Finding Balance with Yoga During Stressful Times
with Jito Yumibe & Nicole Levine

In this workshop, we will discuss some of the physiological changes that occur when we are experiencing stress and how our body seeks to return to a state of balance. We will practice a sequence of poses to explore how yoga can buffer some of the symptoms of stress and help the body/mind come back to balance. With practice, yoga not only can lessen the immediate effects of stress but can be a preventative to the build-up of chronic stress. This is through the awareness that develops with practice over a long period of time as one realizes there is a choice in how one reacts to the stressors of life.

 

This class is appropriate for all levels of students. You do not need experience with yoga or Iyengar yoga to attend. 

 

This class is co-taught with Jito Yumibe and Nicole Levine.

About Nicole Levine:

A former college athlete, Nicole spent over 15 years working operationally in collegiate, professional, and international sport. Most notable is her time spent working at the U.S. Olympic Training Center, 2014 Sochi Winter Games, Rio 2016 Olympic Games, and FIFA World Cup Brazil. Nicole holds a master’s degree in Kinesiology with a concentration in Sport Psychology. She specializes in mental skills training, stress management, and biofeedback training. She is a certified Iyengar yoga teacher. She is currently a lecturer in the Department of Kinesiology at San Jose State University and teaches stress management and yoga to the San Jose Fire Department, CalFire, and military veterans. Nicole’s passion is exploring the relationship between the mind and body and helping individuals find ease and comfort through the physical, psychological, and emotional benefits of somatic movement. 

About Jito Yumibe

Jito has been a practitioner of Iyengar yoga since the mid 70s and became a Certified Iyengar Yoga teacher at the Introductory level in 1988. She is currently certified at the Senior level.

She has studied numerous times with the Iyengar family since 1984 in India as well as at conventions in the US. In the US she continues her studies with Senior teachers and has been an on-going student in the Iyengar Yoga Therapeutics program in Los Angeles since its inception. 

Through teaching she seeks to share the many benefits she has gained through this lifelong practice and offers her teaching as gratitude for the light that the late BKS Iyengar brought to yoga.