Focus of the Month for February
Heart Opening and Love Your Planet
It was amazing to watch the big beautiful choices many of you made in your practice in January, within our New Year focus of the month, "Take a Fresh Start and Find Your Center." It's important to remember the concept of taking a new start in every month of 2008, especially given it is an election year. In the interest of moving forward with the intelligence of the days before, let's focus our bodies on heart center opening. Maybe you need a few good shoulder openers to get to your heart. Maybe a restorative back bend will do the trick, or just your garden variety back bending practice. We can cover a lot of ground with this subject. Come and see what direction your teachers will take with it in each class - and please feel free to make a request or two from your heart of course.
Again we will have a twofold focus of the month as we declare February LOVE YOUR PLANET month at Jaya Yoga Center. As a first step in that direction, we will keep our planet's landfills a little less full by declining to sell plastic (read: oil) water bottles at the studio. We realize that this might not be a popular choice, but we accept the "inconvenient truth," if you will, that by selling disposable bottles we are abetting harm to our planet. Even if these plastic bottles get recycled still something like 1,000,000 of them end up in landfill each day. I heard on the radio not too long ago that a hair dryer takes about 1,000 years to biodegrade - that is a long time. With so many hair dryers and water bottles littering the planet where will we put the kids' swing sets?
So bring your canteens to class and feel good about buying one less bottle! And think about ways you can love your planet through your yoga practice.
Next 6 Week Beginner Series
with Briana Miller
Sunday February 2 - March 8 from 2 - 3:15 pm
This class is tailored for the new comer to yoga. You will be eased into the practice by the skillful attention of your teacher. You learn basic body awareness exercises, basic asanas that stretch lengthen and strengthen your body and a handful of technique to help reduce stress in your daily life. At the end for you six classes you will be ready to join any of our basic level classes.
$85 for the course or $15 to drop in.
Starts Tomorrow SIGN UP NOW!!
Pre-registration and pre-payment required: namaste@jayayogacenter.com
SWEET TREAT FOR YOU
Thai Massage Intro Workshop
with Elise Constantine, LMT
Thai Massage is an ancient healing art that combines acupressure with assisted yoga stretches. This form of "lazy persons yoga" benefits all types of people as it stretches the body, calms the mind and expands the spirit. Working with partners, we will learn a routine of easy-to learn Thai Massage stretches that we can share with loved ones.
Thai Massage is performed on a cushioned floor mat. There is no use of oil and the recipient remains fully clothed throughout the session. This workshop will be hands on—and feet, too! No prior massage experience is necessary to enjoy this class. However, in order to be able to give Thai Massage with ease, participants should be comfortable in sitting and kneeling positions on a cushioned floor mat.
Bring your Valentine or other friend, or come by yourself and connect with another member of Jaya's yoga community.
Saturday February 16
from 5:45 - 8:45pm
$45 or sign up with a friend for $80
Contact the front desk or namaste@jayayogacenter.com pre-registration and pre-payment are required.
Head Shoulders Knees and Toes BASICS Series
Core Strength and Arm Balances
with Sarah Lewis and Carla Stangenberg
Sunday February 24th from 2 - 4 pm
Please join us for this detailed exploration of core strength and arm balancing. You will find a distinct link between the two which will make them much easier. We will work on navasana and ardha navasana (boat and 1/2 boat), bakasana (crow) full arm balance (adho muka vrksasana) just to name a few. You will come away with more tools for assist your yoga practice.
$30 for the workshop
pre-registration required contact: namaste@jayayogacenter.com
Free Introduction to Yoga Class
Thursday February 21st
from 5:00 - 6:10
Please bring yourself and a friend to Jaya Yoga for a free introduction to asana practice, meditation, and a little philosophy.
Everyone is Welcome.
If you have any questions contact namaste@jayayogacenter.com.
NEW CLASS LEVEL
Open / Restorative Class
with Alison Dorfman
Wednesday at 7:45 pm
What does this mean exactly? This mid-week class is composed of 3/4 open level practice and 1/4 restorative (yoga with the support of props to aid a deeply relaxed state). The aim of this class is to get you moving with the open level vinyasa practice and deeply calm you down to help you rest for the night, with the restorative practice.
LOOKING FORWARD TO MARCH
Head Shoulders Knees and Toes Intermediate Series
Asana Extravaganza: Back Bending
with Sarah and Carla
Saturday March 15 from 5:45 - 8:45 pm
$45
Sign Up Now: namaste@jayayogacenter.com
Next 6-Week Beginner Series
March 2- April 14
(note this course skips Easter Sunday)
$85
Sign Up Now: namaste@jayayogacenter.com
Thank you for your practice, patience and good humor
-Jaya News Department
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