Sacred Steps ~ Honoring Your Feet ~ Yoga Specialty Series
Yoga Specialty Series: Sacred Steps ~ Honoring Your Feet
A four week experiential training, with Cheryl Foster
Saturdays, January 29th through February 19th, 10:00 to 12pm
In Person only. Class size is limited. Please register early to reserve your spot.
$125 *10 hours YTT or YACE credit available upon completion.
Have you ever wondered about your feet? Often, we don’t pay attention to them unless they’re hurting. We use them all the time but do we know their sensory capacities and their power to allow and support the movement of our bodies throughout our lives? Do we really feel the contact and grounding aspects of our feet? Are foot problems reflecting other conditions in the body? What are some magical qualities of the feet?
In this 4 class series, we will focus personal attention on your feet and address all of these questions and more. Through subtle but powerful practices, you may be surprised at what you discover! This program goes beyond anatomy. It is mostly experiential – experiencing yourself more completely through your amazing feet.
Following are some features of this series:
- Guided meditation/sensing practice for experiencing the base of the body
- Contacting the ground through conscious walking and standing
- The foot’s relationship to the brain – proprioception and balance
- The basics of reflexology and how it works
- Learn the fascinating ‘mapping’ of the body on the foot
- How body tension and tension patterns reflect on the feet
- Our emotions and our feet
- The value and practice of conscious touch – contacting the sacred
- Shared and personal practice in working directly on the foot
- Simple techniques for foot self-care
Each class will include instruction time, self-practice along with shared practice and time for questions/answers/comments through group sharing.
Cheryl Foster, a Nationally Board Certified Reflexologist, offers subtle but powerful healing sessions in her office, Barefoot Dreams Reflexology, in Tucson. Cheryl loves sharing the insights and awareness developed from her inner work along with the treasured discoveries of yoga students and reflexology clients throughout her 25+ years in alternative health. Her reflexology practice is inspired through her study and certification in Integrative Yoga Therapy and Yoga Nidra. As a reflexologist, Cheryl has taught many classes, workshops, in-services and trainings for healing professionals including chiropractors, yoga students and teachers, physical therapists and massage therapists and is an Approved Provider for the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork.
For 9 years, she was a preceptor for the Internal Medicine Dept. at the University of Colorado and held instruction and hands on sessions for Medical Residents during their Complementary and Alternative Medicine rotation. Currently, Cheryl is a provider for the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine through the University of Arizona offering self-care practices during both Resident and Fellowship training.
Her work supports the understanding that human beings inherently have vast potential for growth and healing when we choose a path of self-discovery that includes a deep and personal connection with the body. And by the heartfelt awareness through the feet, we honor the sacred in every step we take.
