Healing For The Holidays - by Itzel Hayward

COURSE

Healing For The Holidays

With Itzel Hayward

Healing for the Holidays is a gentle invitation to move through the season with more steadiness, compassion, and presence. Across four guided sessions, you’ll explore simple practices to help soothe your nervous system, offer yourself compassion, set loving boundaries, and reconnect with authentic joy through presence. Each lesson blends mindful awareness with body-based guidance, supporting you in listening inward, honoring your needs, and meeting your experience with tenderness.

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Meet your Teacher

Itzel Hayward
Oakland, CA, USA

Itzel Hayward is a yoga, meditation, and communication teacher who supports individuals and communities in working and relating with greater clarity, care, and connection. With a background in mindfulness, compassionate communication, yoga, and other somatic practices, Itzel creates environments where people can show up authentically, honor their inner experience, and engage with one another in ways that foster trust and genuine presence.

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5 Days

22 students

5.0 stars

12 min / day

Healing

English

Lesson 1

Introductory Lesson: Welcome To Healing For The Holidays

This introductory lesson lays out the foundations of the course and the approach behind it. You’ll learn how the four core practices of this journey—grounding the nervous system, offering yourself compassion, cultivating inner clarity, and reconnecting with joy—work together as a restorative cycle to support you through the holiday season. You’ll also be guided through how each session is structured, including how the teaching and guided practice in each lesson help you settle, soften, and meet the season with greater steadiness and presence.

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Lesson 2

Managing Stress

This lesson includes a soothing, body-based practice to help regulate the nervous system and release holiday stress. You’ll practice simple breath and awareness techniques to ground yourself when emotions or environments feel overwhelming.

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Lesson 3

Practicing Self-Compassion

This session guides you through a practice of offering yourself love and compassion — remembering that you are already enough, just as you are. Through guided reflection and simple phrases of care, you’ll reconnect with your inherent worthiness and allow compassion to flow inward.

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Lesson 4

Setting Boundaries With Love

This lesson explores boundaries as an expression of dignity, clarity, and care for yourself and your relationships. Through guided awareness, you’ll practice recognizing and honoring both your genuine Yes and true No, making space for choices rooted in truth and authenticity.

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Lesson 5

Finding Joy In Presence

This session invites you to experience joy not as something to earn or perform, but as a quiet expression of presence. Through gentle body-based awareness, you’ll explore how joy and well-being can naturally arise when you allow things to be as they are.

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5.0 (6)

Recent Reviews

KatieG

December 5, 2025

A lovely course to keep me grounded during this personally hectic and nationally and globally tumultuous time. I deeply value practices that inspire peace, compassion and joy and I found it here. Thank you! 🙏🏼

Drew

December 2, 2025

I really loved this Itzel. It comes at a time where I really am doing a peculiar balancing act, both having learned these past eight years to finally allow myself time to live from my authentic nature, and dealing with someone who would be happier if I gave that time back to them haha. So, this was like a little staycation for the heart, and yes, especially since it is holiday season. I enjoyed your pacing, your soothing voice and the way you allow silence to just be there. Thank you for this offering. #blessup Drew 🙏🏽✨️🎀

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