Inspirational Workshops, Transformative Keynote Talks, Professional Development, Corporate Programs, and Yoga Classes.
Presented by Laura Harrison, the founder of The Natural Yoga Method.
Keynote & Motivational Speaking
Laura Harrison delivers TED-quality programs and talks, with motivating, inspiring, eye-opening, life-changing content and a real, passionate, relatable and powerfully scientific-yet-emotional style. She breaks complex topics into simple & direct transmissions.
She delivers talks and programs in the Capital Region of NY, and (inter)nationally.
see below for a list of workshops.
Her topics stem from the way mindfulness meditation (also known as getting out of your head paying attention to your senses in the moment to moment) changes your brain structure, and what those changes mean in your daily life. She explores topics like self-trust, the power of choice, fear of being yourself fully, deep honesty, true emotional health, the bravery it takes to be authentic, and how quantum physics effects the everyday world.. She even covers topics like relationships, community, personal integrity, passion in life, intuitive eating, and more.
Catch some of her insights & inspirational dialogue on her YouTube channel & when she goes live on Facebook!
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CONTACT for more information or to book a program: naturalmethodyoga@gmail.com
Professional Development Programs:
Seminars and classes will enhance emotional health and body awareness, which paired together, bring out the best in focus, creative problem solving, patience, innovation, and productivity, as well as a sense of accomplishment and fulfillment in every aspect of life. Offering a higher quality of life to your team or community means that they will have a higher quality of themselves to offer you and the world at large. These programs will grow important skills that will change the face of your services, taking them to a whole new level.
Tools for more effective and enjoyable teamwork (six hours/ 6 hour sessions): In this program your staff learns to better understand themselves, and to thus better work together. They will learn to practice mindfulness meditation and breathing techniques, which reduce the effects of stress, and help them to connect more vividly to their internal experiences. We discuss basic mental-emotional health in a supportive and educational way, which creates a pathway of increased inner peace, and connection with others. Improve teamwork, productivity, personal health and satisfaction with this six week program.
Office Mindfulness: (one 1 hour session): In this program your staff learns to practice mindfulness meditation and breathing techniques, for their own health, focus, and well-being, as well as increased productivity, team-work skills, and satisfaction. This can lead into a regular mindfulness program in the office, in 20-30 minute sessions.
I can also teach 20-30 minute Desk Yoga Sessions, or lead a one-time one hour program offering desk stretches, breathing, and mindfulness.
I can also train a few staff members to be mindfulness ambassadors, to help lead office mindfulness regularly (an additional training program).
Mindfulness for Teachers and care-givers of those with special needs (6 hours/six 1 hour sessions): In this program your staff learns to practice mindfulness meditation and breathing techniques, share these techniques with students/clients in a basic way, and to practice these techniques for their own health, focus, and well-being.
Mindfulness & yoga movement for Teachers and care-givers of those with special needs (12 hours/eight 90-min sessions): In this program your staff practices yoga movements, learning for their own health maintenance and well-being, as well as being able to share a few of these movements at a time with their clients/students. In addition, they develop a practice of mindfulness meditation, and learn how to share mindfulness meditation and mindful breathing techniques at a basic level with their students/clients. We investigate emotional energy and the inner workings of the highly-sensitive, developing greater understanding of their needs. This program also fosters self-understanding of emotional states and how to direct their own emotional states to the service of their students/clients when most in need. This program develops life and work skills on a deep level.
Mindfulness & Yoga for Teachers and care-givers of those with special needs (24 hours/sixteen 90-min sessions- typically two per week for eight weeks or once weekly for sixteen weeks): Your staff learns to utilize for their own benefit, breathing and mindfulness techniques, including yoga poses, AND how to share these with their students/clients in short or medium-length formatting that is effective, intelligent and safe. These programs are a foundation for this sharing, as the skills are built through practice. Setting up a culture of mindfulness creates a connected atmosphere of mutual respect and very powerfully benefits the well-being of students and staff alike. Study of the energy and experience of emotions will allow staff to remain more patient and focused during outbursts, and better able to diffuse these situations before they get out of hand. Studying thoroughly the dynamics of emotionally and sensory-sensitive experiences will deepen and mature staff understanding of the inner experience of their clients/students, making them a better team. We will study and practice how to better serve others when they are struggling and how to help them find their own solution, identify and advocate for their needs to return to balance.
Mindfulness in the classroom (12 hours/eight 90-min sessions): In this program your teaching and supportive staff will learn how to practice mindfulness meditation and mindful breathing, as well as set up a classroom culture of mindfulness. We will share effective universal language and techniques to utilize this program to its fullest. It takes only a few minutes per class session to practice mindfulness and it is one of the most powerful ways to bring out the best of students mentally-emotionally, as well as academically.
Mindfulness & Yoga in the classroom (24 hours/sixteen 90-min session- typically two per week for eight weeks or once weekly for sixteen weeks): Your teaching and support staff learns to utilize for their own benefit, breathing and mindfulness techniques, including yoga poses, AND how to share these in an effective classroom culture of mindfulness, respect, connection, and health. They will learn to offer yoga poses weekly or daily in a way that is effective, intelligent and safe. These programs are a foundation for this sharing, as the skills are built through practice. Universal phrases will be offered to make this learning easiest and fastest for children, and most effective. We also study mental-emotional health and cues/classroom culture for mutual support. These programs always have a positive effect on behavior and academics, as well as happiness and overall mental-emotional health. It also very powerfully and positively benefits the teachers well-being.
Mindfulness Instead of Detention (24 hours/sixteen 90-min session- typically two per week for eight weeks or once weekly for sixteen weeks): Your Mindfulness Staff and support staff learns to utilize for their own benefit, breathing and mindfulness techniques, including yoga poses, AND how to share these in an effective program of mindfulness, respect, responsibility, connection, and health. They will learn to offer discussion, diaphragmatic breathing, a few yoga poses, and space to lean from one’s mistakes as an alternative to detention. Universal phrases will be offered to make this learning easiest and fastest for children, and most effective. We also study mental-emotional health and cues for SEL support. These programs always have a positive effect on behavior and academics, as well as happiness and overall mental-emotional health. It also very powerfully and positively benefits the teachers well-being.
University/Conference & other School Programs-
University & Conference Programs: Keynote speaking, wellness weeks, final-week anti-stress programs, and quality of life increasing offerings. Yoga, mindfulness, stress-less, and focus-increasing programing, offered in lectures, workshops, interactive tabling, short-series of sessions, or on-going programming. Create an early afternoon break and oasis of rejuvenation at your conference, to replenish everyone in the middle of the long days. Offering tools to students and staff to reduce stress, increase confidence, enhance focus, and help individuals to make conscious choices that shape their lives in abundance and fulfillment, instead of survival mode and panic.
MORE Yoga in School Settings: In both typical and special needs classrooms, weekly yoga practice can impart confidence, compassion, social-emotional skills, tools for focus and self-advocacy, and create a deeper sense of classroom community. School-wide mindfulness programs use only a few minutes of time daily to offer, but create a school culture of mindfulness with universal key words and concepts that benefits staff and students alike. Schools that have adopted mindfulness programs steadily have seen detention and drop-out rates decrease and test scores increase. Physical Education, science, and health units based on mindfulness and how it changes the structure of the brain, as well as the science behind the poses can be another creative educational tools with myriad benefits. Before and after-school programs of yoga and mindfulness for staff and students further develop the extraordinary impact of such simple tools on the human experience at any age and stage.
CONTACT for more information or to book a program: naturalmethodyoga@gmail.com
Mindfulness for Medical Settings~
Yoga Therapy for Medical Settings: Mindfulness meditation is the foundation of yoga therapy, especially in a residential care or hospital setting, where mindfulness and yoga therapy can be used for SEL, trauma recovery, elder care, chronic or long-term pain management, and as part of a healing program.
In more traditional medical settings, mindfulness is applied so that yoga therapy can assist pain management, healing 
after surgery/injury/stroke, or be part of a woman’s labor process in the maternity ward. Staff programming creates a healing oasis to off-set the incredible stresses in the hospital setting. Yoga classes in oncology can enhance quality of life and healing, and be a source of life-enhancing fun for children. In nursing homes and elder care, simple seated stretches, breathing, and mindfulness meditation paired with visualizations can be a breath of fresh air and excitement in a world that has grown gray. In mental health care, yoga therapy and mindfulness programming can teach healthy social-emotional skills, self-love, and validate the inner pain that drives the torment of sensitive people, giving them the confidence to believe in their ability to overcome and find joy and stability in life again.
The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it-
basically because you feel good, very good,
when you are near or with them.” ~Charles Bukowski
YOGA WORKSHOPS/CLASSES
custom experiences created upon request.
understanding yourself by discerning the wisdom guidance of the emotions & sensations
Introduction to offering trauma-informed yoga (for certified teachers)-
begin understanding trauma, and how to serve those healing from it.
Trauma, anxiety, and chronic stress are prevalent in the modern world. Learn what these states do to the body and mind, and how to best offer the practices of yoga, breathing, and mindfulness to those who are healing from trauma. Learn what serves- and doesn’t serve- those who are recovering, and understand how to respect the experience of others.
Natural Yoga Method- Meeting the Self:
Tuning into the guru voice of life guidance & abundance within you
90 min and 2 hour workshops
5 day and weekend immersions
Where life coaching, mindfulness, flow, and yoga practice merge.
Study your nature and Mother Nature, through movement, sound, and reflection.
Set up safe space with breath, sound, and mindfulness, and dive into a skillfully guided reflection and connection session, leading into an asana and movement practice that accommodates all levels. Feel empowered and qualified to trust your inner voice, and be set ablaze with inspiration from this powerful transmission of wisdom that cuts through the fog of the mind with the sword of loving clarity.
Enjoy a workshop at your studio or festival, or book a weekend or week-long immersion at your retreat center. The retreat features a focus on connecting not only with the rhythms within you, but actively with the rhythms of nature, with outdoor meditations and movement play. Start a simple journal to get to know your body, heart, and mind better, and to help you follow the inner guru. Learn how to eat intuitively for greatest health and vitality.
In a workshop or retreat format, develop a closer relationship to your truth in this soulful immersion, which you will carry into each moment of your life.
CONTACT for more information or to book a program: naturalmethodyoga@gmail.com
