Workshops

Simon Park began his yoga journey 15 years ago with Shiva Rea in the World Arts and Cultures Department at UCLA. Fast forward to the present where he was recently featured in Yoga Journal as “one of the most influential and gifted…next generation of yoga teachers”. He weaves inspiration from many styles into his teaching, including Vinyasa, Ashtanga, Iyengar, and Thai Massage.  His core teachers, Shiva Rea, Maty Ezraty, Joan White, and Dharma Mittra, are master teachers in their field.  Simon travels worldwide to teach workshops and teachers trainings in Prana Flow Yoga, the Vinyasa Flow style of Shiva Rea.

“Simon is one of the top Global Teachers of Prana Flow Yoga, which he offers fertilized with his own refined skills and inspiration from the path. You are in the hands of a vital, joyous, creative and awakened being who embodies the flow of yoga.” - Shiva Rea

                                       

Friday, October 8th  6:30 - 8:30pm

Surfing The Vinyasa Wave - Dynamic asana, creative flows, and integrated pranayama as a moving meditation that will tune and tone you from the inside out while giving you the tools for navigating life's changes with grace, power, and confidence. We will explore several waves of multi-dimensional sequences- fluid sun salutations, backbends, arm balances and hip opening to understand the underlying flow of prana.

Saturday, October 9th  10:00am - 12:00pm

Jai Hanuman! Inversions and Arm-Balances - Handstands and inversions are empowering mudras that embody the best qualities of Hanuman, the archetypal heroic monkey: courage, fearless flying, pranic body of power, agility and light. Learn a pathway of flows within a powerful Vinyasa Flow workshop so that you can evolve to enjoying handstand in the center of the room with creative energy and empowered vitality. 

Saturday, October 9th  2:00 - 5:00pm

Artful Assists for Vinyasa Teachers - Designed for teachers and students, we will practice assists practical for teaching Vinyasa Yoga. A skillful touch has the power to transport your students to a whole new level of awareness. What could take you years to understand in your body could just take one precise, effective, supportive enhancement from a well-trained teacher. We will also explore how Thai Massage can be a great complement to Yoga assisting.

Sunday, October 10th  10:00am - 12:00pm

Fluid Power - The physicists and the sages have agreed that life is in dynamic motion and that wave motion is the expression of life. Explore the three part approach within Prana Flow to thawing asanas and awakening the natural, healing power of wave motion in a dynamic, rhythmic flow that intelligently challenges all levels of yogic surfers. 

Register online or at the studio!

Single class  $40

3 Classes  $100

4 Classes  $120

Painting the Inner Landscape:

A Yoga and Creativity Workshop with Matt Belay

October 30th and 31st, 2010

Matt Belay was born and raised in Southwest Virginia, where he was steeped in the arts from an early age. He ran the Student Art Association at Virginia Tech and was an integral part of the Mountain Lake Workshops that brought major artists, including Merce Cunningham and M.C. Richards, to share experiments in creativity with the local community. For the last twelve years he has lived on four continents and traveled to more than fifty countries to study spirituality, community and creative expression.
Matt began teaching creative expression in 2005 with the Institute for Art and Living based in Marin County, Ca. He has taught and assisted workshops in cities all over the country and at retreat centers, including Eselan and Omega Institute under the tutelage of Stewart Cubley and The Painting Experience. He is excited to have the opportunity to bring all that he has learned back to his hometown to share an exciting and important workshop.

This two day intensive workshop integrates the physical and spiritual aspects of yoga with the creative imagery of expression through paint. "There is an opportunity to be found with creativity to see deep within ourselves and then dare to express what we find." No experience of yoga or painting is needed as everyone is a beginner. All too often the journey of the yoga practice is left in the studio; at the end of the class the feeling of inner awareness unable to translate into the outside world. Here you will take yoga "off the mat" by using the tools of paint, brush and paper to express your personal journey and bring it into the physical world with color, shape and form. Integral to this work is a feeling of safety and facilitation that Matt has honed over years of working with groups that allows total freedom without judgment or critique. The goal is inner awareness and freedom to express whatever comes from within.
All supplies are provided and you need bring only comfortable clothes in which you can sit, stretch and paint.

On Saturday, the course will begin with an opening circle to explain the work followed by a body centering yoga practice led by Becky Crigger. There will then be an introduction to the use of the paint and materials and a painting session. We will break for lunch for an hour and a half, meeting again in the afternoon for another painting session and finish the day with a video.
Sunday will begin earlier in the morning, following the same general schedule except that we will have a closing circle to finish the day.

Saturday, October 30th
10:00- 12:30 Introduction, Yoga and Painting
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 4:00 Paint
4:00- 5:00 Video

Sunday, October 31st
8:00- 10:30 Yoga and Paint
10:30- 12:00 Brunch
12:00- 2:30 Paint
2:30- 3:00 Closing circle

Cost:  $175 plus $25 for materials

Register online or call 961-1030.

Space is limited to 12 participants, so please register early!