Rooted: Grounding Techniques for Resilience, Balance, & Rest
with Anne Curtis & Melissa Carroll
Saturday, July 12, 2025
Open to All : 10:30AM-12PM for a fun all-levels practice
Cost: $30
YTT & Yoga Teachers: (6 CEUs) 10:30AM - 5PM (30 min lunch break from 12PM - 12:30PM)
Cost: $120
Description:
Feeling grounded and centered is one of the best ways to counterbalance the stress, busy-ness, and tumultuous nature of life. In this workshop led by two experienced yoga teachers, Anne Curtis and Melissa Carroll, you will experience the benefits of grounding through yoga postures, pranayama, mudras, and meditation. This workshop will explore both physical asana and the subtle body/energy system of yoga to help cultivate calm, inner stillness, and harmony.
In this Workshop you will:
- Enhance your alignment in yoga postures and build proprioception by grounding in healthy, sustainable ways
- Learn how to stabilize your joints and strengthen your muscles through standing, prone, supine, and seated poses
- Experience how rooting benefits balancing postures
- Explore the energetics of grounding through guided meditation, pranayama, and the Prana Vayu
- The morning session is open to all: we will enjoy an all-levels practice. Full-day session open to Yoga Teachers and YTTs.
About your teachers:
Melissa Carroll (ERYT500, YACEP, MFA) has taught yoga since 2008 and co-led the 200hr Teacher Training programs at The Lotus Pond for 7 years. Originally, she discovered Tibetan Buddhist meditation and Reiki in 2006, which began to help her work with her anxiety and depression. She is devoted to studying yoga, meditation, Reiki, and philosophy, and sharing these ancient wisdom practices with others. Melissa is the author of three poetry books and is the editor of the essay collection Going OM: Real-Life Stories on and off the Yoga Mat. Currently, Melissa offers advanced teacher training workshops and teaches online.
Learn more at
www.TheYogaWriter.com
Anne Curtis studied classical ballet and modern dance for 14 years in Berkeley, California. She earned a Ph.D. in biology at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts before taking up Yoga in 1996 to heal from an upper back injury. In 2003 Anne did her Iyengar-based teacher training studies in Palo Alto, California with Larry Hatlett. She then completed the Yoga Alliance 200 hour certification at The Lotus Pond, followed by completion of the 500-hour certification in 2014. Anne is devoted to teaching each student with thoughtful attention and creativity. Anne's teaching style is a mixture of Iyengar, Kripalu, and modern dance, with a strong influence from functional strength training and physical therapy. Anne works to weave core strengthening into every class and tries to lighten things up with humor and to support her students with deep compassion and empathy. Learn more at
www.yogawithin.studio
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