Asana Healing Arts with Helen

09/26/2025

New Evening Yoga Class Online
Wednesdays at 7:30 pm: Restorative Yoga with a calming Yoga Nidra finish—perfect for easing stress and welcoming deep rest during the seasonal shift. Contact me for details.

09/19/2025

Friday Zoom Yoga with Helen - https://mailchi.mp/47a6302c7dd3/friday-zoom-yoga-with-helen-6746196

08/18/2025

Monday Zoom Yoga with Helen -

This is a gentle, grounding session open to all levels. It's a great way to ease into the weekend with some mindful movement and breathwork.

08/08/2025

Friday Zoom Yoga with Helen - https://mailchi.mp/9b47ef8ede38/friday-zoom-yoga-with-helen-6745453

08/01/2025

Friday Zoom Yoga with Helen - https://mailchi.mp/6d82e29e7b94/friday-zoom-yoga-with-helen-6745375

07/07/2025

Monday Zoom Yoga with Helen

05/19/2025

Welcome! 🌟 I’m so grateful you’re here

Whether we’ve shared a class before—online or in-person—or we’re just beginning to connect, thank you for opening this first newsletter. This space is for you: a place to inspire healthy movement, easeful living, and mindful awareness as we move through the seasons together.

As we look ahead to our Summer Yoga offerings in beautiful Waterville Valley, NH, I invite you to explore practices that nourish your body, calm your mind, and support your spirit. You’ll also find simple tools and tips in each newsletter to carry into your everyday life—because wellness should be accessible, gentle, and sustainable

This is not about striving or achieving. It’s about supporting yourself—where you are, as you are.

✨ Take what serves you. Pass it along if it might help someone else. And if it feels right, stay awhile.

💪 Healthy Aging Begins Here
Strength, flexibility, agility, and balance: these are the pillars of aging well.
And it starts with your feet—your foundation. When they move well, you feel well. From there, we build mindful movement and core awareness, so the whole body begins to work together—effortlessly.
This is something you’ll learn by feeling, not force. No right or wrong. Just movement with meaning.
🌬️ Mind-Body Insights
Stress and tension often begin with how we breathe—and how much we tense.
Try this: Breathe less, not more. Move gently, feel deeply. Focus on how your body flows, your temperature shifts, and your natural rhythm settles.
As we move together, you'll begin to soften effort and connect to ease. It’s a process—natural, intuitive, and grounding

🧘‍♀️ New Classes Begin This June!
Next to Waterville Valley Tennis
Begin or end your day with breath-led movement and deep rest.
Class Offerings:
➤ Slow Flow Yoga
➤ Yoga for Aging Well
➤ Yang-Yin Yoga Nidra – Special Workshop by request (90 min)

01/10/2025

A yoga practice in your house benefits from the positive atmosphere that you conjure on your cushion and on your mat. At home, you need not compare yourself with others, solicit praise, or try to please. Maybe you prefer classes in-person. I teach that too. All practices include a short meditation and breath work. More details here ->

Asana Healing Arts Yoga Classes Waterville Valley Yoga Healing Arts

12/11/2024

Original Energy
In each yoga practice, we tap into the original energy that we are made from. This primal energy is as old as the big bang and as brilliant as the light of the stars. The original energy we inherit is sacred, auspicious and all-pervading. It is derived from the wind, the sun and the sky. The spark of original energy has been handed down to us through the generations. It is the vital life force that animates every nerve pulsation, every breath, every beat of the heart. We tap the original energy by opening up our limbs, stretching our fascia and bringing our breath deep inside. Mostly, our practice requires sweeping the dust off the mirror of our heart and mind and letting the original energy shine from within.

For many reasons we get cut off from the potency we inherit. Caught up in our busy brain, we lose connection to source. Distracted, overwhelmed and anxious, we eat too much and spend too much time scrolling on our screens. Some adhere to strict beliefs or fall down rabbit holes of opinion. Perhaps an old trauma from this lifetime-- or lifetimes ago-- stifles the stream of the vital pulse.

In practice, let the radiance of the original energy take residence inside of you. Come to know its presence and sense its potency. While we can never grab it by the tail, we can feel its presence in a shimmer of sensation, a wisp of a breath, or a tremor through our spine. The Chinese Zen master Hongzhi wrote, “when the stains from old habits are exhausted, the original light appears, blazing through your skull, not admitting any other matters”. The original potency that dwells in you is the same that dwells in me. When we collectively yoke to the original energy, we realize the one mind, the one heart that sustains us all. You need not name it or guide it or try to possess it. Just know it as the luminous source to which we all belong.