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November's News
This is our season for "giving back" to the community, and our celebration of 14 years of service through the practice of yoga, meditation, and mindful living!
We will be collecting non perishable and canned food items for the Open Pantry several times over the Holiday season. Goods that are always on demand include tuna fish, rice, dried beans, stews, dried milk, macaroni and cheese, spaghetti sauce, pasta, soups, jellies, canned fruit and canned vegetables. Can we top last year's donations over 325 pounds of food that we gathered between November and January?
Look for our "Will Teach Yoga for Food" events including:
Free Intro classes for Kripalu and Astanga Yoga next week,
Our Annual Thanksgiving Morning 9 am Kripalu All Levels Class,
New Year's Day Astanga and Kripalu Yoga classes in the afternoon.
All "Free" with your generous food item donation for the Open Pantry.
Thank You... to everyone who attended our evening with Khen Rinpoche, the Tibetan Monk from India. We raised nearly $300 for his school, and you can still donate this month if you would like, details are on his website Click Here
Namaste,
Sheila and Tony
ps: To Register for any of these workshops or for more information please
Send us an Email
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Journaling for Health
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Writing your way to Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Well-Being
This Saturday Join author Lori Batcheller at Heartsong Yoga for a Journaling Workshop
designed to promote health and wellness of body, mind, and spirit.
Saturday, November 3, 11:00 to 4:30 pm. Pre registration is always best, but walk ins will be welcome.
(break for lunch, you can bring a bagged lunch or go out to a local restaurant)
$69.00 (59.00 always for all Heartsong Members)
In this safe, supportive environment, you'll learn about scientific studies showing how directed writing can improve our physical and emotional health. Learn ways to enhance your journaling, quiet your inner critic, and overcome writer's block.
You'll also learn how journal writing can augment a yoga practice.
We'll discuss and practice over a half dozen journal writing techniques designed to:
Gain new perspectives on current challenges and recognize their innate gift
Release stress and powerful emotions, such as anger, sadness, and grief
Heal relationships
Access your body wisdom
Meet your Inner Healer
Create an individualized wellness kit
Rediscover your creativity and innate joy.
This class is ideal for both beginning and advanced journal keepers.
Bring a journal and favorite writing instrument
Lori Batcheller, MA, MPT, CYT, is author of Journey to Health, Writing Your Way to Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Well-Being and a frequent contributor to Fit Yoga magazine. A journaler since childhood, Lori used journaling to rediscover her creativity and Authentic Self, change careers, help heal family relationships, and overcome chronic neck pain. Since becoming certified through the Center for Journal Therapy in 1998, Lori has taught workshops around the country to foster creativity and optimal health. A professional-level Kripalu Yoga instructor, she currently teaches journaling workshops and yoga classes at the world-renowned Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health in Lenox, Massachusetts. To learn more about Lori's work, Click Here
This is an article that Lori wrote about one of Heartsong Yoga's very special students who studies with Sheila. It is for an on line magazine called Disaboom, and if the link does not go right to the article, put the name "Deena" in the search for box to find it...it is worth it to take the time to read this lovely article. Click Here
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Yoga Nidra
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November 1, 7:30 to 9:00 pm
Join Heartsong's Jane Anable for an evening of Yoga Nidra, or Deep Yogic Rest, on the first Thursday of every month at 7:30 pm.
Walk ins are welcome, $20.00 at the door, but if you pre register and pre pay, you can enjoy the class for $18.00. No experience is necessary, this is a great class to bring along a loved one to share your passion for yoga, however, Yoga Nidra is a practice and a process, so coming in once a month for a Yoga Nidra "Tune Up" is highly recommended.
Yoga Nidra is a dynamic meditative process that has been passed down to us through the centuries from the ancient yogic masters. It is designed to establish harmony and well being throughout the entire system, reducing the physical and mental tensions brought about by modern day living.
Yoga Nidra induces physical relaxation by moving awareness around the body, with attention drawn to the breath. The slower and deeper the respiration, the more relaxed the practitioner becomes. Emotional relaxation is achieved by developing a state of mind where various feelings and thoughts are brought to the surface, and then breathed away, and the mind begins to quiet down and feel more settled and at ease. Healing images and suggestions are brought in, along with positive affirmations and calming tranquil images. Although it seems as though this practice is "just a long winter's nap" the body is deeply relaxed and the mind and thoughts are quiet, but the practitioner is fully awake on an internal level.
Propped on cushions and bolsters, covered by blankets and resting on the carpeted floor, with an eye pillow over the eyes and the soothing restorative words from Jane, in the company of other seekers of relaxation, healing and ease, it is no wonder that this class is always a sell out at Heartsong Yoga each month.
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Free* Intro to Kripalu Yoga for Every-body
Will Teach Yoga for Food
Tuesday, November 6, at 6:00 pm.
(*With your generous boxed or canned food donation to the Open Pantry)
Kripalu style yoga is at the heart of every class at Heartsong Yoga. This free intro session will give the new practitioner a chance to learn a little about the background and intentions of practice, understand some of the benefits of a regular yoga practice, and have an experience of a traditional gentle class, appropriate for "every-body."
If you like this class, and want to start a yoga practice, then simply join us in any one of our gentle yoga classes on the drop in schedule. We do not offer a course for Kripalu Yoga, as the drop in classes are geared for brand new students to join in at any time.
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Free* Intro to Astanga/Power Yoga
Will Teach Yoga for Food
Wednesday night, November 7, at 7:30
(*With your generous boxed or canned food donation to the Open Pantry)
Sometimes called Power Yoga, Astanga Yoga is a fun, hot, vigorous series of postures practiced in a heated room. The challenging and graceful flow combines breath and movement into a meditation in motion. This is your chance to check out a class and see if it is a style that you'd like to explore.
A five week course will begin November 14. (No class the Wed. before Thanksgiving)
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Family Yoga
Back by Popular Demand!
Sunday Nov. 11 and Dec. 9, 11 - 12 pm
Join director Sheila Magalhaes for this playful exploration of the practice of yoga, appropriate for all ages, especially those who just want to have some fun and enjoy a light hearted approach to practicing as a family and a community. Expect to make some noise, to celebrate animals and nature, and to enjoy some partner yoga. All are welcome, families, friends, and all yoga buddies of all ages. Find the yoga kid inside yourself!
$5.00 per person, all ages, walk ins welcome!
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YogaEd Tools for Teachers Fundraiser
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& Parents, Day Care Providers & anyone who loves & works with children.
A Benefit for the East Longmeadow Scholarship Foundation
Wednesday, November 14, 7:30 to 9:00 pm
$20.00 per person, all proceeds go directly to The East Longmeadow Scholarship Foundation (pre registration is best but walk ins are welcome)
An evening of rest and relaxation for you,and the chance to learn some tools and techniques to use in your classroom or at home for your kids. Presented by Heartsong Yoga's director Sheila Magalhaes.
Playful yoga poses, for grownups and for kids.
Breathing practices for relaxation, to focus, for pre test anxiety or transition time between events of the day.
Visualization and positive affirmations to share,
for ourselves, and for those we care for regularly.
No experience needed, you will be led and guided every step of the way.
What to wear: Wear comfortable clothes that you can easily move around in, elastic waist or drawstring comfy pants, tees, layers are always good.
What to expect: A gentle yoga experience suitable for every-body, all are welcome, junior high age & above, & then you can "bring home" the practice for the younger kids.
What you will bring home: A series of easy to learn yoga poses for grownups and kids, handouts with specific breathing exercises and visualization techniques, and inspiration to share this practice with those you love and care for.
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Dr. Steve Sobel Returns
RELAX...Otherwise You Might Die All Tensed Up!!
An evening of laughter, humor, perspective and stress reduction.
Thursday, November 15, 7:30 to 8:45 pm
Steve will provide you with his unique ideas to bringing more laughter, joy and optimism into your life. Those who laugh, will last, especially as life becomes more challenging! Enjoy an evening light heartedness, and an extra dose of joy. Learn how to be a positive thinker and enjoy the idea that humor is everywhere.
$20.00 per person (Heartsong Monthly Members, $18.00)
Pre registration is requested, if you have not pre registered but want to attend, please call ahead to make sure that the program is running...we risk cancelling due to low registration. but walk ins always warmly welcomed.
Learn how to take action in getting your desired outcomes in life, visit his website, Click Here
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Annual Thanksgiving Astanga Event with Christine Hoar
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Astanga Yoga Workshops
Saturday, November 24 12:00 5:00 PM, and Sunday, Nov. 25 11 to 1:00
Saturday and Sunday: $75.00
(for all students who love a physical practice)
Saturday's session only: $65.00
(for all students who love a physical practice)
Sunday's Second Series practice only: $25.00
(must know Astanga already, or with permission)
Pre register and pre pay, by Nov. 18. After Nov. 18, or at the door, add $10.00 to each session's price.
For the first half of the day on Saturday, Christine will lead a modified Astanga Primary Series practice, play with some inversions, and introduce some second series. Focus will be on alignment and energy flow in postures and the refinement of breath as it informs the vinyasa for a flowing practice. We will also discuss modifications for individual needs, tension patterns, and rehabilitation in a compassionate and gentle manner. Enjoy her light-hearted and fun style with plenty of adjustments and modifications.
After a short break, (bring water and snacks) the second half of the day will begin with time for Q&A on the practices, the philosophy, and the importance of developing and maintaining a personal practice, and then Christine will focus on basic principles of Ayurveda, the ancient science of self-healing, and how they can support your health and well-being.
Sunday's class will be a "full on" second series class, focusing on the back bending and deeper twists of "nadi shodhana" or the "nerve cleansing practice." Pre requisites: You are a strong practitioner of any tradition and you took the Saturday day long workshop with Christine, or, you know the primary series of astanga yoga already and are ready to explore the second series. Or, ask!
Christine Hoar, who grew up in Western Mass, was one of the first teachers to introduce the Astanga system to Heartsong Yoga. She is the is the founder and director of Bristol Yoga in the foothills of the Green Mountains of Vermont, and has been practicing and teaching Astanga Yoga for more than a decade. She is blessed and authorized by her guru and holder of this lineage, Sri K Pattabhi Jois, and travels annually to Mysore, India to study with him. Christine is also certified as an Ayurvedic practitioner from the Kripalu Institute.
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