Clare Norelle is a bilingual community yoga teacher in Madison Wisconsin, offering a variety of yoga classes in English and Spanish, including yin yoga, gentle hatha, flow yoga, chair yoga, and yoga for families and young children.
Through Greenroot Yoga LLC Clare offers individual and group sessions in Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY), an adjunct treatment for complex trauma, and presentations in English and Spanish about complex trauma and body-centered healing.
Clare also offers performances for adults and for children, with songs in various languages and storytelling from around the earth.She has several albums of music available, some for kids andfamilies, and others for adults.
The earth our mother always says yes. From the skins of the mountains to the depths of the sea, across all her vast surfaces, she blooms with as much life as can possibly be. Yesses everywhere swimming and floating and running, dancing a trillion dances for the sun. Can we learn to bring as much life as we can to every place that we are, as she does? Can we learn to nurture what we love and not kill what we fear? What is the answer? Yes.
–Anne Herbert
Calendar and resources
Tuesday November 10th, 2020
Hello friends… It’s a stormy day here in southern Wisconsin, and the rates of Covid 19 are really high. I hope that you’re warm and well, able to stay in safe spaces, connecting with people in safe ways… connecting with your own body and heart, and also with animals, plants and the surrounding world. If you have experienced loss, or fear, or other hardships in these months of the pandemic, I wish you comfort and healing.
Would you like to join me for some free online yoga sessions? My current schedule of free classes is below; to learn about community yoga classes that I teach online for Madison School Community Recreation, you can scroll further down the page.
Want to do some yoga together on November 26th? I’m going to offer three free online yoga classes during the day and evening, and see who might show up. You’re invited!
Yoga para el Sueño:Martes 8 pm, hora de Wisconsin y El Salvador; 6 pm en la costa oueste de los EEUU. Una práctica muy suave para ayudarte a dormir bien; gratuita cada semana.
Yoga for Sleeping (in Spanish) Tuesdays 8 pm in Wisconsin and El Salvador; 6 pm on the west coast. A very gentle practice to help you sleep well; free weekly sessions.
Gentle Mindful Yoga:Wednesdays 7 pm in Wisconsin and El Salvador; 5 pm on the west coast. A gentle practice to help alleviate stress and trauma; free weekly sessions.
Yoga Suave y Meditativa (en inglés): Miércoles 7 pm en Wisconsin y El Salvador; 5 pm en la costa oueste. Una práctica suave para ayudar a aliviar estrés y trauma; gratuita cada semana.
Yin Yoga in English y Español: Thursdays 7:15 pm. in Wisconsin and El Salvador; 5:15 pm on the west coast. A very slow practice of long-held stretches sitting and lying down. Good for mindfulness and flexibility; free weekly sessions in December: December 3, 10, 17 & 31
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Yin Yoga en Español e Inglés: Jueves 7:15 pm. en El Salvador y Wisconsin; 5:15 en la costa oueste. Una práctica muy lenta de estiramientos sostenidos, desde sentada y acostada. Bueno para la atención plena y la flexibilidad; sesiones gratuitas en diciembre solamente: el3, 10, 17 & 31 diciembre.
Yoga Suave para Aliviar el Estrés: Sábado 11:30 am hora de Wisconsin y El Salvador; 9:30 am en la costa oueste. Hatha yoga parado, sentado, y acostado en un tapete o colchoneta, para aliviar el estrés, fortalecer el sistema inmunológico, y aumentar el bienestar.
Gentle Yoga for Stress Release (in Spanish):Saturdays 11:30 am in Wisconsin and El Salvador; 9:30 am on the west coast. Hatha yoga standing, sitting, and lying on a mat, to relieve stress, strengthen the immune system, and increase well-being.
If you have come here to help me you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together. –Lilla Watson, Aboriginal elder, activist and educator from Queensland, Australia.
Hello friends
Love and best wishes to you, as we move through these wild and unusual times.
Even after decades of yearning and learning and working towards racial justice and reparations—really really imperfectly, pretty steadily—I still get inarticulate when I try to talk about these things. So I’ll just say that along with raw grief and fear over the latest deaths of so many Black, Indigenous, and Latinx people from police violence and Covid 19, I find unexpected hope in seeing how many people are contributing now, in so many different ways, to ending the violence and racial injustice embedded in our culture and its institutions.
I stand with them, and with the people seeking ways to make this movement grow and become sustainable.
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I appreciate and feel so much gratitude for the long history of yoga in India: for the practitioners who carried it forward and developed it, and for the many diverse paths that they travelled with yoga over time, first in India and then out into other areas of the world. I appreciate the value of yoga as preventive health care, medicine, support for mental wellness, and as a system of practices that can strengthen a sense of self-determination, freedom, connection, and solidarity with the world around us.
So I want yoga to be accessible to anyone who wants to try it. For people of different backgrounds and histories and bodies of all kinds. Inexpensively or for free, whenever possible.
If you would like to try a free online yoga class with me, you can find links and updates for them by scrolling further down this page.
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Free Online Yoga Classes
Why offer free online yoga classes during a pandemic?
Offering these community classes helps me stay centered in my body and connected with other people in ways that matter to me, and it feels like a helpful thing to do. Some days quite a lot of people show up, and other days one or two. Either way I like holding space for people to practice yoga together, and as long as people keep coming to these sessions, I will keep offering them.
Still, many people depend on being paid to teach yoga. If you can afford to take their classes and support them, I encourage you to do that. But if what you could most use right now is some yoga sessions without any economic activity attached, please feel completely welcome to join me for free. So far I am still really fortunate to be making my living through my work with Dane County Comprehensive Community Services program, sharing one-on-one yoga sessions online with people on Medicaid.
So you’re completely welcome to participate in any of the free community classes for free. If you’d like to make a donation, here are some good places where you could do that:
All of the yoga classes I teach are informed by my training and certification in Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY), emphasizing skills that can minimize the long-term neurological and whole-body impact of overwhelming experiences, helping to strengthen resilience, immunity, and general well-being.
Online yoga sessions, Fall 2020
For all of these online yoga sessions you’ll need to first download the free Zoom app here: https://zoom.us/pricing .
For all of myfree community yoga classes on Zoom, in English or in Spanish, the passcode is greenroot.
Throughout December 2020 I’ll be teaching four online yoga classes a week as part of MSCR’s Fit For The Holidays (FFTH) program. This program will offer 37 online fitness classes each week; it costs $35 for residents of Dane County or $52.50 for non-residents.
7 pm, Yin Yoga through MSCR Fitness 9/14 – 11/23: Long-held mindful stretches sitting and lying down, to increase flexibility and encourage a sense of ease and peacefulness.
10:30 – 11:30 am Gentle Yoga for 50+, through MSCR Goodman Rotary Fitness, 9/8 – 11/24: A gentle yoga practice to develop flexibility, strength, balance, and a sense of calm for your body, heart, and mind.
8 pm Yoga para el Sueño, hora de Wisconsin y El Salvador; 6 pm en la costa oueste de los EEUU. Una práctica muy suave para ayudarte a dormir bien en la noche; gratuita cada semana.
Yoga for Sleeping (in Spanish) Tuesdays 8 pm in Wisconsin and El Salvador; 6 pm on the west coast. A very gentle practice to help you sleep well at night; free weekly sessions.
7 pm Gentle Mindful Yoga: 7 pm in Wisconsin and El Salvador; 5 pm on the west coast. Designed to support mental health and well-being, these sessions offer nothing extraneous–no poems, no singing, just a quiet practice of mindful movement, to help release stress, and to strengthen connections and integration in your nervous system. Free ongoing weekly classes.
Yoga Suave y Meditativa (en inglés): Miércoles 7 pm en Wisconsin y El Salvador; 5 pm en la costa oueste. Una práctica suave para ayudar a aliviar estrés y trauma; gratuita cada semana.
7:15 pm Yin Yoga through MSCR Fitness, 9/10 – 11/19 Long-held mindful stretches sitting and lying down, to increase flexibility and encourage a sense of ease and peacefulness.
7:15 pm Dec. 3, 10, 17 & 31
Yin Yoga in English y Español: 7:15 pm. in Wisconsin and El Salvador; 5:15 pm on the west coast. A very slow practice of long-held stretches sitting and lying down. Good for mindfulness and flexibility; free weekly sessions in December: December 3, 10, 17 & 31
Yin Yoga en Español e Inglés: 7:15 pm.en El Salvador y Wisconsin; 5:15 pm en la costa oueste. Una práctica muy lenta de estiramientos sostenidos, desde sentada y acostada. Bueno para la atención plena y la flexibilidad; sesiones gratuitas en diciembre solamente: el3, 10, 17 & 31 diciembre.
10:15 am Yin Yoga through MSCR Fitness, 9/12 – 11/21. Long-held mindful stretches sitting and lying down, to increase flexibility and encourage a sense of ease and peacefulness.
11:30 am Yoga Suave para Aliviar el Estrés:11:30 am hora de Wisconsin y El Salvador; 9:30 am en la costa oueste. Hatha yoga parado, sentado, y acostado en un tapete o colchoneta, para aliviar el estrés, fortalecer el sistema inmunológico, y aumentar el bienestar.
Gentle Yoga for Stress Release (in Spanish):11:30 am in Wisconsin and El Salvador; 9:30 am on the west coast. Hatha yoga standing, sitting, and lying on a mat, to relieve stress, strengthen the immune system, and increase well-being.
For families with young children: This is a video recording of an online family concert that I did on March 18th. The resolution & lighting aren’t great, but it’s some fun music for younger children, with some yoga mixed in….and kids who have been in family yoga classes with me might enjoy it.
The world is full of beauty, magic, miracles, and patterns that induce wonder… Emergence is one of the best concepts I have learned for discussing this wonder.Emergence emphasizes critical connections over critical mass, building authentic relationships,listening with all the senses of the body and the mind.
The crisis is everywhere, massive massive massive.And we are small.
But emergence notices the way small actions and connections create complex systems, patterns that become ecosystems and societies.Emergence is our inheritance as a part of this universe; it is how we change.Emergent strategy is how we intentionally change in ways that grow our capacity to embodythe just and liberated worlds we long for.
