with Dr. Arielle Schwartz
Join Dr. Arielle Schwartz for her upcoming therapeutic yoga class, focusing on vagal tone, stress reduction, and trauma recovery. All classes are donation based.
Recommended props: a mat, 1-2 blocks, strap, and blanket
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Therapeutic yoga helps you to become increasingly flexible—not just of the physical body but in your nervous system. In her classes, Dr. Arielle helps you learn how to regulate the functioning of your vagus nerve with techniques such as altering the rhythm of your breath, practicing mindful body awareness, and exploring physical yoga postures to create greater choice about your level of arousal or activation.
Please join me in helping to reduce the harm done from the Western cultural appropriation of yogic wisdom traditions.
In aims to participate in decolonization efforts, I acknowledge the recency of yoga within the United States as compared to the rich and extensive history of these traditions in Bharat/India which date back thousands of years.
While I am not from India, yogic traditions have enriched my life since I was 7-years old when my parents brought the joy of yoga into my life. I/we owe a great deal of gratitude to the teachers and historical wisdom holders that have come before me, specifically those of Indian descent.
“If yoga is a tree, it emerged in the subcontinental land of Bharat/India enriched in the history of Vedic and other native traditions. When this tree of yoga branches out to reach new lands, and its roots are severed from the Mother Tree we risk losing the depth of spirituality that is the sap within these practices leaving us with deadened or hollow wood. However, if we cultivate and tend to the roots of yoga by honoring that connection to the Mother Tree in India, our yogic tree retains it’s powerful energetic, herbal, aromatic, medicinal qualities from root, to bark, to leaf, to sap, to flower to fruit to its seeds.”
