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UPCOMING EVENTS, NEWS & COURSES
YOGIS & YOGINIS END-OF-YEAR 2008 CELEBRATION
will be held this year at Yoga West
Bring a plate of something scrumptious to share
And something to drink
And a friend or partner
EAT... DRINK... DANCE... MINGLE...
MOST OF ALL ENJOY
Date: Friday 5th December
Time: 5.30pm onwards
RSVP: Wednesday 3rd December 2008 by email: janet@yogawest.com.au or phone 02 9683 2441
Last updated: 18/11/08
FREE YOGA CLASS
Commencing Friday 24th October to Friday 19th December 2008
Time: 1.30pm to 3pm
Led by Vicki Campbell
Apprentice Yoga Teacher
All levels welcome
Last updated: 21/10/08
NATUROPATH SPECIAL!!!
For the season of SPRING 2008, Phillip is offering a 30 minute Iridology session for $30.
Find out where there are weaknesses in the system or potential weaknesses which if treated early can maintain optimum health without invasive western medicine or surgery.
Iridology offers pathways to health and disease observed in the iris of the eye.
We don't catch diseases, we create them by breaking down the natural defenses according to the way we eat, drink, think and live.
Last updated: 21/10/08
BEGINNERS HATHA YOGA LEVEL 1
8 week course
WHEN: Each TUESDAY
COMMENCING: Tuesday 28th October 2008
TIME: 6pm to 7.30pm
COST: $120 for 8 weeks OR $104 concession
This course is designed for absolute beginners of yoga or those students who have not been practising regularly and wish to recommence their practice or for those who prefer a more gentle class.
Learn techniques which not only improve your posture and physical health, but also take you to a deeper level of mental and emotional awareness so that you may enjoy and appreciate each and every day as a gift.
BOOKING: Call 9683 2441 or email info@yogawest.com.au
GAVIN FERNANDES WORKSHOP
SUNDAY 7th December 2008
1pm to 4.30pm
COST: $65
BOOKING REQUIRED as numbers will be limited
Call 9689 2441 or email info@yogawest.com.au
Due to popular demand, Gavin has agreed to return for a workshop in September and December of this year. Gavin has helped relieve chronic pain in many sufferers by the simple and basic use of body alignment principles. These principles have been derived from a combination of Tai Chi, Yoga and Physiotherapy.
With chronic pain sufferers, the problem usually lies with body misalignment, developed through bad habits in youth through bad posture, poor body movement, injury, mental or emotional problems.
Gavin's methods can help people break out of their limiting beliefs about their injury, posture and fitness level AND make people aware of their bad postural habits and poor body movement. HOWEVER you must have the desire to both help yourself AND to free yourself of these problems!
Do yourself a favour, free yourself of pain and live a more comfortable and happy life.
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RESTORATIVE YOGA
At Yoga West, our Hatha yoga classes begin and end with Restorative poses, with the active poses in the middle.
However, in a Restorative class, the entire practice consists of restorative poses.
The development of Restorative Yoga is credited to B.K.S.Iyengar of Pune, India. During Mr Iyengar's formative years, he was quite sickly, and to keep abreast with other students, he experimented with "props", modifying poses so that he could practice without too much strain. He used the props to recover from his illness and injury. Mr Iyengar is now well into his 80's and has been teaching yoga since he was in his early twenties.
Restorative Yoga can help to relieve chronic stress in several ways:
- By the use of "props" (blankets, bolsters, blocks, straps, etc) to provide a safe and supportive environment to aid total relaxation
- The sequences are designed in such a way as to move the spine in all directions. Some poses are backbends, others forward bends, twists or inversions.
The sequences usually includes an inversion, which reverses the effect of gravity. In this way circulation is improved and heart function is enhanced.
- Restorative Yoga alternately stimulates and soothes the organs with the different poses
- Restorative Yoga teaches us that the body is permeated with energy: PRANA which is the masculine energy which resides above the diaphragm, moves upward and controls respiration and heart rate. APANA, the feminin energy, resides below the diaphragm and moves downward and controls the function of the abdominal organs. This practice restores the balance of the two energies, so that the student is neither overstimulated nor depleted.
Restorative Yoga is for everyone. Each pose is individualised to suit any injury or tightness.
This practice is recommended for those who practice the more dynamic yoga practises such as Ashtanga, Vinyasa or General Hatha regularly.
Restorative Yoga will bring BALANCE to the body by taking us deeper into our selves, finding out how to use our breath and to feel sensations and find our soul.
Ref: "Relax and Renew" by Judith Lasater
The practice will be led by Janet Catesby.
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