Marci Becker Wellness - Yoga & Coaching

Only about another week to register....if you've been thinking about it, save your spot TODAY!!!! Marsha Pappas and I are looking forward to retreating with you in June. What a lovely way to kick off the summer!

Oakwood Summer Weekend Retreat with Marsha Pappas & Marci Becker Friday – Sunday, June 10-12, 2022 Oakwood Retreat Center in Selma, IN As we return to the sweet, long days of summer, we invite you to take a pause. Mars…

Early Bird pricing ends today! all the deets on my website.

Oakwood Summer Weekend Retreat with Marsha Pappas & Marci Becker Friday – Sunday, June 10-12, 2022 Oakwood Retreat Center in Selma, IN As we return to the sweet, long days of summer, we invite you to take a pause. Mars…

The best thing we can do for ourselves and the world: heal our wounds.

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I'm excited to finally be able to share that the amazing Marsha Pappas and I are leading a retreat this summer. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🧘‍♂️🧘🧘‍♀️

Won't you join us????

Welcoming Summer Weekend Retreat with Marsha Pappas & Marci Becker Friday – Sunday, June 10-12, 2022 Oakwood Retreat Center in Selma, IN As we return to the sweet, long days of summer, we invite you to take a pause. Mars…

Weekly asana classes….both online and in person for all levels. Ready to move? www.MarciBeckerWellness.com

And I can help you navigate the difficult part....yoga practices, health and wellness coaching....who's ready to start or continue their work?

“All the teachings are simple, and the practices too. Nothing here is very difficult. The only difficult task is learning to transform old habits into better ones—ones that support your inner peace, wellbeing and spiritual growth.”
–Swami Satchidananda

Contemplating peace and conflict. What's your relationship to each?
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photo deatils: rocks and leaves in the background with a transparent banner and the quote: “The possibility of peace can be a crisis for those who have been engaged in long-standing conflict. ”
-Pádraig Ó Tuama

Interested in deepening your understanding and practice of mindfulness? Want to lead mindfulness sessions? This program might be for you. I took this certification earlier this year and I so appreciate all that I learned and the relationships that were built through the training. Happy to share more about it if you have questions!

Deepen your Mindfulness Practice with Diverse Mentorship & Community Take your mindfulness training to the next level with an interactive experience that includes mentorship and the support of the MNDFL community.

Who is ready to move their body? Tonight at 5:30pm EST www.ekahyoga.com or send me a message for details!

In yoga teacher training this week for hands-on assists, we're taught to see beauty first. Before rushing in with corrections or adjustments, START by recognizing the beauty. What a lovely practice....and one to take off the mat. Where are you seeing beauty today? (and would you like a private session where I can practice all my juicy hands on assists on you?)💕🙏🏻

Our Satsang is so important. If you're looking for one, I'd love to tell you about the Yoga Church.

"Like-minded people living together, helping each other. When one slips, there should be ten others to pull the person up. That is the great benefit of satsang, the good company—you are placing yourself in a proper atmosphere. And, that is the very reason why we wanted Yogaville."
– Swami Satchidananda, Heaven on Earth: My Vision of Yogaville

Anyone looking for mental peace? Let me know, I'd love to share these practices with you!

"The real goal of Yoga is to understand oneself by making the mind clean and calm. Yoga is not just a set of physical postures, meditation, and breathing techniques. Yoga helps us to develop mental purity and serenity, which are both necessary to understand oneself. That is the purpose of Yoga and all the yogic practices have this aim in mind. The physical postures also help us to achieve mental serenity. Through physical serenity, through a healthy and relaxed body, we can easily experience mental peace.

The condition of the body has a lot to do with the condition of the mind. So we take care of the body by practicing certain postures, which are called asanas, and eating a clean diet. Asanas are different from exercises; they are poses that are held for a certain length of time, in a relaxed, steady way. Through the practice of asana, proper diet, and observing proper virtues the mind remains calm. These virtues are mentioned in almost every religious scripture." – Swami Satchidananda

We talk a lot at the Yoga Church about surfacing our conditioning. There is a lot to surface and the idea of 'the hypnosis of conditioning' mentioned by Mooji in this meme speaks to me. If you want to work on surfacing your conditioning, join us at YC. More info: https://www.summercushman.com/the-yoga-church/

I love to see the beings
being set free from
the hypnosis of conditioning:
from fears, false projection
and the grip of ego.
And I know that to be liberated
is not difficult, in fact it is natural.
However, it requires great openness
and the sincere and earnest
desire to be free.

~ Mooji

Be like CB.....next opportunity: today @5:30PM. www.ekahyoga.com or message me for details!

If you haven't already picked this up, I highly recommend the book My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, by Resmaa Menakem. One of my original yoga teachers, Nikki Myers, regularly taught that 'the issues live in the tissues' and this book has so many practices aimed at processing and metabolizing those issues. Whether you think it or not, we all have been impacted by race in this country and the pathway to healing is through the body in community. Summer Cushman and I will be leading sessions of the practices Resmaa offers in this book on Mondays at 9amPT/12pmET starting next week through our online membership community, the Yoga Church Community Hub. More info can be found at www.theyogachurch.org. And we are flexible....if you don't see a membership plan that works for you, message me and we will find something that is! No one is turned away due to lack of resources....we want you with us in this beautiful community.

Beautiful centering practice with Rev. angel Kyodo Williams....only takes a few minutes. Do it now. Do it again later. You will benefit. And those around you will benefit. 💕🙏🏻

angel Kyodo williams: Exercise for Connecting angel Kyodo williams—author, activist, and master trainer—offers an exercise to connect us to our core values and inherent autonomy. Women & Power 2015: Bein...

What is your mind creating today?

Wisdom worth reading often:

“One’s mind is the cause of everything. Don’t look outside to find the culprit. Don’t blame the other person. It’s the mind that creates all the wars. And it’s the mind that can make the whole world a heaven.” – Swami Satchidananda

I recently shared this within the Yoga Church online community hub as we are working with our intentions: "I want to remember that I'm not this body, in sickness or in health. I'm not my circumstances, in good times or bad. I'm not the bad mood I was in the other day, nor the good mood I started this day with. I'm not my bank account. I'm not my house. I'm not my productivity. I'm not my successes or my failures.

I want to remember that I am the embodiment of divinity."

As you define your intention, the work turns to the HOW of remembering and implementing that intention. Summer shares about the yoga practices that support the HOW.

We'd love to have you join us for one of today's gatherings. We'll contemplate these big questions, journal, practice, and share. Message me for the deets! It's a beautiful community space and we'd love to have you with us.

https://www.summercushman.com/yoga-sutra-2-1-kriya-yoga/

For anyone struggling with carrying emotionally heavy things and it feeling like too much, give yourself the gift of these 10 minutes.

Coming to Practice as a Refuge Welcome to the Yoga Church Sunday Sermons The practice of yoga asks us to find the Center point deep within. It asks us to find a posture of steadiness and ease, a place from which we can relax into the infinite. A grounded place from which we can remain undisturbed by the play

This comes from Swami Satchidananda, my teacher Marsha Pappas's teacher....and it inspired my class today.

May the entire world be filled with Peace and Joy. 🙏🏻

Spring Retreat starts with Yoga Nidra this Sunday! It’s a beautiful practice of deep, deep rest. You’ll awaken refreshed and rested and ready to float into the rest of your day. Sunday Gatherings are free and open to all interested. Message me for the details, I’ll hook you up.

Spring Retreat The Yoga Church 3-Part Spring Retreat Join us at the Yoga Church Gathering this month for three special practices to help usher in the season of spring with intention. Part 1 - REST March 7th, 2021 - 9:30-11am (pacific time) / 12:30-2pm (eastern time) As the seasons change, it's common to feel unbal...

I was asked to write a recap of our study of the Niyamas for the Yoga Church. Take a listen....and join us for a special practice at 12:30pm ET today. Message me for the deets!

Niyama Recap Welcome to the Yoga Church Sunday Sermons Niyama: The Foundation of Personal Practice We’re coming to the end of our study of the niyamas (for now…) and I’m excited to share a guest sermon written by my friend and colleague Marci Becker. She offers deep reflection (that I know so many people i...

Wondering if Zoom Yoga Movement classes are right for you? Hear thoughts from someone who's zoomed with me: "I have been taking Marci’s yoga class via Zoom since the beginning of COVID. Marci is so good at giving verbal cues as we get into and hold poses. On Zoom, you can’t easily glance up to make sure you are doing a pose correctly but with the cues Marci gives, I can get into a pose and then tweak it as I listen to her describing how differs parts of my body should feel. My enjoyment of Zoom yoga has been enhanced after I purchased earbuds. It has made listening even easier." -KA

Message me for more info on how you can join or check out my website: www.marcibeckerwellness.com

On days like today, I'm glad to be teaching online yoga classes. Nothing to cancel when the snow blows in! But Zoom Fatigue is a real thing....here are some thoughts on how to combat it and enjoy all the benefits of your yoga practice from home: https://yogainternational.com/article/view/how-to-combat-zoom-fatigue-and-enjoy-your-online-practice-again

You don’t have to be stuck with difficult emotions like anxiety & fear. You can transform them. It’s easier than you think.

This course includes:

*Short teachings you can read through (about the autonomic nervous system, Ayurvedic wisdom, and of course, the Yoga Sutras),
*Personal practice ideas for you to try in the context of your daily life (whenever anxiety is present),
*and four 90-minute live gatherings for deep practice and reflection.

The course is free for all members of the Yoga Church Community Hub. We're grateful for your support of the Yoga Church. If you haven't joined the Hub yet, it's easy to sign up!

We hope you'll be able to join us for the live practices:

-> February 11th 4:30-6pm pacific / 7:30-9pm eastern
-> February 18th 4:30-6pm pacific / 7:30-9pm eastern
-> February 25th 4:30-6pm pacific / 7:30-9pm eastern
-> March 4th 4:30-6pm pacific / 7:30-9pm eastern

But don't worry if you can't. The full course, including all the practice recordings will be available for you 24/7.

While this course is geared toward anxiety, the teachings will support you in working to transform any difficult emotional patterns.

If you have any questions don't hesitate to ask.

This course is just one of the many offerings you'll find inside the Yoga Church Community Hub (you'll also find things like weekly classes, book club, and ongoing sacred study). Together we're creating a vibrant community full of support for your life and practice.

www.theyogachurch.org