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Forrest yoga is both a yogic art and a healing art. The lineage, created in the last several decades by Ana Forrest, is steeped in indigenous understanding of the human condition, nature, bodily wisdom and western psychological wisdom. My personal impressions of this Spiritual practice have been deeply informed by Integral theory, developmental theory and research, and a broad-ranging study in western wisdom such as psychotherapy, language, physical culture, and perspective-taking.
Expect teaching around the following pillars:
Responsibility: We have enormous personal power to understand and transform our thinking, emotions, our interpretation of our life's events. Through radical responsibility we move out of victim consciousness and begin to participate in a life worth living.
Creativity: Healing = Creativity. Becoming whole is a declarative creative statement one makes in the world, with their life as medium. Prana is understood as a fundamental building block in cultivating a life that prioritizes fullness and aliveness. Creativity is action married to vision; a higher Mind and a higher Good is sought for the benefit of beings everywhere. We are authors of our experience and architects for a world of Beauty, Truth, and Goodness.
Manyness: Our uniqueness is celebrated. What brings the heart fullness like the sense of belonging to one another?
A culture's plants, medicines, myths, stories, and rituals help remind us of our communion with life and nature in our relationships.
Oneness: Unity. Undifferentiated Beingness. Realizing that a singular river runs through us.
Gwen Mihaljevich, a Chicago based practitioner, works primarily in the healing arts and yogic traditions and has since 2003 under the auspice of Ana Forrest. With an academic foundation in music performance and therapy, her interests include deep study of zazen [practicing with the Hollow Bones order], trauma and addiction recovery, behavioral development, neurodegenerative diseases and longevity, strength training, nutrition, sports psychology, epigenetics, jiu jitsu, and integral leadership.
Expect teaching around the following pillars:
Responsibility: We have enormous personal power to understand and transform our thinking, emotions, our interpretation of our life's events. Through radical responsibility we move out of victim consciousness and begin to participate in a life worth living.
Creativity: Healing = Creativity. Becoming whole is a declarative creative statement one makes in the world, with their life as medium. Prana is understood as a fundamental building block in cultivating a life that prioritizes fullness and aliveness. Creativity is action married to vision; a higher Mind and a higher Good is sought for the benefit of beings everywhere. We are authors of our experience and architects for a world of Beauty, Truth, and Goodness.
Manyness: Our uniqueness is celebrated. What brings the heart fullness like the sense of belonging to one another?
A culture's plants, medicines, myths, stories, and rituals help remind us of our communion with life and nature in our relationships.
Oneness: Unity. Undifferentiated Beingness. Realizing that a singular river runs through us.
Gwen Mihaljevich, a Chicago based practitioner, works primarily in the healing arts and yogic traditions and has since 2003 under the auspice of Ana Forrest. With an academic foundation in music performance and therapy, her interests include deep study of zazen [practicing with the Hollow Bones order], trauma and addiction recovery, behavioral development, neurodegenerative diseases and longevity, strength training, nutrition, sports psychology, epigenetics, jiu jitsu, and integral leadership.
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