Blessed are the flexible, for they will not be bent out of shape.
Wendy Battin, RYT, offers workshops, group classes, and individual sessions in hatha yoga, meditation and yoga nidra, yoga therapy, and pranayama for beginners and advanced students.
Check my online yoga schedule for on-going group classes. For individual, couples, or small group sessions, email or call 860-287-8036.
Specialist in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, depression, and addiction. Call or email to arrange for home visits.
I began my journey with yoga in college, almost four decades ago, with Ananda teachers. Since then, my practice and training have followed the great flowering of yoga in the USA, and I’ve studied with Iyengar, Kundalini, Ashtanga, Viniyoga, and Kripalu teachers over the years. I’ve trained with Dharma Mittra, Beryl Bender Birch, and many other fine teachers all over North America and in Europe, and I still take classes wherever I go; there’s always something new to learn and pass on. I did my apprenticeship and teacher training at Healing Touch Yoga, with Dan Marcus and Amba Connors, and have taught with certification from the National Yoga Alliance since 2004.
My own practice is eclectic, not rigidly aligned to a single school, and I want to keep yoga the exploratory and creative practice it is, free of dogma and full of the joy of experiment. The word yoga is Sanskrit for union: of body and mind, of heart and spirit. Whether you practice to calm your mind, or to give your body strength and grace, or to heal what ails you, it’s the practice, the doing, the attention, that gives those gifts.
I’m a widely-published poet and spent many years as poet-in-residence and professor at some of the best colleges and universities in the country. I haven’t retired from poetry. The yoga began for me as a way to keep strength for the art, and by now they’re inseparable. I’ve also trained in Ericksonian hypnotherapy and in body-mind psychotherapy, and I bring all those strands together in my teaching and workshops.