You matter & You belong
Self-care is a radical act of love and self-compassion. Take the time to take care of yourself, so we can all take care of each other. Because we belong to each other. We need you and we need each other.
All cultural and spiritual backgrounds, races, nationalities, classes, sexual orientations, gender identities, ages, and abilities are welcome.
To increase access, courses will be offered on a sliding scale. Visit “The Green Bottle: Where You Fall on the Sliding Scale” to learn more. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Please reach out!
Lynn is committed to teaching with a trauma-informed approach.
Cultivating Embodied Self-Care
a 7-week practice circle cultivating deep rest, burnout recovery & resilience for helpers, healers, artists & activists
Begins September 16
"Self-care is how I figure out how to sustain my individual liberation work in order to support collective liberation work.” - Lama Rod Owens
About the course
Designed to support helpers, healers, artists & activists recover from and prevent burnout, this practice circle is a radical step towards rest, self-care, coming back to ourselves and supporting each other in community. We will learn ways to nurture our nervous systems, so that we feel less tense and stuck, and more at ease, grounded, and connected to who we are so we can grow back into our capacity to thrive and show up for ourselves, our loved ones, our colleagues, and the communities we support.
Sessions will include restful body scans, guided embodied still & movement practices, journaling and co-regulating relational exercises and discussion. Participants will also learn gain an understanding of how stress and traumatic experiences affect our mental health and physiology, how to work with our neurobiology to feel more balanced, widen our ability to meet the demands of life, and move from surviving to thriving.
Audio & video recordings, journal prompts, and additional resources will be provided to support your personal practice.
Details:
7 weeks, Mondays 6:30-8:15pm ET
Sept 16, 23, 30, Oct 7, 21, 28, Nov 4
*Sept 16 will be from 6:30-8:30pm ET
Location: Sea Change Yoga 175 Lancaster St, #213 Portland, ME
There will be a daylong retreat on October 26.
Cost: $150-375 sliding scale ($300 suggested)
10% proceeds will be donated to Sea Change Yoga. I am honored to serve on the board of this very cool organization!
**THIS COURSE IS FULL** To be put on the contact list for the next practice circle please email lynn@lynnteoacupuncture.com.
About Lynn Teo, DACM, MSc (she/they)
Lynn’s mission is to support individuals and communities reduce stress and anxiety, increase resilience, and joy, and cultivate a deeper feeling of balance, wholeness, belonging and connection to ourselves, and each other.
Lynn has been teaching yoga, embodied awareness, and meditation for over 25 years. She focuses on teaching embodied practices for radical rest, resilience, and trauma / burnout recovery particularly for helpers, healers, artists, and activists.
Lynn meditates & teaches in the Buddhist tradition of Insight meditation (Vipassana) and is a student of Jonathan Foust, Leslie Booker and Bhikkhu Analayo. She is a graduate of Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield’s Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program and periodically teaches for Open Door Meditation Center in Portland.
A graduate of the Esther Myers yoga teacher-training program (750 hours), she teaches in the Scaravelli tradition which emphasizes connecting movement to the breath, a sense of grounding to the earth and freedom of the spine. In her classes, she creates a safe container of discovery, facilitating her students to find their own way into the practice. She encourages experimentation, curiosity and playfulness as a means to cultivate embodied wisdom, self-compassion, resilience and joy innate within all of us.
Having worked in complementary medicine for almost 20 years, Lynn combines acupuncture, shiatsu, and Somatic Experiencing ® at her clinic in Portland, ME. She specializes in helping patients suffering anxiety, stress, overwhelm, burnout and trauma as well as chronic pain and chronic conditions. Lynn is also a scientific researcher and published systematic and scoping reviews in complementary medicine.