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Reiki Workshops with Cat Rhyne ~ November 2014
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All Massage Therapists welcome. We’ll spend approximately 30 minutes in open discussion about community, business, or practices that relate to or challenge our profession. This is a state license renewal year so questions about policy or law changes, advertising and gift certificate requirements are on the agenda. After discussion we’ll use our Yamuna Body Rolling balls to review what we learned in our MT Self-Care class and work out some of our kinks! Didn’t take the class? No worries, join us anyway – we’ll share. MT’s will a ball kit should bring it. This is a community share – no studio charge applies. RSVP
Set the tone for the upcoming holiday months… for a stress-free and relaxed you!
Join Karen and celebrate the full moon with a Yin Yoga. In Yin-style yoga the poses are held for around 3 minutes and have a quality of stillness. This works deeply into the hips, pelvis, spine and shoulders to unlock tensions. After you have experienced Yin Yoga even just once, you will realize its profound benefits.
This is a community class – donations are welcome. Give what you can! RSVP
Full Details can be found here. RSVP
Monday, October 20, 7:00 – 8:30pmMedicine Dance incorporates Intuitive Movement, Musical Meditation, and Body Jazz to create a soulful and ecstatic experience. It is a dance as individual as the dancer that warms up specific body parts, offers a whole body exploration of universal rhythms, uses a blind folded trance dance to world music, help you to follow the breath & move the body, free your mind, feed your soul, and Celebrate the dance of Life! This class is facilitated by psychotherapist Kathy Webb. Medicine Dance is typically scheduled for the 3rd Monday of each month – check the schedule for exact dates.
$10 Drop-In Fee; RSVP
Our twice weekly self-guided Meditation group gets a little assistance from Karen this day. If you’re new to meditation, have trouble meditating on your own, or just want a little guidance getting into your quiet zone, this is the perfect opportunity to join us.
Community Class – Donation Based – Give what you can! RSVP
Friday, November 7, 5:30 – 6:30pmSave the date! More details to follow.
Yamuna believes that our feet are the foundation of the body and that Yamuna® Foot Fitness is essential for everyone at any fitness level. Strengthen your feet and you will strengthen your whole body. This workshop gives you simple proactive tools and solutions that can help you alleviate pain and prevent it. Yamuna recommends that you start with the foot wakers to increase flexibility, range of motion and alignment. When you are ready to work in more detail you can begin using our foot savers.
Yamuna® Foot Fitness helps prevent or alleviate common foot problems such as:
Plantar Fasciitis
Morton Neuroma
Flat Feet
Hammer Toes
Fallen Arches
$40 Workshop Registration
Balls are provided for use during class. A Foot Wakers kit (half-balls & DVD) for use at home can be purchased after class.
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If you are super physical and are constantly challenging your body you need to add all the Save Your Hips work to your weekly workouts. If you are sedentary and working hours at a computer, you need to keep your hips from getting stuck and rusty in a sitting position. All of us need to keep our hip joints aligned, greased and oiled all though life for maintaining our circulation and muscular – skeletal integrity from our hip to our feet and from our hips to our head. When your thighbones are restricting your movements, it is usually because they are stuck in some position in the hip joint. This class will explore all the possible movements and connections of how to work the hip joint to the thighbone. We will work the hamstrings, quadriceps, adductors, IT band and deep lateral rotators.
$30 workshop registration
Balls are provided during workshop for use. Kits are available for sale after class for home use.
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Saturday, September 13 – Align & Flow with Karen will not meet to make room in the studio for our Yamuna Workshop. Class will return to the schedule at 9:30am on Saturday, September 20.
Sunday, September 14 – Gentle Kripalu Yoga with Brian will be at 4:30pm instead of its normal time at 4pm to make room for our Yamuna Body Rolling Self-Care for LMTs workshop. September 21 we will have Yoga in the Park instead of Gentle Kripala and September 28, class will return to its normal time and place at 4pm in the studio.
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Moon image from Yoga Journal
Partner image from Partner Yoga dot org
Park image from Parusha Studio dot org
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Yoga, Feldenkrais ATM, & Meditation will not meet Thursday, July 3 or Friday, July 4 in observance of the Independence Day holiday. Tai Chi will meet July 3 as scheduled.
Medicine Dance will not meet during July. It’ll return August 19th.
We’ll host 3 Yamuna Body Rolling Workshops with Kandy Duke on Saturday, July 12th. Check the enrollments page for full details.
Since March 2014 we’ve hosted a monthly Yamuna Body Rolling workshop or workshops with guest instructor Kandy Duke. We’ve Saved Our Hips, Saved Our Shoulders, Saved Our Backs, and Saved Face! Each workshop has introduced us to the wonders of body rolling and a variety of Yamuna body rolling balls in various sizes and colors.
Our workshops continue throughout the summer with:
Save Your Feet & Save Face – June 14th, 2014
Save your Knees & Save Your Feet – July 12th, 2014
*5-Hour Body Rolling Intensive – August 9th, 2014
(CE credits available for Yoga Instructors)
Be sure to check our MindBody scheduler for dates, times, full descriptions, pricing options, and registration options.
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from YamunaBodyRolling.com:
Yamuna Body Sustainability
Experience life-long solutions for flexibility, strength and movement at 30, 40, 50, 60, 70 and beyond.
Give Yourself more than just a new approach to fitness and body care. Yamuna Body Sustainability is a whole new category of body awareness that responds to the reality that American standards of fitness have, over time, often proved more damaging to the body than beneficial. Yamuna is proud to lead the movement away from regimen-focused fitness toward her own standards of body excellence.
We invite you to join us in our quest for Yamuna Body Sustainability – in all its forms:
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Also, here are a couple of interesting articles about Yamuna Body Rolling:
Fitness Cheat Sheet: What is Yamuna Body Rolling from the SpaFinder Wellness 365 Blog
Yamuna Body Rolling FAQ from the Action Potential Health Collective
Yamuna Body Rolling: Save Face!
Saturday, May 10, 9:30 – 11:00am
$80 Registration Fee includes 90-min instruction &
Take Home Kit including 2 Face Balls & DVD
Pre-Registration Required; Class Limited to 5 students
We are told that the sun and other environmental factors are the primary causes of skin damage. Yamuna believes that just like every other part of our bodies, the face is subject to tremendous repetitive stress from very early on. We begin to frown, squint our eyes, clench our jaws, grind our teeth, tighten our lips and on and on. Each of us has tension patterns that we are no longer aware of that we do constantly, everyday all day. These patterns cause early bone loss, form wrinkles, cause sinus and tension headaches and TMJ. Repetitive stress and tension over the years causes problems with our sinuses, headaches, TMJ, wrinkles and a myriad of other challenges for our irreplaceable faces! In this workshop, you will learn to stimulate bones, muscle and skin, thereby keeping your face more relaxed AND beautiful!
Learning how to work on your own face with specially designed balls will give you a way to prevent aging and when you feel the difference in your face when it is relaxed versus your normal, you will want to incorporate this work into your self-care program.
Yamuna Body Rolling: Private Table Sessions
Saturday, May 10, 11:30am – 1:00pm
Saturday May 10, 1:30pm – 3:00pm
$95 Appointment Fee
Pre-Registration Required, Only 2 appointments available
Table YBR is a nice addition to those wanting to go a little deeper
with Body Rolling. And because not all bodies respond to one single
type of treatment you may find this body work enhances your other body
work.
We start with direct bone stimulation and then work out from where the
tendon attaches to the bone down into the body of the muscle towards
its’ insertion. The ball is used to work each part in traction to
achieve greater length, tone and freedom of movement. As the therapist
works, correcting alignment of bones and muscles throughout the body
is the constant goal. In this treatment a therapist is continually
observing the alignment and correcting it with the one goal; freedom
of movement effortlessly in the client.
Yamuna Body Rolling is a small part of an ongoing Body Sustainability program for your entire body developed by Yamuna Zake. The intention of Body Rolling is to:
Body Rolling at Balance is brought to you by Instructor Kandy Duke, currently from Athens, GA. Kandy is a Certified Yamuna Body Rolling Practitioner, a Personal Trainer, and a Yoga & Pilates Mat Teacher.
Back Pain is the number one complaint for people seeking bodywork and exercise assistance. This class is designed to release the “stuck” feeling we all get from sitting too long at a computer, too long in our cars, too long on the phone, standing too long on our feet, or any other of those activities we do that over-work our stabilizing back muscles! We’ll work on the lower, middle and upper back and you’ll feel like you’ve had a chiropractic adjustment and a massage plus worked your abdominal muscles.
Tight shoulders? Loss of Range of Motion? Pain in your everyday activities or during your workouts? Body Rolling addresses stuck, rigid tendons, ligaments and joints. This workshop will address those issues as well as give you rolling exercises to add to your weekly routines. This extended workshop will also address your hands, forearms, and elbows as they relate to the movement of your shoulders.