Create Calm - INA Wellness

Create Calm - INA Wellness Yoga and mindfulness education that supports learning and builds strength, health, joy, resilience, and peace. Sometime you just need to know how.

Offering yoga instruction, meditation, training, counseling, coaching, and integrative wellness for individuals and communities. Everyone has the capacity for unconditional health and happiness. Everyone has the innate ability to feel true goodness and joy. When we help just one person connect with their own potential for health and happiness, we help them connect to the world around them and crea

te calm in our communities, building a culture of inclusion, acceptance, empowerment, and peace. Nurturing and strengthening the "I iN All" - the inner-woven nature of our own minds and bodies, the interwoven nature of our Universe and the power we have to heal and grow together. INA Wellness offers private and group yoga & mindfulness classes, educational training and workshops, and programs to provide you with tools to unlock your inner greatness and to better connect with and strengthen yourself and your community. Discover the benefits and joy of learning through yoga and mindfulness with INA Wellness and help build a community of inclusion, acceptance, empowerment, and peace. Donate yoga and mindfulness programs to schools and organizations by giving to Create Calm, a section 501(c)(3) non-profit affiliate of INA Wellness. INA Wellness -- the Know-How to connect with your own inner goodness and joy and the tools to inspire it in others.

05/29/2026

Sometimes the most powerful nervous system reset is also the simplest.

Move.
Swing.
Shake.
Breathe.
Let it go.

When we intentionally move energy through the body, we create space for release, regulation, and reconnection. This is why rhythmic movement and breathwork can feel so grounding during moments of stress, overwhelm, or emotional buildup.

Your body was never meant to hold onto everything forever.

Try this for 30 seconds today and notice what shifts. ✨

Missed Lisa Danahy yoga nidra at The Happy Yogi Cooperative? You can still experience the magic — her Yoga Nidra: Star ...
05/27/2026

Missed Lisa Danahy yoga nidra at The Happy Yogi Cooperative? You can still experience the magic — her Yoga Nidra: Star Journey is available anytime on Insight Timer. 17 minutes to deep rest, whenever you need it. 🌸

05/20/2026

Sometimes we get so focused on saying something the "right" way that we miss what matters most.

I left a comment on this post because instead of noticing the connection, co-regulation, and presence unfolding, the conversation shifted toward correction.

But here's the thing. Whether it's "Om," "Aum," or "Hmmm"... it isn't about the word. It's about the function. The vibration. The pause. The pathway back home to ourselves. ❤️

When we help children build strong internal connections, those tools naturally ripple outward through co-regulation, compassion, and presence.

As this sweet reminder says:

"Don't worry about anyone else. Just worry about your heart... hmmmm." ❤️

Sometimes the lesson isn't perfection.

Sometimes it's connection.

Big people doing big things. 💙, congratulations! , you’re a rockstar. Celebrating the humans who keep showing up for cre...
05/19/2026

Big people doing big things. 💙

, congratulations! , you’re a rockstar. Celebrating the humans who keep showing up for creative, inclusive, and accessible education and reminding us what’s possible when passion meets purpose. ✨

✨ What if your most productive Friday night was doing... absolutely nothing? ✨Not scrolling.Not pushing through.Not carr...
05/18/2026

✨ What if your most productive Friday night was doing... absolutely nothing? ✨

Not scrolling.
Not pushing through.
Not carrying the weight of the week a second longer.

Just exhale.

Join Lisa Danahy for an evening of deep rest and nervous system renewal during Sunset Yoga Nidra, a practice often called "yogic sleep" that can guide you into profound states of relaxation and healing.

Through gentle movement, breath awareness, guided imagery, and meditation, you'll be invited to release tension, quiet the mind, and shift from stress mode into your body’s natural state of restoration.

Because sometimes healing doesn't come from doing more. It comes from finally allowing yourself to let go.

🌅 Sunset Yoga Nidra with Lisa Danahy
💻 Online Only
📅 Friday, May 22
⏰ 7:00–8:30 PM

No yoga experience needed. Just bring yourself exactly as you are. ❤️

Flashback Friday with More Artful Movement to come soon 💚💙🩵
05/15/2026

Flashback Friday with

More Artful Movement to come soon 💚💙🩵

05/13/2026

Check out our CEO on


Yoga is a fabulous tool for your divorce healing journey, with many benefits for the body, mind and spirit.

Check out this sequence of moves with yoga therapist Lisa Danahy - she will show you how to start a practice that can add so much value to your healing journey!

For more about how yoga can make your healing journey so much better, check out this full episode of The Divorce to Bliss Podcast on YouTube or your favorite podcast audio channel. 🦋

YouTube direct link: https://youtu.be/GO78O7EwNWo

Teacher Tuesday Spotlight ✨Meet Sydnea Lewis, a yoga and mindfulness educator with more than a decade of experience brin...
05/12/2026

Teacher Tuesday Spotlight ✨

Meet Sydnea Lewis, a yoga and mindfulness educator with more than a decade of experience bringing movement, creativity, and calm into schools, studios, and community spaces.

Sydnea has a special gift for making children’s yoga playful, inclusive, and empowering. Through movement, breath, imagination, and mindfulness, she helps children build confidence, connection, and body awareness in ways that feel joyful and accessible for every learner.

With specialized training in children’s yoga, Accessible Yoga, yoga for kids with special needs, and Rocket Yoga, Sydnea creates spaces where all children can feel supported, seen, and celebrated. 💛

We’re so grateful for educators like Sydnea who continue to bring calm, creativity, and compassion into the world.

✨ Want to learn more about our work and community offerings? Visit the link in bio.

Mother’s Day weekend can hold so many emotions at once.Love, gratitude, grief, longing, joy, tenderness, and sometimes s...
05/10/2026

Mother’s Day weekend can hold so many emotions at once.
Love, gratitude, grief, longing, joy, tenderness, and sometimes silence.

For some, this weekend is filled with celebration and connection. For others, it may stir memories of loss, complicated relationships, infertility, estrangement, or the ache of a mother they never had the chance to know.

And for many, it can be all of those things at the same time.

One of the most important things I’ve learned through yoga therapy and mindfulness is that healing begins when we allow ourselves to acknowledge what is true, without judgment.

So wherever you find yourself this weekend, I hope you move gently with yourself.
Take the walk. Rest when needed. Breathe deeply. Reach for support. Honor what is present instead of forcing what “should” be felt.

To the mothers, caregivers, nurturers, grieving daughters, chosen family, and those carrying tender hearts this weekend, you are seen. 🤍

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