The Mysterious Bandhas: A Yoga Immersion
January 20-22, Friday: 7-10 pm, Saturday: 12-5 pm, Sunday: 12-4 pm, pot luck supper afterward
People often ask to spend more concentrated time at Grace in community. This 12-hr immersion is for students wanting to move their practice from the physical to the metaphysical, from outside to inside, from the gross to the subtle.
Voice Workshop with Narayani
Saturday, March 3, 1-5pm
Voicework is an exploration of our own voices through the mediums of chant, mantras, sound and song, leading us to connect to our authentic voice.
This workshop will help you to deepen your connection to your voice, open your heart and access the sounds that come from deep within.
Kirtan with Narayani
Saturday, March 3, 7-9pm
Narayani is a devotional singer, voicework facilitator, and yoga teacher. voice had such a profound and transformative impact on her life that she now shares this by offering concerts and workshops throughout the UK and Europe.
Maha Sadhana: The Great and Divine Practice
Held monthly on the third Saturday at 5:30-8:30. The next maha sadhana is November 19, 2011.
Bring vegetarian food to share afterward or just enjoy the bounty. Just Come!
Metta (Loving-kindness) for Women Please Join us on Friday, December 9, 2011 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm at Grace Yoga. Currently the workshop is at full capacity.
Yoga and Movement for Children (ages 7-11) is an hour-long class that will allow children to build fine and gross motor skills, balance, eye-hand coordination, bilateral integration, confidence, and relaxation skills. Guided imagery will be woven throughout the class to link movement and imagination.
New! Community Classes Beginning October, $5
Community Classes resume in October. These one-hour classes allow our teacher trainees the opportunity to hone their skills in a safe and supervised environment. In return, the Grace community
has more options for classes during the week at less than half price. Just Come! Greet and support
our budding teachers!
The Mysterious Bandhas: A Yoga Immersion
January 20-22, Friday: 7-10 pm, Saturday: 12-5 pm, Sunday: 12-4 pm, pot luck supper afterward
People often ask to spend more concentrated time at Grace in community. This 12-hr immersion is for students wanting to move their practice from the physical to the metaphysical, from outside to inside, from the gross to the subtle. We will explore the anatomy, physiology, and psychic effects of the breath and the bandhas: Mulabandha, Uddiyana Bandha, Jalandhara Bandha.
Prana is the unclaimed element we are all swimming in; we know prana through vibration. We bring an awareness to Prana, our life force, when we bring awareness to our breath and the subtle locks or valves in the body, called bandhas. These valves allow us to skillfully move Prana and participate in our own healing.
The immersion will include pranayama, asana, anatomy lecture, scripture, mantra, and guided meditations on the subtle systems of the body.
The Friday evening session is open to all students, all levels; you may attend this session only. The entire immersion is suitable for intermediate to advanced students. Continuing education credits apply.
January 20-22
Friday: 7-10 pm, Saturday: 12-5 pm, Sunday: 12-4 pm, pot luck supper afterward
The Schedule
Friday: Experiential Anatomy, Pranayama, Light Asana, Psychic Dev.
Saturday: Anatomy of the Bandhas: Lecture, Asana, the nautical system
Sunday: Flight: Arm Balances, Inversions, the pneumatic system
Pricing
Friday night only: $40
Friday, Saturday, Sunday: $120
Saturday, March 3, 1-5pm
Voicework is an exploration of our own voices through the mediums of chant, mantras, sound and song, leading us to connect to our authentic voice
This workshop will help you to deepen your connection to your voice, open your heart and access the sounds that come from deep within. By using the voice, without any need for previous singing experience, we will help develop confidence and explore how it can be used as a heart-opening tool, leading to self-healing and creative self expression, allowing us to move to a place of stillness and inner peace. The workshop will involve a combination of techniques (including those taught by the Naked Voice) based on the Indian chakra system, mantras, and expressing through singing and sounding as a group and as individuals.
Pricing
Workshop alone: $60
Workshop with kirtan: $75
Saturday, March 3, 7-9pm
Narayani is a devotional singer, voicework facilitator, and yoga teacher. She has trained with Chloe Goodchild and the Naked Voice as a voicework facilitator. Narayani has studied with teachers from the Krishnamacharya Yoga and Healing Foundation as well as the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres.
Her personal journey with yoga and sound and the discovery of her powerful voice had such a profound and transformative impact on her life that she now shares this by offering concerts and workshops throughout the UK and Europe. Narayani travels regularly to India to enrich her practice.
Pricing
Kirtan alone: $25
Workshop with kirtan: $75
Maha Sadhana: The Great and Divine Practice
The next Maha Sadhana is Saturday, November 19, 2011. 5:30-8:30
Held monthly on the fourth Saturday at 5:30-8:30.
Vegetarian pot luck dinner afterward. $25 Please preregister for this event.
Once a month at his NYC yoga center, Dharma Mittra leads a wondrous event called Maha Sadhana, which includes chanting, pranayama, psychic development exercises, deep vinyasa yoga, and Yoga Nidra. Grace Yoga holds a Maha Sadhana in the tradition of Sri Dharma Mittra each month. The pranayama and chanting clean the mind and nervous system of impurities and bring radiance to the entire body. The deep practice of Shiva Namaskara Vinyasa tones and purifies the physical body. Psychic Development exercises put us in touch with all our resources and sharpen our powers of discernment. Maha Sadhana cements a community like no other practice. Just come!
Bring vegetarian food to share afterward or just enjoy the bounty.
Metta (Loving-kindness) for Women
December 9, 2011 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm
Loving-kindness (metta) is a practice that teaches us how to cultivate forgiveness, kindness, open-heartedness, friendship and love toward ourselves and others. Metta is a practice that originated in the Buddhist meditation traditions and has made its way to the West. It is now used by people of all backgrounds and affiliations to open the heart and develop patience, compassion and acceptance. It has the capacity to heal, soften, and regenerate body, mind and spirit.
In a group of like-minded women you will be able, through simple movement, meditation and guided relaxation, to awaken to your own intrinsic wholeness, peacefulness and kindness and this gives us the opportunity to deepen our equanimity. There will be specific instructions for those who are new to Metta practice. Experienced practitioners also welcome.
Please bring a mat and wear comfortable clothing.
Currently, the workshop is full.
Yoga and Movement for Children (ages 7-11)
is an hour-long class that will allow children to build fine and gross motor skills, balance, eye-hand coordination, bilateral integration, confidence, and relaxation skills. Guided imagery will be woven throughout the class to link movement and imagination.
Why Yoga for Children? Yoga is non-competitive. Yoga requires staying present. Yoga is a low-cost preventive medicine. Yoga creates balance and body integration. Yoga increases flexibility and is grounding. Yoga creates a learning space in which joy flourishes.
Session II-(6 classes)-Wednesdays 4:15 pm, Nov 2 thru December 14
Pre-registration only Session II: $60. Call to register: 401-667-2800 or register at the desk.
Nicole Zaloumis-O’Reilly, M.Ed., Special Education teacher, children’s yoga teacher, and Orton Gillingham tutor, has been practicing yoga for over 13 years. She completed the Radiant Child Teacher Training and has trained in the Integrative Movement Therapy for children and teens.
Questions: Nicole Zaloumis-O’Reilly at nicolezoreilly@yahoo.com