Yoga on the Mountain 2019

In this workshop, we dig into our non-negotiables; the essentials, traditions, and opinions. Understanding we are on a journey, given special messages: gifts, talents that are all part of our soul’s contract. We look at the relationship of our past experiences, including love, grief, trauma, abandonment, rejection, shame, guilt, remorse, and addiction, through a different lens. Finding the grace to see that out of every mess there is a message and that our journey Home is all part of this holy experience.

“The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times… The best moments usually occur if a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.” – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi  When action and awareness merge, one loses self-consciousnesses, entering a state of flow, or dhyana. In this on the mat class, practitioners will: 1.) Be offered unending levels of progressions, both subtle and challenging 2.) Use focusing techniques to heighten awareness and sensitivity 3.) Creatively adapt their practice, getting into “dialogue with the body”. A journal and pen are recommended.

Our bodies are composed of a network of fibers called fascia. This fascial network is like a highway and the traffic jams can be what we call ‘knots’ and ‘trigger points’. To release them, we will utilize simple tools to roll out and introspective time to practice some restorative yoga postures. Active recovery is an important component of your well-being: come roll & restore!

Dance your way out of your comfort zone by expressing yourself through the art of dance and hooping! A terrific alternative a regular yoga practice, hooping provides you with a chance to get up and out of your head space and into your body through breath and movement in a new form! Learn where and what your bandhas do for your body and how hula hooping can offer an escape from your everyday reality and stressors. Unlearn adult behavior, norms, and regulations you have set upon yourself and relearn what it means to be a kid again!

Our studio has one rule: "Do not speak negatively about your body. It hears you.” Have you ever wondered what effect your own internal dialogue has on your body, mind, and spirit? This is a soul-building, inspirational class that will allow you to take a closer look through the lens with which you see yourself and the world around you. It involves finding self-acceptance and a genuine tolerance of those who are different. All levels; asana and lecture.