Yoga Therapeutics

Individualized yoga instruction and somatic education.  This class is great for those wanting precise, in-depth instruction.  Suitable for all levels and ideal for those with musculoskeletal concerns.  Yoga teachers and movement instructors wanting to learn therapeutic applications welcome.  Taught by experienced instructor Shanon Leonard BA, RN.

Classes are offered Thursdays at 2pm. Shanon can be contacted at: (360) 570-8740

Yin Yoga

Yin Yoga is a simple and profound system that uses breath and long held floor postures to improve flexibility and stimulate the deep connective tissues of our bodies.  This powerful yoga will particularly improve movement in the thighs, pelvis and spine.  The postures work with the energy meridians of the body to also improve the health of internal organs and the endocrine system.  Accessible to new students and the most experienced, Yin Yoga is an excellent complement to the muscular and dynamic forms of Yoga prevalent today.  Yin Yoga is especially helpful for competitive athletes, martial artists, dancers, those recovering from injuries, and individuals that wish to deepen their meditation practice.

Class times are Tuesdays 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. and Fridays 4:30 - 6:00 p.m.  Michael can be contacted at: farleyihf@hotmail.com  (360-352-1191)

Awareness Through Movement

Awareness Through Movement consists of verbally directed gentle exercises involving sophisticated movement sequences.  The lessons directly engage our natural intelligence in a gentle and pleasurable way.  Awareness Through Movement accesses the sensory motor processes of the brain and involves attention, perception, imagination and cognition.  There are hundreds of lessons, addressing every joint and muscle group in the body and every human function.

The lessons are appropriate for all levels of fitness and mobility.

Wednesdays at 5:30 pm at Heart of Wellness

Please contact Irene Lewis at 360-943-1881 for individual lessons.

Flow Yoga

Flow yoga is an opportunity to find more self awareness through movement and breath no matter what your holistic goals are. This is an all levels class that incorporates a sense of flow with various postures and movements.  My classes focus on opening your heart to the present moment as you connect with your breath and spirit. Flow yoga increases strength and flexibility in the body and mind and invites you to be in the flow of the present moment.   This class is enriched with meditation, pranayama, brain-based movement patterns, deep asana stretches, sun salutations, inversions and ends with a relaxing Savasana.  Reunite your whole body-mind with your own unique flow!  I incorporate sound acutonics and aromatherapy into the classes for a more holistic experience. Namaste.

Flow Yoga is offered on Tuesdays from 5:45-7 p.m. For more information regarding her classes please contact Kristen at (360) 534-4716 or visit www.sacredtransitions.org

 

Gifts of Being

A participatory program offering fresh perspectives.
Through guided inquiry you are invited to explore and discover the hidden domain of your soul's essences, learning to discern and appreciate the transformational healing gifts these subtle energies abundantly offer.
Being is the foundational nature of all manifestation, and brings an elegant kind of perception,at once precise and relaxed.
This gathering is for anyone ready to meet and steep in the preciousness of their own true nature.
And as each of us cultivates the nourishing nectar of being it can then provide sustanence and nourishment for others!

Ongoing Classes
By Donation
Offered the 1st, 2nd, & 3rd Monday of each month
7:00-8:30 pm

Contact Kim Lincoln at: 360-866-9234, visit her website at:  www.terrainofessence.com

Introduction to Yoga

The class will introduce the basic principles of yoga including breathing exercises, warm-up expercise, beginning positions or asanas, final relaxation and a short meditation.

We will experience physical correctness of posture, mental and physical relaxation and proper breathing. Yoga is practiced with no competition or forcing. Any Age is invoted because "we are as young as our spines are flexible".

Wear comfortable, loose fitting clothing, bring a towel or mat and a wrap or shawll for the final relaxation.

Offered Tuesdays 3-4pm by Jean Rae Garwood, Certified Yoga Teacher.

iRest

with Michael Regets

Phone: (360) 357-3532

Classes are by donation. Wednesdays from 10:30- 11:30 a.m.

iRest is an adaptation of yoga Nidra developed by Dr. Richard Miller. It is a form of meditative self inquiry. This form induces a state of deep relaxation throughout the body and mind, eliminates stress, allows one to overcome insomnia, resolve trauma, neutralize and overcome anxiety, fear, anger, and depression as well as enter into a deep meditation. Michael has received advanced training from Dr. Miller to teach this form of Yoga Nidra. This class is open to all students and does not require physical capability.

Qigong

Qigong, a vital part of Chinese Medicine and body/mind/spirit inner art of nourishing life by transforming stress, cultivating the flow of life energy and harmonizing ourselves with the healing power of nature. Everyone can learn Qigong. And since our practice empowers us to enrich and strengthen the very foundation of our life and well being - our life energy – it’s a gift that keeps giving. 

Each of us is a living energy process. Every moment we’re using energy in ways that either enhance or diminish our health, well-being and vitality. As we learn to be more skillful with life energy we let go of blockages and stress to experience more vibrant health and harmony in our body, mind, spirit and relationships. No wonder millions of people worldwide enjoy practicing Qigong every day for enhancing health and vitality;  promoting inner peace, healing, longevity, and energetic and emotional balance;  and enriching all mental, physical and spiritual capacities including blossoming the joy and radiance of our true nature.

You’re invited to come join this three month beginning level open class and experience the playful heart and gently powerful spirit of Qigong as you learn simple life-enhancing practices you can weave right into your daily life.

Offered on Mondays from 5:30-7pm. For more info: email Presence_and_Grace @ msn.com  or call (360) 866-2408

Radical Wellness

Are you tired of trying to take care of yourself and done with giving your power away to others?

Have you noticed that every time you try to pull yourself up by your bootstraps you ultimately end up falling on your bum?

Getting healing treatments is great. Self-help techniques are great. Personal growth is great. But these are surface responses. If you want to get to the root of what it means to be happy, healthy, free and fulfilled in life you really have no choice but to learn something else instead:

HOW TO LET THE UNIVERSE TAKE CARE OF YOU

Call it God. Call it Tao. Call it Source. Just call it.

THIS IS THE KEY THAT ALLOWS STRETCHING TO BECOME REAL YOGA, TURNS MOVEMENT INTO DANCE, AND ALLOWS YOUR LIFE TO BECOME A GIFT TO YOURSELF AND TO OTHERS AROUND YOU.

This is an EXPERIENTIAL class filled with practical exercises for cultivating true wellbeing in relationship to everything from knee pain to emotional crisis, from fatigue to financial difficulty.
These classes are an EXPERIENTIAL introduction to an applied practice of letting go and letting God. The classes are filled with practical guidance and exercises that will help you to let go of many of the ways through which we commonly lose heart in life, and will help you instead to say YES to the life of real happiness and true wellbeing that is your birthright.

Let go of:

- struggle
- suffering
- overwhelm
- self-blame
- resentment
- depression
- stress
- anxiety
- worry
- fatigue
- trying too hard
- manifesting what you think you want


And say YES to:

- the actual felt experience of living true to your soul's purpose
- the flowering and fruitful expression of real wellness in your everyday life
- your unique expression of a divinely-inspired life of purpose and passion
- opening to receive more from God than you could ever give yourself

Suggested Donation: $10, offered Thursdays at 5:30

I pray that you are given everything you need to go to the root of your healing, so that your life can flower into the fullness of real happiness and true wellbeing that is your birthright.

Fred Klemmer LAc

Sufi Healing Circles

Weekly Sufi Healing Circles (Dhikr) at Heart of Wellness
Mondays 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Thursdays 7:30 - 9:00 PM

Have you ever read the poetry of Rumi or Hafiz?  Rumi has for many years been the most popular poet in the United States.  And yet he was a 13th century Islamic scholar and mystic!

This may seem strange but it really isn't. I look around and I see many hearts aching to live the kind of life Rumi and Hafiz themselves aspired to live: a life of deep integrity and vast ecstasy held gently in the heartfelt peace that comes from a felt experience of relaxing in the limitless ocean of God's mercy.

I used to read Rumi and Hafiz and wonder about what spiritual practices they must have engaged in to be inspired to such wisdom and passion. Now I no longer wonder because I am blessed to be able to turn each and every day to many of the same practices that inspired Rumi and Hafiz.

These are the practices of Sufism, the mystical heart of Islam.  But you don't need to be a Sufi or a Muslim to benefit from these practices. Whoever you are, and whatever your faith, these simple practices will help you to open your heart ever more deeply and ever more widely to the limitless ocean of love and mercy that is available to you in every breath.

Our weekly Sufi Healing Circles are an introduction to what was traditionally considered to be the first and last and best of these practices: what in Arabic is known as group dhikr, or the remembrance of God (and a felt experience of our relationship with God) using the recitation of sacred phrases and the holy names of God as a reminder.

The version of group dhikr that we practice on Mondays from 12:00 - 1:00 PM is a traditional practice know as the wird that has been practiced in the same way every day for hundreds of years by the Shadhuliyya lineage of Sufis. The Arabic word wird means well or watering hole, and this is a very appropriate name since it is a practice that relieves the thirst of the soul and helps the soul to find deep renewal in the wellspring of Divine love and truth.

The version of group dhikr that we practice on Thursday evenings from 7:30 - 9:00 PM is an ancient form of a traditional practice known as the hadra or standing remembrance. It is a powerful and profoundly healing practice that helps bring deeply rooted renewal and helps us to feel washed clean in the holy light of Divine love and truth.

Cost is by Donation.

Thank you for your time in reading this. I would ask you now to take a moment and feel how your heart feels about what I have been sharing. As Rumi says, "Let yourself be silently drawn by the deeper pull of what you truly love."

May the peace and blessings of God fill your hearts and your days,

Fred

Tai Chi For Health

Tai Chi for Health emphasizes getting in touch with and developing one's internal energy, or Chi, through carefully selected exercises and chi kung practices. In addition, Carol Kautzmann will be teaching a Taoist form of Tai Chi learned from her study with Master Mantak Chia, which consists of 13 movements in 4 directions done both to the left and right. She will also introduce several breathing meditation practices including the Micro-cosmic Orbit meditation and the Smiling-Down Meditations.

Carol also has a background in Chinese medicine which she integrates into her class, revealing an added dimension to the practice of Tai Chi. She is eager to share with newcomers and experienced practitioners alike.

Tai Chi is offered Mondays from 10-11:15 a.m.