Want to Relax? Try Yoga
By Ari Isaacman Bevacqua, LaShone Wilson and Lara Atella
featured in NY Times

"Stress is ever present. Fortunately, we’ve got yoga, which is proven to help reduce stress and the health effects it causes. The best part? You don’t need any prior experience to benefit from the practice. Whether you are at home, work or somewhere in between, yoga is always here to help you relax. "

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Yoga Practice of the Week
Standing Split
(Urdhva Prasarita Eka Padasana)
featured in yogaoutlet.com

Standing Split is an intermediate yoga pose that stretches your legs and hips while challenging your balance. Standing Split stretches the whole back side of the body, particularly the hamstrings and calves. It strengthens the thighs, knees, and ankles, and also stretches the groin muscles. Supporting your body's weight on one leg, while upside-down, will greatly challenge and improve your balance.

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This month in The Living Well
Tips to Combat the Winter Blues
by Ashton Sotiro

Daylight Savings Time has ended, which means the sun goes down earlier and the days are getting colder. With this change in atmosphere, you might be feeling a little more down than usual.

With winter weather on its way, Washington Yoga Center understands the importance of maintaining healthy lifestyle habits to cope with the changing season. 

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Yoga to Stabilize and Restore
with Tiffany Kuo
Sat, Nov 7, 2:00-3:30 PM

Discover your own calming strength through a unique blend of engaging poses, gentle restorative movements, breath practice and meditation designed to support promotion of your own natural vitality. This home-based workshop series focuses on rebalancing and restoring our body’s natural energies by reigniting our inner strength.

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Relax with Restorative Yoga
with Robin Glantz
Sun, Nov 8, 5:00-6:30 PM
 

Restorative yoga is a practice that is all about slowing down and opening your body through passive stretching. It focuses on the body’s process of releasing tension and relaxing through the use of a few select poses and props.

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Overcoming Anxiety
with Dhyana Delatour
Sat, Nov 14, 1:30-2:45 PM

This special and unique workshop has been designed to help us understand anxiety and fear during these challenging times and teach tools to manage them. Students will walk out of the workshop with a deeper understanding of anxiety, its manifestations and equipped with simple tools to counteract it and live more peacefully.

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Yoga Nidra
with Kristen Bihary
Sat, Nov 14, 1:30-2:45 PM

This special and unique workshop has been designed to help us understand anxiety and fear during these challenging times and teach tools to manage them. Students will walk out of the workshop with a deeper understanding of anxiety, its manifestations and equipped with simple tools to counteract it and live more peacefully.

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Teacher Spotlight
Amberlyn Kelleher

Amberlyn has been teaching yoga since 2006 and hopes to share with students the experience of being fully alive and in the present moment. She invites individual exploration of the body, breath, mind, and heart as she believes that each student is their own best teacher and that through the practice of yoga, all aspects of the self can be united. Amberlyn enjoys teaching beginners, teachers and everyone in between. 

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