charlotte Mabry
The blessing of yoga found me at 50. Yoga finds you when you are ready. It is never too late! After retirement as a tenured professor of dental public health at the LSU School of Dentistry; I began a new path of continually practicing, studying, and teaching yoga. Yoga enables me travel into my truest heart; “authentic self”. In the Bhakti yoga spirit of devotion, love, and relationship, I share this teaching:
“You are perfect just as you are in this present moment. Trust your innate wisdom. See yourself with eyes of love.”
Restorative yoga opens and heals. It IS possible to discover your wholeness with peace and calm. Silence and stillness create your “map” in life. Through svadhyaya, your yogic self-study, we can find clarity and choose to live life with zeal. Simply put there are three things that have shaped me into the person that I am today:
Awareness, Loss, and Surrender. Practicing these virtues through yoga creates and transforms. Yoga lights my path in life; one step at a time.
Restorative yoga asana enables us to feel sensations in the body. My classes consist of nurturing long spaces of silence, with dharmic guided meditation. A healing vibratory sound bath with crystal singing bowls, the
gong, tuning forks, bells and Koshi chimes accompany the practice. Essential oils and sprays with careful hands on adjustments are also offered with permission from the student.
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I am Yoga Alliance trained, listed, and certified under Judith Hanson Lasater’s Restorative Yoga Teacher
Trainings in both Levels 1 and 2. I completed my initial restorative yoga teacher training at Swan River Yoga
under Michelle Baker and Kelly Haas. That training was followed by an 87-hour restorative yoga mentorship
under Kelly Haas. My training was furthered with Jamie Lyn Skolnick, Director of Restorative Yoga at Laughing
Lotus, New York. An Advanced Restorative Yoga teacher training through Anne Wanda Tessier of Canada,
with the use of hot stones was also completed.
In 2013 I completed an RYT-200 from Soul School, Wild Lotus Yoga New Orleans, under Sean Johnson and
Mitchel Bleier. Soul School was followed by completing an 8 Day Bhakti Immersion training under Sean
Johnson.
Yoga Alliance RCYT, registered children and teen yoga specialties were earned in Canada, under
Aruna Kathy Humphrys, Young Yoga Masters and in New York with Shari Vilchez-Blatt, Karma Kids Yoga. My
studies of The Dharma are current and continuous under the direction of Keith Porteous Owner of Swan
River Yoga.
I offer restorative yoga classes weekly. In addition, specialty meditative restorative workshops with sound
baths and hot healing basalt stone therapy are provided at www.swanriveryoga.com. Private sessions in
restorative yoga with sound may be offered. Announcements can also be found on Instagram
@charlotteconnickmabry and @swanriveryoganola.
“Transformed people transform people”. Richard Rhor