Deva Healing Center

We had a filming party for Deva Healing Center yesterday. A young yoga teacher and local college student is creating a 3 minute promotional video for the studio and its mission to bring yoga and healing to women in the community, especially women in recovery from trauma and addiction. It was an amazing turnout of woman and an awesome boyfriend who didn’t mind sharing the space with nearly fifteen women. Bri led us through a calming vinyasa practice with gentle words of encouragement while Ariel filmed. Another teacher, Claire Zane, led us through a standing sequence focusing on stability and stamina with some leg balances. Later we all drank tea and talked about our week in the colorful low-table sitting area, with plush vibrant cushions and pillows. Ariel decided it would be fun to film all of us dancing in the middle of the room to music, it was a riot and it felt so good to let loose and move our bodies. She finished with a couple of interviews of the teachers, Bri, Claire Zane, and myself. The interview questions were on what brought me to Deva. I think in many ways teaching this beautiful practice of connecting the mind and body has saved me this year. It’s boosted my confidence and has empowered me in so many ways. The short of it is it’s taught me I have something to give to this universe.