MAY

Parent and Toddler Yoga: an Eight-week Series
Fridays, April 11-May 30, 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Studio 209
Finally, a class for parents with little crawlers and walkers! This eight-week series includes a strengthening and relaxing yoga practice with a postnatal focus, as well as songs, play, and yoga-based movement for toddlers. The community-oriented class involves parents taking turns helping out with the little ones. This series is meant to allow busy parents time to practice together, give toddlers an outlet for social interaction, and deepen the parent-child connection through yoga. For crawlers to 4 year olds with parent or caregiver. Limited space: register in advance to reserve a spot.

Juliana Birnbaum Fox is a certified Interdisciplinary Yoga Instructor who began her studies of yoga in India and Nepal, and went on to practice in New York at Jivamukti studios and at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies. She completed her training in 2000 with Amba and Don Stapleton, co-founders of the Kripalu Center's yoga teacher training program, and has been teaching since then. During her pregnancy with daughter Lila in 2006, she completed the Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training at Greenpath Studios in San Francisco. She currently teaches vinyasa, restorative, prenatal, and mom and baby classes at World Yoga in Walnut Creek, Yoga Tree and International Orange in San Francisco, and Seventh Heaven, Yoga Mandala, and BYC in Berkeley.
Instructor: Juliana Birnbaum Fox
E-mail: julianapeartree@gmail.com

The Mind: Kundalini Yoga & Meditation
Saturday, May 3, 1:00-5:00 p.m. "Oh, mind, you are part of that universal light, recognize yourself as who you are!" (Yogi Bhajan)Let us train ourselves to be unlimited. Let us recognize that we don't have to identify with our thoughts. Let us accept that our own thinking is causing our pain. This workshop will focus on developing our mind to serve our highest destiny. We will use asana, pranayam, meditation, and mantra. $35 pre-registered by April 29, $50 after. Nonrefundable. All welcome!
Instructor: Swaran Kaur (212) 729-8407
E-mail: iriscastle@hotmail.com

Slow Yoga: Further Explorations in Yin/Yang Practice
Saturday, May 3, 2:00-5:00 p.m.
Studio 209
This will be a longer, slower practice that will balance your nervous system and engender a more contemplative state of mind, bringing you into more direct and intimate contact with yourself, which is the primary aim of yoga. Our time together will include Yin yoga as well as a more vigorous flow practice and meditation.
Instructor: Cybèle Tomlinson (510) 558-6936
E-mail: cybeleb@hotmail.com

Repetitive Stress Injuries: On-going Monthly Yoga Workshop
Saturdays, May 10 & June 21, 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Studio 209
This workshop offers monthly asana practice for those seeking to prevent Repetitive Stress Injuries or those working with mild injuries: carpal tunnel, tendonitis, thoracic outlet compression. People recovering from surgery may also attend. We will explore yoga as a complimentary healing modality. In addition to learning yogic breath, balance and relaxation, we will build on four "anatomical" themes: length up the spine; openness in the shoulder girdle; length out the arms; and full, open, juicy joints (wrists, elbows and shoulders). Each workshop engages yoga appropriate for mild injuries, building over time to gentle strengthening in the fullness of the joints (and breaking old habits of compression). Working in a restorative or therapeutic vein, the yoga is more effective at earlier stages of problems—and most effective as stress reduction and preventative work. This series is great for beginners to yoga, as well as those whose injuries keep them from their regular yoga practice. See www.GarudaHealing.com for more information.
Instructor: Jim Stockton (510) 282-0446
E-mail: garudahealing@yahoo.com

Lullabies Concert with Diana Rowan (harp) and Lily Storm (voice & harmonium)
Sunday, May 11, 7:00 p.m.
Studio 209
Harpist Diana Rowan and vocalist Lily Storm present rare lullabies from around the world (Malta, Lithuania, Isle of Man, to name a few) arranged in artful and surprising ways. Lily's intensive studies with the greatest living masters of Balkan, Eastern European and Middle Eastern music, coupled with extensive field studies, combine with Diana's background in Western classical, Balkan and Sephardic music to create a multi-layered, magical experience. Lullabies are a fascinating vehicle for the musician; being so compact, they allow great scope of interpretation while also containing a tremendous amount of musical and historical DNA. Harmonium and some vocal harmonies will fill out the atmosphere. For this "clapless" concert, the audience will have the rare opportunity to use the yoga props for relaxation, asanas and meditation, experiencing the music in a continuous, uninterrupted flow.

Harpist Diana Rowan's playing has been described as having "unusual power and beauty." Born in Ireland, she lived on the East Coast, in Europe and the Middle East before settling in Berkeley, California. Diana's classical training (MM Piano Performance, under Tchaikovsky Piano Competition prize-winner Roy Bogas, intensive ongoing studies with Alice Giles, 1st prize-winner of the Israel International Harp Contest) intersects with her love for Balkan, Eastern European, Sephardic and Middle Eastern music to create compelling solo and ensemble performances. Currently collaborating with her mentor and Kitka founder Bon Singer's vocal ensemble Ya Elah, vocal virtuosa Lily Storm, Hindustani bansuri master Deepak Ram, and rising early music stars San Francisco Renaissance Voices, Diana can also be heard on several CDs including her debut solo album Panta Rhei. Diana's second album, The Bright Knowledge, will be released 2008.
www.sirenharp.com
www.pantarheicd.com

Lily Storm is a singer specializing in traditional music, with particular experience in Eastern European styles. She has studied with many traditional singers, and has traveled extensively, living for some months in Hungary and Greece and visiting Russia, Georgia, Turkey, Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Montenegro, Croatia and India. She also makes use of archival recordings to study ancient styles preserved into the early 20th century. Lily performs with several ensembles in the Bay Area, working with musicians including Ryan Francesconi, Dan Cantrell, Aya Davidson, Beth Bahia Cohen, Eric Perney, Peter Maund, Shea Comfort, Leslie Bonnett, Dan Ziagos, Bill Lanphier, Bryan Bowman, and Lucia Comnes. She also performs early music with Shira Kammen, Tim Rayborn, and Kit Higginson; Scandinavian folk music with the Swedish duo Dram, and she has collaborated with Kane Mathis, an accomplished kora and oud player. Highlights of the last year include singing with the Toids to open for Joanna Newsom, and performing in Greece with Lucia Comnes at the Voices of Stone ( ) Festival, sharing the stage with Petro-Loukas Halkias and Domna Samiou, among others. Previously she sang with the Bay Area vocal ensemble Kitka for 5 years. As part of Kitka, she recorded as a soloist (The Vine, Wintersongs), collaborated in concert with ensembles including Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares, Ziyia, Ensemble Alcatraz, Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir, Davka, and Mariana Sadovska, and appeared on Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion and NPR's Performance Today.
www.songbat.com
To buy tickets: Diana Rowan (510) 559-9660 or (510) 717-7148 cell
E-mail: Diana@sirenharp.com

Yoga Workshop for Moms of Young Children
Saturday, May 17, 2:30-6:00 p.m. Studio C
This workshop is designed for mothers of young children, focusing on strengthening, toning, and nourishing the body, as well as building community. Yoga is a simple but deeply enriching way to nurture yourself and your spirit. Please wear comfortable clothing and bring a journal and pen: we will do some writing.
Instructor: Melanie Green (510) 559-8890
E-mail: melyoga@hotmail.com

Deepen Your Personal Practice
Sunday, May 18 & Saturday, June 14, 2:30-5:30 p.m.
Studio 209
Give yourself three hours to drop into your practice. These classes are like a mini retreat. They combine meditation, Yin yoga and a slow-flowing Yang yoga. The themes of these personal practices relate to the time of year. We focus on the organs of the season, the nature of the season, and how to bring ourselves into greater balance through our practice. Yin yoga targets the deep connective tissues in the body through long-held passive poses. The Yang yoga invigorates the muscles, blood and breath, while building strength and stamina. See www.lotusofferings.com for more information.
Instructor: Diane Sherman (510) 654-6080
E-mail: diane@lotusofferings.com

Yoga to Support Meditation
Saturday, May 31, 2:00-5:00 p.m.
Studio 209
Wanting to rekindle or deepen your seated meditation practice? In this 3-hour workshop we'll practice postures to open the hips, spine and upper back in support of a more comfortable, grounded seat. Time will be spent exploring seated meditation posture, modifications and proppings to improve ease and reduce injury. Bring a notebook and your cushion. Yogis and yoginis of all levels are welcome. Space limited.
Instructor: Ada Shedlock (510) 552-0155
E-mail: info@adayoga.com


JUNE

Yoga as Medicine: a Workshop with Timothy McCall, M.D.
Saturday, June 7, 2:00-5:00 p.m.
Studio 209
Please join physician/yogi Timothy McCall for an overview of yoga therapy as practiced in different traditions in both the United States and India. We'll discuss the principles of yoga therapy, the science behind it, how to integrate yoga into both conventional and alternative health care, how Ayurveda can inform yoga and yoga therapy, and try out a few practices. Timothy McCall, M.D., is a board-certified specialist in internal medicine and a dedicated yoga practitioner who has traveled to India and throughout the United States observing, training with, and interviewing the world's leading yoga teachers and therapists. He is the medical editor of Yoga Journal and the author of Yoga as Medicine: The Yogic Prescription for Health and Healing (Bantam). He can be found on the web at www.DrMcCall.com.
To register: BYC (510) 843-8784
E-mail: cybeleb@hotmail.com

I Love My Practice: Kundalini Yoga & Meditation
Saturday, June 14, 1:00-5:00 p.m.
Studio C
This is a celebration of the practice of Kundalani Yoga & Meditation. We will do a yoga set to open the chakras. Then we will meditate, sing, dance, write, and love our spiritual practice. Let us be greateful for sucha a powerful and effective technology. Let us remember how much we have grown through this yoga and how much our lives have changed. Please come and be with us. Especially if you are feeling burnt out, frustrated, or unclear with why you practice yoga. First timers welcome, too! $35 pre-registered by June 3, $50 after that. Non-refundable. Please bring a light vegetarian snack to share.
Instructor: Swaran Kaur (212) 729-8407
E-mail: iriscastle@hotmail.com

Deepen Your Personal Practice
Saturday, June 14, 2:30-5:30 p.m.
Studio 209
Give yourself three hours to drop into your practice. These classes are like a mini retreat. They combine meditation, Yin yoga and a slow-flowing Yang yoga. The themes of these personal practices relate to the time of year. We focus on the organs of the season, the nature of the season, and how to bring ourselves into greater balance through our practice. Yin yoga targets the deep connective tissues in the body through long-held passive poses. The Yang yoga invigorates the muscles, blood and breath, while building strength and stamina. See www.lotusofferings.com for more information.
Instructor: Diane Sherman (510) 654-6080
E-mail: diane@lotusofferings.com

Repetitive Stress Injuries: On-going Monthly Yoga Workshop
Saturday, June 21, 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Studio 209
This workshop offers monthly asana practice for those seeking to prevent Repetitive Stress Injuries or those working with mild injuries: carpal tunnel, tendonitis, thoracic outlet compression. People recovering from surgery may also attend. We will explore yoga as a complimentary healing modality. In addition to learning yogic breath, balance and relaxation, we will build on four "anatomical" themes: length up the spine; openness in the shoulder girdle; length out the arms; and full, open, juicy joints (wrists, elbows and shoulders). Each workshop engages yoga appropriate for mild injuries, building over time to gentle strengthening in the fullness of the joints (and breaking old habits of compression). Working in a restorative or therapeutic vein, the yoga is more effective at earlier stages of problems—and most effective as stress reduction and preventative work. This series is great for beginners to yoga, as well as those whose injuries keep them from their regular yoga practice. See www.GarudaHealing.com for more information.
Instructor: Jim Stockton (510) 282-0446
E-mail: garudahealing@yahoo.com

Extended Practice
Saturday, June 28, 2:30-5:30 p.m.
Studio 209
Devote one long afternoon each month to your yoga practice and experience the difference three hours can create for your body, mind and spirit. Our time together will delve deeply into the internal landscape of both physical and energetic body through a series of deep openers, standing postures, inversions, backbends, pranayama, relaxation and meditation. Open to students with a minimum of one year of practice. Please contact Ada in advance should injury or other considerations affect your yoga practice. Space limited.
Instructor: Ada Shedlock (510) 552-0155
E-mail: info@adayoga.com

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