Local Update: A Moment of Deep Healing for Your Weekend: Release and Open Workshop This Sunday!

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Monica DiGiovanni

My Wild Beat

Two-Hour Workshop This Sunday!

Release and Open
Psoas-Focused Asana, Metta Meditation, & Haptic Drawing
(Part of the Embodied yoga studio Sacred Sunday series)
Visit Monica's website for a full series description

The psoas muscle has a reputation as "the muscle of the soul". This is a fun perspective but why that reputation? This workshop will help you understand the physiological reasons why psoas muscle health is so important not only for good posture but also for proper breathing, central nervous system balance and mental clarity.
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hap·tic (ˈhaptik) adjective
relating to the sense of touch, in particular relating to the perception and manipulation of objects using the senses of touch and proprioception.
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Metta, Lovingkindness, meditation uses words, images, and feelings to evoke a lovingkindness and friendliness toward oneself and others. With each recitation of the phrases, we are expressing an intention, planting the seeds of loving wishes over and over in our heart.
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In partnership, these practices encourage strength, stability and openness to life as it is.

Sunday, October 21, 1:00-3:00
Register through Embodied

Do you long for ease of being? How can you loosen the constrictions and burdens placed on you by life, relations, society and even yourself that manifest as creative blocks, feeling “voiceless” or as a sense of alienation? Explore hidden tightness in the body with yoga movement (asana) to tone and nourish the psoas muscle. Discover how this important muscle relates to the respiratory and pelvic diaphragms and yogic breathing (pranayama). Lovingkindness or Metta meditation will build a compassionate practice of non-judgmental self-acceptance. Automatic or "haptic" drawing exercises will free your mind and creative spirit. Surrender the burdens that no longer serve you while learning to adapt to the free flowing nature of a changing world.
No previous drawing experience required.

Email Monica with questions.

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Additional Workshop This Fall

Another Sacred Sunday Workshop
Offered at Embodied Yoga Studio
7 Main Street, Montpelier

Build Connection with
Zen-inspired Practices

Sunday, December 2, 1:00-3:00
Register through Embodied

Explore the differences between “brain” and “mind” as you dive into prajna, or inner wisdom, to discover the answers within. In the first half of class, the Japanese Zen disciplines of zazen or seated meditation (on the floor or in a chair) and kōan practice offer you an opportunity to contemplate a paradoxical parable as you gain a deeper understand of yourself and the world. What appears might surprise you. In the second half of class, experience the creative freedom and liberation of flow in the whole of your being through movement meditation. Choose between being fully blindfolded, or simply having eyes closed, for movement meditation that will untangle discursive thoughts and ingrained physical behaviors manifest in your physical form as tension. Release into a state of seamless connection with the universe.

Email Monica with questions.

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Fall 2018 Weekly Classes!

There are a few changes to my weekly teaching schedule...

The invigorating and strengthening Core and Upper Body Yoga Fusion class offered at Embodied has a new time, 3:20-4:20. If you've never tried this class before, Embodied is running a few specials for September, all new-to-you classes are $10 for drop-in and teachers receive $10 off a ten-class card!

Folks at the Montpelier Senior activity Center asked for an additional weekly offering of Yoga for Focus and Fitness - you got it! In addition to Thursday, this class is also happening Friday 1:30-2:30.

To make room for the additional Yoga for Focus and Fitness class, Gentle-Moderate Yoga has a minor time change on Friday, 2:45-4:00. (NOTE: There was a misprint in the original release of the fall catalog for this class.)

Yoga for 50+

Hosted by
Montpelier Senior Activity Center
See their website for cost and registration details
Registration still open!

Yoga for Focus and Fitness
Wednesdays, 1:30-2:45 pm
Fridays, 1:30-2:30 (Additional class!)

Do you enjoy physical activities such as running, crosscountry skiing, dancing, biking, hiking and rollerblading? This intermediate class is suitable for anyone with an active life.

Gentle/Moderate Yoga
Fridays, 2:45-4:00 pm (New time!)

Stretch, decompress and clear mental space with this Friday afternoon class designed to ease you into the weekend. Students are guided to find harmony between breath and movement and to be present moment to moment.

Weekly Drop-in Classes

Hosted by Embodied
Drop-in cost: $16 / $12

Core and Upper Body Yoga Fusion
Thursdays, 3:20-4:20 pm
(New time for teachers' schedules!)

Bodies are a complex series of relationships that can sometimes loose the connections necessary to function as an integrated system. Rebalancing the relationship between the pelvic and shoulder girdles will stabilize the spinal column and protect the spinal cord. This whole body stabilization will harmonize the diaphragm and pelvic floor to support healthy breathing patterns including pranayama. Experience safe, nourishing movement while creating the strength you need to support a deeply satisfying asana practice.

Vitality Yoga
Fridays, 12:00-1:00 pm

We are in the body we are born with for the long haul, including all the accumulated experiences along the way. The beginning of class will peacefully ease in to the place where you are right now, establishing a whole-body union. Followed by gently intensifying, gliding moments, practice will deepen, building strength and flexibility with a clear mind. Pose variations will be given for those recovering from injury or on the newer edge of intermediate asana exploration. Open the channels of free-flowing energy for a renewed sense of your vital Self on the path of life.

Private Classes with Monica

Monica offers one-on-one classes in your home or a quiet, private, sunny studio in a convenient downtown Montpelier location.
She has a first-hand experience combining yoga, meditation, an anti-inflammatory diet and other wholistic healing modalities perfect for managing and healing autoimmune conditions. She holds a deeply compassionate, empathic approach for the well-being of her clients.

Email with questions or to set up a time.
Cost: sliding scale $50-70 / hr.

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