Welcome to Jooty Booty Yoga

Everyone is welcome to this website. Its focus is for
people with substance use disorder and how they can benefit
from Yoga, Pranayama, and Meditation without having any
experience.

Addiction often brings with it a great deal of harsh self-judgement. Through Yoga, we can counter-act this by

creating a safe, positive environment to connect with our bodies and quiet the counterproductive messages that often arise in our minds.

The kind of Yoga I teach is Sugi Yoga. Sugi Yoga is a blend of the Feldenkrais Method and Hatha Yoga.

The Feldenkrais Method uses movement and awareness as the primary vehicle for learning. It is perhaps due to this focus on physical movements that the Feldenkrais Method is often classified as a complementary and alternative medicine. The Feldenkrais Method attracts the attention of those who want to improve their movement repertoire (as dancers, musicians, artists), who want to reduce their pain or limitations in movement, or who want to use the method as a way to improve their well-being and personal development.

Hatha represents opposing energies: hot and cold (fire and water, following the same concept as the yin-yang), male and female, positive and negative. Hatha yoga attempts to balance mind and body via physical exercises, or "asanas", controlled breathing, and the calming of the mind through relaxation and meditation. Asanas teach poise, balance and strength and are practiced to improve the body's physical health and clear the mind in preparation for meditation in the pursuit of enlightenment.

To blend these two practices is to bring a gentleness to
the class that is fun for everyone to experience. The constant
theme is to never force anything and always listen to your body.

To blend Sugi Yoga and a 12 Step philosophy helps bring an
awareness not only to the spiritual, emotional, and mental part
of the body but to the physical part as well. There is a self-
awareness and self-esteem that is developed and a balance
that can be created which helps foster a happier and healthier
person.