Saturday, March 7 3:00-5:00 at Baltimore Yoga Village
You will learn the correspondences between the Serenity Prayer, breath-centered practices, and the autonomic nervous system. Each branch, when activated, generates the three states of the Serenity Prayer: serenity & acceptance, courage to change, and the balance to choose wisely! You will learn how to stimulate and balance the three branches of the nervous system by practicing calming, stimulating, and balancing techniques.
About the instructor: Joseph Roberson has taught yoga, breath, and meditation throughout Baltimore & DC region since 1992. From 1999 through 2008, he was Director of Teacher Training at the Yoga Center of Columbia. He has taught at Charm City Yoga (now YogaWorks), the Space Telescope Institute, the Walters Art Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Meridian Yoga, DC Studio, Sky House Yoga, Thrive Yoga, and numerous other locations. In February 2020, Roberson was a featured presenter at Cabo BreathFest in San Jose del Cabo, Mexico.
Cost: $25 in advance; $35 the day of. Pre-registration is encouraged. BYV Class Passes, Monthly Memberships or New Student Specials cannot be used for this workshop.
Sunday, March 8 1:00-5:00 at Barnes & Noble (Ellicott City location)
Did you know that just changing how you breathe can raise or lower blood pressure, lift mood, reduce anxiety, and send you off to a good night’s sleep? Create your own calm ease, productive power, and radiant joy with simple and easy techniques for mind, breath, and body! Cultivate greater health, well-being, vitality, and success with the free breath-centered practices presented in this book.
Address: Long Gate Shopping Center, 4300 Montgomery Rd, Ellicott City, MD 21043
Saturday, March 14 3:00-5:00 at Baltimore Yoga Village
In this workshop you will learn the science behind insomnia–primarily chronic overstimulation of the sympathetic nervous system–caused by disruption of the normal 24 hour circadian clock. You will learn simple and easy practices that will help you fall asleep, stay asleep, get more recuperative sleep and wake up as fresh as a daisy! Featured techniques are Cloud Nine (pictured), Calming 4-7-8 Breath, and a breath-counting mindfulness technique called Centering The Storm.
Cost: $25 in advance; $35 the day of. Pre-registration is encouraged. BYV Class Passes, Monthly Memberships or New Student Specials cannot be used for this workshop.
Sunday, March 15 3:00-5:00 at Barnes & Noble (Johns Hopkins Homewood location)
From the Foreword:
Joe’s approach in this book is definitely a breath of fresh air. What Ana and I especially appreciate about Joe’s teaching and writing is that he doesn’t succumb to “yoga speak;” he shares his personal journey in a way that is truly authentic. In his Prologue, Joe describes his harrowing experience of being robbed at gunpoint; he attributes his survival that day to his decades of breath-centered practices, as provided in this book. His writing is creative, accurate, inspired, and fun; he brings an artistic vision to his path and practice that perfectly complements his commitment to scientific rigor. […] Based on our experience, we can guarantee that if you make a commitment to the methods Joe shares, you will be healthier, happier, more creative, more courageous, more expansive, and more energized. May Joe’s great work, a veritable breath bible, be the resonator that oscillates this important message around the world.
-Ravi Singh and Ana Brett, authors of The Kundalini Yoga Book – Life in the Vast Lane
Address: Barnes & Noble – Johns Hopkins University at 3330 St. Paul St. Baltimore, MD 21218