Click here to read participant testimonials from the last 8-week program Turn Stress Into Bliss!

  

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July Workshop:

Wrist and shoulder health for a sustainable practice!

Do you find your wrists are sore from practicing yoga? Do your shoulders get "tweaky" in caturanga? Or are you just curious about proper alignment in Sun Salutations?

Downward facing dog, plank, caturanga and cobra/upward facing dog are poses that are repeated over and over in vinyasa classes, and if done without careful attention (and instruction) to alignment, these repetitive poses can wreak havoc on the sustainability of your practice. 

Yoga should enhance health, not cause injury!

In this workshop we will break down these fundamental poses, focusing on proper alignment of hands, wrists and shoulders so that you can move through a vinyasa safely and efficiently. Also experience therapeutic exercises for hands, wrists and shoulders that can serve your practice for a lifetime! This workshop is perfect for beginners and advanced practitioners alike!

Sign up now~Space is limited!

When: Monday July 13th, 7-8:30pm

Investment: $25   

Where: Sacred Rivers Yoga

Pre-Register: 860.657.3161 or info@sacredriversyoga.com

*Please note, Shivani's regular Monday night class will be cancelled this day.

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Got Stress?

Turn Stress Into Bliss!

The Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy

approach to living with stress

  

 to join the list of first notified for information & Fall registration dates for this wildly successful program! *Please specify if you would prefer to participate in this program in either West Hartford or Glastonbury, CT.

  

...Here are the facts...

The American Psychological Association reports that  80% of Americans feel stressed by the economy, 60% feel angry about it and 52% are having trouble sleeping. 

(read more: APA Stress in America 2008 National Press Release)

The survey indicates that physical and emotional symptoms due to stress are on the rise.

Stress-related symptoms include fatigue, sleeplessness, feelings of irritability or anger, lack of interest or motivation, feeling depressed or sad, headaches and muscular tension...But you don't have to suffer any longer!

Often you can't eliminate the cause of stress, but you do have the power to change your relationship with stress! With awareness comes the ability to choose a healthier life.

Over the past four years the Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy program Turn Stress Into Bliss has helped people across America relieve their stress related symptoms by 55%!!

Click here to find out how this 8-week program can help you!

  

...How stressed are you? 

Take a simple stress assessment test!

-from page 171 of the program guidebook: Turn Stress Into Bliss

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Click here

to read Shivani's article,

"Got Stress?" on page 23

in the April '09 issue of

Natural Nutmeg magazine

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Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy

Informative Session

Experience how this combination of yoga and body/mind psychology encourages a deeper connection with self and brings about healing, by exploring your relationships between body, thoughts, feelings and life.

*Next Session Date TBA

Soma Wellness Center, 3 Waterville Rd, Farmington

$5 donation~RSVP 860.678.7880~space is limited! 

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In the press:

December 2008 Yoga Journal

  

Excerpt from article: "Talk to Me.

Adding yoga to talk therapy                                             can create a more direct path to emotional healing."

  

..."I had already done traditional psychotherapy groups and wanted to do something other than talk,"...confronting her emotions through this unique approach, which addressed her symptoms on the physical, intellectual, and emotional levels, helped her depression and anxiety subside. "Yoga gave me the courage to be my true self,"...

"And the research says:

While data specific to the integration of yoga and talk therapy is hard to come by, Phoenix Rising Center reports that, over the past four years, participants of an eight-week group program have typically experienced a 54 percent reduction in stress and anxiety symptoms."

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In the press:

April 2009 Time Magazine

  

Excerpt from article:  

"Psychotherapy Goes

from Couch to Yoga Mat"

  

..."Emotional memories are stored in your body," Visceglia says. "A group yoga class, is not structured to enable you to process that. Ideally one would want to work with someone who is paying attention to both the physical and emotional experiences.

That's the philosophy behind yoga therapy instruction at Phoenix Rising in West Stockbridge, Mass., where yoga therapists, who do not need to be mental-health practitioners, learn to address both the mind and body in one-on-one sessions and group classes. A Phoenix Rising yoga therapist puts clients in assisted yoga postures and does a kind of "verbal exploration" of the present moment. The yoga therapist acts as a witness to clients' exploration, with empathy and positive regard for their experience."

~To read the complete article, click here

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Yoga Classes:

  

Shivani believes that there are as many styles of yoga as there are people practicing, and that if you can breath, you can do yoga!!

New to yoga or an experienced practitioner? From years of studying yogic philosophy with beloved teacher Manorama, traveling as kirtan singer Bhagavan Das's assistant, half a year of traveling to some of India's most sacred sites, eight years of studying asana in New York, and experience as a yoga therapist, Shivani has the experience to offer a rich tapestry to students of all levels.

For a description of Power Flow Yoga and an up-to-date class schedule, click here

  

  

 

  

  

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

Spring Special!!

For every private yoga class or Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy session you book, get a FREE yoga class to use within the same month! (Fees)

*Contact Shivani for details.

  

Clients have reported these benefits:  

  • Deep relaxation
  • Release of blocked energy and freer expression of movement
  • Ability to identify patterns and release unresolved issues
  • Rejuvenation
  • Enhanced self-esteem
  • Relief from persistent pain
  • Deeper and fuller breathing
  • Enhanced body awareness
  • Sense of peace and serenity
  • Self-empowerment
  • Improved ability to make life choices  

  

"Most psychologists treat the mind as disembodied, a phenomenon with little or no connection to the physical body.  Conversely physicians treat the body with no regard to the mind or emotions.  But the body and mind are not separate, and we cannot treat one without the other...My research has shown me that the body can and must be healed through the mind, and the mind can and must be healed through the body."

  

-Candace Pert, PhD , author of "The Molecules of Emotion"

  

  

Food for thought....

Click here to read the Yoga Alliance article

"Yoga and Stress Reduction"

Shivani's favorite quote

of the month:

  

"When in doubt, breath in, breath out.

  

  

*Submit your favorite quote here!

  

  

© 2008 Shivani Ashley Wells

  

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Meet yourself at an Edge...

Wake up to your life!

Relieve Stress & Gain Clarity with

 Phoenix Rising

Yoga Therapy

& Power Flow Yoga

  

"Going through a

metaphysical death and

rebirth, like a phoenix

rising from it's ashes, is a metaphor

for the change we can experience, in order to create the life we want."

~excerpt from Shivani's article "Got Stress?" in April 2009 issue of Natural Nutmeg

  

  

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