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Yoga with Rachel Marie
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About Me
About Me
I’m a passionate Yoga Instructor on a mission to help you rediscover and reconnect with yourself.
I started practicing yoga in 2017 as a way to address chronic neck and upper back tension. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the tools of yoga were permeating through other layers of my being. Not only did I receive relief in my physical body, yet I was experiencing improvements in my mental and emotional well-being. After all, it is all connected!
Yoga is an integral part of my daily life. It is more than something to check off on my “to-do” list. For me, yoga is a journey inward. The inward journey is rarely a smooth ride. However, it can lead to interesting discoveries (or even rediscoveries) about oneself!
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Welcome to your Full Body Yoga Flow with Fascia Activation!
This class includes familiar yoga postures and movements that are designed to activate your fascial system.
Get ready to stretch and strengthen your fascia so that way you can MOVE better and FEEL better too!
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Joint & Mobility Classes
Classes to help improve your joint health and mobility so that way you can MOVE and FEEL better.
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Health & Wellness Talks
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Yoga For The Classroom
Short yoga practices that are fantastic for virtual learners and for those learning in a classroom!
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Yoga for Beginners
'How To' yoga videos and beginner-friendly yoga classes.
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Themed Yoga Classes
Yoga classes tailored to meet a variety of goals, needs and interests.
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Meditation
Guided meditation practices for those brand new to meditation, and also for those who would like to deepen their current practice.
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Merging Music, Yoga, and Community
Rachel’s intention is to engage music and the healing arts as tools for healing, empowerment, and self-expression creating and fostering healthy, joyful communities and to present programs/workshops that connects the participant to the whole person, body, mind and spirit.
Yoga
Rachel creates a healing environment in her classes by weaving together the elements of breathwork, the yogic philosophy, the asana yoga postures, affirmations and live music for meditation. Her theme based style of teaching creates space for self acceptance, abundance, clarity, compassion and joy.
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Rachel's Music
Music permeates every part of Rachel’s life from yoga classes, mindful and creative movement. You can listen to recordings of Rachel’s CD’s and music on Spotify.
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Resilience Building/Cultivating Compassion/Mindfulness
Learning and understanding the physiology of stress, engaging in practices to build resilience and having an awareness of the nature of secondary trauma as the cost of caring for others is important if caregivers of all kinds are to truly be of service and have integrity in how we are doing our work.
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THE WORLD NEEDS MORE YOGA: A 12-WEEK GROUP MENTORING PROGRAM WITH RACHEL ALLEN
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March 22 – June 7, 2023
Wednesdays, 5:30 – 6:45pm EST
Session Dates: 3/22, 3/29, 4/5, 4/12, 4/19, 4/26, 5/3, 5/10, 5/17, 5/24, 5/31, 6/7
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Singing and Dancing Our Way Back to Life
Rachel loves to share music and chant as medicine. Each piece is its own tender bundle of medicine. Many are composed and created by Rachel, others collected through Rachel’s years of group singing across cultures/geography and from the Yogic tradition. All draw on universal themes of love, grace, peace, reconciliation, justice and forgiveness of self and others. These themes are integrated through voice with chant, mantra and unstructured free movement.
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Reiki
Reiki is the beautiful practice of giving and receiving love through balancing the life force energy that radiates through our bodies.
Reiki supports the integrated healing of the whole person, mind, body and spirit.
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Specialized Yoga Workshops
Rachel is a theme based teacher and regularly teaches on the yamas, niyamas and limbs of yoga, Yoga Sutras, The Elements, and Metta and enjoys weaving these into all components of the class in relevant applications that students can take with them off the mat as tools for transformation and emotional self regulation.
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I did yoga from video tutorials - and everything worked out for me
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Natalia Vladimirova leads an active lifestyle.
I practiced yoga with video lessons for two years, and then assessed my progress in class with an instructor.
My initial ideas about yoga were superficial. It seemed that this activity had little to do with the idea of a healthy lifestyle and was more associated with pseudoscientific currents. Would I believe then if someone told me that in a couple of years I myself would be standing on my head? Hardly.
There was a feeling that nothing would work out
Once a friend, who was also skeptical about yoga before, told me that she had been doing video lessons for a month and she really liked the result. At first I laughed, but interest took its toll: I found that course and decided to try it.
My background is not very sporty: in my family it was not customary to train the body, and at school in physical education classes I could only do long jumps - in other disciplines I was a complete failure.
At the same time, I was naturally drawn to training. In high school I went to a track and field athletics club, at the university - to belly dancing. In general, by the beginning of yoga classes, I was an average person in terms of physical development.
I was lucky: a course found by a friend turned out to be one of the most successful yoga video complexes in history - "Yoga for Beginners" with Louise Ciar and Rachel Zinman. Two Australian women show miracles of flexibility to soothing music and against the backdrop of seascapes. In the opening sequence, the voice-over promised that I would be "pleasedly surprised at what great results can be achieved through consistent practice." “Yoga is joy, yoga is for everyone, enjoy yourself!” - in general, I believed.
The very first posture brought pain and suffering. I did not manage to place the buttocks between the legs. But Rachel and Louise gave clear and understandable instructions on what to do if some position is not yet given.
Get pillows, use a strap to lengthen your arms, bend your legs if you can't keep them straight yet, stuff like that. What struck me the most was that the coaches gave working advice exactly at the moment when I thought that I would now give up and fall to the floor. It seemed that I would never be able to repeat everything that the girls demonstrated in the video. For example, that the heels in the downward dog pose will never touch the floor, and in the triangle pose the hand will not be on the floor. But Louise and Rachel reassured me - it's in the internal state: as soon as you find balance, you can keep it outside.
The first month was hard, but I saw progress and continued
The entire sequence of actions in asanas must be coordinated with inhalations and exhalations. When I focused on breathing, I quickly lost my rhythm, was late for the instructor and suffocated.
Therefore, for a while, she let go of the problem and breathed at random. Another difficulty was food. Through experience, I realized that from the last meal to yoga should take at least an hour and a half, and I like to eat often and little by little. But even a small amount of food in a head-down or twisted position causes discomfort. So I decided to work out late in the evening: I brushed my teeth before exercising and skipped dinner. As a result, taking the final shavasana pose or the rest pose, I fell into a dream right on the floor. She slept for 20-30 minutes, and then crawled onto the bed.
The first month of yoga was not easy, but I was motivated by progress, which was gradually noticeable after each class. Here are my hands a centimeter closer to the floor, now I can already stay on one leg a little longer. The workout took about an hour, so I came up with a trick for myself that I use to this day.
Any activity is better than nothing, I told myself: since I’m so tired, I’ll work out for at least 10 minutes, and then I’ll go to bed. The technique always worked: having started, I quickly got involved and did the complex from start to finish. After a year of classes 2-3 times a week, I felt that my body was strong enough to move on to the next step - the main one and a half hour course of the same Louise and Rachel. History repeated itself: I got tired, I thought that I would never be able to stand on my head or sit in the lotus position. But the clear instructions of the instructors helped to gradually get closer to the exercises. I didn’t learn to stand on my hands, but to linger in a headstand - yes!
After a few months, my breathing improved during classes. I also stopped falling asleep in shavasana, although not completely: yoga is great for relaxing, so I still sometimes find myself sleeping after a class.
How good that preparation was, I realized when I found myself in my first lesson with an instructor, where I got almost by accident.
I got all the poses! Compared to the video, the group workout turned out to be more motivating - it's great to see that you are doing just as well, if not better, than others. In addition, the teacher helps to correct the shortcomings that you do not pay attention to. At the same time, I do not detract from the merits of video courses: they have become an excellent start in my “yoga career”. I started many years ago when there was not much choice of online classes. Now there are hundreds of different programs on the network. For example, the Samsung Health app offers yoga workouts prepared by experienced teachers. And you can try yourself right now thanks to the 30-minute master class for beginners "Do yoga at home - we'll show you how."
Yoga is joy, yoga is for everyone, enjoy yourself!
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Yoga was able to change the posture and life of an 87-year-old woman!
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Yoga is a spiritual practice with thousands of years of history that helps keep the mind and body in great shape and change lives for the better.
Last updated: April 12, 2019
Yoga proves that at any age you can learn something new and get seriously involved in some things.
People who do not limit themselves and want to live better say that it is always worth fighting to become more active.
A recent case of an 87-year-old woman clearly demonstrates this. Instead of suffering from chronic diseases, she decided to study yoga in order to improve her health with its help.
Her story spread all over the world. It allowed a fresh look at this ancient practice and the possibilities of older people in relation to sports.
How it all began…
Anna Peske, the main character of this story, decided to change her lifestyle at the age of 86. At that time, she was trying to find an effective remedy for the severe form of kyphosis from which she suffered.
Because of this disease, her back was very twisted. She began to form a hump, causing very severe pain.
This disease has developed as a result of a combination of scoliosis, osteoporosis and a herniated disc. It severely restricted her movements and caused constant fatigue.
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Anna has been suffering from osteoporosis for decades, but has never stopped looking for a remedy to relieve her symptoms and improve her quality of life.
How yoga helped change lives
From the moment she received her diagnosis, our heroine tried to heal herself with the help of acupuncture and exercises with physiotherapists and osteopaths. They helped ease the pain, but kept Anna from feeling healthy and full of energy.
Everything changed when she decided to try yoga.
Many felt that this was not an appropriate occupation for that age. However, Professor Rachel Jasen, a restorative yoga specialist, suggested Anna start with one session per week.
Anna soon felt that it was easier for her to walk. After two years, she was able to move around without difficulty.
Pain began to disappear two months after the start of classes. After a year of regular practice, Anna decided to do yoga every day.
At the age of 87, she got rid of her hunched back and regained her mobility. Today she is full of energy as never before.
Anna's story is an inspiration to many. It's never too late to start doing things that can change your life!
This story proves that all people are individual. Everyone can find an effective remedy that is right for him. There are many proven methods and practices; sometimes some work better than others.
Analyze your body's needs and listen carefully. So you will understand what will keep him healthy.
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What else you need to know about yoga
Yoga is not just practice and exercise.
This is a healthy lifestyle that helps to heal, take care of health and strengthen both body and mind.
Yoga originated in India several thousand years ago and has evolved into one of the most popular spiritual and physical disciplines of all time.
In Hinduism, yoga is part of a religious, spiritual and cultural tradition. Today, it has come to be seen as an excellent therapy as well.
- Each yoga class lasts between an hour and an hour and a half, although some people practice shorter sessions.
- Asanas are often accompanied by breathing exercises and can be of varying levels of difficulty.
- Most classes begin with a short warm up “sun salutation” while standing, after which the students sink to the floor, warming up the muscles and joints.
- The class ends with complete relaxation, which lasts for 10-15 minutes and allows restore peace to the soul and body.
Yoga can be practiced in a dedicated center or fitness club.
