Please pre-register for all workshops by clicking the link in the blue box below. You will find that many are discounted if you register early!

Thank you, as always, for sharing your practice with Stillpoint and for being so open to new and challenging experiences.

Prana Vinyasa Flow w/ Heather Megosh and LIVE music by Ibrahima Faye

Come warm up and play with Heather in a fun Prana vinyasa flow class moving to the soulful live tunes of Senegalese musician and singer/songwriter, Ibrahima Faye. We will move creatively and dynamically as we link fluid namaskars with arm balances and inversions all while enjoying riding the wave of our breath. This 90 minute class will integrate the core principles of Prana vinyasa flow and leave you feeling challenged yet rejuvenated on your Sunday afternoon.

Sunday, February 19, 1:00PM-2:30PM

$20

Fertility Yoga w/ Jill Petigara

•These classes benefit women who are trying to conceive naturally or with assisted reproductive techniques.

•Learn both traditional and restorative yoga poses that help bring balance and vitality to the reproductive organs and endocrine system.

•Explore breathing and meditation techniques to help quiet the mind and reduce stress.

•Cultivate body awareness and learn to be more comfortable in your body.

•Enjoy a supportive environment of women working toward the same goal.

Classes are perfectly safe and gentle for women who become pregnant.

**NEW**5 Week Series- Mondays 6:30PM to 7:45PM- February 20- March 19

$100

Spring Equinox Celebration w/ Debra Bosna

108 Sun Salutations performed on the first day of spring, the Vernal Equinox, is most often done in large groups, and often as an “offering”, such as an offering of peace or unity.  March 20th is the spring equinox!  Astronomically this means that the length of the day and night are equal today. This may be the only natural phenomenon that unites the entire planet together. This special day brings with it special qualities that Chinese medicine recognize. The two basic forces that drive the world, the Yin and Yang, are today equal in their power and presence, and therefore bring harmony to this day. The spring equinox, therefore brings powers of growth and prosperity, which are the forces of the spring.  Please join us for this special offering, a moving meditation that embraces the qualities of unity and peace!

Tuesday, March 20, 6:00PM-8:30PM

$25

Baby and Me Yoga! w/ Alycia Gargano

 

Toddler and Me Yoga! w/ Alycia Gargano

 

6 week Series:  Every Tuesday from 3:30PM to 4:30PM, January 17-February 21

 

Pilates Yoga Flow w/ Eliakim Warren

Yoga influenced Pilates

A yoga practice weaving in traditional pilates exercises (such as pilates leg lifts, the one hundred, scissor and the teaser). The intention of combining the two disciplines is to work and strengthen the muscle groups through pilates exercises and then stretch and lengthen the muscles afterward through yoga vinyasa series.

Dates:  TBD

 

Pranayama Workshop w/Debra Bosna

Breathing is life. It is one of our most vital functions. Pranayama is control of breath and brings more oxygen to the blood and to the brain. “Prana” is breath or vital energy in the body. On subtle levels prana represents the pranic energy responsible for life or life force, and “ayama” means control. This is used in yoga as a separate practice to help clear and cleanse the body and mind.  Debra will guide us through some of the breathing exercises of Pranayama.  Join us for this deeply moving and rewarding workshop.

Dates:  TBD

 

Hormone Yoga Therapy w/ Katrin Elia

Living for many years with the troublesome menopausal symptoms is one thing, but having only the choice of using hormone replacement substances in order to feel better is another.  Many women wonder if there are alternatives?

Hormone Yoga Therapy (HYT), invented by Dinah Rodrigues, is a holistic form of yoga that offers a natural alternative approach. Its focus is to reactivate the hormone production through a designed sequence of yoga postures (asana), specific breathing exercises (pranayama), Tibetan energy technique, and yoga nidra (visualization during meditation). Disagreeable Symptoms during menopause such as hot flashes, insomnia, depression, headache, tiredness, hair loss, migraine, emotional instability, and many others are indicators that the hormone level in a woman’s body is low and needs to be increased. Results show as well that HYT also helps in preventing osteoporosis, cardiovascular diseases, and assists in infertility, pre-menopausal symptoms, stress, and panic symptoms.

“…to control the results I asked the participants (of a research group) to take a blood test of estradiol before beginning the practice (of HYT), which should be repeated every 4 months along with a questionnaire to evaluate the intensity of symptoms. The results were very good: 100 % of the students, in 3 to 4 month of practice, without medication, either had no more symptoms and if there were any symptoms, their intensity was nearly zero. (Ms. Rodrigues)

Yoga Instructor Katrin Elia (Yin and Vinyasa Yoga), trained and certified by Dinah Rodrigues in HYT, offers the first Hormone Yoga Therapy session on the East Coast at Stillpoint Yoga. In a 10 hour session you will learn a sequence of physical dynamic exercises in combination with an energetic breathing technique. Both techniques are designed to reactivate hormone production and, as a consequence, it will eliminate or at least significantly reduce the intensity of most menopausal symptoms.  It is important to understand that positive results will come with a regular home practice (of 30 minutes), which will be discussed in the workshop.

Workshop
January 28 & 29, 2:00 -6:00 PM
Follow-up Class
February 18, 3:00 -5:00 PM
$250 + $10 for materials

$100 required for deposit to hold spot for class, you can pay the remaining amount prior to January 28

Spring Detox Vinyasa Flow w/ ALEX HOLMES!

Join Alex Holmes for an up-lifting detox flow!  Winter often leaves us lethargic: droopy on the inside, and sometimes a little droopy on the outside!  Move your body, mind and spirit in this 2-hour flow class including twists, inversions and backbends designed to wring you out and shake you into the spring of things.

You may recognize Alex Holmes as she was recently featured and on the cover of Be Well Philly, a special feature of Philadelphia Magazine.  To read more about her background, her inspirations and her style of practice please feel free to visit her website:  www.alexholmesyoga.com.  Stillpoint is honored to host Alex for a special 2 hour Spring Cleaning.  Shanti! Shanti! Shanti!

Sunday March 25, 2:00PM- 4:00PM

$30 advance sign-up, $35 at the door

Yoga Nidra w/ Trish Robayo

Most people sleep without resolving their tensions,

This is termed nidra.

Nidra means sleep, no matter what or why,

But yoga nidra means sleep after throwing off the burdens,

It is of a blissful, higher quality altogether.

 

When awareness is separate and distinct from the vrittis,

When waking, dream and deep sleep pass like clouds,

Yet awareness of atma remains

This is the experience of total relaxation.

 

Relaxation does not mean sleep.

Relaxation means to be blissfully happy,

It has no end.

I call bliss absolute relaxation;

Sleep is a different matter.

Sleep gives only mind and sense relaxation.

Bliss relaxes the atma, the inner self;

That is why, in tantra,

Yoga nidra is the doorway to Samadhi,

The blissful state of conscious awareness.

-SWAMI SATYANANDA SARASWATI

 

Come open your doors to bliss…..  every first Tuesday of each month at 7:30 PM.

$20/per class