BeCause Yoga

Navigating a New Normal: Self Care for Educators

$30 a month

Navigating a New Normal is a wellness subscription program by Lesley Ramsey specifically for teachers to create a personalized self-care routine and add necessary structure to your days working from home. The program is centered around somatic movement, embodied practices like yoga and breath work, and contemplative practices like meditation, writing and drawing, but will also include from time to time seasonal recipes, healthy meal plans, pop-up events, and surprise sessions with guest teachers of other modalities (zumba, pole, hip hop dance, pilates, etc.).

Your subscription begins with one week of daily emails to help guide the creation of your own personalized self-care routine. These daily emails include prompts for contemplative writing and reflection, and suggestions for morning practices, midday practices and afternoon and evening practices, along with links to videos to try out various types of meditation, breath work, movement and yoga. After the first week, you’ll receive one email weekly with suggestions for self-care and links to new videos in the Video Library. Your subscription renews automatically monthly. There is no penalty for unsubscribing.

What you get
First Week: Daily emails including:
• Writing prompts for reflection and journaling
• Suggestions for what to consider when thinking about how to structure your self care practices
• Links to a variety of suggested morning, midday and evening activities to try that day

Always: Access to Video Library with a selection of suggested practices for morning, midday and evening, including:
• 5 min meditations to ground you when you’re mind is racing
• 5-10 min breathing exercises to energize you when you feel sluggish
• 5-10 min movement and breath practices to energize
• 20-30 min movement practices to loosen up stiff shoulders, necks and hips after sitting
• 60 min full spectrum yoga practices in a variety of styles to get out of your left brain and into an intuitive, embodied space
• Longer guided meditations to induce relaxation and deep sleep

After the first week:
• Weekly email with reflection and writing prompts, suggested practices specific to that week (depending on season, weather, current events, is it a testing week? etc), and links to new videos in the Library
• Private Facebook group for members to share insights, experiences and ideas

All of these videos are shot in my home with lots of guest appearances by my cats and dogs. You don't need to clear out a big space for these practices. This series is designed for the lives we are living now, where and how we are living them.

About Lesley Ramsey
I spent the first two decades of my professional life as a progressive organizer, rabble rouser, coalition builder and facilitator, advocate, and lobbyist. After an accomplished career in fighting mode, I took a break to reassess tactics and conduct a sort of cost-benefit analysis of that work on my life. I moved to San Antonio for love. I did some grieving I had been “too busy” to do before. And, after 20 years of study and practice, I became a full time yoga teacher. I am E-RYT 500 certified through Yoga Alliance, a Certified Trauma Sensitive Yoga instructor through the Grace Tree Foundation, and a certified Embody Love Movement Facilitator.

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Yoga is not a substitute for medical attention, examination, diagnosis or treatment. Yoga is not recommended and is not safe under certain medical conditions. Please consult your physician prior to beginning any activity program.