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NEWS
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| Slow Yoga for Savvy Bodies
 ANN LEHMAN and WENDY STICKEL, Certified The People's Yoga Trainers (2019), have started a new yoga program focused on a slow class for bodies that enjoy a deliberate pace. Our goal is to offer a program that focuses on the breath, body awareness in poses, fun and community. Classes will be offered around Portland, Oregon stay tuned. For more information please call 510 (dot) 755 (dot) 5701 or email: slowyoga4savvybodies (at) gmail (dot) com.
NEW CLASSES:
These are Hatha-based classes for folks looking for a thoughtful and measured approach to yoga.
This first one is medium paced beginner yoga class. 37 minutes long.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QYd65z5wmogP-qbOmM9h56s5xnEcIIw-/view
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ANNIE (right)
Annie Lehman was trained by The People Yoga in 2019 and received her 200-hour certificate. She was taught by Alison Alstrom. Alison's commitment as a teacher was to guide us toward an ever-deepening understanding of our capacity to thrive on every level, one pose at a time. Annie also strives to make this a part of her teaching. Annie also studied with Tim Miller, the certified to teach by Pattabhi Jois at the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute in Mysore, India. Annie studied trauma-informed yoga with Living Yoga and has been teaching since 2016. In Nov. 2019 Annie completed a 20 hour Antatomy Tune- Up Training with Zeyha Roge'.Practicing yoga for over 25 years, shortly after her son was born, Annie believes that Slow Yoga for Savvy Bodies is terrific for people who want a practice that is deliberate and intentional w ith a focus on the breath. Annie has also been a community organizer all her life, a nonprofit consultant, a lawyer and a policy expert on woman and girls. She currently lives in a Senior CoHousing community. Having fun, building community are part of her yoga practice.
WENDY (left)
Wendy Stickel was introduced to yoga over 40 years ago while living in Peru. Learning what she could from the book by Indra Devi, an early disciple of Krishnamachyra and whose ground-breaking book had introduced yoga to many Americans for the first time, she went on to take classes when she returned to the US. She came to rely on yoga as a place of refuge when life got busy, where she could find balance as she juggled the demands of an international career while raising her two daughters. After later sustaining a series of shoulder injuries, she put yoga aside for over a decade until she recovered enough to resume her favorite asanas. She celebrated this milestone by enrolling in a teacher training program with Alison Ahlstrom (of The Loom School of Hatha Yoga and The Peoples’ Yoga in Portland), graduating several months short of her 70th birthday. The work she did with her trainer and physical therapists to recover from her injuries has enriched her understanding of alignment-focussed asana practice and deepened her appreciation of its power to protect and restore mobility as we age. Wendy went on to study trauma-informed yoga with Living Yoga in September 2019 and completed a 20-hour Antatomy Tune- Up Training with Zeyha Roge’ (Bhaktishop Yoga Movement Center, Portland) in November 2019. For Wendy, yoga offers a means of expressing joy in being able to move in our bodies, as well as a powerful healing force at all ages, and at all levels of our being. She looks forward to continuing to explore its richness and depth in her own practice and in community with other yogins, as both learner and teacher. Wendy lives in Portland with her husband, Peter, and, when she’s not doing yoga or travelling around the world, she spends as much time as she can hiking and camping.
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