Parents Are People, a Prenatal Parenting Course

Instructor: Elizabeth Memel, M.A.

Dates: Friday, September 10 ~ Thursday, September 16 ~ Friday, September 24

Time: 4:30 - 7 PM (all sessions)

Cost: $150/person ~ $200/couple (for all sessions)

Give you and your baby a head start in this prenatal parenting support group. A balance of caring responsive dependencies and beneficial independencies evolve when adults mindfully consider their role as parents in the most crucial state of child development...the first two years. This course is for adults only.

Elizabeth Memel, an RIE (Resources for Infant Educarers) Associate who trained with renowned infant specialist Magda Gerber, is certified to instruct all the "Educaring Approach" courses offered by Resources for Infant Educarers. Liz has over twenty-five years' experience consulting with and guiding adults, both parents and professionals, who care for infants and toddlers. Now retired from adjunct faculty in the child development department at Los Angeles City College, Liz has a Masters Degree from Pacific Oaks College in Human Development Specializing in Infants and Toddlers. The Nan Tolbert Nurturing Center in Ojai was designed and created by Liz and the 2006-7 board of Ojai Valley Birth and Family Support with funding from Ventura County First Five.

Full Moon Gong Bath

Instructor: Sopurkh Kaur

Date: Thursday, September 23

Time: 5:30 - 8 PM

Cost: $30 by September 16 / $35 thereafter

Come celebrate autumn equinox! The Equinox Gong Bath will bathe you in waves of sacred sound and rising and falling rhythms and tonalities, produced by a 38" Earth Gong tuned to the vibrational hum of the earth. This healing, awakening, transformational experience will include an extended Gong Bath, preceded by Kundalini Yoga warm-up exercises and followed by a Kundalini Chant Meditation.

Sopurkh Kaur, Kundalini Yoga Teacher Extraordinaire, has been practicing and studying Kundalini yoga since 1990 with beloved teachers Guru Singh and Yogi Bhajan. She is certified by the International Kundalini Yoga Teachers Association (IKYTA) and the Kundalini Research Institute (KRI) and has been working with music and sound as a modality of healing since childhood. Her classes and special events are uplifting, healing and renewing.

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga

Instructor: Annette White

Date: Saturday, September 25

Time: 1 - 4 PM

Cost: $35

Since its release in 1994, Deepak Chopra’s Book The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success has improved the lives of millions around the world. Through seven easily understood principles, we learn that harmony, happiness and abundance are available to anyone willing to embrace a consciousness-based approach to life. Now developed into a daily yoga practice, the Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga will infuse your practice with spirit, while bringing the seven laws into action every day. We will learn a wealth of breathing exercises, mantras, meditation techniques and yoga poses all designed to bring spirituality back to the practice of yoga today.

After practicing various forms of yoga for more than 10 years, Annette White became a 200 hour certified yoga instructor through the Chopra Center. At the core of her teachings is the awareness that yoga is more than a system of physical fitness, it is a science of balanced living, a path for realizing full human potential. Annette's passion is to help guide each of her students along their own individual path of self-discovery.