Kat teaches every Wednesday and Friday at Yoga With A View @ 2 Left Feet from 9:30-11:00am.
Classes are $10.00.
Please note that Kat’s Friday Yoga class has an emphasis and focus on Restorative Yoga.
In Restorative yoga , we learn to balance effort and ease. We will experience relaxation, renewal and rejuvenation through the techniques of hatha yoga, tai chi, thai yoga therapy, and guided meditation. Enter an oasis of calm at the end of the week and enter your weekend with a peaceful and centered mind, body, and spirit.
More About Restorative Yoga (from Wiki-Health)
Yoga can work for many different types of bodies, many different stages in life, and for each person’s many different moods. While for some a Power Yoga class may seem like the way to go, for others a gentle restorative or Yin Yoga class may be optimal. For some people their needs change daily. However, the restorative effects of yoga should never be over-looked, no matter what age, and sometimes slowing down the practice, going deeper in poses, and just feeling the restorative power of them does wonders for the body.
Benefits of Restorative Yoga
Restorative Yoga focuses on relaxing the body in restful postures. Note that ‘rest’ is different than sleep. Rest provides the body an opportunity to renew and heal. Countless studies have proven the physical and emotional benefits of this.
Restorative yoga, as well as other forms of yoga, help to trigger the Parasympathetic nervous system also known as the PNS. The PNS is responsible for balancing the body and bringing its response system back into equilibrium. Stimulating the PNS helps to lower heart rate, blood pressure; it helps to healthily stimulate the immune system and keep the endocrine system operating healthily. When this system gets out of whack, or when the Sympathetic nervous system, SNS gets over-stimulated, the PNS helps to bring all back in balance. It is believed that is the PNS is tapped out or under-active, illness pervades. Thus, forms of relaxation, such as yoga and meditation, that help to stimulate the PNS are generally beneficial for overall body health.
David Spiegel, M.D., author of Living Beyond Limits, reports, “In medicine, we are learning that physical problems, such as high blood pressure and heart disease, can be influenced by psychological interventions, such as relaxation training. Indeed, the Food and Drug Administration issued a report recommending these non-drug approaches as the treatment of choice for milder forms of hypertension. Mind and body are connected and must work together, and this should be a powerful asset in treating medical illness.”
Recommended Props for Restorative Yoga
The more your body is supported in poses the deeper the sense of relaxation. With props it is easier for the body to get into certain poses, and thus, surrender to the pose. Essential props include (note, not all of these need to be used in every class):
- Yoga block
- Yoga strap
- Blankets
- Yoga bolster
- Chairs
- Wall
About Yogini Kat Tudor
Teaching Philosophy:
Kat Tudor’s Yoga is infused with her art and dance background as well as her extensive training in yoga which she has studied for many years traveling the world to seek out teachers and traditions.
She has developed her own creative form of yoga, heart-based and humorous.
Kat’s classes have an emphasis on balancing strength and flexibility, mind and body, breath and awareness.
She has broad experience teaching children, teenagers, and adults in visual, movement, theater and yogic arts.
Background:
- Kat has a Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Colorado College.
- Kat is Registered with Yoga Alliance as an RYT-200. Her teacher training was through Shambhava School of Yoga near Boulder, Colorado. She has also had advanced training in Yoga For Healing at Shambhava.
- Kat has trained with Saul David Raye as a Thai Yoga Therapist.
- Kat has helped create the world’s largest yogic spiral at Colorado College and America The Beautiful Park as well as the World’s Highest Yogic Spiral atop Pikes Peak in the fall of 2009.
- Kat is creative director of the Smokebrush Foundation for the Arts which she founded in 1992.
- Kat has recently taught Yoga and Public Art at Colorado College and is currently co-teaching Interdisciplinary Improvisational Arts at UCCS with her husband Bob.
- Kat is available for private sessions.
For more information on Kat please visit her website/blog at www.yogaandart.com
