Master Class: Tugging at the Heartstrings - Yoga Practices to Support Emotional Resilience with Mary Richards

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Dates
Friday 06/19/2026 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Pricing
$30.00 Master Class: Tugging at the Heartstrings (Friday night 2026)


Suffice to say, we only have so much energy, be it physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual. Your practice can be dialed in to better distribute the day-to-day and cumulative load of living in a cortisol soup. Join Mary for an evening class dedicated to the science and practice of yoga for emotional resilience. 

Over the course of this 2-hour session, Mary will discuss the relationships between heart rate variability, vagal nerve tone, and nervous system regulation. She will lead us on a tour of the brain regions and signaling systems involved in emotion processing. 

We will practice several evidence-informed yoga and mindfulness techniques to help us shift from a reactive to a responsive nervous system. Making these shifts unloads emotional pressure points, so we learn to connect more clearly to our needs. In turn, we improve the odds of seeing to our needs with less strain and worry.



Mary Richards

MARY RICHARDS, MS, C-IAYT, ERYT, YACEP, has been practicing yoga for almost thirty years and travels around the country teaching anatomy, physiology, and kinesiology. A hard-core movement nerd and former NCAA athlete, Mary has a master’s degree in yoga therapy. Mary lives in the Washington, D.C. area, where she teaches syllabus-based yoga classes, sees clients privately, and trains bodyworkers, fitness professionals, and yoga instructors in movement literacy and therapeutic asana techniques.


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