​​​​​​​Cheryl Fenner Brown C-IAYT​, E-RYT 500, YACEP

Summer Yogic Self-Care

OLLI, Summer 2025

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Would you like to learn natural ways to boost your immunity as we move into allergy season? Are you looking for ways to recharge your internal batteries while staying calm, cool, and collected during the busy spring and summer? ​​​Join me in this 6-week online course where I will guide you through immunity-boosting, allergy-busting, joy-bringing, and stress-relieving yoga self-care practices. These will include gently active and restorative poses, immunity-stimulating mudras, pranayama, sound practices, and a bonus set of four Moon Phase Yoga Nidra meditations. A course website and recordings will be made available.
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PLEASE NOTE: This will be a practice-focused course; all participants must safely move from standing to kneeling to lying on the floor. 

​SUPPLIES REQUIRED: a yoga mat, two 4” yoga blocks, a blanket, an 8” yoga strap, and a chair.   

  1. Immunity Yoga (May 12): Learn how to use a Neti Pot for allergies, as well as floor warm-ups, mudras, and pranayama that boost immunity.
  2. Travel Yoga (May 19):  Simple seated and standing practices to ease hips and back pain during long travel days, plus calming mudra and breath for nervous flyers.
  3. Stay Cool (May 26): Set an intention for the new moon and learn cooling movement, mudra and breath to reduce heat, release frustration and stay cool as a cucumber; bonus New Moon Yoga Nidra recording.   
  4. Stay Calm (June 2): Learn mind-body techniques that will keep you calm amidst the busy-ness of the summer; bonus Waxing Moon Yoga Nidra recording.
  5. Stay Collected (June 9): Restorative yoga and sound practices to leave you feeling collected and integrated in body, mind and spirit; bonus Full Moon and Waning Moon Yoga Nidra recordings.

WEEK 1: Yoga for Healthy Joints
Monday, January 27, 2025
Experience the safe range of motion through simple movements that keep your joints supple; also learn mudra and breath practices that increase the fluidity of your joints to help alleviate discomfort. 

HOMEWORK (do each practice twice more before our next session: 
  1. Chair Joint-Freeing Series
  2. Body Scan meditation below
WEEK 2: Yoga for Anxiety
Monday, February 3, 2025
Yoga offers many tools to help you overcome the anxieties and uncertainties of modern life. Learn strategies to turn negative self-talk around, mudras, poses, and breath techniques that calm the nervous system.​
WEEK 3: Yoga for Digestion​
Monday, February 10, 2025
A practice to promote healthy digestive fire and subtle practices that can ease other symptoms of digestive distress.
WEEK 4: Yoga for Fatigue
Monday, February 17, 2025
Energizing practices to help you stay alert throughout the day and strategies to help you find a solid night’s sleep. 
WEEK 5: Yoga for Insomnia
Monday, February 24, 2025
Enjoy a deeply healing form of guided meditation called Yoga Nidra that releases bodily tension, reduces stress, and prepares the body and mind for sleep.

Cheryl Fenner Brown, C-IAYT

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I began my yoga teaching journey in 2004 with a 740-hr training with Hatha teachers at Piedmont Yoga Studio in Oakland, California, followed by an 800-hr Integrative Yoga Therapy training at Kripalu in 2015. I am certified as an E-RYT 500 and continuing education provider through Yoga Alliance. In 2016, I was among the first teachers certified through the International Association of Yoga Therapists as a C-IAYT. I have taught over 9,300 hours of public classes and workshops and love teaching how posture, breath, and attention can completely transform how they feel in their bodies and about themselves. Students appreciate my deeply educational approach to yoga; I weave anatomy, philosophy, asana, mudra, chanting, pranayama, and yoga nidra together for a well-rounded experience delivered with compassion and humor. Encouraging each student to honor where they are in their bodies every time they step onto the mat enables profound self-awareness. I specialize in helping people in midlife (and beyond), those with structural injuries, and cancer patients thrive.

​I began my yoga teaching journey in 2004 with a 740-hr training with Hatha teachers at Piedmont Yoga Studio in Oakland, California, followed by an 800-hr Integrative Yoga Therapy training at Kripalu in 2015. I am certified as an E-RYT 500 and continuing education provider through Yoga Alliance. In 2016, I was among the first teachers certified through the International Association of Yoga Therapists as a C-IAYT. I have taught over 9,300 hours of public classes and workshops and love teaching how posture, breath, and attention can completely transform how they feel in their bodies and about themselves. Students appreciate my deeply educational approach to yoga; I weave anatomy, philosophy, asana, mudra, chanting, pranayama, and yoga nidra together for a well-rounded experience delivered with compassion and humor. Encouraging each student to honor where they are in their bodies every time they step onto the mat enables profound self-awareness. I specialize in helping people in midlife (and beyond), those with structural injuries, and cancer patients thrive.