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Welcome to Three In One Yoga
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This month
Cultivating Calm
Learn techniques to calm anxiety and manage stress more effectively.
Anxiety and stress is a burden we all must deal with from time to time. Though sometimes, it can be quite overwhelming. Consistent, overwhelming anxiety can not only wear on us and affect our mental health, it can also have long-term physical affects. Long term stress and anxiety can cause high blood pressure, hypertension, heart problems and a long list of auto-immune diseases. Let's stop allowing anxiety and stress to rule over our lives in such a devastating, destructive manner.
In the next couple of months, we will embark on a journey of self-discovery and resilience, learning valuable coping techniques that help to calm anxiety by cultivating an inner state of tranquility and peace. Through breathwork, mindful movement, and meditation, we will develop a deeper awareness of our thoughts and emotions, allowing us to respond to stressors with greater ease and clarity. By gently expanding our window of tolerance, we can navigate life’s challenges with more resilience, finding balance even in the face of uncertainty.
Additionally, we will explore ways to shift our perspective, moving from a place of reactivity to one of mindfulness and reflection. Through guided practices, we will learn to observe our problems with a broader, more objective lens—freeing ourselves from the constraints of worry and over-identification. This shift will empower us to manage stress with more grace and confidence, enabling us to approach obstacles with a sense of calm, adaptability, and wisdom. Together, we will cultivate a practice that not only soothes the nervous system but also nurtures a mindset of inner strength and emotional well-being.
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Hello
My name is Ann Gee
As a certified Yoga Alliance 500 level yoga instructor, I specialize in providing Resilience Yoga Classes. My classes are designed to create a safe and supportive environment where individuals can connect with their bodies and minds in a way that promotes healing, resilience and well-being.
What is Resilience Yoga?
Resilience is defined as the process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences, especially through mental, emotional, and behavioral flexibility and adjustment to external and internal demands.
'Resilience Yoga' is a unique approach to yoga that I have developed, integrating mindfulness, movement, and mental resilience. My classes are designed to help practitioners cultivate a deeper awareness of their inner world—thoughts, emotions, and conditioned responses—while challenging and transforming negative, ingrained thought patterns shaped by society or past experiences. Through this practice, students gain new perspectives and develop empowering skills that enhance their ability to navigate both internal struggles and external challenges with greater ease and confidence.
Each class begins with a thought-provoking discussion that sets the tone for deeper introspection. This is followed by a blend of breathwork, mindful movement, and meditation, allowing practitioners to embody and explore these concepts on a more profound level.
Additionally, I incorporate a variety of coping strategies and mental wellness techniques inspired by insights from mental health professionals. These tools help expand one's window of tolerance, improve stress and anxiety management, and build emotional resilience.
While Resilience Yoga enhances physical strength and overall well-being, its primary focus is on fostering mental and emotional fitness. This practice is beneficial for anyone seeking greater balance, but it is especially supportive for individuals experiencing PTSD, trauma, or the unique pressures of high-stress professions such as military service and first responder roles.
Through this practice, students are invited to engage in deep inner work—challenging ingrained thought patterns, reshaping automatic emotional responses, and fostering healing from past difficulties. Unlike therapy or counseling, these classes offer a gentle, self-guided approach to emotional and mental well-being, allowing each individual to process and grow at their own pace.
Resilience and self-awareness are cultivated in a supportive, non-intimidating environment where students have full autonomy over their experience. Each person is encouraged to explore their inner world in a way that feels safe and sustainable, with the freedom to modify or pause their practice as needed. The goal is to create a space where healing unfolds naturally, empowering students to reconnect with themselves on their own terms.
For a deeper exploration of this transformative approach, read on.
Themed Classes
The themes woven into my classes are designed to explore aspects of self-perception and our perception of others, recognizing how they can be shaped by societal pressures, past hardships, and traumatic experiences. Many of the themes chosen are aligned with both the Chakra system, referring to the needs each Chakra in connected with, as well as Maslow's interconnected hierarchy of human needs. The level of needs refer to all humans' physiological needs, and need for safety, love and belonging, esteem, and self-actualization.
Scheduled Themes
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January & February
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Throat Chakra: Finding your voice, communication and self-expression.
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March & April
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Root Chakra: Inner stability, personal safety, learning coping skills and tools to minimize the effects of triggers.
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May & June
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Sacral Chakra : Self-care, personal worth & value.
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July & August
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Solar Plexus Chakra: Empowerment, over-coming challenges, building self-confidence.
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September & October
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Heart Chakra: Focusing on relationships and connection with others, building community.
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November & December
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Heart Chakra: Gratitude, Changing the mindset to a realistic perspective, rather than skewed to the negative, increasing positivity.
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"Trauma creates change you don't choose. Healing is about creating change we do choose."
~Michelle Rosenthal
A trauma doesn't simply impact our emotions, it can damage the brain and actually change the chemistry and structure of the brain.
The severity of impact can be very minor or it can be dramatic. The severity often depends on the traumatic event and the individual. It sometimes can change one's personality and can damage our perception of our self and others. Just like an injury, healing takes times and effort. Yoga has been shown to be an effective tool to aid in healing.
Why Yoga?
Yoga unites the mind, body, and soul in a way that eases tension and promotes health. Regular practice improves breathing , increases endurance for other activities, and promotes mindfulness. Take a break from your day. Focus on yourself and find clarity.
"Many survivors hold their breath and bodies tightly, bracing for what comes next. It is important we create a space where we can take our armor off."
- Dr. Thema
Trauma and Yoga
"After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservations seems to go into permanent alert. As if the danger might return at any moment."
-Judith Herman
Yoga can help you understand and tolerate sensations you are feeling within so you no longer feel like a stranger in your own body. It can help you regain ownership of your body."
Trauma and Its Affects
Trauma is an emotional or physical response to one or more harmful events or circumstances with lasting adverse effects on your mental and physical well being.
Trauma can cause individual to experience a disconnect between mind and body, which can be exhibited as unpredictable bodily reactions that are disconnected from conscious thought. Trauma can cause a seemingly random onset of increased heart rate, shallow rapid breathing, uncontrolled sweating, physical pain or even numbness in body parts. In addition, there are several mental side effects like intrusive thoughts and memories. The mind can go into overdrive and get stuck there, causing one to feel constantly on guard and unable to relax. Trauma Sufferers often don't feel like themselves or safe.
How Can Yoga Help?
Mind-body practices like yoga can provide a safe, gentle path to exploring what's going on in the mind and body. Once tapping into what's going on, an individual can then work on releasing built-up emotions, stress, and tension. The following is a short list of the various ways yoga helps with trauma:
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Yoga can ease PTSD symptoms by helping individuals achieve stabilization of the autonomic nervous system (ANS), balance between the "fight/flight" response. (This is where a mind suffering from trauma often gets stuck in a Sympathetic Nervous System hypervigilant "fight or flight" mode.
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Yoga, through body awareness, helps people build skills in tolerating & modulating physiologic and affective states that have become dysregulated by trauma exposure.
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Yoga can help people return to a baseline physiological state more quickly after distressing memory is triggered. In other words, students learn techniques to bring the mind and body's responses to a trigger back to normal, responses such as the sudden onset of heart racing and sweating caused by being triggered.
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Yoga helps people better learn to cope with the defensive responses that proceed re-experiencing, as traumatic memories (or other triggers) arise in the internal and external environment of nonreactive mindful awareness.
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Yoga meditation practices-particularly guided meditations-teach an individual how to quiet the mind, focus on the present and experience sensations at a gentle, safe pace determine by the student.
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Breathwork practices, in yoga, can help individuals change the way they feel. Breathwork can be used to help calm someone who is feeling anxious or energize someone who is in a depressed or collapsed state (stuck in the parasympathetic nervous system or "rest and digest" state.
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Yoga helps alleviate traumatic stress symptoms. Areas of the brain involving self-awareness, which get locked out by trauma, are re-activated by doing yoga. These areas are needed to heal the mind-body connection.
How is Trauma Informed Yoga Different than Standard Classes?
Trauma Informed Yoga's Purpose
Most standard yoga classes (and other mind-body practices) are insensitive to trauma triggers and can sometimes be harmful for those who have endured trauma.
Trauma Informed Yoga's purpose is to help individuals develop self-awareness. It's not designed to take an individual back to the source of their pain. Trauma Informed Teaching means instructors assume that all their students have some kind of trauma and teach in a way that offers a space for healing, rather than triggering trauma. While everyone is triggered by something different, it is impossible to avoid all possible triggers, however Trauma Informed Yoga (TIY) creates a safe space for people to pay attention to signs of dissociation and distress that may come up and to stop whenever they need.
TIY does not place its focus on poses, but instead focuses more on embodiment (being within your body) within a pose. Establishing presence and finding a sense of grounding can help students connect to their mind and body in a way that feels secure. As students are guided through a supportive experience, students may observe sensations and emotions that arise without feeling triggered or overwhelmed.
Yoga and Therapy
"PTSD and Trauma symptoms often get worse if you choose to do nothing and ignore it. Just like an open would will get infected and cause more damage if left untreated."
Yoga Alone Cannot Heal Trauma
It is important to know that Yoga alone cannot heal trauma but that yoga provides a powerful ally on the path to healing. Yoga allows those suffering from trauma to create tools for self-care, growth and healing.
Yoga can be a valuable instrument to help people engage with counselling and psychotherapy in a more productive manner.
When an individual experiences trauma, pathways in the brain become disconnected. This is why some people going to therapy, literally cannot find the words to talk about it. These pathways have to be reconnected before an individual can start verbally working through the trauma. Yoga can help rebuild these connections, helping an individual to communicate with their therapist better.
Note that EMDR therapy is particularly helpful to integrate traumatic memories by shifting some areas of the brain involved in memory processing. Thereby diminishing many traumatic triggers and other symptoms. EMDR is particularly helpful for PTSD symptoms since avoidance is a primary issue with those suffering from PTSD. A memory must be processed before the mind can become "unstuck" and begin to heal and move forward.
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"Neuroscience research shows that the only way we can change the way we feel is by becoming aware of our inner experience and learning to befriend what is going on inside ourselves." -Bessel A. Van Der Kolh