SADHANA
The term sadhana comes from the Sanskrit root, sadhu, meaning “go straight to a goal”. Routinely applying mind, body and spirit is the most natural and efficient way to surrender the ego, to find relief from suffering and to attain peace.
Sadhana is the cornerstone of the discipline of our movement practices. Our East Asian movement practices provide a variety of tools for this purpose, ranging from physical practices and breathing techniques, to more introspective applications, such as svadhyaya (self-study) and meditation. Sadhana should be practiced for the sake of maintaining the practice, and as a means of cultivating discipline.
Yoga
Yoga at Trinity Body Arts embraces a synergy between East Asian medicine and Hatha Yoga. Our inclusive healing approach teaches us how to live in harmony with nature, with ourselves and with those around us. Our yoga classes offer pranayama, asana, meditation, mudra, and ethical lifestyle practices to support the mind, body and spirit. Through Yogic sadhana practices, we support you in therapeutic and wholesome practices that enhance your well-being; empowering you to live more healthy, connected, heart centered lives with the tools that Yoga, Daoist philosophy, and Ayurveda provide.
Our classes are small and intimate, allowing for a more individualized experience. For a deeper understanding of yourself, private sessions are available.
Martial Arts
The Cascadia Gong Fu Club is an affiliate organization of the North American Tang Shou Tao Association. Our mission is to research, promote and preserve East Asian martial arts. We teach our students to use martial arts as tools for personal cultivation; to maintain a calm, radiant spirit in the face of adversity, and to strive continually for mental, physical and spiritual balance.
Qi Gong
Qi gong is a contemplative movement art that blends skills of East Asian medical and martial arts. Qi gong literally translates as “energy work.” Meditation, breath control, and coordinated movement are practiced together as three parts of a whole. The purpose of this practice is to bring the body, mind and spirit in harmony with one another.
TRE
private / group sessions
Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE) are a series of exercises that assist the body in releasing deep muscular patterns of stress, tension, and trauma. Dr. David Berceli developed TRE in the late 1980s while researching how trauma occurs in the human organism. Regardless of how trauma is experienced, trauma expresses itself in the body. Those experiences are stored in the body until they find a way to be released. Most exercises are designed to release surface level tension. TRE, although simple and painless, are specifically designed to release the deep chronic muscular contractions created by trauma. TRE employs the natural mechanisms of the body to dissolve chronic tension.