Yoga, Movement & Support: A Pre-Natal Course

Instructor: Davie Holifield

Date: 6 Tuesdays, April 15, 22, 29 and May 6, 13, 20

Time: 7 - 8:30 PM

Cost: $75 pre-registration or $15 per session

A 6-week series focusing on yoga movements and stretches to alleviate pregnancy discomforts, help prepare the body for labor, and support women's confidence during all phases of pregnancy. Different areas of the pregnant body will be the focus of each week.

Davie Holifield, trained in Natural Childbirth, has been a Childbirth Educator teaching couples since 1996. She is an A.L.A.C.E. certified Professional Labor Assistant and a trained and certified prenatal yoga instructor with Robin Sale's Whole Birth Yoga since 2001.

Darshan & Discourse

Instructor: Michael Rahman

Date: Sunday, May 4 and the 1st & 3rd Sundays of the month thereafter

Time: 3:30

Cost: by donation only

Darshan is a Sanskrit term meaning "sight of" (in the sense of seeing or glimpsing) the Truth and can be likened to an epiphanous experience. Ultimately, it is simply an invitation into the silent inner peace, contentment & blissful states of realizing who you really are. The power of Darshan may be experienced in various ways ranging from profound and radical to peaceful and benign. It is an invitation appropriate to the need of th emoment and the experience is unique to each individual.

Michael Rahman is of British descent and was educated at the Kings School, Canterbury, England. After embarking upon an expected successful career in business he found himself asking whether there was, perhaps, a deeper meaning to life than that which he had been raised to believe. Inquiring into the fundamental question "Who Am I?" Micahel experienced a profound spiritual awakening in his late twenties. Therein began an outward journey around the world, encompassing over fifty countries and cultures; and an inner journey of meditation and study that took him through some of the lowest depths and highest peaks of human experience. Throughout his initial awakening matured, and his realizations deepened into silent inner peace, blissful states and joyful awareness that is Enlightenment.

Chakra Restorative Yoga

Instructor: Constance Hart

Date: Saturday, May 10

Time: 12:30 - 2:45 PM

Cost: $35

Experience color therapy, color aromatherapy, pranayama, mudras, mantras, sound healing and restorative asanas specific to awakening Ajna Chakra— your Inner Eye center. Enjoy this session to bring peaceful energy to your 3rd eye and enjoy an awakening of intuition, meditation & psychic vision. When your Inner Eye Chakra is blocked, you experience eye strain and headache tension. Come learn how to heal and nourish this important chakra. Come wearing ROYAL BLUE to heighten your experience of color energy medicine for complete chakra balancing.

Constance Hart, owner of Conscious Colors, is an internationally recognized, certified color therapist, metaphysical instructor and consultant. She lives on the Central Coast and owns the Conscious Colors Energy Center in Los Osos, CA. A visionary in the field of energy balancing, she has created the color aromatherapy line Color Aromas and the Chakra Restorative Yoga program. She is an intuitive healer specializing in the healing art of energy medicine with color, sound and aroma therapies and has over 18 years teaching experience.

Adore Your Core: A Core-Strengthening Workshop

Instructor: Anna Spanopoulos

Date: Saturday, May 17

Time: 1 - 4 PM

Cost: $35

These yoga poses and deep abdominal, back, and pelvic exercises strengthen you from the inside out. This series is designed to penetrate weak muscle tissue, stretch scar tissue, wake up sluggish organs, and develop focused mind body connections. The variety of yoga poses and abdominal pelvic exercises will improve your posture, aid digestion and elimination, and enhance your overall strength and sense of well-being. All levels welcome.

Anna Spanopoulos began studying yoga in the early '70s. She started teacher training in hatha and Ashtanga yoga in 1994 and began teaching the following year. Since then, Anna has been studying the Iyengar yoga system, and has taken Iyengar teacher training and yoga therapy training. She also teaches prenatal yoga, children's yoga, and workshops for back, neck, shoulders, hips, knees, and carpal tunnel syndrome.

Free Introduction to Yoga

Instructor: Yoga Jones Staff

Date: Sunday, May 25

Time: 11:30 AM - 1 PM

Cost: FREE

Come find out what yoga is all about with this free introductory session. If you are new to yoga - or even if you aren't - come experience this healing, invigorating practice and our beautiful yoga studio.

Yin Yang Workshop

Instructor: Heather Tiddens

Date: Saturday, May 31

Time: 1 - 4 PM

Cost: $45

Join Heather in weaving the healing powers of these two very different styles of yoga into an integrated, balanced practice. We begin with Yin Yoga, a quiet practice that encourages the body/mind to open as each pose is held passively for several minutes. Yin Yoga targets the deep, dense connective tissues; the ligaments and fascia, releasing resistance while activating the flow of prana through the core of the body. Transitioning into the Yang practice of deep breathing, heat, and intense pose sequences in the Forrest Yoga style, will deepen your edges of self-discovery while cultivating strength, flexibility and energy flow. Yoking these mutually supportive yoga styles creates an opportunity for healing the stresses, trauma, and their underlying conditioning, that block our potential and limit our lives. Come experience the freedom of being fully at home in your body: energized, open, powerful and graceful. All levels welcome.

Heather Tiddens teaches yoga and leads ceremony as ways to support and inspire people in becoming their most genuine selves. Her classes are known for their physical intensity and detailed instruction, as well as being a safe, sacred space for students to explore their spiritual, emotional and physical healing and growth. Her teaching is inspired by her own healing process which integrates Forrest Yoga, Yin Yoga, hands-on healing, psychotherapy and indigenous ceremony ways and shamanism. Heather’s life-long athletic experience and deep connection with the elements of nature greatly influence her teaching style. Since 1979, she has been an avid and skilled surfer, and competed as one of the top 15 women on the Professional World Tour in 1988-89. Heather has studied and been certified in various styles of Hatha Yoga, and from 1998-2004, she worked extensively with Ana Forrest as her student, apprentice and assistant in workshops and Forrest Yoga Teacher Trainings throughout the country.

Chakra Restorative Yoga

Instructor: Constance Hart

Date: Saturday, June 7

Time: 12:30 - 2:45 PM

Cost: $35

Join Constance Hart in this popular and profoundly restorative series. Each workshop focuses on a different chakra body-spirit center ~ revitalizing through the power of color energy medicine.

Constance Hart, owner of Conscious Colors, is an internationally recognized, certified color therapist, metaphysical instructor and consultant. She lives on the Central Coast and owns the Conscious Colors Energy Center in Los Osos, CA. A visionary in the field of energy balancing, she has created the color aromatherapy line Color Aromas and the Chakra Restorative Yoga program. She is an intuitive healer specializing in the healing art of energy medicine with color, sound and aroma therapies and has over 18 years teaching experience.

Free Introduction to Yoga

Instructor: Yoga Jones Staff

Date: Sunday, June 29

Time: 11:30 AM - 1 PM

Cost: FREE

Come find out what yoga is all about with this free introductory session. If you are new to yoga - or even if you aren't - come experience this healing, invigorating practice and our beautiful yoga studio.

Thai Yoga Massage

Practitioner: Paula Scheerschmidt

Cost: $50

Yoga Jones is now offering Thai Yoga Therapy with Paula at the studio! Come take advantage of her introductory rate of only $50 for a luxurious 90min to 2hr session. Thai Yoga Therapy is an ancient system combining rhythmic massage, acupressure, yogic stretching, gentle twisting, energy work and meditation. You can book your appointment directly with Paula at scheerjoy@hotmail.com or calling 804.341.2090.