Yoga is really trying to liberate us from shame about our bodies. To love your body is a very important thing – I think the health of your mind depends on your being able to love your body.
– Rodney Yee
Wow. Powerful stuff…and we 1000% percent agree.
Many of the events we discovered for this week are trending towards self-love, acceptance, care, and connection. We are especially enamored with the Tween Goddess Circle at Bee You Yoga in Manasquan and Karen Gilmour’s Downward Doll Yoga Party, because both workshops will serve our youngest yogis.
Cultivating a positive self-image is so incredibly important, especially in the formative moments of life. So mommas (and dads!) get your little ones to these events and allow them to soak in the benefits of the practice NOW.
We wish we started back then…don’t you? Just imagine growing up with yoga as a foundational piece of your personal puzzle.
Okay, okay – we’ll stop preaching and let you all get back to practicing and teaching. We love you. See you soon!
And stay tuned for details on the VIBEWELL Yoga Festival. We have a huge meeting this week and lots of information (and tickets) to come.
OLA Stand Up Paddle Board Yoga with Kristin Gould
July 17th at Victory Park in Rumson
Yoga class will be practiced on Stand Up Paddle Boards secured by tether to a floating dock. These classes are designed for added challenge to your core strength, balance and overall connection with the beautiful outdoors. The practice will conclude with a guided meditation practice lying supine on the board stretched out under the sun. OLA SUP classes are taught by a certified and experienced paddle teacher who instructs safety and proper paddling techniques needed to enjoy a paddle cruise along calm water. This class is geared toward beginners but all levels welcome.
Tween Goddess Circle
July 19th at Bee You Yoga in Manasquan
Please join Bee You for this special 1-hour workshop, offering a safe and nurturing space for tween and teen girls to work on cultivating a compassionate self-image. Together, the group will explore tools and practices, share in community and practice meditation.
Downward Doll Yoga (ages 5 & up) with Karen Gilmour
July 19th at Alluem Yoga in Cranford
Grab your favorite doll (American Dolls or hard plastic dolls work the best!) and head over for this special class! We’ll decorate a mini yoga mat for your doll and then practice side by side with her! Learn partner yoga poses that you can practice at home as well as bitty balances, tiny twists and mini meditations to to do with your doll! Tea party to finish!
Next Level Workshop: Camel, Wheel, Kapotasana
July 21st at Indigo Yoga in Caldwell
Take your yoga practice to the next level! Each month, a featured teacher from the Indigo Yoga team will guide Indigo Yogi’s (and visitors are welcome too!) through the steps of how to advance their practice by focusing on specific advanced yoga poses. Each of these monthly workshops will begin with a warm up and end with a cool down/savasana and will break down alignment points of the pose and help you understand how to properly enter and exit the pose and efficiently hold or move through the advanced pose.
Angel Card Workshop with Christine Friedson
July 21st at Yoga Suite & Bar in Matawan
Angel cards are an effective way to develop your psychic and intuitive abilities. They can be a powerful tool for those seeking guidance in their life. Like tarot cards, angel cards can give you insight into relationships, intellectual pursuits, ambitions, goals, desires, and finances. In this workshop, you will learn the tools needed to begin reading the cards. Registration includes your own deck of cards.
KATONAH YOGA® Summer Intensive with Ivy Ray
July 21st at Inlet Yoga in Manasquan
The Alchemy of Summer and You — Every season has unique intelligence, magic and power. Your body is where everything lives, happen and thrives. Join us as we grow/build a more safe, sane, functional you, a viable, worthy container for all of what you are and whatever life may hand you supported by the wisdom and medicine of summer. Via body breath and imagination we will work with math, pattern, measure, form, fit and function, distilling this and more into pragmatic tools and techniques which bring it all into You, where it is designed to be Worn, Used, Lived and in time Embodied. Magic made Modern.
Jiva Hot Yoga’s Grand Re-Opening
July 21 & 22 at Jiva Hot Yoga in Fords
We are in our new space! Free classes all weekend! Yummy treats, prizes and yoga with your favorite teachers!
Yoga Nidra with Shelly McIntosh
July 22nd at Ananda Yoga in Wenonah
Yoga nidra means “yogic sleep”. In this class, you’ll relax in a reclined position as Shelly guides you through a meditative experience designed to bring you into a state of pratyahara (withdrawal of the senses). The equivalent of 6 hours of sleep, this class will help reduce stress, anxiety and tension. No yoga experience is necessary.
Bends & (Unbelieva)Bowls by Bendy Jane Yoga
July 22nd at Unbelievabowls in Eagleswood
60 minutes of ALL LEVEL (beginner friendly) yoga followed by an Unbelievabowl of your choice! Price includes the yoga class AND Unbelievabowl! Space is limited to 15 people so preregistration is highly suggested.
Brunch and Bodywork with IWG
July 22nd at Integrative Wellness Group in Belmar, NJ
Enjoy Integrative Wellness Group’s Open House with Brunch, Meet the Practitioners, & Sample IWG Services including Soundwave Therapy. Muscle Work. Cold Laser Therapy. A Glimpse into the Detox Spa. CST. Nutritional Consultations. AND MORE! Mark your calendars and keep an eye out for updates.
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.
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