Thai Yoga Massage for Couples Workshop

KC Schwarz and Amy MacKenzie

This course will provide you and your partner with the knowledge to:

- Perform a 30 minute full-body, smooth, flowing and safe ThaiYoga Massage
- Utilize intentional touch to create a mutually beneficialexperience
- Integrate “Metta” (compassion) and meditation into the massage

Thai yoga massage is performed on a mat with the clothes on.

In this 6-hour workshop you will learn new ways to give nurturing intentional touch to your partner, friend or family member through Thai Yoga
Massage.

We provide hands-on training using instruction and demonstration mixed with generous practice time and a healthy dose of humour to ensure you
feel comfortable to begin practicing right away.

You will be asked to bring four or five dense blankets from home to make your mat and at least two dense pillows or cushions for sitting.

Cost is $75 per person
When: Sunday, August 22nd
Time:   10:00 am to 5:00 pm

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‘Yoga of wonder’ Workshop

Wonder: The Healing Yoga in Daily Life with Munju Ravindra and Ravi Ravindra

Wonder is healing for our souls and bodies.

This workshop will explore the place of wonder in our lives, and the mystery there is in everyday things and events. There will be a discussion of the place of wonder in the great sacred traditions of the world and exercises to cultivate and deepen our sense of appreciation of the wonder there is in a leaf, a flower, in the eyes of another human being and in the smile of a daughter.

The facilitators:

Munju Ravindra is a writer and a lover of nature. She has conducted many workshops and has led walks of discovery in the national parks. She has devised many practical exercises in order to deepen our sense of wonder. Her latest publication is “Wonder: Yoga For Life” to be published in “Hope Beneath Our Feet: Restoring Our Place in the Natural World”, ed. Martin Keogh.

Ravi Ravindra is Professor Emeritus at Dalhousie University from where he retired as Professor and Chair of Comparative Religion and Adjunct Professor of Physics. He is interested in exploring the timeless insights conveyed in the great spiritual traditions of the world. His latest publication is “The Wisdom of Patañjali’s Yoga Sutras.

When: Friday August 27, 7:30-9:00pm
Saturday August 28, 9:30am-1:00pm
Personal investment: Cost $80.00 plus HST

Yin Yoga Intensive

Access the inner Yin

Yin Yoga offers the gift of connecting with our personal inner Yin through the use of quiet, long held postures. The workshop is suitable for Yoga teachers and experienced practitioners who wish to deepen their Yin practice.

This 8 hour workshop looks at how this ancient yogic practice can affect our physical, energetic and emotional bodies. We will explore ways to lead a Yin class, and incorporate Yin postures and philosophy into any practice.

The workshop will include:

- Taoist philosophy

- The Yin practice of non-striving and how it
   influences our lives and our teaching

-  The movement of Qi or Prana in the body
   and how it can be affected by Yin practice.

- Anatomy and the understanding of our
   own natural pattern (Li)

- Sequencing a Yin class

- What it means to hold a safe, sacred
   space for a Yin practice

Facilitator:  Biff Mithoefer

When: September 18 & 19
Time:   12 pm - 5:30 pm
Personal Investment: $125 + tax

About Biff Mithoefer - Biff teaches Yin Yoga at Omega Institute, throughout the U.S. and internationally. He is the author of The Yin Yoga Kit, and co-author of The Therapeutic Yoga Kit. Biff is a founder and director of the Jamtse Sponsorship Project, for the support of Tibetan refuge children. He lives with his family in Dorset, Vermont.