Healing Yoga
Tap into your strength, flexibility, and balance with slow and subtle movement.
Directly observe your experience of breath and changing sensation with a meditative flow. Heighten your body awareness and skill, improving posture, unlearning bad habits, and restoring vitality with creative yoga sequences. Experience the rejuvenating effects of myofascial release (MFR) using blocks, balls, and blankets to hydrate the tissues and improve circulation.
Participants should bring a yoga mat, a blanket/beach towel, & water bottle; wear comfortable clothes. All other helpful equipment will be provided by Marie.
Dates and registration details:
Six Wednesday. February 25; March 4, 11, 18, 25; (skipping April 1); April 8.
3:00 - 4:15 PM
Register here to participate with a package rate. Drop-in participation is also welcomed.
The program is limited to 25 people.
The package price, requiring registration, is $75. Information is available for partial or full scholarship if needed.
If you prefer, you may also drop in and pay $20 at the door; in that case, registration is not required.
One hospitality volunteer is needed. Email Babs @ admin@thethresholdcenter.org if interested.
Location: The beautiful and newly renovated Threshold Center at 3794 Crosshaven Drive, Vestavia Hills/ Cahaba Heights, AL 35223. Parking is free. Handicapped parking is available at the door.
Marie Blair will facilitate this series.
Meet MARie
Marie invites us to honor our bodies as precious and ever-changing. With the personal lens of her husband’s 22 years with Parkinson’s, Marie no longer takes moving with ease for granted.
An RYT 500-hour registered yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance, Marie is certified as a Yoga Medicine® Therapeutic Specialist. Her expertise includes reproductive health, the nervous system and restorative yoga, myofascial release, the function and dysfunction of the spine, hip, and shoulder, and principles of Traditional Chinese medicine. Her job is not to treat or diagnose, but complement any current medical treatment plan with personalized yoga to meet an individual's needs.
A certified Mindful Yoga teacher, Marie trained at Oregon Health and Science University with Kimberly and Jim Carson. This study focused on alleviating the symptoms of chronic pain and cancer with the tools of breathwork, meditation and body awareness. Studying at Duke Integrative Medicine with Kimberly Carson and Carol Krucoff, Marie’s knowledge of the physiology and anatomy of aging informs her sequencing to build bone health and improve circulation. Studying with Matthew Sanford in Minneapolis, she has explored adapting yoga to persons with disabilities.
Book learning aside, it is in her home practice that Marie experiences yoga just as you will when you join her. Marie encourages a beginner’s mind – curious and alert – to cultivate a mature yoga practice.
Marie can be reached at MarieBlairYoga.com
