Carling Harps.A Portland based yoga teacher, Carling is known for her lighthearted attention to detail and commitment to the growth of her students. Connecting individuals to the practice through intelligent and informed sequencing, compassionate, intentional adjustments, and relevant alignment instruction. Carling’s teaching is designed to give students the tools and techniques to access their own unique body’s needs, create new connections and continue to find the center of themselves each time they step on their mats. As a balance to her regular classes, Carling is trained as a Doula and also specializes in prenatal yoga. She has been featured in and contributed writing to publications such as Yoga International, Mantra Magazine, and Yoga Digest. When she's not on the mat, you can find her hanging with her partner in crime Patrick, their 2 magical cats Opie & Zelda, singing along at local shows, and shopping for retro sneakers.
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Classes.Sunday, October 4 7-8:45 Centering Skills for Hands-On Assisting
Monday, October 5 16:30-18:15 Hips & Haunches Centering Skills for Hands-on Assisting.This workshop is suitable for all levels of teachers who are wishing to further their skill set in postural adjusting. Through both practice and hands-on work we will develop your eye for detail, the ability to listen and tune into the vibrations in the room, and most importantly how to truly see each individual and their unique body! We will explore the many ways in which the body is designed to fit together, remembering that we are not just adjusting poses, we are adjusting people and that requires respect, patience, and ultimately, compassion. Learn to utilize your hands, feet, eyes, and verbal instruction to guide students toward their center. Leave with new insights into practice and teaching with a clear and effective method of adapting many different bodies to the quintessential forms of yoga postures.
back to schedule >> Hips & Haunches: unfolding and refolding with ease.
This class focuses on opening the channels of the legs, hips and low back in order to create space for deeper interior breath, observation, and movement. Together we explore the unfolding (and refolding) of the hips both actively and passively in order to dig deep into the layers that often restrict us. Accessing the hips opens us up not only to deeper seated postures and arm balances, but it can also help to unravel mental and emotional tension as their place in the center of our body so intimately relates to the rest of the mind-body connection. This will be a fun & insightful class balanced in both flow and stillness leaving the hips feeling free and mobile.
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