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 Awareness: Foundations of Mindful Movement and Meditation
A 6-week in-person practice circle with a day-long retreat.
Begins April 29.
Cultivate kindness, joy and connection
Lower stress, Increase resilience, improve focus
About the course
Each class will explore a new concept of mindfulness through guided meditations, gentle movement practices, and embodied speaking practices. We will explore mindfulness of the breath, body, emotions, and thoughts as well as meditations and practices to cultivate self-care, resilience, self-compassion, and compassion for others. Finally, we will learn how to bring these practices to our daily life. Participating students will receive recordings of meditations and movement practices and other resources to support a regular practice.
There is no prerequisite to join.
Details:
6 weeks, Mondays 6:45-8:15pm EST
April 29, May 6, 13, 20, June 3, 10
Day-long Saturday, June 1 (details TBD)
Location: Sea Change Yoga. 175 Lancaster St, #213. Portland, ME 04101
Cost: $100-350 sliding scale ($250 suggested)
10% proceeds will be donated to Sea Change Yoga. I am honored to serve on the board of this very cool organization!
For more information email at 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, 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. 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.