Yoga with Rachel Carman

🏠📍Casa Punta 📍🏠 Playa Punta Puerto Escondido ✨

Slow Flow Yoga for all levels🫶🏼 pre register at reception for $150mx or drop in morning of for $200mx

Bring your friends! I am starting to teach more by demand classes on the beach, sunset yoga anyone? Message me if you are interested and we can set up a pop up yoga session on Playa Punta, near the volleyball nets🏐🧘🏻‍♀️🌊⛱️

Pre register for $150 by signing up at reception at Casa Punta or $200 MEX last minute drop in! See you tomorrow!

For my friends who aren’t in Mexico, I am going to share a live link, it will take some trial and error to figure out the best way to share my audio but tomorrow is the first test! 9:30am Michigan time for my Michigander friends, first virtual class is free🫶🏼

Have you ever seen
anything
in your life
more wonderful

than the way the sun,
every evening,
relaxed and easy,
floats toward the horizon

and into the clouds or the hills,
or the rumpled sea,
and is gone--
and how it slides again

out of the blackness,
every morning,
on the other side of the world,
like a red flower

streaming upward on its heavenly oils,
say, on a morning in early summer,
at its perfect imperial distance--
and have you ever felt for anything
such wild love--
do you think there is anywhere, in any language,
a word billowing enough
for the pleasure

that fills you,
as the sun
reaches out,
as it warms you.
~Mary Oliver

C O M I N G S O O N

Hi friends! It's been a minute, I've been busy building Sun Daze Social , (my marketing business - check it out!) and finishing my Bachelors Degree with Grand Valley State University 🙏 With graduation around the corner, (4weeks away!), and while I am traveling and teaching in Mexico, I thought I would offer my classes virtually as well.

The one thing that has held me back in teaching regularly has been committing to one location, but with social media today, yoga is super accessible from anywhere in the world. I am going to start teaching yoga classes in Mexico this week and will start playing around with my videography skills so that I can offer my classes live online. I've only ever taught in-person classes, so this will be a learning curve for me but I am so excited to get back into it. I don't have a schedule yet, but I have a location and students eager to begin.

Stay tuned! Yoga with Rachel Carman is making a comeback after a lil' sabbatical 😉🫶

Pigeon Pose / Eka Pada Rajakapotasana

✨Benefits✨

▫️Creates stability and flexibility in your hips▫️
▫️Releases tension in hip flexors and lower back▫️
▫️Stimulates abdominal organs▫️
▫️Aides digestion and circulation▫️
🤍Opens your heart chakra🤍

Pigeon Pose has been my favorite pose since I learned it in a yin class maybe 8 years ago. Whenever I first come into the pose, I notice what parts of my body are more stiff and what parts are more fluid. It’s fascinating how much our bodies can change every day. I start seated in pigeon with my heart open. Breath by breath I slowly forward fold over my front knee. Then I wiggle my back leg to extend more behind me. After I find my comfortable edge, where I feel a stretch and ease-never forced, I find ten long steady breathes. Then, from the base of my spine I roll back up into seated pigeon making sure my head is the last to rise. Sometimes I like to find a downward dog and go straight to my other side. But more often than not, I like to lay down in co**se pose and notice the difference from my right side to my left side body. Notice the fluidity and length on one side and compression on the other. Then finally, I like to even out the pose on the other side of my body. I love everything about this pose, the time it takes to get into it, the benefits I can notice right away, and the length and ease it gives my body.

What’s your favorite yoga pose?

“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.” - Thich Nhat Hanh☁️

✨Mediation Benefits✨

🔸Reduces stress + anxiety🔸
🔸Enhances self awareness 🔸
🔸Improves emotional health🔸
🔸Lengthens memory span + reduces memory loss🔸
🔸Improves sleep + decreases chronic pain🔸

▫️Meditation is simply conscious breathing and bringing your awareness inward. It doesn’t have to look a certain way - the goal isn’t about the result, the goal is to simply be. To be present and to breath. Implementing at least five minutes of meditation every day can improve your overall health.▫️

▪️Stay tuned for in person and virtual meditation classes in Guanacaste◾️

Yoga on the beach💛🌱🙏

In person or virtual group and private sessions now available. Email [email protected] to book a session this week! *In person sessions have limited availability in Guanacaste*

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I created Yoga with Rachel in 2017, but my love for yoga began in 2009. My mom took me to my first yoga class when I was 11 years old. I remember having zero expectations when I entered the yoga studio and then leaving excited for my next session. It felt like a magical experience, my body and mind were at peace and I felt no pain. I started yoga at such a young age to help relieve chronic pain and health issues, and it has been the most helpful tool thus far. Fast forward to 2017, I was 19 years old and just started working the front desk at Yen Yoga and Fitness. I enrolled in their 200 hour hatha yoga teacher training program. This intensive program required us to train 18 hours every other weekend for 6 months. It was a challenging, inspiring, and changed my life. This training helped me see my strength and value. It inspired me to share what I learned with others through teaching yoga; health benefits, how certain poses can relieve chronic or immediate pain, philosophy, and how there is always so much more to learn. I think that's why I love yoga so much-- it's an unending educational process, it brings people together, and creates an intentional community based on holistic healing.

After I became certified in 2017, I taught classes in the park and on the beach in Traverse City, Michigan. In November of that year, I packed up and moved to Melbourne Australia where I lived for 7 months. During my time in Melbourne, I taught classes and helped manage The Yoga Place Melbourne, substitute taught classes at Ohana Yoga in Port Melbourne, and taught classes in the Botanical Gardens in St. Kilda. I also took two 30 hour Restorative Teacher Training courses at Ohana Yoga. Then in June 2018, I moved back home to Traverse City Michigan and started teaching outdoor classes while also taking a 30 hour course for Yin Yoga at Yoga 4 Wellness Center in Lake Leelanau. In 2019, I took an 8 hour Yoga Nidra Teacher Training course through Yen Yoga and Fitness. Since then, I've taught public and private classes on and off. I am also a senior at Grand Valley State University where I am majoring in Integrative Studies with an emphasis on Intercultural Communications. Currently, I live in Playa Avellanas in Guanacaste Costa Rica where I study remotely with my (almost) 2 year old pup, Charlie Bear. I am starting to offer public classes on the beach but will also offer virtual classes for those who cannot attend in person. Virtual classes will be published on my website, https://girlanddog.wixsite.com/girlanddog where you can also find plant based recipes, and weekly blog posts about yoga and travel.

I offer the following classes; Yoga for Beginners, Yin Yang Flow, Gentle Yoga, Vinyasa Flow, Slow Flow, Yin Yoga, Yoga Nidra, Restoravtive Yoga, and Meditation. If you would like to book a private or group class, I currently offer in person sessions in Guanacaste, Costa Rica or virtual sessions through Zoom.

My next public class is at Playa Lagartillo (inbetween Playa Avellnas and Playa Negra), this Sunday at 5:30pm. Bring a friend and join us for a sunset yoga session! Thank you for reading, stay tuned for more class postings!🙏☀️🌱

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