Meridian Yoga (Summer) with Jackie Garbe

The Meridian Yoga Technique (MYT) developed by Dr. Rose Erin Vaughan, blends Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) with yoga for a comprehensive practice that helps you to cultivate harmony in your body, mind, and spirit.

About the practice: This series of yin yoga poses, self-acupressure, breathwork, sound purification, and meditation practices utilize the TCM Meridian pathways and points to connect our experience in our physical bodies to our deeper emotional and energetic experiences, so you can heal from within.

We will focus on Summer and the corresponding Fire Element, exploring yoga techniques to support your Heart, Pericardium, Small Intestine, and Triple Warmer meridians. This is a time of upward and outward energetic movement, warmth, passion, and vitality.

• Your Heart houses your soul, and connection to the infinite. You can consider the heart to be a boundless source of light and love.

• Your Pericardium is the connective tissue that encases your heart, and energetically it helps you to develop boundaries around this infinite source.

• Your Small Intestine helps you to practice discernment, so you can best direct the energies of your heart towards that which is most nourishing to yourself and others.

• Your Triple Warmer is the connective tissue pockets around all your organs, and energetically helps you to harmonize these energies in your body.

The emotions related to these meridians have to do a lot with love and connection. By working with these different organs and meridian pathways, you can support yourself emotionally, identify and release physical tension patterns that relate to these emotional aspects, and balance and develop awareness of deeper energetic pathways, as they relate to your emotions, inner world, and physical body. :)

Our bodies hold deep innate wisdom, and the capacity to heal ourselves from within. MYT helps you to tap into this; as you build awareness of the subtle energy in your body and the complex and intelligent systems within, you can form a more holistic relationship to your body, emotions, and being.

What to expect: You can expect a grounding practice that deepens your experience in classic yoga poses, expands your body awareness, and teaches you about the TCM meridian pathways, focusing on the Fire Element and Summer. Whether you are new to Traditional Chinese Medicine or are an experienced practitioner, you can expect to expand your awareness of these pathways and how you can move the energy through movement, breath, and awareness.

You may experience emotions surfacing as we move through the practice. MYT is designed to help you balance and release these emotions in a safe and trauma-informed setting, so that you can return back to your true center: loving awareness ˗ˏˋ ♡ ˎˊ˗

This practice is beginner-friendly and all-levels, beneficial and engaging for the first-time yogi and the longtime practitioner alike.

Please buy a ticket in advance. We cannot guarantee space for walk-in attendees without a ticket. We appreciate your contribution to support the studio and our sharing of these healing practices. If finances are a barrier to joining, we have a limited number of free community spots available :) Please email jackie.garbe@gmail.com to reserve!

About the teacher: Jackie has been practicing yoga for over a decade, and has trained in a variety of lineages, including Ashtanga, vinyasa, hatha, and Katonah. She teaches a gentle, breath-focused, trauma-informed practice designed to guide students into deeper states of awareness, safe embodiment, and nervous system regulation. She has been studying Traditional Chinese Medicine and Meridian Yoga Techniques with Dr. Rose Erin Vaughan for a few years, which expanded her awareness of the healing potential that exists within each of us. jackiegarbe.com