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I had some time to reflect this summer on how and what I teach yoga. It felt like time to change things up. During this time, I was watching a lot of online classes that were not yoga related and fresh ideas naturally came to the surface of my mind. Little flashes of inspiration kept darting in and out of my consciousness until about a month ago, when I created a new system of sequencing a yoga class which I’m calling Elemental Yoga.

I’m currently teaching it to my private clients as well as a gentle version at home studio, Life in Balance (Hanover, PA). The studio class is described as: ” Gentle Elemental Yoga is a system of yoga practices that rotates its focus each week over 4 element aspects of nature.  Each practice embodies aspects inspired by the natural world to help harmonize and synthesize the practice theme.  Each session incorporates pranayama (breath work) and working all directions of the spine.  The Gentle Elemental system of practices includes Grounding, Flowing, Contemplative, and Restorative practices.  Each of these themes combines principles from Vinyasa, Yin, and Restorative yoga.  This class is excellent for both new and experienced practitioners who enjoy a gentle class that allows them to truly explore the integration of body, mind, and breath.”

The approach I’ve developed represents the best of all of my past class teachings, my own somatic experiences, and a way of practicing that is designed to deliver deep, meaningful experience to the practitioner on a physical and emotional level. Classes are infused with inspirations drawn from the yoga sutras, concepts involving the subtle body energetic centers, and ayurveda. This system represents the thousands of hours I have devoted to learning about, teaching and practicing yoga. It’s exciting to bring them forth into the world.

Namaste, Arlene

I’m very proud to announce that I’m launching my Ayurveda practice!!! This has been awhile in the making. I just finished building out the new page here on the website and updating my bio, etc. As I’m winding down my day job, I’m now able to more fully expand upon my yoga teaching and open the doors to my ayurvedic counseling services.

To kick things off, for my local friends, I will be doing a series of workshops this fall/winter at Life in Balance Yoga in Hanover, PA. Right now, the plan is to begin with a session about Ayurvedic Best Practices for Managing Stress and Anxiety — just in time for the holidays. The following session will focus on Self Care for the Winter months and then early next year, there will be a session on Ayurveda and Yoga and how they relate to one another. For those of you who are not local but are interested in these offerings, we should be able to livestream them.

If you’ve wondered about Ayurveda and how it might fit into your life, please reach out to me at arlenethayeryoga@gmail.com. Reading about Ayurveda in books and websites will only take you so far. It is really helpful to work with someone to help you adapt things to suit your needs and lifestyle — very much like yoga in this respect! I would be delighted to work with you. Namaste, Arlene

Last weekend I had the very great fortunate to train to become a Facilitator in body positivity training.  This is something I have wanted to do for about a year and it came with the added benefit of getting to spend a little time in Berkeley, California.  It was the typical type of trip where you are in and out quickly but at lunchtime, I did get to walk around and take a few snaps of some of the cute bungalows in the neighborhood and the sweet details the residents add to the landscape.

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I recently had the pleasure of doing a photo shoot with Mandy Loughry of Winding Willow Studio to get some good yoga images of me.   Mandy made me feel confident and beautiful…what more could I ask?