Sun and Moon Studio Use Your Yoga: Let's Talk About Resilience

Use Your Yoga: Let's Talk About Resilience

In light of the chaos and “dis - ease” in our nation's sociopolitical climate, how can we use our yoga to cope? Yoga is more than a physical practice. It is a practice that affords us an opportunity to find calm, stress relief, strength, joy and the ability to find our voice in the midst of the chaos and the challenges of our daily lives.

This workshop will use the Eight Limbs of Yoga to help find the freedom to release the frustration of these challenging times in a safe, restorative environment through a practice using asanas, meditation, conversation and restorative justice practices.

Facilitator Michelle Chapman-Campbell, Doctor of Ministry, is a certified and experienced chaplain, counselor, holistic life coach, restorative justice facilitator, and yoga instructor. Her collective professional and vocational experience is a collective of 20+ years of holding safe spaces for individuals and communities to engage in restorative conversations.

Be prepared to challenge your body, to listen to others, to engage in difficult conversations, to release and or discover your authentic voice, to use the benefits of a regular yoga practice to manage the chaos and challenges of daily life. This practice is for the novice and the seasoned yoga enthusiast. The goal is not to do all the things but to move in the direction that your body and or personhood needs to grow. Everyone is welcome... we will make the modifications we need along the journey, individually and collectively.

The two hours will be spend as follows:

15 minutes Opening Circle and Grounding Breath (Introduction)
40 minute Asana Practice (Building Resilience in the Body)
40 minutes Restorative Justice Circle (Facilitated Conversation)
15 minutes Meditation and Reflection (Inner Resilience)
10 minutes Closing Circle (Gratitude & Sharing)

Michelle Chapman Campbell

Michelle believes spiritual reflection and yoga practices ignite the healing of the mind, body and spirit. As a professional chaplain with a Doctor of Ministry degree Michelle recognized the wisdom of Yoga to heal and utilized the yogic practices to support people in health crisis, addiction recovery, and mental health challenges. Perfection is not achievable and Michelle works really hard at not taking herself to seriously. Yoga is a delicious art to delight, heal, calm, ground the human spirit and live fully. Michelle is delighted to join the Sun & Moon community as a student and teacher, having completed 200 RYT with Breathe for Change, Y12SR with Nikki Myers, Yin Yoga with Yael Flusberg, and is currently a student of the In-Depth 300-hour Dharma Program at Sun & Moon. Now retired from clinical chaplaincy, Michelle is embarking on a new season in her yogic journey. She is excited to join you on the mat to experience where the Divine winds are blowing. It is a free fall of faith and we will all arrive at our destinations better because of the journey.

Michelle's classes are a slow to moderate eclectic use of asana, meditation and breath, honoring what we bring to the mat when we come together to practice.