Mindful Adventure’ retreats both in person and online. A passionate outdoorswoman, she especially loves offering yoga and mindfulness practices in spaces that deepen our connection with nature. She creates a welcoming environment for all levels of students. Allison currently resides in her native Aptos, CA where she enjoys coastal life with her family.
Jay DeVorre holds a Master of Arts in Psychology from Pepperdine University, a Professional Certified Coach credential from International Coach Federation, Laughter Yoga facilitator certification from Laughter Yoga International and is a certified HeartMath mentor. She specializes in stress management, with an insatiable passion for helping people thrive. For over 20 years, she has helped thousands of individuals, organizations and professionals in leadership via coaching, team building and workshops. Her life mission is to manifest her potential and to help others to do the same. Jay and her family currently reside in beautiful Los Angeles, CA. More: www.thrivinglife.com