Welcome!
Thank you for being here, and for all you’re doing right now to keep our communities safe. We appreciate you, we see you, and we want to support you. While live classes have concluded, we hope you find these recorded classes helpful. These classes consist of gentle, accessible 20-30 minute sessions consisting of movement, guided breathing and meditation. Practices focus on stress relief and nervous system regulation. Please don’t hesitate to be in touch if you have any questions about these classes by emailing us: info@seachangeyoga.org.
VIDEO LIBRARY
A 20 minute gentle movement and breath-centered practice with Diane to help you shift your “wired and tired” nervous system to “centered and calm”.
A gentle 25 minute sequence with Katie focused on creating an intentional moment of transition between work and home by recognizing and releasing emotional stress held in the body.
A 30 minute yoga practice with Diane for when you feel depleted. We’ll start seated and build some energy and move to standing to move with breath. Diane will also show you a quick and easy way to energize when you only have a few seconds (P.S. it works better than a cuppa Joe!).
A gentle 24-minute seated practice with Katie to release tension in the neck and shoulders.
A gentle 30 minute practice with Katie focused on using breath, movement, and mindfulness to self-nurture.
Open Heart/Open Mind: connect to the heart to feel uplifted and a sense gratitude, empathy, compassion and kindness. Opening the shoulders and hips helps this energetic center activate for increased energy and vitality. The practice begins 4 minutes in for those of you watching this prerecorded at home. You’ll need a chair for this practice.
Increase Awareness: A practice focusing on spinal articulation and sensing into the body as a mindfulness practice.
Meet the Magic of the Moment: A mindful seated practice focusing on breath awareness and physical sensations to help you stay present.
As healers and caregivers, your work asks much of your heart and hands. This gentle practice tends to these areas by strengthening their connection and working toward a release of stress and tension that you may be holding there.
Security and Stability in Tumultuous Times: Move from standing to seated to shake off feelings of chaos and focus on breath and body sensation. May this practice help you connect to your inner navigation system to feel a sense of peace
Calling upon your inner Warrior: A brief practice focusing on finding YOUR inner warrior through exploration of standing postures Warrior I and Warrior II.
what are the Benefits of Trauma-Informed Yoga + Meditation?
Trauma changes your brain, and yoga directly addresses those changes to the brain and nervous system using breath and movement. Some of the benefits to our students include:
Improves concentration, focus, attention, and interoceptive awareness
Reduces anxiety, and anger
Reduces the impact of exaggerated stress responses (fight, flight or freeze)
Provides emotional regulation techniques
Assists with relaxation, sleep, and mood
Allows access to the pause between reactivity and response helping to regulate behavior
YOUR TEACHERS:
KATIE BEANE, RYT-500: Katie is a mama, yogini, energy worker, and Love Warrior. She began practicing yoga and meditation while caring for her terminally ill mother and found refuge from great stress and grief on her mat. Since then, yoga has offered Katie a way to appreciate and celebrate her body and mind, stay centered—regardless of what life brings—and serve others from a grounded and grateful place.
Katie brings a deep respect for bodies of ALL shapes, sizes, and abilities to her teaching and firmly believes that EVERY body can practice and benefit from yoga. She is passionate about making yoga accessible to all and to offering each student she encounters the opportunity to experience a greater sense of ease and alignment--physically, emotionally, and energetically.
DIANE MURPHY, RN, RYT-200: Diane has been practicing yoga for almost 20 years, initially as part of the latest "exercise" trend, but quickly noticed that it not only changed her body (stronger, more flexible, better balance, etc!) but it also changed her MIND. Diane noticed she was less stressed and able to cope more effectively with day-to-day stressors as well as be more patient and understanding with others. It became so much more than just a physical practice. Now Diane is a total #yoganerd and reads/studies about yoga and other spiritual practices and modalities daily. She is currently pursuing her 500 hr teacher training. Diane’s goal is to share the amazing gift of Yoga with people of all ages and abilities so that they can achieve emotional, physical and spiritual well-being.