Yoga 

We live in a world that demands a lot of our attention and effort. We hope to be healthy, to do well at school and work, to have a close family and good friends, and to enjoy our lives.

What often happens instead is that we are exhausted and in pain, we have too much to do, and our relationships are strained. We end up feeling like there’s not enough—not enough time, not enough money, not enough energy. We can even feel like we, ourselves, are not enough.

At its heart, Yoga is intended to liberate us from suffering by helping us reconnect to our innate wholeness. It has many benefits including:

• boosting immune systems,

• reducing inflammation

• reducing chronic pain,

• increasing circulation,

• reducing anxiety and depression, and

• increasing calmness and mental focus.

It is a great practice for building and maintaining resilience and helping you live from a place of abundance rather than scarcity.

I offer private individual and group sessions and public classes—both in-person and virtually. Overall my style is gentle and accessible. I am a lifelong learner and am always learning and offering new ways to support people in their personal yoga practice.

The biggest influences on my teaching are Viniyoga and Yin yoga. These styles focus on slow and subtle awareness and using our energy bodies and our breath to explore and heal. In private sessions, I use all of my modalities of Yoga, Ayurveda and Reiki to create a personalized practice that meets your goals and needs.

If you are interested in private group classes please reach out via email or phone: jen@yogagracevt.com or 802-881-9121.

Here is more information about my offerings:

GENTLE YOGA: This style of yoga class is designed using the principles of Viniyoga, a breath-centric practice carefully choreographed with the intention of building awareness of your body and cultivating structural and physiological balance and resilience. Practices usually include poses, breathwork, meditation, chanting, and readings such as poetry or yogic texts. Classes often focus on a theme or philosophical principle from Yoga and Ayurveda including cakras and the eight limbs of yoga. Adaptations are shared to meet everyone's ability. See my current schedule for Gentle Yoga classes.

YIN YOGA: Yin yoga is a deeply nourishing and quiet practice. Unlike restorative yoga, we create gentle edges of sensation in each pose to draw energy towards places that can experience stagnation and depletion. We hold seated and lying postures for several minutes, applying a gentle stress to the deeper tissues of our body to hydrate them and encourage smooth energy flows. Yin yoga is very calming and helps to regulate your nervous system. It’s great for your joints as well. See my current schedule for Yin yoga classes.

INTEGRATED YOGA: The ancients tell us that when we practice yoga using all the tools of asana, pranayama, chanting and meditation in a coordinated way we cultivate a deeper consciousness from which can arise deep insight into the sources of our suffering. When we begin to recognize the patterns of movement and thought that serve or don’t serve us, we can begin to transform and find more ease and contentment in our lives. Each class will work with symbol systems from Yogic philosophy, such as the cakras to create a focus for the meditation. Then we will prepare the mind for the meditation with movement, breathwork and chanting. In this shorter 45 minute practice, we will do approximately 20 minutes of movement that includes breath adaptations and chanting, 10-15 minutes of breathwork that includes mental chanting, and 10-15 minutes of meditation focusing on the theme of the class. See my current schedule to register for INTEGRATED YOGA classes.