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Yoga
Diane DeMars / Instructor

Classes are designed to reduce stress, renew your energy, and relieve tension  from your back, neck, shoulders and hips. Your continued practice of yoga will improve your balance, strength and flexibility as you experience the benefits of mindful movement, conscious breathing and deep relaxation. It is my belief that anyone can learn yoga and enjoy its numerous benefits regardless of age, body shape or physical limitations.

7 week series $89

Still Wednesdays
Jacquelyne Fisher / Instructor

Still Wednesdays is an opportunity to learn the health benefits of body centered meditation for your body, mind and heart, to create an inner sense of wellbeing. Contact Jacquelyne Fisher for fee structure.

Energy Healing Intervention For Couples
Carol McGilliard / Instructor

This class is designed to teach techniques through energy intervention for non-threatening medical emergencies. This is a hands on experiential class. The fee is $300 per couple.

Somatics
Ed Barrera / Instructor

Hurting yourself doesn't have be one of life's hazards and mysteries.

All healthy animals with spinal cords use a relatively unknown process of stretching and yawning to keep themselves agile, in balance, comfortable and fit. In this Hanna Somatics workshop, you'll learn how to use these processes in order to effectively reset the signals your brain sends to your muscles and those that your muscles achingly send back to your brain.

Hanna Somatics is used to treat many musculoskeletal conditions such as back, neck, hip, knee and shoulder pain, as well as more generalized conditions such as stress. This is accomplished by creating a conscious body centered awareness as it naturally moves with the use of specific sequences of gentle movement patterns.

As a result, you'll learn how to move with greater ease, balance, comfort… and have the tools to remain so for the rest of your life. The fee for this workshop is $39. For more information check out the Gravity Werks website.

Stress Reduction Through Mindfulness
Brian O'Connor / Instructor

This class includes lectures, demonstrations and discussions of mindfulness based stress reduction. This class will be held at noon on Tuesdays. The fee for this class is $10 per session.

Mindfulness Meditation & Instruction
Brian O'Connor / Instructor

Brian O’Connor’s class “Mindfulness Meditation & Instruction” is instruction, practice and discussion of mindfulness meditation. The fee for this class is $10 per session.

Kundalini Yoga & Meditation - Spring Into Joy!
Diane Bunting / Instructor

During each 1.5 hour class of this nine-week series, we learn and practice:

  1. Rejuvenate body, mind, heart, & soul
  2. Grow into new possibilities and potentials
  3. Cultivate Joy!

Diane Bunting (with 34 years experience) will give many variations in the physical poses so that all folks find comfort and health improvement. Wear loose comfortable clothing and bring a yoga mat & blanket.

New series March 31 - April 14 for beginners and on-going students. $ 33 Times are from 5:30 - 7pm or 7:15 - 8:45.

Taiji / Qigong
Roger Cloutier / Instructor

Taiji Temple Exercises Taiji – Balance  Qigong = cultivate Energy
You will learn the tools for balance which will allow you to relax.  You will learn to not lean which compresses the body core.  These are the principles of hard work which extend out into the rest of what you do whether it be  Taiji (Life Balance) Quan (Martial Art) or Gardening. The fee for this class is $8 per session.

Ongoing Taiji Form / Qigong
Roger Cloutier / Instructor

Taiji Temple Exercises (Advanced), Qigong / 108 Yang Style Taiji form (all 3 sets)
This is for students that have completed the first set of 108 Yang Style Taiji Form.  We further develop the Temple Exercises and practice various Qigong Forms like Swimming Dragon Qigong, Hunyuan Qigong, Bong Qigong, and Healing Sounds Qigong.  We will also practice all three sets of the 108 Yang Style Taiji Form.

Taiji Concepts
Jeff Crosland / Instructor

This course introduces methods for loosening up body and mind, and finding structural alignment and balance. We will strive to let go of all tension and develop softness in motion and in stillness. Sets of postures and movements provide students with a healthy, relaxing way to improve balance, flexibility, strength and circulation.

Kum Nye Yoga
Jacquelyne Fisher/ Instructor

Kum Nye Yoga is a gentle breathing, stretching and movement practice which helps us to relieve stress, transform negative patterns and feel more balanced and healthy.  Kum Nye includes sitting exercises, breathing techniques and self-massage.  This form of Tibetan yoga is adaptable and suitable for all range of motion and no previous experience is required!

Jacquelyne Fisher, L-MFT, completed a year  long  Kum Nye Yoga Teacher Training Program, including three five-day long retreats, in November of 2008. This program was under the supervision of Arnaud Maitland, who holds both a Law Degree as well as a Master’s degree in Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy and Psychology.  Mr. Maitland has been a student of venerable Tibetan Lama Tarthang Tulku for over thirty years. Classes will be $8.00 per session For more information please visit the Kum Nye website.

Golden Years Yoga
Erin Mayo/ Instructor

This class is for students 50 and over that would like to re-gain some of their natural flexibility and well-being. Erin designs this class specifically to the needs of each student, knowing that every BODY is different and has been through different obstacles. Should anyone be recovering from an injury or surgery, this is the class for you! In this class students will learn how to change everyday habits that decrease mobility and learn better biomechanic awareness in their body that may help with chronic pain control. This class is appropriate for many different fitness levels as it is therapeutic in nature. The three week series in December 2009 is $35.00. Contact Erin at (253) 514-7208 to register.

Yoga For Kids
Erin Mayo/ Instructor

Receipe for yoga fun:
1 teaspoon of looking at your toes
2 tablespoons of smiling to the sky
1 full cup of standing on your hands!

Yoga is a fantastic and fun way to introduce your child to better physical and mental awareness. The postures help with strength, flexibility, and coordination while the practices of stillness and concentration enhance focus and relaxation. This is a place your child can come to have fun, release the day and go upside down. (which, parents...is a mood enhancer!) The three week series in December 2009 is $35.00. Contact Erin at (253) 514-7208 to register.

Nutri-Yoga
Deanna Minich / Instructor

 Dr. Deanna Minich combined her training in both nutrition and yoga to craft for you a nourishing yoga class. Classes are 75 minutes long, on four Friday’s in July 2009 and have a food-body focus that align with appropriate poses. The cost is $15 per class or $60 for the series.

Eating With Soul: The Ultimate 7 Steps to Nourishment
Deanna Minich / Instructor

Come learn how foods and eating extends its healing into 7 aspects of our lives: how it nourishes the body, emotions, sense of self, heart, authentic voice, intuition, and interconnection with life. Make your experience of eating a nourishing one on all levels! The class is 90 minutes long, and the cost is $25.

Nutrition for the Soul™
Deanna Minich / Instructor

Are you tired of the endless diet roulette? Do you want to understand the deeper meaning of your relationship with foods and eating? Join Dr. Deanna Minich in this powerful 8-week session of diving deep into your body-spirit landscape to see how you can use foods and the experience of eating to transform and become your true, vibrant self! Classes are 2 hours long, on eight Friday’s in September and October 2009. The cost is $ 150 per person for eight weeks.

Yoga with Hal Meng

If you can breathe you can do yoga.

Based on the yoga tradition of proper adaptation, this class is appropriate for beginners and those who have been afraid to try yoga. But adaptation can also challenge the experienced student. With gentle stretching and rhythmic movement with awareness of the breath, yoga provides a path to health and well being for everyone.

Class is on-going Mondays 9:30 – 10:45 AM except on Holidays.

Cost:

10-class card good for 12 weeks from purchase         $120

5-class card good for 6 weeks from purchase             $70

Drop in rate                                                                 $15

For more information visit Solstice Yoga or contact Hal at HalMengWA@cs.com or 253-752-6834.