Sunday, May 25, 2008

What is Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy?
What does a session look like?

PRYTPhoenix Rising Yoga Therapy Real Stories

A recovering cancer patient sobs as she allows her grief over the loss of her breasts free rein for the first time; she has had to remain strong and optimistic for too long.

A computer programmer follows his hip pain into the depths of fear & anger around the possibility of losing his job during this economic crisis. He now works at his desk, the hip relieved, the struggle gone, able to accept any eventuality.

A woman recalls her sexual abuse by her father. She connects the abuse with compulsive control over her eating. She eats a healthy meal today for the first time in years.

A psychotherapist who defines herself as an “incurable workaholic” breathes deeply, encouraging her busy mind to take a break and her body to relax. She finds it a pleasurable experience and vows to take a moment between each of her clients to smell the roses.

A want-to-be singer discovers her new found voice after being told in her younger years that “children should not be heard”. She decides to find a choral group and eventually falls in love & marries the lead singer. Together they now bring music to thousands.


Newly-weds are finding happiness to be such a new experience that they choose to keep the feeling alive
in their bodies by engaging together in play.

A working mother let's her husband take the crying baby and the toddler to the park. She's discovered that when her shoulders scream - that 'pain in the neck' is a sign for her to stop taking care of the world and begin putting her needs first.

What do these people have in common?
They are all engaged in a holistic mind-body healing modality, Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy. As opposed to traditional psychotherapy which focuses upon the mind or yoga which focuses upon the body, Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy understands that body and mind are not separate, and thus physical and emotional issues are profoundly connected.


Operating under the assumption that the body is a repository for all life’s experiences, both positive and negative, PRYT opens tensely held parts of the body so that pent-up feelings, fears and resistances are revealed and the insights gained are then put into action.

Read about PRYT in Time Magazine's:
Psychotherapy Goes from Couch to Mat.


What are Phoenix Rising sessions like?
NEW! View Soleil's Sample Session Videos

PRYT is a non-directive, client-centered process. In a typical session, you are guided through a sequence of carefully selected, assisted postures designed to bring you deeper into an internal experience. As you are supported in the postures, Soleil guides you in dialogue about what’s happening in your body.

This unique combination of postures and focused dialogue techniques often has a synergistic effect, enabling you to readily access information stored in the body, and to gain new insights into long-standing patterns and chronic physical and mental tensions.

Each session concludes with an integration, to assist in processing your experience and finding the connections with your life "off the mat" and exploring how you can bring new-found insights into action.


Try it! Follow Soleil's audio cast for an Integration...

No Yoga Experience is necessary.

Who benefits from Phoenix Rising?
Whether working with pain that stems from major trauma such as an accident or unexpected illness, or from the less recognized strain of life transitions, chronic stress or self-neglect, yoga therapy offers a powerful, safe and natural path to well-being.

Clients have found PRYT to be beneficial for a wide variety of situations and conditions including stress release, chronic pain, general malaise, resistance to change, and healing from physical and/or sexual abuse.


This work is complementary to more traditional forms of treatment such as psychotherapy and physical therapy.

List of Benefits
• Release anxieties that have a corresponding physical component
• Free up areas of tension
• Increase Awareness and Concentration
• Facilitate problem-solving and decision-making
• Overcome self-limiting beliefs
• Increase vibrant creative energy
• Alleviate pain
• Promote personal growth & transformation in body-mind-spirit

How does Soleil offer Sessions?
Private Sessions ~90 minutes. Your site or Mercer Island office. Phone Sessions (Skype).
Phoenix Rising for Groups – 8 Week Stress Management Program
PRYT for Couples. Partners, Parent-Child, Friends
PRYT Trainings & specialized workshops (Soleil has been on Faculty since 2006)


VIEW CURRENT FEES...

Awakening a Corporate Soul.
Learning to Play your Edge … at WORK.

Soleil's story of how she went from 20 years in Corporate High Tech to Yoga Therapy...

"One month after 9/11, with Seattle’s dot-coms crashing and unemployment rapidly rising, a Human Resources administrator walked into my office and sheepishly handed me an empty cardboard box with a pink-slip. Gathering my belongings into the box, I was smiling – thrilled to be on my way. Throughout my nearly 20 years in the High-tech industry, I had experienced chronic back pain, multiple migraines, and a bout with cancer. It was time to live at a more gentle EDGE."
Read the rest of Soleil's story here...

Monday, May 12, 2008

Contact Soleil

http://www.soleilrising.com/
Soleil@SoleilRising.com
206.300.7333 (cell / msg)
Skype: SoleilRising

Other websites:
http://www.yogablaze.com/ (One Guide to All Yoga in Greater Seattle)
http://www.yogabizz.com/ (Radical Success Coach & resources for Yoga Professionals)
http://www.seattledancesource.com/ (One Guide to All Free-Form Dance in Greater Seattle)

Sunday, May 11, 2008

Summer 2008 Events & Trainings with Soleil

August 1 - 12 TRAININGS:
Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy Trainings in Seattle with Soleil*

For all Yoga Teachers, Wellness Professionals & Mind-Body Enthusiasts
Level 1: August 1 - 5, $595
Level 2: August 7 - 12, $795
To Register:
www.pryt.com or call toll-free 800-288-9642
NOTE: These are my only PRYT trainings on the West Coast in 2008
PRYT Practitoners or LEVEL 3 Students: Assistants are needed. Contact Soleil!



  1. June 7 WORKSHOP:
    Mind-Body Education for Wellness Professionals

    An experiential Introduction to 2 Yoga Therapies
    Phoenix Rising with Soleil AND
    Yoga of T. Krishnamacharya with Kat Allen
    Saturday June 7, 12 - 5pm @ FourAims in West Seattle
    $75 pre-reg, $95 day of
    Register w/ Kat @ Four Aims: 206.650.7449


  2. June 14: "Walk & Shop" (FREE)
    A fun & easy led Meditation @ Lucy Store's

    Saturday, June 14, 11 -12am - University Village
    Saturday, June 14, 3 - 4pm - Bel-Square


  3. July / August YOGA ON THE DOCK (Mercer Island)
    Lightly led yoga (movement, meditation & sharing)
    @ the Luther Burbank Park docks on Mercer Island
    Most SUNNY Sunday mornings @ 10am in July & August.

    Directions: exit I-90 Island Crest way. Go NORTH till you drive into the south parking lot. Walk into the park, past the little beach, walk along the path by the water and you hit the docks.
    This is lightly led with no format, themed around connection to our selves, to nature, and each other. Talking / Sharing may be included. If I am not there, then continue to connect with yourself through your own yoga and enjoy the beauty that is all around you.

    By Donation
    Call to check if I'll show up: 206.300.7333


  4. JULY 18/19 WORKSHOP/CLASS:
    Orcas Island, San Juans: Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy

    Friday July 18, evening PRYT class.
    Saturday July 19, morning & afternoon hands-on Introductions.

    Studio: http://www.orcasmandala.com/