About Cultivating Your Awareness
Our Mission
At Cultivating Your Awareness the mission is to offer you tools to add to the toolbox for your journey of health and wellness. Learn practices that engage holistic methods to help you manage stress and cultivate personal awareness through meditation, movement, and breathing techniques gathered from traditional yoga therapy and other positive health practices whether you are retired, an athlete, a stay-at-home parent, a veteran, a student, or juggling life in a high-pressure job. "Wellness is the next mission - where self -awareness, resilience, and community come together to build, rebuild, and balance ourselves, those around us, and those we care for."
Feel your Awareness Blossom. Join the practice on Zoom.
You might laugh, you might sweat. You will get quiet, and you will get focused!
Life can be demanding — whether it’s stress at work or home, recovering from an injury, caring for others, or simply trying to feel like yourself again. Each practice meets you exactly where you are, encouraging progress with intention rather than force.
These 4-Week Breathing, Meditation, and Movement Workshop is designed for those seeking greater calm, strength, and balance in daily life. Through gentle breathing practices, mindful meditation, and purposeful movement, you’ll support your body’s natural ability to relax, rebuild strength, and restore balance — while nurturing clarity and emotional well-being, bringing lasting improvements in relaxation, mobility, focus, and overall wellness. Private, Semi-private, small group, or workshops.
Reconnect with your mind, body, and spirit — one week at a time.
Breathing Practice
Monday-Wednesday-Friday - (Pacific Time)
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
or
8:00 PM - 8:45 PM
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Breathing * Yoga Movement * Meditation Practice
Thursdays (Pacific Time)
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Breathing * Yoga & Movement * Meditation Practice
Saturdays (Pacific Time)
11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
Breath, Meditation and Movement
For questions, scheduling, or registration, please call 714-264-7896 or drop us a line below.
Prerequisites include:
- Basic experience with yoga, and an awareness of your physical capabilities and limitations.
- PARTICIPATION IN THIS PRACTICE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK.
- Contact us for additional information.
NAMASTE
Cultivate Awareness with Breath and meditation
Meditation or Reflection involves learning the power to concentrate on a single thought, deep total body relaxation, and slowed breathing. You can live without food or water for some time, but you cannot live long without Breath.
Give yourself the valuable time to learn methods of breathing techniques and practices that combine breath, sound vibrations and focused awareness to promote deep relaxation, reduce stress, and support overall physical and mental well-being. Coupled with meditation, breathing techniques help stop the chatter in your mind and aids in reducing anxiety, anger, and depression. It helps you focus on your positive intentions through short or long practices. It may be challenging at first, but as you practice more, it becomes easier it to focus and relax.
Reflections:
How do you breathe when you are stressed or angered?
When you inhale, what do you do with your stomach?
What do you see when you close your eyes, when you relax?
Don't think about it. Just Observe and Cultivate Your Awareness! Understand the Culture of Your Mind!
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I was fortunate to meet Cynthia during my journey through breast cancer and multiple surgeries. Before working with her, I had never explored breathwork, but after experiencing the benefits firsthand, I knew I wanted to continue.
Cynthia has an intuitive gift for meeting you exactly where you are and guiding each session in a way that evolves naturally with your healing and growth. Her calming voice and peaceful presence create an environment of comfort and safety, even through Zoom.
Her sessions beautifully combine breathwork, visualization, meditation, and gentle seated movement, making the experience deeply grounding and restorative.
I truly believe that working with Cynthia has supported not only my physical recovery but also helped me reconnect with myself and find a new sense of inner balance. Julia Mattingly, Nurse
Julia Mattingly, Nurse
Yoga Therapy & Fitness Mindset - Cultivate Awareness, Movement, Fitness, and Breath for Daily Living.
Yoga was not popular or acknowledged by athletes or fitness enthusiasts in the 70s or 80s. I applied what I learned at VYASA-LA to what I know about athletics and a fitness lifestyle coupled with what I felt most athletes and physically active people would benefit from in yogic practice to maintain their fitness health and become less prone to injury. This is based on my personal experience.
- Breath and movement are powerful—whether you’re an athlete, a student, or a busy professional. Regular practice builds calm focus, eases stress, and helps you move with strength and balance at your level.
- Dynamic movement is athletic by nature, yet when paired with relaxation and focused breathing, it can also assist in cultivating inner awareness and calm.
- The additional practice of SANDDUNE™ Training enhances balance, proprioception, supports healthy circulation, natural lymphatic flow, and whole-body awareness by strengthening the connection between the feet, body, and brain, and contributes to overall wellness.
This mindful approach is especially helpful for injury recovery and returning to balanced, safe movement. I may not be the “pretzel” I once was, but I’m still grateful to stay active in ways that feel good. The old “no pain, no gain”? For me, it now simply means—just keep moving. And that’s what it really comes down to ... finding and experiencing joy in the movement and caring for your body, one step at a time, bringing back your body's dynamic equilibrium .
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My students enjoyed the calm and peacefulness of Cynthia’s practice which helped create an environment of positive relationships.
My students were always excited to do yoga. And, most importantly, the benefits of yoga are everlasting.
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Former NFL Pro Cornerback Lucious Irvin Smith
of Lou’s Training Systems ~
More Body Awareness Practice
The additional practice of SANDDUNE™ Training enhances balance, proprioception, circulation, and whole-body awareness by strengthening the connection between the feet, body, and brain. It gives our often-forgotten toes some much-deserved attention while helping improve stability, coordination, movement efficiency, and overall wellness. The dynamic movement and muscle activation may also help support healthy circulation, including the body's natural lymphatic flow.
The SANDDUNE™ is an excellent tool for healthy aging, prehabilitation, rehabilitation, recovery from everyday life and athletics, and overall wellness.
And it's FUN! Challenging, engaging, effective—and YES, again FUN!
I have been training and rehabilitating on this apparatus for more than 10 years, and it is unlike anything else I have used. My body has responded in ways I never expected, whether I was using it for a quick jog in place, injury recovery, yoga, weightlifting, kettlebell swings, or jumping rope. I have found it to be a tremendous tool for developing focus, concentration, balance, and body awareness.
Cynthia
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“It (SANDDUNE™ ) challenges the glutes making them fire. This is your base and key for keeping the lower back strong."
Lucious "Lou" Irvin Smith - Former NFL Pro Cornerback
Lou Smith of Lou’s Training Systems is no stranger to sports performance training and rehabilitation. After his 2nd hip replacement surgery, Lou was positively influenced with the lower body strengthening the SANDDUNE delivered in a short period of time with consistent use.
ABOUT CYNTHIA
I was first introduced to yoga in the mid-70s through the book Wholistic Health and Living Yoga by Malcolm Strutt, and what began as simple “exercises” soon became a deeper practice for strength, stress relief, and balance. In 2016, I earned my certification as a Traditional Yoga Therapy Instructor through SVyasa LA–Vivekananda Yoga, which opened my eyes to the true meaning of yoga—yoking body, mind, and spirit. As a lifelong athlete turned “mature, inflexible yogi,” I now focus on working with the flexibility I/we do have, while weaving in breath and meditation. Over the years, I have enjoyed guiding kids, athletes, veterans, elders, officers, and business owners. The best part is always watching students surprise themselves with their progress.
Breathing, meditation, and slow movement practices for true wellness don’t happen alone—it takes a village. Positive Self-awareness and human connection reveal to us that we are not only linked through our individual communities. It reveals that we are linked to the global village, too! It is Universal!
Certified Yoga Therapy Instructor 2016
Vivekananda Yoga Research Foundation, Los Angeles -VYASA-LA
VaYU Vivekananda Yoga University (VaYU), USA
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A teacher of mine passed on to his sttudents what he had learned and I pass this gem on to you ...
Our lives are like dew drops on a lotus leaf.
Embrace each moment for the unique gift that it is and what it brings.