Workshops + Events: Fall 2009

FREE! Community Yoga Classes
Saturday, January 2
9:00 - 9:45am Children's yoga with Kim
10-:00- 11:00am All Levels Adult class with Lisa
11:15am - 12:15pm All Levels Adult class with Kim

Curious about yoga? Want to get back into your practice in 2010? Looking for an excellent whole being practice? Here is your chance to try it with gentle, knowledgeable instructors.

Special discount for new and returning students who sign up for classes at the free classes.


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Yoga for Children
Mondays, January 11 thru February 15, 4:00 - 4:45pm, $60 for the series, or $12 drop-in fee.

Children's Class Information

Yoga provides a non-competitive environment for children to explore their bodies and how they move. Yoga helps them to build self-confidence, self-awareness, coordination, strength and, flexibility, as well as the crucial skills of focusing and relaxing!

In these classes, yoga will be presented in a fun and playful format. The children will learn basic poses, breathing exercises, self-calming skills and some really fun yoga games. Ages 5-9.

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Yoga Teacher Training
November through May, 100 hours, six-month training.

Come join a small committed community of dedicated practitioners. In this six-month course you will: Deepen your own practice. Explore the intricacies of the yogic path. Learn how to share this transformative practice with others. You will complete this course with the skills and confidence to teach to others.

Who is eligible: Anyone with at least one year of yoga practice, a desire to delve more deeply into his/her practice.

Why commit to this: To deepen your yoga practice, build a community like you may never have known possible, explore a new career opportunity, improve your ability to see and communicate with others in a compassionate manner. Give yourself the opportunity to know yourself as an amazing, empowered person who makes a difference.

Coursework Requirements: Six-month commitment - 7 weekend intensives - 12 hours, instruction and practice teaching, observe/assist ten classes, complete homework as assigned and attend one class at a new yoga studio.

Schedule: October through April, Saturday 10am – 6pm, Sunday 1:00 – 5:00pm

Three payment options: One payment of $1500. Two payments of $775 due September and December or payments of $225 due at each monthly class.

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Second Friday Restorative Yoga and Lecture Series
Jan 8, Feb 12, March 12 and April 9 , $25

We all look forward to our weekends off. It can be challenging though to shift gears from a hectic week and settle into a relaxed pace for those less structured days. Come, give yourself this time to center and ground yourself - to begin your weekend fresh and open, ready to embrace the opportunities the weekend presents. The session will begin with basic gentle poses to warm up the spine and proceed into a restorative practice. In restorative yoga we set the body up in completely supported postures, settle in and allow the body to rest. You'll also practice gentle guided breathing and meditation. These practices are deeply nourishing for the nervous system. You'll leave feeling refreshed and restored.

Previous yoga or meditation experience is not necessary to participate.

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Put Your Best Face Forward, Yoga and Nutrition Tools for a Radiant Complexion
Wednesday, January 20, 6:30 - 9:00pm, $35

In this fun and experiential workshop, you will see immediate results, which can be sustained with a short daily home practice! Kim Trimmer, popular local yoga teacher, will teach you exercises to strengthen and tone the muscles of your face and neck. Nutritionist, Mary Purdy will share simple and easy nutrition strategies and tasty dietary tips that will get your skin glowing from the inside out! Samples of these yummy treats will be provided. Be ready to see your face move in directions you didn't think possible and be willing to suspend any notions of what you believe is possible! Previous yoga experience is NOT necessary to participate in this workshop!
About Kim: Kim is a certified yoga teacher. She has been teaching for twelve years and is now totally enjoying learning about and sharing Yoga for your Face. Kim teaches with humor, compassion and great respect for individual capabilities.
About Mary: Mary Purdy is Registered Dietitian with a Master’s degree from Bastyr University. She has a private practice at Seattle Healing Arts Center in Roosevelt and works part time as an outpatient dietitian at Harborview Hospital. Her website is: www.nourishingbalance.com

Previous yoga or meditation experience is not necessary to participate.

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TAKE YOGA HOME
Sunday, January 23, 2:00 - 4:30pm, $110 or $40 ($40 for workshop only - $100 includes follow up individual session - usual price of individual session is $110)

IF YOU ANSWER YES TO ANY OF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS . . .

Have you resolved to establish your own yoga practice at home this year? Would you like to practice yoga at home, but have difficulty remembering the poses? Do you have an established practice that you would like to refine/develop? Are there certain poses that you just don’t get enough of in class?

THEN THIS WORKSHOP IS FOR YOU!!!!!

Workshop Description: You will learn the basic elements of a yoga practice and how to sequence your poses to maintain a safe practice. Then, through listening, discussing and the use of handouts you will develop a routine of your own based on your temperament, time availability and desires. You will leave with a written personalized yoga sequence that you have designed as well as a template for creating future sequences.

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BESTING THE BLUES, using meditation and yoga to cope with depression
Wednesdays, January 27 through February 17, 6:30 - 8:30pm, $120, or $100 if registered by January 22

The shorter days are upon us, the holiday festivities are over, leaving us with this stretch of what may seem interminable darkness before us. This period of time between the holidays and those first rays of spring light can be very difficult for those who struggle with depression.

Have you heard the expression “What we resist persists”? Much impact has been made in the treatment of chronic pain, addiction and emotional stress with the training and use of mindfulness practices. In this 4-week series you will practice various mindfulness exercises, moving and still, to help you to become more aware, more present in your life. The premise is that once you accept your feelings, without judgment, without resistance, you can learn what you need to learn from them and move through and indeed past them, allowing you to more fully embrace life with all of its ups and downs.

Previous yoga or meditation experience is not necessary to participate in this workshop.
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PARTNER YOGA FOR VALENTINE’S DAY! FOR PARENTS/KIDS OR ADULT PAIRS
Sunday, February 14, Parent/Child 1:00 – 2:15pm, $25 per pair; Adults 2:45 – 4:15, $35 per pair

Looking for a new way to celebrate Valentine’s Day with your child, a partner or friend? Or maybe a fun way to deepen your yoga practice?

YOUR SEARCH IS OVER!

Come practice yoga together! Partner yoga is a unique way of connecting with another and a great tool for deepening your practice. With the support and/or resistance of another body you can move into your practice in a deeper way. The class will work perfectly in pairs where one partner has yoga experience and the other doesn’t, however if you both have yoga experience that’ll work too! Come prepared to laugh and have a good time.

PLUS WE’LL HAVE TEA AND COOKIES AFTERWARD!
WHAT MORE COULD YOU ASK FROM A PRE-VALENTINE’S CELEBRATION?!

No previous yoga or meditation experience is necessary to participate!

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Session Intensive
Saturday, February 20 and Saturday, April 17, 2:00 – 5:00pm, $38

Here’s an opportunity for you to see what your body could really do when properly warmed up and prepared for a pose! You will surprise yourself! In this three-hour intensive you will work with the theme and focus pose of the 8-week session. With three hours we will dive deeply into all of the aspects of the pose and completely prepare your body to move as deeply as possible into the focus pose. Rather than focusing on just one aspect of the pose as we do of necessity with only 1-1/4 hour class, we will explore all aspects of what it will take to move your body into the particular asana. You will know more completely what exactly it is that stands in your way and very likely find that it is less of an obstacle when you’ve had more time to prepare your body. Be prepared to be amazed. Really!

Prerequisites: Please be registered into the current series to attend the intensive or call to make a request to attend.

For more information on any of the above workshops or to register please email us or call: 206.992.4808.

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