Spring into Healing: Yoga & Journaling for Self-love

Spring into Healing: Yoga & Journaling for Self-love
w/ Lelia Leary & Erica Anzalone
Saturday, May 21st @ 6-7:30 pm in the RCY Loft
$25 pre-registration / $35 day of workshop
A min. of 4 participants must register by May 17th for the workshop to run
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Join us for an evening of journaling and yoga with poet/writing teacher Erica Anzalone and yoga teacher Lelia Leary. We’ll combine some gentle and restorative yoga postures with journal prompts to investigate what we may be holding in our bodies. Often the movement and the deep breathing of a gentle yoga flow can help release energy. With the guidance from Erica offering prompts for writing, we’ll see if we can let go of some of the collective stress we’ve been holding for the past few years as well explore some of the stories we hold as our own. We’ll make space together as we look toward a new season for growth and healing and self-love.

Lelia Leary
Lelia was unprepared to discover the power of yoga when she signed up for a class as a way to add mobility to an exercise regimen. Very quickly she learned that yoga was something extraordinary. She dove in and has never looked back. Her most valuable lesson was cultivating the power of the yogic breath to become more responsive and less reactive.  Mindfulness training and Vipassana meditation soon followed as ways to help her stay grounded. She has sat with Sharon Salzberg, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Jack Kornfield and Krishna Das. In her Ashtanga practice, she has been inspired by studying with David Swenson. She’s a mom, a science teacher, and a nature lover. Currently her passions include training Brazilian jiu-jitsu and Muy Thai Kickboxing. She completed her 200-hour training at Revolution Community Yoga.  She offers a challenging yet compassionate practice to build strength, flexibility, and balance. All levels are welcome with modifications to ramp up or tone down the offerings. Expect to feel calm, grounded and restored from the practice.

Erica Anzalone
Erica is a writer and educator with over seventeen years of teaching experience at the college level. Her book Samsara was the winner of the 2011 Noemi Press Poetry Prize.  She holds an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa and a doctorate in English from the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, where she was awarded a Schaeffer fellowship. Writing, like yoga, is a practice.  She is excited to alchemize the healing power of both modalities in combination with each other.