I believe that everybody can practice yoga and enjoy the many benefits it offers. A daily yoga routine can be transforming to your heart, mind and body; when practiced with awareness and intention. I invite you to join me in a yoga practice that most suits your needs, whether it be meditation and breathwork, gentle stretching, or invigorating sun salutations and inversions. My teaching style is heart centered, incorporating a focus on the breath as it connects to mindful movement and optimal alignment principles. The goal of our yoga practice is to embody a graceful flow in all of our actions, cultivating clarity, balance and mindfulness, whether we are on the mat or engaging in our everyday activities.
Yoga for Optimal Health
2021
Yoga Invitation for Optimal Health in the ‘burg with Tina and Laura
We invite you to join us in 2021 as we expand and embody our understanding of all the possibilities our yoga practice has to offer us.
B.K.S. Iyengar suggests that the practice of yoga teaches us to live fully in the physical and spiritual sense, while cultivating an expanded consciousness of loving, living, and healing in our everyday activities for ourselves and those around us. The practice of Yoga is a prescription for optimal health in body, mind, and spirit and can be life changing. When the yoga practice is crafted and implemented carefully, it is accessible to us all and can increase overall health, reduce stress, promote states of relaxation, improve balance, strengthen bones, promote flexibility, improve immune system, increase oxygen supply to tissues, lift mood, foster psychological equanimity, heighten sexual functioning and fulfillment, and promote spiritual well being.
Goals For Yoga For Optimal Health Include:
- Establish a daily home practice
- Explore and experience new techniques, new poses, and new styles of yoga
- Support each other by practicing together in community as we share and contribute to mutual accountability
This is a commitment to enhance your overall health.
Yoga and Herbs for a Healthy Pregnancy
Prenatal Yoga Workshop & Tea Time
Coming Again Soon in 2021!
Instructor: Tina Hope, MS, E-CYT-500, certified holistic doula
Nurture yourself with gentle stretches, strengthening poses and restorative positions that are specifically designed for expectant mothers during all stages of pregnancy. Cultivate a deeper awareness of breath and how to refine it to facilitate a more relaxed state in our everyday lives. This yoga workshop includes a discussion and sampling of herbal teas, soothing creams, and healing salves as ways to enhance optimal health throughout the different stages of pregnancy, labor and birth, and postpartum.
• Connect with other mamas in our community• Relieve stress and tension in mind and body
• Prevent or relieve cramping in round ligament and back muscles
• Reduce water retention and swelling
• Enhance digestion and elimination
• Learn relaxation techniques that can aid in labor
• Practice centering breath, visualization and setting an intention
This class is accessible for all levels, including those who have never tried yoga.
Please pre-register to reserve your spot! Limited to 12 people (Minimum of 5 people
prepaid to offer workshop)
Led by Tina Hope, MS, E-CYT-500 and certified holistic doula. For more information, contact Tina..
Relax and Renew with Gentle and Restorative Yoga
Coming Again Soon in 2021!
Instructor: Tina Hope, MS, E-CYT-500
This practice begins with gentle floor movements that focus on slowing down, creating space, and bringing awareness to the body's connective tissues. Restorative poses will be offered with enough time to more fully support the body, to facilitate a felt sense of ease and comfort, and to reduce fatigue. The sessions will conclude with pranayama (breath-work) and meditation.
This practice is accessible for all levels, including those who have never tried yoga.
For questions, please contact Tina.
Limited to 10 people, please preregister to reserve your spot!
Gentle Yoga For a Happy Back
Coming Again Soon in 2021!
Instructor: Tina Hope, MS, E-CYT-500
This practice will begin with gentle floor movements intended to create space in the back body and to bring awareness to the body's connective tissues. We will use props to more fully support the back body as we lengthen, strengthen, and ease tension in the back and surrounding areas. Restorative poses will be offered with enough time to facilitate a felt sense of ease and comfort, and to reduce fatigue. The sessions will conclude with pranayama (breath-work) and meditation. This practice is accessible for all levels, including those who have never tried yoga.
For questions, please contact Tina.
Limited to 10 people, please preregister to reserve your spot!
Zoom Winter Wellness Restorative Yoga Retreat
Coming Again 2022
Please join us for a time of relaxation and renewal!
This session will begin with a variety of breathing techniques and gentle floor movements that focus on slowing down, creating space, and bringing awareness to the body's connective tissues. Restorative poses will be offered with enough time to more fully support the body, to facilitate a felt sense of ease and comfort, and to reduce fatigue. We will conclude with a long savasana and a short meditation.
Following a 90-minute yoga session, you are invited to share in a short discussion of some local herbal remedies for winter wellness. For those who are interested in receiving a Winter Wellness Herbal package from Tina’s Botanicals to further support our winter wellness retreat, please contact Tina to place your order. The herbal package is an EXTRA cost of $45 and an optional component to the retreat. Herbal Packages are limited in availability to the 1st 12 people who place an order. Everyone is invited to participate in the herbal discussion and receive the wellness handouts that will be made available on Tina’s website and in pdf’s without purchasing the herbal package.
This class is accessible for all levels, including those who have never tried yoga. Props are highly recommended (blankets, blocks, straps, bolster or firm pillow).
Led by Tina Hope, MS, E-CYT-500 and herbalist. For more information, contact Tina.
Additional Yoga Offerings Available by Request:
- Gentle Yoga (with a focus on therapeutic poses)
- Restorative Yoga
- Beginning Slow Flow Alignment Yoga
- Intermediate Slow Flow Alignment Yoga
- Chair Yoga
- Private Yoga Sessions
- Private Therapeutic Movement
- Private Therapeutic Movement and Herbal Therapy Consultation
- Group Yoga Classes
- Themed Workshops (cost depends on workshop and number of people; and can also be combined with herbal workshops)
- Prenatal Yoga and Postpartum Care
Please Contact Me if you are interested in discussing any of the additional yoga offerings, scheduling a private session or in creating a customized practice that suits your specific needs. Private sessions can include a combination of yoga offerings and/or herbal therapy consultations and are conducted in a private setting. Private or small group sessions cost $75 for 60 - 75 minutes or $150 for 3 sessions (plus cost of rental space or mileage).
Tina's Yoga Trainings and Credentials:
I have been practicing yoga for over 20 years. I am a certified Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance and have participated in over 1000 hours of yoga teacher trainings. My original 200 hour teacher training was with Todd Norian, Ann Greene and Marsha Nieland in Anusara Yoga. On going studies have been in therapeutic yoga, sensory awareness training, and restorative yoga with Judith Hanson Lasater, Tias Little of Prajna Yoga, Todd Norian of Ashaya Yoga and Linda Troutman of Head to Toe Yoga/ Prairie Yoga. I was certified in the advanced 500 hour teacher training program at Prairie Yoga Institute of Chicago in 2019 and continue to focus my studies in yoga and herbal therapy modalities.