This weekly fall workshop series will focus on addiction recovery, trauma, and connecting to your inner world through yogic philosophy, stories, movement, and meditation. Each month of the series will center on a different theme linked to a different Hindu god or goddess, beginning with a lecture the first week, taught by Trista Winder, followed by three weeks of yoga classes integrating what you learn in the lecture, taught by Angela Houghton. Each class will build on something from the last, but also be accessible for people just dropping in.
Classes will be held in the MARC Stage Room*, Mondays from 5:30-7pm. Free and open to all. The Monday lectures will also be offered on Zoom. Please email tristawinder[at]gmail.com for the Zoom link.
*Location subject to change. October 2 and 9 classes will be held in the MARC Dance Room. Please check this page for the most up to date information.
Trista and Angela invite you to your practice: We’ll use the body as a tool to explore and connect to your inner world. You are welcome if you’ve never practiced before. You are welcome if you have been practicing for years. This offering is an opportunity to play with yoga in a heart-centered practice where we will guide you through moving your body, connecting to your breath, and being still with intention.
On this journey, we’ll use yogic philosophy and stories alongside movement and meditation. The stories can invite humor and curiosity as we explore the modern human experience with grace. Within this spiritual container, we’ll explore trauma and the undigested hurts. The invitation is in how we create a personal practice that speaks to the needs of our soul. Recovery, yoga, connection: This is a practice that invites the practitioner to wholeness, one breath at a time.
Tentative Workshop Schedule:
September 11th (lecture), 18th, 25th, October 2nd:
Yoga, Trauma, & Addiction & Igniting Your Own Path (Ganesha)
*October 2nd class will be in the MARC Dance Room
October 9th (lecture), 16th, 23rd, 30th:
Yoga, Trauma, & Addiction & Igniting Abundant Energy (Lakshmi)
*October 2nd class will be in the MARC Dance Room
*October 16th and 30th classes will be on the MARC patio (outside – please dress for the weather)
November 6th (lecture), 13th, 20th, 27th:
Yoga, Trauma, & Addiction & Igniting Intelligence and Creativity (Saraswati)
December 4th (lecture), 11th:
Yoga, Trauma, & Addiction & Igniting Devotion & Discovery (Hanuman)
About the Instructors:
Trista Winder, LMT; E-RYT 500; Trauma Informed Life Coach
Trista has been teaching yoga for fourteen years, discovering her passion for yoga early on as a teenager in high school. She fell in love with the detail of body mechanics, postural health, and the heart centered philosophy. Trista is also a deep tissue massage therapist and her experience working with students and clients in a healing realm led her to study developmental and complex trauma. Passionate about recovery and healing, she is currently enrolled in a Master’s program for Marriage and Family Therapy, and hopes to help people connect with their deepest capacity for living and healing. Learn more at her website at yogautah.com.
Angela Houghton
Angela began practicing yoga in earnest in the early 2000s. She took an immersion with Sianna Sherman in 2005 and completed a 200-hour certification with Amy Ippoliti in 2007. In 2006, she completed a 40-hour Yoga Therapeutics Training. More recently, her primary yoga teachers are Jeanie Manchester, Noah Maze, and Adam Ballenger.
Angela gravitates towards an alignment-based practice with plenty of room for philosophy and play. She enjoys connecting spirituality to the modern human experience. Angela invites curiosity and humility into her practice to continue to grow as a student and teacher. Visit her website at angelahoughton.com.