Join Baby Cobra teachers Ricky and Jackie for an immersive, beginner-friendly Meridian Yoga Therapy workshop, to connect with the inner body and heal from within. This workshop will be offered on three separate occasions:

• Sunday March 10, 3-5pm
• Sunday March 24, 1-3pm
• Sunday April 7, 3-5pm

Meridian Yoga Therapy (MYT) blends yoga with Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for a therapeutic modality that helps you heal from the inside out. By visualizing and moving along the meridian pathways and their corresponding organs according to TCM, you will learn to identify and release stagnant energy and emotions.

This workshop will provide you with a foundational at-home practice you can incorporate into your day, whether for 30, 10 or even 5 minutes. In this practice, you will learn:

• Sound Purification: vocalization exercises to release energy and particular emotions, including anger, sadness, and grief.
• Pranayama: a set of breathing practices to steady and center the mind, connect with the breath, and move prana (energy) through the body.
• Meridian Activation: a whole body tapping technique to identify the core meridian pathways, and awaken energy across acupressure points.
• Meridian Pathway Stretches: stretch across the meridian pathways to cultivate inner awareness of the deeper bodily tissues and inner organs.
• Yoga Asana and Acupressure: a simple sequence to further embody and activate meridian pathways through yoga asana and self acupressure practice.

*** All teacher proceeds will be donated back to the community to provide free spots in each workshop. Limited free community spots are available upon request. Please email jackie.garbe@gmail.com with the subject line “Meridian Yoga Therapy” with your workshop date of interest to reserve your spot.

About the teachers:

Ricardo Sanchez (he/him), a graduate of Baby Cobra Yoga’s first 200hr Teacher Training, has been practicing yoga for 13 years and Vipassana meditation for 7, with a strong emphasis in Metta, Loving-Kindness. He recently completed a 100hr training in Meridian Yoga Therapy & Yin with Rose Erin Vaughan, which deepened his yoga practice beyond asana. He’s also a Chair Yoga instructor for seniors over 65 in the Bushwick community.

Jackie Garbe (she/they) teaches a simple, breath-focused yoga and meditation class. Her classes blend the polarities of different yogic traditions, both modern and ancient, connected by the primary objective to bring awareness to the true nature of the self: the basic goodness that exists within all beings. She has trained in Ashtanga yoga with Kristin Leigh and Barbara Verocchi of the Shala Yoga House, Katonah yoga with Cari Friedman, and Meridian Yoga Therapy & Yin with Rose Erin Vaughan