Inner Wisdom Yoga & Healing Arts
Inner Wisdom Yoga & Healing Arts,
is a charming studio, created and opened with love and the intention to share the life-changing benefits of Iyengar Yoga, the ancient practice of meditation, and the healing craft of Reiki with the community of Oak Park, Illinois.If you are looking to learn and embrace any or all of these beautiful arts and take a step on this path of self care and self discovery please come visit or contact me.
Mary Fran Matichak
All classes are personally taught by Mary Fran, a dedicated Iyengar yoga practitioner of 17 years who has embraced meditation as a daily practice for over 25 years. As a certified Iyengar instructor, she is committed to on-going deepening of her own practice and education to develop personally and as a support to her students of this ever expanding art. The studio is quaint for careful, individualized adjustments and high quality of instruction. It provides a comfortable, lovely, non-competitive and nurturing environment. Iyengar Yoga is safe, a life long study, energizing, healing, FUN and makes one feel happy! Many friendships will be formed within these walls.
Iyengar Yoga
B.K.S. Iyengar is a living master with over 65 years of dedication to his art. It is a complete approach to physical, mental, emotional and spiritual transformation, bringing the practitioner to physical health and vitality, mental clarity and wisdom, emotional serenity, poise and joy.His style of yoga is safe orderly, systematic technique of postures taught to develop strength, stamina, concentration and body alignment. Focus is placed on training the body to stand and move in physical alignment which results in less muscular tension and more openness and space for the health and function of inner organs. Strength of the body (muscular, nervous system, organs, immune system) as well as strength of character are main benefits. With each practice one’s mind is trained to focus, resulting in meditation in action. Both mind and body feel quiet and relaxed yet alert and clear from this cleansing practice.
Use of props aid and adjust poses for individual needs. Students at any level of fitness can work at their own pace to progress and feel better. It is a wonderful spiritual path for those with this intention but it is not a necessity.
BKS IYENGAR WAS INCLUDED IN time Magazine’s“100 People Who Shape Our World: One of the world’s most influential people – Those whose power, influence or moral example touches the lives of all of us, right now”
Click to view article Time Magazine, April 26, 2004
Some BENEFITS of YOGA:
Physical and emotional strength
- Flexibility for freedom of movement and release of pain
- Increased endurance and energy
- Cardiovascular health - postures assist in venus and immune system flow, strengthen the heart organ, etc.
- Mental clarity and focus
- Improved coordination and posture
- Improved circulation and skin tone
- Clarity of mind
- Increased self acceptance and compassion for others
- Regulation of body weight
- Relief of daily stresses
Reiki
Reiki is the channeling of higher consciousness / energy to facilitate healing on many levels. Emotional and physical blocks are coaxed to open promoting release of toxins, pain and physical and emotional wounds resulting in new freedom.
Meditation
The 7th branch of the ancient art of yoga, meditation is the development of one’s relationship with their own highest self of purity and love. It is a practice, which requires cultivation but is quite accessible to all. This practice removes one from daily distractions into a place of peace, happiness and inner wisdom. It has many physical stress releasing benefits as well. One-hour relaxation / meditation classes begin with gentle restorative postures to calm the nervous system and are followed by meditation.
