Integrating Mindfulness and Yoga on a Virtual Platform

Join Deanna Velazquez, New Jersey’s CHI Program Manager, who will share how to subtly weave and integrate mindfulness practices into any virtual Centering sessions. Through openings, closings, and throughout the sessions, mindfulness and yoga can be taught. It has been shown to reduce stress and help with some common discomforts. Participants will learn new mindfulness techniques to share with your groups, yoga poses and their contraindications that can be easily taught virtually and simple meditations to share with everyone.

Deanna Velazquez has been leading mindfulness, meditation, and yoga classes for almost 20 years. As a registered yoga teacher (RYT), a Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider, and a Prenatal RYT, she brings expertise, authenticity, and some fun into every class. She has a background as a NASM Certified Personal Trainer, AFAA Group Fitness Instructor, Postnatal Yoga, Zumba, and Spin Instructor. Her career in birth equity advocacy started with being a doula, birth assistant, and Centering facilitator. Deanna was born and raised in New Jersey and now resides there with her daughter, partner, and three dogs on the Jersey Shore.

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