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Great Falls Studio
There is a field as explained by Albert Einstein where everything merges- the Unified Field. This field is accessed primarily through self-inquiry. We have created a gathering space where we will share, inspire, read and discuss different philosphies and engage in self-referral and self-inquiry for the sake of opening our consciousness, finding the connectiveness, cultivating self-development. Discussion format with opening and closing meditation. Led by different seers.
Please RSVP to belovedYoga@yahoo.com
- Sunday, Mar 14, 7 p.m. Bhagavad Gita - Intro and selected readings
Sunday, Apr 18, 7 p.m. Bhagavad Gita- Study Circle Led by Maryam
These two evenings will immerse us into the rich history and philosophy of one of the most important epic poems of history the Bhagavad Gita. Bhagavad-gita is also known as Gitopanishad. It is the essence of Vedic knowledge and one of the most important Upanishads in Vedic literature. The content of the Gita is the conversation between Krishna and Arjuna taking place on the battlefield before the start of the Kurukshetra war/ Responding to Arjuna's confusion and moral dilemma about fighting his own cousins, Krishna explains to Arjuna his duties as a warrior and prince and elaborates on different Yogic and Vedantic philosophies, with examples and analogies.
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Reston Studio
Full primary series of ashtanga yoga, with some &qout;fun&qout; extras thrown in! A great workshop for your first introduction to ashtanga yoga or a awesome way to take your current practice to the next level. We will cover breath and bandhas for the beginners, jump backs and jump throughs for the seasoned practitioner, and laughter and fun for everyone!
Devon has trained extensively with Beryl Bender Birch of the Hard and Soft Ashtanga Yoga Center and has completed their Yoga Alliance certification; she is one of Beryl's recommended teachers on her website www.power-yoga.com. Before giving birth to her son in 2005, Devon assisted Beryl at various teacher training programs throughout the US and Puerto Rico. Devon has also traveled throughout southeast Asia studying and cultivating her meditation and yoga practices. Devon is a trained massage therapist and polarity practitioner. She has also recently begun teaching natural childbirth classes and offers doula services.
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Reston Studio
A workshop which will guide you to experience greater feelings of happiness and peace of mind. You will discover your own mantra for peace and how increase your feelings of well being and happiness. There will be some gentle yogic stretching, some deep breath relaxation and lots of laughter. This time you will discover ways in which your body can help you heal, how color affects you and how to use EFT (emotional freedom technique) with affirmations for your success
Lizzie Frith has over 20 years experience in health and cognitive psychology and stress management. She is a health and happiness coach and teacher of yoga and meditation. As an intuitive Lizzie works with the whole being from the mental and spiritual levels of the energetic body through to the physical. is workshop is designed to empower each of us to be the creator of our own happiness and well being.
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Great Falls Studio
Friday, Mar 19, 6- 8:30 p.m. $50 early/$55 late
All-Levels Asana Practice Aimed at Hamstrings & Hips
An accessible asana practice focused on the 'how' and 'why' of increasing flexibility in our hamstrings and hips, with an introduction to the concept of 'marma' from Ayurveda. Marma provides the link between physical practice of asana and the health of our organs and even of the chakras. This will be an active practice that includes Vinyasa, Standing Poses, mild Backbending and Forward Bending, and of course some hip openers, with insights into principles for the health of the low back, sacrum and hips, filled with 'news you can use!'
Sat, March 20, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. $60/$65
The Shoulders In Depth: Finding Freedom in the 'Sweet Spot'
This asana practice will focus on the shoulders, providing user-friendly insights into how to get them to work better for you through the practice of yoga poses. You'll get a better understanding of the muscles that tend to get tight and limit shoulder movement -- and even cause us pain right down to the wrists -- also how to align, release and strengthen these all-important joints. It will include a range of stretches and poses, and tips you want to remember, as well as a look into the influence of the marma points involved upon the breath -- with connection to breathing issues such as asthma, as well as breath-related issues such as stress-related fatigue and fibromyalgia.
Sat, Mar 20, 2:30 - 5 p.m. $50/$55 late
Ayurveda, Hatha Yoga and Marma Therapy: The Big Picture
Doug will set the philosophical context first, looking at the purposes of yoga and of practice from the Vedas and Upanishads, through 'Classical Yoga' to Tantra, to locate just where Ayurveda and Hatha Yoga fit in, both as practical sciences of health and healing, and foundations for spiritual growth. Then we can better understand the 'big picture of the role that Ayurvedic concepts of the 'doshas' play in our physical, emotional and spiritual life, and how the practices of hatha yoga play an indispensable role through their influence on 'Marma' energy (through the asanas) and upon our emotional response to the doshas (through pranayama). This session will focus more on Marma, including helpful specifics on key marma points, as well as insights into sequencing of your practice. Sunday morning will continue with these themes, focusing more on 'Prana Rasa' -- the influence of Prana on emotional and spiritual life.
Sun, Mar 21, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. $60/$65
Prana Rasa: Hatha Yoga and the Power of Prana
A brief introduction to the powers inherent in Prana known as soma, surya and vayu that form the basis of the doshas, followed by a short asana practice that will touch upon all aspects of these 'powers,' as well as how they are stimulated in asana practice. From that 'warm-up,' we'll delve into the 'secrets of the breath,' focusing particularly on the 'rasas' (essences of emotion) intimately related to the breath. This will include discussion of the meaning and role of 'Rasa' or emotion in the Ayurvedic system of healing, how emotions are both 'held' and 'released' through practice, and the specific role of breathing practices in this process -- particularly of the pranayama techniques of 'Swara Yoga,' which is pranayama focused on the movement of breath or energy through the nostrils. This approach to pranayama is particularly powerful for shifting our emotional states toward more constructive patterns of feeling, and we'll be doing these practices of the breath with an eye to their influence upon the subtle emotional 'taste' of the rasas, as well as upon the energies of the chakras.
Doug's teaching is rooted in a vast and inclusive perspective of study and practice that honors the insights of the many streams of wisdom that flow into the river of yoga. Doug teachings illuminate aspects of yoga that seem esoteric but he makes them accessible with humor and wisdom. For bio and further info on Doug Keller please visit www.Doyoga.com
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Great Falls Studio
This workshop is geared towards yoga teachers interested in learning about the essentials of teaching a prenatal yoga class. Teachers will be provided:
- An introduction to understanding the changes the pregnant body goes through physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually
- The role of yoga in the prenatal journey~ why it is a perfect fit!
- 30 essentials Asanas and sequences (warms up, standing and seated kriyas & flows) for a prenatal yoga practice.
- Group Teaching experience
- Will discuss prenatal yoga for the new yogi and the advance practitioner
- Yoga Nidra, Meditation, Affirmations & Chants for the Pregnant Woman
Maryam Ovissi, co-owner of BelovedYoga, has been teaching Prenatal Yoga for over 5 years. Her passion and love for yoga and this life changing journey in a woman's life has led her to create one of the most successful prenatal yoga programs in Northern Virginia that empowers women through the prenatal journey and beyond.
Recommended Reading:
Preparing for Birth with yoga by Janet Balaskas
Bountiful, Beautiful, Blissful: Experience the Natural Power of Pregnancy and Birth with Kundalini Yoga & Meditation By Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa
Great Falls Studio
In this series of experiential workshops, we will explore the five prana vayus through lecture and practice. Emphasis will be on the vayus most beneficial in today's world: samana (balancing), apana (grounding) and the intelligent cultivation of pran (energizing).
Prana, often defined as 'life force', is the vital energy that operates within your body to maintain life. When you practice yoga, you are moving and affecting energy. The Prana Vayus are the vehicle for energy moving in the body. Each vayu has a specific energetic effect. Knowing which vayus are affected by a pose allows you to create practices to meet your energetic needs and those of your students.
Prana is the emphasis in Tantic philosophy. Tantrics believe that your experience of life is a precise reflection of your energy. If you change how prana flows, you change how you feel. Thus the way prana flows dictates your experience of life.
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Reston Studio
This hands on workshop will provide tools for use during the prenatal journey, birth day and beyond! This workshop will serve as a guide for the birth mama and her partner for creating a calm and naturally aware birth experience. During this workshop, you will:
- use guided questions to help visualize and facilitate what is important to get out of their birth experience for both partners
- Be guided and learn the tools essential to move you through birth with a greater sense of ease and calm.
- Learn poses that can assist in opening the birth canal.
- Practice breathing techniques that facilitate deep relaxation, allowing for the release and flow of the laboring body's natural anesthesia.
- Practice conscious relaxation to allow for optimal dilation of the cervix.
- Partners will learn hands-on ways to support this entire process.
This class is suitable for all levels and for the complete beginner. Couples will also enjoy a mini yoga class, incorporating massage techniques and breathwork.
Maryam, mother of two, has been passionately teaching prenatal yoga for over 5 years. Tara Campbell Lussier is a recent new mama to girl/boy twins, Poet and Lyon. She is a RYT teaching vinyasa based classes since 2006. She is also a labor doula, trained through toLabor, formerly known as ALACE. She is currently the Director of the Northern Virginia chapter of Birth Matters Virginia, a statewide evidence based non-profit organization that promotes mother friendly care and better birth practices for mothers, babies and families. She is eager to share her loves of birth, yoga, and being a mother with others to help create a better journey into motherhood for all families. Mari Stutzman Smith believes that a woman should be supported during her birth journey to embrace, endure, and trust the physical, emotional, and spiritual nature of labor, birth and beyond. Mari is trained and certified through toLabor, formerly known as ALACE (Association of Labor Assistants and Childbirth Educators). She has attended numerous births and offers comprehensive doula care. For info re: Mari visit www.Celebratedbirth.com
Great Falls Studio
Payment plans are available. 50% deposit is required to reserve your spot. If you have taken level 1 & 2, may be able to take just level 3. Email belovedyoga@yahoo.com.
The Radiant Child Yoga Program (RYCP) is a comprehensive training program designed for anyone who is interested in teaching children yoga. The vision of RCY is to create a world of peace through the union of yoga and children.
All are welcome, regardless of yoga experience. Participants gain a wide variety of practical yoga tools and tips for toddlers through teens, and have fun playing at being a child again.
"A child is naturally radiant, aware, and full of innocent wisdom. The deeper purpose of teaching children yoga is to help them maintain their natural wisdom and radiance; or if their light has been dulled by events in their lives, to help them regain their inherent state of being." - Shakta Khalsa
Itinerary:
- Guidelines for teaching children of all ages from babies to teens
- Yoga songs and games that children love
- Time for sharing knowledge and networking with others
- Exploring a variety of meditation practices: using breath, singing, movement, and silence
- Brain-balancing yoga and Brain Gym skills
- Yoga in Motion movements, games, and dances that children love
- Practical tips for keeping the class focused and engaged
- Breathing practices/meditation with children
- Using yoga sets with children
- Keeping yourself centered when working with children
- Powerful yoga and meditation for you as the teacher
- Time to collaborate with others to create a unique yoga presentation based on what you?ve learned in the course
- Practical tools for any situation that arises when working with children
- Setting up children?s yoga business/classes
- Yoga for ADD, Autism, SPD
- Adapting yoga for schools
- Certificate of completion provided
- Course has been recognized for CECs with public schools, therapy organizations, and Yoga Alliance
- Course is approximately 50% lecture and 50% practice, and is serious fun!
- Practice conscious communication skills, such as Deep Listening and Engaging Cooperation
- Yoga for yourself and your children
- Yogic teachings about children, including the four phases of a child?s life
- The development of the child?s energy field and chakra systems
- Meditation practice to become fully present to yourself and your children
- Course has been recognized for CECs with public schools, therapy organizations, and Yoga Alliance
Shakta Kaur Khalsa has been practicing and teaching yoga since the early 1970's. She is an E-RYT-500, a Montessori educator, author of five yoga books, and an internationally recognized teacher of yoga for both adults and children. She has been called the "mother of the children's yoga movement", and travels extensively presenting Radiant Child Yoga. Her program has been recognized for continuing education credits in public schools, and in professional therapy organizations.
Call 703-860-9642 for more info or Register online! For more information on this course or about Shakta Kaur Khalsa, visit www.childrensyoga.com.
Great Falls Studio
Give you self the gift of this weekend voyage to Healing with the Chakras. Nischala Devi, weaves compassionate knowledge of the physical to the intuitive wisdom of the mystical for a complete understanding of who we really are.
Within us there are whirling vortices of energy, chakras. These chakras contain valuable information about the mundane as well as the subtle aspects of our every action and thought.
Connected through channels that flow up and down our spines, the Chakras infuse vitality and knowledge to every facet of our being.
With the stresses of everyday life, the energetic flow is often hindered. The result is lethargy, anxiety, depression or even disease. Observing and adjusting images of ourselves, we are able to release old paradigms from the subtle bodies and gain control of our very life force.
As these pathways are unlocked, the pent up energy effortlessly flows, we are able to heal everything from simple ailments to the life threatening diseases.
Delight yourself by becoming aware of:
- The five sheaths or Maya Koshaa
- The esoteric nervous system (nadisa
- The seven mystical chakras from emotional and physical levela
- The chakras functioning interdependentla
- How freeing the energy affects our emotional and physical health and well being from simple ailments to the life threatening diseasea
- Practices include pranayama, meditation, chanting, mudras, elements, color, sensory awareness, seva, movemena
- Yamas and Niyamas corresponding effecting the chakraa
The initiation of the sacred energy of the chakras enhances our abiltiy to heal our bodies, minds, hearts and ultimately our lives.
NISCHALA JOY DEVI is a master teacher and healer. For over 30 years she has been highly respected as an international advocate for her innovative way of expressing Yoga and its subtle uses for spiritual growth and complete healing. She has studied with Yoga masters in US, India and worldwide and was a monastic disciple of the world renowned Yogiraj Sri Swami Satchidananda and spent over 25 years receiving his direct guidance and teachings. During her time in the monastery she began to blend western medicine with yoga and meditation. She then offered her expertise in developing the yoga portion of The Dean Ornish Program for Reversing Heart Disease where she subsequently served for seven years as Director of Stress Management. She also co-founded the award-winning Commonweal Cancer Help Program. With her knowledge of Yoga and her expertise in assisting those with life-threatening diseases, she created Yoga of the Heart®, a training and certification program for Yoga teachers and health professionals designed to adapt Yoga practices to the special needs of people living with Heart Disease, Cancer and other Life-Challenging Diseases. Nischaladevi is the author of several CDs and books including The Healing Path of Yoga, The Secret Power of Yoga: A Womans Guide to the Heart, and The Spirit of the Yoga Sutras, as well as the award winning audio-book of The Secret Power of Yoga. Nischala's teachings reflect a heart-centered perspective of spirituality and scripture. www.AbundantWellBeing.com
