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Slow Yoga with Janice Williamson (Jan-Feb 2025)

  • Dates: Tuesdays, January 7 – February 25, 2025
    8 classes
  • Time: 10:00 am – 11:15 am
  • Location: 10139 87 Ave, 2nd floor main hall (use the ramp on the north side of the building)
  • Fee: $102.00 for complete session
  • Single class (or multiples): $15.00 per class
  • Requirements: Valid Community League membership (any league). Bring your own yoga mat and props, please refrain from wearing scented products. 
  • Register and pay online see buttons below

In Slow Yoga’s accessible classes, our theme is “only connect.” We listen to the intelligence of our body, our limits and possibilities. No perfect poses, only a deepening awareness and focus. To mesh mind and body, we integrate poetry and yoga philosophy into our meditation and movement. In grounding ourselves, we enhance balance and steadiness. In holding the pose, we uncover stillness and strength. In working towards our edge, we cultivate resilience. Through joint mobility gestures, we ease our pain. In letting go “like a leaf” we surrender ourselves to the present — the here and now. Invite yoga’s joy into your life. Remind your senses of everyday pleasures. 

About Your Teacher

Seeking relief from stress in 1979, Janice’s introduction to asanas (postures), pranayama (breath work), and meditation during a four-month Sivananda yoga ashram residency demonstrated how yoga could uplift one’s whole being. Since then she has explored various yoga styles: Hatha, Iyengar, Ashtanga, Yin, and Flow along with Pilates and Zen Meditation. After retirement from a 32-year career as Professor of literary/cultural studies and creative writing at the University of Alberta, she completed 500+hr Advanced Yoga and Restorative Yoga Alliance certified teacher trainings. She also interned and trained in Yin Yoga, Chair Yoga, Mindful Meditation, and Yoga for joint mobility, osteoarthritis and osteoporosis. Janice teaches group, semi-private, and private yoga classes, as well as Yoga Writes Workshops. See https://riseupyoga.ca/

For more information, contact Janice at janice.williamson@ualberta.ca
Participation in most programs requires a Community League membership (more info below)

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