Your body will eventually fail you.
Befriending it now is the only path to graceful aging.
Your body will eventually fail you.
Befriending it now is the only path to graceful aging.
Summer in Seattle has big yang energy, almost excessive with options. There are festivals, concerts, neighborhood events, farmers markets, hikes, paddles, outdoor movies, and endless invitations to be out doing something. June kicks us off with Pride festivities, and this year the city was absolutely bursting with World Cup mania. I recently read a Seattle Times article about something called “sunshine guilt” – the pressure to make the most of our idyllic but fleeting PNW weather + everything happening this time of year.
One of the things that makes yoga therapy distinct from studio yoga classes, psychotherapy, physical therapy, or massage is the intentional way we work with the kosha model. The koshas are described as layers or sheaths of our being. This model reminds us that we are more than just a physical body, and more than just a mind. We are complex, layered beings.
Restorative yoga may look like we’re simply lying around in some sort of decadent way. But let me assure you: it is not indulgence. This is a way we reclaim our power.
When we are exhausted, distracted, overwhelmed, or dysregulated, we lose access to clarity, discernment, and our ability to respond skillfully.
Nicole Bratt is a certified yoga therapist and experienced yoga teacher, located in Seattle, WA, offering private yoga sessions, public yoga classes, special yoga events, yoga teacher trainings, and yoga retreats – both in person and virtually online.
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There’s something special about picking your own food. And this is the season when the fruit harvests start to get serious. As in seriously fun! Thanks to a dear San Francisco Bay Area friend who drives up to the Pacific Northwest every summer with her family in tow, blueberry picking at Bybee Farms in North Bend has become an annual tradition.