A restorative class designed to bring body and mind into harmony. Led by Amy Rutledge the class begins with a guided self-massage ending with a mindfulness meditation. In this gentle practice, you’ll be guided through calming meditation techniques while receiving your own nurturing massage and soothing touch to release tension and encourage deep relaxation. This session blends breath awareness, grounding mindfulness, and supportive bodywork to quiet the nervous system, ease stress, and foster a sense of wholeness.

This practice is an offering of nourishment—an opportunity to pause, receive, and remember your natural state of ease. No prior experience needed, only the willingness to slow down and care for yourself.  At the end of class you will feel lighter, restored, and more at home within yourself.

Amy Rutledge came to the study of meditation as a path toward personal healing after struggles with the effects of Lyme Disease as well as depression and anxiety and found that it helped her in ways when many other approaches failed. This led her to training as a Mindful Meditation Teacher at the Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science in Manhattan. She has taught classes and led meditation exercises for a wide range of business and cultural institutions, from IBM, NACTO, and Jet.com (Walmart) to the Girl Scouts of America and the public institutions such as the Los Angeles and Jersey City Public Libraries.

Ms. Rutledge brings to her classes and workshops a graciousness for the second chance that mediation has given her and a passionate desire to aid others with their suffering as she has similarly been aided. She has an expertise in Loving-Kindness/Metta meditation and skills in leading meditation toward mindfulness, self-healing, self-worth and creative visualization. In addition to her skills with mindfulness and meditation, she has significant experience in the arts as an actress and producer, as well as experience as a ceramicist and owner at RoughWare. To start meditating with Amy now visit: meditatewithamy.com.