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Dr. Anna Engels is a Co-Founder of Yoga Lab Studio in State College, PA, and creator of Sunny Get Up.  She is a yoga teacher registered at the E-RYT 500 and YACEP levels with Yoga Alliance.  Her yoga teaching and practice combines her background in psychology with a strong grounding in anatomy and functional movement to create intelligent and fun sequences that flow with the breath and connect you to your core. She has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, and her clinical interests and academic research focus on stress, anxiety, depression, and their associated patterns of brain activity using fMRI. She is also a photographer and loves traveling the world, capturing moments of beauty.  She recently launched Sunny Get Up - a line of eco-friendly yoga pants with designs drawn from her nature photography - with the goal to raise money for environmental charities. She currently teaches yoga at Yoga Lab and in the Penn State Kinesiology Department.

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Strong Foundations Tonight: "Roots"

6/19/2018

 
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Strong Foundations 
Tonight at Yoga Lab 
5:45 – 7:15pm

“Roots”
 
The Great Banyan Tree in Kolkata India has approximately 3618 prop roots
Its canopy covers 1300 square feet
It has expanded way beyond the boundary of a small green fence
What looks like a grove of separate trees is actually ONE organism 
Sharing a common root structure
 
What a reminder of interconnectedness
 
To go back to your roots
Return to the source
A compassionate recognition of interbeing
Not division, not separation
Not a wall or a fence
 
Root down to rise UP 
Feel the points of contact with the earth
Ground reaction force connecting you to your core
Practicing together in a community
Recognizing the light in yourself 
Seeing the same light in others
Tapping into your strength
To better prop up and support each other
 
Yoga - yoke, union, unity 
Connecting body, mind, & breath
with the Earth
with the divine
with all beings
 
Rooted and connected
With a Strong Foundation
 
Namaste
See you there

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