Nantucket Wellness Festival

What is the core? It is more than just your abs! The Core is a container, a connector, a stabilizer and a facilitator of movement. We will discover that cultivating core strength involves more than crunches. We will look at when the core engages to stabilize movement and when it works to facilitate movement. We will practice some of the best ways we know how to strengthen your core… all 360 degrees of it. We will create a girdle of strength in your body. Leave with a feeling of confidence knowing your center is strong!
 

Spend an hour on your mat with the best version of yourself: the part who is grateful, resilient, confident, and strong.  The class will give us a chance to practice being uncomfortable. This will, in turn, give us confidence in our own ability to do difficult things, to soothe ourselves, and to ultimately handle whatever comes our way.  In other words, we will use our body for mental health -- we'll practice knowing our strength, our goodness, and remembering that we somehow, someway, always figure it out. 

From Stress to Clarity 
What if the chaos in your mind isn’t something happening to you - but something you can learn to shift?
Through mindful movement, breathwork, and meditation, you’ll discover how to regulate your nervous system, quiet mental noise, and return to a grounded, clear state. You’ll leave feeling aligned, present, and back in your power.

There’s an epidemic of low back pain in America. It’s hard to find a single person who hasn’t experienced an excruciating episode of pain. The question is why? And then, how can we prevent it?
I think the answer to "why the epidemic of pain" is pretty simple. We sit too much. When we sit a lot our glutes de-activate and weaken. When that happens, it can lead to hip and back pain, often SI joint pain is a bi-product of underactive glutes. Our glutes are critical to supporting our pelvis and our lower spine. Strong glutes are central to healthy movement. There are other components to a healthy low back as well- core strength, length in hip flexors and length in hamstrings. I consider these important but secondary to the glutes. I have worked with many specialists and this is the consensus these days.
For 60-minutes we will practice a yoga class with our glutes as the main focus.. tho we will touch on core, hip flexors and hamstrings as well. We will follow up the practice with questions and discussion.

Join Punnu Wasu for a powerful experience of Active Consciousness Meditation, an ancient chakra purification practice that combines rhythmic breathing with focused meditation on the seven main energy centres.
This transformative method helps release emotions, blockages, and old hurts, while awakening the chakras and bringing more clarity, vitality, inner peace, and spiritual well-being. A beautiful journey into presence, healing, and deeper connection.
“The purpose of meditation is not to get good at meditation techniques but to get good at life.”
- Punnu Wasu