While most of us are aware of the benefits of rest and self-care for our mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing, many of us don’t practice it. Whether it’s due to time constraints; cultural, political, educational, and family systems which taught us that prioritizing our needs is selfish, unproductive, hedonistic, or luxurious; or a sense of guilt associated with it, we often neglect taking care of ourselves until our body-mind complex goes into a panic mode.

However, self-care is a daily practice. It is a lifestyle. It is prevention rather than intervention.

Taking care of our needs not only benefits us but also everyone else around us. With daily practice, self-care can improve our awareness, presence, and ability to self-regulate. Therefore, it is also an act of service – taking care of ourselves means we can take care of others.

In this five-week class series, we will:

-Reconnect to our bodies through movement, observation, and awareness

-Learn to listen and honour our needs, rhythms, and cycles

-Explore views and assumptions about rest and self-care

-Cover tools and practices for mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing

-Design our self-care routine

-Learn how to modify our practice based on personal, daily, or seasonal changes

-Gain tips on how to integrate and maintain simple, incremental, and sustainable changes into our daily routine and habits

Included:

- Movement practices

- Lectures

- Simple self-care practices you can integrate into your daily routine right away

- Self-reflective journal prompts

- Music playlists for home movement practice

- Supplementary resources for support and further study

- Activities to spark your creativity

- Worksheets with various practices covered in the course

- Weekly integrative assignments

- Practices for daily, weekly, and seasonal changes

Who’s it for:

- Anyone struggling to prioritize their needs over the needs of others

- Sensitives, empaths, and people-pleasers

- Caregivers, parents, service providers, activists, teachers, healthcare providers, entrepreneurs and self-employed individuals, artists, social workers, etc.

-Anyone in need of extra guidance and support in implementing positive changes into their daily life

- Anyone open and willing to question their current beliefs, worldviews, and lifestyle choices

-Anyone looking to re-connect and re-establish a healthy relationship to their body

* Please note, this class series is not intended to treat any physical, mental, or emotional conditions *

For further inquiries, please email mail@jelenavasic.com