Consultancy

In addition to numerous pre-designed programs, customized and on-going programing is available for corporations, universities/schools, medical and disability service organizations to reduce stress, offer practical and adaptive stress coping strategies as well as increase body- and emotional-awareness to promote focus, proactivity, confidence, and better choices to enhance biopsychosocial well-being.

Inspirational Workshops, Transformative Keynote Talks, Professional Development, Corporate Programs, and Yoga Workshops/Classes.

Presented by Laura Harrison, the founder of The Natural Yoga Method.

Keynote & Motivational Speaking

Laura Harrison delivers engaging and effective 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.

Her topics stem from the way mindfulness meditation changes your brain’s 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, and the bravery it takes to be authentic.. She even covers topics like relationships, community, personal integrity, passion in life, intuitive eating, and more.

She delivers talks and programs in the Capital Region of NY, and (inter)nationally.

see below for a list of workshops.

Catch some of her insights & inspirational dialogue on her YouTube channel & on Instagram and Facebook @LauraInspires

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CONTACT for more information or to book a program: Harrison.Laura.M@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.

Pre-Designed Programming-

Tools for more effective and enjoyable teamwork

(six hours/ (6) 1-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.

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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.

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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: Harrison.Laura.M@gmail.com

“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.

Feeling & freeing the flow-

Self-consciousness is a form of fear that depreciates us from our primal graceful nature and natural soul expression in movement, as well as how we live and speak. In this workshop/class, we explore that which separates us from our nature- mainly the overall fear to be seen in all our magnificence, and break down some of those ties and lies that bind us. We use discussion, music, asana, and culminate with freeing dance-like self-expressive motion that cannot be done wrong, to open our hearts and fall in love with this body and soul of ours, and this wild and wondrous journey of life.

The Natural Yoga Method-

Taught by the founder of the Natural Yoga Method, this class provides all levels from new-to-yoga to intermediate with a powerful yet rejuvenating practice. Exploring both long holds and powerful vinyasas, with plenty of time to soak in the vibrations, face yourself and synchronize with your essence. Come erase your ideas of what is and lose yourself in the feeling of building strength and challenging yourself as well as developing or deepening your self-love and self-trust.

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The Natural Yoga Method Core & Grace-

Exploring both long holds and powerful vinyasas, with plenty of time to soak in the vibrations, face yourself and synchronize with your essence, this practice is taught by the founder of the Natural Yoga Method. Explore extensions, backbends, strong grounding standing and balancing sequences, and creative core work infusing the grace of dance/martial arts with mindfulness meditation and all that is the essence of yoga. Come play with the sacredness of focus and joy of embodiment.

Falling in love with life by falling in love with yourself-
understanding yourself by discerning the wisdom guidance of the emotions & sensations

We will discuss the importance of our emotions and sensations, and the messages that they carry as inner guidance to balance and harming with one’s own soul. We will look at how we judge and reject ourselves for being unique and begin to cultivate or deepen the self-respect in our autonomy that we aim to show to all living beings. By giving equal love to ourselves as we do to all others, we seem to fix the leak or tear that prevents the flow of our lives from being as harmonious as we seek and deserve.

We will discuss, then have asana practice, then have guided relaxation to further integrate and explore our inner beauty and how amazing life can be when we fall in love with ourselves. To fall in love with ourselves is to more purely and completely love others and the world.

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 inner rightness 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.