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JANUARY 26 2025 2 - 3:30 PM
"FROM CHAOS TO CALM: Tools from Yoga Therapy to Soothe Your Soul at Brick Bodies Padonia
with Sandra Nicht, M.S. Yoga Therapy, C-IAYT, AYT-NAMA
Practicing an Ayurvedic Diet Calms the Mind
Practicing an Ayurvedic Lifestyle Helps Prevent Disease
Practicing an Ayurvedic Diet & Lifestyle Helps Support Muscle Strength and Endurance
Practicing an Ayurvedic Seasonal Routine Supports Physical & Emotional Resilience
Regular practice of Yoga stabilizes the mind via the attention paid to yoking breath to movement and movement to breath. Let us help you learn to manage your anxiety using your breath.
We learn to balance effort with ease, inhale with exhale, what we WANT with what we NEED. We develop awareness of how our bodies move in space, how our weight shifts with each step, how we align ourselves over our center of gravity. We can help you learn the skills necessary to be able to balance better and avoid falling. Let us help you improve your ability to balance!
Physically, we strengthen our bodies over time with daily practice. Psychologically, we strengthen our minds and resolve by reserving space within our day to set foot in our practice space. Whether you are already strong or just starting back after an injury or even just starting out we can help you improve your strength in ways that help you prevent injuries in the future. Let us help you improve your strength in a safe and balanced way!
Flexibility of the physical body plus flexibility of the mind equals RESILIENCE to the stresses of our daily lives. Too much muscular strength = tension that gets in the way of flexibility much in the same way that rigidity in thinking gets in the way of us learning new things. On the other hand, too much flexibility in the body can lead to joint injuries while too much flexibility in our thinking leaves us without a stable base from which we can safely explore.
Restorative movement sequences are accessible to anyone who can move. Most commonly practiced on the floor there are modifications for those who need to use a chair and sequences can be adapted for stronger individuals that are rooted in developmental work.
Hatha Yoga is rooted in specific lineages but is known in the West as a series of individual postures or positions done in standing, seated, or lying positions.
Vinyasa Yoga is understood to be the practice of linking individual postures into a flowing sequence which can be drawn from the Ashtanga Method of Pattabhi Jois (which opens with variations of Sun Salutations) but which can also be practiced without "yoga pushups".
My signature Slow Flow Vinyasa is taught in a way that clients and students can take time to enter, arrive, and exit each posture in a mindful way.
Yin Yoga is commonly understood to be Hatha Yoga postures held for a long time, and often in a supported manner. The original Yin practice was developed by martial arts expert Paulie Zink, who incorporates practices from Chinese martial arts. My Yin Yoga classes incorporate aspects of Shadow Yoga and Restorative movements and may also include supported postures with Yoga Nidra (guided meditations).
Is not easy. it takes daily practice over a long time and it doesn't help that as we age our definitions might need to change. Learn how to support yourself through life's challenges by learning about the recommendations from Ayurveda (The Science of Life) and traditional Yoga for each stage of your life, customized for your unique needs.
for experienced practitioners needing guidance and support for an existing practice
Intake + exploration of your needs whether physical (Yoga) or dietary or lifestyle (Ayurveda) or both.
Emailed session documentation with suggestions for daily personal practice
Option for one or more followup sessions at a discounted rate (must be used within a year of purchase).
per person/per week
Session 1 = Intake + exploration
Sessions 2 - 4 = progression of practice based on your experiences with each session.
Written documentation of each session
Recommended schedule of sessions can be as often as once/week (to allow for personal practice and observation of results) to once/month.
Rescheduling sessions due to emergency is allowed but should not be abused - a reschedule session must be booked within 24 hours of cancellation or that session will be forfeited.
Initial Intake + exploration of your needs
Progressions and alternate practices based on your experiences
Written documentation of each practice
C-IAYT, AYT-NAMA
Sandra Nicht, M.S. Yoga Therapy from Maryland University of Integrative Health
Certified Yoga Therapist with the International Association of Yoga Therapists
Ayurvedic Yoga Therapist with the National Ayurvedic Medical Association
Over 40 years of practice and teaching (after having been a professional Spanish Dancer and Group Exercise Instructor (Aerobics, Weight Training, Water Exercise) as well as personal observations while recovering from serious illnesses and injuries has prepared me to offer many tools from multiple modalities within the scope of traditional Yoga and Ayurveda to help. address root causes of physical and emotional suffering.
One older client came to Yoga Therapy to help with shoulder pain from a fall that persisted after his physical therapy was finished. After successfully helping with that, he decided to continue so we could address the cause of his fall: strength and structural issues affecting his balance. We worked together for several years before the pandemic shut down my private practice; he was able to stand up straighter (addressing his kyphosis and forward head), and uncovered an underlying limb length discrepancy (requiring a referral back to his physician to discover the cause of a new mysterious sharp pain in his hip, requiring a lift in his shoe while walking, another cause for his tendency to fall).
After working with a stroke survivor:
"Sandra has helped me so much! What she has prescribed as a yoga therapist has helped me in making my hemiplegic body more whole. ...Those joint rotations are a blessing for me. I am so grateful for you!"
A mother brought her teen son for sessions to help address his scoliosis (my Master's thesis at MUIH); one day he seemed "out of sorts" and inquiring about that uncovered that he was being bullied at school. Using the tool of Mudra, a yogic practice of directing Prana in the body and mind, he and his mom both experienced two simple hand positions to focus the mind with calming breath. At his next session he appeared "brighter" and more confident, reporting that he was no longer being bullied.
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