Something yoga has always known, and that research now verifies, is that our experiences in life impact our body, mind, and soul. Therefore, healing needs to incorporate all three as well. Enter the power of yoga!

ISSUES IN THE TISSUES: Yoga for Stress & Anxiety

Have you bought into the idea that you’re destined to be a chronically anxious, stressed-out person? What if stress and anxiety are expected outcomes of our overworked, under slept, sensory overwhelmed, under nourished lives? And what if there are ways to bring the mind and body back into balance and enhance our sense of wellbeing?

Join Kristen Kauke, LCSW and RYT to learn how to hack stress and anxiety through the mind, body, and daily rhythms. Through lecture, yoga, and meditation, participants will leave with tools to find balance that has a profound effect on their potential to experience happiness and meaning in life.

You’re not healing to be able to handle the stress. You’re healing to be able to handle the joy.

Our culture teaches us all too well how to punish and mistreat, as well as express the need to change and beat our bodies into submission. But what if we stopped listening to culture and started to listen to healing intelligence within?

Join Lisa Berke, yoga teacher and Ayurvedic specialist, and Kristen Kauke, licensed clinical social worker and yoga teacher, to try something radical:

• Calm the mind and teach it to seek joy

• Celebrate and even appreciate your body

• Nourish your gut

Through lecture, breath, yoga, and meditation, leave with tools to heal the relationship with your body.

Something yoga has always known, and that research now verifies, is that our experiences in life impact our body, mind, and soul. Therefore, healing needs to incorporate all three as well. Enter the power of yoga!

Join Kristen Kauke, a licensed clinical social worker and yoga teacher, in a seasonal workshop that explores human experience and how yoga can support transformation.

First up – Yoga for Grief.

One can grieve the loss of a person, pet, partnership, profession, purpose, or plans. The loss may have occurred recently or in the distant past. No yoga experience necessary. But DO bring a yoga mat.

Friday, October 27 from 6:30-8:30 pm, $35

·       Understand how grief impacts your human experience – body, mind, soul.

·       Practice yoga to digest and assimilate grief from the tissues.

·       Experience support of community in this healing experience.

“The way we deal with loss shapes our capacity to be present to life more than anything else. The way we protect ourselves from loss may be the way in which we distance ourselves from life.” – Rachel Naomi Remen

This workshop will educate on frameworks from the Yoga and Ayurveda traditions, to improve mental health and empower participants to take an active role in their wellbeing. Participants will understand commonalities between this Eastern wisdom tradition and social work, and benefits in mental health practice.

1. Learn yoga’s teachings on systems for evolution of the Self, as well as functions of the mind, consciousness, and emotions.

2. Understand use of lifestyle and limbs of yoga (philosophy, poses, breath, meditation, etc.) for wellbeing.

3. Practice and integrate knowledge.

For more information or questions, email: cgosselin@luc.edu.