Tuesday March 11th 2025
Hello, and good wishes to you… may love prevail in the world, now more than ever.
Huge things have been going on in the world for more than a year now: huge cruelty, violence, and suffering; also huge expressions of love and solidarity and care.
My heart is especially with the people of Gaza, whose suffering this year is cataclysmic. 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 (8 am in El Salvador) These are 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
Por favor, siéntete bienvenide a unirte a mí en línea paraYoga Suave, los sábados a las 9 a. m., hora estándar del centro (8 a.m. en El Salvador) Estas son 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.
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
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In late 2023 I was offered an opportunity to make a video presentation for the international training program in Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga, or TCTSY, the evidence-based adjunct treatment for trauma that I use in my work. I spent February 2024 preparing versions of it in Spanish and English, to be shared with participants in the training near the end of their eight months studying together,
I loved getting to talk with my TCTSY supervisor Luisa Perez in Mexico City about the themes I was asked to include in the presentation, and then pulling together quotations and references to support the work. I mostly feel good about what came out of this, and I’m glad to offer other people who might be interested in this kind of yoga a chance to look at the presentation.
Here is a link to this presentation in English: https://youtu.be/Zu6GW7djVaM
A finales de 2023, me ofrecieron la oportunidad de hacer una presentación en vídeo para el programa de formación internacional en Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga, o TCTSY, el tratamiento complementario basado en evidencia para el trauma que utilizo en mi trabajo. Pasé febrero de 2024 preparando versiones en español e inglés, para compartirlas con los participantes en la formación cerca del final de sus ocho meses de estudio juntos.
Me encantó hablar con mi supervisora de TCTSY, Luisa Pérez de la Ciudad de México, sobre los temas que me pidieron que incluyera en la presentación, y luego reunir citas y referencias para respaldar el trabajo. Me siento bien con el resultado de esto y me complace ofrecer a otras personas que puedan estar interesadas en este tipo de yoga la oportunidad de ver la presentación.
Aquí hay un enlace para la presentación en español: https://youtu.be/guLd5kLlDQg
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, Winter & Spring 2025
Mondays / Lunes
10:15 am CST, Yoga Suave en sillas, en línea, Madison School Community Recreation (MSCR): 6 enero – 17 marzo …y… 31 marzo – 2 junio. 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, January 7 – March 18th …and… April 1st – June 3rd. . 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, January 7th – March 18th …and… April 1st – June 3rd. 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, January 9th – March 20th …and… April 3rd – June 5th. 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, January 11th – March 22nd …and… April 5th – June 7th. 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
