Finding Fun in Backbends
Forrest Yoga with Morgan
Sunday, August 8th, 10am

Expand your spine, ribs, quads, and capacity for breath, growth and trust in this 2-hour yoga class focusing on bending backwards. Building through a sequence of breathing techniques, warm-up stretches, abdominal exercises and flowing standing poses, we will put all the pieces together into some deep backbends. Partner work, attention to alignment and tidbits on human anatomy will make your backbending practice safe and fun!

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More Fun with Backbends
Forrest Yoga with Jason
Sunday, August 15th, 10am

Building upon last week’s “Finding Fun in Backbends” class, explore even more ways to bend backwards and open your heart.

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Liberate Your Legs
Forrest Yoga with Rob
Sunday, August 22nd, 10am

Reset the foundation of your yoga practice with this 2-hour class focusing on the legs. Moving from seated stretches to warm up the large joints, we will build up to an invigorating series of standing poses and inversions to bring energy to every corner of the body. Attention to alignment, anatomy, and “active feet” add helpful tools for you to take both into your yoga practice and everyday life.

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Community Class
Forrest Yoga with Angie
Sunday, August 29th, 10am

The last Forrest Yoga Sunday class of the month celebrates the spirit of Studio 34: a place where people come together to practice yoga, share various healing disciplines, and foster artistic creativity in a myriad of ways. Studio 34 founder Angie Norris combines the core Forrest Yoga practice with inspiring ideas, movement, music and partner exercises to bring a refreshing perspective on yoga as both a personal and shared practice.

By the way, here's our class schedule for August 2010

The shoulders are often a place where we carry our burdens and feel a lot of tightness. Many 21^st century activities, such as typing and driving, can increase this shoulder tension, and Forrest Yoga highlights techniques that bring relief to the shoulders. This special double-teacher Independence Day workshop will focus on loosening the shoulders and our burdens through a series of fun poses, partner exercises and ample hands-on assistance.

By the way, here's our class schedule for June 2010

Contact Improvisation
Sundays 12:30-2:30 p.m.
(no class 12/25, 1/1, 1/15)

Contact Improvisation is a partner dance form using physical contact, weight sharing and human connection as the impetus for the dance. The point of contact is used as a fulcrum for unusual movement not physically possible in a solo dance. Using gravity and momentum the dance unfolds in unexpected ways. As an improvisational form, there is an emphasis on being present and open to the unknown. All levels of movement experience and ability are welcome to practice CI. There is no judgment about what is beautiful or ugly. It is a deeply personal and experiential dance. The quality of the dance is gauged by how the dancers themselves experience it. There are specific techniques and forms that one can learn and practice in order to make the dance safer and more enjoyable, but these techniques are not an end; There are a means towards a unique, unrepeatable dance.

All levels welcome! $10 per class.

instructors

October 2nd – Greg Holt
October 9th – Greg Holt
October 16th – Greg Holt
October 23rd – Greg Holt
October 30th – Nichole Canuso

November 6th – Nichole Canuso
November 13th – Nicole Binder
November 20th – Jung Woong Kim
November 27th – Jung Woong Kim

December 4th – Nicole Bindler
December 11th – Nicole Bindler
December 18th – Loren Groenendaal

*no class Dec 25th or Jan 1st*

January 8th – Curt Haworth
January 15th – canceled because of falls bridge festival
January 22nd – Curt Haworth
January 29th – Curt Haworth

February 5th – Jung Woong KIm
February 12th – Lee Fogel
February 19th – Lee Fogel
February 26th – Jung Woong

March 4th – Lee Fogel
March 11th – Nicole Bindler
March 18th – Nicole Bindler
March 25th – Nicole Bindler

April 1st – Curt Haworth
April 8th – Nicole Bindler
April 15th – Leah Stein
April 22nd – Leah Stein
April 29th – Leah Stein

May 6th – Jung Woong Kim
May 13th – Lee Fogel
May 20th – Jung Woong Kim
May 27th – Jung Woong Kim

June 3rd – Greg Holt
June 10th – Greg Holt
June 17th – Greg Holt

By the way, here's our class schedule for June 2010

Moving from breath work and seated stretches, to abs and other
core-building exercises, then flowing into sequences of standing
poses, Forrest Yoga builds both strength and flexibility in the body.
This 2-hour workshop will focus on staying balanced—both in its
physical aspect and as a way of being in the world. Students will work
with inversions, one-legged standing poses, and play with “gravity
surfing” arm balances that bring vitality to the body and energize the
spirit.

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By the way, here's our class schedule for June 2010

Sundays, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.

THE STUDIO 34 SUNDAY SERIES features a different teacher each week, presenting a class on a particular theme. Classes can highlight specific areas of the body, focus on certain issues, and offer ideas to inspire the student during yoga and beyond. The core Forrest Yoga practice, coupled with occasional music, meditations, and partner exercises, makes each Sunday Series class a fun and unique yoga experience.

UPCOMING SUNDAY CLASSES IN MAY:
5/2: “Hamstrings, Hips & Quads” with Morgan
5/9: “Exploring Your Edge” with Jason
5/16: “Nourishing Body, Mind & Spirit” with Fatima
5/23: “Shoulders, Neck & Inversions” with Rob
5/30: “Community” with Angie, followed by Studio 34’s monthly vegan brunch!

$10 per class

By the way, here's our class schedule for May 2010

Wednesday, May 12, 7:45-10:45 p.m.

A celebration of love, effort and what happens when we believe in the beauty and majesty of our purpose and our dreams.

Please show your support for Studio 34 yoga teacher Brittany Policastro as she teaches her last class before she sets off on a four-month journey to Brazil, Tanzania and India. As she travels, she will participate in humanitarian work in conjunction with Cross Cultural Solutions, dive into the dance culture and document her experiences for a book called “The Humanitarian Dance Experience.” She has been raising funds to take this trip for eight  months and has a bit more to go.

Now you can help and and possibly win an amazing trip! From now to May 12, every donation you make will enter you into a raffle to win a 7-night stay in Costa Rica at the amazing and fully sustainable (5-leaf) Arenas Del Mar Beach and Nature Resort. This place is absolute HEAVEN and holds 5 people so you can bring your friends. It is a $2,800 value. Learn more at www.arenasdelmar.com. Trip may be taken between June and October. (Flights and meals are extra but super-affordable)

Other prizes include:

• 5 private yoga sessions with Brittany: $400 value
• A gyrokinesis lesson: $120 value
• Plus OWMH tank tops,tee shirts, and eye pillows!

Here’s how it works:

$10 will get your name entered in once. For every addtional $10 you donate you will get your name entered in again. Donate $100 and your name is in 10 times. Donate $1,000 and your name is entered in 100 times.

Purchase tickets at the front desk at Studio 34 at the farewell class or online by making a donation at www.oneworldmanyhearts.com.
Hope to see you there!

By the way, here's our class schedule for May 2010

Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan
Led by Brenda Williams

Sundays, April 11 – June 13 (join in any week!), 10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Kundalini Yoga, the Yoga of Awareness, composes a series of movements called Kriyas, which work on various aspects of your yogic anatomy and onsciousness, using a variety of asanas, pranayam, mantras, and meditation. This awakens our kundalini energy, and causes it to circulate through the body, mind and spirit. This energy develops divine consciousness and facilitates profound transformation.

10 Week Class Series
Week 1: First Body (Soul Body)
Week 2: Second Body (Negative Mind)
Week 3: Third Body (Positive Mind)
Week 4: Fourth Body (Neutral Mind)
Week 5: Fifth Body (Physical Body)
Week 6: Sixth Body (Arcline)
Week 7: Seventh Body (Aura)
Week 8: Eighth Body (Pranic Body)
Week 9: Ninth Body (Subtle Body)
Week 10: Tenth Body (Radiant Body)

By the way, here's our class schedule for April 2010

Sunday, July 11, 12:30 – 2:30 p.m.

Created & Developed by Gabrielle Casella (a.k.a. PlumDragoness), Yo-Fu™ is a method of approaching movement meditation that promotes internalizing dance-yogic persuasions with artistic martial motion. It offers an innovative fusion of healing & performing arts forms from diverse cultural disciplines.

Be encouraged in this workshop to find your groove by embodying spiritual movement through liquefied flows, freezes, floor-work patterns, Old-school hip-hop & traditional tribal folk stomp explorations. Emphasis is placed on synchronizing breath with the practices of finding stillness in meditation, flowing thru performing choreographic movement investigations and listening to the inner beat of variety of world-music sound-scape infused inspirations. Participants may take this opportunity to identify the common threads woven throughout the fabric of different healing movements & therapeutic dance forms, thus allowing them to explore original choreography that has a unique flavor, while practicing the art of being fully engaged in ones physical, mental & spiritual being. Exercises can be modified to fit the individual person’s level of flexibility while suited for beginners or experienced yoga practitioners & all lovers of dance at any stage.
© ™ 2000 Gabrielle Casella

Yo-Fu™ 2 hr-
• $15 early registration by 5/29
• $20 until 6/19
• $25 late registration until 7/3
• $30 until 7/10
• $35 the day of @ door!

Yo-Fu™ and Dragon Spirit Yoga™ combined-
• $30 early registration by 5/28
• $40 until 6/18
• $50 late registration until 7/2
• $55 until 7/9
• $65 the day of 1st workshop @ door!

Payments arrangements can be made by contacting Gabrielle via email; lungshen@earthtones.com or phone; 484-557-9605! Payments will not be taken by Studio 34!

By the way, here's our class schedule for April 2010

Saturday, July 10, 1 – 3:45 p.m.

Join the renewal as we welcome spring through a celebration of body, mind & spirit. This workshop will focus on performing a combine series of still postures, moving meditations and breathing techniques, placing importance on the synchronization of mind, body and spirit through Taoist Yoga; a combination Chi Kung & Kung Fu exercises. The roots of this practice lend itself to the traditions of Taoist legends associating particular Chinese myths with animal spirits (Dragon, Tiger, Monkey etc.), mystics (Monk, Warrior, Goddess, etc.) in relation to the Five Elements found in nature (Water, Metal, Fire, Wood & Water) with principals of creating balance (Yin/Yang).

Gabrielle Casella (a.k.a. PlumDragoness) developed “the way of the dragon spirit“(Tao Lung Shen) yoga by drawing inspiration from astrological & spiritual connections to the mythic legends of dragon spirit, Taoist mystical philosophies, Chinese martial/internal arts systems, Hatha yoga practices & the teachings of Chik Qadir Mason, Paulie Zink & Sarah Powers. This original system of yoga reflects her individualized aesthetic as a multi-disciplinary performance artist & healing arts practitioner.

© ™ 2005 Gabrielle Casella

Dragon Spirit Yoga™ 2 ¾ hr-
• $20 early registration by 5/28
• $25 until 6/18
• $30 late registration until 7/2
• $35 until 7/9
• $40 the day of @ door!

Dragon Spirit Yoga™ and Yo-Fu™ combined-
• $30 early registration by 5/28
• $40 until 6/18
• $50 late registration until 7/2
• $55 until 7/9
• $65 the day of 1st workshop @ door!

Payments arrangements can be made by contacting Gabrielle via email; lungshen@earthtones.com or phone; 484-557-9605! Payments will not be taken by Studio 34!

By the way, here's our class schedule for April 2010

THE STUDIO 34 SUNDAY SERIES features a different instructor each week, presenting a class on a particular theme. Classes can highlight specific areas of the body, focus on certain issues, and offer ideas to inspire the student during yoga and beyond. The core Forrest Yoga practice, coupled with occasional music, meditations, and partner exercises, makes each Sunday Series class a fun and unique yoga experience.

UPCOMING SUNDAY CLASSES:
4/4: CORE with Morgan
4/11: BACKBENDS with Stephen
4/18: CELEBRATION with Jason
4/25: COMMUNITY with Angie, followed by Studio 34’s monthly vegan brunch!

Cost: $10 per class

By the way, here's our class schedule for April 2010