Look for These Upcoming Events

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Awaking to Love – A Valentine’s Day Yoga Workshop
with Patricia Schneider and Andrew Junker
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Concordia Yoga Pavilion
9 – 11AM
Cost: $30
Followed by optional brunch

Special guests return to St. John in late March for a follow-up to their sold out Ayurvedic workshop at Concordia. Join them along with Zach and Lindsey for more food, massage, yoga, and more. We will also be filling up the week with various short workshops focusing on adjustments and inversions!

In April we present “The Artist Within” with Annie Caswell. Free your creativity with Kundalini Yoga and intuitive clay play. Get creative!

Stay tuned for more information and dates and more events!

 

 

Fight Viruses the Ayurvedic Way

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Beth Escardo (Yoga Beth) shares the following ayurvedic approaches to preventing illnesses. Join her every 3rd Thursday of the month for RESTORATIVE YOGA & Ayurvedic Pichu at Mongoose Yoga Center – another way to boost your immune system!

The ayurvedic approach to preventing illnesses is by building up the immune system and toning the body to withstand viral attacks. The following remedies not only help to prevent catching a cold but also help in relieving symptoms naturally if you already have a cold.

  • Every morning make a drink consisting of a cup of warm water mixed with the juice of half a lemon and a spoonful of honey.
  • Amla fruit is known to have a very high vitamin C content and regular use builds up the body’s immunity. Amalaki capsules orTriphala capsules taken daily rejuvenate and build up the body’s defences against illnesses and infections. Another well known ayurvedic herb for colds is Vasaka
  • Chyawanprash is the best known ayurvedic remedy to build immunity and prevent colds. Made of a 5000 year old formula this remedy contains over 40 herbs in an amla base. A tablespoon everyday helps maintain optimum health especially during the winter months
  • If you have a cough, take a spoonful of honey every night. It has been found that honey has the same cough suppressing properties as dextromethorphan – the chemical ingredient found in cough medicines to suppress cough. While coughing is the body’s natural mechanism to remove phlegm, taking honey at night helps to relieve coughing and allow a restful night’s sleep
  • Make a warm tea by adding ginger, crushed cardamom, crushed black pepper, cinnamon powder and sugar. Boil and strain the mixture. This drink will instantly help to open nasal passages, relieve sinus pressure and soothe the throat
  • Gargle with warm water every day.
  • Use a neti pot to drain and moisten nasal passages
  • Inhale warm vapors by adding a tablespoon of carom seeds in a pot and allowing the water to steam. Put a towel over your head while inhaling.
  • Applying a small amount of amrutanjan to the forehead and nose will instantly give relief when you have a blocked nose or headache.
  • Avoid cold dairy products such as yogurt and ice cream
  • Take warm showers. The vapors will moisten nasal and throat passages.
  • Drink plenty of warm water and herbal teas

Beth’s next Ayurvedic Pichu is coming up on February 21st – 5:30pm @ Mongoose Yoga

$15 fee  repay to reserve your space or 1st come for prop set up (14 available)  …..a blissful experience!!!

Evening Classes Added at Concordia Starting January 22nd

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Season is in full swing and the popularity of the yoga program at Concordia is growing by bounds. In this spirit of expansion, we announce the addition of evening classes.

STARTING JANUARY 22nd From 5:30 to 6:45 PM on Tuesday evenings returning St. John Yoga, Qi Gong and Tai Chi teacher Emily Sada Sukh Sorensen offers an evening Hatha practice.

Expect the announcement of more additions to the evening schedule at Concordia. We welcome feedback on what nights of the week and what times you would like to see us add.

Help us welcome Emily to Concordia. Here is an introduction to Emily’s philosophy on practice:

The moving practices of yoga serve multiple purposes such as flushing the organs of toxins, strengthening and stretching the muscles, quieting the fluctuations of thoughts in the mind and preparing the body for meditation. As we learn to “be inside” our bodies, we gain a deeper understanding of ourselves and the triggers that lead us to particular patterns. The stillness practices give us the space to let go of anything that does not serve us and connects us to the “One Source”; providing peaceful soul nurturing and harnessing our prana.

The human body needs both Yin and Yang exercises to maintain a healthy balance throughout a lifetime. Taoist Yoga suggests to explore both the gross anatomy and the subtle anatomy; the rhythmic dynamic movements of Yang Yoga and the soft, long-held static deep tissue stretches of Yin Yoga.

Each is beneficial, dependent upon what is needed to keep the harmony of self. Taoist Yoga teaches the skillful means upon which to build a personal practice that serves the individual; organically unfolding each day of life, to provide optimum health. There are myriad movements and meditations to pool from, practice teaches us what to utilize and when.

Combining the streams of yoga, with clear intentions, is awakening the DNA of Humanity and the connected consciousness is strengthening, pushing up to blossom like a lotus from a pond. Chanting mantra is reinforcing the new patterns to build a foundation of infinity going forward into the Aquarian Age.

Of course, our highest priority is mastering the inhalation and exhalation, linked intentionally with our stillness or movement, in the appropriate rhythms. This awakens us to our highest potential and gives back with radiance, clarity & strength. The more we put in to the practice, the more we receive for body, mind and spirit!

5:30 to 6:45 PM
Tuesdays – Concordia
Emily Sada Sukh Sorensen
Hatha Yoga

Peace.

Join Beth Escardo on a JourneyDance™ – January 25th

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Join Beth Escardo (Yoga Beth) on a JourneyDance™

 

January 25th – 6:30pm @ Concordia Eco Resort Pavillion

 

$15 fee if you prepay or $20 at door

 

NO EXPERIENCE necessary  …come get funky!

 

JourneyDance™ is a grooving celebration that will have you loving your body and loving your life! Weaving simple, guided movement sequences and free exploration, JourneyDance™ reconnects you with your innate state of joyous well-being. Your mind becomes clear, free, and positive, and your body feels supple, energized, and powerful. Practiced to inspiring world music, your dance is an empowering journey to self-acceptance and transformation.

 

What happens during a JourneyDance™?
JourneyDance™ moves us through deep, personal exploration into a loving, intimate relationship with body, mind, and source energy.  This exhilarating union of dance, visualization, and ritual calls us to get funky and divine!

 

In a Shamanic style, we are carried through an intentional and seamless flow of simple movement sequences and free expression. We are led with exuberance and compassion to a place of authentic communication with our creative spirit, where we discover our hearts’ desires.

 

We embody our physical temple, unleashing animal energies from within as we ground ourselves.  We explore our inner realms, delving and diving into our ocean of emotion. We connect with our inner shaman creator to burn the mind’s clogging clutter and make space for the abundance of joy that is available to us. As we create this powerful ritual together, we liberate old cellular memories, cleanse the body and mind with sweat and breath, and elevate our vibration.

 

We open to the joy of life. We are the Prayer: our body, our movement, our breath.  We are the Goddess: our passion, our emotions, our sensual heart.  We are the Warrior: our power, our intentions, our life’s journey.

 

JourneyDance™ is a transformational experience that does not require any previous movement or dance experience. Travel this sacred and provocative journey, feel bliss, and express ourselves as soul.