Pharma Foodie is an on-going series – a collaboration between Learning Center Chef-Instructor Nina Lesser-Goldsmith and Nutritionist Kim Evans.  In these classes we look at the value and pleasure of using food to treat, prevent, and address chronic disease. What a great concept! We work with our culinary “pharmacy” (food ingredients) to design dishes that will delight our tastes and senses for the sake of creating a foundation of good health. Specific case examples will be presented as a glimpse at how nutrition is part of functional and integrative health care solutions.

We all...

Many of the individuals I meet with to teach and practice mindfulness meditation always ask me about how they can maintain their practice independently. It may be helpful to have a guide. Please follow the link below to be connected to Dr. Arnold Kozak's complete collection of mindfulness practices. Guided practices include basic mindfulness meditation practices, mindful walking, yoga, and specific practices for anger and pain. 

http://exquisitemind.com/learn.html

VTCYT is please to offer individual mindfulness meditation instruction, facilitated by our graduate level intern, Catherine Schiller. Mindfulness meditation is an opportunity to deepen one's awareness of one's internal and external experiences, moment to moment. Mindfulness allows one to bring a gentle curiosity, with openness, compassion, and non-judgement to these experiences. Mindfulness meditation can allow one to develop skills that may be helpful for a particular ailment or concern including depression, anxiety, or chronic pain or develop skills that can allow us to interact with ourselves and others in a higher quality way. Catherine teaches mindfulness meditation...

VTCYT recognizes yoga and meditation as therapy, not just a component of what we offer here. We recognize that talk therapy can only take a person so far. We believe that healing occurs when an individual is invited to be with themselves in a deeper way through movement and breath. Currently, yoga and meditation is seen as a compliment to traditional therapies. Here at VTCYT, we believe yoga and meditation is the main dish.

If you are interested to bring yoga and meditation into your life as therapy, please contact us for an intake, as we have...

This small class will give you time and space to access deep levels of relaxation through restorative yoga asana’s, Reiki, Pranayama breathing and guided Chakra meditation. This collection of modalities is designed to lead you to a state of inner stillness and receptivity in which all levels of the body, mind and spirit can open to healing. We will start with everyone setting their intention for their practice.  Maggie will you up with supporting props in a wonderful sequence of Restorative Yoga poses coupled with pranayama (blissful breath). While in the supported postures Anne will offer...

Available for purchase at VTCYT, is Parts Work An Illustrated Guide to Your Inner Life, an excellent complimentary guide if you are engaged in Internal Family Systems therapy with one of our clinicians here.

Parts Work provides an introduction to Internal Family Systems therapy – an opportunity to begin exploring your parts more deeply. The guide allows you to begin to identify the roles and relationships that your parts have.

Curious to know more about the Internal Family Systems model? Please follow the link below to learn more.

http://www.selfleadership.org/

Welcome the New Year with the following programs!

Mindful Happiness with Anthony Quintiliani. January 3– February 21 5-6pm Every other Tuesday. (Donation based)

Yoga for Stress Reduction with Tisha Shull Thursdays, January 5 ongoing,10-11:15 am. $15/class.

Drop-in Gentle Flow Yoga with Deb Sherrer. Fridays, January 6-ongoing, 12-1:30 pm $12/class.

Balanced Bodies with Kim Evans & Nicole Draper Tuesdays, January 10-April 3, 6-7:30 pm $350/series.

Eating Disorder Support Group with Tisha Shull. January 11-ongoing. Free. Every other Wednesday 5:30-7pm. Slow Yoga & Aging Well Support Group with Jill Mason Sundays,...

Metta, or loving-kindness, is a practice in which one cultivates compassion and softness towards one’s self and others. Give yourself and others this gift and follow this Metta prayer by Sharon Salzberg, below.

Take a few deep breaths, relax your body. Feel your energy settle into your body and into the moment.

May I live in safety. May I be happy. May I be healthy. May I live with ease.

Call to mind somebody that you care about--a good friend, or someone who's helped you in your life, someone who...