I'm thrilled you’ve decided to join me on this journey of discovery and transformation! Let’s take a few brief minutes to discuss the props you’ll need and how to approach this program:
I build the classes to follow a specific order, so it’s best to go sequentially through this series.
Part of the spiritual discipline you'll be learning is to become more focused, especially when you don’t feel like practicing. On days you don’t feel like going to your mat, go anyway!
I want you to revel in how you are different. Some days poses may feel difficult and the next day they come with little trouble, and then the day after that it seems harder than it ever was before! This is all part of the journey – enjoy it, dive into it, and pledge to learn in every moment!
If you are new to Forrest Yoga, you may feel tired in a way you never have before, and that’s okay! If you’re already a Forrest practitioner, you may feel tons of energy and want to do more. If you want to do more, you can add on an extra class. However you decide to use this program, I hope that you use it intelligently. Forrest Yoga is to enrich your life, dive into the moments of struggle, listen to your body, and use this series in a way that builds your intelligence, not in a way that makes you more numb.
Ana’s Bio
Ana Forrest has been changing people’s lives for 40 years. An internationally recognized pioneer in yoga and emotional healing, Ana created Forrest Yoga while working through her own healing from her life’s trauma and experience. With thousands of licensed practitioners around the world, Forrest Yoga is renowned as a powerful, physical, internally focused practice that emphasizes how to carry a transformative experience off the mat and into daily life.
Ana is the author of the highly acclaimed book, Fierce Medicine, an ordained practitioner of Native American Medicine, a Reiki Master, a Certified Regression Therapist, and a graduate of Anthony Robbins Master University. She is a Faculty Member at The University of Bridgeport College of Chiropractic and sits on the Boards of F.A.R.E. Play (Foundation for Athletic Research and Education) and Earth & Sky Circle (organization for Native American Ceremony). She is the recipient of a Los Angeles Mayoral Commendation recognizing her outstanding teaching and healing work in the community, the first time a major U.S. city bestowed such an honor on a yogi or yogini. Ana is a regular contributor to Yoga Journal and a consultant to the USAF 48th Fighter Wing (RAF Lakenheath, UK), Exalted Warrior Foundation (Tampa, FL) and hiwecanhelp.org (Newcastle, UK).
By teaching asana, breath and an awareness of the movement of energy through the body, Ana teaches yoga from an intuitive and highly developed understanding of the human body and psyche. With her meticulous guidance, Ana’s students cultivate an acute awareness of their own practice and life process, resulting in an exhilarating journey into self-discovery, cleansing and healing. For Ana, this is her intent. “In teaching Forrest Yoga, I am doing my part to mend the hoop of the people - to inspire people to clear through the stuff that hardens them and sickens their bodies so they can walk freely and lightly in a healing way, in a Beauty Way.”