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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
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
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Great Falls Studio
An introduction to Synergy an art that blends partner stretching, thai massage and flying with the intention of cultivating these arts in order to inspire trust, communication and playfullness.
Join us at 12:30 pm. for the Peru Retreat Info Meeting! Details for the retreat available at http://www.belovedyoga.com/peruretreat.html
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Reston Studio
GuruGanesha is an icon in the yoga music, kundalini yoga universe. Get up close and personal with him as he tells stories, guides you in sacred chants, invites you into ecstatic meditations and makes you laugh, cry and dance as it you were born anew! Join us for an evening of utter spiritual rambunctiousness! Learn more about GuruGanesha.
"GuruGanesha's music is incredible! We were awestruck by his guitar and deep, powerful voice. His stories are both extremely powerful and wildly hilarious. An evening with GuruGanesha is an incredibly wonderful and engaging experience". Bhava Ram, Founder of Deep Yoga
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
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Reston Studio
Intro to Maya Yoga Vinyasa Fusion
Friday, Oct 1 6:30-8:30pm
This class will be an introduction to Vinyasa Fusion, suitable for all levels, focusing on opening the front body and strengthening the back. Using Suryanamaskar (Sun Salutations) to slowly build heat and standing poses to reconnect you with the earth, we will move through a Vinyasa style practice that will leave you feeling recharged and stress free! We will cover in detail all the lunge work that Maya Yoga is famous for. Special attention will be paid to cultivating awareness in our hands and feet in order to ground us more deeply to the earth. Class will conclude with backbends and inversions. Learn to create safety and strength by applying basic alignment principles to a Vinyasa style practice.
Wake Up and Flow
Saturday, Oct 2 10:00-1:00pm
This is the perfect opportunity to wake yourself up and take notice! To practice yoga is to recognize and celebrate the Divine within and find expression for that realization. A dynamic Vinyasa style yoga practice is one way to do just that and to start to awaken the spirit within us all. Through an energizing sequence of postures, we will explore how a grounded, earth based asana practice can be the bridge that joins the gap between the spirit body and the physical body.
Taking Time to Look Within
Saturday, Oct 2 3:00-5:00pm
Yoga is all about creating and sustaining balance in our lives. This afternoon session is the perfect complement to a strong morning yoga practice. This class will be more reflective in nature as we find our way into various postures, usually on the floor, but not limited to, and stay there to see what happens. How often do we really slow down enough to in our increasingly busy daily lives and take the time to look and listen to ourselves? Hip openers and inversions will be the focus. A gentle introduction to Pranayama will be taught as well. Since the middle of the day is the time when the body wants to rest and rejuvenate itself for the rest of the day, this class should be just the right thing!
Backbends to Extend the Spine and Expand your Consciousness!
Sunday, Oct 3 10:00-1:00pm
The practice of backbending can be exhilarating, terrifying, and incredibly fulfilling. Whatever reasons you come for, whether it is to conquer some fears or to increase your capacity for expansion, this class is for you. Eddie and Nicki have a wonderful way of preparing the body, mind and spirit in a safe, supportive way. You will be amazed at what you can achieve with the proper support and conscious preparation. This will be a strong class.
About Nicki Doane
Nicki Doane had a wanderlust that led her to India in 1991 to study yoga. She went to Mysore to meet Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and immediately realized she had found her teacher. Nicki started teaching in 1992. She cites Pattabhi Jois, along with Eddie Modestini, Gabriella Giubilaro, and Tim Miller among her most influential teachers. She is an authorized teacher of Ashtanga Yoga. Although rooted in Ashtanga, Nicki's teaching goes beyond the traditional. Her vinyasa classes combine asana, pranayama, philosophy, and poetry. Nicki's emphasis is on awareness: creating integrity within each pose that can be carried beyond the mat into daily life. Nicki teaches at yoga studios and conferences across the globe and is featured in two Ashtanga Yoga DVD's from Gaiam Inc. and recently produced her own series of Maya Yoga DVD's in collaboration with her husband Eddie Modestini. Nicki lives in Sebastopol, California with her husband, Eddie Modestini. Together, Eddie and Nicki co-direct Maya Yoga Studios in both California and Maui, HI.
