Prana Yoga Studio Welcome Class - FREE Community Offering
Sat, Sep 20
|Newtown Wellness Collective
Join Elaine Gallas, Jen Rizza and Sheryl Fatse for this introduction to a therapeutic style of yoga, emphasizing breath and body awareness and deepening intuition through gentle yoga movement, breathwork, meditation and relaxation. Gentle attuned touch will be offered during savasana.
Time & Location
Sep 20, 2025, 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Newtown Wellness Collective, 75 Glen Rd Suite 203, Sandy Hook, CT 06482, USA
About the event
Exclusively for our Newtown Wellness Collective family, we offer this VERY FIRST class to be held in our new PRANA Therapeutic Yoga studio! Taking a therapeutic approach to yoga re-focuses the practice to cultivating deeper alignment with yourself, regulating your nervous system, and increasing your vital life force energy (prana).
Is there still yoga? Yes! Though in therapeutic yoga, you focus on listening to your body's wisdom, to honing this relationship, and moving in the way that feels best for you. The movements are often gentler and invite inquiry. There's no 'right way' to do therapeutic yoga.
What else is there? Mindfulness. Meditation. Reflection. Breathwork. Through yoga therapeutics, there's emphasis on bringing balance to mind, body, energy, emotions and opening to greater connection and compassion for yourself (and others).
How is this different than regular yoga? Many standard yoga classes focus on the body-mind union, emphasizing the physical movement (asana)…