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WORKSHOPS

 

Please pre-register. Some teachers come from a distance and require a minimum number of students to hold the workshop!


2009 Series - For Riders Friday 7:00-9:00pm
Adult $25

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Yoga For Riders with Janet

Yoga opens the body and unblocks energy—leading to a deep, following seat, soft hands, and effective aids. Join us as we explore how yoga can enhance your riding, whatever your discipline or level.

Throughout these workshops we'll explore specific riding challenges and develop a practice that will strengthen, balance and align your body, and foster a closer bond with your horse.

Janet Colantuono, R.Y.T. will lead this workshop and provide handouts to help take the practice home.

Yoga For Riders Fri, June 19, 2009 7-9pm $25


JUNE 2009 20th, Saturday 9a.m.   FREE

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Meditation Walk on the West Boylston Rail Trail!

  UPDATE* The West Boylston Trail is closed. The new location for this walk is the Sterling Rail Trail park at the Cider Mill Building off Route 12 in Sterling.  

AN OUTDOOR EXPERIENCE BLENDING SILENT WALKING MEDITATION WITH MINDFUL MEDITATION TECHNIQUES AT THE BEAUTIFUL WEST BOYLSTON RAILTRAIL.

There is no charge for this walk.. SUNDAY, JUNE 20TH, 9AM (about an hour and about 2 miles or so)

LOCATION: WEST BOYLSTON RAIL TRAIL -The parking lot is on Thomas Street, near the intersection of Route 140 in Oakdale/West Boylston:
• Socialize with fellow Yoga students
• Practice Walking Meditation

SEE YOU AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE TRAIL AT 9AM ! We will reschedule if there is rain.

Meditation Walk Sat., June 20th, 2009 9:00a.m. FREE  

SEPTEMBER 2009 12 & 13, Saturday 9-5:00 pm $395.00

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Yoga Warriors Training with Lucy Cimini & Lynn Stoller

What Is It?
Our Yoga Warriors teacher training is designed to provide advance knowledge and practical tools for yoga teachers and health professionals working with combat veterans diagnosed with Combat Stress Disorder or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The Yoga Warriors approach skillfully integrates concepts from yoga therapy, traditional yoga philosophy, and psychology with current scientific knowledge of the body and mind to promote health and well being. Take away ideas you can use right away in your work with combat veterans with PTSD or Combat Stress Disorder.

• PTSD, its symptoms and causes
• Hatha yoga postures specific to PTSD or combat
stress disorder
• Pranayama (breathing exercises)
• How to integrate positive affirmations for healing
into the yoga practice
• Using creative visualizations to increase the ability
to self-calm
• Steps in guiding meditation • Cultivating observational skills and responding
to the unique challenges of population
• Using restorative yoga in this therapeutic setting
• How to apply the Yoga Warriors program in talk
therapy settings
• How to set up a Yoga Warriors program in your
area
• Reaching out and making contacts
• Ethical guidelines to practice

Who Should Attend?
Yoga teachers, parents, educators, healthcare professionals, human service professionals, psychologists, or anyone inspired to facilitate healing to those with PTSD or Combat Stress Disorder. Prior yoga experience necessary.

Cost: $395.00 per person. Includes: 25 page Manual and Certificate to teach "Yoga Warriors"

Lucy Cimini, BA, RYT 500 hr, Subject Matter Expert and Program Director of the Yoga Warriors Sensory Modulated Yoga Program for PTSD

Lynn Stoller,M.S.,OTR/L,RY, Associate Investigator of the Yoga Warriors Sensory Modulated Yoga Program for PTSD
 

Yoga Warriors Training Sept.12-13, 2009 9:00am-5:00pm $395

OCTOBER 2009 3rd, Saturday 1:00-3:00pm $35.00

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Developing a Personal Yoga Practice with Lucy Cimini

Individual practice is the only way to derive the full benefits of yoga. This is a popular workshop that students claim has helped them make the breakthrough. Discussion followed by an instructive practice of a suggested daily sequence.
 

Developing Pers. Practice Sat., Oct. 3, 2009 1:00-3:00pm $35

OCTOBER 2009 4 and/or 18, Sun 1-2:30pm $20/ea or $35/both

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Yoga for Depression and Anxiety with Eileen Driscoll

Every year millions of Americans suffer from depression and anxiety. These feelings can be triggered by anything from seasonal changes to life changes to genetic makeup. It can feel overwhelming dealing with depression and anxiety, but yoga can help! In this workshop we will work with active and restorative postures, breathing techniques, and affirmations.

All of these techniques can help you cope with Depression and Anxiety by calming and balancing the nervous system. These workshops will give you a sense of empowerment and confidence to use yoga in order to help alleviate these feelings.
 

Yoga for Depression Sun., Oct. 4, 2009 1:00-2:30pm $20
Yoga for Anxiety Sun., Oct. 18, 2009 1:00-2:30pm $20
Yoga Depression/Anxiety Sun., Oct. 4 & 18 1:00-2:30pm $35

OCTOBER 2009 23rd, Friday  7:00-9:00pm $25.00

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Lovingkindness with Sharon Salzberg!

Lovingkindness is a meditation that cultivates our natural capacity for an open and loving heart. It is traditionally offered with meditations that enrich compassion, and joy in the happiness of others, and also deepen our own sense of peace. These practices lead to the development of concentration, connection, fearlessness, and genuine happiness. Sharon Salzberg will introduce these teachings and support us in our own experience and cultivation of these qualities through direct instruction and guided meditation using classical techniques in a modern idiom. There will also be opportunities for questions. This workshop is suitable for both new and experienced meditators.

SHARON SALZBERG~
One of America's leading meditation teachers and authors, Sharon Salzberg has been a student of Buddhism since 1971, and leading meditation retreats worldwide since 1974. She teaches both intensive awareness practice (vipassana or insight meditation) and the profound cultivation of lovingkindness and compassion (the Brahma Viharas). She is a co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts and The Barre Center for Buddhist Studies.

Sharon's latest book is The Kindness Handbook, published by Sounds True. She is also the author of The Force of Kindness, published by Sounds True; Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience, published by Riverhead Books; Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness and A Heart as Wide as the World, both published by Shambhala Publications; and co-author with Joseph Goldstein of Insight Meditation, a Step-by-Step Course on How to Meditate (audio), from Sounds True. She has edited Voices of Insight, an anthology of writings by vipassana teachers in the West, also published by Shambhala.

Sharon Salzberg is cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Barre, Massachusetts. She has played a crucial role in bringing Asian meditation practices to the West. The ancient Buddhist practices of vipassana (mindfulness) and metta (lovingkindness) are the foundations of her work. "Each of us has a genuine capacity for love, forgiveness, wisdom and compassion. Meditation awakens these qualities so that we can discover for ourselves the unique happiness that is our birthright." For more information about Sharon, please visit: www.SharonSalzberg.com.
 

Lovingkindness Fri., Oct. 23, 2009 7:00-9:00pm $25

NOV/DEC 2009 12th, Saturday 1:00-3:15pm $14.00 (or class card)

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Yin Yoga Workshop - The Quiet Practice

When we are peaceful and content, life flows through our skeletal system, the yin layer of the body. This is the attitude of Yin, this is a quiet practice with the emphasis on developing compassion. Addresses the more yin parts of the body, specifically the bones and connective tissue above the knee and below the navel. Postures are practiced on the floor and each is held for 3-5 minutes.
Wear comfortable clothing, cozy socks. Taught by Cheryl Johnson, R.Y.T.
Join us the second Saturday of the Month. Cost: Class Card or Drop In.

Yin Yoga Workshop Sat., Nov. 14, 2009 1:00-3:15pm $14
Yin Yoga Workshop Sat., Dec. 19, 2009 11:00-12:15pm $14

NOVEMBER 2009 28th, Saturday 1:00-3:00pm $35.00

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Liberate Your Neck & Shoulders with Lucy

Do your tight shoulders give you a stiff neck and sap your energy? Come learn basic principles of shoulder movement and experience them in yoga postures to enhance opening, stabilizing and strengthening of the shoulder joint.
 

Liberate Neck & Shoulders Sat., Nov. 28, 2009 1:00-3:00pm $35

DECEMBER 2009 5th, Saturday 1:00-3:00pm $35.00

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Releasing Tight Hips & Hamstrings

Learn a sequence of postures that will increase the range of motion in the hip joint by stretching the external rotators and lengthening the hamstrings. This helps bring new sensation to all your postures!

Releasing Hips/Hamstrings Sat. Dec 5, 2009 1:00-3:00pm $35

FEBRUARY 2010 7th, Sunday 1:00-5:00pm $55.00

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Awakening the Chakras with Lucy Cimini

Learn the significance, location, colors, sounds and Yoga postures that correspond to the seven main
Chakras (energy centers) of the human subtle body

YOGA TEACHERS: this is 4 contact CEU’s with the National Yoga Alliance

Awakening the Chakras Sun, Feb 7, 2010 1:00-5:00pm $55

APRIL  2010 17th, Saturday 1:00-5:00pm $50.00

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Advance your Assisting and Modification Skills - A clinic for yoga teachers
with Lucy Cimini, BA, RYT 500hr.


Would you like to feel more confident in your ability to assist your yoga students? Would you like to learn how to modify poses? Have you felt challenged or intimidated trying to support students who struggle with poses? Expand your knowledge of hands-on assisting techniques and learn how to facilitate healthy alignment. Take your teaching skills to the next level!

In this fun and informative workshop you will learn to:

· Work with Partners to explore a variety of assists and modifications for common misalignments

· Learn correct biomechanics for your own body by receiving adjustments and assists

· Increase your observational skills of anatomical alignment

· Experience the significance of touch, using your hands as powerful energetic tools

· Develop an awareness to skillfully enter the sacred space of your students

· Observe asanas as a three-dimensional sculpture and discover ways to mold the form to release the healing flow of prana

Assisting students is not about perfection or correcting but rather a loving act that brings students safely into each pose and ultimately deepens their practice.

3 continuing education credits for yoga teachers

Advance Assisting Skills Sat. April 17, 2010 1:00-5:00pm $50

PLEASE PRE-REGISTER FOR ALL WORKSHOPS. We reserve the right to cancel if enrollment is insufficient. There will be no refunds for failure to attend a workshop unless you notify us one day in advance. Conversely, a $10.00 administrative fee will be charged. Discounts do not apply to workshops.

Mail payment to: Central Mass. Yoga Institute, 45 Sterling Street, Suite #28 West Boylston, Mass. 01583
Please include name of the workshop you are pre-registering for with your payment.
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