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Eastside Yoga Studio is pleased to present Lynn Medow for three exhilarating workshops.

All yoga is therapy in one way or another. How it is presented by a teacher, interpreted by the student and applied by each, determines the efficacy of the offering. These workshops will address how the science of yoga enhances health and wellness of an individual and how both teacher and student can most effectively apply yoga as both a healing and life-enhancing practice.

Friday, April 13, 2012 – Setting the Stage
6pm -8:30 pm
Beginning with a moderate yoga practice, experience how Lynn transforms a basic yoga class into a healing, therapeutic journey.

Discussion will then cover general group, specific condition and private yoga therapy sessions. Intake, Assessment and Treatment Plans will be introduced.

Saturday, April 14, 2012 – Optimal Alignment
11 am – 1 pm
Overview of most optimal alignment within self with experiential practice.

Saturday, April 14, 2012 – Introduction of Yoga Therapeutics.
3-5:30 pm Yoga Therapeutics for the most common of injuries and conditions including foot, back, hip, shoulder and neck issues as well as Adaptive Yoga for movement challenges and dementia.
Any Single Workshop  $35+HST
All Three Workshops with Lynn Medow $90 + HST

Lynn Medow ERYT 500 is known as a
compassionate teacher who supports
individuals on their journeys to healing and
wholeness. As the owner of Yoga by Design,
her pioneering approach to individualized
teaching and therapeutics has earned her a
reputation for being the “go-to” person when it
comes to questions of healing.
Ms. Medow has produced the DVD,
Yoga for Graceful Aging, available through
Amazon.com. She appears as the model in
Like Stanzas in a Poem/Yoga at the Wall
and is the creator of the Yoga by Design
Foundation providing funds for yoga
programs for under served populations. She
teaches group classes, offers therapeutic yoga
sessions and assists high school and university
sports teams with their strength and flexibility
training programs. www.yogabydesign.us

Whether an experienced yogi, yoga novice,
seasoned athlete or couch potato there are
simple shifts one can make to produce more
ease and comfort moving through life.
With uncomplicated direction and gentle
guidance, Lynn Medow ERYT 500 enables
each person to discover and assimilate their
optimal alignment. Applied to all movement,
whether on a long car journey, running a
marathon or practicing hatha yoga, this
increased understanding of one’s own body
empowers the individual to move with
increased ease and fluidity.

Children’s Yoga (Let’s Play) March Break Series

Ages
This series will be designed for children aged 6-9.

Date
Monday March 12th to Friday March 16th

Time
1pm to 2pm

Cost $50 in advance $60 Monday March 20th

Classes for the week will be built around a theme: balance, nature/respecting the Earth, self esteem, and community. Children’s needs and interests will be considered as well. Each hour will consist of a physical warm-up, introduction of “new” pose based on the theme, games/creative activities, cool down/meditation, rest and closing.

Classes taught by Melissa Martin, Masters of Education, Registered Yoga Teacher, Undergrad degree in Drama in Education

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Throughout our lives the heart-mind (citta) accumulates memories.  These memories are fodder for the stories the mind can spin.  On a whim our “monkey mind” can lead us to believe that we are worthy or unworthy, lovable or unlovable.   The purpose of yoga is to quiet the heart-mind so that we can connect with the divine light of awareness (purusa) that resides within us.

The physical practice of yoga (asana) is only a partial view of an eight limbed process toward liberation within the heart-mind.  This Mindful Meditation class will lead yogis through the last three limbs of yoga namely:  choosing a focus (Dharana), continuous meditation/concentration (Dhyana), and complete attention/integration (Samadhi).

Supplies needed:  The studio does have chairs, bolsters and blankets available free of charge for students, however it is recommended that meditators invest in a Zabuton mat, and a Zafu Cushion or Seiza Bench.  Zafu cushions are available at ESY for purchase or online at:   www.snowlioncanada.com or www.dharma.net/monstore

Gisèle Harrison, MSW, RSW is a social worker in private practice that specializes in helping people to work through painful memories; anxiety; depression; and stress.  She came to the practice of yoga and meditation in an effort to know freedom from monkey-mind and in the process provide a valuable practice to her clients who were seeking the same thing.  Gisèle has studied meditation with Michael Stone, Molly Swan, Norman Feldman, Jon Kabat-Zinn and Saki Santorelli.  Gisèle also takes her practice off the mat and into the community through her feminist social justice work which includes regular guest columns in the Windsor Star addressing various forms of oppression.

Learn the Art of Yin Yoga.

Great for students wanting to delve deeper into the Yin practice. A must for teachers to learn how to teach Yin Yoga effectively. Yin Yoga has the same goals and objectives as any other school of yoga; however, it directs the stimulation normally created in the asana portion of the practice deeper than the superficial or muscular tissues (which we are calling the yang tissues).

Yin Yoga targets the connective tissues, such as the ligaments, bones, and even the joints of the body that normally are not exercised very much in a more active style of asana practice.