ABOUT PATH TO CALM
Path to Calm offers support and training in meditation, yoga, conscious breathing and lifestyle techniques to foster wellness for organizations, groups and individuals who want to bring more balance into their daily lives.
Inclusive Practices
The practices offered are available and appropriate for all bodies and minds. No experience is necessary.
Path to Calm is rooted in a transformational vision of what moment to moment awareness, meditation and all forms of yoga, including yoga movement, offer to help shape our personal and collective experiences. We welcome and encourage participation from students regardless of age, sex, gender identity, race, ethnicity, body shape or type and physical ability.
Workshops
Justine has extensive experience designing and leading customized workshops for groups and organizations.
She is a skilled and very experienced workshop leader that can help your group or organization become an environment that is more supportive of balance and wellness. Justine’s instruction is inclusive and acknowledges the impacts of individual trauma, as well as the cumulative effects of community based and generationally based experiences of trauma and oppression.
I believe that having additional tools to promote self care will allow me to be more productive and grounded in my work. This training will allow for more effective and appropriate work with clients, colleagues, and community partners."
Domestic Violence Advocate, Wellness for Advocates Training
Individual Wellness Coaching & Practice Sessions
Are you interested in exploring more deeply your interest in mindfulness, meditation, yoga or day to day wellness strategies? Working individually with Path to Calm may be for you.
Online Classes
Path to Calm routinely offers online classes with Justine as well as other skilled wellness practitioners and teachers. Check out the scheduling page regularly and follow Path to Calm on Facebook for class announcements and offerings.
Retreats
Customized guided individual mindfulness, meditation and/or yoga retreats can be arranged in partnership with Sandstone Sanctuary, a gorgeous mountain retreat property on 20 acres in Central Pennsylvania where Justine she offers students the opportunity to unplug, reflect and restore. If you are interested in developing a customized personal meditation or yoga retreat at Sandstone sanctuary, contact justine@pathtocalm.com.
About Justine
Justine has been practicing yoga and meditation for more than 17 years. She is a certified Mindfulness Meditation Instructor through through the University of California Berkeley Greater Good and Science Center, an intensive 2 year program of study and practice for teachers led by leading insight meditation teachers Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield. Justine obtained several certifications in TriYoga® a comprehensive yoga tradition rooted in the ancient practices of yoga. She holds 4 certifications in this tradition of yogaflow® (movement), and Prana Vidya, focused on concentration practices (dharana), conscious rhythmic breathing sequences (pranayama) and meditation practices (dhyana).
Lineage
Justine has studied with many yoga and meditation teachers, and read widely in the arenas of buddhist and yoga philosophy (as well as in western materialist philosophy, and the emerging science of consciousness). She has also explored many forms of practice, from which she drew beautiful benefits and wisdom.
In the arenas of meditation and consciousness (often referred to as mindfulness in the west), Justine is particularly influenced by the teachings of the great Buddhist Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh; the teaching and work of Kate Johnson, and by her book Radical Friendship, Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust World; Sebene Salassie, author of You Belong: A Call For Connection.
In the world of yoga, Justine has also studied and practice widely, and she she is extremely grateful for finding her yoga home in the practice and teachings of Yogini Kali Ray (Kaliji), and also has drawn great inspiration from her other TriYoga teachers including Santoshi Devi, Theresay Shay and Gita Means.
Justine is a student of the practices of yoga and meditation that originate in Asia. While these are not her cultural traditions by birth she seeks to share them with as much respect and integrity as her continued learning allows.
Justine is also grateful to have had the benefit of working closely with Jennifer Anne Tucker, a herbalist and flower essence practitioner and overall wise woman who walks the planet and works with plants and other energies in Central Pennsylvania.
Justine does more than wellness teaching in the world. She came to more intensive training in meditation and yoga out of necessity - to try to find some balance in a demanding and stressful life as a victim’s rights and social justice attorney and activist who works with survivors trauma.
Justine found her path to balance in difficult work with the tools that yoga and meditation offer. While teaching yoga and meditation was the furthest thing from her mind when she began her own wellness journey, as she realized how central wellness was to the effectiveness of all the work we do, she obtained her first teaching certification (of many to follow) in 2013.
A note from Justine about scheduling:
I limit my individual students to a small number at a time. If you are interested in practicing with me individually please contact me at justine@pathtocalm.com and I will let you know as soon as an opening is available.
Path to Calm is co-located with Sig. Wellness Studio, a holistic mind-body focused practice setting created by Dr. Candace Good in State College PA, in person sessions are held at this location, online sessions are via Zoom.
Student Reflections
~ What Students Say about Working with Path to Calm ~
Justine is an expert teacher. She is able to recognize exactly what I need to deeply connect with the breath and movement practices. Instruction with Justine has been extremely valuable. She continues to support me on my journey towards developing a daily practice.
--Laura, age 59, educator
Yoga has added joy, vitality, purpose, and sincere understanding to my experience of life, and the meditation aspect of my work with Justine Andronici, my teacher and my Friend, has made Peace something personal, achievable, and something I can bring to my work and life in every moment. Grateful.
-- Susan Russell
Practicing with Justine is a gift--the breathing practices have improved my sleep tremendously and she treats me with respect as a fellow professional.
--Candace Good, MD
Workshops
Current offerings include
Wellness for Advocates and Service Providers
Mindfulness : The True Professional Edge
Deep Relaxation Tools: Relax the Body, Calm the Mind
Simple Tools for Better Sleep
Yoga at Work: Making the Workday Work
"Self-Care" is More than Just a Buzz-Word
Stretch the Breath First: The Yoga of Breathing
Every Body is a Yoga Body
Yoga for Stress & Stress Related Illness
Bringing Yoga Home: Developing an Achievable Home Practice
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