Women & Teen Self -defense-Empowerment

Workshops, private lessons, and private group trainings for your own community are available.

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''Thank YOU Terra for your self- defense courses. All agreed that you are an exceptional teacher and superb role model. Such divine feminine energy in such a clear strong vessel. It will be great Terra to further support your work.'' - Jennifer Freed, AHA, SB.

''Hello Terra, the feedback from the teens was quite good, several of the girls said they didn't want the class to end when it did. They look forward to coming back .''- M., SB,CA

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Women's Specialty somatic group classes and private instruction.

An empowering mix of self-defense, qigong, and yoga, a class that teaches how specific asanas can improve self-defense strategies and strengths.

I teach womb awareness classes that focus on feminine considerations of the heart-womb, the womb area (2nd chakra), sexuality, premature menopause, miscarriage, abortion and other transitions.

My teaching style is respectful, warm, and supportive.

New and experienced students are encouraged through a positive tone that includes lightness and gentle humor, without harsh dogma or intimidation. Novices feel included, safely guided, and eager to return. All classes, workshops, and private lessons, including those for therapeutic or specific needs, reflect this compassionate tone.

YogaChi:

For men/women group & private

My experience of teaching yoga in private session, small and large groups, and for large international cconferenes includes: association with yoga studios, healing retreat centers, one-on-one yoga coaching for athletes, corporate training, specialty therapeutic workshops, and as a presenter at international conferences.

I have twenty plus years of hands-on experience in private practice as a cross-cultural teacher, healer, and counselor in Canada and the U.S. For the past two decades I have worked therapeutically with private clients and workshop groups in both embodied and psycho-spiritual modalities.

My teaching background includes years as an instructor in Laguna Beach CA, for teens and adults for the city's recreation department, for the Yoga Place studios in the county, and other sites. I have led workshops as a presenter and yoga instructor for the International Transpersonal Conferences in Brazil and in Palm Springs, the Esalen Institute in Big Sur California, the Omega Center in New York, the Hindu Cultural Center in Toronto Canada, and for the PCC graduate students in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program, at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.

I have a great appreciation for the martial arts, my previous studies include some karate, kickboxing, plus training in Wen-Do, a Canadian women's self-defense technique. I am also a self-defense instructor, certified by Defend University, and RAD.

I am trained in a range of counseling and healing modalities, including, bodywork, massage, Reichian breath work, Thai Yoga therapy, dance-kinetics, and clinical hypnotherapy. I am a certified instructor through the White Lotus Institute, and received instructor certification in Da Dao Chan Gong, from Grandmaster Fu (a Wuji focused form of qigong). My background also involved dance, African dance, free flow trance dance, and a mix of yoga styles including Kundalini, Sivananda, Vinyasa, Yin, and therapeutic restorative yoga.

My approach to teaching is accessible to many people, reflected through my interpersonal skills and counseling background, and expressed in the warm ambiance I provide for new and seasoned practitioners alike. I enjoy teaching a range of forms, from the Yin style of holding each asana with focused attention on deep meridian stretch and yin/yang energetic awareness, to a flowing vinyasa style. Class examples include; a soft nurturing stress relief class held in a peaceful candlelit room, with focus on healing imagery, pranayama, meditation, self massage and deep relaxation—to a more playful energetic and upbeat class with world music, to a chakra attunement class that journeys through the energy centers of the body with intention for healing blockages and freeing energies.

Grounded, embodied, solid, calm as a rock, fluid like the water.