Very Beginner Yoga Series with Max Leeming
Sundays 12:30-1:30pm
Spring Session: April 11-May 2, 2010
Satya Yoga Center, Rhinebeck
Fee: $65 for the series, or $20 per class

If you've never done yoga before, or are interested in exploring basic alignment, this series is for you. We step into the body to enter the vast potential of the heart. We systematically go over the Universal Principles of Alignment. Each class will build on the previous as we open and strengthen the body and deepen our relationship to our hearts.

Margaret (Max) Adams Leeming re-discovered yoga in Santa Barbara, California in 1995, during her graduate studies, twenty years after watching her mother perform strange movements (which turned out to be yoga) when she was four. She fell in love with Iyengar yoga in Albuquerque while healing from a car accident in 1998. Max continued her Iyengar studies and took classes and workshops with Nancy Roberts and Felicity Green for three years in Santa Barbara. She has also studied Mysore-style Ashtanga yoga in Tacoma, Washington. Her move to New York brought her to Moksha and classes with Alex Auder and Lauren Zittle. She completed a teacher training certification course in Vinyasa yoga based on the principles of Anusara at Satya Yoga Center with Co-directors Jessie Lee Montague and Sondra Loring. She continues to take classes at Satya and in New York City. Max lives with her six-year old daughter in Poughkeepsie and teaches yoga and the history of religions at Vassar College. Max sees yoga as an ever-continuing, mindfully meandering journey that heals and nourishes both body and soul.

Anusara® Therapeutics Workshop
Sunday, March 28, 1-4pm
Satya Yoga Center, Rhinebeck
Fee: $45

All students of all levels are welcome to this interactive Therapeutics Workshop led by instructor Jackie Prete. Whatever issues arise from the group will be featured in the workshop. The beginning of the workshop will focus on foundational issues (feet, ankles, wrists and hands). We will move to the pelvis and lower back focusing on how to align the legs and pelvis and lower spine to keep the lower back healthy and pain free. The second half of the workshop will focus on shoulders, neck and the upper back. We will use the tools of John Friend’s Universal Principles of Alignment to realign the body and release chronically held tension and pain.

Please pre-register online or by calling (845) 876-2528.

Jackie Prete has shared her passion for yoga, teaching public hatha yoga classes and workshops in NYC for the past 19 years. It is truly Jackie's greatest delight to introduce students and teachers to the path and teachings of Anusara yoga and the philosophy of Kashmir Shaivism that is at the root of this tradition. Since 2001 she has taught Anusara Yoga based Teacher Training Programs, workshops, retreats, and Immersions in NYC, the Catskills, Japan, London, Costa Rica and Mexico. Recently she has been honored with a seat on the Certification Committee of Anusara Yoga.

Niroga Training Workshop
Saturday, April 17, 2:30-7pm
and Sunday, April 18, 2-7pm
Satya Yoga Center, Rhinebeck
Fee: $310
Register online at Niroga.org by March 20
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Niroga brings Transformative Life Skills (TLS) to students, vulnerable youth, cancer survivors, seniors and people battling addiction. The work of Niroga directly uplifts thousands of people every week in schools, juvenile halls, homeless shelters, cancer hospitals and rehab centers.

During Niroga training, certified yoga teachers will learn how to address the needs of vulnerable children and youth in schools and alternative schools, homeless shelters and group homes, rehab centers and juvenile halls through Transformative Life Skills (TLS), a multi-modality intervention including yoga, breathing techniques and meditation. In addition to certified yoga teachers, educators and mental health professionals are also welcome to attend. Snacks provided.

For more info, please contact Kate Perna, kate@bentonchange.org

The Niroga Institute is committed to bringing yoga and meditation to at-risk and underserved populations; they have been highly successful in their efforts in Oakland, California and are now willing to share their expertise with professionals in our area.

Live Laugh Love Workshop
Sunday May 2, 2-5pm
Satya Yoga Center, Rhinebeck
Fee: $40

LIVE joyfully!
LAUGH often!
LOVE what you do!

Celebrate World Laughter Day! Join us for a fun afternoon of playful and renewing practices. Exploring movement, breath work, laughter yoga, working with sound and other fun ways to relieve stress, feel joy, and lift your spirit!

Led by Liz Morfea, Certified Laughter Yoga Leader, and Ellen Forman, CYT, Holistic Lifestyle Coach.

Please pre-register online or by calling (845) 876-2528.