A yoga practice incorporating the teachings of Louise Hay's
'You Can Heal Your Life'
with Lisa Rockenmacher, E-RYT500, KYRT

"In the infinity of life where I am, all is perfect, whole, and complete..."

Join in for a transformative journey of healing based on the teachings of Louise Hay as shared in the book 'YOU CAN HEAL YOUR LIFE'.

Over a decade ago, Louise Hay turned inward to heal from her "incurable" cancer and the wisdom she accessed in her healing journey is shared in this encouraging and accessible book. Whether you have a specific chronic ailment, a recent disorienting diagnosis or life-change, a general feeling that all is not well, or just want to add more tools to your wellness options, this workshop is for you!

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with Daniela Kulik, RYT500

A Mandala is a "special circle" of brightly colored patterns and designs that is created with a meditative mind. Creating a Mandala is a unifying and relaxing experience that allows people to express themselves individually while working as part of a whole. As we share the experience of creating a Mandala, we will explore the peaceful centering that results from focused effort and relaxed breathing as we reflect inward and also connect with others.

Unlike previously offered Mandala workshops that included children, this workshop is geared toward adults, no experience necessary.

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 with Allison Parks Dugas, RYT

The new season brings change as witnessed in trees losing leaves while drawing their energy inwards. Soil hardens around roots as nature braces for winters' force demonstrating that flexibility and balance are key.

Balance is important to us as well, while we shift and sway with demands. With the cold comes stiffness, so we move our bodies through yogic stretches to keep them limber. With change comes imbalance, so we find strength in our cores and foundations to reach a place of harmony. We relinquish stress and tension like falling leaves while we focus and balance our minds with concentration.

Balancing Life with Awareness is a special time designed to allow you to find your sense of balance through the body (yogic posing), the breath, and relaxation.

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with Daniela Kulik, RYT500, Certified Reiki Master

The Root Chakra connects us to the structural strength of our bodies, including our connection to the earth and the energy of manifestation within us. Physiologically, our bones, muscles, legs, feet, and pelvic floor are all connected to this energy. This special class will focus on building energetic awareness and include breathing exercises, yoga poses and meditation/visualization techniques that will awaken and strengthen from within.

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Ten Week Summer Meditation Course

Find freedom from stress through longevity of practice.

Learn how to:

• Create and maintain meditative discipline
• Cultivate skills for clarity and tranquility
• Find tools to understand the ego
• Face the issues that lie beneath the surface
• Release the past using gratitude and forgiveness
• Develop a healthy relationship to future goals
• Identify, understand and cope with daily emotion

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Balance and Enlightenment Through
the Five Branches of Yoga

with Dr. Robert Butera

Do you find peace and inspiration through yoga's physical poses, but find meditation extremely difficult? Do you struggle with chanting or prayer but love to journal and study the workings of the mind? Are you the type of person for whom helping others is a spiritual practice, but find it difficult to care for yourself? These are some of the different ways in which people are inspired and uplifted, as well as challenged and imbalanced, in relation to yoga's various practices.

In this workshop, Dr. Butera, founder of the YogaLife Institute of PA and author of The Pure Heart of Yoga, discusses the healing and transformative benefits of yoga while honoring the theory that we all have a unique path. The five branches of Yoga provide different ways to purify our being: Tantra (via the physical body), Raja (via stilling of the mind), Karma (via our actions or service to others), Bhakti (via devotion and the heart), and Jnana (via wisdom and study). Understanding the five branches of yoga is inspiring because we can discover the ways in which yoga works best for us, while attempting to bring balance to all five paths. To learn more about Dr. Butera and read two of his most recent articles in 'Yoga Therapy Today'.

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with Erin Byron, RYT500, BA, MA

What is Therapeutic Yoga?
Therapeutic Yoga is a truly holistic and integrative approach to health and well-being. Healthy and strategic movement, good nutrition, adequate rest and relaxation, deep self-awareness and a positive attitude are ALL essential components of good health. Yoga Therapy seeks to educate and support individuals in the development of these and other aspects necessary to help each person achieve their optimal state of well-being.

Therapeutic Yoga is used by yoga teachers, nurses and other healthcare professionals as part of safe and comprehensive treatment of healthcare conditions. For the at-home student, Therapeutic Yoga provides supported modifications for injured or physically challenged individuals seeking a safe and effective yoga practice and healthcare routine.

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with Mid Walsh, RYT

Breathing is a fundamental human activity. Essential to our physical life, intimately intertwined with our emotions, elegantly simple and surprisingly powerful, the breath is a pathway to understanding the experience of being alive. Considered one of the most ancient traditions of yoga, regulation of the breath has the potential to still the mind, regulate the emotions, increase physical health, and enhance athletic performance.

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Healing through Joy!

with Daniela Kulik, RYT500
Certified Reiki Master

"To live is to dance, to dance is to live."

Let's dance! Let's have some fun! Let's shake it out! Let it go! Your presence is enthusiastically requested for a celebration of dance and life! This is a Chakra dance explosion. Seven energy centers provide the basis for this dance of yoga. Through fabulous world music, we feel the grounding force of the first earthen Chakra in our feet, legs, and tailbones. We spiral up through the senses to the sacrum and pelvis; our second Chakra, moving our hips and belly. We travel still further, experiencing the third center of power, strength and solar energy. In the center of the heart, we dance healing and loving kindness out to the world. We then blast into the fifth Chakra with sweaty intensity, streaming across the room with unbridled bliss. As we move into the upper Chakras (six and seven) we relax and find stillness in meditation. As we lay on our backs we feel the support of the earth beneath us. At the end, we sit still together in a sacred circle.

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with Sally Sugatt, LICSW, RYT500

 At this time of year especially, when so many of us experience the winter blues, an opportunity to experience a few gentle yoga postures and mindfulness techniques in a supportive community may help us. Participants will join together to learn about yoga philosophy regarding depression as well as cultural myths and misconceptions about mood challenges. We will practice yoga postures to promote lasting emotional wellness, and explore mindfulness practices that may have value throughout our lives.

Who is this workshop for?

If you are interested in learning about and considering the Yoga perspective on mood challenges, and you are open to trying postures and mindfulness practices that impact thoughts and beliefs, and emotions, this is the workshop for you!

Whether you have experienced depression yourself or know, love, or work with someone who has, please join in this exploration.

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