Service Category: Master Classes

Becoming a Resilient Person 1-Day Stress Management Course Monday, January 18, 2021 ONLINE COURSE Everyone experiences stress at some level, whether it’s the pressure to perform in school or work, relationship issues, financial concerns, or simply a lot to do in a short amount of time.  The good news - resiliency to stress can be learned! All stress isn’t bad, but chronic stress can take its toll on our minds, bodies, and how we behave.  Chronic stress causes an activation of your body’s stress-response system. The overexposure to cortisol and other stress hormones can increase the risk of obesity, insomnia, digestive problems, heart disease, depression, burn out, fatigue, memory impairment, and physical illness. It is important to recognize the signs of when we are distress. Stress can be managed and research has shown that people we can learn and use specific resilience skills and positive routines to better manage stress, to bounce back quicker after a setback, to be more effective in our careers, to develop...

Star Reiki Master Level Training with Pam Bhandarkar MacPhee Sunday, January 26 & Sunday, March 8, 2020 Master Your Power and Enhance your Unique Healing Potential! Star Reiki builds on traditional USUI Reiki and encompasses all healing modalities and all ways to connect with Oneness. The Master Level training consists of 10 contact hours (two 5 hour sessions), plus additional self-study and practical hours. It includes copies of both the Star Reiki Level 1 and Level 2 manuals (if you are new to Star Reiki), as well as Master level information for you to keep and continue your practice. Outline Contact Hours Overview of the traditional USUI Reiki Master Symbol and using INTENTION in the Star Reiki method of Connecting to Oneness Soul level healing and beyond. The Star Reiki approach primarily uses INTENTION and always accesses the infinite potential of healing from Oneness A Unique Star Reiki Master Level Attunement incorporating Yin Yoga (no experience necessary) Overview of Star Reiki and Practicing the Techniques:...

Sequencing for Transformative Yoga with Jenna Switzer and Stéphane Ippersiel 4-Week Series: November 6 to November 27 Learn of how to sequence different class styles for transformative experiences with Jenna Switzer and Stéphane Ippersiel! Course Description This 12-hour Master Class is designed for advanced practitioners and Yoga Teachers who want to cultivate an understanding of how to sequence purposeful yoga classes based on well-defined themes and the energetic impacts of poses. Build on your knowledge and learn to guide students through a practice that taps into their physical and energetic bodies; an empowered practice that charges them up energetically, opens them up physically, and gently brings them to a place of peaceful surrender. Combining concepts of sequencing from traditional Hatha, Yin, and much more. Dates and Times Offered as a night-school style program of four (4) Tuesday evenings from 6 pm to 9 pm each evening, the following topics are covered: November 6: Anatomy-based sequencing November 13: Sequencing for a Hatha practice November 20: Sequencing for a Yin...

The Mindful Child - An Interactive Workshop for Adults with Victoria Lynes Sunday, February 10, 2018 “If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation.” – Dalai Lama Mindful awareness has helped many millions of adults combat and manage stress in their lives. Now, our children need these tools too. Kids are under more pressure in their lives than ever. They live in a “hurry-up” world of busy parents, school pressures, incessant lessons, competitive sports and the ever increasing dominance of hyper-connectedness and “on-line all-the-time culture”.  These influences can be very stressful for our kids.  The bustling pace of our children’s lives can have a profound effect on their innate joy. Giving our kids the tools to help them fend off negative thoughts and behaviors, build self-confidence, focus, and treat others and themselves with respect and kindness, is a gift they will have for the rest of their lives. Mindfulness offer essential life skills that...

Max Strom - Breathe to Heal Friday, November 27 to Sunday, November 29, 2020 ONLINE COURSE - Live Stream For people from all levels of fitness and walks of life suffering from extreme stress. No previous experience necessary. Also extremely useful for medical practitioners, therapists, and yoga teachers who want to incorporate this work into their healing repertoire. Course Description We currently have a worldwide epidemic of stress and anxiety that is stifling our happiness, creativity, and intimacy. Max Strom will reveal his core principles of breathing and movement patterns to alleviate anxiety, PTSD, depression, and sleep disorder based on his two decades of teaching and his in-depth knowledge of Hatha Yoga and QI Gong. Many of our emotional challenges are due to being taught socially from a very young age to suppress and numb our feelings, leaving us carrying a silo of emotions in our chest of un-reconciled and unexpressed emotions. Using breathing patterns for 20 minutes daily, as taught by Max Strom, can bring...

Seven Windows to the Soul: A Chakra Seminar with Anodea Judith September 14-16, 2018 This seminar with internationally acclaimed Author and Public Speaker, Anodea Judith, gives you both experiential and intellectual tools for understanding the complete chakra system within your own body and psyche. Come prepared to both learn about the chakras and move your own energy into new places. Charge and the Energy Body Friday, September 14, 2018 6:30 pm to 9 pm What is it that makes us feel truly alive and why do we fear it? Learn about the life force, as prana, chi, or charge, and how it energizes the chakras and everything else we do. Learn how important it is to keep our charge balanced for healthy functioning and how the patterns of charging and discharging become hardwired into our personality. From Anodea’s lifelong work with the chakras and therapeutic issues, this talk brings you a new way to look at Energy Psychology. Seven Windows to the Soul: A Chakra Seminar Saturday, September...

Creating Balance - Sequencing a Yang + Yin Class with Jenna Switzer and Stéphane Ippersiel February 23-25, 2018 For ALL Yoga Teachers and Students! Yang + Yin Yoga blends two styles of yoga into one practice to combine the benefits of  dynamic sequences and standing postures with more passively held yoga poses. Yang is the masculine principle - light, active, outward, moving, hot, retrospective. Yang Yoga builds on these principles and through traditional asana based practices helps us to strengthen and tone the body, improve flexibility and circulation, increase stamina, synchronize movement with breath, and remove tension and obstacles in the body to allow the breath and prana to flow. Yin is the feminine principle - passive, receptive, reflective, cool, and introspective.  Yin Yoga builds on these principles and helps to stimulate the meridians (energy channels) bringing balance to the organs in the body, improve flexibility and joint mobility, calm and balance the mind and body and reduce stress and anxiety.  Yin yoga also works deeply...

Star Reiki Level 1 Training with Pam Bhandarkar MacPhee Friday, February 26, 2021 Tap into YOUR Power! Drawing from the infinite supply of universal healing energy, with intention, Pam believes we all have the power to increase our vibration as well as that of others. Many of us feel our senses in extraordinary ways and have no idea what to call it. You may hear an inner voice, feel the energy in a room, or maybe you are intrigued and open to more! Star Reiki encompasses the traditional USUI Reiki lineage, and over and above, is inclusive to all forms of connecting and harnessing the powers of Oneness. Vibrating with Oneness/Source is grounding and strengthens intuition, allowing us to make better decisions in our daily lives. Included in this training, you will receive a Star Reiki Level 1 Attunement incorporating a series of chakra opening and balancing yin yoga poses, and a manual to continue your practice. A sense of deep healing and/or release may be experienced. ...

Teaching Yoga and Mindfulness to Children with Victoria Lynes Sunday, September 22, 2019 “If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation.” - Dalai Lama Our children live in a hurry-up world of busy parents, school pressures, incessant lessons, competitive sports and the ever increasing dominance of hyper-connectedness and “on-line all-the-time culture”.  These influences can be very stressful for our kids! The bustling pace of our children's lives can have a profound effect on their innate joy. Growing research suggests that teaching children to disconnect though Yoga and Mindfulness, can help them in the same way it benefits adults, having a profound impact on alleviating depression, anxiety and improving concentration and self-esteem.  Kids think better, are kinder humans and show up in the world more connected to their surroundings with these skills! Overview This fun, interactive, creative and practical workshop is designed for: parents, grandparents, caregivers, teachers and educators, health care professionals, yoga teachers or...