Grounding & Calming Vinyasa Class

This all-levels vinyasa class is designed to support balance during the holiday season, when the light, cool, and mobile qualities of Vata often increase. These qualities can feel uplifting, yet may also leave you feeling distracted, anxious, rushed, overwhelmed, or depleted.

Drawing on Ayurvedic principles, this practice uses grounding movement, steady breath, and gentle heat to help you warm from within and settle your mental pace. The sequence includes sun salutations, forward folds, seated twists, and belly-down backbends, along with calming pranayama and a restorative savasana. Closed-chain postures are emphasized to create stability and ease in both body and mind.

Props: A block (or stack of books), a blanket, socks, and an eye pillow if you like using one.

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Kathryn Templeton

Kathryn Templeton, MA, RDT/ MT/LPC, E-500 RYT, C-IAYT, NAMA-CAP Ayurvedic Practitioner Kathryn Templeton has devoted her life to the health of others. A psychotherapist for 30 years, Kathryn is a Yoga Alliance 500 Hour Yoga Teacher and continues to work both clinically and as an educator specializing in the treatment of individuals with anxiety, depression and complex trauma. As a C-IAYT, NAMA-registered Ayurvedic practitioner and YA-500 yoga teacher, Kathryn has worked to develop specialized treatments integrating the principles of yoga, ayurveda and clinical psychology. As a faculty member at the Himalayan Institute for a decade, she was the founder and director of the Himalayan Institute Ayurvedic Yoga Specialist program (HIAYS), Ayurvedic Health Counselor Program ( AHC) and online, the founder of The Three Wisdom Traditions: Integrating Yoga, Ayurveda, and Psychology (3WT). Kathryn is a published author in books and magazines such as; Yoga Journal, The Yoga of Parenting, Health and Spirituality Magazine and more. She continues to partner with Banyan Botanicals as an educator and has founded a new coaching program; The Ayurvedic Mental Health and Wellness Coach Program.

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kathyhammack February 7, 2026

Kathryn, I was not able to take the live course so I am grateful for the recorded version even though live is more fun. The class was awesome. Thank you very much for sharing. Hope to catch another class with you soon. So happy to see that your name is spelled the same as my given name – also Kathryn. Your class was awesome.

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