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Workshops
Workshops inspire and deepen all aspects of your yoga practice, learning the subtleties of the body and breath and delving more into yogic philosophy. We offer a wide variety of workshops with our amazing HDY faculty and with internationally renowned visiting instructors. Our Yoga workshops are appropriate for all levels of yoga experience, unless otherwise specified and help you take your practice to another level of fulfillment.
Upcoming Workshops
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03/09 - 03/11/12
Judy Mortellaro
Senior Yoga Training
$90 | 4600 Copper Avenue NE
This course is designed to provide the participants with the knowledge and techniques to most effectively work with the student who is 55 years or older. Emphasis will be on how to make the asanas accessible to all regardless of their limitations. Anatomy and physiology, changes associated with aging, assistance with breath enhancement, stability, balance, and altered mobility, will be addressed. We will discuss how to meet lifestyle challenges such as diet, activity, and more. This workshop incorporates all the elements listed by the Yoga Alliance as standards for CEU’s.
Judy teaches yoga so that it is accessible to all. She utilizes 35 years of nursing knowledge combined with 15 years of yoga experience. She teaches classes specifically for seniors and those who need special modification as well as classes targeted toward general audiences including beginners and intermediate students. What ties all her classes together is her emphasis on alignment and the fundamentals of yoga enabling students of all levels to get the most out of their yoga practice. She is adjunct faculty for HDY Teachers’ Training at both the 200 and 300 hr. level. She is a 500 hr E-RYT. Judy developed and directs the High Desert Yoga Senior Yoga Teachers Training Program.
Schedule Details
Friday 6:00-8:00pm
Saturday and Sunday 1:30 - 5:00 PM
For more information:
visit www.judysyoga.com
Email Judy at judysyoga@gmail.com
| Price Options $90 |
03/23 - 03/23/12
Avery and more..
Dancing for Birth: Labor Down!
$20 | 4600 Copper Avenue NE
Friday night pregnancy and birthing series event
Midwives all over the world have long seen how the power of movement of the pelvis helps women to birth their babies.
Practice breathing and moving your baby down in your labor using soft hip swirls and shimmies along with relaxation and visualization techniques. You'll learn birth dancing moves inspired by Belly dance, African dance, Latin dance and Caribbean dance. It's a feel-good workout that challenges yet relaxes and uplifts you. You'll become stronger, more agile, more at ease with your body and both mentally and physically ready to embrace your unique birth experience. This is safe and effective dance expression that supports women throughout pregnancy and labour providing a natural birthing technique that encourages active birth at its most feminine. No experience necessary!
Strengthening pelvic and deep abdominal muscles and all those muscles specifically used for giving birth, thus facilitating the process of delivering and of recovery. Relaxe the body, help maintain general fitness and balance, relieve back ache. This unique class supports you in connecting to your feminine nature as you birth. Connect with yourself, your baby and...your inner goddess!
Schedule Details
Friday 6-8pm
| Price Options $20 |
03/24 - 03/24/12
Heather Lee Farrell and Louise Self
Yoga, Intuition and Practical Preparation for Birthing
$50/55 | 4600 Copper Avenue Ne
This class is the perfect hands-on compliment to childbirth education classes. This workshop will cover movements and positions, techniques, breathing, relaxation and meditation, as well as methods of birth partner support for pregnancy and birthing.
We weave the traditional science of prenatal yoga movements and positions, breathing, meditation, and relaxation with Doula training, midwifery studies, childbirth experience and childbirth educator training, Doctor of Oriental medicine training and Ayurveda. We inspire you to trust your intuition with strength, peace, courage and harmony as you prepare for birth.
Belly Henna by Brittnany included and offered at end of workshop! Beverages and light snacks provided. Birth support partners may attend for free.
Email Heather with any questions at heatherleefarrell@mac.com (click link to email)
Click below & view Yoga for Birthing Brochures!
Heather Lee Farrell is a E-RYT500-RYT500hr advanced yoga teacher with perinatal yoga certification(RPYT). She has completed her Doctor of Oriental Medicine degree as well as studies and experience in Doula childbirth support and Childbirth Education. She has taught prenatal yoga trainings, workshops and classes for many years educating yoga teachers and health professionals. She is honored to support this sacred time in a woman and family's life and to help bring awareness and confidence to the birthing process.
Louise Self is a mother of two boys, a Doula for 4 years with a strong passion for birth, pregnancy, and children. She is a currently studying Midwifery, with future plans of owing her own Home birth practice. Louise is also an experienced Nanny, providing nurturing childcare since she was 10, focusing primarily in the last 5 years. She is fondly known as the ‘baby whisperer'.
Schedule Details
Saturday, March 24, 2012
3:00-6:00pm
Birth support partners may attend for free.
Belly Henna by Brittnany included and offered at end of workshop!
Beverages and light snacks provided.
Next Sessions: March 24th, May 19th. Each Session will slightly diffferent.
Coming Up in 2012: Friday Night Birthing Series!! Each 1.5 to 2 hour session will focus on a different useful topic to help you embrace your intution and have an easeful pregnancy and birth! First session will be in Februay. These sessions supplement the Birthing Workshop and serve as a "booster", join us!
Learn more and view schedule
| Price Options $50 pre-registered |
03/30 - 03/30/12
Francois Raoult
Learn the Ropes!
$60 | 4600 Copper Avenue NE
TEACHER TRAINING
Yoga Kurunta. Learn the ropes!
For seasoned students, teachers and teacher trainees.
Subtle variations developed over three decades of hanging!
Please no food before the class.
Schedule Details
Friday, March 30, 2-5pm
| Price Options $60 |
03/30 - 04/01/12
Francois Raoult
Breathwork (Pranayama) Intensive
Varied Price levels--see below | 4600 Copper Avenue NE
SEMINAR OPEN TO ALL LEVELS
Friday evening:
Viloma bhramari tratak practices to clear the mind and promote sleep! Open to all, including non-yogis!
Saturday: Asana and pranayama, form and content. Focus on Quadratus lumborum and opening the sides.
Sunday: Three bandha Five vayus One yoga!
Session will end with Yielding in Savasana and sacred music from a yogic point of hearing (Nada Yoga)
François Raoult MA, ERYT, Director of Open Sky Yoga, is dedicated to teaching yogawith awareness, integrity and compassion. He first felt the call at age 19, on a pilgrimage to sacred sites of India. A graduate of the Ecole Nationale de Yogain Paris, he started teaching in1975 and a year later began extensive training with Sri B.K.S. Iyengar. François also has studied meditation with Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, Ayurveda with Dr. Robert Svoboda, and anatomy with Thomas Myers. In addition to conducting an annual retreatin France, François teaches regularly throughout the US, Europe, Canada, Mexico and India. He is the founder of Open Sky Yoga Center in Rochester, NY. François is also certified in Gong Yoga and in “Laughing For No Reason.” He’s also just completed the International Sound healer training in Alicante, Spain
Schedule Details
Friday, March 30 6-9pm
Saturday, March 31, 1:30-6pm
Sunday, April 1, 1:30-6pm
You may attend individual sessions, a combonation or the entire workshop.
| Price Options Friday, March 30 6-9pm $54 Saturday and Sunday $185 |
04/15 - 04/15/12
Dr. Gail Feldman
Rainbow Your Life: Midlife Crash Course
$35/40 | 4600 Copper Avenue NE
Finding Resilience and Purpose on Your Hero's Journey
In this workshop:
Learn how to walk the midlife road of reslillence, recognize the "roads of trials" as a sacred initiation on the journey. Transform every adverse experience and be guided to your signature self-expression. Realize your Sacred Self - Your Divine Essence. Learn to love your "inner ogres" and process the grief you keep trapped in darkness. Discover your life purpose, the treasure at the end of the rainbow and become a warrior for that purpose. Reveal the colorful energy that flows through you and learn to Rainbow Your Life!
Midlife Crash Course Video interview:
Gail Carr Feldman, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, life coach, an award-winning author, and a popular public speaker. She has appeared on radio and television programs across the country, including Larry King Live. In addition to numerous talks in the United States, she has spoken on creativity and resilience psychology in Puerto Rico, Greece, and Viet Nam. Her inspiring message is how to transform the energy focused on life crises into creative self-expression and purposeful transcendent living. She served for twenty-two years as clinical assistant professor, Psychiatry Department, University of New Mexico School of Medicine. Dr. Feldman has completed her sixth book, Midlife Crash Course: The Journey from Crisis to Full Creative Power. Through her therapy, life coaching, hypnosis, talks and workshops, she is consistently gratified to see people move from crises to creativity and fulfillment
more about Dr. Feldman: www.gailfeldman.com
Schedule Details
| Price Options |
04/20 - 04/20/12
Heather and more..
Deep Relaxation for Pregnancy and Birth
$20 | 4600 Copper Avenue NE
Friday night pregnancy and birthing series event
Relaxation is the key to coping with the challenges that labor and birth may bring. You will be guided through breathing exercises and yoga poses designed to relax your mind and body and to prepare you for Yoga Nidra/deep relaxation. Yoga Nidra is an ancient practice of guided breathing and meditation where you learn to relax your whole self and unwind your mind. This class will help you tap into your inner wisdom to give birth. This can be a safe and supportive alternative for those who are on partial bed-rest during pregnancy.
Learning to relax on a regular basis can help you to lower your heart rate and blood pressure, reduce sleep problems, ease muscle tension, calm the mind, reduce Braxton-Hicks contractions, prepare for labor and more...
Schedule Details
Friday 6-8pm
| Price Options $20 |
05/12 - 05/12/12
Avery Kalapa
Yoga for Mothers and Daugthers
$50/55 | 4600 Copper Avenue NE
Celebrating Our Connection and Nurturing Ourselves through a special afternoon workshop Mother's Day Weekend for mothers and daughters of any age.
Celebrate your Connection
Schedule Details
Saturday, 2-5pm
| Price Options $50 pre-registered |
06/09 - 06/10/12
Anam Thubten
Meditation Workshop: Awakening Retreat
$150/$75 | 4600 Copper Avenue NE
The focus of the retreat is to unburden ourselves from mental habits that cause unnecessary suffering and to realize our natural state, which is the inner dimension of peace, joy, and love. Anam Thubten invites everyone to experience this spiritual transformation through meditation practice and the timeless teachings of the Buddha. May this retreat be a source of blessings for many!
June 8th, 7-9pm: Free Public Talk, Donation are accepted
Anam Thubten was born in Golok, in Eastern Tibet, Anam Thubten undertook monastic Buddhist training in the Nyingma tradition at an early age. He has been teaching and traveling in the West since the 1990s, speaking in fluent English and offering the timeless, non-conceptual wisdom of the Buddha. These teachings, free of any sect or dogma, point directly to the recognition of one’s true nature as boundless love. In his talks, Anam Thubten invites the heart-opening, mind-emptying awakening to one’s true nature, which is already enlightened. He speaks to people of all spiritual traditions about the non-dual experience of one’s own essential nature. Anam Thubten is the author of articles and books in both the Tibetan and English languages, including his first book in English, No Self, No Problem. He is a featured author in The Best Buddhist Writing, 2010. He is the founder and spiritual advisor of Dharmata Foundation based in Point Richmond, California.
For more information about Anam Thubten, please visit Dharmata Foundation
Schedule Details
June 8th, 7-9pm: Free Public Talk, Donation are accepted
June 9th, 10-12:30pm and 2:30-5:30pm
June 10th,10-12:30pm and 2:30-5:30pm
| Price Options Advanced Registration is requested.
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06/21 - 06/24/12
Yoga Kids
Yoga Kids Foundations Training
$849** | 4600 Copper Avenue NE
Four days of laughter, love and life changing experiences. A whole new array of creative ways to connect with children. We ask that you bring an open heart and your love for children. One year yoga experience is very helpful, but not required. The original program that revolutionized the way yoga is taught to children. This ground-breaking work offers exceptional skill-building approach to asana, breathing, teaching and relaxation. As parents, yoga teachers and child-focused professionals, you will ground in the concepts and methods as developed by award winning yoga for children pioneer, Marsha Wenig, during her 25 years of study, research, practice, and teaching.
This course will give you all the tools you need to create your own yoga program for older kids, preteens, and teens. Through the use of games, props, and sequencing, we will transform traditional practice into a creative, stimulating, and—most importantly—FUN yoga experience for children ages nine and up.
Also receive at your Foundations event - a signed copy of YogaKids Founder, Marsha Wenig’s book, "Educating the Whole Child through Yoga".
Research about Yoga and Kids:
Elements Yoga for Children
Spatial and Verbal Memory
Static Motor Performance
View a Video from YogaKids founder, Marsha Wenig:
Schedule Details
Thursday through Sunday
June 21 8am-10am, 11:15-6pm
June 22 11am-8pm
June 23 11:15am-8pm
June 24 9:30-11am, 1-4:30pm
| Price Options Registration Options Details: Special Discount Promotion: Register and pay deposit of $200 before March 30th: extra $150 off!! IF IT IS 30 DAYS PRIOR TO ANY FOUNDATIONS EVENT YOU ARE INTERESTED IN AND YOU ARE AN EDUCATOR, YOU MAY QUALIFY FOR THE EDUCATOR DISCOUNT OF 20%. Partial Payment plan available |
07/08 - 07/08/12
Zoreh
Creating & Sustaining a Home Practice
$45/50 | 4600 Copper Avenue NE
A practical, hands-on workshop to help you create a home practice that is inspiring, energizing and relaxing. You will be offered different sequences to meet your needs and a syllabus of poses to help you design your own custom practice.
For All Levels
Zoreh is the Founder and Director of High Desert Yoga in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Zoreh's joyous personality and sense of humor endear her to her students with a teaching style that is both nurturing and fun. Her teaching combines a delicate knowledge of the body that allows a compassionate spiritual expression of the postures to emerge. Zoreh enthusiastically shares her passion for combining yoga with exploring the world; inviting students every year to join her yoga retreats in special places like Mexico, Costa Rica, Peru, Thailand, and Greece. She is a registered Hatha Yoga teacher with more than 15 years of teaching experience and a degree in Business Management. She is also a certified Yoga Therapist and Meditation Teacher. Zoreh has studied numerous methodologies including Iyengar, Phoenix Rising Yoga.
Schedule Details
Sunday
2-5pm
| Price Options $45 pre-registered Walk-ins welcome |
07/20 - 07/21/12
Judith Lasater
Shoulders: Anatomy, Asana & Therapeutics
$225 | 4600 Copper NE
Please telephone us at 505-232-9642 with any questions or concerns. Thank you for your patience.
The shoulder is not only an important joint in the body, but it is also an important symbol of our strength and our ability to succeed in the world. The position of our shoulders in the body, many yoga poses focus either on strengthening or on stretching the shoulders.
This workshop will begin with the basic principles of the "rotator cuff", both through a presentation of the basic anatomy and kinesiology of the shoulder. After this introduction, most ofour time will focus on Active practice centered on the shoulder joint, with attention paid to the other parts of the body that are related: spine, abdomen, head and chest. Each afternoon we will spend some time in Restorative yoga to open the shoulders and chest and quiet the mind.
Judith Hanson Lasater has taught yoga since 1971. She holds a doctorate in East-West psychology and is a physical therapist. She is president of the California Yoga Teachers Association, and serves on the advisory boards of Yoga Journal and Healing Lifestyles and Spas. Her yoga training includes study with B. K. S. Iyengar in India and the United States. She teaches yoga classes and trains yoga teachers in kinesiology, yoga therapeutics, and the Yoga Sutra in the San Francisco Bay Area. She also gives workshops throughout the United States, and has taught in Australia, Bolivia, Canada, England, France, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, Peru, and Russia.
She writes extensively on the therapeutic aspects of yoga. She is the author of:
• What We Say Matters (2009)
• YogaBody (2008)
• A Year of Living Your Yoga (2006)
• Yoga Abs (2005)
• Yoga for Pregnancy (2004)
• 30 Essential Yoga Poses (2003)
• Living Your Yoga (2000)
• Relax and Renew (1995)
Currently, Judith is consulting on four studies being conducted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). These studies focus on the use of restorative yoga to reduce hot flashes in menopausal women, to reduce metabolic syndrome, to reduce anxiety during drug rehabilitation, and for women in treatment for breast cancer.Judith Hanson Lasater lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family.
Schedule Details
| Price Options $225 |
10/19 - 10/23/12
Donna Farhi
Centering Down: A Yoga Intensive
$545/595 | 4600 Copper Avenue NE
Yoga Sutra III:29:
“Concentrated attention on the primordial navel centre brings understanding of all bodily systems.”
In both Western and Eastern traditions the centre of gravity within the pelvis is considered the calibrating keystone for organizing the entire body. Sometimes referred to as the hara, dantien or the deep navel centre, refining the position of the navel centre gives us the ability to both release and contain the energy that moves through the pelvis. Having a strong yet mobile core not only has a powerful physical effect, it also affects us energetically, emotionally and spiritually.
In this intensive we will explore the principle of core support through the lens of the koshas, investigating what it means to establish both physical, mental and emotional stability. The intensive will begin by establishing a deep connection with the energetic support of the breath. Building upon this work we will then investigate the way in which energetic support from the hara is reinforced through our physical structure. A key feature of this intensive will be learning to fluidly release and then activate the support of the “primary” inner core muscles, the psoas, a complex stabilizing muscle that lies parallel to the lower spine and acts as a functional bridge between the vertebral column and the pelvis and legs. We will then learn how to engage the “secondary” inner core muscles; the subtle yet powerful pelvic diaphragm, the deeper girding layers of the abdominal muscles and the stabilizing muscles of the lower back. These all serve to protect and support the sacroiliac joint, lower back and spine. To support a fuller understanding of the complex relationship between inner core muscles Donna will present two new anatomical Powerpoint presentations. Participants will also receive detailed digital hand-outs which they can print at home and read prior to attending the workshop.
Participants should have a sound working knowledge of the basic asanas and have had a consistent Yoga practice for at least one year.
Donna Farhi is a Yoga teacher who has been practicing for 34 years and teaching since 1982. She is one of the most sought after guest teachers in the world, leading intensives and teacher training programs internationally. Donna is best known for her unique ability to help students and teachers embody their spiritual practice. Her work focuses on the refinement of natural and universal movement principles that underlie all Yoga practice. This concentration on fundamental principles allows student of all levels of experience and from all traditions to build their own authentic Yoga practice. Considered the “teacher of teachers” students return to Donna’s intensives again and again to be a part of the inspiring evolution of Donna’s own practice and teaching.
Donna has been the asana columnist for both Yoga Journal and Yoga International Magazine (U.S.A.), and has been profiled in four separate publications on exceptional contemporary teachers of our time, including Yogini: The Power of Women in Yoga. Donna is the author of the contemporary classics, The Breathing Book, Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness and Bringing Yoga to Life: The Everyday Practice of Enlightened Living. Her fourth book Teaching Yoga: Exploring the Teacher-Student Relationship is a curricular text for teaching trainings worldwide. American born, Donna now resides in Christchurch, New Zealand where she pursues her passionate love of horses.
To learn more about Donna Farhi: www.donnafarhi.co.nz
Schedule Details
Friday, October 19: 6:00-8:30 pm
Saturday-Tuesday, October 20-23:
9:30-12:30 & 2:00-4:30 pm each day
Each day will be divided into two sessions. Morning and afternoon classes will include some lecture, guided movement inquiry and a diverse range of both active and restorative asana practice, including sitting meditation and the practice of Yoga Nidra.
No partial attendance will be allowed for this intensive.
| Price Options $545 if paid in full by August 15th. |