Managing Social Stress With Yoga & Buddhist Teachings
(for young women 13-16 years old)
This workshop teaches you how to bring your everyday peer stresses into a place of balance. Using yoga and buddhist teachings. We will give you tools to last a lifetime in all your relationships.
Date: February 29, March 7, 14, 21, 28, April 4
Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm
Cost: $150
Studio: OM
Instructor: Diana Slattery & Heather Principe
Registration required: Contact 516.662.7878 or call
medcinflwr@yogapolarity.com
Polarity Therapy Bridge Program Energetic Anatomy, the 5 elements & their reflexes in the body
Learn to combine the ancient knowledge gained by the study of yoga with the art of intuitive touch. This program will offer study in the five elements and their reflex points in the body, specific hands-on bodywork techniques and deep contemplative awareness of how energy moves in our “system”
Dates: Sundays, January 22, 29, February 19, 26, March 4, 18
Time: 11:00am – 5:00pm
Instructor: Liz Ferrara
Studio: Om
Cost: $595
Registration: Pre-Registration is required. Please call 516-578-2898 or email yogaschool@aol.com to register or for more info.
Book Club
As our yoga community continues to grow, we would like to announce our new Monthly Book Club. The books discussed will be anything regarding yoga, yoga philosophy, spirituality, or any subject that will heighten our awareness, deepen our yoga practice on the mat, but more importantly, deepen our practice off the mats, bringing yoga into our everyday lives.
Date: Friday, March 2nd, 2012
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Studio: Prem
Book: Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire: A Novel by Margot Berwin
Cost: $10 recommended donation to benefit Crossroads Farm
Register: Call 516.578.2898 or email fwhite2@optonline.net
Facilitator:Fran White
Sangye Menlha Practice, Meditating on the Medicine Buddha with Geshe Chongtle Rinpoche
Geshe Chongtle Rinpoche, a High Lama in the Bon Tradition of Tibet, will teach participants how to deeply meditate with the Medicine Buddha, learning the appropriate healing mantra and how the Sangye Menlha practice brings a deep connection with the five elements (earth, water, fire, air and space). The five elements are the energetic undercurrent that form and affect the physical world, including our own bodies. This ancient Tibetan practice is one of the many techniques that can help us awaken our innate healing powers. This is a powerful healing practice for harmonizing imbalances as well as purifying negative karma and past deeds. It is not only beneficial for the individual but also offers assistance to those who are dying or who have already passed. This retreat is open to everyone. There are no pre-requisites.
Date: Saturday, March 3rd & Sunday, March 4th
Time: Saturday / 10:30am - 6:00pm & Sunday / 12:00pm - 6:00pm
Studio: Prem
Cost: $198
Register: Call 516.678.2086 or email themysticalcrystal@mac.com
Teacher: Geshe Chongtle Rinpoche
Strengthening the Pelvic Floor
In this workshop explore the anatomy of the pelvic floor from an intrinsic perspective using “core work” along with the breath to both strengthen and release the pelvic floor.
Problems related to the pelvic floor include lumbar, hip and sciatic pain, menstrual discomfort, loss of bladder control and urinary urgency.
Date: Saturday, March 10, 2012
Time : 1:00pm – 3:00pm
Studio : Om
Cost: $20
Registration: Please contact Jane McQueen at
JMcqu451@aol.com / 516.596.9308.
Flow Into the Yoga of Emotional Freedom: Physician, Heal Thyself with Gael Chiarella
With the growth in Yoga’s popularity we have a tremendous opportunity to advance the study of emotional genius while on the mat, providing a home for a body of knowledge that we do not teach in schools or institutions, and one that has a profound affect upon society as a whole.
This groundbreaking territory differs from traditional education, and it can be taught. With the power inherent in emotional wellbeing while engaging physical and mental yogic practices there is no one better suited for hosting this initiative than the bodyworker/yoga therapist.
We move from a culture of body practices into the realm of true holistic expression of our lively passion in the world.
In this individualized program you will be mentored to personalize and experience the content in your own life with practical applications for everyday living.
Date: March 11, 2011
Time: 12:00pm to 6:00pm
Cost: $150
Instructor: Gael Chiarella
Registration required: Contact Elizabeth Ferrara: phone 917-288-6162 or email mzliz@aol.com
Expansion and Liberation:
Tantric Meditation for Everyday Life
A 3-Part Series w/ Senior ISHTA Yoga teachers Peter Ferko & Wendy Newton
While Tantra Yoga often gets associated with sex, in fact, Tantra uses whatever is in front of you, even sex, as a route for expansion and liberation. Tantra Yoga takes the materials at hand -- our bodies, mind, and emotions -- and uses them to foster an awareness of the interconnectedness of all things. As practiced in the ISHTA lineage, a daily sadhana (or practice) of meditation using breath, imagery, and mudras, transforms your energy and helps to bring inspiration into every moment of your living. With regular practice, you develop a deepened sense of who you are, and a contentment that comes from a calm mind, clear emotions, and a healthy relationship to abundance.
Each of the three workshops will include:
-a discussion of relevant aspects of "energy anatomy"
-a short, simple asana sequence designed to prepare the body for meditation
-a pranayama practice to draw the senses inward
-a 20 minute meditation using a tantric technique
-re-grounding practices to safely anchor your experience in your body
The Workshop Topics Are:
February 18: Centering: Ham Sa Kriya
March 24: Tuning & Balancing: Chakra Meditation w/option for partner variation
(bring a partner, find one in class, or work solo)
April 14: Cleansing: Bhuta Shuddhi
Take a single workshop, or build your knowledge of Tantra by taking the whole series!
Yogiraj Peter Ferko, E-RYT and Wendy Newton, E-RYT, RPP are senior teachers at ISHTA Yoga and lead trainers in the ISHTA Teacher Training program (www.ishtayoga.com). They carry the ISHTA lineage of teaching ancient yoga practices for contemporary people. Peter is also a practicing artist and Wendy includes Polarity Therapy and intuitive bodywork among other things in her healing work. Together they are working to create a non-profit art and yoga center for sustainable living.
Dates: Saturdays, February 18th, March 24th, April 14th
Time: 3:00-5:00pm
Studio: Om
Instructor: Yogiraj Peter Ferko, E-RYT and Wendy Newton, E-RYT, RPP
Cost: $30 per workshop / $75 for whole series
Pre-register or drop in: Call 516-578-2898 or email yogaschool@aol.com
Flow Into the Yoga of Emotional Freedom: Implementing Emotional Freedom Skills - Mind, Body & Spirit with Gael Chiarella
Incorporating the language of the emotional genius empowers the student who learns, the teacher who offers, and the community at large. Simple and straightforward, the framework of emotional freedom is easy to replicate!
As we encourage and enlighten, we provide the ways and means for transformation of the negative affects of the emotions we observe offering yet another important element through which the practice of yoga leads to peace and fulfillment.
We will learn seven specific skills for creating a healthy response to emotion in others and ourselves. In this individualized program you will be mentored to personalize and experience the content in your own life with practical applications for everyday living.
Date: April 15, 2011
Time: 12:00pm to 6:00pm
Cost: $150
Instructor: Gael Chiarella
Registration required: Contact Elizabeth Ferrara: phone 917-288-6162 or email mzliz@aol.com
Robert Hansen, Psychic Medium
Robert E. Hansen, psychic medium and intuitive counselor approaches his clients with insight, humor, love and compassion as he leads them toward healing and inner peace. Through Robert's workshops, students can learn how to broaden their own psychic abilities and embark on their own spiritual journey with peace and through the practice of meditation and awareness.
Date: May 3rd
Time: 10:45am-2:45pm
Cost: $55
Studio: Om
Guest: Robert Hansen
Registration required: Contact Fran at 516.578.2898 or fwhite2@optonline.net
Iyengar Style Alignment Intensive
This experience is for Yoga Teachers or serious students who have a practiced Sadhana and for students who wish to continue their 500 hour experience. It is a deeply mentored journey designed to give you the experience of Asana in a “stylized” protocol with definitive teaching
Date: May 14, 21, June 11, 18, 25
Time: 10:45am-2:45pm
Cost: $595
Studio: Prem
Instructor: Anu Butani
Registration required: Contact 516.662.7878 or call medcinflwr@yogapolarity.com