Yoga with Linda

About this event

This is an opportunity to start your day with movement, mindfulness, and a dose of calm as you deepen your connection to mind, body, and spirit . We'll tune-in with a few moments of stillness; then start with gentle warm-ups to awaken the body and mind. We'll several postures in depth to build a strong, stable core. We'll end each class with time for your own favorite poses followed by a few minutes of savasana, the pose of relaxation and integration.

As with yoga in all settings, the invitation is ALWAYS to tune into your body's needs in the moment. You are encouraged to hold postures longer, release sooner, or move into a completely different pose depending on how you are feeling. Yoga is an opportunity to deepen your relationship with your body by listening, attending, and intending to care deeply for your physical form.

This class is filled with information and instructions for alignment, activation, and focused energy, but it is not intended to be exercise - which is TELLING the body what to do. Yoga is an opportunity to listen to the body and deepen your appreciation for all it allows you to do and to be in the world. You will leave class fully awake, alive and refreshed.

Linda Castronovo is a retired Amherst public school teacher, an exercise physiologist, and long-time Kripalu yoga teacher. In addition to this work, Linda has been a personal trainer, a wellness/fitness director, and field hockey and lacrosse coach. For the past eleven summers, she has organized free, donation-based daily yoga for Yoga Outside at Andrews Greenhouse. She is also a co-founder of Everyday Wellbeing, a nonprofit committed to making vibrant health accessible to all by providing free and donation-based classes, workshops, and events that empower people to live their healthiest lives.

Yoga arrived in Linda's life via Runner's World magazine in 1979 while she was still in high school. The article promised improved strength, flexibility, and injury prevention. She tried only a handful of postures: warrior, triangle, cobra, downward dog, and child pose, but immediately felt calmer, more centered, and more awake to the world. Certified as a Kripalu Yoga Instructor in 1991, she continues her study with many teachers, including Patty Townsend and Onatah Stoll. Her personal practice has evolved over the years and now includes daily meditation, pranayama, and the group asana classes offered by Everyday Wellbeing and Yoga Outside -- which have become an important and essential way to start every day. She values every opportunity to practice yoga on and off the mat and is deeply committed to sharing the benefits of yoga and other forms of mindful movement with others.

There is no charge for this or any of our offerings. If you'd like to support our mission to make vibrant health accessible to all by offering free, donation-based classes, workshops, and events, please make a donation , or mail a check to Everyday Wellbeing to 5 Edgewood Terrace, Hadley MA 01035.