Anne Curtis & Melissa Carroll are excited to bring you the Mini Mindfulness Retreat again this Winter!
See the workshop description below.
Ground Your Energy | Calm Your Mind | Open Your Heart
This new year give yourself the gift of deep presence through Yin/Restorative Yoga, Meditation, & Journaling.
All participants receive the replay and keep it forever.
In this 2-hour Zoom Workshop you'll receive:
An All-Levels Yin Yoga Practice for Winter, which focuses on opening the Kidney Channels
A Guided Meditation to Align with your Intentions for 2024
Journaling Prompts to Help You Anchor into Gratitude & Flow for the New Year
Open to All! No experience with yoga or meditation needed. Perfect for beginners and seasoned practitioners.
2 Yoga Alliance Credit Hours Provided for Yoga Teachers
Investment: $27, Free for Anne's Monthly Membership Students!
On-Demand Workshops & Trainings Online Through The Lotus Pond:
Practice & Study with Anne Any Time, Any Where
Yoga for Neck, Back & Hip Pain at The Lotus Pond (On Demand Online Video Recording)
Do you love yoga but are you limited by inflexibility, immobility or pain? In this workshop, I will share my knowledge and expertise to take you on a yoga journey through the areas of the body most associated with pain and tension, the neck, back and hips. Learn how to:
Explore asanas and asana-related stretches that encourage mobilization
Release tension in the shoulders, neck and upper spine
Gain a deeper understanding of your pain and strategies for long-term pain relief and healing
Rebalance your pelvis and mobilize your spine
Approach back pain with stretching and strengthening postures
Carefully modify classical yoga poses to bring more confidence and joy to your practice
Two 90 minute Workshop Sessions
Practice & Learn at Your Own Pace!
Receive the Workshops Now: The Lotus Pond
Yoga Workshop: Build Strength To Ease Pain (available as online video recording)
In this workshop we experiment with ways of adding “Load” to your body during your yoga practice to increase both strength and flexibility over time. The philosophy behind this work is that by increasing strength-building practices within the context of a creatively varying yoga practice, we can harness the surprisingly effective pain-reducing benefits of strengthening muscles, tendons and even bones!
You will learn how to introduce strength-generating adaptations into your teaching in a calibrated way to support each of your students’ individual needs. If students can build this kind of strength-focused yoga into their practices early-on, it can provide a beneficial modality for maintaining strength and integration of the body over time. This work can be particularly beneficial to students over the age of 40 as a way to balance the natural decrease in muscle mass, balance and endurance that can occur.
14 Yoga Alliance Teaching Credits
To take this online workshop go to: The Lotus Pond
Past Workshops & Trainings at The Lotus Pond:
Strengthen, Lengthen & ReAlign Your Spine
In Person at The Lotus Pond Center in Tampa, FL
Friday, 11/10
6:30PM - 8:30PM
Open to all! 2 credit hours available for Yoga Teachers & YTTs
Does your back feel stiff when you wake up, or after a full day at the computer?
Did you know that if you measure your exact height when you wake up in the morning and then again before you go to bed, you are shorter?
Yikes!
Yes, all of this is normal, it happens to everyone, even if you don’t have a desk/computer job. But you can lengthen and strengthen and realign your spine! All you need to do is add a little yoga to your life. Easy, right?
Not usually.
It’s hard to know exactly what to do, how to do it and then to make yourself do it, right?
This pop-up workshop is designed to help you:
Ease back pain
Learn simple techniques to relax and realign your spine
Gain mobility and freedom across your back (and therefore in your shoulders and hips)
Build inspiration for your (short!) daily back care practice
Open to everyone, whatever your level of practice; whether you are a beginner or a yoga teacher, these techniques can enhance your practice and therefore your life. YTT credits available.
Yoga for Core Strength
In Person at The Lotus Pond Center in Tampa, FL
Sunday, 7/30
10:00AM - 12:30PM Public Workshop
10:00AM - 2:30PM Yoga Teacher Training Workshop (credit hours available)
Does the phrase “Core Strengthening” make you want to run the other way?
Do you think you could use some core strengthening, but can’t quite decide how and when to add it to your busy life?
In this approachable workshop you will learn ways to gently introduce core engagement into your yoga practice and teaching. You will come away from this workshop with a repertoire of fun (I promise!) core strengthening exercises as well as unique ways to adapt your favorite yoga poses to increase the strength and integration of your core muscles with your body as a whole.
We will take a balanced and whole-body approach to “Core” strengthening and integration by beginning with a redefinition of where and what your “Core” is.
We will then use props and creative modifications of familiar poses and movements to help you engage your core muscles in multiple ways.
This workshop will help you build integrated strength for your whole body in a balanced and comfortable way.
These practices are designed to help you continue to evolve as you practice your yoga throughout your life.
Offers 4 credit hours for yoga teachers or yoga teachers in training.
Cost: $80
Sign up through The Lotus Pond website (scroll down until you see the Workshop)
Find Your Center: Painless Ways to Add Core Strength to Your Yoga Practice
In Person at The Lotus Pond Center in Tampa, FL
Friday, 7/28
6:30PM - 8:00PM
1.5 Yoga Alliance Credit Hrs
Do you avoid core workouts?
Do you love yoga, but avoid the “strength-training” moves?
Do you think that you should be doing (more) core strengthening but don’t know how or where to start?
In this class you will learn fun (really!) and painless ways to add core strengthening to your yoga just by shifting your focus in postures and employing a few props, while still enjoying your practice!
The sneaky benefits your body/mind will experience are:
Greater strength & muscle tone
Confidence and an uptick in your energy levels
Integrating your whole body in yoga postures
In this workshop you'll receive:
An introduction to integrating core strengthening into your yoga practice
A 1-hour all levels yoga class that blends stretching with a little bit of resistance to strengthen your muscles along their healthy, full range of motion
A deep and profound savasana
Time for Q & A afterward
This class is perfect for all levels of yoga students, as well as yoga teachers who'd like to incorporate more core strengthening into their classes.
Cost: $40
Sign up through The Lotus Pond website (scroll down until you see Anne’s workshop)
Yoga for Back Pain
In Person at The Lotus Pond Center in Tampa, FL
Saturday, 7/29
10:00AM - 12:30PM Public Workshop
10:00AM - 2:30PM Yoga Teacher Training Workshop (credit hours available)
Do you wake up in the morning with stiffness and/or soreness in your lower back? Do you find yourself leaning forward and hunching your shoulders as you drive, look at your phone, work at your computer and chop those veggies? Do you carry tension in your neck and shoulders?
This class workshop is designed to help you explore how you can gently rebalance, stretch, and strengthen your back from your neck to your tailbone.
You will leave this workshop with a number of tools and strategies to help yourself and/or your students practice the yoga you love and that your body craves, without feeling limited by back sensitivity.
Back pain is one of the most common reasons why people begin practicing yoga. In this workshop we will begin with gentle yoga sequences to get you moving within a range of motion that feels comfortable and doable.
We will then gradually add interesting and different ways to modify your practice to strengthen and support your back while giving you the freedom to choose the yoga path that works for you.
In this workshop you will:
Learn strategies to modify yoga poses to allow you to do them without feeling like you might be overdoing it.
Strengthen your back and core muscles
Explore the different ways of moving your spine to identify the ones you love.
Use props in creative ways to support your back and enjoy your practice
For yoga teachers, explore how to add these techniques into your classes and private yoga sessions
Offers 4 credit hours for yoga teachers or yoga teachers in training.
Cost: $80
Sign up through The Lotus Pond website (scroll down until you see the Workshop)
Do your hips bother you sometimes? Is it hard to know for sure why? Are there poses that used to be easy for you but now feel constricted or painful? Do you wish you could go back to what yoga used to feel like?
Or perhaps if you're a yoga teacher, your students complain of hip pain and you’d like to help them adapt their yoga practice.
This workshop is designed to help you understand how to use yoga practices to create and maintain balance and ease in the hips. In this afternoon workshop you will:
Learn strategies to modify yoga poses to make them more comfortable and approachable
Strengthen the muscles that support healthy hip movement and alignment
Create hip mobility and ease where there may be stiffness and discomfort
Learn how to use yoga props to support your body
Integrate your core with your hips and legs
Balance your body
Yoga for Hip Pain
In Person at The Lotus Pond Center in Tampa, FL
Saturday, 9/24
12:30PM - 4:30PM
4 Yoga Alliance Credit Hrs
We will have plenty of time to practice, discuss, and journal, with time allotted for questions and answers. We’ll conclude the afternoon with a relaxing guided meditation to leave you inspired.
Offers 1.5 credit hours for yoga teachers or yoga teachers in training.
Cost: $80
Sign up through The Lotus Pond website (scroll down until you see the Workshop)
Pop-Up Gentle Yoga Class
In Person at The Lotus Pond Center in Tampa, FL
Friday, 9/23
6PM - 7:30PM
1.5 Yoga Alliance Credit Hrs
Explore the gifts of Gentle Yoga, from calming the nervous system to moving the whole body in a mindful way.
Join Anne Curtis for this one hour Gentle Yoga class followed by a question and answer session where you can learn all about teaching and practicing Gentle Yoga.
In this workshop you’ll learn:
Gentle modifications for yoga poses
How to make yoga accessible to people (including yourself) with pain and sensitivities, which can make it challenging to attend “regular” yoga classes
Strategies for teaching gentle yoga classes that are interesting and challenging
How to use props to make yoga practices more accessible (for yourself and your students)
How to keep your yoga practice interesting, challenging, and fun!
Bonus for those who are also teachers: Add these important skills to your yoga teaching toolbox, so you can help more students find ease, mobility, and peace.
Offers 1.5 credit hours for yoga teachers or yoga teachers in training.
Contact
To learn more about classes or private lessons, contact Anne.