My classes are a combination of all of my training- dance, vinyasa yoga, hatha, restorative, Katonah yoga, meditation, breath-work, prenatal/postnatal, applied positive psychology, and art. I have 10,000+ hours of teaching under my belt, 1000+ hours of training from Yoga to Positive psychology to anatomy, I have led 30+ Yoga teacher trainings, and I have 15 years of teaching experience within New York City, Seattle, California, and Philadelphia. I have taught on the Steps of the Brooklyn Museum and Yoga at Bryant Park, as well as, for numerous studios- Yoga to the People, Vera Yoga, Tangerine, Heatwise, Jewel City Yoga, YogaSpark, The Yoga Room, NP Rock, and currently teaches in and around New York City and Philadelphia. Dance brought me into the world of yoga, where I searched for a movement practice that uplifted vs critiqued and used the body to transform the mind.
Modern dance led me to NYC where I danced for local companies and apprenticed with The Martha Graham Dance Company. Those skates became a BFA in Modern dance from University of The Arts in Philadelphia. I have had a love affair with movement my entire life and it all began in a roller dance class in Mt.Airy. Hi! I am Holly (she/her/hers) , but you can call me Bird. So I have returned home to Philly, to move with love in the place that raised me with so much love. The community I cultivated through movement practices was equally, if not more, healing than the movement itself.
I realized, through yoga, that what inspired me most about the practice of movement wasn’t pushing my body to see what it could do but, instead, creating community and seeing what we could do. I was living my childhood dream in New York City, forcing my body to be the strongest and the “best,” and I had never felt more isolated and insecure in my life. From there it developed into a BFA in Dance from the University of the Arts and an apprenticeship with the Martha Graham Dance Company. My personal romance with movement began on the streets of Philly, with a pair of hot pink roller skates my mother gave me for a roller dance class. Airy and, after over a decade of dancing and teaching yoga across New York City, have found myself calling this neighborhood home again. Written physician approval/medical clearance to participate in an exercise/yoga protocol.Move with Love began as a personal mantra and has since grown into a movement philosophy grounded in the love of self and of community.Sedentary as defined by moderate-intensity exercise less than 2 days/wk for at least 30 minutes each.Currently smoke an average of at least 10 cigarettes per day.Female only patients ages 18-65 capable of providing informed consent.We also hope to obtain initial effect sizes of the advantage of yoga compared to waitlist for point-prevalent abstinence at two weeks following an unaided quit attempt. More specifically, we hypothesize that certain typical maladaptive, during-withdrawal changes may be attenuated through YOGA. We hypothesize participants assigned to the yoga condition (relative to waitlist) will differ on various outcomes assessed throughout the intervention (e.g., quit status, negative affective states, stress, hormonal changes, withdrawal) and, quit day, and throughout the 2-week quit follow-up period. We will randomly assign 50 smokers (≥10 cigarettes daily) low in DT to either an 8-week yoga intervention or a waitlist control prior to undergoing a self-guided quit attempt. Regular practice of yoga, a mindfulness-based form of physical activity, emerges as a promising strategy for regulating the HPA-axis, decreasing withdrawal symptoms, and increasing DT, thus promoting smoking cessation success. Reducing nicotine withdrawal-related distress and relapse in low DT smokers may require the regulation of certain hormones involved in the hypothalamic pituitary axis (HPA-axis) (i.e., the human stress response). The development of such strategies is best directed by basic research on the biobehavioral processes underlying smoking maintenance and relapse.Ī major predictor of cessation failure is nicotine withdrawal, especially among individuals low in distress tolerance (DT). As the leading cause of preventable death in the US and a major cause for chronic disease/mortality worldwide, smoking represents a major public health issue in need of effective interventions to reduce its burden.
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