Past Events
Courageous Expansion: Exploring the Yoga of Arm Balancing and Backbending
In this fun 2.5 hour workshop we will explore some of the key arm balances and backbending postures from the Anusara Yoga Syllabus such as Handstand, Pincha Mayurasana, Kappotasana and standing drop backs into Urdhva Danurasana, as well as some of the more advanced poses we can't often get to in a led class.
This Level 2/3 workshop is ideal for anyone with a dedicated practice and a working knowledge of the basics who has a desire to learn more about how to become comfortable in these powerful and transformative postures.
Date & Time: August 22nd 2-4:30 pm
Cost: $25.00
Location: Coastal Bliss Yoga Studio
To Register: natalie@pacificelements.ca
Inner Fullness- Align with your Highest Potential
Join Suzanne for an afternoon of dyana and dharana (meditation), pranayama and asana. We will explore principles of alignment in order to reveal your highest potential and align with your inner fullness. Empower and unfold with a well-rounded practice, including expansive standing poses, luscious hip and thigh opening, mindful arm balances, earthy inversions and heart-opening backbends. Build heat. Play hard. Radiate your essence.
Suzanne is the primary founder of Yoga for the People in Vancouver, and holds a doctorate within Counseling Psychology. Suzanne is a Yoga WorksTM Certified Instructor, an Iyengar and Ashtanga inspired training. Suzanne has spent the past four years studying Anusara%u2019s Principals of Alignment with founder John Friend and several of his senior students. Suzanne emphasizes physical and energetic alignment, deep-dynamic-flow, gratitude for the Divine and opening of the heart in order to lead students on a journey of self-discovery, play and expansion.
www.suzanneslocumgori.com | www.yogaforthepeople.ca
Cost: $25.00
Location: Coastal Bliss Yoga, Tofino
To Register: natalie@pacificelements.ca
Shiva Shakti and the Healing Currents of Grace: Anusara Yoga Workshop with Robin Golt
Join us for a full weekend of Anusara yoga in beautiful Tofino with certified teacher Robin Golt.
This weekend is an opportunity to dive deep into the experience of asana, pranayama, meditation and the study of some of the exquisite wisdom teachings of Anusara yoga's Shiva Shakti Tantra. Each session will be a balanced offering of all of these elements.
Through the intermingling of these beautiful practices, we'll help guide the many currents and undercurrents of our bodies, minds and hearts towards the great, expansive and restorative pool of what we refer to in Anusara, as Grace.
Robin Golt was Canada's first certified Anusara Yoga teacher and has been studying with John Friend, Anusara yoga's founder, since 1993. She has played a key role in the growth of Anusara in Canada over many years, and is committed to supporting the harmonious development of Anusara in communities in this country.
Robin is known for the power, depth and clarity of her teaching and her particular ability to communicate the profound philosophical teachings that underlie the Anusara method in an accessible and uplifting way.
In addition to teaching classes, workshops, Immersions and Teacher Trainings across the country, she serves on the Anusara yoga Certification Committee, mentoring new teachers on their path to certification. Robin is also delighting in her advanced studies of the wisdom teachings of Tantric Shaivism under the guidance of Paul Muller-Ortega, founder of Blue Throat Yoga.
Invocation: Friday June 25th 7:30pm-9:30 Gentle flowing asana & Meditation
Investigation: Saturday June 26th 10am-1pm Mixed Levels Heart Opening Asana Practice and Meditation
Absorption: Saturday June 26th 3-5:30 pm Mixed Levels Hip Opening, Twisting and Forward Bending Asana Practice & Meditation
Refinement: Sunday June 27th 9am-12 Intermediate/Advanced Level up tempo Potpourri Asana Practice and Meditation
Communion: Sunday June 27th 2:30-4:30pm Mixed Levels Asana and Meditation with a focus on sharing the fruits of our contemplation. This class will include some partner work and chanting
Cost: $250.00
Space is limited and will be kept to a certain number to ensure an intimate workshop experience with Robin. Please register early to avoid dissapointment.
Journey Through the Five Elements Retreat
Join Join Natalie Rousseau and Milagro Retreats in Tofino's Botanical Gardens this summer for an exploratory journey through the Five elements of Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and Ether.
Enjoy daily yoga classes integrating creative Vinyasa flow, inspirational philosophy, anatomy of movement, and playful expression.
Be nourished by Abundant Vegetarian Feasts and take home new ideas and recipes from the Conscious Ayurvedic Cooking Class.
www.milagroretreats.com for more info and to register
Ayurveda and Asana with Kimberly Loeb
Meaning "science of life", Ayurveda is a vast system of preventative and curative healing that comes from the ancient scriptures of India, dating to about B.C. 1500. According to Ayurveda, everything in the universe is made up of five elements: air, ether, fire, water and earth, all of which are pervaded by breath. Together, these elements make up who and what we are. There is an organic, harmonious balance that exists between the elements within our bodies, however, sometimes they become unbalanced due to illness, poor diet and lifestyle choices, and stress. In this workshop, we will learn how the five elements present themselves in the body, mind and spirit through the doshas (physiological forces which are often referred to as "Ayurvedic body types"), as well as how and why they become unbalanced.
KIMBERLY LOEB
is a certified Sivananda Yoga instructor, Yanumoja Yoga therapist and Wise Earth Ayurveda practitioner who has been practicing, studying and teaching Ayurveda and Yoga since 2001. She holds a minor in the philosophy and practice of Ayurveda and Yoga from Prescott College in northern Arizona and is currently deepening her studies in Ayurvedic massage and Marmatherapy through the Samya School of Ayurveda on Salt Spring Island and the Three Winds Academy in Victoria, British Columbia.
Cost: $65.00
Location: Coastal Bliss Yoga Studio
To Register: natalie@pacificelements.ca
Intro to Yoga Course
Learn the fundamentals of yoga practice in a step by step comprehensive manner so that you gain the knowledge and confidence to join ongoing drop in classes.
This 5 week series will be taught by Natalie Rousseau and assisted by Pascale Froment.
Dates & Times: Tuesdays Feb. 16th- March 16th 7:30-8:45pm
Cost: $90.00 GST
Location: Coastal Bliss Yoga Studio
To Register: natalie@pacificelements.ca