6-Week Mini-Session
Fridays,
February 19 - March 26, 2010
11:30am - 12:15pm
Cost: $84

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Itsy Bitsy Yoga for Tykes combines unique toddler-friendly yoga poses with songs and stories. Foster your child's curiosity, improve motor skills and increase attention span by actively participating in Yoga poses.

Enjoy parent/child bonding time. Help to build a foundation for a healthy and fit lifestyle while having fun! Parents also get to do a little yoga, but no yoga experience is required.

8-week mini - session
Saturdays
January 16 - March 6, 2010 12:30pm – 1:30pm
Cost: $128

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These classes are especially designed to introduce children (ages 5 - 10) to Yoga.

Children learn Yoga in such a fun and delightful way, that they have no idea how healthy and relaxed they are becoming with simple yoga exercises. The yoga increases their strength, flexibility, concentration and balance. The classes will include warm-up postures, breathing exercises, balancing poses, standing poses and lots of games.

These classes teach children:
> Yoga postures in a playful way, filled with imagination
> Increased self-awareness and self-esteem
> Mind-body fitness and breath awareness
> To strengthen their bodies and create more flexibility
> Concentration and relaxation
> How to be healthy, happy and mindful young souls

8-week mini - session
Saturdays
January 16 - March 6, 2010 1:45pm - 2:45pm
Cost: $128

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Yoga is tremendously beneficial to the healthy development of teens. It builds strength and flexibility, aids relaxation and stress reduction, and increases body awareness, self respect, and self confidence. Whether active in sports or carrying a heavy backpack, teens benefit from yoga’s focus on core strength, flexibility, posture, and body alignment.

As teens mature, their senses of themselves change. They are trying to figure out how to live in their new and ever-changing bodies. Yoga focuses on listening to your body and respecting it. We teach teens to honor themselves and appreciate their strengths. As students get stronger, have a more developed sense of self, and increased confidence, they are better equipped to face increased peer pressure and school stresses.

The benefits of yoga for teens include:
> Increased strength and flexibility
> Improved self confidence.
> Stress reduction
> Body awareness
> Respect
> Community building

5-Week Mini-Session
Mondays,
8:15pm - 9:15pm
February 1 - March 1, 2010 Cost: $80

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Meditation is a journey towards living our lives mindfully as we shine the light of awareness on all aspects of our lives. Through meditation we gently train ourselves to be awake and alive. In this class we will explore various practices of sitting meditation, guided meditation and walking meditation.

You will be encouraged to develop a personal meditation practice. It is by sitting still that we come to know who we are. No meditation experience required, just an open mind. This class will not include yoga, but we will do some gentle stretching to make sitting more comfortable.

"Meditation has affected every aspect of my life by deepening my experience of myself and others. I have found joy and peace in everyday life" - Kathy Donnelly

Fridays
Feb. 26 - Apr. 9, 2010

6:15pm - 7:45pm

This Mixed Level Yoga class is being offered as an opportunity to take a makeup class for the snow day(s) cancellations.

March 6, 2010
1:00pm - 3:00pm
Cost: $30

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This workshop will focus on areas to specifically address the needs of a golfer. Experience how correct alignment, relaxed breathing and mindfulness can improve your concentration and swing.

This workshop will include centering to create the mind/body connection and sun salutations with dynamic poses to improve strength, endurance and balance.

Experience these yoga benefits:
> Increase shoulder mobility and increase wrist flexion.
> Increase hip mobility to relieve tension, improve circulation and posture.
> Stand and walk more comfortably all day on the course.
> Strengthen core muscles to generate power for your swing and increase your torque to drive the ball further!
> Relieve tension in the lower back & hips.
> Discover the benefits of relaxation in restorative poses to relieve tension and improve concentration and clarity.

PLEASE BRING A CLUB TO CLASS.

Sunday, March 7, 2010
1:00pm - 3:00pm
Cost: $40 per couple

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Pregnancy and the birth of your precious bundle of joy can be such a treasured time in your life. While filled with excitement, love, and happiness, pregnancy can also bring physical discomforts and anxiety or nervousness about the process of labor and delivery. This workshop provides a safe and encouraging environment for the mommy-to-be and her partner to bond, share and ask questions, and to learn various techniques that can be helpful through all stages of pregnancy, labor, delivery, and postpartum. Natural, medicated, and C-section deliveries will all be discussed.

You will learn:
> Yoga postures to help alleviate common discomforts like back and hip pain, leg cramps, and sciatica
> Breath practices and relaxation techniques to be used during pregnancy and throughout your labor
> Massage techniques to aid in pain relief through all stages of labor and delivery
> Ways to increase confidence in mom and partner as your due date approaches
> Exercises to help with postpartum recovery

Sunday
March 7, 2010
2:00pm - 4:00pm
Cost: $40

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This graceful set of 10 movements is designed to open your heart and honor your quality of compassion. The Kuan Yin Standing Qi Gong form is from the Sheng Zhen Wufi Yuan Gong System. This beautiful QiGong form will deepen your connection with heaven and earth, strengthening the body, balancing the emotions, and opening the heart.

March 18, 2010
(3rd Thurs. of each month)

6:00pm - 7:00pm
Intro to Reiki with Linda

7:30pm - 9:30pm
Reiki Share for Practitioners with Maureen

Cost: Donation to Grassroots

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Are you a Reiki practitioner who would like to connect with others in the Reiki community and practice giving and receiving Reiki? Please join us in our monthly Reiki Share hosted by The Yoga Center Monthly, Feb. - June on Thursdays.

If you've never experienced Reiki, you are welcome to come and find out about it and experience it firsthand from our Wellness Room practitioners.

Reiki [pronounced RAY-key] is a Japanese word which means Universal Life Force Energy. This gentle hands-on healing technique works with vital life source energy to heal and balance. It can relieve stress and pain, stimulate the immune system, balance subtle body energies and broaden self-awareness.

Friday
March 26, 2010
6:30pm - 8:00pm
Cost: $30 per couple

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In this fun, light-hearted workshop, we'll explore creative yoga poses for two. We'll help each other find strength, balance and relaxation in poses both new and familiar.You'll leave feeling relaxed, renewed, and reconnected with your sweetie. Some experience with yoga is helpful but not required.

(Non-yogi partners are welcome!)

Saturday
March 27, 2010
12:00pm - 2:00pm
Cost: $35

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Our hips were made to move... and not just in one direction, in a complete range of motion that keeps them healthy. Front, back, sideways, and circularly using all muscles that surround the hip area. Yoga can help. It can prevent hip disease by keeping the joint and muscles around it healthy.

We’ll discuss poses that encourage gentle stretching, increase circulation to the area, and move the hip in a complete range of motion to make living in your body enjoyable again.

Sunday
March 28, 2010
1:00pm - 2:30pm
Cost: $20

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The sub-conscious mind and the unconscious mind are the most powerful forces in the human being. The practice of Yoga Nidra not only relaxes but restructures and reforms from within. With every session, we burn old samskaras (imprints left on the subconscious mind by experience), habits, and tendencies in order to be born anew. Anything in life can fail you but not your sankalpa. It is an important stage of Yoga Nidra and a powerful way of reshaping your personality and giving a new direction in life along positive lines. The resolution you make at the beginning of the practice is like sowing a seed and the resolution at the end is like irrigating it.

April 15, 2010
(3rd Thurs. of each month)

6:00pm - 7:00pm
Intro to Reiki with Linda

7:30pm - 9:30pm
Reiki Share for Practitioners with Maureen

Cost: Donation to Grassroots

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Are you a Reiki practitioner who would like to connect with others in the Reiki community and practice giving and receiving Reiki? Please join us in our monthly Reiki Share hosted by The Yoga Center Monthly, Feb. - June on Thursdays.

If you've never experienced Reiki, you are welcome to come and find out about it and experience it firsthand from our Wellness Room practitioners.

Reiki [pronounced RAY-key] is a Japanese word which means Universal Life Force Energy. This gentle hands-on healing technique works with vital life source energy to heal and balance. It can relieve stress and pain, stimulate the immune system, balance subtle body energies and broaden self-awareness.

Saturday
April 17, 2010
12:00pm - 2:00pm
Cost: $35

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The shoulder is the most mobile and flexible joint in the human body. We all depend upon our shoulders for a very important reason -- the shoulder joint is what allows us to control where we can move our hands in order to use them.

The shoulder is also a common area where injuries occur. It is a complex ball and socket joint that relies on muscles and tendons, and to a lesser degree on the capsule and ligaments for stability. There is a very fine balance between mobility and stability in the shoulder that allows us to have freedom of movement throughout our entire lives.

The movement of the arm and the shoulder are controlled by a group of four muscles called the rotator cuff. At the end of each muscle is a tendon that attaches to the bone. Tears in these tendons are called rotator cuff tears. This type of shoulder injury is a common cause of shoulder pain and weakness.

Although there are many reasons why this balance can be upset, the causes of the more common shoulder injuries, shoulder pain and problems are easy to understand if you gain a little knowledge about shoulder anatomy and how to protect, stabilize, and strengthen the shoulder that this workshop will provide.

Sunday
April 18, 2010
1:00pm - 2:30pm
Cost: $20

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The sub-conscious mind and the unconscious mind are the most powerful forces in the human being. The practice of Yoga Nidra not only relaxes but restructures and reforms from within. With every session, we burn old samskaras (imprints left on the subconscious mind by experience), habits, and tendencies in order to be born anew. Anything in life can fail you but not your sankalpa. It is an important stage of Yoga Nidra and a powerful way of reshaping your personality and giving a new direction in life along positive lines. The resolution you make at the beginning of the practice is like sowing a seed and the resolution at the end is like irrigating it.

Friday
April 23, 2010
6:30pm - 8:00pm
Cost: $30 per couple

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In this fun, light-hearted workshop, we'll explore creative yoga poses for two. We'll help each other find strength, balance and relaxation in poses both new and familiar.You'll leave feeling relaxed, renewed, and reconnected with your sweetie. Some experience with yoga is helpful but not required.

(Non-yogi partners are welcome!)

May 20, 2010
(3rd Thurs. of each month)

6:00pm - 7:00pm
Intro to Reiki with Linda

7:30pm - 9:30pm
Reiki Share for Practitioners with Maureen

Cost: Donation to Grassroots

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Are you a Reiki practitioner who would like to connect with others in the Reiki community and practice giving and receiving Reiki? Please join us in our monthly Reiki Share hosted by The Yoga Center Monthly, Feb. - June on Thursdays.

If you've never experienced Reiki, you are welcome to come and find out about it and experience it firsthand from our Wellness Room practitioners.

Reiki [pronounced RAY-key] is a Japanese word which means Universal Life Force Energy. This gentle hands-on healing technique works with vital life source energy to heal and balance. It can relieve stress and pain, stimulate the immune system, balance subtle body energies and broaden self-awareness.

Saturday
May 22, 2010
12:00pm - 6:00pm
Cost: $125

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Usui Reiki Level I Class –

Reiki restores the balance between the physical, emotional, spiritual and mental levels for all living beings, enabling the body to do what it does best, heal itself.

This class is for everyone.

Have you ever wanted to help yourself or your loved ones feel better? Take your first steps into this eye-opening practice that will show you how to perform Reiki (energy healing) on people and animals. You will earn your Reiki I certificate. You will learn the history of Reiki, the hand positions, chakras, Reiki principles, and be attuned to Reiki so you will become a channel for Reiki healing.

June 17, 2010
(3rd Thurs. of each month)

6:00pm - 7:00pm
Intro to Reiki with Linda

7:30pm - 9:30pm
Reiki Share for Practitioners with Maureen

Cost: Donation to Grassroots

Download flier

Are you a Reiki practitioner who would like to connect with others in the Reiki community and practice giving and receiving Reiki? Please join us in our monthly Reiki Share hosted by The Yoga Center Monthly, Feb. - June on Thursdays.

If you've never experienced Reiki, you are welcome to come and find out about it and experience it firsthand from our Wellness Room practitioners.

Reiki [pronounced RAY-key] is a Japanese word which means Universal Life Force Energy. This gentle hands-on healing technique works with vital life source energy to heal and balance. It can relieve stress and pain, stimulate the immune system, balance subtle body energies and broaden self-awareness.

Sunday
June 27, 2010
1:00pm - 2:30pm
Cost: $20

Download flier

The sub-conscious mind and the unconscious mind are the most powerful forces in the human being. The practice of Yoga Nidra not only relaxes but restructures and reforms from within. With every session, we burn old samskaras (imprints left on the subconscious mind by experience), habits, and tendencies in order to be born anew. Anything in life can fail you but not your sankalpa. It is an important stage of Yoga Nidra and a powerful way of reshaping your personality and giving a new direction in life along positive lines. The resolution you make at the beginning of the practice is like sowing a seed and the resolution at the end is like irrigating it.