Saturday, September 11th
1:00pm to 4:00pm

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Restoring the Body, Restoring the Mind with Elesa Commerse

Cost: $60

It is well documented that ninety-nine percent (99%) of all illness has a stress component to it. During this workshop we will dive deep into the nature of true mental, physical and emotional relaxation. Daily we accumulate stress.

In this Workshop you will...

• learn daily practices to offload your stress.
• relax the body through guided restorative yoga.
• relax the mind through meditation
• relax the emotions through Yoga Nidra, the 4,000 year-old tantric practice said to be four times more restorative than sleep.

No prior yoga or meditation experience is required. Please wear loose, comfortable clothing and be prepared to experience a calm so deep it will leave you transformed.

Forrest Foundation Teacher Training:
September 24^th thru October 20^th

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Forrest Yoga FoundationTeacher Training and Morning Intensives with Ana Forrest

Forrest Yoga 22 Day Intensive

The Forrest Yoga Intensives accompany the Fall Teacher Training Program. You do not have to be a trainee to participate. This 22 day series, designed by Ana Forrest, will take you on a physical and mental journey deep into the core of your very being.

Take your yoga practice beyond the mat and try one of the most vigorous and demanding yoga workouts around. Through a carefully constructed and rigorous series of yoga asanas, Forrest Yoga will open you up to the amazing quality of feeling that lives inside each of us.

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Forrest Yoga Foundation Teacher Training

Forrest Yoga is pleased to announce a new configuration of Ana's internatonally acclaimed Teacher Training course (Foundation). This course is considered by many studio owners as one of the most effective teacher training courses - "I know that if a teacher has graduated from Ana's teacher training course, they have been taught properly and skillfully."

Ana's Forrest Yoga Teacher Training, includes all the essential components (over 200 contact hours) for your studies. It is the first requirement towards your Forrest Yoga certification. Also, the complete hours needed for Yoga Alliance 200 RYT certification.

About Housing....For those coming from out of town for training, we are generally able to find accomodations for trainees locally at little or modest cost. We also, connect trainees with one another so they can explore joint housing opportunities...In past trainings, we have been able to place all trainees needing housing. We will work with any trainee requiring housing once they have completed their application and submitted it along with the deposit.

October 5^th thru 7^th:

October 5^th | 8:30am to 6:00pm
October 6^th | 8:30am to 6:00pm
October 7_th | 8:30am

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Functional Anatomy - Three day Intensive with Brian Campbell

Cost: $325 including Textbook

This 20 hour anatomy intensive is highly experiential that combines anatomical instruction with an emphasis on sharpening each teacher's perceptual skills to better assess the needs of their students in the environment of a yoga class. The art of assessment is a life-long process by which a yoga teacher gains mastery and depth as an instructor. Learn some of the short-cuts to assessment in this fun and highly informative class about the interrelationship of the Rule of Four: Biomechanics, Biochemistry, Scar Tissue, and Emotional Blockage. These four elements define the healing process for us and for our students. As yoga teachers, we are in a unique position to streamline that healing process by learning to perceive each aspect of the Rule of Four. This is our governing principle as we learn the anatomy of the human structure and tie it together with practical information to speed healing when possible and explain why when it is not appropriate to hurry it.

November 5^th thru 7^th:

Friday Nov 5^th | 7:30 to 9:30pm
Saturday Nov 6^th | 10:00am to 5:00pm (one hour lunch break)
Sunday Nov 7^th | 10:00am to 5:00pm (one hour lunch break)

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Friday Night Only (WS-175)
Full Weekend (WS-176)

LifeForce Yoga^R To Manage Your Mood
A Weekend with Amy Weintraub, MFA, E-RYT 500 - Author of Yoga for Depression

Cost:
Friday Night Only - $45
Full Weekend - $240 or $255 after October 1^{st
(Yoga Alliance CEU's will be available)}

For thousands of years, yogis have understood what current research in neurobiology and clinical observations are demonstrating - that working with a body and breath-based practice, we can manage our moods. LifeForce Yoga^R interweaves the power of an ancient discipline with current scientific findings to help you release what's no longer serving you - without a story attached! In this inspiring workshop, you will learn and practice breathing exercises, easy postures, guided meditations, and other experiential yogic tools for managing your mood that are not often taught in regular yoga classes.

We'll practice:

• Pranayama and kriya breathing techniques that regulate the emotions
• Meditations that lift the mood
• Creating Affirmation (sankalpa)
• LifeForce Yoga^R Bhavana (Imagery)
• LifeForce Yoga^R Chakra Clearing Meditation
• LifeForce Yoga^R Nidra
• Tones that regulate the emotions (mantras)
• Yoga asanas suitable for multilevel practitioners

You will leave this feeling refreshed, renewed, and excited about returning to your at-home or teaching practice with new tools to bring balance to the emotional and physical body.

Friday Evening - LifeForce Yoga^R to Manage Your Mood: Clearing the Space | Breathe your way through these challenging times. Learn 3 Yogic strategies to strengthen your emotional resilience. Based on ancient practices and current scientific findings, Amy will incorporate breath, sound, movement and visualization to help you meet and manage your mood.

Saturday - LifeForce Yoga^R to Get You off the Couch! | Learn an embodied practice to meet the lethargic or depressed mood. No matter what challenges you are facing now, Amy promises that you'll leave with a lighter heart and a clearer mind or your money back! We will practice the LifeForce Yoga^R Chakra Clearing Meditation - Energizing, a technique that incorporates mantra, mudra and breath to clear the central energy channel of the body. Then we will build to a stronger, more dynamic practice, energizing the body mind and spirit. We'll end with a restorative practice of LifeForce Yoga^R Nidra.

Sunday - LifeForce Yoga^R to Meet Anxiety | Learn a practice that promotes a calm mind and an open heart. Evolution has favored an anxiety gene, and for many of us, it's our default. Meet your monkey mind with an embodied practice and The LifeForce Yoga^R Chakra Clearing Meditation - Calming, a meditation technique that gives the busy mind a bone.

As part of the Saturday and Sunday sessions experience the power of LifeForce Yoga^R Nidra, a form of meditative self-inquiry that, while relaxing the body, opens the mind to greater self-awareness, and the heart to love and acceptance of what is.

Open to public and health care professionals. Poses will be accessible for all levels welcome, including beginners, Psychotherapists, health professionals, and yoga teachers will learn techniques they can use to help their clients focus, relax, and have greater access to their feelings.

About Amy:

Amy Weintraub, MFA, E-RYT 500, author of Yoga for Depression and founder and director of the LifeForce Yoga Healing Institute,is a leader in the field of yoga and mental health. She offers professional trainings and workshops and speaks at medical and psychological conferences internationally. Amy's evidence-based yoga protocol is featured on the award-winning DVD series LifeForce Yoga^R to Beat the Blues. And the LifeForce Yoga^R CD series. www.yogafordepression.com.

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Level 2 WS-172

Yoga and Scoliosis Workshop with Sarah Hillenbrand

Cost of each workshop:
$40 by October 15th
$45 after

Level 1: Discover how scoliosis affects your entire body, not just your back. From head to feet we will map how your body twists and turns. With this knowledge you can lengthen your spine, untwist the rotated sections, and draw the curvatures closer to your midline. Learn how scoliosis loads your muscles asymmetrically and how to adapt yoga poses to awaken, lengthen and strengthen the weak and underused muscles. Practice directing your breath in a similar way, awakening the power in your breathing muscles to help correct your scoliosis.

Level 2: Take your awareness to the next level. Suitable for those practitioners comfortable with the Level 1 workshop concepts and body awareness. In this workshop we will experiment with more subtle alignment in the foundation (pelvis, feet and hands). Level 2 pranayama will work on strengthening the diaphragm and educating the abdominals. Standing balancing poses, arm balances and inversions will be explored as therapeutic poses for scoliosis. We will also consider how Ayurvedic concepts and nutrition can inform our approach to scoliosis. Pre-requisite is attendance at previous Level 1 workshop, privates or group scoliosis classes with Sarah Hillenbrand. Most suitable for those with at least one year alignment-based yoga experience.

SUITABLE FOR ALL LEVELS, including those students new to yoga as well as more advanced practiioners. Each student will leave with a map of his/her curves, images to help visualize curve patterns, and a home practice sequence.

January 22^nd to 29^th 2011

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Give yourself the opportunity to restore, open and affirm YOU and your body's innate radiant potential!

This retreat includes...

7 nights accomodations at the new luxurious Retreat Center
Three Organic Feasts/day + snacks
Two Yoga classes per day incorporating meditation and pranayama taught by Megan Dunne
Ground transport ation on January 22nd and January 29th.

Cost:

Double Occupany $1,900 USD
Single Occupancy $2,400 USD

Space is very limited...Reserve your spot early...$100/person Early Registration Disocunt when your $450/person non-refundable deposit is received by August 22nd.

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Level 1 Training
Saturday, January 15^th
10:00am to 4:00pm (with break)
Register On-line now (WS-EV-22)

Level 2 Training
Saturday, January 27^th
10:00am to 5:00pm (with break)
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Usui/Tibetan Reiki Training with Reiki Master Pal Kokity

Level 1 (EV-22) Shoden "First Teachings"
January 15^th, 10:00am to 4:00pm with Break
Cost: $125 ($250 for Level 1 and Level 2)

Level 2 (EV-23) Okuden "Inner Teachings"
January 27^th, 10:00am to 5:00pm with break
$150 ($250 for Level 1 and Level 2 | Prereq: Level 1

What is Reiki...

Reiki is a healing art from Japan with possible connections to ancient Tibet. The common translation of the Japanese word is Universal/ Spirit (Rei) Energy (Ki). It is one of seven described life-force energies, and it has the ability to unify the aspects of the inner child, the middle self, and the higher self. Although it is heavily rooted in Japanese traditions, the Usui system of Reiki is not based on one belief and has practitioners of many faiths and philosophies.  It is believed that a person’s energy, or Ki, needs to be strong and free flowing for optimal physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. When it is weak, or blocked, it can cause physical and emotional imbalances that affect one’s health. Strengthening your Ki (through Reiki) allows a greater connection to your own innate healing abilities, increases your vitality, and promotes personal well-being.

Level 1 (EV-22) Shoden "First Teachings"
January 27^th, 10:00am to 4:00pm with Break
Cost: $125 ($250 for Level 1 and Level 2) | Prereq: Experience in smiling and hugging

The student is initiated into the Usui Reiki Ryoho system of healing. It discusses the history of Reiki, what it is and how it works, its symbolism, the five Reiki principles, and the attunement process. Students are taught how to give a complete Reiki treatment using the standard hand positions. 40 Page Manual Included. Tell me more...

Level 2 (EV-23) Okuden "Inner Teachings"
January 27^th, 10:00am to 5:00pm with break
$150 ($250 for Level 1 and Level 2  | Prereq: Level 1

This class discusses the three Level 2 Reiki symbols: what they mean, how to draw them, and how to use them. Students are given time to experience giving and receiving the energy of each symbol. More Japanese techniques are covered, including, the Gyoshi-Ho (sending Reiki through the eyes), Koki Ho (sending Reiki through the breath), and Enkaku chiryo (Distance healing). 40 Page Manual included with this program. Tell me more...