Friday February 20th, 2026
A brief message: I’m sorry that I won’t be able to teach my free Saturday morning online yoga class on Feb. 21st–and sorry that I forgot to announce this in last week’s class! If you came looking for the class I apologize, and look forward to practicing with you again next Saturday, Feb. 28th. ❤️
Un breve mensaje: Lamento no poder enseñar mi clase de yoga en línea gratuita del sábado por la mañana del 21 de febrero, ¡y lamento haber olvidado anunciar esto en la clase de la semana pasada! Si viniste buscando la clase, me disculpo, y espero practicar contigo nuevamente el próximo sábado 28 de febrero. ❤️
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Hello, and good wishes to you… may love prevail in our lives, now more than ever.
Huge things have been going on in the world for some time now: huge cruelty, violence, and suffering; also huge expressions of love and solidarity and care.
My heart is especially with the peoples of Gaza, Sudan and Congo, whose suffering for the past 2 years has been cataclysmic, and has only gotten worse. And with the people in US cities being terrorized, kidnapped, attacked, injured, or even killed by government-supported border agents and others.
My heart is with all of us, yearning for the day when we refuse to harm each other, and refuse to allow each other to commit such harm.
Ahimsa, or non-harming, is the first of the Yamas, the very first practice on the path of yoga. May we practice ahimsa, teach ahimsa, insist on ahimsa from our politicians and from each other.
If you find yourself struggling with these challenging times, I send you love and care as well.
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Please feel welcome to join me online for Gentle Yoga, Saturdays at 9 am Central Standard Time. These are free drop-in online classes, offering gentle hatha yoga and therapeutic SomaYoga to relieve stress and physical discomfort, strengthen the immune system and support emotional well-being.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83014638156?pwd=L2NtcS9xWjVyVmo5SEY1WGpBcHZ4UT09
Por favor, siéntete bienvenide a unirte a mí en línea para Yoga Suave, los sábados a las 9 a. m. Estas son clases en línea gratuitas sin cita previa, que ofrecen hatha yoga y un tipo de yoga terapeutica llamada SomaYoga, para aliviar el estrés y el malestar físico, fortalecer el sistema inmunológico y apoyar el bienestar emocional.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83014638156?pwd=L2NtcS9xWjVyVmo5SEY1WGpBcHZ4UT09
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If you’d like to try some recorded trauma-informed yoga practices with me, here are links to four different kinds:
Gentle Hatha Yoga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgkJrPtSaZM
Gentle Flow Yoga: https://youtu.be/cgkJrPtSaZM
Yin Yoga: https://youtu.be/67l5dAF7HXk
Yoga Suave en Sillas: https://youtu.be/8pIJNc6uqtQ
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These days I teach a range of fairly inexpensive online community yoga classes, through Madison School Community Recreation (MSCR) as well as the one free Saturday morning class offered through this website. You can scroll down this page to find links and information for all of these online group classes.
I also offer individual online yoga sessions through the Dane County Comprehensive Community Services (CCS) program, for people with limited resources and mental health diagnoses. This is how I do most of my work with people; I think it’s a good program and I’m grateful for it. You can learn more about CCS here: https://www.danecountyhumanservices.org/Behavioral-Health/Comprehensive-Community-Services
with love, con amor,
Clare
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To learn about community yoga classes that I teach online for Madison School Community Recreation (MSCR), you can scroll further down the page…
Other resources on this website include:
Poems from a variety of poets: https://clarenorelle.com/category/poetry/
Information on trauma and healing in the body: https://clarenorelle.com/trauma-and-healing-in-the-body/
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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 and other Aboriginal elders, activists and educators in Queensland, Australia.
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 love yoga practices for how they can support physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing, and for how they 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.
All of the yoga classes I teach are informed by my training and 300-hour 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. Increasingly they’re also informed by my studies as a yoga therapist through the International SomaYoga Institute in Duluth MI.
Online group yoga sessions, winter and spring 2026
Sesiones de yoga en linea, invierno y primavera 2026
Mondays / Lunes
10:15 am CST, Yoga Suave en sillas, en línea, Madison School Community Recreation (MSCR): Invierno, 1/05/26 – 3/16/26 ; primavera, 3/30/26 – 6/01/26 Para personas con más de 50 años; una práctica relajante, sentada en sillas y de pie usando sillas para apoyar sus movimientos y estiramientos. Para inscribirse: mscr.org
Tuesdays / Martes
10:30 am CST, Gentle Yoga online MSCR Goodman Rotary, Winter, 1/06/26 – 3/17/26; Spring, 3/31/26 – 6/02/26. A gentle hatha yoga practice combining stretching, strengthening, balancing, and guided rest. This is a Goodman Rotary Class, for people over 50. To register: mscr.org
7 pm CST, Yin Yoga online through MSCR: Winter, 1/06/26 – 3/17/26; Spring, 3/31/26 – 6/02/26. Slow, long-held asanas or gentle stretching positions practiced while sitting and lying on the ground; a peaceful practice, good for increasing physical and emotional flexibility. To register: mscr.org
Thursdays / Jueves
10:30 am CST, Gentle Flow Yoga online, MSCR Goodman Rotary, Winter, 1/08/26 – 3/19/26; Spring, 4/02/26 – 6/04/26. A gentle flowing practice, creating rhythms of movement through standing, kneeling, sitting, and reclining yoga positions. This is a Goodman Rotary Class, for people over 50. To register: mscr.org
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Saturdays / Sábado
Gentle Yoga for Stress Release, online: free ongoing drop-in sessions, Saturdays at 9 am in Wisconsin and in El Salvador;. Hatha yoga standing, sitting, and lying on a mat, to relieve stress, strengthen the immune system, and increase well-being. Yoga Suave para Aliviar el Estrés: en linea, gratuita, sin necesidad de inscribirse, los sábados 9 am en El Salvador, y en Wisconsin: Hatha yoga de pie, sentade, y acostade en un tapete o colchoneta, para aliviar el estrés, fortalecer el sistema inmunológico, y aumentar el bienestar; sesiones gratuitas cada semana.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83014638156?pwd=L2NtcS9xWjVyVmo5SEY1WGpBcHZ4UT09
Meeting ID: 830 1463 8156
10:15 MSCR Yin Yoga online, Winter, 1/10/26 – 3/21/26; Spring, 4/04/26 – 6/06/26. Slow, long-held asanas or gentle stretching positions practiced while sitting and lying on the ground; a peaceful practice, good for increasing physical and emotional flexibility. To register: mscr.org
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 embody the just and liberated worlds we long for.
adrienne maree brown, Emergent Strategy
