WORKSHOPS
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teachers come from a distance and require a minimum number
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| 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 |
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| JUNE
2009 |
20th, Saturday 9a.m. FREE |
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Meditation Walk on
the West Boylston Rail Trail!
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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. |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Yoga for Anxiety |
Sun., Oct. 18, 2009 |
1:00-2:30pm |
$20 |
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| Yoga Depression/Anxiety |
Sun., Oct. 4 & 18 |
1:00-2:30pm |
$35 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Yin Yoga Workshop |
Sat., Dec. 19, 2009 |
11:00-12:15pm |
$14 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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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.
We accept credit cards, cash, or checks made payable to CMYI.
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