Yoga: Revealing the Heart & Healing

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Course Synopsis:

What you pay attention to has power. That is true for also for your health & well-being. In this workshop we tap into your innate wisdom and integrate body, mind, emotions, and spirit with beautiful and healing energy. Rejuvenate yourself, your life, your relationships …

We start with the lower body , move to the upper body, then integrate both in our final session. (Sessions are on-going and repeat sequentially, so you can join whenever it fits your schedule).

We include asana (posture), breath, focus, relaxation as yoga becomes our medicine and we begin to heal body, mind, and spirit.

This work is a gift to yourself.

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Investment in yourself: $275

A yogini for over two decades, Gabrielle has been a teacher since 1998. Initially, she came to yoga to heal a number of long-standing injuries that affected her body. Teaching is an integral part of her own practice. She loves it.

As a teacher, she is strong and positive and creates confidence and awareness in the students. The sequences she teaches meld breathing, movement, inward focus, and deep relaxation. This practice affords the body a wonderful workout that builds strength, flexibility and balance.

Education and Training

• Yoga Teacher Training Certificate, Sivananda Yoga Ashram, Val Morin, Canada, 1998
• On-going yoga education through workshops on topics such as the knee, the shoulders, inversions, and pranayama
• Registered Yoga Teacher, Yoga Alliance
• Thorough knowledge of anatomy, physiology, and yoga philosophy
• Certified in Shiatsu Massage
• Her personal practice today is Ashtanga yoga
• She specializes in working with injuries
• She also holds a Master’s Degree in History and has worked in non-profit medical research for eight years

Teaching experience

Teaches public and private classes and workshops in San Francisco and sometimes at retreat centers. She has taught beginning and intermediate level classes at the Sivananda Vedanta Center in San Francisco, California, as well as intermediate and advanced classes at SF Ashtanga, Adventurous Woman, & The Yoga Studio Mill Valley.

In 2000 she founded Yoga 9 to 5™, designed to bring yoga into the workplace to people who ordinarily would not seek out yoga: people with medical conditions and other personal challenges.

She designed off-the-mat programs, which aimed to help participants to live in their bodies. There were many other ancillary benefits, of course.

Yoga 9 to 5™ clients included banks, insurance companies and law firms and the programs were successful. An audio CD that compliments the programs exists and is available for purchase at $15 plus shipping.

She retired Yoga 9 to 5(TM) in 2004 and continues the work through workshops.

"Gabrielle is a gifted yoga teacher. I have been her student for the past four years, during which time I believe I have formed an accurate assessment of her many excellent qualities as a teacher : patience, empathy, a lively imagination, a sense of fun and, above all, a sincere devotion to demonstrating the practice of yoga as an integral part of one’s everyday life.As a performing artist, I have benefited immeasurably from the practice of yoga under Gabrielle’s instruction." - Denis Harper, Lecturer in Music, California State University, Stanislaus

“The relaxation exercises were especially helpful to me. I now say to other class participants "breathe" when we pass one another at work!!” —K.C, Personnel Manager, Department of Industrial Relations, State of California.

"Gabrielle runs a wonderful class and somehow focuses upon the needs of each individual. It is challenging but never "pushed", and her approach is spiritual and yet lighthearted and fun. I tell my friends I attend her class each week because it revitalizes and uplifts me and I leave feeling like I've had a great massage!" -Kim Larsen, Publisher GayPocket San Francisco Guide

“After two months of regular yoga sessions, I now believe yoga sessions should be done [in RSI cases] before going into physical therapy and muscle strengthening.” –T.A., Manager, Department of Industrial Relations, State of California.

“My chronic backaches have almost disappeared after only two months of classes. I am amazed.” —R.A., Project Assistant, Department of Industrial Relations, State of California

“So simple! So effective! We loved the exercises and the relaxation we felt.” —J.D., Human Resources Executive, West Group.

“Amazing how much I need this. I was in a car accident and injured badly, and appreciate regaining function.” —S.C., Account Manager, Westlaw.

"Implementing the Yoga 9 to 5™ Program immediately yielded our business fewer employee sick days. I myself am going home without the shoulder and neck pain that I thought was me just getting old!" —H.C., CEO, Lighthouse Communications Group LLC.

“After my back surgery the physical therapist said it was okay for me to do gentle moves until I'm released to full range of motion. Some of the hip releases you showed me are helping to keep me more comfortable. Thanks again for your excellent classes - you are a gift!” –G.L., Corporate Executive Secretary at a law office.

“Wow, since attending this class my backaches have practically vanished. I want a videotape if you can make one, so that I don’t forget what I’ve learned!’ –G.C., Human Resources, Department of Industrial Relations, State of California.

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