PACO - General Membership Meeting | January 23, 2023 | Wellness Initiative
*NOTE: This meeting has been rescheduled from 1/17 to 1/23 due to a scheduling conflict.
Presenter: Cassandra Struble
Topic: PACO Wellness Initiative
Being a paralegal can be stressful and exhausting. Sometimes constant schedule changes, busy caseloads, family obligations, and keeping up with our social media life can cause us to become unfocused and lose our balance. As we welcome 2023, PACO would like to give our members some self-care and wellness inspiration by providing free yoga and meditation sessions.
Come and learn more about PACO’s 2023 Wellness Initiative and how you can make new health choices in the new year. Cassandra will be going over yoga basics, including different yoga styles, buying equipment, basic yoga safety, and how self-care concepts relate to yoga. The session with also include a 10-minute desk yoga session and conclude with a 5-minute meditation.
Cassandra Struble is a 500-hour certified yoga and meditation instructor through YogaFit. Her training through YogaFit their Warriors 140-Hour Trauma Sensitive Certification and Holistic Whole Body Health 100-Hour Teacher Certification. This year, Cassandra will complete four additional YogaFIt 100-hour Certifications, Mind/Body Women’s Health, Ayurveda Lifestyle Coaching, and Mind/Body Recovery Coaching Certification. She is also currently studying to become a Certified Wellness Coach through NASM and is focused next on becoming a Licensed Yoga Therapist.
Cassandra started a regular mediation practice (Transcendental Mediation, TM) in 1998 and was raised with a focus on ayurvedic health practices, including grounding and self-care routines as a part of coping with stress. After years of constant change and being over-stressed, Cassandra found herself struggling with her weight and mentally in a broken place. She believed her coping mechanisms were failing as her weight approached 400 lbs. A severe back injury in 2012 gave her limited painful mobility and food had become her only coping skill. In 2014, she took her first yoga class and was hooked. Finding space on a yoga mat, gave her inspiration to have a gastric bypass, try several types of yoga including Ashtanga, and become a certified yoga instructor.
As the owner of Complete Life Balance since 2019, Cassandra’s core belief is anyone at any physical level can enjoy yoga and meditation while honoring our bodies. Cassandra offers virtual yoga sessions 5 days a week and can tailor any session to her client’s current yoga experience by offering modifications and simple understandable language. She teaches because seeing people find happiness and acceptance on a yoga mat is a truly amazing experience.
Anyone who has experience or instructs wellness, yoga, or fitness classes, please reach out to Cassandra to add your skill set to get our members moving in 2023!
