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Somatic Yin Yoga


  • The Shala of Pittsburgh Ashtanga Yoga 6101 Penn Avenue Pittsburgh, PA, 15206 United States (map)

with Sara Feley, MA, LMFT, EMDR level 1, PACT level 1, YTT

Tuesday, 6:30pm-8pm

January 14, January 21, January 28 and February 4, 2024

($35 each or $100 for all 4)

Get in touch with your multilayered self with Somatic Yin Yoga. Learn methods to cultivate compassion and care for yourself, so that you can enjoy the relief and complexity of stillness.

In this four-part series of Yin Yoga, you will learn to utilize your bodies' technology as a tool to deepen your connection with yourself.  Learn how to down regulate your nervous system both on and off the mat. Participants will use breath, yoga props, meditative inquiry, and yin yoga techniques to address their patterns of tension—both physical and emotional.   Topics covered will include Polyvagal Theory, Insight Yoga and Meditation. 

 Yin yoga is a meditative yoga that focuses on long held passive stretches that are available for EVERYBODY. Please come and enjoy meditative yoga that will allow you to move into still and mindful awareness of how to release deep connective tissue. This meditative style of yoga can be entry point towards a greater understanding of your personal potential for expansion.

This series is for anyone that is interested in taking a deeper dive into themselves with curiosity while being in a group that offers respect and care for each individual's experience.

Appropriate for all levels.

$100 for all FOUR Classes OR $35 for Individual Class (Shala Members get 15% off)

Sara Feley, MA, LMFT, EMDR level 1, PACT level 1, YTT, began yoga her freshman year of college. She encountered Savasana and it changed her life forever. Her work in the wilderness therapy industry, highlighted the healing and transformative effect of being in nature while in community. She has an MA in Integral Counseling Psychology. She has studied insight meditation, diamond approach, and zen practices while grounding her practice in the Soma with Gestalt and a YTT 200- hour yoga therapy training. She became enthralled with the Polyvagal theory. Traveling around the world, she found a daily yoga practice through her month long stay in Mysore, India. You can find out more about Sara at www.SaraBethFeley.com