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Set Yourself Free! with Prana
Quarterly Newsletter Fall 2005
*Personal Check in
*Personal Practice Suggestion, Reflection and Connection with Self
*Upcoming Classes, Workshops and Retreats
*Invitation for stories
This summer has brought me to a place in my personal yoga journey of deepest surrender and letting go. My birthday is July 28th. My 40th passed last year almost unnoticed. Coming off a transformational winter and spring living in Costa Rica, I was given some challenging lesson to overcome and was able to handle what came my way. I remember saying to myself, during those challenging times, “Mother (who I call “God”) only gives you what you can handle.” and knew I would survive and come through a better person and I did.
My 41st brought new and exponentially more difficult challenges that required a deeper letting go and surrender. As a healer, I began to peel back my own layers using the tools I have been given by my many teachers and with the clearer sight, developed through daily meditation. The illusions in my life began to reveal themselves right before my eyes.
Some of my strongest lessons have included,
*letting go of time and truly trusting the timeless state of being
*letting go of how I want it to be and allowing my destiny to unfold
*loving, even when it hurts
*seeing my old patterns and responses when those I love desire different paths than my own
I have coached and counseled “midlifers” for years now and am now having my own set of personal heart felt emotions that mid life brings forth. Coping with aging, clarity around my path and not wanting to go around the old merry go round ONE… MORE… TIME, discernment, ease, grace and the deepening of wisdom from experience. Patience.
I have had teachers (earth angels) come into my life to give me courage and strength.
I have meditated daily to come into my center and find clarity.
I have sought counsel when my tools weren’t enough.
I have reached out to family and friends for support.
I have learned to pace myself, so that I have energy for myself and others.
I have taken steps to improve my health, deepen my connections with others and expand my services to my community.
I feel richer, wiser and lighter. I feel new beginnings unfolding.
Most of all, I feel able to love more because I have loved myself deeply.
Reflection:
As you look back on your summer, a time of connecting with family, parties, more time outdoors in nature having fun…what lessons were shown to you.? Who were your earth angels that gave you messages that made you perk up and pay attention or question what you were doing? What were they trying to show you? How did you respond to these lessons?
Connection:
Come back to your center. Refresh your altar, your sacred space. Be sure it represents your newest path. Remove items that symbolize outdated intentions. Refresh your incense and candles. Put some energy into your sacred space to refresh your personal practice.
Personal Practice Suggestions:
Alternating heart opening postures like yoga mudras and back bends with postures that draw your awareness inward (e.g., embryo, child’s pose and forward bends), alternate nostril breathing, and extended meditations are all ways to ground the summer’s activity and come back to your center. Savasana and three part breathing are excellent for bringing the energy down (grounding).
Upcoming Events:
We are relocating to Conway, MA in late November 2005 to be closer to our children
Opening to the Love 2006 Costa Rica Yoga Lifestyle Retreat
Visit
Visit my yoga instruction web page for fall classes in Boulder, CO at
Stay tuned for upcoming winter classes and workshops in western MA
www.pranaheals.com is being redesigned with a new look and updated photos!
A DVD is starting to surface...it will be a restorative practice, including an assessable yoga flow and meditation.
Sangah Community Participation:
I am doing research for a book, which will enlighten readers and seekers on how to find our way back to community. I would love to hear your personal stories of finding your “tribe“. Please tell me the qualities you seek in community, how you reach out to create community and what you think it takes to maintain community overtime. Send your comments, questions and stories to info@pranaheals.com or chat with each other on www.pranaheals.blogspot.com Your contributions are greatly appreciated. We will contact you if we choose to include your story in our book. If we use your contribution, you will receive a free copy of the book.
Much love, blessings and gratitude,
Namaste. Jai Ma!
Prana and Rene
Quarterly Newsletter Fall 2005
*Personal Check in
*Personal Practice Suggestion, Reflection and Connection with Self
*Upcoming Classes, Workshops and Retreats
*Invitation for stories
This summer has brought me to a place in my personal yoga journey of deepest surrender and letting go. My birthday is July 28th. My 40th passed last year almost unnoticed. Coming off a transformational winter and spring living in Costa Rica, I was given some challenging lesson to overcome and was able to handle what came my way. I remember saying to myself, during those challenging times, “Mother (who I call “God”) only gives you what you can handle.” and knew I would survive and come through a better person and I did.
My 41st brought new and exponentially more difficult challenges that required a deeper letting go and surrender. As a healer, I began to peel back my own layers using the tools I have been given by my many teachers and with the clearer sight, developed through daily meditation. The illusions in my life began to reveal themselves right before my eyes.
Some of my strongest lessons have included,
*letting go of time and truly trusting the timeless state of being
*letting go of how I want it to be and allowing my destiny to unfold
*loving, even when it hurts
*seeing my old patterns and responses when those I love desire different paths than my own
I have coached and counseled “midlifers” for years now and am now having my own set of personal heart felt emotions that mid life brings forth. Coping with aging, clarity around my path and not wanting to go around the old merry go round ONE… MORE… TIME, discernment, ease, grace and the deepening of wisdom from experience. Patience.
I have had teachers (earth angels) come into my life to give me courage and strength.
I have meditated daily to come into my center and find clarity.
I have sought counsel when my tools weren’t enough.
I have reached out to family and friends for support.
I have learned to pace myself, so that I have energy for myself and others.
I have taken steps to improve my health, deepen my connections with others and expand my services to my community.
I feel richer, wiser and lighter. I feel new beginnings unfolding.
Most of all, I feel able to love more because I have loved myself deeply.
Reflection:
As you look back on your summer, a time of connecting with family, parties, more time outdoors in nature having fun…what lessons were shown to you.? Who were your earth angels that gave you messages that made you perk up and pay attention or question what you were doing? What were they trying to show you? How did you respond to these lessons?
Connection:
Come back to your center. Refresh your altar, your sacred space. Be sure it represents your newest path. Remove items that symbolize outdated intentions. Refresh your incense and candles. Put some energy into your sacred space to refresh your personal practice.
Personal Practice Suggestions:
Alternating heart opening postures like yoga mudras and back bends with postures that draw your awareness inward (e.g., embryo, child’s pose and forward bends), alternate nostril breathing, and extended meditations are all ways to ground the summer’s activity and come back to your center. Savasana and three part breathing are excellent for bringing the energy down (grounding).
Upcoming Events:
We are relocating to Conway, MA in late November 2005 to be closer to our children
Opening to the Love 2006 Costa Rica Yoga Lifestyle Retreat
Visit
Visit my yoga instruction web page for fall classes in Boulder, CO at
Stay tuned for upcoming winter classes and workshops in western MA
www.pranaheals.com is being redesigned with a new look and updated photos!
A DVD is starting to surface...it will be a restorative practice, including an assessable yoga flow and meditation.
Sangah Community Participation:
I am doing research for a book, which will enlighten readers and seekers on how to find our way back to community. I would love to hear your personal stories of finding your “tribe“. Please tell me the qualities you seek in community, how you reach out to create community and what you think it takes to maintain community overtime. Send your comments, questions and stories to info@pranaheals.com or chat with each other on www.pranaheals.blogspot.com Your contributions are greatly appreciated. We will contact you if we choose to include your story in our book. If we use your contribution, you will receive a free copy of the book.
Much love, blessings and gratitude,
Namaste. Jai Ma!
Prana and Rene
Thursday, September 22, 2005
Monday, September 19, 2005
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Reduced Tuition for Opening to the Love March 5 - 12 2006 Costa Rica Retreat
$950 (includes 2 healthy meals per day, 5 day workshop and 7 nights lodging)
Transportation NOT included
$100 discount if preregistered by Jan. 1st, 2006
$100 discount if you bring a friend
We'd love to share this beautiful yogic paradise with you. For more information, visit or call (303) 883-4632 or Toll Free 1-888-253-2114.
Namaste. Jai Ma! !Puravida!
$950 (includes 2 healthy meals per day, 5 day workshop and 7 nights lodging)
Transportation NOT included
$100 discount if preregistered by Jan. 1st, 2006
$100 discount if you bring a friend
We'd love to share this beautiful yogic paradise with you. For more information, visit or call (303) 883-4632 or Toll Free 1-888-253-2114.
Namaste. Jai Ma! !Puravida!
Thursday, September 01, 2005
Contact: Prana (Regina) Barrett (303) 883 - 4632 or 1-888-253-2114 Toll Free
www.pranaheals.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Set Yourself Free!: Prana Invites Yoga Students to Bring Their Practice to a Deeper Level
Simply noticing sensation within the body is one of the eight limbs of yoga - Pratyahara. Many yoga students may have experienced this in savasana , the corpse pose, as they practice the “art of dying”…moving deeply into body and breath awareness, while staying relatively alert. You may notice sensations such as heat, pulsing, “energy “ moving. One may also suddenly have the urge to laugh or cry uncontrollably. This is when the yoga is really doing what it was designed to do…to heal.
Allowing the yoga to integrate and move deeply into your body, provides a healing experience. If we are too concerned with “performing” the perfect pose or moving onto the next one your body holds a level of tension and you are not experiencing the deepest healing possible. Yes, you will always receive some benefits from your practice. The yoga finds it’s way in. When you drop completely into the moment, for even just a split second of a moment, the yoga begins to heal the body. However, if you have not had a complete yoga experience, you may leave a yoga class feeling irritable, emotional or VERY high. These are all common responses to yoga that has not been grounded in the body.
The practice of pratyahara allows the yoga student to fully integrate the yoga during and after each posture. In my experience, this can only happen by bringing your awareness and full attention into a posture. Hold a posture at your edge, the place where you feel sensation that can be released with breath, but not continuous pain that may lead to injury. While in a yoga pose, send all your breath and awareness to the parts of your body that are experiencing tension in the stretch and allow your breath and full attention to release that tension. This can require holding a posture for 8 - 10 breaths…maybe longer. When physical or emotional tension rises while holding a pose, breath into that tension, notice it, send love to it, so it feels safe to release, no matter what may arise.
I suggest taking at least three breaths with your fullest attention to the tension and then, if needed, gently release from the posture. If the tension turns into real pain. This is a warning sign that your body is sending you to take care and gently move out of the posture and into a posture that is comfortable and can allow stillness. Many find child’s pose or savasana to be good resting poses. Bring your awareness and attention completely into your body and breath during stillness is just as important as doing so during the posture. Moving into a resting pose will allow the yoga to fully integrate. Pausing for several breaths after each pose and noticing is the practice of pratyahara.
Feeling safe to have an energetic or emotional release. Do you feel safe to cry, growl or laugh freely in the studio where you study? This is very important in order to experience the full benefits of the yoga you are doing. Clearing energetic or emotional blocks or tensions in the body leads to healing chronic pain, illness, stress, depression and more. If you do not feel safe to have a full experience while practicing yoga, for whatever reason, you may consider finding a safer place to do your healing. Find a studio that encourages vocal releases OR you can have these experiences in a private Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy session.
Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy (PRYT) is a way to passively receive yoga body work (very supported stretches) in a private setting. PRYT therapists are trained to guide their client through a series of postures that are physically appropriate and that fit the clients intention for their session. Verbalization, sounds, tears and laughter are welcome. PRYT therapists are trained to hold the space for anything that arises from the experience you have within your body.
The role of the therapist is to create a safe space for emotional and physical release and reflect back to the client what they hear. This technique is modeled after Rogerian client centered therapy. The PRYT therapist has no agenda and simply guides the client to create their intention at the beginning of the session, and at the end helps the client integrate what has surfaced. This integration step allows the client to feel complete with their healing process in the moment.
Healing is a step by step process and PRYT moves the client one step at a time, as the body, mind and spirit are ready to go deeper and release. PRYT benefits include, trauma release, deep relaxation and personal transformation. Clients often leave a session feeling lighter and further along on their healing journey to optimal health. One of Prana’s clients shared that after just two sessions, “I feel like a new person. I have connected to a new part of myself.”
Prana shares yoga and yoga therapy at Shelburne Falls Yoga and throughout the greater Northampton/Greenfield, MA area. For more information visit her website at www.pranaheals.com
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www.pranaheals.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Set Yourself Free!: Prana Invites Yoga Students to Bring Their Practice to a Deeper Level
Simply noticing sensation within the body is one of the eight limbs of yoga - Pratyahara. Many yoga students may have experienced this in savasana , the corpse pose, as they practice the “art of dying”…moving deeply into body and breath awareness, while staying relatively alert. You may notice sensations such as heat, pulsing, “energy “ moving. One may also suddenly have the urge to laugh or cry uncontrollably. This is when the yoga is really doing what it was designed to do…to heal.
Allowing the yoga to integrate and move deeply into your body, provides a healing experience. If we are too concerned with “performing” the perfect pose or moving onto the next one your body holds a level of tension and you are not experiencing the deepest healing possible. Yes, you will always receive some benefits from your practice. The yoga finds it’s way in. When you drop completely into the moment, for even just a split second of a moment, the yoga begins to heal the body. However, if you have not had a complete yoga experience, you may leave a yoga class feeling irritable, emotional or VERY high. These are all common responses to yoga that has not been grounded in the body.
The practice of pratyahara allows the yoga student to fully integrate the yoga during and after each posture. In my experience, this can only happen by bringing your awareness and full attention into a posture. Hold a posture at your edge, the place where you feel sensation that can be released with breath, but not continuous pain that may lead to injury. While in a yoga pose, send all your breath and awareness to the parts of your body that are experiencing tension in the stretch and allow your breath and full attention to release that tension. This can require holding a posture for 8 - 10 breaths…maybe longer. When physical or emotional tension rises while holding a pose, breath into that tension, notice it, send love to it, so it feels safe to release, no matter what may arise.
I suggest taking at least three breaths with your fullest attention to the tension and then, if needed, gently release from the posture. If the tension turns into real pain. This is a warning sign that your body is sending you to take care and gently move out of the posture and into a posture that is comfortable and can allow stillness. Many find child’s pose or savasana to be good resting poses. Bring your awareness and attention completely into your body and breath during stillness is just as important as doing so during the posture. Moving into a resting pose will allow the yoga to fully integrate. Pausing for several breaths after each pose and noticing is the practice of pratyahara.
Feeling safe to have an energetic or emotional release. Do you feel safe to cry, growl or laugh freely in the studio where you study? This is very important in order to experience the full benefits of the yoga you are doing. Clearing energetic or emotional blocks or tensions in the body leads to healing chronic pain, illness, stress, depression and more. If you do not feel safe to have a full experience while practicing yoga, for whatever reason, you may consider finding a safer place to do your healing. Find a studio that encourages vocal releases OR you can have these experiences in a private Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy session.
Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy (PRYT) is a way to passively receive yoga body work (very supported stretches) in a private setting. PRYT therapists are trained to guide their client through a series of postures that are physically appropriate and that fit the clients intention for their session. Verbalization, sounds, tears and laughter are welcome. PRYT therapists are trained to hold the space for anything that arises from the experience you have within your body.
The role of the therapist is to create a safe space for emotional and physical release and reflect back to the client what they hear. This technique is modeled after Rogerian client centered therapy. The PRYT therapist has no agenda and simply guides the client to create their intention at the beginning of the session, and at the end helps the client integrate what has surfaced. This integration step allows the client to feel complete with their healing process in the moment.
Healing is a step by step process and PRYT moves the client one step at a time, as the body, mind and spirit are ready to go deeper and release. PRYT benefits include, trauma release, deep relaxation and personal transformation. Clients often leave a session feeling lighter and further along on their healing journey to optimal health. One of Prana’s clients shared that after just two sessions, “I feel like a new person. I have connected to a new part of myself.”
Prana shares yoga and yoga therapy at Shelburne Falls Yoga and throughout the greater Northampton/Greenfield, MA area. For more information visit her website at www.pranaheals.com
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