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Gail’s Teaching Schedule for Fall 2021

Here’s my teaching schedule for Fall 2021

Monday 6:35 PM @ Wesley UMC $10 – Public Beginners Yoga Class – In-person or Online – after Labor Day
Tuesday 6:00 PM @Nederland/Beaumont/Bridge City – Free for Veterans & families
Wednesday 1 PM CST on MINDBODY Online. Sign up for a free account at least 1 hour prior, to book and verify your email the first time. Free – Gentle Yoga for Beginners and for Low Back Pain
Fridays 10:30 AM at Lakeside Best Years Senior Citizen Center
  • Monday 6:35 PM @ Wesley UMC $10 – Public Beginners Yoga Class – Starting back after Labor Day
  • Tuesday 6:00 PM @Wesley UMC/Clifton Museum in Beaumont/Bridge Point Fellowship church in Bridge City, Texas – Free for Veterans & families
  • Wednesday 1 PM CST on MINDBODY Online. Sign up for a free account at least 1 hour prior, to book and verify your email the first time. Free – Gentle Yoga for Beginners and for Low Back Pain
  • Fridays at LakeSide Best Years Senior Citizen Center – 10:30 AM
  • Private Yoga upon request.
  • Zoom Corporate Classes upon request.
Gentle Yoga for Low Back Care with Gail

WEDNESDAYS at 1 PM CST – Join VYP yoga teacher, Gail Pickens-Barger, for a 60 minute gentle yoga practice for easing back pain. Gail incorporates all five mind-body tools of VYP Mindful Resilience: Breathing, Meditation, Mindful Movement, Guided Rest, and Gratitude.

These tools help us breathe easy, focus clearly, move freely, rest deeply, and remember what is working in our lives. As a result, we become more resilient in the face of both ordinary and extraordinary challenges.

To help ease any regulars into classes, please invite them to
A) create a MindBodyOnline account with us,
B) visit the Classes page on our VYP website to see an integrated look at what we are offering online both daily and weekly, and/or
C) stayed tuned online with us through social media for announcements.

Here is the direct link for the VYP page resource with our classes:

https://veteransyogaproject.org/vyp-classes/

I bend, so I don’t break. Get moving!

I bend, so I don’t break. Get moving!

I bend so I don’t break.

I bend, so I don’t break. What about you?

So true. If you rest, you will tend to rust. When I taught yoga in Victoria Texas, I had 6 people come to my gentle yoga class that had fibromyalgia.

They told me they hurt if they don’t come, they hurt if they do come to yoga. But the hurt coming out of yoga was of a lot of body relief. They craved coming to class. I think that is because yoga not only works on the body, but the mind, and of easing of pain for some, and getting better sleep.

I think about that class that I had in V-town a lot because that was early on in my yoga career, and I just was a bit confused by their comments about different types of pain.

Now after teaching for over 20 years, it makes a lot of sense to me, as I am now inhabiting my body with levels of pain issues. Oh, if I don’t move, move move, it is big time hurt city. I still hurt, but pain levels between 7-9, now regularly sit between 1-3. That is significant to me.

What about you?

I invite you to come to my #freeyoga class held on #mindbody sponsored by the Veterans Yoga Project I’ve got the link below. Be sure to sign up at least an hour maybe two before your first class, so that you get the verification email in time to do class. You’ll get an email link to come into the class 30 minutes prior.

Gentle Yoga for Low Back Pain is what I teach. 60 minutes beginner-level class.

Yeah, you don’t have to bend like a pretzel or touch your toes to get massive health benefits from a regular yoga practice.

Comments? Complaints? Questions? Complements? I want to know!

Here’s the link https://veteransyogaproject.org/vyp-classes/

Summer Break – What is coming up?

Summer Break – what is coming up?

Summer break – Go ahead and catch classes on Youtube with YogawithGaileee and the Veterans Yoga Project

Links: Youtube with YogawithGaileee

Links: Youtube with Veterans Yoga Project

Links: Videos tab on VYP Online Streaming Classes Facebook Page

Other articles to check out:

Need a breathing, mindful movement, meditation, guided rest or gratitude practice? Gotcha covered!

Need a breathing, mindful movement, meditation, guided rest or gratitude practice? Gotcha covered!

Yoga sleep method to ease you into better sleep

Additionally if you go to:

Sew your own Buff or Gator aka Dust Face Mask – Top 8 Tutorials

Sew your own Buff or Gator aka Dust Face Covering. Dec. 2020

DIY, Sew your own face covering, buff, gator, neck cover, face covering mask.
DIY, Sew your own face covering, buff, gator, neck cover, face covering mask.

Here’s your list!  

From LuLaRoe Leggings - DIY face mask aka Buff - Gail Pickens-Barger
From LuLaRoe Leggings – DIY face mask aka Buff – Gail Pickens-Barger

The list of DIY tutorials for making the buff, face mask coverings.

  1. From the My Sewing Machine Obsession site – another great tutorial, with the emphasis of summer fabrics.  I like how this one is configured and updated.
    http://mysewingmachineobsession.blogspot.com/2020/07/mask-making.html
  2. https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-a-Stylish-Neck-Gator/ Also known as “Gator” good use transform into a buff/face mask
  3. http://giveitgrace.blogspot.com/2011/10/keeping-warm-and-staying-cheap.html Give it Grace Keeping warm and staying cheap: A DIY Head wrap/face mask. Oct 2011
  4. https://jennabrand.com/2014/05/01/tubular-bandana-buff-tutorial/ Tubular Bandana Buff Tutorial – May 2014
  5. https://www.thelaststitch.com/sewing-buff/
    DIY Buff 2015 Instructions PDF – Updated May 2020!  – https://www.thelaststitch.com/sewing-buff/
  6. http://blog.fehrtrade.com/gallery/883/sewing-indie-month-a-buff-tutorial/Buff – Sew your own active wear – May 2014
  7. https://lotsafreshair.com/2017/05/19/howto-make-a-buff/ Lots a Fresh Air Sewing your own Buff from a T-shirt May 2017
  8. Sewing your own Gator – Oct 2008
    https://gatorproject.wordpress.com/gator-neck-warmer-instructions/
Top 7 Buff / Gator DIY Sew Your Own Face Mask Tutorials - Online Yoga with Gail
Top 7 Buff / Gator DIY Sew Your Own Face Mask Tutorials – Online Yoga with Gail
Sew your own face mask / Buff / Gator Tutorial – Yoga with Gail

#diygator  #diybuff #diyfacemask diy face shield mask, make your own shield face mask, face mask diy #yogawithgail #gentleyogaforlowbackcare #reedityogabackpain

More sewing projects with masks and yoga!

Sewing your own yoga gear. My nice long yoga mat bag from upholstery material, plus yoga straps for the handles. Zafu Meditation seat cushions (pillows) made from denim. I've had the mediation pillows for year, they have held up nicely! Yoga with Gail. 409-727-3177
Sewing your own yoga gear. My nice long yoga mat bag from upholstery material, plus yoga straps for the handles. Zafu Meditation seat cushions (pillows) made from denim. I’ve had the mediation pillows for year, they have held up nicely! Yoga with Gail. 409-727-3177