Yoga Therapy for Women with Ann Kristin
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Help me fund the tuition fee for Yoni Shakti Well Woman Yoga Therapy Training! But first, let me give you a little background story:
What we didn't learn in school.
The first time I heard someone talk about menstruation and cycles as a source of power and wisdom instead of a red monthly curse was in Argentina in 2015. It was equally confusing and intriguing for a Norwegian countryside girl. I had no idea what these women were talking about.
Back home in Europe I started to collect stories. From sisters, mothers, grandmothers, daughters. About how they experience their cycle, their mood swings, sexuality and menopause. Starting businesses, travelling, growing older. Their pregnancy, miscarriages, giving birth, post-partum, and the years after. So many stories! I worked as a massage therapist for women going through pregnancy and postpartum. I got to hear about joys and messy parts of female experiences, and the echoing question I heard was: “why didn't anyone tell me about this?”
Why Yoga Therapy for Women? What does it actually mean?
As women and people living in feminine bodies we do have some experiences in life that are unique to us. It comes with our physiology, and the culture we were raised in.
Yoga Therapy for Women is like any other Yoga Therapy: It offers tools to create a living experience of empowerment, health and wholeness. Yoga Therapy for women also includes our feminine experiences in all ages and stages of life, from a yogic and physiological - and female - perspective. For a long time this perspective was missing in most mainstream yoga schools. Just like the female experience and representation was missing in a lot of research and science up until a few decades ago. Luckily, times are changing!
Why this course?
My name is Ann Kristin Holten, and what I ask for is support for the tuition fee of “Yoni Shakti Well Woman Yoga Therapy Training” with Uma Dinsmore Tuli. The course runs online in December this year and costs 910GBP.
The first time I met Uma was on the Aran Islands, off the coast of Ireland, in 2016. I arrived there after a desperate search for Yoga Nidra teachers while I was in India studying yoga. There was this instant match between me and this practice, and I wanted to learn more. While I was immersed in her Total Yoga Nidra Teacher and Facilitator Course, co-created with her husband Nirlipta Tuli, I met the same perspective again:
Our cycles and feminine experiences are a great source of wisdom and power.
And I guess It must have slowly steeped in, for now, four and a half years later, after a bachelor degree in osteopathy, more personal learnings and professional experience, having lived through and witnessed diverse global scandals and movements, I see it as more true than ever.
Why I need your help
I am fresh out of studying osteopathy, after years of working as a dancer, yoga teacher and massage therapist. I opened a therapy practice in Oslo two months ago. It has made me rich in experiences and perspectives - not yet in money. So here I am, asking for your help.
My goal is to offer online private and group sessions of Yoga Therapy for Women. It will be my way of contributing to embodied knowledge, power and wisdom among women and people living in female bodies. By supporting this fundraising campaign you will help me raise my voice and start sharing this work.
Thank you to everyone who is supporting my dream and my future work!
With great respect and love,
Ann Kristin Holten
Here are some links if you want to know more about:
The Yoga Therapy Training
Yoni Shakti Well Woman Yoga Therapy Training Online
Uma Dinsmore Tuli and her work
Yoni Shakti
My therapy offerings in Oslo
SomaSessions
Connect with me on fb
Ann Kristin Holten
What we didn't learn in school.
The first time I heard someone talk about menstruation and cycles as a source of power and wisdom instead of a red monthly curse was in Argentina in 2015. It was equally confusing and intriguing for a Norwegian countryside girl. I had no idea what these women were talking about.
Back home in Europe I started to collect stories. From sisters, mothers, grandmothers, daughters. About how they experience their cycle, their mood swings, sexuality and menopause. Starting businesses, travelling, growing older. Their pregnancy, miscarriages, giving birth, post-partum, and the years after. So many stories! I worked as a massage therapist for women going through pregnancy and postpartum. I got to hear about joys and messy parts of female experiences, and the echoing question I heard was: “why didn't anyone tell me about this?”
Why Yoga Therapy for Women? What does it actually mean?
As women and people living in feminine bodies we do have some experiences in life that are unique to us. It comes with our physiology, and the culture we were raised in.
Yoga Therapy for Women is like any other Yoga Therapy: It offers tools to create a living experience of empowerment, health and wholeness. Yoga Therapy for women also includes our feminine experiences in all ages and stages of life, from a yogic and physiological - and female - perspective. For a long time this perspective was missing in most mainstream yoga schools. Just like the female experience and representation was missing in a lot of research and science up until a few decades ago. Luckily, times are changing!
Why this course?
My name is Ann Kristin Holten, and what I ask for is support for the tuition fee of “Yoni Shakti Well Woman Yoga Therapy Training” with Uma Dinsmore Tuli. The course runs online in December this year and costs 910GBP.
The first time I met Uma was on the Aran Islands, off the coast of Ireland, in 2016. I arrived there after a desperate search for Yoga Nidra teachers while I was in India studying yoga. There was this instant match between me and this practice, and I wanted to learn more. While I was immersed in her Total Yoga Nidra Teacher and Facilitator Course, co-created with her husband Nirlipta Tuli, I met the same perspective again:
Our cycles and feminine experiences are a great source of wisdom and power.
And I guess It must have slowly steeped in, for now, four and a half years later, after a bachelor degree in osteopathy, more personal learnings and professional experience, having lived through and witnessed diverse global scandals and movements, I see it as more true than ever.
Why I need your help
I am fresh out of studying osteopathy, after years of working as a dancer, yoga teacher and massage therapist. I opened a therapy practice in Oslo two months ago. It has made me rich in experiences and perspectives - not yet in money. So here I am, asking for your help.
My goal is to offer online private and group sessions of Yoga Therapy for Women. It will be my way of contributing to embodied knowledge, power and wisdom among women and people living in female bodies. By supporting this fundraising campaign you will help me raise my voice and start sharing this work.
Thank you to everyone who is supporting my dream and my future work!
With great respect and love,
Ann Kristin Holten
Here are some links if you want to know more about:
The Yoga Therapy Training
Yoni Shakti Well Woman Yoga Therapy Training Online
Uma Dinsmore Tuli and her work
Yoni Shakti
My therapy offerings in Oslo
SomaSessions
Connect with me on fb
Ann Kristin Holten
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