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Yoga Off East Welcomes Elena Brower
Two Ways to Join Us
Boundlessness Series with Elena Brower (Full, AM & PM Series)
March 17 - 20, 2025
Embodied Wholeness Workshop with Elena Brower & Cynda Rushton
March 22 -23, 2025
Meet Elena Brower
Mother, mentor, poet, artist, volunteer, bestselling author and host of the Practice You Podcast, Elena Brower graduated Cornell University in 1992, designed textiles and apparel for almost a decade before shifting her focus to yoga, meditation, writing and art. Teaching asana since 1999, studying and practicing Zen meditation since 2020, she received the Buddhist Precepts from Roshi Joan Halifax at Upaya Zen Center in 2023. Now a candidate for Buddhist Chaplaincy, Elena offers her time in hospice and penitentiary settings. Her bestselling journals and books explore stages of life and listening. Her next book, Hold Nothing, will be published by Shambhala Publications in late 2025.
Elena's Perceptive Parenting audio course is a key resource for parents; her signature course Simplify serves hundreds in reimagining priorities in order to experience more meaning every day, and she's also the founder of free global podcast The Matter of Menopause. Her weekly live yoga practices and meditations are featured on Glo; she offers retreats and workshops a few times a year, and her spoken word poetry can be heard on Above & Beyond's Flow State albums, for which she's received an RIAA-certified Gold Record for her writing on "Don't Leave." Elena works to elevate bright futures for girls, women and children through her support for Girls on Fire Leaders, On The Inside and Free Food Kitchen.
Meet Cynda Rushton
Cynda Rushton is a mother, clinician, educator, researcher and advocate for compassionate health care with over forty years of nursing experience. An endowed professor at Johns Hopkins University, she is internationally known for her contributions to nursing, healthcare, and bioethics. She's led numerous initiatives to cultivate compassion through contemplative practices that foster awareness, inquiry andresilience and to address the detrimental effects of moral suffering on clinicians, patients and families.
For more than twenty years Cynda's taught and practiced at the Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe,New Mexico, as core faculty in Upaya’s Being With Dying and GRACE programs with Roshi Joan Halifax, focusing on bringing compassion into the complex realities in healthcare and beyond.
Author of over two hundred publications, Cynda is also the editor and author of Moral Resilience: Transforming Moral Suffering in Healthcare (2nd edition).
Boundlessness Series with Elena Brower
Yoga Off East, Durham NC
American Tobacco Campus
March 17 - 20, 2025
Full Series
REGISTRATION IS OPEN
The 4-day class series experienced in its entirety. Each workshop will approach the concepts of Zen, embodied in physical practice, along with meditation. In the mornings, you're invited to a more rigorous, demanding asana practice along with dharma inquiries. In the afternoons, practices will include some asana along with more restful Yin and restorative postures with contemplative journaling practice.
Mon-Thurs
9:30-11:30am & 3:30-5:00pm
$350 (Members $315)
A.M. Series
REGISTRATION IS OPEN
This 4-day class series experience includes morning sessions only. Each workshop will approach the concepts of Zen, embodied in physical practice, along with meditation. You're invited to a more rigorous, demanding asana practice along with dharma inquiries.
Mon-Thurs
9:30-11:30am ONLY
$240 (Members $216)
P.M. Series
REGISTRATION IS OPEN
This 4-day class series experience includes afternoon sessions only. Each workshop will approach the concepts of Zen, embodied in physical practice, along with meditation. In the afternoons, practices will include some asana along with more restful Yin and restorative postures with contemplative journaling practice.
Mon-Thurs 3:30-5:00pm ONLY
$180 (Members $162)
Embodied Wholeness Workshop with Elena Brower & Cynda Rushton
Yoga Off East, Durham NC
American Tobacco Campus
March 22 -23, 2025
All human beings desire to feel whole and complete. In today's world, it's easy to be distracted from who we really are, from our values, and from what matters most to us.
Our integrity can become tarnished and our wellness can be degraded if we aren't taking good care of our practices. In this weekend workshop, you'll explore territory of physical, emotional, moral, and spiritual wholeness through reflective practice, dialogue, inquiry and embodiment.
Together we will set our gaze on what is true now, and discover what resources are already present for you. For all humans of all ages, especially those offering care: clinicians, parents, teachers. Expect yoga asana with Elena, meditation practices with both Elena and Cynda, along with writing exercises and discussion to usher you into your next phase of life with precision and grace.
Saturday, March 22
9:00am-12:00pm & 1:00-3:00pm
Sunday, March 23
9:00am-12:00pm
Workshop Cost (8 hrs) = $320