Yin Bliss Monthly Specialty Class
What: Yin Bliss with Anne Witmer is a 2 hour specialty class using Yin Yoga, Acupressure, and Gigong designed to give students the tools to take charge of their own well-being, create more internal balance, and greater feelings of ease.
How: Anne curates a movement and meditative experience using Yin Yoga, Acupressure, and Qigong practices to remove energy blockages and promote the smooth flow of chi. This experience promotes a profound state of relaxation for physical and emotional healing.
Why: This practice is valuable because it provides tools and strategies each student can resource in their daily lives. It is priceless practice because there are so few opportunities in our hectic days to have a protected container for relaxation, which is the number one key to health and healing.
Who: This practice is recommended for students seeking a safe space to find deep relaxation. The physical practice is simple and accessible for all abilities, no experience required. If you are someone who struggles with meditation, this practice is designed to assist the process of relaxation by active guiding with visualizations and contemplations.
When: The first Sunday of every month 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Where: The Practice on Belmont Street in our large mat studio
Register: To register for Yin Bliss go to the classes tab and date of workshop.
Cost: $40 // Member Discount 25% $30
More Info about Anne and Yin Yoga:
For more than 15 years, Anne Witmer has been teaching yoga and spiritual development to thousands of students through classes, workshops, online courses and retreats. Her first experience of yoga took place long before the advent of yoga pants and specialty mats and consisted of a teacher reading from a yoga how-to book at the Berkeley YWCA. Since those early days, Anne has had the fortune to explore many different styles and study with some of the world’s most renowned teachers.
When Hurricane Katrina left her homeless and jobless in New Orleans, Anne retreated to the Esalen Institute in California, where she completed her first Yoga Teacher Training Program and studied with the likes of Shiva Rea, Seane Corne, Sianna Sherman, Sarah Powers and many others. Upon leaving Esalen, she completed advanced training programs in Yin Yoga and Yoga Therapy. Over the years, she has taught a variety of styles including Vinyasa, Pre & Post-Natal, Hatha, Restorative and her all time favorite style, Yin.
When Anne began exploring Yin Yoga, she found it to be a beautiful and simple tool for creating balance and harmony in the body, mind and emotions. Based on the principles of Taoism and Chinese Medicine, Yin Yoga targets the fascia and other connective tissue where according to TCM, the body’s energy meridians reside. Yin Yoga stimulates the flow of chi in the meridians, enhances organ function, relieves energetic or emotional blockages and improves the way we think and feel.
Anne has taken her personal practice deeper by embracing Yin principles both on and off the mat. She is dedicated to elevating the importance of yin qualities such as softness, simplicity, interconnectedness and surrender in our fast-moving, competitive, yang world. From her perspective, the way of Yin is really the path of the Divine Feminine: learning to open, soften and allow, and to be with life just as it is, in this moment. Anne deeply believes that acknowledging our interconnection to each other and to the earth itself, is how we can bring about healing and restore peace and harmony to ourselves and our world.
Anne Witmer teaches three unique classes at the Practice Space
Virtual Bedtime Yin - Tuesdays 7:30 - 8:30 pm (online)
Yin Yang - Thursdays 10:30 - 11:45 am (NEW CLASS) (in person & online)
Yin Bliss - Sundays 5:00 - 7:00 pm