Upcoming Workshops in Roanoke, Virginia!

Yoga and the Three Vital Forces with Katie Silcox

Date:
Saturday, 19 December 2009
Time:
10:15 - 16:30
Location:
The Yoga Center 3107-C Franklin Road, SW, Piccadilly Square, Roanoke, Virginia 24014
Description

10:15 AM -12:30 PM (12:30 -1:45 PM lunch break) 2:00 - 4:30 PM

All levels welcome. May attend morning/evening or both (but both are strongly recommended).

The theme for the day-long deepening workshop Yoga and the tantric approach to the vital forces –– of prana, tejas, and ojas, how they illumine practice, allow us to access our higher potentials as well as respond to our own individual needs.

Class includes an overview of the principles of the three vital essences and the yoga of Ayurveda. We explore the specifics on the unique aspects of these three forces and how each one empowers you in life as well as spirit. We highlight the particular yoga practices that build each of them. This includes an invigorating vinyasa flow class that focuses on stoking the inner fire and the light of personality, as well as an evening practice that focuses on growing “enduring” vital force. Emphasis is on nourishing, grounding and building inner joy in the afternoon. Class includes physical practice, breathwork, lecture, meditation, journaling and a home-made chai!

Fee of class: $45 before Dec. 19, $55 on Dec. 19, $30 for half day

To register: www.theyogacenterinc.com/events.htm

The Yoga of Fire and Beauty

Date: Sunday, 20 December 2009
Time: 13:00 - 16:30
Location:Uttara Yoga Studio
Street: 112-B Kirk Avenue SW
Town/City:Roanoke, VA

Description

What do fire and beauty have to do with yoga? Everything. Through the practices of yoga that enliven our own inner fire (the yogis called this inner-fire agni), we begin to wake up to our own innate, radiance and inner beauty. We also begin to see the world as beautiful. The yogis believed that the underlying aspect of our world is BEAUTY! They called this Shri, or “the ever-expanding goodness & generative quality of the heart that brings value and meaning to our lives. In this interactive workshop involving physical practice, breathwork, lecture, meditation and journaling, we will begin to taste the beauty of transformative practice.

This workshop will look into the following inquiries:
What can yoga teach me regarding stoking my own inner-fire?
What is beauty, according to yoga?
What is keeping me from being able to experience beauty in myself and the outside world?
How can life be beautiful with all the turmoil I see in the world and myself?
What practical things can I do in my life to experience more beauty?

The practice includes an invigorating fluid yoga class, focusing on stoking the inner fire and the light of personality, as well as “breathwork for seeing beauty”, lecture on fire and beauty, meditation and journaling.

WHERE: Uttara Yoga Studio, 112-B Kirk Avenue SW Roanoke, Virginia 24014
35$ INVESTMENT BEFORE DEC. 20th, 40 $ INVESTMENT ON DAY OF CLASS

To register:

Telephone
(540) 309-0071

Email
info@uttarayogastudio.com

Katie's Summer Teaching Schedule

Mountain Yoga: Montclaire, Oakland (http://www.mountainyoga.org/)
Mondays 4:30-5:15 p.m.

Namaste Yoga in Rockridge, Oakland, (http://www.namasterockridge.com/)
Wednesdays 7:30-9 p.m.

Piedmont Yoga: Oakland (http://www.piedmontyoga.com/)
Thursdays 5:30-7 p.m.

Retreat to Maya Tulum with Nova Loverro Sprick and Katie Silcox

Inside Out-Outside In: A Journey to Self
May 30th - June 6th, 2009

Join yoginis Katie Silcox and Nova Loverro Sprick for a body-invigorating, life-changing, heart-opening, belly-laughing, mind-clearing week at Maya Tulum, Mexico. Through the practice of asana, breathwork, journaling, visualization and meditation, we will play with and discover the connection between our inner/individual world and our experience of the tangible world around us. Truly, unless our practice is altering the quality of our lives for the better, we have not discovered the real power that yoga can give us.In the words of the renowned naturalist, John Muir, "....for going out, I found, was really going in." This workshop is open to all levels of students who delight in finding new openings in body, heart and mind.

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Powerful woman in all senses, Nova Loverro Sprick taught yoga for ten years and was certified in Anusara Yoga in February of 2006. Her passion for learning and incorporating yoga into all aspects of her life, including being a mother and wife, a lover of art, nature and food and more recently as a cancer survivor, has been her source of inexhaustible enthusiasm to teach and offer from her heart. Nova discovered Anusara Yoga and John Friend in 2001, where she received the invitation to open to the beautiful dance of life in all things great, small, beautiful and ugly.
Katie Silcox has taught yoga in Europe, Asia, Central America and currently teaches in the San Francisco Bay area. Katie was taught in India, in the home of famed yogis A.G. and Indra Mohan, two of Krishnamacharya's last students. Katie brings an original mix of classical yoga, Tantric practices, and Southern-belle enthusiasm to her students. She is also a dedicated student of Yogarupa Rod Stryker and is currently pursuing advanced education in Aryuvedic Medicine a focus on Yoga Psychology as Applied to Women's Issues.


Our retreat is located on the Riviera Maya in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico between the pristine blue ocean, the emerald green tropical forests and the jungles. For more info, check out Maya Tulum.

HOW TO RESERVE: It is easy to reserve your spot now, simply email Katie Silcox at jesseespain@yahoo.com. You may also reserve your space directly through Maya Tulum at reservations@mayatulum.com

Details: Pricing from $1290 double occupancy, includes 8 glorious days, 7 balmy nights lodging in a luxury beach-side bungalow, 3 healthy meals daily, minimum 2 yoga workshops daily, yoga psychology workshops, course material, guided beach-side meditations.

Yoga Bhavana, What does it mean?

Bhavana is a word that means "cultivating feelings" as can be understood as the underlying intention behind our practices. Wikipedia defines it as "development". Budhha used it when speaking about citta-bhavana, metta-bhevana and vipassana bhavana ( development of the mind or the cultivation of the heart (citta means both heart and mind); the development/cultivation of loving-kindness; the cultivation of tranquility and the development of insight.)