Updates/Actualizaciones:
I will be unable to teach my free online Gentle Yoga class on Saturday November 29th, as I’ll be working at a crafts sale to raise funds for Palestinian families; I’ll look forward to offering this class again starting on Saturday December 6th. ❤️
No podré impartir mi clase gratuita de Yoga Suave online el sábado 29 de noviembre, ya que estaré trabajando en una venta de artesanías para recaudar fondos para familias palestinas; espero poder ofrecer esta clase nuevamente a partir del sábado 6 de diciembre. ❤️
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Throughout the month of December I’ll be selling gift certificates for 90-minute online therapeutic yoga sessions, with all of the funds going to benefit Palestinian families in Gaza and the West Bank. I have training and experience in working with people who struggle with anxiety, depression and trauma (using TCTSY, Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga) and also with people dealing with physical discomfort and pain (using SomaYoga, a combination of clinical somatics and yoga). Gift certificates cost $80 – $150 sliding scale; please feel welcome to get in touch if you’d like to purchase one for yourself or for someone you love.
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Tuesday November 25th, 2025
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. My heart is with all of us, yearning for the day when we refuse to harm each other, and refuse to allow other people 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 increase well-being.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83014638156?pwd=L2NtcS9xWjVyVmo5SEY1WGpBcHZ4UT09
Por favor, siéntete bienvenide a unirte a mí en línea paraYoga 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 aumentar el bienestar.
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 three 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
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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, Aboriginal elder, activist and educator from 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.
Online group yoga sessions, Fall 2025
Sesiones de yoga en linea, Otoño 2025
Mondays / Lunes
10:15 am CST, Yoga Suave en sillas, en línea, Madison School Community Recreation (MSCR): 8 septiembre – 10 diciembre 2025. 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, September 9th – December 11th 2025. 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, MSCR Yin Yoga online, September 9th – December 11th 2025. Slow, long-held stretches 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, September 11th – December 13th 2025. 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: 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 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, September 13th – December 15th 2025. 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
