Welcome

 

 

Welcome!   I’m Clare Norelle, a bilingual community yoga teacher in Madison Wisconsin.   I offer a variety of yoga classes in English and Spanish, including yin yoga, gentle hatha, flow yoga, and chair yoga.

Through Greenroot Yoga LLC  I also offer 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. 

 

 

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

 

 

 

August 25th,  2023

Hello… I hope that you’re doing well!  

For the next four or five months I’ll be offering two free online yoga sessions each week, in English, Spanish, or both languages, depending on who shows up for them. 

To see a full schedule of my online group classes, you can scroll down further…

 

1 de agosto de 2023

Hola… ¡Espero que estés bien!

Por los próximos cuatro o cinco meses ofreceré dos sesiones gratuitas de yoga en línea cada semana, en inglés, español o ambos idiomas, según quién se presente.

Para ver un horario completo de mis clases grupales en línea, puede desplazarse hacia abajo…

 

These are the two free online classes that I’ll be offering through the rest of 2023:

Estas son las dos clases gratuitas en línea que ofreceré durante el resto de 2023:

Yoga for Sleeping Tuesdays at 9 pm Central Standard Time Free drop-in online classes, offering movement for each area of the body and gentle calming practices to prepare ourselves for sleep. 

Yoga para el Sueño Los martes a las 9 pm hora estándar del centro (las 8 pm en El Salvador): Clases en línea gratuitas sin cita previa, que ofrecen movimiento para cada área del cuerpo y prácticas relajantes y suaves para prepararnos para dormir.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87012422892?pwd=R0RubHFUMmRra2FsRlhEUkp0MkJWZz09 

 

Yoga Suave Sábados a las 9 a. m., hora estándar del centro (8 a. m. en El Salvador)  Clases en línea gratuitas sin cita previa, que ofrecen hatha yoga de pie, sentado y acostado sobre una colchoneta, para aliviar el estrés, fortalecer el sistema inmunológico y aumentar el bienestar. 

Gentle Yoga Saturdays at 9 am Central Standard Time (8 am in El Salvador)  Free drop-in online classes, offering hatha yoga from standing, sitting, and lying on a mat, to relieve stress, strengthen the immune system, and increase well-being. 

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83014638156?pwd=L2NtcS9xWjVyVmo5SEY1WGpBcHZ4UT09

 

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, Aboriginal elder, activist and educator from Queensland, Australia.

 

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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 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.

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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 group yoga sessions, Fall 2023

 

Mondays / Lunes  

10:15 am Yoga Suave en sillas, en línea, Madison School Community Recreation (MSCR): 11 septiembre – 27 noviembre.  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 

7 pm MSCR Yin Yoga online, Sept. 11th – Nov. 27th.  Slow, long-held stretches sitting and lying on the ground; a peaceful practice, good for increasing physical and emotional flexibility.  To register: mscr.org

 

Tuesdays / Martes 

10:30 am Gentle Yoga online, MSCR Goodman Rotary, Sept 12th – Nov. 28th. 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

9 pm CST Yoga for Sleeping / Yoga para el Sueño  (8 pm in El Salvador) Free drop-in online classes, offering movement for each area of the body and gentle calming practices to prepare ourselves for sleep. // Clases gratuitas en línea sin cita previa, que ofrecen movimiento para cada área del cuerpo y prácticas calmantes suaves para prepararnos para dormir. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87012422892?pwd=R0RubHFUMmRra2FsRlhEUkp0MkJWZz09 

 

Thursdays / Jueves  

10:30 am Gentle Flow Yoga online, MSCR Goodman Rotary, Sept. 14th – Nov. 30th.   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 

Yoga Suave para Aliviar el Estrés gratuita, sin necesidad de inscribirse, los sábados 8 am en El Salvador, 9 am 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. Gentle Yoga for Stress Release: free ongoing drop-in sessions, Saturdays at 9 am in Wisconsin and 8 am in El Salvador;.  Hatha yoga standing, sitting, and lying on a mat, to relieve stress, strengthen the immune system, and increase well-being. 

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83014638156?pwd=L2NtcS9xWjVyVmo5SEY1WGpBcHZ4UT09

Meeting ID: 830 1463 8156

 

10:15 MSCR Yin Yoga online  Sept. 16th 1st – Nov. 25th. Slow, long-held stretches 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

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