Cindy Brown – (Shakti Ma)
Hatha Yoga:
Cindy Brown describes her yoga style as “a deep healing practice.” As a practicing psychotherapist for over 35 years, Cindy has a great understanding and appreciation of the deep healing benefits of yoga and meditation. Cindy’s love of yoga and meditation began in college. She became a certified Yoga teacher in 2001 following a year of training at Frog Pond Yoga with Diane and John Featherstone. She has continued her training at Kripalu in Pregnancy Yoga, Yoga for Depression, Senior Yoga as well as Life Force Yoga. Cindy also completed a teacher training program in Yoga for Osteoporosis in 2014 at the Sivananda Yoga Ashram in the Bahamas.
Cindy’s yoga classes are slow, deep and meditative with the goal of increased awareness and peace. She accommodates all levels in her classes and encourages her students to honor themselves in their individual process.
Cindy has been teaching weekly yoga classes at the Chelmsford Senior Center since 2004. Due to Covid all of Cindys senior classes are held online. Classes are: Mondays at 10:30am, and Thursdays 9:30am.
Laughter Yoga:
Cindy has a passion for laughter yoga. She heard about laugher yoga in a life force yoga teacher training and decided to train to be a laughter leader in 2009. What she did not anticipate was the powerful response that she would have to the practice. “I did not want to go another day without laughter”. She started a laughter club in Westford, MA called “Westford Laughs” in January of 2011. This club no longer meets weekly and has moved to online only since 2020.. You will find more information at www.Laughterisit.com where you will find a song that Cindy and Richard wrote about laughter yoga and much more. There is also a page on Facebook called Westford Laughs. Email address for all things laughter is laughterisit@gmail.com.
Meditation:
Cindy first began meditating in college. She has been involved in meditation groups, has co-lead meditation retreats in the past and lead a weekly meditation group at the Chelmsford Senior Center in Chelmsford, MA for six years. Meditation is now held online on Mondays at 9:15am and Wednesdays at 10am. All are welcome to join. No experience necessary.
Psychotherapy Practice:
Cindy has been practicing psychotherapy for 35 years, 30 of those years in private practice. She works with children, adolescents, individual adults and couples.