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Zumba!
6-week Series:
Sundays March 25th – April 29th
5:00pm – 6:00pm
with Fatima
$55 with pre-registration/$60 at first class

Zumba Fitness classes are 60 minutes of movement set to fun Latin, Middle-Eastern, and pop beats. Before you know it, you’ll be getting fit and your energy levels will soar! It’s easy to do and accessible to all ages and fitness levels. The easy-to-follow sequences create an effective cardiovascular workout and are totally exhilarating while building a deep-rooted sense of community among returning students. Wear comfortable clothing so you can move freely and bring plenty of water to stay hydrated.

Couples Massage Workshop
Saturday, March 3
4:00pm -7:00pm
Sliding Scale: $100-$125 per couple

Run by Studio 34 Wellness Providers Zach Weiss and Ellen Browning-Lafferty, this workshop is geared towards active couples interested in learning deep tissue techniques to address muscle tension and knots.

The workshop itself will consist mainly of deep tissue massage instruction as well as a hands-on anatomy lesson. You will be learning how to work out knots and release tension that result from any prolonged activity (working out, long runs, sitting in front of a computer, etc.). This particular workshop will be focused on the upper back, neck, and shoulders.

The price is sliding scale, $100-$125 per couple, and there is a maximum of 8 couples allowed in the workshop, so you are guaranteed a good amount of personal instruction.

If you’re interested, send an email to: integral.massage.philly@gmail.com to reserve your spot.

There are other workshops for other parts of the body in the works, so even if you can’t make it to this one, feel free to get in touch to get on the mailing list.

KUNDALINI YOGA – HEALING SERIES
Winter/Spring 2012 – Starts Feb 19
Sundays 12:00 pm-1:30pm
$10 per class
with Portia

Unlock your healing potential with this inspirational and unique kundalini practice! We begin our practice by setting intentions, awakening the inner teacher…breath, sound, and our practice unfolds… Each week we will explore a topic, and allow that topic to expand as we intuitively co-create our practice together. Bring an open mind and heart! All Levels.

For more information about Kundalini Yoga, click here.

Double Teacher Forrest Intensive
Sunday, March 18
10:00am – 12:00pm
$10

Fatima and Morgan join forces to bring you a vigorous heart-opening Sunday Forrest yoga intensive. Enjoy extra personal attention and hands-on assistance with two teachers for the price of one.

Studio 34 Presents: Sweet Sound of Music – an evening of Sisters and Songsters
Saturday, March 10 @ 7:30p
$10 Suggested Donation ~ sweet herbal brews on us!

Join us for what has become the coziest music-listening and loving experience around, curl up on a couch or cushion, pour a cup of blended tea or seltzer with infused simple syrups, and prepare to be carried off by the sweet sound of music!

AnnaChristie and Cassandra Saddler (of Sisters 3)
*Photo Credit to Lisa Schaffer Photography

Our music is a collection of treasures gathered from the people in our lives. It is an extension of the passion we have for living and the drive to transform that passion into art. We hope you find the treasure too.
This June we released our second full length album “Coruscate at the Meadow Gate” on the NYC label MVR Records. It is for you.

Henkin Todd (of The Great Unknown)

Songs can sometimes sneak in like birds and flap around. Once discovering within the listener a path of flight, they can both sing and listen together. With a guitar, a stomping foot, and a harmonica, Henkin will share stories and take listeners away from the room for a while.

Spending five years as the singer and songwriter of the nationally touring band “The Great Unknown,” he has gathered a vault of songs to showcase, but as a relentless writer he will always have something raw and freshly created to share as well. Each performance then, has its own life.

Extremely talented friends from around his hometown of Philadelphia often make appearances onstage playing various instruments and singing along. He will also be selling his first solo album: “Family Belly,” only available by physical copy at shows and produced by the Wizard Bellenoit.

March-April Kids’ Yoga Class Series
with Lily

Six-Week Series – $55 with pre-registration, $60 at first class
March 12, 19, 26 and April 2, 9, 16
Drop-ins are welcome for this series!

Mondays 3:45-4:30 (ages 4-6)

In this fun-filled class, kids explore breathing exercises, games, poses and relaxation. They are introduced to communication skills in a playful, inspiring style to support themselves, their classmates, and their families. Class ends with relaxation to send kids home renewed and replenished.

Mondays 4:45-5:30 (ages 7-12)

Students explore ways to maintain balance in both their minds and bodies in this interactive, fun class. They learn how yoga can influence other aspects of life by building emotional intelligence, boosting self esteem, and inviting challenge through group and partner activities. This is an engaging, inspiring class that includes breathing exercises, games, poses and relaxation.

Kundalini Yoga Healing – Guided Meditation with Breathwork
Sundays, February 19 – March 11
11:30am-11:55am (just before the Kundalini class)
Pay what you can

Unlock your healing potential with this inspirational and unique kundalini practice! We begin our practice by setting intentions, awakening the inner teacher, breath, sound, and our practice unfolds. Each week we will explore a topic, and allow that topic to expand as we intuitively co-create our practice together. Bring an open mind and heart! All Levels are welcome.

Goodnight War
FREE 3-hour movement workshop
Saturday February 25
3:00pm-5:45pm

offered by The Naked Stark, an emerging West-Philly based dance company, in which participants will:

Discuss ideas about war,
Create a dance together that explores these ideas,
Share thoughts, feelings and movement, and

Ask:
How does it feel to create movement from ideas?
What do I think about war? Why?

This workshop is part of The Naked Stark dance company’s Goodnight War project, started in 2010, which seeks to engage a variety of Philadelphia communities, through workshops and performances, in a peace making process of reflecting, shifting, and questioning our own relationships with war.

Signing up in advance is appreciated!

Drop-ins welcome!

To sign-up or learn more about the project please contact:
Katherine Kiefer Stark, Artistic Director, The Naked Stark
kkstark@gmail.com, 917-843-4234
http://www.thenakedstark.com/

Improving our Relationships
Buddhist Meditation Classes
Mondays 7:00-8:00pm
March 5th-26th
Class Cost: $8

Join us for a weekly beginners’ meditation class on Monday evenings. We will be examining the Buddhist approach to improving all our relationships and learning how to deal with problems in a healthy way. This class begins with a relaxation meditation, a brief teaching on Buddha’s view of love, and ends with another energizing meditation. The topic of each class will be:

March 5th – Freeing Ourselves from Unhealthy Attachment
March 12th – Love and Desire
March 19th – Overcoming Jealousy and Pain
March 26th – Discovering Pure Love: Making our Love Lives Last

This 4-week series of classes is being offered by Amitayus Kadampa Buddhist Center (www.meditationinphiladelphia.org) at Studio 34 and will be taught by Salena Alberti, a meditation teacher who has over 10 years experiencing, practicing and studying Buddhism.

‘Crossing Imaginary Lines’ Launch Party
SATURDAY, MARCH 17th, 2012
6-11pm
Cover by donation ($5-20 suggested)

Come celebrate spring, Michal’s birthday, and the launch of her creative projects: a new “brand” and website, an album, and a bunch of amazing workshops and classes.

[6-8pm] Delight your ear drums with Improv Jazz/Funk by local musicians as your taste buds savor Deep Breath Baking challah bread and Nourished Together spreads (gluten free and vegan options, too!)

[9-11pm] Dance Dance Party (Osagie spins while Xande Cruz offers up his Brasilian beats)

Sample some of the music here: http://www.myspace.com/michalwaldfogel

http://www.facebook.com/events/236366109783551/

http://www.deepbreathbaking.com/

Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms® Dance Movement Meditation
Dance classes for Self-Development & Spiritual Connection
Feb 4, 1:00pm – 3:30 pm
Mar 3, 1:00pm – 3:30pm
Mar 31, 3:00pm – 5:30pm
Cost: $20 each, $15 students/elders/waged newcomers, $10 unwaged newcomers.

The 5Rhythms® of Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical, and Stillness form a ‘Wave’ that can take us through and beyond our selves into embodied feeling and fluid creativity. As we connect to ourselves and to others, we bring body, heart, mind & soul into movement, on the dance floor & out in the world. There are no steps to learn and it can be enjoyed by anyone, regardless of age, fitness, ability, or experience.

Newcomers and old-timers alike are welcome to these carefully paced classes in this tender, cathartic, joyful, insightful, and wild Spiritual Movement Practice. We have a beautiful group at Studio34 and we love teaching here. Come & join us!

Richard Jerram has been dancing the 5Rhythms for 15 years and teaching for 11 years in London, Lisbon, Melbourne, Philadelphia, and the Atlantic States. See http://www.facebook.com/Richard.Jerram.dance?sk=info for his schedule, and see http://www.meetup.com/dance-5Rhythms for full details and updates of each class.

Queer & Trans Yoga
A 2-hour workshop with Jacoby Ballard
Saturday, February 25th, 12:30pm–2:30pm
Tuition is sliding scale: $10-$20

Jacoby Ballard returns to Studio 34 to teach Queer and Trans Yoga! This a class for queers of all stripes, for those with all levels of experience in yoga. The intention for this class is to create a space where we are invited into our bodies, and are working to open our hearts, in community with other queer people. Expect some time sitting still(ish) in meditation, some time building heat in your body, and some time working with others in different postures.

About the Instructor:
Jacoby Ballard is a queer guy who came out as trans through his process and practice of becoming a yoga instructor. He teaches 2 weekly classes in New York for the queer community, Queer and Trans Yoga at Third Root Community Health Center and Yoga for All Genders at the NYC LGBT Center. Jacoby is also part of a seasonally-produced Queer and Trans Yoga Jam, a Saturday night yoga practice for queers to spend time in their bodies, connected to their hearts, and from that place, connecting with others. Jacoby is also an herbalist and social justice organizer, and is currently studying Ayurveda at the Dinacharya Institute in New York.

See a video interview with Jacoby at http://thisissignified.com and read more about Queer & Trans yoga here.

Valentine’s Day Couples Partner Yoga Workshop
Saturday February 11
12:30pm-3:30pm
$50 per couple

Did you know that around 1 billion greeting cards are bought worldwide for Valentine’s day? Not to mention 189 million red roses in the US! There has to be a better way to celebrate your love?! Actually there is! Save a ton of trees and spare your fingers from prickly thorns by joining Brittany Policastro @ Studio 34 for some yoga fun!

Back by popular demand, Brittany (assisted by her non-yogi boyfriend) will be offering a collection of partner poses, meditations and body work techniques to help you celebrate in a much more fun, therapeutic and healthful way. Yoga experience is not required to attend. Just an open heart, ability to follow directions and a desire to connect with your partner in this very special way! Last year this sold out so register sooner than later to get a spot for you and your honey!

SOLD OUT

The 8th Annual Fun-A-Day Art Show
Friday Feb 10: 7-11pm
Saturday Feb 11: Open Mic Reading event 5:30-7:30pm, Main Show 7:30-11pm
Free, All Ages

Our friends and neighbors have spent an entire month creating marvelous works of art! Come celebrate their creative ingenuity at the 8th annual Fun-A-Day Art Show!

www.artclash.com
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fun-a-Day-Philadelphia/208489292567077

Jan-Feb Kids Yoga Class Series
with Lily

Six-Week Series – $55 with pre-registration, $60 at first class
1/23, 1/30, 2/6, 2/13, 2/20, 2/27
Drop-ins are welcome for this series!

Mondays 3:45-4:30 (ages 4-6)

In this fun-filled class, kids explore breathing exercises, games, poses and relaxation. They are introduced to communication skills in a playful, inspiring style to support themselves, their classmates, and their families. Class ends with relaxation to send kids home renewed and replenished.

Mondays 4:45-5:30 (ages 7-12)

Students explore ways to maintain balance in both their minds and bodies in this interactive, fun class. They learn how yoga can influence other aspects of life by building emotional intelligence, boosting self esteem, and inviting challenge through group and partner activities. This is an engaging, inspiring class that includes breathing exercises, games, poses and relaxation.

Buddhist Meditation Classes
Overcoming Anger
Mondays 7:00-8:00pm
January 16th-February 20th
Class Cost: $8
Conference Room of Studio 34

Join us for a weekly beginners’ meditation class on Monday evenings. We will be examining the Buddhist approach to overcoming anger and learning how to deal with problems in a healthy way. This class begins with a relaxation meditation, a brief teaching on Buddha’s view of anger, and ends with another energizing meditation. The topic of each class will be:

Jan 16 – The Ugly Truth about Anger
Jan 23 – Why We Get Angry
Jan 30 – Letting Go of Anger
Feb 6 – The Cooling Waters of Acceptance
Feb 13 – Learning not to Retaliate
Feb 20 – The Spiritual Practice of Patience

This 6-week series of classes is being offered by Amitayus Kadampa Buddhist Center (www.meditationinphiladelphia.org) at Studio 34 and will be taught by Salena Alberti, a meditation teacher who has over 10 years’ experience practicing and studying Buddhism.