Restorative Yoga & Hypnotherapy Workshop
December 23 & 29, 2025 | 4pm - 5:30pm
Investment: $25 USD
Why Restorative Yoga?
Our body is hard-wired to react to stress in ways meant to protect you against threats from predators and other aggressors. Such threats are rare today, but that doesn't mean that life is free of stress.
On the contrary, you likely face many demands each day, such as taking on a huge workload, paying the bills and taking care of your family. Your body treats these so-called minor hassles as threats. As a result, you may feel as if you're constantly under attack. But you can fight back. You don't have to let stress control your life. Restorative Yoga is a tool that can support you to manage these daily stresses, which over time, can contribute to dis-ease and imbalance within your body.
Stress
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Why It Is Important To Effectively Deal With Life's Stressors
When you encounter a perceived threat — such as a large dog barking at you during your morning walk — your hypothalamus, a tiny region at your brain's base, sets off an alarm system in your body. Through a combination of nerve and hormonal signals, this system prompts your adrenal glands, located atop your kidneys, to release a surge of hormones, including adrenaline and cortisol.
Adrenaline increases your heart rate, elevates your blood pressure and boosts energy supplies. Cortisol, the primary stress hormone, increases sugars (glucose) in the bloodstream, enhances your brain's use of glucose and increases the availability of substances that repair tissues.
Cortisol also curbs functions that would be nonessential or harmful in a fight-or-flight situation. It alters immune system responses and suppresses the digestive system, the reproductive system and growth processes. This complex natural alarm system also communicates with the brain regions that control mood, motivation and fear.
When the natural stress response goes wild, the body's stress response system is usually self-limiting. Once a perceived threat has passed, hormone levels return to normal. As adrenaline and cortisol levels drop, your heart rate and blood pressure return to baseline levels, and other systems resume their regular activities.
But when stressors are always present and you constantly feel under attack, that fight-or-flight reaction stays turned on. This long-term activation of the stress response system and the overexposure to cortisol and other stress hormones that follows can disrupt almost all your body's processes. This puts you at increased risk of many health problems, including:
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Anxiety
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Depression
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Digestive problems
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Headaches
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Muscle tension and pain
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Heart disease, heart attack, high blood pressure and stroke
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Sleep problems
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Weight gain
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Memory and concentration impairment
That's why it's so important to learn healthy ways to cope with your life stressors.
What to expect in this workshop:
We blend the profound physical release of restorative yoga with the mental reprogramming of hypnotherapy to guide your entire being – body and mind back to a state of safety and calm to help reset your entire nervous system. (no experience necessary)
Restorative Yoga:
Gentle, supported postures held for several minutes to allow your muscles to release completely and your nervous system to downshift from “fight-or-flight” to “rest-and-digest” mode.
Hypnotherapy for the Nervous System:
A guided, deeply relaxed state where your conscious mind can step back, allowing access to the subconscious - where your core beliefs, habits and automatic stress responses live. Here, we can gently install new, calming patterns and directly communicate a stasis of safety to your nervous system.
Your Facilitators:
Gina Baker - LMT, RYT200, CHt
Sara Rossi - RYT 500, CHt
Some of the Therapeutic Benefits
of RESTORATIVE Yoga & Hynotherapy can include
Boosts your immune system
Can help ease depression
Can help reduce the chance of type 2 diabetes
Can ease anxiety and stress
Promotes a healthier lifestyle
Can add balance to a busy life
Encourages transition to healthy practices such as meditation
Provides recovery time and space
Decrease the stress hormone: Cortisol
Can improve sleep
Promotes mindfullness
Promotes a greater sense of self awareness
Can support overcoming addiction
Balances nervous system
Enhances flexibility
Promotes relaxation