Yoga for Beginners Workshop
w/ Amy Yapp & Jen Mast
Sunday, Jan. 24th @ 2 – 4pm in The RCY Loft
Revolution Community Yoga + Fitness, Acton, Massachusetts
$40 Early Registration / $50 after Jan. 21st, 2027
*At least 8 people must be registered by Jan. 21st, 2027 in order for the workshop to run.
If you are just beginning (or re-beginning) your journey into Yoga, this Yoga For Beginners Workshop is perfect for you!
You will be guided in building your Yoga practice from the ground up. Each posture will be taught in a way that allows the student to develop a strong, healthy, safe and mindful Yoga practice. Yoga has so many benefits, and you will gain confidence in heading to yoga classes on RCY’s weekly schedule! Get off to a safe and fun start in this Yoga For Beginners Workshop!
Workshop Highlights:
- Introduce and explore the basic postures of Vinyasa Flow Yoga
- Fundamental principles of proper alignment
- Effectively use breath to enhance your practice
- Familiarize you with Patanjali’s 8 Limbs of Yoga
- Explain the basics of how yoga works
- Guide you in developing a safe Yoga practice
- Invite flexibility
- Build your strength
- Improve your posture
- Build your confidence
- Calm stress
- Focus your mind
- Cover commonly-asked beginner questions
“The purpose of yoga is awareness, not perfected poses, beliefs, or any kind of attainment. Awareness from moment to moment requires quiet strength, flexibility, and balance. A good Yoga practice develops exactly these characteristics.” ~ Jim Gaudette
The workshop will take place in the RCY Loft space (RCY’s Loft is located at 541 Mass. Ave. • Acton, MA 01720 on the 2nd floor above Twin Seafood – enter via side staircase). Please try to arrive at 10-15 before the workshop start time. Parking info and other contact information can be found online at https://yogaacton.com/contact/.
What To Wear:
Comfortable clothes like you would wear to the gym; yoga pants aren’t a must but you will want to avoid wearing super baggy clothing. You may also want to dress in layers.
What To Bring:
- If you have your own yoga mat you want to use you can bring it, but we do have ones you can borrow.
- Yoga is usually done with bare feet, but you can wear socks if you’re more comfortable that way.
- Bring a water bottle – we have a water dispenser.
- Pen and paper if you want to write anything down.
Yoga For Beginners – Am I Doing This Right??!!
A blog post by Amy Yapp of RCY:
https://yogaacton.com/yoga-for-beginners-am-i-doing-this-right-by-amy-yapp-of-revolution-community-yoga-in-acton-massachusetts/
Amy Yapp
When Amy first tried a yoga class as a busy school teacher many years ago, she decided it “wasn’t for her”. Ten years later and recovering from some serious health challenges, she decided to give yoga another try. When she walked away standing taller and breathing better, she knew she had found something integral to her healing and to her future.
A born teacher, Amy couldn’t help sharing what she had experienced with others and began teaching yoga in 2003. Amy completed her 200-hour teacher training with Johnny Gillespie of Empowered Yoga. She has studied myofascial release with David Vendetti and became certified in The Roll Model Method in 2017.
Most recently, Amy completed the three year IAYT Yoga Therapy Program with Susi Hately and became an accredited Yoga Therapist. As part of this program Amy studied with Ann Douglas and became certified in a form of Yoga Nidra called Rest and Revitalization Sleep Meditation. Amy is a certified Reiki practitioner and teaches yoga and meditation in both group and 1:1 settings.
Amy is passionate about helping people find their own unique path to wellness. Always focused on healing and prevention, she empowers her students to go at their own pace and listen to their inner voice. Fun and connection are at the heart of every class!
Jen Mast, L.I.C.S.W., E-RYT 500 (IYT), Integrative Functional Yoga Therapist, ChildLight Teen Yoga®, Lifeforce Yoga®
Stepping onto the mat everyday has allowed me to stay grounded in the things that are truly important. Diagnosed with an autoimmune disease over a decade ago, my life took an unpredictable turn. Things that were easy became difficult and I felt as though I had lost part of myself. It was during this time that I deepened my spiritual practice. Yoga helped to heal the aches and pains that came with autoimmunity, it improved my energy, my mood and it allowed me to show up each day for my friends, loved ones and most importantly myself. Yoga’s transformational abilities led me on a new path to become a yoga instructor combining my past work as a Licensed Social Worker with my new path in yoga therapy, functional movement through yoga and myofascial release. As we bring all levels of a person’s being into balance, true healing occurs. Moving beyond illness and discomfort, we are able to live life to our fullest expression.
Jen completed her 500-hour at Kripalu with Integrative Yoga Therapy (IYT) in 2016 where she trained under Joseph and Lillian LePage and Maria Mendola (Integrative Functional Yoga Therapy). Jen furthered her study and attended an intensive training with Maria in Tucson, learning various techniques for myofascial release, therapeutic movements and exercises to rebalance alignment and long held patterns. In 2018, Jen completed a weekend training in The Roll Model Method® and a Ball Rolling Techniques Workshop with David Vendetti – both for myofascial release. Her extensive work with athletes, injuries and chronic illness in both group and private settings inform her teaching style which infuses safety, mindfulness, alignment principals, unique uses of props and functional therapeutic movements, and of course a lot of humor and fun! Through the pandemic, Jen has continued to train and deepen her own practice with Susi Hately, Functional Synergy™ and a Monthly Mentor Workshop with Jill Miller, Roll Model Method™.