In this workshop, you’ll learn how to use yoga to take charge of your anxiety, including how to manage current episodes as well as how to help prevent future episodes. And if you’re a yoga teacher, this workshop will provide you many ways to offer help for your students who suffer from anxiety.

The first step to taking charge of anxiety is to learn about what it is, why you experience it, and what its relationship to chronic stress is. So Nina will provide you with background information about anxiety—something she has suffered from herself and has researched extensively—to empower you to make good choices about which yoga practices to do and which not to do.

The second step is to learn which yoga practices are most effective for you in managing your anxiety and then to practice them regularly. So we’ll introduce you to a wide range of yoga practices you can use in the moment to calm down emotionally and physically, as well as practices to help prevent future bouts of anxiety in the long term. Because anxiety is often accompanied by excess energy that makes it hard to relax, in the first half of the workshop Barrie will guide you through an active grounding practice that can prepare you for relaxation. In the second half of the workshop, Barrie will guide you through a specially designed sequence for reducing stress in those who suffer from anxiety.

It is our hope that that you’ll leave this workshop feeling both more relaxed and more informed—and that you’ll be equipped with all the tools you need to reduce your anxiety both in the short term and long term.

Date: Sunday, June 12th 10.30am-1.30pm PDT Please use this time converter

Cost: Please select if you prefer online or in-studio option. In-studio is for Vaccinated People Only - thank you! At this time, masks are optional in Berkeley and we will follow Berkeley Guidelines.

$45 before June 1st / $50 after

Technology: We will use Zoom.

Equipment required: Yoga mat, 2 blocks, 3 blankets, 1 bolster recommended (or 3 additional blankets). We have props at the studio if you choose the in-person option. You are welcome to use them or bring your own.

Reminder emails: you will receive reminder emails 2 days, 2 hours, and 10min before the event starts.

Future Access: We will make the practice available for you to revisit via Vimeo for 2 weeks, and we'll send the link once it is ready. If you cannot make the time but would like to attend, please register to receive the video link.

YogaKula Refund Policies: No refunds are offered on workshops. You are welcome to transfer your ticket to someone else. You can receive a credit to your account that can be used for another YogaKula workshops during 6 months if you cancelled more than 48hr before. Credit is for the amount of the workshop - no refund or credit on Eventbrite Fees.

Barrie Risman is widely regarded as one of Canada’s most highly skilled yoga educators, teacher–trainers and mentors. Her best-selling book, Evolving Your Yoga: Ten Principles for Enlightened Practice, is a guide for teachers and continuing students to deepen, expand, and integrate the benefits of yoga in their lives.

Barrie is well known for her ability to convey the essence of the wisdom teachings of yoga with exceptional clarity, insight, and relevance to students of all levels and from all walks of life. Her events weave together the technical precision of refined alignment-based practice with an ever-present awareness of the great wisdom of yoga philosophy distilled from decades of intensive study and practice. As unpretentious and down-to-earth as she is wise and inspiring, Barrie teaches with a remarkable combination of rigor and challenge balanced with sensitivity, humour, and compassion. www.barrierisman.com

Editor-in-Chief of the Yoga for Healthy Aging blog, Nina Zolotow is a writer as well as a certified yoga teacher and a longtime yoga practitioner. She is the author of the forthcoming "Yoga for Times of Change: Practices and Meditations for Moving Through Stress, Anxiety, Grief & Life's Transitions" and the co-author of "Yoga for Healthy Aging: A Guide to Lifelong Well-Being."

Based in Berkeley, California, Nina’s areas of expertise are yoga for healthy aging, yoga for emotional well-being (including yoga for stress, insomnia, depression, and anxiety), and cultivating equanimity. She completed the three-year teacher training program at The Yoga Room in Berkeley, has studied yoga therapy with Shari Ser and Bonnie Maeda, and is especially influenced by the teachings of Donald Moyer. She has also studied extensively with Rodney Yee, and she is inspired by the teachings of Patricia Walden on yoga for emotional healing. She teaches workshops and series classes on yoga for healthy aging, yoga for emotional well-being, yoga for stress, yoga for better sleep, home practice, and cultivating equanimity. Nina is the coauthor, with Rodney Yee, of "Moving Toward Balance" and Yoga: The Poetry of the Body." She’s has also written numerous articles on yoga and alternative medicine.