With age comes wisdom and grace. As we grow older, we aspire to have vitality and strength in body and mind. With grace comes a love for life and the desire to share our wisdom and experiences to engage fully around us. In this workshop, we will learn how to cultivate and support a mental calmness, composure, and equanimity within our bodies and minds, tend to our emotional health, while we increase our vigor and resilience in our body that propels and steadies us in our lives. We’ll explore the following:

·      Emotional resilience for physical well-being

·      Movement for improved mobility and to slow the aging process

·      Deep attention towards your body to support your mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual health

·      Cognitive health through yoga and learning

·      Curiosity to maintain brain health

·      Curate a sense of wonder and newness everyday

·      Engage with others who are also aging gracefully

 Aging isn’t a choice, but how we age is. Yoga gives us tools for keeping our bodies active, our minds open and stimulated, and our hearts at ease. Come join us for this special workshop led by yoga therapist, Barb Gibson, and leave feeling uplifted, supported, and invigorated to age with grace and continue your path of creating your best life every day.

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As the year ends, activities ramp up and we want to feel revived and nourished to enjoy the things important to us. Please join us for a special workshop led by Dr. Athena Ridgley, PT, DPT and Barb Gibson, C-IAYT, to gently revive your body and energy through slow, mindful movement and tune your mind for openness and ease. Learn tips for nurturing and reviving yourselves for use at this special time of year and relax into a yoga class that supports and lift you.                                                   

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Rather than seeing menopause just as the end of fertility and the start of aging, we can look at it as both a life transition and potentially transformative experience. Given our modern health care and longer life spans, women can anticipate spending close to one-third of their lives in a post-reproductive state, and we can use this time for personal development, healing, and creative living. Instead of saying this is the “change of life”, perhaps we switch the paradigm and say, “the change in life” as we transition both our inner and outer experiences for physical, emotional, and spiritual health now and beyond.

Join us for a special workshop devoted to celebrating our change in life as we use mindful movement, breathwork, and meditation to help you set out on the next journey of exploration and discovery in your life. In this workshop we’ll focus on:

• Changing the narrative of menopause from taboo to open and inspirational

• Mindful movement to help you build resilient and strong bones

• Mindful movement for improved physical grace and strength

• Poses to help with adrenal functioning and hot flashes

• Simple breathwork to help you with stress, improve your sleep, and tap into your “happiness chemical”

• Perspective check-in to inquire what you want in life to create the freedom for life starting now

• Meditation to tap into your emotional and spiritual wishes to help you launch into this next journey

• Adaptations targeting your individual experience and goals

All women are welcome whether you are in perimenopause, menopause, or just curious of ways you can best serve your body in mid-life and beyond. We hope to celebrate and encourage each other in this special time of life. If you have questions or are wondering whether this workshop is right for you, contact me

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Our fascial network surrounds the body's muscles and organs giving the body integrity and providing the tensional network in which our muscles work. Fascia-specific activity makes the body more resilient, more flexible, and more energetic. Yoga is a great way to target fascia leaving behind a more supple and vibrant feel inside your body. Come join usfor this fun workshop focusing on the fascial network and learn why it’s important, how it improves your physical and mental health, and simple ways you can positively affect it with yoga and therapy balls. You’ll experience expansiveness in your body and individualized adaptations for your specific needs and interests.

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Join me at the Wellness Den booth and learn about yoga therapy and how it can benefit you! it will be a fun day full of activities and community.

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Come join us for this specialty class that will help you connect to your body center attuning your mental focus to enhance overall physical strength and stability. Moving from your center generates a strengthening force powering up your body while protecting the surrounding joints (i.e., sacrum, low back, hips, and even your upper body) so you can increase the potency of your movements while keeping your body safe. The breath is the key to attuning your focus and awareness in the core, and in this class, you will learn several breath techniques to hone your core focus during and outside of movement. Adaptations will be offered to help individual participants practice for their bodies and interests. For more details or questions, contact me.

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Our backs are important for overall stability, fluidity, and strength. Come join us at Half Moon Yoga for a special 90-minute class with Barb Gibson, C-IAYT MS to investigate ways you can help improve your back health. Explore your spine and the tissues that support it and how to build strength and mobility in your body for overall function and support. This workshop will consist of breath-centric movement that can be tailored to your needs and end with a pranayama that will build stamina and core alignment. This is a great way to learn in a workshop environment and apply to your yoga class repertoire to better practice for your needs and interests. If you’re wondering if this class is right for you, contact me

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This time of year creates a unique opportunity to break away from the darker days of winter and enter the lightness of spring. Just like the bulbs push up in the spring soil, we start to emerge more fully back into our lives. This shift lifts our mood and allows us to connect back to those things that bring us happiness. Harnessing the energy of this time naturally improves our health and strength and provides a pathway towards creating and achieving our goals we set forth in the year. Join us for our workshop led by yoga therapist Barb Gibson, C-IAYT, MS that focuses on the yogic perspective of this time of year where you will learn the following:

• Importance of both darkness and the light that comes out of this state

• A mindful movement practice that promotes energy and increases your confidence to achieve your goals

• How to utilize yogic breath techniques that uplift your spirits and physical system

• How to reconnect to those things that bring you light and happiness

Adaptations and variations will be offered based on interest and comfort in a workshop-style session where we will learn from each other and explore inside yourself to discover your next stage of this year. Contact me for questions.

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Investigating ways to increase your vital energy and improve your overall well-being in your body and mind can be essential adding vibrancy and clarity to all your activities. Come join us for a 90-minute class exploring ways to increase your vital energy and improve your overall well-being. Class will include mindful movement for body fluidity and vibrancy, breath adaptation to enhance your energetic system, and a meditation practice to help you consider how to design your best life using the energy you create inside yourself. Contact me for questions.

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As the year winds down, a natural response is a desire to create a slower rhythm to connect deeply to others and yourself and reflect on the things important to us. Please join us for a class led by Barb Gibson, C-IAYT, to unwind your body through slow, mindful movement, and bring your energy and mind to a place of calm and clarity using conscious breath, bhramari, and vocalization ending in a restorative reflective meditation for use at this time of year.

This class will integrate langhana yoga techniques using slow movement and breath to pacify the nervous system and reduce excess energy/chatter in the body and mind. We will end with several restorative poses using props and time to explore news ways to connect deeper to ourselves and nourish our bodies and spirit.

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