Yoga for Everyday Living
OLLI, Spring 2025
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Yoga is so much more than exercise—it is a lifestyle that enables you to greet daily challenges with greater ease and calm and teaches you how to relate to yourself and others in a kinder, more compassionate way. Join integrative yoga therapist Cheryl Fenner Brown for this 10-week series and explore how yoga can help with the various ‘ailments’ of daily living we all face. In a complete yoga practice each week, you will learn yogic lifestyle strategies to help you manage stress, insomnia, grief, depression, digestion, fatigue, low immunity, osteoporosis, arthritis, and back pain. Each week will incorporate yoga poses, breathing techniques, mudra, and sound practices for each ailment.
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. 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. WEEK 6: Yoga for Back Pain
Monday, March 3, 2025 We will discuss safe yoga poses that keep our aging spines supple and pain-free combined with core strength work that promotes good posture; also learn which poses and movements should be avoided. WEEK 7: Yoga for Grief & Depression
Monday, March 10, 2025 We all experience sadness occasionally, and yoga has many tools to help us process our emotions. Learn restorative heart openers, mudra, and breath that ease grief and elevate mood. WEEK 8: Yoga for Immunity
Monday, March 17, 2025 Keep your immune system strong and healthy with movement, breathing techniques, and mudras with strategies for dealing with allergy season. WEEK 9: Yoga for Osteoporosis
Monday, March 24, 2025 Learn unique adaptations to balance and standing poses that strengthen bones and limit fracture risk, along with mudra and breath that create the feeling of safety within the body. WEEK 10: Wrap-Up Class
Monday, March 31, 2023 In our last class, Cheryl will review previous topics and answer questions about incorporating Yoga into daily life. |
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. |
