Name: Gentle Somatic Yoga for Chronic Pain
Uploaded: 2021-07-20T21:59:15.000Z
Duration: 59 min 16 s
Description: When you are experiencing chronic pain or other chronic conditions, it can be daunting to try yoga. This class is gentle enough that it will allow you to start moving in a safe way no matter what you are facing. There is no need to do the whole class. You can just watch parts of it. Each flow stands on its own.

When you are experiencing chronic pain or other chronic conditions, it can be daunting to try yoga.  This class is gentle enough that it will allow you to start moving in a safe way no matter what you are facing.  There is no need to do the whole class.  You can just watch parts of it.  Each flow stands on its own. 

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Hi Friends, I am Andrea, a mother, a grandmother, a yoga teacher, a HearthMath Certified Trainer, and Trauma-Certified Clinical Coach, a certified integrative medicine health coach, and a chef.  I was a TV news reporter in the 80s.  As I covered more environmental disasters, I became concerned about environmental issues, so I became an environmental activist.  I then realized that our real hope was in the classroom teaching children, so I went back to school and got two advanced degrees in education from the University of Virginia-- an M. Ed. in Science Education, and an Ed.S. in Curriculum and Instruction.  TEACHING IS MY PASSION.  

I was in the classroom for 18 years, but when my mom got sick with Alzheimer's and I got sick with Hashimoto's Autoimmune Disease. I left the classroom and went back to school to learn how to heal.  So several more degrees-- yoga teaching, health coaching, HeartMath, and hundreds of students later, I teach yoga and coach health full time.  My passion for cooking comes from my mom.  I learned how to cook with different ingredients that improved my health but still tasted yummy. I also make jewelry (a form of meditation) and I live on Heaven Lane, so my company is called Heaven Lane Healing & Creative Arts.  I have been married since 1984 to my biggest supporter, Mark.  I have three amazing grown-up sons, a daughter-in-law, and a beautiful granddaughter named Isabela. I would love to help you on your healing journey with my compassionate, clear, caring style of teaching.

Gentle Somatic Yoga for Chronic Pain

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Yoga Alliance is the largest nonprofit association representing the yoga community. Our mission is to spread the power of yoga one person at a time.

We believe that the individual experience of yoga is of paramount importance, and are committed to supporting the passage of yoga from trainer to teacher, teacher to student, and student to aspiring yogi. Our role as the national support organization for the yoga community is to ensure that the practice of yoga will keep growing, so that more people will connect with yoga and be transformed. As an organization we keep several core values at heart: service, excellence, transparency, learning and community.

Golden Apple

This style of yoga is tailor-made for people with chronic injuries and pain.  It incorporates movement education from Hanna Somatics with the best of Yoga that is considered therapeutic.  We do not focus on stretching.  Instead, we focus on repatterning the muscles through carefully constructed routines that reconnect the brain with the body through the nervous system red-education.  It is safe for anyone.

Gentle Somatic Yoga Levels 1 and 2

The year-long training was through Joyful Yoga, a school affiliated with the Yoga Alliance.  This signifies that I went through rigorous training to be registered with the Yoga Alliance.  I have since completed dozens of more pieces of training with highly respected schools and teachers to keep my certifications fresh.

e-RYT and RYT200

Completed this program in applying principals of yoga and lifestyle changes to clients who are facing memory loss or who are fearful of changes in the brain function as they age.

Memory Maintenance Yoga Teacher

Emotional Self Regulation, Resilience, Energy and Management of Stress through the HeartMath tools can restore health to you no matter what you are facing in your personal or professional life.  I can train large groups or individuals in the techniques that have more than 400 independent studies showing how creating Heart/Brain Coherence changes you physiology, you emotions and your ability to handle all challenges in life.

HeartMath Certified Trainer and Trauma Informed Practitioner

Using breathing practice, short meditations, talk therapy and the Heart Rate Variability (HRV) tool, I teach students how to reduce stress and create a more coherent heart rate which leads to a slew of health benefits including improvements in blood pressure, lowering of cortisol and a set of tools to use to help calm the nervous system down during stressful times.

Clinical Certification in Stress Reduction, Anxiety and Emotional Regulation

I have run my own yoga and health coaching company.  I have taught all over town and at my small home studio.  I have taught in corporate settings like Chicos to country clubs to yoga studios to outdoor areas such as beaches.  My students are all ages and all levels of health and fitness.  I specialize in teaching beginners and people who have chronic pain or illness and the aging population.

Yoga Teacher

I have added many services to my online Health Coaching, HeartMath Coaching and Training and Yoga Teaching Business.  I customize healing plans for my clients that include teaching them tools for managing their nervous system, teaching them how to cook for health and healing and how to navigate the confusing world of supplements.  I also provide them with a variety of healing styles of yoga appropriate for their needs, their health and their goals.  I continuously up my skills and knowledge through advanced training and reading.  I am also an avid writer and provide my clients with the best information I can through blogs and videos.

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I was a science teacher at the high school and college level before I got sick and had to leave the classroom.  Suffering from autoimmune issues for the past fifteen years, I set out to find healing on the yoga mat and through other lifestyle changes.  My approach to teaching is a combination of clear, concise, easy-to-understand instruction from years of experience as a science teacher in a classroom, concern with safety and compassion and caring from dealing with a chronic illness most of my adult life.  By the way, I love to smile.  My joyful approach to teaching is quite infectious in a good way.  I now use Gentle Somatic Yoga which is appropriate for anyone with chronic pain to help release muscle tension and create greater ease of movement.  I can work with anyone -- whether you are chair-bound or a young person who needs to learn to relax and release stress.

I took her class once but I know right away she is someone I want to keep taking live classes with. her teaching style is all about the body and the mind which is something I strongly believe in. its was an over all wonderful experience and i cannot wait for our next class together

I signed up with Andrea a couple months ago for yoga and health coaching. Andrea is a compassionate,  caring, knowledgeable, and extremely helpful coach. She is working with me to improve my GERD symptoms and quality of life. I struggle with weight loss, Hashimoto's disease, GERD, sleep Apnea, and hypertension. I am a mother of 6, grandmother of 2, and have 2 jobs. Since I started with Andrea, my doctor lowered my blood pressure medication, my blood work improved, and I have more energy during my day. In addition, I am learning how to destress and enjoy my life using HeartMath techniques. I look forward to my sessions. Andrea's teaching is the best investment I made so far, and I am investing in me for once!

I highly recommend Andrea Trank’s cooking lessons.  Andrea helped me customize a plan for our lesson and sent me personalized instructions for what to buy and how to best prepare for the session.  The session was easy to follow, and I learned a lot.  Afterwards, Andrea sent me a video of our session and recipes we had made.  She was a pleasure to work with. It was a great experience and I’ll be back!

Great cooking instructor! Very passionate about healthy cooking and really good with step by step directions. Answered all of my questions while also giving quick on the fly options if something didn't come together just right. All the food was easy to make and very very good. I would recommend her to any who is looking for healthy options that are super versatile.

Andrea is wonderful! She made cooking easy and fun. I'm not great with using healthy ingredients, but Andrea made it a piece of cake (actually a piece of delicious banana bread!). The meals are so tasty and my confidence in eating better makes me excited to make the next meal. I highly recommend working with Andrea!

Andrea did a great job teaching our class. We learned how to make excellent, healthy versions of banana bread, pesto, chicken salad, and then some! Would highly recommend taking a class with her.

Had a blast at the healthy cooking class! we made banana bread, roasted chicken, pesto sauce, and frittatas. She's passionate about what she does and was very informative!!

I had the absolute pleasure of taking a group cooking class with Andrea. She gave us some great recipes with fresh ingredients. She was even able to provide healthy substitutes that helps combat inflammation for those of us that had food sensitivity. She was an awesome teacher, gave clear instructions and was such a joy to have. Recipes included, Banana Bread w/ almond flour, an egg frittata w/ mixed veggies, homemade pesto sauce, and a chicken salad made with a pre-cooked rotisserie chicken. Enough for me and the wife for 2 days!

Andrea's passion and knowledge for healthy cooking is obvious in her class. Her instructions were easy to follow and explanations clear. I enjoyed the class and would recommend this teacher to potential students.

Andrea is so very knowledgeable and helpful as well as clearly showing all different levels of poses for beginners, those with issues as well as advanced students.  I really love the way she explains about the meridians, ligaments, muscles  and fascia and other details which really help me understand the importance of the movements and poses.  Her experience as a teacher and reporter adds to the experience and her extensive scientific and health knowledge really make me feel confident in her as an instructor. My life has been better as a direct result of these wonderful classes.

I'd been studying in person with Andrea for about 4 years, and we've made an easy transition to online yoga classes. I especially appreciate how she mixes things up, not doing the same routines each time. She will focus on a particular body part or need for each class. And she adjusts her instructions for everyone's level of ability. Her leadership is gentle and soothing, and she fills you with confidence.

Always there to make sure that you are doing the poses the right way!!

Andrea is a most wonderful yoga instructor.  She makes sure that she knows her students before she starts.  Andrea incorporates yoga philosophy with wellness within her instruction.   She is calm and organized and provides me with exactly what I need at exactly the right moments!

Andrea is a thoughtful, careful instructor who is always learning what’s new and better in yoga to improve her student’s yoga practice. The online classes are exactly like what I’ve come to expect after being lucky enough to take Andrea’s classes in person for over 4 years. Adaptations are offered for all skill levels within the same class. This is yoga for every body.

This class is for everyone, but I labeled it as intermediate because it has very unique tools for trauma healing.  If you need this kind of practice, please give it a try.  You can do it over and over as you navigate the process of healing. 

Gentle Somatic Yoga for Healing from Trauma

This class is designed for people who have experienced either a trauma and chronic stress.  If you need to build up your reslience to recover and have more strength to face life challenges.  The class is full of different tools and techniques that can be combined or used as individual tools throughout your day.  Let me know how you feel please.

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Gentle Somatic Yoga for Seasonal Transitioning 

This video focuses on the upper body meridians which support these organs and help activate your relaxation response.  The class is packed full of helpful tools including a mudra, a short breathing practice and a guided meditation.  Your body, mind and heart will feel great after this class. 

Yin Yoga to Support the Heart, Lungs and Small Intestines

This class will use Gentle Somatic Yoga Poses, Mudras, Mantras and HeartMath tools to help you develop more intuition.  This is a class packed full of great ways to feel better in your body, your mind and your heart.  You can do parts of it or the whole thing.  

Using Yoga to Help Improve Your Intuition!

We will use many different yoga tools to balance your digestive system.  Many of us have digestive disorders and stress is a big part of it.  So yoga can really help.  This is a 60 minute class, but you can watch parts of it over and over again if it helps you feel better. 

Yoga for Digestive Health

This class is packed full of tools to help improve your digestion.  We will do long held Yin poses, mudras and mantras,  HeartMath practices for nervous system calming and a few suprises.  Mostly a floor practice.

Improving Digestion with Yin Yoga and HeartMath Tools

This video is packed full of tools to help your back, create more opening in your chest and to draw in what you want in life through energy tools and the Law of Attraction.  Get ready for an hour packed full of great tools you can use at any time. They especially work each month during the Full Moon. 

Yin Yoga for Back Health And The Law of Attraction

This class intermixes some tools from Energy Clearing with Yoga and Gentle Somatic Yoga.  It is great for anyone needing to improve their energy channels.  

Energy Clearing with Gentle Somatic Yoga

When I returned from Brazil with COVID, I felt lousy.  So I decided to create a gentle yoga class to help me recover more easily.  If you are facing any kind of sickness that knocks you off your feet, this class might just help as you are recuperating. 

Bouncing Back from Sickness with Gentle Somatic Yoga and Breathing Practices

This 60 minute class will provide you with many different ways to experience in ease in your body and mind.  Summer is a good time to do Yin because the season is very Yang or busy.  Withdraw your senses and learn new ways of self care with this beautiful class. 

Easing Into Summer with Yin Yoga

The Throat Chakra is known as the seat of purification.  There are 16 sky blue petals representing all aspects of communication and listening.  Many of us have imbalances in our throat chakra.  This class will use mudras, mantras and asanas to heal and balance the throat chakra. 

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