Restorative Yoga
with Krista

pause and breathe

How would it feel to…

✓ Anchor yourself in self-love

✓ Release unresolved patterns of fight, flight, freeze, or fawn

✓ Widen your ability to tolerate emotional discomfort

✓ Develop a felt sense of resilience

✓ Reclaim connection with and trust in your body

✓ Ground yourself in the present moment

Meet your body where it’s at.

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Ready to pause and breathe?

I offer Restorative Yoga every Friday at 8:00 a.m.
at The Lodge Cumberland

Through the integration of polyvagal theory, slow flow and conscious relaxation, we move, breathe and allow the practice to become a conversation with your body in a way that allows you to transform and grow. We end each class with sweet, sacred savasana to bring us into a deep relationship with rest and stillness.

“The body is a place of connection to our daily life and profound experience, a place of historical habit and survival strategies and our Interdependence with Land and the mystery.  When we talk about embodiment or living through the body, we mean opening to more life, more aliveness, more discernment and more skillful action.” 

— Staci Haines, Author & Somatics Practitioner

benefits restorative yoga krista resnick

At each restorative yoga class, receive practices to feel more spacious, grounded and at ease.

  • Reduce Stress and Anxiety: Learn practical tools to calm your nervous system and bring your body back to a state of ease.

  • Improve Emotional Regulation: Develop the ability to stay grounded and centered during difficult emotions or life challenges.

  • Enhance Mind-Body Connection: Deepen your awareness of the body’s signals and sensations, helping you to trust and understand your body’s wisdom.

  • Increase Resilience: Build the capacity to navigate life’s stressors with greater balance and flexibility, reducing overwhelm.

Love Notes

  • "Krista's yoga sessions have been profoundly beneficial to me. She effectively explains the physiological rationale behind her techniques and offers multiple alternatives to accommodate individual preferences. Following an unsettling work update that left me anxious, her evening session enabled me to transition from a state of heightened stress to deep relaxation, resulting in a restful night's sleep. Krista's classes provide lasting value, empowering students to integrate her methods into daily life. Her instruction is characterized by authenticity, intimacy, and intentionality, inspiring sincere gratitude."

    Ashley

  • “Connection was my main goal in yoga, but I have gained flexibility, lessening of joint pain, and have had an overall feeling of calmness and peace come to my days. I look forward to more gains as I continue this practice with Krista.”

    Meredith

  • Krista is a master at the art of yoga. Her calm voice , expertise in guiding the practice to benefit her students , and educational information is top notch. I will drive two hours round trip to experience her classes .

    Marcy Pippenger

Four Key Benefits of Restorative Yoga

  • Restorative yoga asks us to set down our pushing and proving and invites us to cultivate the skill of conscious relaxation.  Many yoga practices become another opportunity to perfect and push.  Restorative yoga asks us to BE.

  • What’s beautiful about this practice is that it invites us to examine where we are armoring and supports us to land on the ground, allowing the breath to fill us deeply, so that the armoring we find can be less gripping and we can soften. 

  • Arriving on the earth, landing and being held by the support under our bodies while allowing the breath to fill us automatically kicks on the relaxation response that reminds us in this moment, we are safe.  It pulls us out of fight or flight and brings us back to homeostasis-the place where we can respond with clarity and thoughtfulness.  The place where we can be in integrity with ourselves. 

  • Staying busy and zipping to and fro can be a coping strategy designed very deliberately to help us avoid the harder stuff of life.  When we are busy and distracted, we don’t have to face the truth about our lives and ourselves.   

Tension is who you think you should be.
Relaxation is who you are.

—Chinese proverb