JANUARY 31, 2018
Sip + Shop + Silent Yoga Hosted by Mettamade, Babes in Business NJ, and NPZ Studio
4-8PM
Bell Works, Holmdel
Join Us for an evening of yoga, cocktails, appetizers, and shopping with local Babes In Business vendors! YOGA IS FROM 6-7PM with Silent NJ headphones!
Flow through a 60 minute, all levels yoga class while using SilentNJ™ headphones — led by METTAMADE’s Jennifer Hansen, with blissful beats as you zen out and get away from the workweek hustle! After yoga, join Babes in Business vendors and explore a curated collection of unique and stylish pop-up shops while you sip cocktails and mix and mingle in the beautiful space of Bell Works!
FEBRUARY 2, 2018
Exploring Yoga Through Storytelling and Myth
7-9 PM
Hot or Not Yoga, Manahawkin
In this workshop, we will explore the oral storytelling of myth and how it can be incorporated into a Yoga asana practice. The workshop will be broken down into three parts:
Part One will be a lecture on Mythology and storytelling. Part Two examines basic storytelling. Part Three will explore moving from the setup of storytelling into an Vinyasa Yoga practice where the story is continuing to be told through movement. This allows students to experience the myth within the movement of the body; becoming forms and shapes that are related to the story being told by the storyteller.
7-9 PM
Yoga Essence, New Providence
Bring your significant other, your best friend or family member! This workshop is open to all levels. Move through yoga poses with the support of your partner. You will deepen your connection, communication and most importantly, have fun! We will be offering wine & chocolate for a full sensory experience.
Friday NIght “Sound Off” with Vanessa Van Noy
7:30-8:30PM
Synergy Hot Yoga, Fair Haven
Synergy has partnered with Headstands for Hunger to bring you this special yoga event. Everyone in class wears a pair of wireless headphones, through which Vanessa’s cues as well as the music rides through. Only those with headphones can hear, so you will be fully immersed in the practice, no outside distractions can interfere. It is truly a unique and amazing way to make a yoga practice more than just asana, its an experience…
6-7PM
Empower Yoga, Ewing
Soles for Souls is a non-profit organization that creates sustainable jobs and provides relief through the distribution of clothes and shoes around the world. Take the opportunity to visit the studio, get barefoot , sweat and donate to this great cause. The cost of this class is a pair of shoes.
Form and Function With Susan Lippy Orem
7-9PM
Satsang Yoga, Westfield
In yoga, form follows function in the realm of body, mind and spirit. To move the body into postures, then adjust the alignment on the basis of inner observation — this is leading the practitioner closer to the heart of yoga.
Susan Lippy Orem is a Teacher Trainer at Yoga Shanti Sag Harbor with Rodney and Colleen Saidman Yee.
7-9PM
Yoga Essence, New Providence
Come join us for a partner yoga workshop! Bring your significant other, your best friend or family member! This workshop is open to all levels. Move through yoga poses with the support of your partner. You will deepen your connection and communication and most importantly, have fun! We will be offering wine & chocolate after class for a full sensory experience.
Just Breathe!: Transformative Breathwork
7-9:30 PM
Dig Yoga, Lambertville
Breathwork is a perfect healing tool for the 21st century. One session alone can change your life; its effects are immediate and permanent. Breathwork is a powerful and effective way to heal past traumas, offering an alternative and healthy way to release old pain, grief, anger, or other unexpressed emotions. Breathwork brings about changes in a person’s relationships to themselves, others and the world in their overall mood and life perspective, and in their sense of connectedness.
Finding Your Life’s Purpose with Vedic Astrology: Learn How to Read Your Birth Chart
7:15- 9:15 PM
Blue Lotus Yoga, Hammonton
Your Vedic Astrology birth chart can help you understand yourself by revealing your destiny and your karma- the unique mix of gifts and challenges that came with you into the world. Learning about Vedic Astrology and your chart can also teach you how to handle these energies so that you stop making the same mistakes over and over in life. In this course, you will receive a copy of your birth chart. You will also learn how to read your own chart and receive a manual and resources to help you interpret what you find.
Feel free to bring some wine to enjoy while we explore your chart!
FEBRUARY 3, 2018
The Science of Happiness: Introduction to the Yoga Sutras with Matthew Grey
12-2PM
Blackbird Yoga, Haworth
We all want to be happy. Sometimes we are, and sometimes we aren’t.
But wouldn’t it be nice if we could be always happy? It that really possible? Ever wonder what this crazy life business is all about it? Do you wish you could make sense of life’s twists? The answers to these and more can be found in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, the 3,000-year-old philosophical text on Yoga. In this workshop students will dive into the foundation of Yoga practice and learn the essence of spirituality. The Yoga Sutras presents you with a framework, a way to see life, that has the potential to transform your perception, your mind, your relationships, and your understanding of the world around you.
11 AM
Hot or Not Yoga, Manahawkin
YIN YOGA AS A GUIDE TO HEALING!
Come explore the wonderful world of yin yoga where you get the opportunity to stop unwind and be while you practice stillness in your poses. Through the simple poses of yin you get to give your brain a soothing hug as you just let yourself release into each pose. So give yourself the opportunity to slow down, turn inward, become meditative, nourish yourself during this yin workshop!
1-3 PM
Hot or Not Yoga, Manahawkin
In addition to learning how to properly pronounce Sanskrit words, students will learn how to read and write the Devanagari alphabet, learn how to combine vowels to consonants, consonants to consonants, form simple Sanskrit words, complex Sanskrit words, recognize exceptions, and some basic grammar.
Instructor: April Dechagas
Lunch included
4-5:15 PM
Joyful Living Yoga Point Pleasant
Curious about the yoga wheel and would like to learn new ways of utilizing it?
Join Louisa as she skillfully guides you through a 75 min Yoga wheel series. Whether you are a beginner intermediate or Advanced with your yoga practice, this accessory can easily be added to your daily practice. The yoga wheel is created to be used for a series of different functions during the practice. In this Workshop we will focus on relieving tension and gaining flexibility, in the areas of the body such as the back, shoulders, hips, legs and arms.
10:30-12:30
Laurie’s Winery New Egypt
Join METTAMADE Pop-Up Yoga Events for VinoVinyasa Event. Your ticket includes a one-hour, all-levels, vinyasa-based yoga class followed by a wine tasting! Come for the yoga, stay for the wine. Flow. Wine. Socialize. Bringing the yoga community together one pop-up yoga event at a time.
FEBRUARY 4, 2018
Up Close and Personal:A Hands-On Asana Assist & Adjustments Yoga Teacher Workshop
12-2 PM
Pink Lotus Yoga, Swedesboro
Earn 2 CEU’s. Hone your skills in providing assistance and adjustments to students. Adjusting a student’s practice can be intimidating for some teachers. Yet, your students greatly benefit by making their practice more effective. They reach new levels in their practice and it encourages continued yoga participation. Using the familiar Sun Salutations you will focus on standing and seated poses. You will learn how to approach students on their mats confidently. Learn body language and other cues to respectfully honor and assist students. Learn your student’s skeletal and muscular structure to enhance their physical practice. This Workshop is for Yoga Instructors. But, if you have an established Yoga practice you are welcome too.
11:30 AM (5 hour workshop)
Hot or Not Yoga, Manahawkin
Students will learn how to chant the yoga sutras in its entirety, with proper pronunciation, as well as discuss in detail word-for-word translations and commentary on select important verses and the importance of Sanskrit language and why it is used in yoga. They will learn the basics of Sanskrit and pronunciation as well as writing.
Instructor: April Dechagas
lunch included
Foundational Alignment Series – Shoulders: Find Strength and Mobility in your Upper Body.
11AM-12:30 PM
The Studio, Madison
This 3 week series will take an in-depth look at the form and action of the shoulders in a variety of asanas. We will explore the work of your shoulders in the various planes of the arms including front, overhead, side and back planes. We explore the form and action when the arms and shoulders are weight bearing as well as when they or not, or when only one is.
Week 1: downward facing dog and standing postures: moving and mobilizing the shoulders
Week 2: backplane and binds: expanding the parameters of stability.
Week 3: inversions and backbends: strength and opening in balanced measure.
May Louie first took yoga in college to fulfill a Phys-Ed requirement and immediately fell in love. She unfortunately did not continue with her practice but reconnected with it when she retired from her corporate job in 2002 and has since become a serious yoga enthusiast. After her second retirement last year, she completed her 200 hour RYT certification, studying with Dina Crosta, Ellen Mosko and Jamie Segal Hanley, with a focus on alignment based flow.Never Miss a Post!
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