Welcome to Snow Poppy Yoga!
Meet Jasmin McGee...
With a deep belief in her purpose of being in service to the community, she became a Yoga teacher and a Death Doula. She joined Interconnected Private Wellness Practice, which consists of a team of specialists offering community a safe space to heal, expand, grow, grieve, and process all that encompasses being a living being in this lifetime.
Jasmin is a registered Yoga teacher through Yoga Alliance. She is an RYT500 and has completed over 600 Yoga teacher training hours.
She is also a member of the Veterans Yoga Project Teachers Alliance. It is a great honor for her to have the opportunity to hold space for and offer classes to our Veterans and Active Duty Members of our Military.
She actively works and collaborates with the local Wounded Warrior Project in Houston, TX.
Jasmin is also a graduate from the Going with Grace End-Of-Life Training Program and a member of the National End-of-Life Doula Alliance.
She is also a certified Volunteer Crisis Counselor through Crisis Text Line. It is a great privilege for her to hold space for individuals in need of support when they are experiencing a moment of crisis. Crisis Counselors can be reached 24/7. Text HOME to 741741 or click the link at the bottom of this page.
The intention of each Yoga offering is to help facilitate peace for the clients in her care by resting and restoring individually in a customized, private class and/or collectively with community. Classes offered are either local and in-person or virtual via Zoom. The hope is that each person leaving her class feels a sense of empowerment by gifting themselves a moment of rest and restoration to improve their quality of life.
Her intention for the End-of-Life Care & Planning offering is to help anyone in community imagine, curate, and prepare with grace their most peaceful and easeful passing. It can offer peace of mind to the client, their family, and loved ones. This helps support and encourage community to live their best lives with a sense of freedom and preparedness.
As part of her End-of-Life Care and Planning services, Jasmin is also a commissioned Texas Notary Public and can notarize the documents prepared as part of your Care Plan.
Her hope is to provide community opportunities to find a measure of peace in mind, body, heart, and spirit always and in all ways. This is an LGBTQ+ and BIPOC affirming ally space.
How Snow Poppy Yoga got its name...
The tenet of Snow Poppy Yoga is Ahimsa - a pathway to bring peace and love to Community.
White-petaled Poppy flowers represent a lasting commitment to peace, non-harm, and non-violence. They are a tangible symbol of Ahimsa - Patanjali's first Yama - the first limb of the 8 Limbs of Yoga.
In addition, Snow Poppy flowers are found in the woodlands of Eastern China.
Yin is one of the styles of Yoga that is a specialty on this platform. Yin is an East Asian influenced form of Yoga, which incorporates the principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Therefore, Snow Poppy flowers became the perfect symbol to represent this platform and offerings and that is how Snow Poppy Yoga got its name.
DEATH DOULA
A Death Doula or End-of-Life Doula is a person who is trained to offer comfort, support, and guidance to anyone wishing to get their final affairs in order whether they are healthy OR facing terminal illness and death. The emotional, spiritual, and practical care and services offered are holistic and non-medical. These services are available for the client as well as supporting family members and loved ones.
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YIN YOGA
Yin Yoga is a quiet, contemplative, slow-paced style of Yoga that builds resilience in the body. It bypasses muscular activation and focuses on the connective tissues of the body - the joints, tendons, and fascia. It incorporates the principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Yin Yoga asks the practitioner to come to the edge of a pose, find stillness, and hold the pose for a set amount of time. This style of Yoga gifts you the space and time to go inward and reflect - to practice interoception.
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RESTORATIVE YOGA
Restorative Yoga is a fully supported, slow-paced practice offering absolute comfort in order for the practitioner to completely relax the body and mind in order to experience deep rest. Each pose is held for an extended period of time requiring no effort from the practitioner once they are settled into the pose. Restorative Yoga is absolutely essential in resetting the nervous system and promotes healing and balance. This practice gifts you the time to find peace in mind, body, heart, and spirit.
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END-OF-LIFE SUPPORT
My support can include but is not limited to:
-Holding space for and offering respite care, emotional support, and comfort; sitting vigil; and acting as a patient advocate.
-Creating a care plan and a death plan with special considerations for rituals and rites.
-Guidance with Advance Directives, Last Will & Testament, Living Trust, Disposition of Body, and Funeral Arrangements.
-Support with bereavement and burnout.
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COLLECTIVE YOGA PRACTICE
Join Community from near and far to breathe and move as one. Practice virtually via Zoom or in person as a collective and make new friends. Be in learning and expansion together. Check the schedule for virtual and in-person class offerings.
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PRIVATE YOGA PRACTICE
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