Wednesdays: 6:00PM - 7:15PM
North Shore Yoga Studio
180-186 Cabot Street
Beverly, MA 01915
[lower level]
$15 per class,
$120 for 10 classes or
$200 for 20 classes.
Caren often draws students’ attention to their breath and instructs them how to use their breathing to surrender more deeply into stretches and postures. One breathing technique used is to "sigh it out" where students combine a sighing sound with their exhalation to release, let go and relax more deeply into a movement. She contends that so many feelings, sounds and words are repressed on a regular basis and "sighing it out" is a wonderful healing response to what has been repressed.
Caren instructs that continued and consistent oxygenation to the cells, through conscious breathing, brings greater health, optimism, clarity, experience of fearlessness and deepened relaxation.
Caren is gentle, loving and affirming. She creates and encourages a non-competitive and humble milieu which makes it safe for people to begin to accept themselves "exactly where they are". She points out that from a place of authentic self acceptance comes gentler and more expedient transformation. Throughout her classes, Caren teaches her students not to be judgmental or harsh with themselves, but rather to extend to themselves that which most people look for in others: patience, tenderness, and compassion. She guides students to become a neutral observer to their own experience, to learn to move beyond the analysis and conclusive thoughts of the mind to an experience of loving self witnessing "in the moment".
The stretches, postures and movements Caren leads her students to experience are a combination of Kripalu, Iyengar and her own personal style of Yoga. She tends to teach the gentler softer movements and suggests students hold these poses in a way that works for them at that moment. Her classes are gentle, appropriate for beginning or more advanced students.
Caren’s classes provide students with the space to stretch their whole body, with emphasis on the neck, shoulders and back, and with attention to the wrists, ankles, hips and knees.