Winter 2012 Events & Workshops
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Satsang Every 1st & 3rd Sunday of the month
Guided Meditation Practice
SATSANG is a group gathering to practice meditation and to study various aspects of yoga and yoga philosophy. A silent, guided meditation period is followed by KIRTAN, the singing of chants and mantras. Yoga philosophy is studied through uplifting readings or lectures.
January 8 Sankalpa - resolves for the new year
January 15 Japa Yoga - introduction/review of yoga
meditation practices
February 5 The Three States of Conciousness
February 19 'Spiritual Progress and Rationality'
with special guest Sankar - Peter Beacham
March 4 No Satsang
March 18 Swami Sivananda on Love
Note: There is no charge for Satsang meditation although gifts of flowers or fruit are always welcome
The fruit is prasad (blessed food ) and is shared at the end of the evening.
Everyone is welcome and no experience is necessary.
Intention & Attention in Teaching Yoga
Workshop & Meeting for all the centre's teachers and all Sivnanda TTC Graduates
Saturday, February 4 at 11:15 am - 12:30 pm
Light refreshment provided.
Calming Panic & Anxiety
This 2-part workshop provides practical step-by-step guidelines for what to do when anxiety rises and panic overwhelms. Participants will learn and practice a series of simple and extremely effective steps for calming anxiety. A visualization / imagery exercise will be experienced in both parts A & B.. Each workshop ends with a deeply rejuvenating guided relaxation period. A handout for home reference and practice is available.
Part A - 5 Steps to Calming Body & Mind
Sunday, February 12 from 10:30 am-12:30 pm
Part B - 5 Steps to Empowerment
Sunday, February 26 from 10:30 am-12:30 pm Poster
Part A or B individually: $25 + $5 booklet (optional)
Both Part A & Part B: $40 + $5 booklet (optional)
Back Care Workshop
This workshop brings a three-fold approach to improving the condition of your back:
1) Alleviate acute symptoms
2) Strengthen and stabilize
3) Maintain a healthy spine and back
You will take home a complete 10-minutes/day home back-care practice.Handout included.
You will also learn to distinguish symptoms from causes and take home tools to heal your symptoms at their source cause.
Saturday, February 18 from 11:30 am - 1:30 pm
$25
Focus on Headstand Class
The regular Wednesday 8 p.m. class will be adapted on this day to include a focus on learning the headstand.All level 2 and 3 students are strongly encouraged to attend class to have a thorough introduction or review of this amazing posture.
Demonstration of the basic pose as well as variations.
Discussion of the benefits of Sirshasan pose.
Assisted practice of the posture.
Come and have some fun.
Wednesday, March 21 8 - 930 p.m.
$12 + tax as an add-on class for anyone registered in the winter session. Members free.
Counts as 1 class on the 11-class pass. $17 drop-in.
Workshop Week March 26 - 30
Monday,March 26 Introduction to Meditation
630-8 pm Theory, Practice & Discussion of essential yogic meditation methods.
Tuesday,March 27 Back Care Workshop
7 - 9 pm
Wed, March 28 Chakra Journey Workshop: 'Giving Voice to the Authentic Self'
7-9 pm The throat chakra is all about giving expression to who YOU are. As we learn to
live from the heart, it is our voice that carries our unique frequency out into the world. To speak is to create and the power of our Word shapes our environment. What kind of world have you been creating? Tune up your fifth chakra to come home to yourSelf and feel more alive than ever in your life.
This is an active and experiential programme that includes reflection,poetry, sound healing, music and a guided healing ceremony.Be brave and bold and try something a little different.
Thursday, Mar 29 Healing with Yoga Nidra
7-9 pm Deep relaxation states allow the body to heal itself, the mind to rest, and the spirit to come alive. We progressively relax the 5 Koshas, or bodies: anamaya kosha (physical body), pranamaya kosha (energy body), manomaya kosha (mind body), vignanmaya kosha (intellect), and anandamaya kosha (bliss body). This is the most profound gift you can ever give yourself. Not to be missed!
All workshops are $20. No pre-registration required.
Public Talk 'Farming Close to Home'
Aylmer Backyard Farms with special guest speaker, Anne Janssen
Saturday, March 11, 2012
11:15 a.m.-12:15 pm Poster 
Yoga Therapy & Healing
Classes - Workshops - Private Sessions
Thai Yoga Therapy
with Krishna (Albert Swiercz)
 Individual advance appointments
$75 / 1 hour Insurance receipts available
January 21-22 Reserve early as these get booked fast!
February 19
Thai Table 2-day course
Professional credits available
Date March 31 - April 1, 2012 More
Group Yoga Therapy Adapted Classes
Register for a series or by the individual class (drop-in)
Adapted Yoga - Monday 5:15-6:15 p.m. January 30 - February 27
This class offers a highly personalized approach in a small group context. It is especially ideal for persons with particular needs: anxiety & panic, back conditions, chronic muscle pain and fatigue, arthritis, injury, illness recovery, etc.
It is recommended that participants first receive 1 - 3 private classes to set up an appropriate personal programme which is then integrated into the group class.
Level I - Wednesday 5:30 - 6:45 p.m.. Starts February 1 for 5 weeks
Level I adapts the classical yoga postures to accomodate particular needs. Learn how to modify the yoga poses to allow a comfortable and enjoyable practice regardless of your body's starting point.
It can be helpful to receive 1 - 3 private classes to fully address your particular needs. Often we only need to modify a few poses which you then incorporate into your regular yoga class. Sometimes the body simply needs a more gentle approach to movement and postures.
Private Yoga Therapy Appointments
$75 approximately 1 hour OR $150 for 3 sessions (recommended)
The following are some of the options available:
Yoga Therapy - your individual needs are assessed and a personlized practice designed just for you. The tools used are yoga exercises, breath work, and relaxation methods.
Energy Medicine - particularly effective when our energetic body (pranamaya kosha) and/or mind body (manomaya kosha) need centering, rooting, grounding and steadying. The emotions and thoughts may be out of control or stuck. You may feel drained or lack enthusiasm for life. You may experience moments of high anxiety or panic.
Chakra balancing, aura cleansing, Great Fire Light healing, Plant energetics, vortex clearing and healing ceremonies are a few options.
Theta Healing - We have 4 levels of beliefs: conditioning from our present life experiences, genetic encoding passed through DNA, past life experiences, soul memory. Most of our beliefs are usually carried in our subconsious mind. Yet they influence everything we think, say and do, often in very negative and limiting ways. Theta healing pulls beliefs that you have outgrown and allows you to create healthy, healed and positive new agreements with yourself. Theta healing also allows you to transform negative emotional patterns into life-affirming feelings.
Sound Healing - Sound speaks directly to your body and reminds it of its original state of perfect harmony. Different frequencies of sound can heal every layer and level of your being: physical, emotional, mental, soul and spirit.
- Drumming steadies the heart and connects us to the natural rhythms of life. Modern lifestyles often lack rhythm and we feel lost, drifting, wanting, searching, yearning, longing ...
- Biosonic tuning forks use very precise frequencies of sound to bring the elements of life into balance within our being: our earth, water, fire, air & ether .
- Bij mantras are 'seed' sounds produced by the voice. In proper combination they restore harmony. They work on a very subtle level.
Spiritual Healing - healing ceremonies and journey work in the Algonquin tradition as taught by Pete Bernard, founder of the 8th Fire School of Algonquin traditional medicine.
Soul and power retrievals, entity extractions, Karmic past life healing, spirit guides, animal totems - these are all powerful resources that prepare you to truly step into your purpose in this life and create your own destiny.
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