SAULT STE MARIE ONTARIO: 5-hour FRY The Method Workshop for First Responders

We are happy to announce the starting of FRY ROAD TRIP.

Tuesday June 7 and Wednesday June 8, 2022, FRY Canada is coming to Sault Ste Marie at “Peaceful Warrior Wellness” Studio with two opportunities to engage:

– 5hr FRY The Method First Responder Workshop for Mind-Body Wellness and Resilience on June 8th 8th 8:30AM-2PM (1/2hr break). Cost: $175+HST+Eventbrite fee

– FRY is also offering a 90-minute Pre-Workshop class in FRY The Method June 7th 3PM-4:30PM. Cost: $25+HST+Eventbrite fee.

IT IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED THAT YOU AND YOUR TEAMS ATTEND BOTH TO EXPERIENCE THESE TECHNIQUES WHILE THEY ARE IN SAULT STE MARIE!

This is the link to reserve your spot: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/330591507097

Would like us to come in your city? Call us at 519.770.YOGA(9632), we are happy to collaborate.

SUDBURY ONTARIO: 5-hour FRY The Method Workshop for First Responders

FRY Road Trip

We are happy to announce the starting of FRY ROAD TRIP.

Sunday June 5 and Monday June 6, 2022, FRY Canada is coming to Sudbury at “A Space to Breathe Inc” Studio with two opportunities to engage:

– 5hr FRY The Method First Responder Workshop for Mind-Body Wellness and Resilience on June 6th 8:30AM-2PM (1/2hr break). Cost: $175+HST+Eventbrite fee

– FRY is also offering a 90-minute Pre-Workshop class in FRY The Method June 5th 6PM-7:30PM. Cost: $25+HST+Eventbrite fee.

IT IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED THAT YOU AND YOUR TEAMS ATTEND BOTH TO EXPERIENCE THESE TECHNIQUES WHILE THEY ARE IN SUDBURY!

This is the link to reserve your spot: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/336587741997

Would like us to come in your city? Call us at 519.770.YOGA(9632), we are happy to collaborate.

How to stop Panic Attacks in First Responders

F.R.Y. The APP can help overcome panic attacks in First Responders

We all experience Panic Attacks 

Today I want to talk about panic attacks in First Responders. I am speaking from my experience as a former Police Detective and Chief. Every one of us in our lives experiences a moment of anxiety, a moment when you desperately want to run away from something or fight it off. Sometimes we do not know the true cause of our panic, but it manifests and it presents in different way
 
Every one of us at a certain point have tried different ways to deal with anxiety. These include: training, listening to music, doing something to run away from that feeling, to dampen that feeling. Nothing seems to work as it is the aversion toward that feeling of anxiety that makes the same anxiety bigger and stronger.
 

Panic attacks in First Responders

In my past I have participated in different retreats in different retreat centers. I hoped that a structured environment could help me learn how to meditate and release that tension in my mind and so in my body. Most of the time my mind was all over the place even during the formal meditations. Why? I was fighting the unpleasurable. When you fight the moment you are at you create more stress and anxiety within you
 
The moment I realize that learning how to live with your “weakness” and welcome it whatever it is, that feeling becomes an asset. It transforms
 
When you acknowledge and “welcome” your feelings of discomfort, they become suspended in awareness. They are still there but beneath them there is this field of awareness that is holding them. The first step to take to break the cycle of anxiety and noisiness of the mind is to become aware of it.
 

How to break the cycle of anxiety with the breath

 
There are different ways to achieve this. One is the basic awareness of the breath when you meditate but also when you are out of your formal practice. Be aware of your breathing pattern without the intention of becoming a good breather. Observe your inhalation and exhalation, without trying to change it.
 
First Responders you can break the cycle of anxiety and the lessen the effect of a panic attacks with breath anytime and everywhere, without explaining to the people around you what you are doing. 
 

How to break the cycle of anxiety with meditation

 
You can use an open monitoring meditation and be focused on the sounds that are present around you. And you step back from labeling the sound as pleasant and unpleasant. You just bring your awareness to them, noticing how fleeting they are: they arise, remain for a moment, and then disappear
 
When images, thoughts, or emotions catch the attention of the mind, instead of fighting them you allow them to be part of your experience. You allow them to be present in awareness along with the sounds without clinging or rejecting them; not reacting to them.
 
There is no need to focus on a particular sound. Simply know that you are hearing sounds, noticing how the awareness can accommodate any sound, without you having to do anything.
 

The benefits of Meditation for First Responders is a topic well explained by Khube Rinpoce in our Videos tab. It is a beautiful tool you have to manage panic attacks and if you are interested to learn more you can read the study about the “Effectiveness of a meditation-based stress reduction program in the treatment of anxiety disorders“ 

 

How to break the cycle of anxiety with mind-set

Another way is “shifting the thinking pattern”. Normally an anxious mind focuses on the negative and magnifies it. You can shift that pattern by thinking about the opposite, the positive instead of the negative. A simple way to do this is to bring in gratitude for everything you have that for sure is more than enough. No matter what the circumstances you are living in are, there is always so much to be grateful for.
 
Remember that you are not your thoughts, nor the chit chat in your mind, nor your emotions and feelings. You are “otherness” from all that.
 
First Responder, no matter if you are a Police, Firefighter, Paramedic or Dispatcher, whatever the feeling you are perceiving is, fear, anger, jealousy, remember those are just feelings. Let your mind to rest in awareness and allow everything to float in that field of mindfulness. Mindfulness-based interventions are effective to promote mental health and well-being in high-stress occupations like First Responders. It improves Quality of Life and reduces depression and anxiety symptoms. It nourishes First Responders’ physical, emotional, and mental fitness. It also contributes to the judicious and mindful use of First Responders’ power and authority, which can benefit society as a whole.
 

Let’s do it together. Let’s make our lives better. F.R.Y. is here to help. With F.R.Y. The APP you access to supportive tools 24/7. Learn more about how we help First Responders Organizations with F.R.Y. The APP

Sasy, F.R.Y. Director
www.FRYCanada.com

CCA Yoga Nidra Teacher Training: Classically-Based Yoga Nidra (32 hrs YACEP) – with Julia Long

CCA Yoga Nidra Teacher Training: Classically-Based Yoga Nidra (32 hrs YACEP) – with Julia Long

Create the Life You Wish to Live ™

WHEN: From February 3 – 20th, 2022

COST: $795 CAD + HST + Eventbrite fees (Includes: manual, 32 hours of Continuing Education Credits PLUS 2 Certifications – Listing with California College of Ayurveda as a CCA-YN Instructor & Yoga Alliance)

Schedule:

  • Thursday February 3: 6:00PM to 9:15PM
  • Saturday February 5: 8AM to 1:00PM (with 15 min Break)
  • Sunday February 6: 8AM to 1:00PM (with 15 min Break)
  • Thursday February 10: 6:00PM to 9:15PM
  • Saturday February 12: 8AM to 1:00PM (with 15 min Break)
  • Sunday February 13 : 8AM to 1:00PM (with 15 min Break)
  • Thursday February 17: 6:00PM to 9:15PM
  • Saturday February 19: 8AM to 1:00PM (with 15 min Break)
  • Sunday February 20: 8AM to 1:00PM (with 15 min Break & Graduation Celebration)

WHO: Anyone interested in a deeper understanding of Yoga Nidra for their own practice OR Yoga Teachers interested in Certification. No experience with Yoga Nidra required.

RELAXATION*VISUALIZATION*MANIFESTATION ™

WHAT’S INCLUDED:

32 hrs Classical Yoga Nidra Teacher Training Certification – Yoga Alliance Credits AND Certification from the California College of Ayurveda (CCA)

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 

  • Teach Classical Yoga Nidra as taught by CCA in group and private settings, 
  • Use Yoga Nidra for SELF-HEALING, 
  • Develop an understanding of the physiological basis of Yoga Nidra (science behind), and
  • Establish an understanding of the history of Yoga Nidra
  • Meditative group and individual activities
  • Practice Teachings
  • Peace, Serenity, Self-reflection, Growth

WHAT IS YOGA NIDRA?

In Classical Yoga Nidra we guide the physical body to deep relaxation so that we can expand and connect to the energy of the life we wish to live: healthy, stress-free, successful, accomplished etc. In modern science terms we use neuroplasticity to guide us towards the life we chose to live. It is NOT sleep. It is active creation. We practice relaxed, lying down in corpse pose (savasana). You can read more here: https://prolongyoga.com/single-blog-post/

ABOUT THE TEACHER

Julia (Dharma Gian Kaur) is an Advanced Sivananda Yoga Teacher, certified California College of Ayurveda (CCA) Yoga Nidra Teacher Trainer, and a Kundalini Yoga Teacher based in Ottawa, Canada. She has been teaching and providing CCA Yoga Nidra sessions in groups and privately for many years. She is currently the only Classically-based Yoga Nidra Teacher Trainer in Canada (CCA-YN). She is also a certified Canadian Fitness Professional (CanFitPro). She has over 1000 hours of yoga training, including trauma-informed movement. 

She is a co-founder of F.R.Y. First Responders’ Yoga Canada. She has 2 sons who are First Responders which spawned the creation of F.R.Y.- She is a co-Author of the book “F.R.Y. First Responder Yoga. The Book” available on Amazon, both paperback and digital format. F.R.Y. The Method includes a Classical Yoga Nidra segment.

Julia holds a Bachelor of Business Administration, a Bachelor of Laws and was a practicing lawyer. She has used her skills as a leader in the federal arena to help keep chemical substances of concern out of the Canadian environment. She is writing and publishing in various journals on topics of wellbeing, mindfulness and mind-state.

Julia is a Registered Yoga Alliance Instructor (RYT-500) and also a Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider (YACEP).

Julia’s personal websites: www.ProLongYoga.com

Yin Yoga. Approaching the Functional.

FRY yin yoga functional Sasy

“Yin Yoga. Approaching the Functional with Sasy Cacace” course is eligible for 20 hours of Continuing Education with Yoga Alliance. 

With this course you will learn:

  • What is Yin Yoga 
  • Overview of CHI and Meridian channels, according to Chinese Medicine
  • What is the functional approach to Yoga
  • The differences between the performance and the functional-introspective approach that can be applied to all forms of Yoga
  • How to teach functionally
  • The 14 Skeletal segments and the 10 Muscles groups involved in the entire Yoga practice
  • Why the skeletal variations are important
  • The 5 Archetypal Yin Yoga Poses and their variations, that can be adapted to each and every student
  • And more

This course is of interest to all people learning yoga to deepen your practice as well as to instructors who wish to deepen their understanding of movement in yoga.

COST (Canadian Dollars):

Early Bird: $377.50 (25% discount)+ HST before December 3, 2021

General Admission: $450 + HST thereafter

TIME TABLE OF THE COURSE (all times are in EDT):

  1. Saturday January 22, 2022: 8am-12:15pm (15 minutes break)
  2. Sunday January 23, 2022: 8am-12:15pm (15 minutes break)
  3. Wednesday January 26, 2022: 7pm-9pm 
  4. Saturday January 29, 2022: 8am-12:15pm (15 minutes break)
  5. Sunday January 30, 2022: 8am-12:15pm (15 minutes break)
  6. Wednesday February 2, 2022: 7pm-9pm + Graduation 

Certification will be delivered by email to the attendees who participate in the full course.

Tickets available at this link: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/164762979507

Info about the teacher:

Sasy is a 500 hours Yoga Alliance Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT 500) and Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider (YACEP). He has been lived and taught yoga in many studios in Northern Italy, in Fuerteventura (Spain), India (Mysore), Nepal (Pockara) and all of 2018 in Los Angeles (USA).

He also has some experience in Karma Yoga including Anand Prakash Ashram in Risikesh (India) where he led Vipassana Meditation and Karuna Home for Disabled and Orphaned Children in Bylakuppe/Mysore (India) where he taught Yoga in a Yoga Studio inside the Tibetan Camp 1. On March 2020 he completed his three months of Karma Yoga at Sivananda Ashram Bahamas.

Sasy is a former Italian Police Detective and chief who has spent 20 years serving the Italian Government in the field of crime and narcotics. Knowing very well the stress and all the consequences that First Responder service can bring into the personal life of every single officer or member, Sasy was inspired to offer training for First Responders. Drawing on his past in law enforcement and the knowledge he developed since 2005 in the fields of meditation, stress reduction, Yoga and trauma-informed movement, Sasy co-founded together with Julia Long, F.R.Y. First Responders’ Yoga Canada, a tool box mind body wellness that compiles breathwork, functional yoga movement, trauma informed Yoga, meditation and positive affirmation techniques, designed for First Resppnders by First Responders, tailored to their needs. And with the F.R.Y. The App the tools are available anytime, anywhere, when needed, at a push of a button.

In 2005 Sasy started his spiritual quest and decided to dedicate his life to yoga since 2014. 

He is the author of “The Key to Happiness” and “Yin Yoga“, two manuscripts in which he shares a glimpse of his personal spiritual journey, some easy-to-understand neuroscience about meditation and deep breathing, life-altering tools that transformed his daily living. in 2020 he co-authored his 3rd book together with Julia Long, “F.R.Y. First Responders’ Yoga. The Book“. All the manuscripts are available on Amazon, both paperback and digital formats.

Sasy’s personal website: www.sasycacace.com