SERIES & RETREATS WITH DENISE
Please note that all SATURDAY YOGA Classes are canceled for July and August.
Yoga, Mindfulness and Meditation are essential practices for wellbeing. They are an integral part of Harmony Hill’s programming and align with our mission to inspire healthy living for all. In that spirit, we offer on-going wellness opportunities to help all of us live a more healthy, joyful, and creative life.
Harmony Hill invites you to join us as we pause, ground and center, wherever you are on your healing journey. Please enjoy:
VIRTUAL ALL-LEVELS YOGA CLASSES
All are welcome, regardless of ability or experience. These gentle classes are suitable for participants of all levels, and offer modifications for beginners and variations for those who want a deeper practice.
Led by Denise Carrico, Certified Integral Yoga Teacher with over 30 years of experience, these classes include the practices of breath awareness, mindfulness, and easeful movement. The sessions focus on the therapeutic and restorative nature of a regular yoga practice. Enjoy poetry readings and meditation as an integral aspect of the experience.
Saturdays, 10:00-11:30 a.m., PST
Tuesdays, 6:00 – 7:30 p.m., PST
Thursdays, 4:00-5:00 p.m. PST (Yoga for Cancer – Free Class to those who have been affected by cancer.)
Fees: $12 per class for Drop-ins, or $100 for a 10 class pass.
These classes are offered via Zoom. Class passes and reservations are available via Punchpass. Class sizes will be capped at 20 participants per session.
Please join the class 10 minutes early to create your space and to ensure that you can resolve any connection issues. Please have a mat, a blanket, and whatever props you may need. (Option of chair practice is available if needed).
TO USE PUNCHPASS
- You will first need to make a Punchpass account.
- Purchase either of our class options.
- Go into the Class Calendar and book your reservation(s). Currently, you can book up to 30 days in advance.
- You’ll get an email response to your reservation containing your link to the class session you selected.
- If you need to cancel or reschedule, you must do it 24 hours in advance, or your session pass will still be used.
RECORDED MEDITATIONS
Enjoy thoughtful and meaningful meditations for the times.
Meditation for Spaciousness – By Denise Carrico
Meditation on ‘Today’ (A poem by Mary Oliver) – By Denise Carrico
DENISE CARRICO, BFA, CERTIFIED INTEGRAL YOGA TEACHER, CHAPLAIN
A lifelong artist and seeker, Denise originally found a spiritual home in the beautiful, heartful practice of Yoga and has been offering classes, workshops, and retreats for over 35 years. She hopes to make the teachings and the practices of both Yoga & Meditation open to all who wish to deepen their relationship with themselves, to become kinder, more tender, and more intimate with their bodies and hearts, and ultimately expand that out to the wider world, for the good of all beings. Her practice is rich and integrated – using breath, mindfulness, Metta meditation, Yoga therapy, somatic movement, stillness, rest, poetry, and art – and is both gentle and therapeutic.
Grounded in this long-time practice and teaching, and coming to recognize her own long-held sorrows and how they have impacted her life, Denise set out on a path to explore grief and loss, both her own as well as the universal experience of grief. What she discovered is that we are a culture in grief and the healing of grief requires deep attention, our great love and a safe community in which to welcome and tend our broken hearts. Her wish became to extend the Yogic practices even farther out to offer a space for all of us to do just that.
As a Chaplain (trained in the Buddhist tradition through Upaya Institute & Zen Center in Santa Fe NM) and a Compassionate Bereavement Care Yoga Provider (through the work of Dr. Joanne Cacciatore), upholding the vows of care, kindness, and compassion in a world that is suffering is an integral part of what Denise brings into her work in the world. And moving in the space of grief and sorrow, grounded in the breath and the body, is elemental and necessary.
Denise is a part of the esteemed Faculty of Harmony Hill and here has found a place in which to gather with others where “healing is an act of communion” (bell hooks). She leads one to three-day Yoga & Meditation Wellness Retreats and offers a variety of Grief Programs including an ongoing, virtual Living with Loss circle, a quarterly one-day gathering, and a 2-day overnight retreat. She also co-facilitates Harmony Hill’s signature 3-day Cancer Healing Retreats as well as the 2-day Health Professional Renewal Retreats.
Denise offers weekly Yoga & Meditation classes for both the cancer and the wider communities, in person and online. And serves as a volunteer Chaplain at Mason General Hospital and as a hospice volunteer with Providence SoundHomeCare & Hospice.
When not leading programs or gathering in circles, she walks the quiet woods of Harmony Hill every day as a spiritual practice with her dog Mickie (and sometimes her cat Bella) and hikes the mountains of the Olympics as often as possible. She cherishes what is holy and beautiful in this world: her grandchildren, the body in motion, calligraphy, the rivers and forests, art, poetry, & kindness. These words of St Teresa of Calcutta guide her life and work: “We can do no great things; only small things with great love.”
