Crofton Yoga-Workshop Descriptions
Workshop: Balance Your Yoga - A Balance Posture Workshop with Steve Wolf
Date: February 18, 2012 Times: 11:30am-1:30pm Cost: $30Description: Many people find that balance postures can be the most challenging part of their yoga practice. In this workshop you will learn to build a strong foundation, and to strengthen your awareness of center. Although the focus will be on balance postures, this knowledge will give you the confidence to work more deeply and safely in all of your yoga postures. This will be a full-featured yoga class with warm-ups and stretching to prepare the body, and ending with one of Steve's deep and relaxing guided meditations. Practitioners from beginning to advance can benefit from a more stable and grounded practice, so this workshop is open to all levels.
Workshop: DEFEND YOURSELF Workshop for Moms and Daughters with Lauren Taylor
Date: March 3, 2012 Times: 1:00-3:00pm Cost: $70 for two, additional child $30Description: Middle school can be tough. We can teach you how to stop someone who's bothering you, how to make them go away with your words, and the best way to kick or hit if you absolutely have to. You will learn….
- Prevention and awareness: things you can do to prevent or avoid an attack or abuse.
- Assertiveness and verbal self-defense: using words and body language to stop obnoxious or intrusive behavior and to keep a situation from escalating.
- Physical self-defense: techniques to end a physical attack, either standing or on the ground, and to get away to safety.
DEFEND YOURSELF has taught self defense at hundreds of DC-area workplaces, schools, community groups, and more to children, teens, women, and men from all walks of life. For more info, go to www.defendyourself.org. Lauren has been studying and teaching self-defense since 1985 and is certified as a self-defense instructor by the National Women's Martial Arts Federation. She has taught classes to thousands of women, teens, children, and men from all walks of life.
Class: Kundalini Yoga with Eric (note this is an added class not a workshop)
Date: March 2, 2012 Times: 6:00-7:15pm Cost: $15Description: Kundalini Yoga uses movement, sound current, breath and meditation to relax and heal your mind and body, allowing the spirit to flow freely. In each class the teacher instructs beginning and experienced students using mental focus, breathing techniques, mantras, postures, mudras, meditation and relaxation. There is a great variety of techniques and each class is likely to be different. Students do not need extraordinary strength or flexibility to benefit from Kundalini Yoga. This powerful and effective form of Yoga is not primarily a physical workout; it is not just sitting quietly in meditation. It is a potent combination of work on the nervous system, the glandular system and the immune system. Just one class creates a powerful lasting effect
Workshop: Pregnancy and Birth Workshop with Darlene Bergener
Date: March 4, 2012 Times: 1:00-4:00pm Cost: $50 per coupleDescription: While pregnancy is often filled with excitement and happiness, it can also bring physical discomforts and uncertainty about the upcoming labor and delivery. This workshop provides a safe and supportive environment for the mommy-to-be and her partner to learn various tools, such as yoga postures, relaxation practices, and massage techniques, that can be helpful through all stages of pregnancy, labor, delivery, and postpartum. Natural, medicated, and C-section deliveries will be discussed.
Workshops: Yoga Workout, Meditative Posture, Gentle Stretch
Dates: March 30, April 27, June 1, June 29, Jul. 27, Aug. 24, 2012 Times: 6:00-7:30pmDescription: Join Pranakriaya Yoga Teacher Trainers Jacci Reynolds and William Hufschmidt along with the 2012 teacher trainees for a either a Gentle Stretch, Yoga Workout or Meditative Posture yoga class. All classes are on Friday evenings and discounts are available when registering for multiple classes.
Workshop: Poems From the Heart of Yoga: An Evening of Poetry and Stories with Danna Faulds
Date: April 13, 2012 Times: 7:00-8:30pm Cost: $15 (OR FREE with Paid Registration toPath of Transformation Workshop on 4/14)
Description: Poet Danna Faulds will share published and unpublished poems along with stories from her writing practice and lead the group in a brief writing experience. Please bring a notebook and pen. Book signing will follow.
Workshop: Path of Transformation: A Retreat for Healing, Growth, and Awakening with Richard Faulds and Danna Faulds
Date: April 14, 2012 Times: 9:30am-12:30pm & 2:00pm-5:00pm Cost: $100Description: Rooted in a potent spiritual tradition, yoga is best viewed as a path of transformation. At its core is an intention to bring our whole self fully present to the moment-to-moment experience of being alive. By uplifting the power of our presence, yoga calls each of us to embark on a profound evolutionary journey. Then it bestows the balance of self-acceptance and inner strength required to be intimate with our inner experience--even when it is scary or painful. All along the way, yoga helps us do the simplest yet most transformative thing of all: let life itself touch and teach us.
On the morning of this daylong retreat, Richard Faulds will guide a yoga experience designed to deepen self-awareness by weaving together postures, breathing, deep relaxation, and sitting meditation, punctuated by Danna Faulds' poetry. In the afternoon, participants will bring this awareness into relationship and life through a variety of small group exercises. The day will end with a second session of breath-assisted relaxation and meditation. Join Richard and Danna for an immersion experience bound to leave you feeling rebalanced, revitalized, and fully alive.