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New Year, New Events!
Greetings to all and Best Wishes for a Happy, Healthy New Year.
Join us in the New Year as we explore the practices of yoga and mindful living. We have our on going specialty classes, some wonderful workshops planned, and special events throughout the season. Our drop in class schedule remains the same for this New Year, we look forward to seeing our yoga buddies in 2008.
Thinking of having a more invigorating yoga practice?
Try an Anusara Inspired Moderate class (Tues. 6 pm, Fri. 9 am)
Or visit us for a Free Intro to Astanga/Power Yoga Wed. Jan. 16, 7:30 pm.
Want peaceful, happier family members or co workers?
Send them to the Free Intro to Kripalu Yoga for Every-Body, Tues. Jan. 15, 6 pm.
Or bring your loved ones to a Sunday morning Family Yoga Class or our special Valentine's Day Partner Yoga class in February!
Looking for some alternative movement practices?
Visit Robert Rivest on Tuesday nights for his Meditation and Mindful Movement Classes.
Or check our newest offering on the schedule, Nia, "a body/mind/spirit fitness and lifestyle practice" that is a dynamic dance style movement class with Amy Greenbaum. Free class on Wed. Feb.27, at 7:30 pm.
Watch the calendar for our special event "Yogis for Peace" a winter aftenoon of creative and playful community yoga practice with Patty Zubini- Weiss. This will be a free offering to our Heartsong Community, as a chance to say "Thank You" for your commitment to your practice and a way to help us all bring our yoga off the mat and out into the world. Be on the lookout for details to follow.
Is it time to visit Heartsong more often?
Purchase a ten class card, good for 4 months, buy 9 classes, and get one free. ($126.00)
If you want to come 3 or more times a week, it might be time to consider a monthly membership, choose a 3 or 6 month membership for the best rates, and watch your practice flourish!
Namaste, Sheila and Tony
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Meditation and Mindful Movement
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Tuesday nights, 7:30 to 9:00 pm.
6 week series, Pre register & Pre pay, $80.00. Drop ins will always be warmly welcomed, at $15.00 per class. First class, this Tuesday, Jan. 8.
This class is a creative sampling of Buddhist and Toaist meditation techniques. In this session, you will explore sitting, standing, walking and moving meditation as well as breath-work, natural imagery and the mindful verses of Thich Nhat Hanh.
Robert Rivest has been a professional performing artist since 1983. He has presented over 4,000 educational programs covering humor, science, health and stress management. From his initial training in mime, dance, theatre and improvisation, Robert expanded his studies to include meditation, tai-chi, yoga, qigong, and breath-work. In 1997 Robert developed his Meditation and Mindful Movements series and has taught it in schools, yoga centers, hospitals and community centers ever since. He resides in Springfield, Ma with his wife Amelia and their twin daughters.
With Rob's down-to-earth sense of humor and engaging style, Meditation & Mindful Movements is a fun, natural and effective way to build concentration, quiet the mind, and calm the body.
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Yoga Nidra, this Thursday Night!
Thursday January 10, 7:30 pm
Yoga Nidra is the name of the deep relaxation led at the end of every yoga class.
This workshop with Heartsong's senior teacher Jane Anable will expand on the practice, giving you the chance to experience a powerful yoga technique for deep rest.
$18.00, pre register & pre paid, $20.00 at the door. (Heartsong Monthly Members always $18.00) Best to pre register, but drop ins always welcome.
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A New Workshop Just Added to the Schedule
Joyful Musical Improvisation for Adults
with Andrew Oxman
This Saturday, January 12, 2008
1:00 to 3:00 p.m. $15.00
A workshop dedicated to each participant's
natural musical self-expression.
No prior musical experience is necessary.
All levels of musical experience are welcome.
Bring any instruments you enjoy playing.
Drawing from the boundless well of musical possibility, participants will be led through music activities and techniques that enable them to discover and release their life-given improvised musical expression. This workshop will bring joy, lightness, and positive connection with others.
Please pre register to save your space!
Send Me an Email
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Free Introductory Yoga Class
Kripalu Style Yoga for Every-Body
January 15, 6 pm.
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."
This is an excellent chance for your friends and co workers to learn more about your practice at Heartsong Yoga, so please share this information with them. (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 Introductory Yoga Class
Astanga, sometimes called Power Yoga
January 16, 7:30 pm
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 six week course will begin on Januray 23 (No class the Wednesday during Feb. vacation, Feb. 20)
For course details Click Here
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Shoe Switch
Bring Home the Right Shoes
On Saturday, Dec. 29, the last student to leave the Gentle Yoga class came out to the hallway...only to find out that her shoes were missing!
This has happened before, usually there is a pair of shoes, the wrong pair of shoes, in the hallway. This time...no shoes. We imagine that someone had put their shoes in a bag, and then walked off with the wrong pair of sneakers on their feet, carrying out the bag with their own pair inside. (That is the only thing we can think of.)
If you were at the Saturday morning Moderate or Gentle Yoga class before the New Year, check your shoes! You might have a pair of white, 8.5 NB sneakers in your closet that do not belong to you.
Our advice: When you take your shoes off in the hallway, put your car keys inside your shoes. (Unless that means that not only do you get a new pair of shoes, but a new car as well!)
Thanks!
Oh, and check your pockets too, to make sure you grab the right overcoat!
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Intro Classes This Week
Join us for two opportunities to experience two traditional style of yoga that are at the heart of the offerings at Heartsong Yoga Center.
On Tuesday, January 15th at 6 pm, join Heartsong's director Sheila Magalhaes for a free introduction to the practice of Kripalu style yoga, known as the yoga for every-body. Kripalu Yoga offers an experience of movements that stretch, strengthen, and balance the body. Classes de-stress and quiet the mind, inviting deep peace, relaxation, and an open heart. Heartsong is an independent Affiliate Studio of the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, located in Lenox, MA.
If you have an established practice of yoga at Heartsong already, please tell your friends and family members about this free intro session. It is open to everyone junior high school age and above. If you want to support your friend or family member by attending the class, you are welcome to do that as well. (This session is an abbreviated class with a lot more intro material and discussion than a "regular" drop in class, which makes it a great way for a new practitioner to get comfortable at Heartsong.)
On Wednesday, January 16, at 7:30 pm, join Michelle Ryan for a free introduction to Astanga style yoga, often called Power Yoga because it is a more vigorous, athletic style of practice. Astanga Yoga offers a challenging and graceful flow of yoga postures designed to bring the body, mind and spirit into perfect alignment and function. The practice combines breath and movement in a specialized sequence to create an intense internal heat and purifying sweat. While not an "advanced" practice, it is a more athletic and physical yoga style, taught in the style of Beryl Bender Birch's "The Hard and the Soft Yoga Institute" and in the lineage of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. It is the choice for those who are looking for a hot practice strongly influenced by classical yoga philosophy, attention to breath, deep relaxation and meditation. The Astanga Yoga Course is the best way to learn the practice.
If you have been coming to classes, or even if you are brand new and you are intrigued by this style of yoga, or if you are ready to take your practice to another level, come on out to enjoy this session with Michelle. Of course, bring along a yoga buddy or anyone you would like to share this with. No worries...we will be offering this free class at a more relaxed and easy pace so that beginners can get a feel for Astanga Yoga in a comfortable way. The room is heated, be prepared to sweat! All welcome, junior high school age and above.
We are still accepting your generous food item donations to the Open Pantry (our New Year's day classes were snowed out...many came out to brave the elements, but because of the snow we had a much smaller turnout for those free classes!) Feel free to bring along a donation to these free classes if you would like.
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