Expert Survival Tip: Yoga for Brides (and Bridesmaids) – Bring the Deep Breath to the Big Day!
Meet Lisa Helfer, M.A., R.Y.T., and founder of Yoga for Weddings. Lisa began practicing yoga at the age of twelve and has been a certified Yoga Alliance instructor since 2002. In 2006 Lisa founded Yoga for Weddings and has been helping brides prepare for their big day with some stress management along the way. In Lisa’s yoga courses she not only works with brides, but with the wedding party and the couple’s family members, so to help you survive wedding season Lisa explains the physical, spiritual and emotional wellness benefits of practicing yoga for weddings:
Whether large or small, traditional or non-traditional, destination or hometown, extravagant or shoestring, the planning of a wedding requires you to tap into inner reserves of patience and strength. The successful carrying out of hundreds of small details is the barometer for any storybook wedding, yet it is this factor that may dampen the essence of the special day and create anxiety for brides-to-be. There is however, a simple, cost-effective solution that can help you pull your wedding off flawlessly. This remedy will help ease your frazzled nerves and allow you to remain in the moment and relaxed so that you can feel self-assured and confident. What is this secret modus operandi? Drum roll please…Yoga, a 5,000-year-old physical and spiritual discipline designed to help practitioners self-navigate to a state of oneness, relaxation, and bliss. Sound like something you need throughout the course of your wedding planning or on your big day?
Yoga poses are perhaps the most widely known aspect of the yoga practice. Commonly referred to as “moving meditations,” these poses help to tone, shape, and firm the body and can assist in weight loss. Each pose was created to benefit different parts of the body and address different concerns; some poses foster relaxation and others are energizing. A popular style of yoga called vinyasa yoga or power yoga helps develop great abs, arms and booties-something many brides want to achieve. In addition to this strenuous, physical workout the practice of yoga consists of special breathing techniques (pranayama) and meditation.
Yoga can cast the planning process and wedding day in an entirely different light…as a journey on which you obtain a dynamic foundation of stress management tools to survive wedding season. Yoga will inspire you to exude calmness and handle the myriad decisions that need to be made, so that you can communicate more easily with your fiancé, family, and friends as you travel towards your wedding day.
Yoga for Weddings provides:
· Bride-to-be private yoga class fitness packages
· Yoga-themed Bachelorette Parties and Bridal Showers
· Wedding Day Yoga family and friends classes
· Officiated yoga-themed Wedding Ceremonies
· Retreats and public workshops
· Destination yoga wedding travel packages
· Gift certificates - these special classes make great gifts!
Founded in 2006, Yoga for Weddings has helped many brides get ready for the big day. Based in Los Angeles, CA, with teachers available from coast to coast, all Yoga for Weddings teachers are highly qualified and certified by the Yoga Alliance. Please visit www.yogaforweddings.com for more information and pricing.
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About the Author
Lisa Helfer, M.A., R.Y.T., founded Yoga for Weddings in 2006. She began practicing yoga at the age of twelve and was certified as a Yoga Alliance instructor in 2002 after completing Synergy Yoga Center’s training program in Miami, Florida. In 2003, she completed a 75-hour Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga training program at Shiva Shala in New York City with Manju Jois. Lisa has continued to study yoga with some of the top teachers in the United States and is a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists. She teaches privately and in a large class setting; her vigorous and creative flowing vinyasa classes are catered to individual needs and levels. Each class contains the following components: breath/pranayama, meditation, asana, and mudra. Lisa has a B.A. in Media Studies/Journalism/Eastern European History from Western Washington University and an M.A. in Creative Writing from The City College of New York. She has over 15 year’s experience in public relations/marketing, media consultancy, journalism, and screenwriting. She recently traveled to Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. as a journalist for the World Future Energy Summit.
Please visit www.yogaforweddings.com for more information and pricing.
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