SHE Yoga™
(All-levels women’s yoga)
with Sara Avant Stover
Tuesdays at The Yoga Pod; 4-5:15pm
Love is who we are. Love is also a practice. And Yoga is the means of practicing Love so that we can be more of who we truly are, more of the time. The modern, evolving woman’s blessing and challenge is to learn how to live as Love, by opening our bodies and our hearts, amidst both our genetic conditioning and whatever season of life—inner or outer—we happen to be in.
4 out of 5 yoga practitioners are women, yet very few of us have ever learned how to practice yoga as women. We do yoga like men, with an emphasis on strength, technique, willing our bodies into positions, and staying still in the center of storms.
Yet we need nurturing, yet challenging, communal practices with like-minded women. We need places where we feel safe to surrender, explore our relationships with the Divine, express our devotion, wake up the erotic currents in our bodies, open through difficult emotions, navigate growing pains, and reveal both our raw power and our vulnerability. We need encouragement to go against the cultural entrainment that beckons us to continually jump out of our bodies and into our minds. We need guidance for how to move beyond ideals and archetypes of the Divine Feminine that live outside of us and to begin to embody, embrace, and live Her as us.
This is what SHE Yoga™ provides.
Some Other Benefits of SHE Yoga™ Include:
- An expanded sense of your own self-love, self-worth, and capacity to be happy no matter what.
- More optimal hormonal balance and a revved up libido.
- Surety of where feminine power lives in your body and how to use it in the world.
- More access to intuition and your inner wise woman.
- A more open, receptive, loving, and celebratory attitude–even in the face of challenges.
- More radiance, sparkle, sensuality, and shine.
- Greater discernment to do more of what you love and less of what drains you.
- The ability to choose what kind of yoga to practice during different cycles of month and seasons of life.
- Heightened emotional intelligence and maturity.
- A life and yoga practice infused with your own sacred femininity: more passion, more fierceness, more openness, more love.
Sara Avant Stover is a yogini, inspirational speaker, teacher, mentor, and author of the best-selling book The Way of the Happy Woman: Living the Best Year of Your Life.
Sara graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from Columbia University’s all-women’s school, Barnard College. After a cancer scare in her early twenties, Sara moved to Thailand, where she embarked on a decade-long healing and spiritual odyssey throughout Asia. She became a certified yoga instructor, and went on to teach thousands of women in over a dozen countries, from the United Arab Emirates to China, from Greece to Sweden.
Sara is a disciple of Sophia Diaz, and has been practicing yoga, Buddhist meditation, and women’s work for fifteen years. She directed the first 200-hour yoga teacher training in Thailand and is the creator of the world’s first Women’s Yoga Teacher Training. A pioneer in merging modern women’s spirituality and lifestyle, she now teaches at centers such as Kripalu and Shambhala Mountain Center. Sara’s writing has been published in Yoga Journal, the Huffington Post, and Yogi Times. She has also been featured in Newsweek, Natural Health, and on ABC, NBC, and CBS.
