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Exploring Neck & Shoulders
Tensions held in your body reduce the full range
of movement in your spine. Because of these tensions you may also
experience discomfort or pain.
The focus of this workshop will be to unlock those tensions all
along the spine to reduce or dissolve neck and shoulder pain or
discomfort. As tensions get released you’ll also experience
an increase in your range of movement.
Discover how making changes all along your spine helps with your
neck and shoulders. Approach the colder months with more ease. No
previous yoga experience is required.
The Support of the Open Heart Workshop
Do you notice how as some people get older they
have a tendency to tip forward and become crunched over?
Maybe you even notice this in yourself.
The shoulders tense up, with the front of the spine tipping and
rounding forward. In the winter it is even more noticeable how much
we round the shoulders forward and up. This leads to compression
through the rib cage and into the vertebrae behind the heart.
In this workshop we will be doing poses that reliably release the
compression in the lower spine and carrying that opening through
the rib cage and heart space area. You will find how to be comfortable
in a backbending pose and discover how it feels to lean into support
to allow the heart to open. This will include finding and receiving
the support and strength provided by your abdominal muscles.
Come and enjoy a full morning of spinal opening poses, yoga philosophy
and more, to support the opening of your heart!
Making
Space on Purpose
In Your Joints, In your Life, In Yourself
Gentle and invigorating. This 2 1/2 hour workshop starts with Yoga’s
relaxation pose,
Shavasana, then continues with poses and breath awareness to weave
the space
of relaxation into and through your body, mind and heart.
The poses in this class will move every joint in every possible
direction. Besides
opening all the joints, the poses move all the bones and muscles
in your body.
This improves circulation, and clears toxins. Your mental and emotional
state
and sense of vitality also improve.
Bliss Yoga Retreat
“Bliss is that feeling you have after you come up from your
final Shavasana (yoga’s relaxation pose), both relaxed and
alert. Yoga gives you a whole new type of bliss to experience.”
Rama Berch, founder of Svaroopa Yoga.
You are warmly invited to come and discover your bliss within –
that grace filled state of feeling FULL, COMPLETE, CONTENT. Not
dependent on having or getting anything on the outside.
You’ll be in familiar poses that will melt away layers of
tension that keep you from experiencing the bliss of being. You’ll
gain access to the deeper, more satisfying levels of your own Self.
This Bliss Retreat will include familiar yoga poses, chanting, meditation,
and some discussion to facilitate your ability to bring your experience
of bliss into daily life. Yoga philosophy will also be interwoven
to assist you.
To paraphrase one student’s experience: “Be prepared
to smile for weeks after the Bliss Retreat, for no reason at all.”
Exploring
Relaxation
Yoga has a relaxation pose named Shavasana. When you lie in this position,
more
muscles in your body relax than in any other body position. Shavasana
soothes your nervous system and calms your mind. You will experience
deep relaxation and feel wonderfully refreshed and rejuvenated.
This two hour class starts with a long shavasana followed by poses
to release tensions along the spine. Then, relaxing even more deeply
with a longer ending Shavasana.
No
experience necessary. All are welcome.
Salute to the Sun Series
Surya Namaskar, Sun Salutation, is a powerful yoga practice and
a dance of worship to the Truth and Light that is both in the sun
and in your Self.
In this workshop you will become familiar with the different segments
of
Sun Salutation. Then the segments will be practice together--moving
and
breathing through the sequence of 12 poses without tightening the
spine.
The focus will be on Sun Salutation as a moving meditation.
Deeper
or Continuing Students only. 
Walking the Mountain
You are the Mountain, taking yourself for a walk!
In
this workshop we’ll explore Tadasana, the Mountain pose to
discover how it feels:
- To stand with your best alignment
- To be in a standing Shavasana (yoga’s relaxation pose)
- To be grounded and expansive in your body simultaneously
- To take the experience of Tadasana (the Mountain) into walking,
exploring the dynamics of yoga walking
- To become more alive and aware as you walk!
Everyone will find a new aspect of walking that they can continue
to explore! Included will be poses that reliably release compression
in and along the spine; finding and receiving the support and strength
provided by your abdominal muscles.
Come and enjoy a full morning of spinal opening poses, yoga
philosophy and more . . .
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