Finding Your Center of Calm:
Essential Yoga Self-Care Tools
for Anxiety

Ever had periods where you feel easily overwhelmed, burnt out, constantly worried, and unable to relax and get rest when you need it the most?

Of course, you have. These are all symptoms of stress, anxiety and trauma, and unfortunately, for most of us they are an inescapable part of life at one point or other. Fortunately, most of the time, these symptoms resolve on their own. But not always.

What most people don't realize is that stress, trauma and anxiety can create longterm effects and continue to live on in the body. These can affect how we breathe, how we relate our body, and even the ways we interact with other people and how we move through the world.

If we don't have the right tools to deal with stress and anxiety, it can develop into long-term trauma that can affect our mental and physical health for years to come.

Study after study shows that yoga is one of the best tools to help us develop self-care techniques to modulate stress, anxiety and trauma. Yoga can help us to befriend our bodies again. It can help promote a greater sense of safety in the body, balance the breath, and help us reconnect to mindful movement.

The question, of course, is which yoga practices are most effective for dealing with stress, anxiety and trauma. And, importantly, which are the ones that should be avoided?

Join us for an online course with Nina Zolotow and Barrie Risman. Together, Nina and Barrie literally wrote the book on how yoga can help calm mind and body and resolve the lingering effects of stress and trauma.

Whether you are looking for ways to work with your own stress and anxiety or share yoga practices for self-care with your students, this course will offer a wealth of tools that can help mitigate both the short- and long-term effects of stress, anxiety and trauma.

What You Will Learn:

• What anxiety is and how to know when anxiety levels become a cause of concern
• How and why yoga practices can be so effective in reducing anxiety
• A wide range of yoga practices that can be used as self-care tools to calm down emotionally and physically 
• How to help prevent future bouts of anxiety in the long term
• How to choose the right poses and practices for you—or help your student choose the right poses and practices for them—including which poses and practices to avoid when feeling anxious

What Other People Say About The Teachers

"Nina and Barrie’s Yoga for Anxiety workshop gave me concrete ways of addressing and soothing my anxiety and inspired my own teaching." - Megan Morgan

"Having practiced yoga for more than 30 years, I was always pushing to go further; Nina and Barrie have given me wonderful insights into how to use yoga in a completely different way. Thank you both!" - Caroline Neufeld​​