Join us in an exploration of Jin Shin Jyutsu (JSJ), an ancient Japanese healing art that translates as “The Art of the Creator through Compassionate Man.”

This gentle, hands-on practice harmonizes the body’s life force energy—much like yoga does with prana—through simple, accessible techniques that can be practiced on oneself and shared with others.

In this 3-hour training, you’ll:

• learn the foundations of Jin Shin Jyutsu through a short presentation.
• experience easy self-help “quickie” applications to support common physical and emotional needs such as pain, digestive issues, respiratory challenges, worry, fear, anger, grief, and more.
• understand how JSJ relates to acupuncture and yoga to restore balance and flow, but without needles—using only the power of your hands to “jumper cable” the life-force energy.
• explore how to weave JSJ into your practice to support your overall well-being.

The second half of class offers an integrative practice blending Jin Shin Jyutsu with Meditation-in-Motion, gentle Kriya Starters, and a deeply restorative Yoga Nidra for healing. Together, we’ll cultivate harmony in body, mind, and spirit while deepening our connection with Source.

This class is accessible for all levels. Handouts and a Dow Integrative Intake Form will be sent in the registration confirmation so the workshop can focus on participants' needs.

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A recording will be made available to all registrants for two weeks following the workshop.

Recommended props: A yoga mat, blanket, and pillows for comfort. You’re welcome to practice on the floor, in a bed, or from a recliner—wherever you feel most supported.

Julianne Roshan Dow is a certified Jin Shin Jyutsu Practitioner, RYT500+ yoga teacher, and Founder/Director of the Dow Integrative Institute. With over 30 years of holistic health training and 44 years as a classroom teacher, Roshan has offered healing arts in hospitals, schools, and wellness centers. She is passionate about making these practices accessible to all—humans and animals alike. Her yoga-life began at age 10 where her family attended a local ashram for classes. Since then, she has relied on its practices to comfort and heal her nervous system as she navigates her spiritual life and teaching that has served her along the way. She has been blessed to receive the offerings of many Hatha and Ashtanga yoga teachers throughout her life and is a student of the Kripalu-Lakulish lineage.

If you register from this page, you will be registered for IN-PERSON attendance  (+recording).

To register for ZOOM-ONLY, click here.

Somatic therapies, such as breathwork, can be incredible tools to clear trauma, stress, and anxiety from the body so we can experience more clarity and joy, as well as less physical pain. In this experiential workshop, you will deepen your understanding of how breathwork works on physical, emotional, and energetic levels.

Participants will learn the science behind breathwork, including how specific breathing patterns can shift autonomic states, release energies from the past in the form of trauma, and regulate the nervous system. Learn how breathwork gives access to deeper nonordinary states of consciousness and allows us to arrive in heart–body coherence with a deeper sense of wholeness.

We will discuss what trauma is, how it impacts us in different ways, and how it gets stored in our body and the subconscious mind. 

This workshop includes a guided Somatic Release breathwork practice, reflective integration, and supportive group connection. No experience with breathwork is necessary; teachers and practitioners of all levels are welcome. This is not a training, but rather a deepened understanding of the powerful healing modality that is breathwork.

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Recommended props: Yoga mat, blanket, pillow/bolster, water bottle and journal.

A recording will be made available to all registrants for two weeks following the workshop.

Please be aware that we cannot control the temperature of the studio at Club Fit, and it can run cold. Please dress appropriately in layers and bring a blanket, hat, socks, etc. if you are sensitive to the cold. Thank you for your understanding.

Julia Zern, Somatic Release Breathwork™ Practitioner, 500 ERYT, is also a Vinyasa and Yin yoga teacher living and working in the Hudson Valley. Somatic Release Breathwork became an incredible source for healing trauma and grief and creating expansion in her own life. Julia is honored to share the healing power of breathwork with others through the alchemy of Somatic Release and NLP to truly bring you back to homeostasis and live a more authentic life and reconnect to your intuition, purpose, and creative life force.

Learn more at breathewithjuiia.com.

If you register from this page, you will be registered for ZOOM-ONLY attendance  (+recording).

To register for IN-PERSON, click here.

Somatic therapies, such as breathwork, can be incredible tools to clear trauma, stress, and anxiety from the body so we can experience more clarity and joy, as well as less physical pain. In this experiential workshop, you will deepen your understanding of how breathwork works on physical, emotional, and energetic levels.

Participants will learn the science behind breathwork, including how specific breathing patterns can shift autonomic states, release energies from the past in the form of trauma, and regulate the nervous system. Learn how breathwork gives access to deeper nonordinary states of consciousness and allows us to arrive in heart–body coherence with a deeper sense of wholeness.

We will discuss what trauma is, how it impacts us in different ways, and how it gets stored in our body and the subconscious mind. 

This workshop includes a guided Somatic Release breathwork practice, reflective integration, and supportive group connection. No experience with breathwork is necessary; teachers and practitioners of all levels are welcome. This is not a training, but rather a deepened understanding of the powerful healing modality that is breathwork.

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Recommended props: Yoga mat, blanket, pillow/bolster, water bottle and journal.

A recording will be made available to all registrants for two weeks following the workshop.

Julia Zern, Somatic Release Breathwork™ Practitioner, 500 ERYT, is also a Vinyasa and Yin yoga teacher living and working in the Hudson Valley. Somatic Release Breathwork became an incredible source for healing trauma and grief and creating expansion in her own life. Julia is honored to share the healing power of breathwork with others through the alchemy of Somatic Release and NLP to truly bring you back to homeostasis and live a more authentic life and reconnect to your intuition, purpose, and creative life force.

Learn more at breathewithjuiia.com.

NOTE: This workshop is taking place in NYACK, NY, and via Zoom.

Due to the focus on alignment, this will be a hands-on workshop, and in-person attendance is highly recommended. 

This workshop will introduce the basic elements of asana practice according to the principles of the Iyengar method. Precision of alignment, correct use of yoga props, logical sequencing, modifications to meet individual need, safety, and the way in which yoga's philosophical roots are embedded in the physical work will be addressed.

In the first part, a typical Iyengar sequence of asanas will be taught. Standing

poses, which are the foundation of the method, will be followed by seated asanas and inversions with alternatives given to students for whom inverted poses are contraindicated. Supine poses and savasana will conclude the first half of the workshop.

The second part will be a combined, interactive teaching practicum and general Q&A during which students will be able to take notes.

Helpful Guidelines: Inform the teacher: If you have any physical/medical issues or are menstruating please inform the teacher before class begins.

Clothing: Please wear shorts or footless leggings and a t shirt. Avoid loose, baggy clothing as the teacher needs to see the alignment of your limbs in detail. Be prepared to work in bare feet.

Recommended props: a non-skid yoga mat, 3 firm blankets and a cork or wood block.

Suggested reading: Light on Yoga by BKS Iyengar (unabridged).

Contact the teacher: If you have any questions about the workshop (other than registration issues) please reach out to: Kim Peralta, 207.812.1827 or at kimperalta@iyengaryogawarwick.com.

Kim Peralta, C.I.Y.T. lll, trained in Pune, India under B.K.S. Iyengar from 1989 until his death in 2014. She is an original co-founder of the Iyengar Yoga Institute of New York and founder of Iyengar Yoga centers in New Jersey and Maine, where she taught general classes and directed teacher training courses for students preparing for Iyengar certification. Kim has taught the Iyengar method for over thirty years. Her style of teaching is precise, coherent, perceptive, and cheerful.

Learn more at iyengaryogawarwick.com.