Teen Yoga Program
with Heather Harrah
Yoga is not just something we do with our bodies, but its a ancient science designed to help us live with less suffering. I was super lucky to have a Mom who practiced Yoga and saw the value in having me start young. I took my first class when I was 15 years old. It started out as a way for me to breathe with more ease (I had terrible asthama) and cross train for my sports. When I was 18 it was a place I craved going back to when I was stressed, broken hearted, confused, and lost. As so many of us do, I often didn’t know which path to walk down when I was young, but Yoga taught me how to find my direction. It gave me the tools to mend my broken heart with patience and love, and it really helped me understand that I was enough as I was. Yoga led me home to myself again and again and reminds me still that I am worthy.
Raising teens is hard, being a teen in this era is hard. With everything around us trying to pull us away from ourselves, let me show your teens how to turn back towards themselves. I’m really excited to offer this program to our community, if we can teach our kids to love and embrace themselves as they are, stay connected, and root themselves in kindness, imagine the future we could build together.
Each class will be 90 minutes. Roughly 45 minutes of discussion & journaling exercises/prompts and 45 minutes of Yoga, breathwork, and meditation. Details for each class and pricing are listed below:
Empathy and Compassion - July 16th
Understanding compassion - ahimsa
How we inflict harm on ourselves
How we inflict harm on others
Fighting our habits/peers expectations
Standing in what is right and rooted in kindness/love
Self worth, self talk, authenticity - July 23rd
What is self worth?
What makes us worthy?
How do we talk to ourselves? What's our inner dialogue like?
What/who do we compare ourselves too?
What kind of measuring/comparing do we do most? What is that rooted in?
What does it mean to be authentic?
If judgement or “norms” that we believe in didn't exist, what would we do?
In what ways do I play small/am inauthentic to fit into others expectations?
How can I be more authentic?
Karma and the Golden Rule - July 30th
What is Karma?
The law of cause and effect
Ideally, how would you like to be treated?
Choosing to see life/karma as a teacher not a punisher
If I'm “here” anyways, what can I learn?
Tools to stay kind when others are not
Staying Present and Connected: Tools to regulate stress/nervous system - August 6th
What is presence?
What does it mean to be connected?
How/when do I become distracted and by what or whom?
What makes me feel the most disconnected?
Tools to come back home (to the present moment, to ourselves)
Breath
singing/humming
Movement with awareness
Cleansing energy techniques
Love tank list exercise
Cost per session is $60 cost for the whole program is $220
Sessions are on Wednesdays from 1:30pm-3pm
Ages 13 - 19 (parents if you have a child younger that you’d like to take the program, please reach out to me first. Any student older is welcome to come if they feel comfortable joining the teen group)