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Reiki Level 1 Training
with Linda Oshins
August 3-4, 1-5 pm both days
$175

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What Is Reiki?
Reiki (pronounced Ray-Key) is a Japanese word for universal lifeforce energy. This is the gentle yet powerful force that gives life, growth, balance and healing to all living things in Nature. This energy is brought through a person for the purpose of insight, balance and healing. Healing energy is present within each of us, but we often fail to recognize it in ourselves. It usually remains dormant until awakened by a person’s interest and longing to receive and share it in a way that is tangible and meaningful. In Reiki, it is the attunement process that awakens this natural gift and allows us to focus it initially on ourselves, and eventually on others. 
The system is based on experience, not just on intellectual knowledge. Since it is experience-based, you will have ample time for hands-on practice, learning to focus this healing, relaxing, comforting energy. Since Reiki is a meditative healing art, the role and skill of centering, contemplation and intention will be shared and practiced as it applies to building your confidence and skills.

Reiki Level 1 Class & Atunement
In this session you will learn how to treat yourself and others. You will get practice in using Reiki energy and exploring your experience in doing so. You will also learn the practices of contemplation and intention setting which help to clarify and integrate your Reiki experiences. All are welcome. Yoga teachers may find this practice allows them to have a lived experience of subtle body energies that illuminates the energy signatures of various asanas and the chakra system.

​About Linda
Linda Oshins is a long-time yoga teacher with a particular focus on pranayama and meditation. Pranayama, the yoga breath practices, are also energy practices. She was Reiki attuned in 1997, studied and practiced with various Reiki masters, has been attuned to the lineage that descended from Takata Sensei and to Komyo Reiki Kai as transmitted by Inamoto Sensei,  and she was guided in her healing work by Katherine Dufrane, a licensed psychotherapist and established energy healer. She has taught Reiki to hundreds of practitioners and formed and participated in ongoing healing groups.

Tides and Cycles:
Yoga for Hormonal Balance ​
with Deborah King
August 17, 1:00-3:30pm
$40 preregistered/$45 at the door

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In this workshop, we will focus on learning to use yoga to bring balance to the hormonal system. Adjusting the practices to address challenges from PMS to hot Flashes to joint stiffness that can arise from hormonal changes within a single estrogen-based cycle or through a lifetime’s journey will be addressed, with an emphasis on turning inward to hear the body’s wisdom.
 
There will be an overview of active practice, but we will emphasize the use of restorative poses, breath work, and supported inversions to balance the hormonal and nervous systems and uncover the benefits of deep relaxation.
 
Using different modalities in different parts of our cycles and using the practice as a way to attune into rather than ignore the rich communication of the changes in the estrogen-based body’s internal initiations month to month as well as through the major phases of hormonal life can dramatically ease discomfort with transitional symptoms, as well as overall hormonal health including energy regulation, metabolism, and the process of discovering a healthy relationship with body weight.
 
Students will leave with a deeper connection with the inner workings of their body, and an understanding of how to use both gentle and active practice to bring balance into hormonal transitions.
 
All people experiencing hormonal cycles are welcome! All levels, all bodies are invited, no experience necessary.

Hatha Fundamentals
with Susanne Hutchinson
Tuesdays, September 24-October 29, 4:00 pm-5:00 pm
$75 for the series/or drop-in for $15

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Hatha Fundamentals is a six-session series designed to give the beginner or returning student a solid foundation in basic poses, breathing techniques and philosophy.

This series is the perfect place to begin, or to reawaken and resume your practice. A series of slower-paced, informative classes will provide you with a strong foundation in the practice of Yoga, preparing you to proceed with confidence to other classes.

This course includes brief historical and philosophical background of Yoga, study and practice of the fundamental Yoga postures including correct body positioning and alignment for your body, understanding props and how to use them, and detailed instruction on how to combine breath and movement.

Class limited to 12 persons to enhance individualized instruction.

Save the Date!
We are excited to welcome back Special Guest Teacher Ann Douglas for The Alchemy of Yoga
May 15-17
Registration info coming soon!

The Alchemy of Emotions 
​The Yogic Practice of “Rasa”

Emotions are your SUPERPOWER!  Learn how to harness the alchemical power of your emotions by mastering the subtle yet powerful energetics of the emotional body.  The ancient teachings of Yoga inform us of the 9 rasas, or essential emotional energies, that also correlate with the 5 elements and the 3 gunas that are the fundamental building blocks to creation.  

Modern neuroscience informs us that emotions are like "rocket fuel" for building new neural pathways in our brain for healthy behaviour.  Emotional energies can be positively influenced to establish radiant health and well being, in body, mind and spirit.  

During this workshop you will learn and experience:

• How to practice Yoga Asana with positive, health inducing emotions
• Pranayama designed to quickly release negative emotions
• iRest® Yoga Nidra for building new neural pathways in your brain that create the life of your dreams
• A profound yogic model for integrating emotions daily
• The bliss inducing yoga practice of Tandava

Anne Douglas is a master teacher, with 30 years of teaching yoga and meditation behind her.  She has been teaching yogic philosophy, teacher trainings, workshops and retreats since 1989, and is a certified IAYT yoga therapist.  She is the creator of the “iRest Daily” meditation program, has over 3 million listens to her meditations on the “Simple Habit” app and is the past Director of Trainers for the iRest Institute.  Anne’s boundless enthusiasm, depth of wisdom and gentle humour create fertile ground for inspired learning

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