Amanda Dzengeleski
NEW Workshop Series: Exploring the Fascial ...

For students who have attended at least one of our Osteoporosis and Yoga workshops, we’re excited to offer a unique 7-session experiential workshop that blend Yin/Yang poses and movements designed to target specific fascial lines in the body.

NEW Workshop Series: Exploring the Fascial Archetypes - Let’s Make This Yoga for Your Body.
Amanda Dzengeleski
Interoception: Our Body's Sixth Sense

In many ways, interoception is the bridge between our body and our mind. It allows us to notice sensations that signal our emotional states, physiological needs, and overall wellbeing. When our interoceptive awareness is well-developed, we’re more attuned to what our body is telling us, which can guide us toward healthier choices, emotional regulation, and even pain reduction.

Interoception: Our Body's Sixth Sense
Amanda Dzengeleski
The Season of Expansion + Summer Class ...

Summer is a season of expansion - longer days, warmer nights, and a chance to open ourselves to the full and abundant energy. Summer invites us to embrace the vibrant qualities of the season: growth, activity, and celebration. Yet with all this outward energy, it’s easy to get caught in the busyness of “doing” and forget the value of “being.”

The Season of Expansion + Summer Class Announcements
Amanda Dzengeleski
Re-Blooming with Spring

Imagine practicing yoga surrounded by the delicate beauty of spring—wildflowers nodding gently in the breeze, the scent of fresh herbs and tea leaves in the air. This is the magic of the Tea House, where nature and mindfulness intertwine to create a space for deep connection. We invite you to embrace the season’s rising energy in our April yoga series.

Re-Blooming with Spring
Amanda Dzengeleski
NEW Mindfulness Meditation Class

Meditation is not a linear journey. It’s not about achieving a specific state or reaching a final destination. Instead, it’s a variable practice that shifts and evolves. This fluidity makes meditation an opportunity for exploration rather than a pursuit of perfection. It invites us to let go of binary perspectives such as good or bad, right or wrong, failure or success.

NEW Mindfulness Meditation Class

Could it be Menopause?

Could it be Menopause?

Not sure exactly how to know if you might be going through menopause? You may start to notice changes in your health and well-being as you enter your forties and fifties but these aren’t always recognized as being linked to menopause. Changing levels of estrogen, testosterone and other hormones can encourage a range of symptoms. Some of these are classic menopause symptoms but others can be more surprising. If you have any of these symptoms and you’re in the ballpark age for menopause, think about speaking to your doctor about having your hormone levels checked.

Finding Your Balance, Catching Your Breath: The Benefits Of Yoga And Writing When Coping With Grief

Finding Your Balance, Catching Your Breath: The Benefits Of Yoga And Writing When Coping With Grief

By Mitzi Quint, LCSW, PLLC

Grief is a natural and normal response to loss — but we do not FEEL normal while grieving. Anything but! We can be easily overwhelmed by surprising, unsettling changes in ourselves and in our world. Grief is not just sadness or other emotions; it is an all-encompassing experience that profoundly affects us in body, mind and spirit. 

Yoga and writing can be especially helpful during this difficult time because both fully engage body, mind, and spirit. Woven together as complementary practices, they quickly invite discovery and healing on a profound level.

How does this work?

A Sweet Therapeutic Treat (Twice!)

A Sweet Therapeutic Treat (Twice!)

A friend described the monthly Yin classes on Fridays as a "sweet therapeutic treat".

Some Upcoming Opportunities to Experience this Treat:

  1. August 16th, Friday at 6pm for another speacial treat with Yin Yoga and music with Courtney Long playing and singing.

  2. LABOR DAY Monday, September 2nd, 6pm YIN Class.

Treat Yourself and/or a Friend to one or both of these event where we stretch, learn, and help to repattern habitual thoughts and body tension.

To register: https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/ASP/su1.asp?studioid=995057 (log-in/create an account, then go to classes, the date and register.

You can also email info@dogwoodstudioyoga.com to have SAM sign you up.)

Yoga for Sleep

Having trouble sleeping? Add some yoga to your routine for a goooood night’s rest! 

Practice some or all the following yoga poses and/or breathing techniques during the day, before bedtime, or when you wake up during the night. Practice each technique for 3 to 5 minutes. Combining the poses with the breathing technique will give you an extra boost! Except for Corpse Pose where you just chill and maintain your normal breath.

Benefits of Yoga Therapy for Chronic Pain

The American College of Physicians now recommends yoga and other alternatives to prescription drugs for chronic low-back pain, saying that opioids and more invasive treatments should be used only after other approaches have failed. A number of other key organizations, including the Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine & Health, agree and have laid out their position in resources such as Moving Beyond Medications.

SAM Sather and Jaclyn Sappah are certified yoga therapists through the International Association of Yoga Therapists (C-IAYT) https://www.iayt.org/default.aspx and have specialized training to help those with living with Chronis Pain. Pain that lasts 3 months or more—well beyond the time most injuries take to “heal”—is usually considered to be chronic. Chronic pain, including low-back pain, results from the interaction of many causes. This complexity makes it difficult to treat and is one factor behind the opioid crisis in the United States and elsewhere.

In 2017 NIH published a study noting that certain types of yoga practices can be as effective as physical therapy. https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/yoga-eases-moderate-severe-chronic-low-back-pain. Caution: be sure you work with a Yoga Therapist that has been trained in this area and also be sure that the yoga class is designed for this. Having a private session with a Yoga Therapist to work with you individually is a smart idea.

DOGWOOD STUDIO is Open for Individual Private and Small Group Private Sessions. 50% off your first session. WOW! At check out, choose the option for First Session discount. Let us know if you have any questions. sam@dogwoodstudioyoga.com

What is Reiki?

Reiki’s History and Use in Western Medicine Settings

Reiki (pronounced Ray-Key) is an ancient Japanese hands-on healing art, often described as “energy healing.” It was developed in Japan in the 1920s by Dr. Mikao Usui and brought to the United States in 1937 by Hawayo Takata. Reiki continues to gain popularity in the West as a useful Complementary and Alternative Medicine, with The Center for Reiki Research (2019) listing “76 hospitals, medical clinic and hospice programs where Reiki is offered as a standard part of care,” including prestigious medical institutions such as Duke, Columbia Presbyterian, and John Hopkins. According to Miles (2008), Reiki “is being delivered in the most stressful of settings—the cardiac-care unit, the delivery room, the operating room, intensive-care units, and the emergency room (p. 205).

Meditation: Why, What, When, Where, & How

“I can’t sit still long enough to meditate.” “My mind is too busy.” “I do plenty of things to relax, I don’t need to meditate.” “I don’t have time to meditate.”

~said every meditator at some point

 

Why meditate? What’s the point?

We live in a society that never shuts off. No doubt, the creation of the internet has brought much good! Instantaneous connection to individuals across the world, the ability to research and learn anything from the click of a button, innovation, security, creativity, and the list goes on. However, in a virtually boundaryless society, we no longer have time for disconnection and stillness.

International Day of Yoga & Summer Solstice, Friday June 21st. Celebrate with a Free Yin Yoga Class with SAM Sather

How Are You Celebrating International Day of Yoga and the Summer Solstice?

June 21 is International Day of Yoga, declared by the United Nations in 2015. During the longest day in the year, yoga schools, studios, teachers, and practitioners around the world celebrate yoga.

Dogwood Studio is holding a FREE Yin Yoga and Meditation Class at 6pm. Live music with Courtney Long!

Space is limited to 12. So, register ahead of time. https://dogwoodstudioyoga.com/register/#anchor-Classes

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If we get a large response we will use both room and make it 20 total people. This event is free to celebrate the opening of Dogwood Studio, a yoga therapy space. Check us out and also register for the class.

Gratefully,

SAM and the Dogwood Studio Team

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