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Any
reason for practicing yoga is a good reason.
"Enhancing flexibility and releasing stress are as
noble a purpose for performing yoga as the awakening of spirituality. This
is the great gift of yoga – it serves and nourishes us at every level of our
being and spontaneously contributes to greater well being in all domains of
life. Yoga will help you discover gifts within yourself that have remained
unopened since your childhood – gifts of peace, harmony, laughter, and
love." The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga by Drs. Deepak
Chopra & David Simon
This quote made my heart sing. I welcome you to
participate in my classes and workshops this season. As a practice of
awareness, a celebration of being in a body, an invitation to be light
hearted and clear minded, yoga offers us a path of discovery, healing, joy
and ultimately, love.
I hope you are inspired to join a group class,
experience a private session with me, and or delight in the rich learning of
a workshop setting.
Classes
Workshops
- Awakening Your Spine
TBA
Yoga Workshop to awaken your spine and release tension.
- Belly Beat ~ An
infusion of yoga and drumming
Returning in 2012
YOUR BLOSSOMING HEART: A Valentine's Delight
Hope to see you soon, Namaste,
Sharon |
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Awakening Your
Spine
The Path Yoga Centre
2083 Alma Street ~ Suite 240
Using a dense foam rubber strip along your
spinal column, this workshop blends breath, therapeutic yoga and hatha yoga.
Breathing inquiries invite expansion from the inside as we explore a felt
experience of the spinal vertebrae by using the strip in various vertical
and horizontal positions on the spinal column. A direct felt experience of
your bones promotes a profound release into gravity allowing muscular
tension to melt.
This workshop includes hatha yoga sequences
as well as practical anatomical appreciations and is highly beneficial for
those with chronic shoulder and neck discomfort and/or low back tension. In
understanding and feeling your own anatomy an inner alignment awakens to
guide you on your mat and in your life. This work gets results and supports
your heart opening to love with grace.
A testimonial:
"My experience with Sharon and the strip has been nothing short of
miraculous. As a writer and a practitioner, my work involves long periods of
sitting. The strip has saved me from prior bouts of back, neck, and shoulder
pain. In fact, I just travelled nationwide for six months on a book tour
with my strip. I keep it close at hand and use it regularly. In just 15 or
20 minutes I get amazing results. I fondly refer to it as my portable
chiropractor!" Debra Greene, Ph.D. Author of Endless Energy: The Essential
Guide to Energy Health
This season enhances our connection to
gravity, inviting the experience of letting go. Shed your tension by
learning to connect to your bones and let down into the ground of our
supporting earth below. This workshop is an invitation to relax deeply and
In-joy your body! Hope you can participate.
TO REGISTER:
- Email your interest to
Sharon
- Cost of Workshop: $55 (plus HST)
(Includes Comprehensive Handout)
Strips provided for the workshop (Available for sale at $35)
For more information and to register
contact
Sharon.
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Awakening Your
Spine 4 Part Series
This 4 part series blends:
- alignment practices
- anatomical appreciations
- breathing inquiries
- hatha yoga flows
- relaxation
Each session will unravel tension patterns
in a particular area of the spine, and include learning a Hatha yoga flow to
align, release, lengthen and strengthen the spine. Join these mini workshops
to connect to the wisdom and wonder of your miraculous spine and take home a
flow chart to inspire your own home practice.
TO REGISTER:
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Belly Beat
A Love Letter from the Heart of Yoga and
Drumming
Please join this collaborative workshop with Drum master Sandi Millman
and I ~ a new frontier of creativity.....yoga and drumming!
For woman only....Embody & Celebrate sacred space.
Love to have you join us, Sharon
In the first BellyBeat Yoga and Drumming
Workshop of 2011, we will focus on that all important muscular organ
weighing less than a pound, which beats roughly 35 million times a year,
circulating precious life force through our body – our heart!
Join Yogi Sharon Abbondanza and rhythm facilitator/teacher/performer Sandi
Millman www.drummama.com
for a women’s only Yoga and Drumming Workshop that teaches us to be our very
own Valentine. Focusing on the Heart Chakra, Anahata, we will learn postures
and rhythms that focus on sending ourselves Love and Compassion. In a gentle
and safe environment we will learn exercises to release existing heart
hurts, break down the scar tissue from past heart break, and unclog our
valves and arteries from toxic trans-fatty emotions (note: this workshop is
not yet covered by MSP, but we are working on it). Bypass the surgery and
schedule yourself in for ‘Open Heart’ Yoga and Drumming!.
TO REGISTER:
- Email your interest to
Sharon
- Confirm your spot with payment - Mail
your cheque to:
Inspiring Yoga, 4705 W. 16th Ave, Vancouver BC V6R 3E8
For more information contact Sharon or
Sandi Millman 604-873-9495
sandi@drummama.com
www.drummama.com
- Cost: $65 (plus HST = $72.80)
Bring a friend paying full price ~ you pay $50 plus HST
- Venue: Drum Mama Studios, 2038 West 43rd
Ave in Kerrisdale. (Google
Map)
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Into
Wholeness
Yoga & Sacred Sound
Please arrive 15 minutes early.
Into Wholeness will integrate a slow hatha
yoga practice with a deep listening journey using Quartz Crystal Bowls,
Tibetan Bells and Bowls, Gongs from many cultures, Chimes and Sacred
instruments such as the Japanese Shakuhachi flute, the Mbira from Zimbawe,
and the Andean Ocarina.
We will spiral from gentle breathing
inquiries into an ocean of sound, moving through a practice of postures to
relax the body, open the heart, and ease the mind. Traversing inner
landscapes to the shores of peace, this intentional use of sacred sound
dispels density in the body and invokes a state of tranquility and
alertness.
TO REGISTER:
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Restorative Yoga
7:30pm Thursdays
Judith Hanson Lasater, the grandmother of
restorative practice shares: “The practice of yoga is fundamentally an act
of kindness towards oneself. During deep relaxation, all the organ systems
of the body are benefited, and a few of the measurable results of deep
relaxation are the reduction of blood pressure, serum triglycerides and
blood sugar levels in the blood, the increase of “good cholesterol” levels,
as well as improvement in digestion, fertility, elimination, the reduction
of muscle tension, insomnia and generalized fatigue.
Restorative yoga is a remedy for the speed and chaos of contemporary life.
Through a series of supported postures held for 3-5 minutes, we slow down,
soften into essential breath, unravel tension and let the body's
intelligence guide you into well spring of peace and joy within.
- Restorative Yoga - The Art of Letting Go
- 8 Week Course: $ 152.32
- Thursday Evenings from 7:30pm-9pm
October 6th through December 8th
(No Class Oct 27th or November 10th)
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Tensegrity & Vijnana
5:30pm Thursdays
Create harmonic ease from the
inside out, as you learn a sequence of movements that cultivate core
connection and stability. Developed by Gioia Irwin, the tensegrity series
uses a dowel and a wooden block placed under the pelvis, to challenge
on-going connection to the abdominal core and the spinal core.
The movements are fluid, and
in time create an even tone throughout the body, by healing restrictions in
the myofacial network. After the tensegrity series, we will transition into
a Vijnana vinyasa, a vigorous physical flow, supported by breath and the
awakened felt sense of centre. Vijnana is a sanskrit word meaning
intelligence; this practice is an exquisite synergy of serenity and
vitalization.
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