Events
March Events!
Intro To Yoga
Introduction to Yoga!
1st Sat of every month!
(Next class March 6th )
2PM to 3:30PM
$15
Learn the basics and basis of Yoga during
this afternoon workshop.
Intro To Yoga
Introduction to Yoga!
1st Sat of every month!
(Next class March 6th )
2PM to 3:30PM
$15
Learn the basics and basis of Yoga during
this afternoon workshop.
We will discuss the different types and their roots. Analysis of your individual need will provide clues to how Yoga can impact your life on a deeper level. Body, mind, and spirit will be explored as you gain a more in depth understanding of how to harness your own vitality and stability.
March
Intro To Yin Yoga
Sat March 13th with Lindsey Britt
2pm-4pm
What is Yin Yoga?
Yin Yoga is suitable for all levels of students. Targeting the connective tissues of the hips, pelvis, spine, hamstrings, and thighs. Poses are done on the floor
and are held for 3-5 minutes in order to stretch through the muscles and into the ligaments, bones and joints. This dynamic practice takes you deeper into your body and mind. Yoga Asana (poses) are meant to condition the body for long seated meditation. Anyone who has sat in meditation for a long period of time knows the importance of having a strong and open lower back and hip area. In Yin we focus on these areas of the body to increase the comfort level experienced in long held meditation practices as well as all areas of your yoga practice. Come join us for two hours of deep stretches and relaxation.
Acro Jams and Ecstatic dance!
March 13th
7pm to 9:30pm
Acrobatics Jam!!!! Be Courageous and Be FREE!!!!
An AcroYoga Jam consist of a lot of play in a safe and supported environment.
We will focus on acrobatics (Using spotters) we will explore some of the acrobatics that you have always wanted to try or try something that we never thought you could.
Previous AcroYoga Experience a plus but not required.
$10-$20 Donation
Ecstatic Dance
10pm to 1am
Ecstatic Dance???
Dance has been used as a form of Healing, Worship, Ritual, Celebration, Story Telling and has the ability to take the dancer into a trance of pure bliss as well as facilitate emo-tional release. Dance is a symbolic language of the psyche and during this event we will explore that language. Everyone is welcome: young, old, tall, short, wild, timid, fearless, and fearful. The music will be and eclectic combination of world, jazz, Balkan, gypsy, punk, salsa, Indian, Arabica, dub deep house, electronic, sitar, and klezmer.
Come en-joy a safe and pure dance party.
There will be LIVE DJ’s.
(In the dance area no shoes, no booze! no talking :)
In the chill area share some tea and chat with friends.
For more history on Ecstatic Dance visit www.Firetribehawaii.org
$10-$20 Donation
Moving into Wholeness
with Laura Chiaramonte, MFA
Sunday March 14th
2-6pm
With the success of the last workshop
Laura Chiaramonte is returning to Urban Lotus with
"Moving into Wholeness: Expressions of the Inner Self ".
If you didn't get a chance to experience it the first time here's another chance.
"Moving into Wholeness: Expressions of the Inner Self"
The goal of the workshop is to help students achieve greater self-awareness and a positive sense of well-being. The idea is that through authentic movement, improvisation, trust exercises and group discussions, one can express oneself and come into contact with the conscious and unconscious parts of their personality. This contact leads to accepting one’s self for who they are. Moving Into Wholeness is based on the idea that the body and mind are interrelated.
Moving Into Wholeness provides individuals a means to develop a healthy relationship with their own body, enhances body image overall and provides a safe and structured environment for individuals to engage in creative expression, explore their emotions and enhance their mind-body connection.
With over 14 years of experience, Laura Chiaramonte combines dance and movement techniques with therapeutic elements to develop a unique form of body/mind exploration. This work promises to tap into old patterns held in the body and mind, creating new space for alternate physical, emotional, and mental ways of being.
Come experience a journey of self reflection and insight through authentic movement, improvisation and body work within the contexts of dance movement therapy, meditation, and
contemporary movement improvisation.
- Authentic Movement
- Insight and Self Reflection
- Therapeutic touch
Laura will introduce the essential connection between art, movement, and life, which can facilitate healing and change.
Hoop Basics and Yoga
with Mercedes Gomez
March 20th 2 to 4pm
$10 suggested donation
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Ever been curious about how to keep that thing going? Come to Urban
Lotus and get tips on how to keep a hoop going and much more! Our class
starts and ends with Yoga postures and breath work that you
incorporate in your hoop workout. Build community and have fun!
Fluid rhythms and funky beats will be provided as we create a
high energy positive environment.
No experience necessary. Adult Hoops for all shapes and sizes provided!
Here are some of the ways your body will benefit from hoop dance:
* Build a strong healthy Core (without doing crunches!)
*You receive a great cardiovascular workout
* Build Stamina and Motor skills
* Helps digestion by massaging your abdomen
* Strengthens your back, abs, hips and arms
Benefits for your mind though hoop dance:
* Get reacquainted with "playing" and having fun
* The mind begins to quiet as you enter a blissful meditative state
* You become fully present in the moment
* Discover your body's own rhythm and flow
* Hooping allows you to be expressive and creative
2 to 4pm
$10 suggested donation
No Nonsense Acrobatic Weekend Intensive
With Tobias and Jaqui
March 27th and 28th
Sat. & Sun. 10am-1pm and 3pm-6pm
Bodywork & Desert Sun 7.30pm-9pm
The weekend of the 27th & 28st March 2010, will be an opportunity for you to delve deeper into the practice of acrobatic balance. Two eminent AcroYoga teachers Jaqui Wan from London and Tobias Frank from Cologne will be at Urban Lotus Yoga offering their unique blend of no nonsense, kick ass acrobatic partner flows, that will challenge, excite and help transform your acro practice to new levels.
For the workshop we recommend practitioners with experience in AcroYoga. You should be competent with inversions
(unassisted headstand in the middle of the room and a handstand against a wall).
With determination don't hesitate just go for it! The reward is tapping into that fearless energy where anything and everything is possible, to laugh and roar out loud, to have loads of fun and to build trust in yourself and others.
NO NONSENSE STRENGTH BUILDING TECHNIQUES & FLIGHT TRAINING (INTERMEDIATE LEVEL) ~ Saturday
We all have the potential to be acrobats and achieve superhuman skills that appear to be impossible. Learn how to tap into that power by using acrobatic training methods and working with the power lines, soon you will be doing things you thought not possible! In the morning we will focus on acrobatic conditioning techniques to build on strength and alignment. In the afternoon we will work on acrobatic flying techniques, exploring basic acrobatic sequences. A playful, safe, supportive environment will empower the whole room to be upside down! We will end the day with therapeutic flying to help ground and balance our energy. Come along get tough, roar out loud and end with day with a big AGHHHHHHH!
FLYING ON WINGS OF GRACE
(INTERMEDIATE - ADVANCED LEVEL) ~ Sunday
We will delve deeper into partner acrobatics and acrobatic flying sequences, often referred to as washing machines and explore the beauty and clarity of clear communication. Build on your confidence, trust and inner strength. We will start the morning with an AcroYoga asana sequence, followed by inversion training and maxouts. In the afternoon we will refine our acrobatic flying and basing techniques focusing on hand and foot placements and thereafter work on washing machines and dynamic transitions working with tempo. A short therapeutic flying session will conclude the day.
Times:
Sat. & Sun. 10am-1pm and 3pm-6pm
Bodywork & Desert Sun 7.30pm-9pm
prices:
one day:
$60 (pre-registration til 28.2.)/$$65
both:
$110
April 2010!
Essence of Pranayama
~ 2 Day Teacher training
~ Dr. Indu Arora
Dates: 23 and 24 April 2010
Duration: 8 credit hours
Time: 2 pm to 6 pm
Registration Fee: $100
“Tasmin Sati Shwasaprashwasayorgativicchedeh Pranayama”
~Patanjali Yoga Sutra (II, 49)
The Yoga is scientific – It is about control of mind. Its central part which is known as Pranayama or breath-control is today being recognized by psychologists and medics. The simple fact that breath can serve as a handle to our emotional state of being and also clarity of thought. It is a sure shot therapeutic-transformative therapy, which elevates normal humans to the domain of super-Humans. There is a tendency in many people to give exclusive or undue importance to the technical feature of Pranayama at the cost of its essential and subtle nature. In absence of the knowledge of, which is the essential and the relevant aspect of the technique, and which is the superfluous and optional aspect; the student misses the opportunity of entering into deeper and spiritual experiences.
The aim of this 2 days intensive session is to help the teachers to grasp this essential nature of the Pranayama.
Contents of the 2 Day Training:
Yoga teachers welcome.
All level practitioners welcome.
Essence of Pranayama
~ 2 Day Teacher training
~ Dr. Indu Arora
Dates: 23 and 24 April 2010
Duration: 8 credit hours
Time: 2 pm to 6 pm
Registration Fee: $100
“Tasmin Sati Shwasaprashwasayorgativicchedeh Pranayama”
~Patanjali Yoga Sutra (II, 49)
The Yoga is scientific – It is about control of mind. Its central part which is known as Pranayama or breath-control is today being recognized by psychologists and medics. The simple fact that breath can serve as a handle to our emotional state of being and also clarity of thought. It is a sure shot therapeutic-transformative therapy, which elevates normal humans to the domain of super-Humans. There is a tendency in many people to give exclusive or undue importance to the technical feature of Pranayama at the cost of its essential and subtle nature. In absence of the knowledge of, which is the essential and the relevant aspect of the technique, and which is the superfluous and optional aspect; the student misses the opportunity of entering into deeper and spiritual experiences.
The aim of this 2 days intensive session is to help the teachers to grasp this essential nature of the Pranayama.
Contents of the 2 Day Training:
1. Yogic concepts of Body functions in context of Pranayama (Panchkosha, Prana, Nadi, Chakra, Kundalini etc.)
2. Evolution and History of Pranayama
3. Practical Aspects: Components, Consideration of Matra, Desha and Kala
4. Technical Consideration of Practical aspect of Pranayama (Correct posture, technique or Puraka, Kumbhaka, Rechaka)
5. Pre-requisites of Pranayama Sadhana & Practical hints for daily practice
6. Introduction and practice of three important Pranayama
2. Evolution and History of Pranayama
3. Practical Aspects: Components, Consideration of Matra, Desha and Kala
4. Technical Consideration of Practical aspect of Pranayama (Correct posture, technique or Puraka, Kumbhaka, Rechaka)
5. Pre-requisites of Pranayama Sadhana & Practical hints for daily practice
6. Introduction and practice of three important Pranayama
Yoga teachers welcome.
All level practitioners welcome.