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Check workshop listing for studio location (Studio 209 or Studio C). For more information on any workshop, use the contact information at the end of the workshop listing.
JUNE
Full Spectrum Yoga with Patricia Sullivan
Saturday, June 6, 2:30-5:30 p.m. Studio 209
As our fundamental attitudes in life have their counterparts in the physical body, the attention we bring to our asana practice refines and enlivens forgotten parts of both mind and body, nourishing the very roots of our existence. In this workshop Patricia will offer her latest insights and discoveries with an eye to attending to detail of structure, energetics, and life force throughout a broad range of poses. Through this sensitive yet non-striving approach, body and mind become steady and resilient, upright and fully present for the demands of our life and relationships.
After more than thirty years of teaching, Patricia Sullivan continues to share the practice of yoga with boundless generosity, and her depth of experience radiates into your being. Her Iyengar roots make her teaching clear and precise, and her heart and capacity for Love allow for penetration. Patricia's thoughtful and quiet presentation of the practice never overwhelms, but instead creates the conditions in which the receiving of the full spectrum of the yoga teachings can happen.
To register call: Ada Shedlock (510) 552-0155 or
email: ada@adayoga.com to reserve your space. Then download the registration flyerand send it with your check to the address noted on the flyer (Ada Shedlock, PO Box 7434, Berkeley, CA 94707).
Yoga for RSI (Repetitive Stress Injury YOGA Workshop)
Saturday, June 13, 2:00-4:00 p.m. Studio 209
Monthly asana practice for those seeking to prevent RSI—or those working with mild injuries, including people recovering from surgery. Appropriate for newcomers to yoga, and anyone whose injury prevents them from having their own practice.
We 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).
For nearly ten years, Jim has been teaching yoga asana in a restorative vein, in the Iyengar tradition of modifying the asana and breath work appropriately for injuries and stress. His focus is on the neck, shoulders and chest, elbow and wrist, as well as the particular features of Repetitive Stress Injuries: compression of circulation, neural compression, or muscular spasms and ligament tension. A gentle yoga practice is greatly supportive, balances and opens joints, and is especially successful at addressing modern stress.
Jim Stockton is a graduate of the Advanced Studies Program at the Yoga Room in Berkeley, a three-year teacher-training program in the Iyengar Tradition. He has worked with several teachers in the broader yoga community, including Ramanand Patel, Tias Little, Dharmanidhi Saraswati, and Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche. Find his schedule, special needs classes, workshops and retreats at www.GarudaHealing.com.
Instructor: Jim Stockton (510) 282-0446
email: garudahealing@yahoo.com
Led Primary Monthly Series
Friday, June 19, 3:00-5:00 p.m. Studio C
Ashtanga Yoga is a vigorous flow style of yoga, linking breath with movement, taught in the tradition of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. It is designed to strengthen, align and purify the entire body and mind. These classes will include all poses in the primary series and will be taught in a continuous manner without stopping.
Instructor: Melanie Green (510) 559-8890
email: melyoga@hotmail.com
Monthly Extended Practice
Saturday, June 27, 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.
To register go to www.adayoga.com.
Instructor: Ada Shedlock: (510) 552-0155
email: ada@adayoga.com
JULY
Led Primary Monthly Series
Friday, July 10, 3:00-5:00 p.m., Studio 209
Ashtanga yoga is a vigorous flow style of yoga, linking breath with movement, taught in the tradition of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. It is designed to strengthen, align and purify the entire body and mind. These classes will include all poses in the primary series and will be taught in a continuous manner without stopping.
Instructor: Melanie Green (510) 368-3581
email: melyoga@hotmail.com
Yoga for Moms of Young Children
Saturdays, July 11, 2:30-6:00 p.m. Studio C
These workshops are offered throughout the year for mothers of young children. The asana practice will focus on strengthening, toning and nourishing the body. 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) 368-3581
email: melyoga@hotmail.com
Yin/Yang Yoga Workshop
Saturday, July 18, 2:00-5:30 p.m. Studio 209
Give yourself the treat of a longer practice. Essentially, this workshop will be a long class that weaves together Yin and Yang styles of yoga with meditation and pranayama. Yin yoga consists of long-held floor poses that target connective tissue; the Yang part of our practice will also be done at a slow pace, but in a way that strengthens, energizes, and awakens. Combined, these two styles create a powerful practice that balances the nervous system and engenders a more contemplative state of mind. Our practice will conclude with seated pranayama (breathing practices), work with the bandhas, and meditation. Some yoga experience required.
Instructor: Cybèle Tomlinson (510) 558-6936
email: cybeleb@hotmail.com
Yoga and Meditation: Guidance for Daily Living
Saturday, July 18, 2:00-5:00 p.m. Studio C
Experience yoga while healing the body and igniting the soul! In this workshop we will explore yoga as stillness in movement. We will see how every asana becomes an opportunity for deeper levels of awareness. By slowing down and fully experiencing our physical, mental and emotional body we begin to bring attention to what is happening in the moment. When we are able to be with that experience, we begin to awaken to higher levels of emotional stability, mental clarity and physical well being on and off the mat. Come and explore your own potential for growth and transformation. No meditation experience required. All yoga levels welcome.
Instructor: Gretchen Wobrock
email: gretchenwobrock@gmail.com
Monthly Intermediate Practice
Friday, July 24, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Studio 209
Enjoy a rejuvenating start to your weekend with a two-hour practice of asana, pranayama and meditation. Each month Ada will offer up new insight to the practice with a generous sequence of openings, standing and seated postures and inversions.Students must have experience with inverted postures or their variations. Space limited and no drop-ins please.
To register go to www.adayoga.com
Instructor: Ada Shedlock (510) 552-0155
Monthly Long Practice
Saturday, July 25, 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.
To register go to www.adayoga.com
Instructor: Ada Shedlock (510) 552-0155
Yoga & Self-Myofascial Release with Ada Shedlock
Sunday, July 26, 2:15 to 4:15 p.m. Studio 209
Fascia is a seamless web of connective tissue that covers and connects the muscles, organs and skeletal structures in our body. In our yoga practice, areas of persistent muscular tightness are often the result of adhesions or knots between muscle and fascia. Self-Myofascial Release is designed to break up these knots and return the fascia to its proper length/tension relationship.In this workshop we will target key areas of muscular tightness and practice yoga asana (postures) and Myofascial release techniques to improve joint range of motion, correct muscle imbalances, reduce muscle soreness and relieve joint stress as well as enhance neuromuscular efficiency.You will need a foam roller for this workshop. Please bring your own if you have one, or contact Ada directly to inquire about resources for acquiring one.Space limited and no drop-ins please.
To register go to www.adayoga.com
Instructor: Ada Shedlock (510) 552-0155
AUGUST
Yoga and Meditation: Guidance for Daily Living
Saturday, August 15, 2:00-5:00 p.m. Studio C
Experience yoga while healing the body and igniting the soul! In this workshop we will explore yoga as stillness in movement. We will see how every asana becomes an opportunity for deeper levels of awareness. By slowing down and fully experiencing our physical, mental and emotional body we begin to bring attention to what is happening in the moment. When we are able to be with that experience, we begin to awaken to higher levels of emotional stability, mental clarity and physical well being on and off the mat. Come and explore your own potential for growth and transformation. No meditation experience required. All yoga levels welcome.
Instructor: Gretchen Wobrock
email: gretchenwobrock@gmail.com
Luminous Flow
Sunday, Aug 23rd, 2:30-4:15 p.m. Studio C
This candle-lit Sunday afternoon class will blend active vinyasa, where you ride the pulsation of breath, rhythm and flow through powerful asana, with mindful yin and restorative yoga postures where we are able to let go of ambition and effort and surrender into the spaciousness of pure awareness of sensation in longer-held, passive asana. This workshop will be a great way to both release excess energy from the body and nourish and recharge yourself for the week to come. Class will end with yoga nidra, a forty-minute guided relaxation in savasana.See www.lilydwyeryoga.com
Instructor: Lily Dwyer (510) 928-5416
email: lilyyoga@gmail.com,
Led Primary Monthly Series
Fridays, August 28, 3:00-5:00 p.m. Studio C
Ashtanga yoga is a vigorous flow style of yoga, linking breath with movement, taught in the tradition of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. It is designed to strengthen, align and purify the entire body and mind. These classes will include all poses in the primary series and will be taught in a continuous manner without stopping.
Instructor: Melanie Green (510) 368-3581
email: melyoga@hotmail.com
Monthly Long Practice
Saturday, August 29, 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.
To register go to www.adayoga.com
Instructor: Ada Shedlock (510) 552-0155
Monthly Intermediate Practice with Ada Shedlock
Sunday, August 30, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Studio CEnjoy a rejuvenating end to your weekend with a two-hour practice of asana, pranayama and meditation. Each month Ada will offer up new insight to the practice with a generous sequence of openings, standing and seated postures and inversions. Students must have experience with inverted postures or their variations. Space limited and no drop-ins please.
To register go to www.adayoga.com
Instructor: Ada Shedlock (510) 552-0155
SEPTEMBER
Yoga and Meditation: Guidance for Daily Living
Saturday, September 12, 2:00-5:00 p.m. Studio 209
Experience yoga while healing the body and igniting the soul! In this workshop we will explore yoga as stillness in movement. We will see how every asana becomes an opportunity for deeper levels of awareness. By slowing down and fully experiencing our physical, mental and emotional body we begin to bring attention to what is happening in the moment. When we are able to be with that experience, we begin to awaken to higher levels of emotional stability, mental clarity and physical well being on and off the mat. Come and explore your own potential for growth and transformation. No meditation experience required. All levels welcome.
Instructor: Gretchen Wobrock
email: gretchenwobrock@gmail.com
Modern Dance for the Complete Beginner
Sunday, September 13, 2:30-4:00 p.m. Studio C
This workshop will give yogis the freedom to enjoy movement outside of the mat.We will build on the alignment principles and energetic awareness we cultivate in our yoga practice as we explore the concepts of release, spatial awareness, rhythm, and artistic expression.Body-friendly and adaptable, we will work from the model that dance technique should conform to the individual rather than the individual trying to conform to an ideal. Dance exercises will develop core strength, freedom in the pelvis, articulation of the feet, balance, and articulation of the spine and joints. Dance combinations are crafted to stimulate the mind, to challenge the body, and to encourage dancers to move with absolute efficiency. See www.lilydwyeryoga.com
Instructor: Lily Dwyer (510) 928-5416
email: lilyyoga@gmail.com,
Led Primary Monthly Series
Friday, September 18, 3:00-5:00 p.m. Studio 209
Ashtanga yoga is a vigorous flow style of yoga, linking breath with movement, taught in the tradition of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. It is designed to strengthen, align and purify the entire body and mind. These classes will include all poses in the primary series and will be taught in a continuous manner without stopping.
Instructor: Melanie Green (510) 368-3581
email: melyoga@hotmail.com
Yin/Yang Yoga Workshop
Sunday, September 20, 1:00-4:00 p.m. Studio C
Give yourself the treat of a longer practice. Essentially, this workshop will be a long class that weaves together Yin and Yang styles of yoga with meditation and pranayama. Yin yoga consists of long-held floor poses that target connective tissue; the Yang part of our practice will also be done at a slow pace, but in a way that strengthens, energizes, and awakens. Combined, these two styles create a powerful practice that balances the nervous system and engenders a more contemplative state of mind. Our practice will conclude with seated pranayama (breathing practices), work with the bandhas, and meditation. Some yoga experience required.
Instructor: Cybèle Tomlinson (510) 558-6936
email: cybeleb@hotmail.com
Sound Sadhana
Sunday, September 20, 6:30-8:00 p.m. Studio C
See www.anndyer.com
Sadhana is Sanskrit for spiritual practice. The Sound Sadhana is a monthly event providing the space, time and means for spiritual practice through the yogic use of sound and chant.The yoga of sound is a vast and powerful practice, encompassing many different traditions--kirtan, Vedic chanting, mantric meditation, naada yoga, Indian classical music, tantric bija mantras and more.Together we will explore these practices and get a taste for ourselves of their transformative effects.Each session is different: we may learn a raga, meditate on silence, surrender to the ecstasy of kirtan, or share in Anns latest source of sound fascination. Guest musicians may drop in; anything might happen. Everyone welcome, no experience required.
Instructor: Ann Dyer (510) 541-4803
email: anndyer@anndyer.com
Monthly Intermediate Practice
Friday, September 25, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Studio 209
Enjoy a rejuvenating start to your weekend with a two-hour practice of asana, pranayama and meditation. Each month Ada will offer up new insight to the practice with a generous sequence of openings, standing and seated postures and inversions. Students must have experience with inverted postures or their variations. Space limited and no drop-ins please.
To register go to www.adayoga.com
Instructor: Ada Shedlock (510) 552-0155
Monthly Long Practice
Saturday, September 26, 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.
To register go to www.adayoga.com
Instructor: Ada Shedlock (510) 552-0155
Yoga for Moms of Young Children
Saturday, September 26, 2:30-6:00 p.m. Studio C
These workshops are offered throughout the year for mothers of young children. The asana practice will focus on strengthening, toning and nourishing the body. 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) 368-3581
email: melyoga@hotmail.com
OCTOBER
Yoga and Meditation: Guidance for Daily Living
Saturday, October 17, 2:00-5:00 p.m. Studio C
Experience yoga while healing the body and igniting the soul! In this workshop we will explore yoga as stillness in movement. We will see how every asana becomes an opportunity for deeper levels of awareness. By slowing down and fully experiencing our physical, mental and emotional body we begin to bring attention to what is happening in the moment. When we are able to be with that experience, we begin to awaken to higher levels of emotional stability, mental clarity and physical well being on and off the mat. Come and explore your own potential for growth and transformation. No meditation experience required. All yoga levels welcome.
Instructor: Gretchen Wobrock
email: gretchenwobrock@gmail.com
Partner Yoga Workshop
Saturday, October 17, 2:00-5:30 p.m. Studio 209
Workingwith a partner in yogaallows us to experience postures and ourselves in ways that we can't alone. Through the skillful support of another, combined with our own attention on our breath and sensation, we have the opportunity to venture into new territory, both physically and psychologically.The impressions and insights we gather can then be brought back to ourusual practice, alone or in class.In this workshop, wellfocus on the practicalities of the poses; well explore trust and communication;well play; and well inquire into the more subtle aspects of our experience.Open to all levels, with or without a partner.
To register go to www.lotusofferings.com
Instructors: Diane Sherman & Cybèle Tomlinson (510) 558-6936
email: cybeleb@hotmail.com
Sound Sadhana
Sunday, October 18, 6:30-8:00 p.m. Studio C
See www.anndyer.com
Sadhana is Sanskrit for spiritual practice. The Sound Sadhana is a monthly event providing the space, time and means for spiritual practice through the yogic use of sound and chant.The yoga of sound is a vast and powerful practice, encompassing many different traditions--kirtan, Vedic chanting, mantric meditation, naada yoga, Indian classical music, tantric bija mantras and more.Together we will explore these practices and get a taste for ourselves of their transformative effects.Each session is different: we may learn a raga, meditate on silence, surrender to the ecstasy of kirtan, or share in Anns latest source of sound fascination. Guest musicians may drop in; anything might happen. Everyone welcome, no experience required.
Instructor: Ann Dyer (510) 541-4803
email: anndyer@anndyer.com
Led Primary Monthly Series
Friday, October 23, 3:00-5:00 p.m. Studio C
Ashtanga yoga is a vigorous flow style of yoga, linking breath with movement, taught in the tradition of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. It is designed to strengthen, align and purify the entire body and mind. These classes will include all poses in the primary series and will be taught in a continuous manner without stopping.
Instructor: Melanie Green (510) 368-3581
email: melyoga@hotmail.com
Monthly Intermediate Practice
Friday, October 23, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Studio 209
Enjoy a rejuvenating start to your weekend with a two-hour practice of asana, pranayama and meditation. Each month Ada will offer up new insight to the practice with a generous sequence of openings, standing and seated postures and inversions.Students must have experience with inverted postures or their variations.Space limited and no drop-ins please.
To register go to www.adayoga.com
Instructor: Ada Shedlock (510) 552-0155
Monthly Long Practice
Saturday, October 24, 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.
To register go to www.adayoga.com
Instructor: Ada Shedlock (510) 552-0155
RETREATS
Ashtanga Yoga Retreat with Melanie Green
October 10-17 in Baja, MexicoCome spend seven nights and six days in beautiful Cabo Pulmo, a chance to get away from it all and immerse yourself in the study of Ashtanga. This retreat will include early morning meditation, Ashtanga yoga classes and daily afternoon workshops. There will also be ample time to swim, snorkel, hike, explore, relax and renew. Registrants need to have at least six months prior study in the Primary Series.Students will have the chance to retreat from their daily lives and disconnect from email, the internet and phone.The daily practice will take place outside in a covered area where the sound of the ocean waves can be heard.Accommodations include shared casitas withing walking distance from the ocean. Space is limited to ten students.
Instructor: Melanie Green (510) 368-3581
email: melyoga@hotmail.com
Autumn Yoga Retreat in Sonoma with Ada Shedlock
October 30-November 1 at Westerbeke Ranch
Celebrate the changing seasons with Ada Shedlock at picturesque Westerbeke Ranch in the Sonoma wine country.
To register go to www.adayoga.com
Instructor: Ada Shedlock (510) 552-0155
NOVEMBER
Yoga Workshop with Patricia Sullivan: Converging Streams of Yoga
Saturday, November 7, 2:00-5:00 p.m. Studio 209
This workshop will draw from the streams of yoga, energy work, and Buddhist mindfulness to bring body, mind and spirit into the practice.We refine and encourage the mind through understanding our purpose and the means to achieve that purpose, thus enhancing the results of our practice. Our body, along with the life force/prana support, is nurtured through energetic direction during the asanas; and we further touch the whole being through our mindful asana and meditative experiences. All these streams actually converge in each of these practices to reach deep inside and help us to navigate the ever-changing flow of our life challenges.
To register call: Cybèle Tomlinson (510) 558-6936
email: cybeleb@hotmail.com
Yin/Yang Yoga Workshop
Friday, November 13, 5:00-7:30 p.m. Studio C
Give yourself the treat of a longer practice. Essentially, this workshop will be a long class that weaves together Yin and Yang styles of yoga with meditation and pranayama. Yin yoga consists of long-held floor poses that target connective tissue; the Yang part of our practice will also be done at a slow pace, but in a way that strengthens, energizes, and awakens. Combined, these two styles create a powerful practice that balances the nervous system and engenders a more contemplative state of mind. Our practice will conclude with seated pranayama (breathing practices), work with the bandhas, and meditation. Some yoga experience required.
Instructor: Cybèle Tomlinson (510) 558-6936
email: cybeleb@hotmail.com
Yoga and Meditation: Guidance for Daily Living
Saturday, November 14, 2:00-5:00 p.m. Studio 209
Experience yoga while healing the body and igniting the soul! In this workshop we will explore yoga as stillness in movement. We will see how every asana becomes an opportunity for deeper levels of awareness. By slowing down and fully experiencing our physical, mental and emotional body we begin to bring attention to what is happening in the moment. When we are able to be with that experience, we begin to awaken to higher levels of emotional stability, mental clarity and physical well being on and off the mat. Come and explore your own potential for growth and transformation. No meditation experience required. All yoga levels welcome.
Instructor: Gretchen Wobrock
email: gretchenwobrock@gmail.com
Yoga for Moms of Young Children
Saturday, November 14, 2:30-6:00 p.m. Studio C
These workshops are offered throughout the year for mothers of young children. The asana practice will focus on strengthening, toning and nourishing the body. 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) 368-3581
email: melyoga@hotmail.com
Sound Sadhana
Sunday, November 15, 6:30-8:00 p.m. Studio C
See www.anndyer.comSadhana is Sanskrit for spiritual practice. The Sound Sadhana is a monthly event providing the space, time and means for spiritual practice through the yogic use of sound and chant.The yoga of sound is a vast and powerful practice, encompassing many different traditions--kirtan, Vedic chanting, mantric meditation, naada yoga, Indian classical music, tantric bija mantras and more.Together we will explore these practices and get a taste for ourselves of their transformative effects.Each session is different: we may learn a raga, meditate on silence, surrender to the ecstasy of kirtan, or share in Anns latest source of sound fascination. Guest musicians may drop in; anything might happen. Everyone welcome, no experience required.
Instructor: Ann Dyer (510) 541-4803
email: anndyer@anndyer.com
Led Primary Monthly Series
Friday, November 20, 3:00-5:00 p.m. Studio C
Ashtanga yoga is a vigorous flow style of yoga, linking breath with movement, taught in the tradition of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. It is designed to strengthen, align and purify the entire body and mind. These classes will include all poses in the primary series and will be taught in a continuous manner without stopping.
Instructor: Melanie Green (510) 368-3581
email: melyoga@hotmail.com
Monthly Intermediate Practice
Friday, November 20, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Studio 209
Enjoy a rejuvenating start to your weekend with a two-hour practice of asana, pranayama and meditation. Each month Ada will offer up new insight to the practice with a generous sequence of openings, standing and seated postures and inversions. Students must have experience with inverted postures or their variations. Space limited and no drop-ins please.
To register go to www.adayoga.com
Instructor: Ada Shedlock (510) 552-0155
Monthly Long Practice
Saturday, November 21, 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.
To register go to www.adayoga.com
Instructor: Ada Shedlock (510) 552-0155
Thanksgiving Day: Gratitude
Thursday, November 26, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Studio 209
Begin your Thanksgiving Day in gratitude. Give thanks for what it means to be alive in these times, and find gratitude for the simple things we sometimes overlook. Bear witness to the planet, and offer her thanks for all she gives each and every day to sustain us, reminding us of our inter-relatedness. This practice will include a warm up, vinyasa and sitting meditation.
To register go to www.lotusofferings.com
Instructor: Diane Sherman (510) 654-6080
email: diane@lotusofferings.com
DECEMBER
Led Primary Monthly Series
Friday, December 4, 3:00-5:00 p.m. Studio C
Ashtanga yoga is a vigorous flow style of yoga, linking breath with movement, taught in the tradition of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. It is designed to strengthen, align and purify the entire body and mind. These classes will include all poses in the primary series and will be taught in a continuous manner without stopping.
Instructor: Melanie Green (510) 368-3581
email: melyoga@hotmail.com
Yoga and Meditation: Guidance for Daily Living
Saturday, December 12, 2:00-5:00 p.m. Studio C
Experience yoga while healing the body and igniting the soul! In this workshop we will explore yoga as stillness in movement. We will see how every asana becomes an opportunity for deeper levels of awareness. By slowing down and fully experiencing our physical, mental and emotional body we begin to bring attention to what is happening in the moment. When we are able to be with that experience, we begin to awaken to higher levels of emotional stability, mental clarity and physical well being on and off the mat. Come and explore your own potential for growth and transformation. No meditation experience required. All yoga levels welcome.
Instructor: Gretchen Wobrock
email: gretchenwobrock@gmail.com
Winter Solstice Yoga
Sunday, December 20, 6:30-9:30 p.m.
Join me in quiet celebration of the changing season and spend a relaxing evening caring for body and spirit. Our time together will include lingering openers and gentle postures inviting opening, relaxation and rejuvenation.We'll conclude our practice with restoratives, relaxation and meditation by candlelight.All levels welcome.
To register go to www.adayoga.com
Instructor: Ada Shedlock (510) 552-0155
JANUARY, 2010
New Years Day: Resolutions
Friday, January 1, 11:00-2:00 p.m. Studio 209
Ring in the New Year by setting intention for yourself. Re-commit to the life you envision living. This practice will include sitting meditation, yin yoga and a slow-flowing yang yoga. There will be a short writing time to set intention as we visualize what we want to grow in the coming year and what we want to let go of. It is a powerful way to begin the new year. Space is limited. Please bring something for a collective altar that represents what youd like to call in for the new year.To register go to www.lotusofferings.com
Instructor: Diane Sherman (510) 654-6080
email: diane@lotusofferings.com
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