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January
January 16 & 17, 2009
Free Yoga Day
Join us for a fun day of yoga and meet the teachers at Lighten up.
Friday classes begin at 5 pm. Saturday classes begin at 9 am - last class starts at 3 pm.
Teachers change on the hour. Click here for detailed info.
No more confusion and guesswork!
Kinesiology/Pendulum Workshop
Sunday January 18th, 9 am – 4 pm
At Lighten Up Yoga 60 Biltmore Ave, downtown Asheville
Developed and taught by Dr. Janet Orion
www.JanetOrion.org
Before I leave for my sabbatical!
This workshop is for everyone!
This 7-hour interactive group workshop teaches a powerful and highly accurate system for dowsing/kinesiological/energetic/muscle response testing that can be used by anyone to access data from the“bio-computer” (your inner knowing) about anything!
Please register by Friday January 16th and bring a bag lunch. Call 254.7756
Breathe: Pranayama and Meditation Series
Quiet your mind
Listen within
Find your Inner Light
Lillah Schwartz Instructor
Pranayama: the art and practice of breath control deeply purifies body and mind leading us inward to discover the subtle energies of our Being. Learn to move easily to a state of stillness, reflection and mental clarity. Beginning with deep relaxation Lillah skillfully guides students through the subtleties of breath and awarness. A certified Iyengar Instructor, Lillah has over 30 years experience in yoga and meditation.
Some yoga, meditation or breath experience recommended. Handouts and weekly practices will be given. Please pre-register.
Three Saturday mornings - 1/31, 2/14 and 2/28 from 9 am - 11 am
$30 each class or attend the series for $75. Please call studio to pre-register 828.254.7756.
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February
Six Wednesdays, Starting Feburary 18th 2009 - 7:15 to 9:15 pm
*February 18th - Learning the Emotional Freedom Technique
*February 25th - Learning Meditation
March 4th - Meditation, applying EFT to Personal Issues
March 11th - Meditation, applying EFT to Law of Attraction
March 18th - Meditation and Cultivating Awareness
March 25th - Meditation & More
*The first two classes may be attended separately for $25 each.
• balance emotions • release fear
• improve your relationships
• enhance performance • achieve your goals
EFT is easy to learn and remarkably effective for relieving and eliminating: Anxiety, Guilt, Cravings, Anger, Phobias and Self Defeating Patterns. It is based on balancing the energy meridians and is an amazingly effective self-help tool that offers you lasting change.
Meditation reduces stress, increases resilience and immune function and is a pathway to deeper awareness of the spiritual dimension.
Join us in applying EFT to your specific issues and for an exploration into discovering and cultivating who we are as spiritual beings. My intent is to go deeper than concepts, into a direct experience of the “Ground of Being” that is usually overlooked, but is always present.
Location: Lighten Up Yoga Center, 60 Biltmore Avenue
$25/$60 - Call 253-9451 to register
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March
March 13 - 15, 2009 Fundamentals of Posture & Alignment
Lighten Up 200 hr Yoga Alliance In Depth Studies Program Begins
New students are still welcome to join pending available space. Please contact the studio.
Part A: 4 Weekends. In depth study and practice. Learn the principles of alignment and boost your personal practice.
Part B: Completion of your 200 hr Yoga Alliance Registration in Hatha Yoga.
Open to all yoga lovers. Join us to benefit your personal practice and make yoga part of your daily life, or begin your journey to become a well informed yoga teacher.
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April
Spinal Rejuvenation Series
April 1 - 30, 2009
with Lillah Schwartz
Three customized sessions for your particular needs, incorporating weightless bliss and resistance moves with the aid of the Great Yoga Wall. Efficiently and safely relieve excess tension from the deep muscles of the spine and restore tone, vitality and contentment. Utilize Lillah's experience and expertise, accessible to everyone with or without yoga skills. Sessions are scheduled one week apart and times are limited.
To schedule call 828.254.7756.
Save Over 25%, Series of 3 plus 2 of Lillah's DVD's - $225
(private sessions reg. $108 per session)
Or $75 for 1 session.
April 17 - 19, 2009
Lighten Up 200 hr Yoga Alliance In Depth Studies Program
Weekend #2 Sequencing Formulas: Actions of the limbs. Yoga Philosophy & Meditation.
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May
May 1st - 31st 2009
Find the pain relief you deserve with Lillah's expert guidance.
It is gardening time again! With all the wonderful daylight hours we have to enjoy and work in our gardens, those hours of stooping and squatting can take their tole on your back.
Enjoy a yoga routine customized especially for you and filmed onto DVD.
You will be able to practice at home with confidence and remain pain free All Season!
Now that is a great way to enjoy your garden!
May Special Offer -Save $60. Enjoy 3 private sessions with DVD filming and customized home practice series, Only $88 each.
Session 1, complementary bottle of Sun Breeze.
Session 2, complementary Back Care DVD.
Session 3, complementary Neck and Shoulder DVD.
Call the studio to register and make your first appointment. 828.254.7756
May 1 - 3, 2009
Re-visioning Yoga with Gabriel Halpern
Owner and master trainer at the Yoga Circle in Chicago.
The American dharma has taken not only Eastern teachings, but world culture as well, as its wisdom heritage. To make yoga your own, we have to re-vision everything about yoga so it becomes free from its ancient trappings and given our own spin. Ours is the generation to blend the physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual components of yoga with today's much needed deep ecumenism. Yoga's prophetic vision is for a world of peace and teaches how to live to bring that into history.
Gabriel Halpern holds a BA in Philosophy, an MA in Health Psychology, and is a full-time, certified instructor trained at the Iyengar Yoga Institutes in San Francisco and Pune, India. Gabriel has practiced since 1970 and gives workshops nationally. He is the founder and director of the Yoga Circle in Chicago, IL since 1985.
Friday: 5-7:15 Neck, Shoulders, Low-Back therapeutics; 7:20-9:30 Dharma Discourse & Axis Mundi ceremony
Saturday: 9-10:30 am Hips & Knees; 11-1:30 Standing Poses; 2:30-4:30 Pranayama & Restorative Poses (suggest bringing snacks &/or bag lunch)
Sunday: 10-2 Backbends & Inversions
Weekend fee: $200 before April 15th & $220 after.
Yoga Alliance Continuing Education 13 hours.
Co-sponsored with Asheville Yoga Sangha & One Center Yoga.
Location: One Center Yoga, 120 Coxe Ave Asheville.
Call 828.225.1904 to register.
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Six Wednesdays, Starting May 6th 2009 - 7:15 to 9:15 pm
*May 6th - Learning the Emotional Freedom Technique
*May 13th - Learning Meditation
May 20th - Meditation, applying EFT to Personal Issues
May 27th - Meditation, applying EFT to Law of Attraction
June 3rd - Cultivating Awareness and Group Insight Game
June 10th - Meditation & More
*The first two classes may be attended separately for $25 each.
• balance emotions • release fear
• improve your relationships
• enhance performance • achieve your goals
EFT is easy to learn and remarkably effective for relieving and eliminating: Anxiety, Guilt, Cravings, Anger, Phobias and Self Defeating Patterns. It is based on balancing the energy meridians and is an amazingly effective self-help tool that offers you lasting change.
Meditation reduces stress, increases resilience and immune function and is a pathway to deeper awareness of the spiritual dimension.
Join us in applying EFT to your specific issues and for an exploration into discovering and cultivating who we are as spiritual beings. My intent is to go deeper than concepts, into a direct experience of the “Ground of Being” that is usually overlooked, but is always present.
Location: Lighten Up Yoga Center, 60 Biltmore Avenue
$25/$60 - Call 253-9451 to register or www.garyawake.com
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Yoga at the Root of Nature
with Lillah Schwartz
May 8-10,2009 at Wake Forest Yoga
Four Sessions Offered-
Friday 7-9 pm
Saturday 9am-12 noon and 2:30-5:30 pm
Sunday 9 am-12:30 pm
12 Yoga Alliance Continuing Education hours
A workshop investigating the 3 Gunas;
Rajas (solidity),Tamas (dynamism),Satva (luminosity)
In Asana: creating organization,firmness and expansion.
In Mind: creating poise,vibrancy & meditation in action
In Spirit:uncovering lightness of Being.
With the rapid expansion of yoga,like anything that expands to
quickly with out checks and balances,the wisdom of the body,our root-
edness and balance in the physical body has been compromised.There
are so many conflicting messages and styles of yoga with a net affect of
touching the body only superficially leading to many yoga injuries and
faulty understandings.In this workshop we will reveal the principles and
wisdom inherent in the nature of being physical as well as articulate
ways to mindfully create balance and integration not only on our yoga
mat but in our lives as well.
The three Gunas,Rajas (solidity),Tamas (dynamism),Satva (lumi-
nosity) are aspects of nature that cycle through our lives. By observing
our yoga practice and our lifestyle expressions we can influence the
movement of these energies to serve our goals of health,mental clarity
and lightness of being.
Friday session is $35
Saturday & Sunday sessions are $50 each
All Four sessions only $150
To Register call 919.623.5410
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May 29 - 31, 2009
Lighten Up 200 hr Yoga Alliance In Depth Studies Program
Weekend # 3 Primary Pose Actions: Foundations and Safety.
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June
Find the pain relief you deserve with Lillah's expert guidance.
It is gardening time again! With all the wonderful daylight hours we have to enjoy and work in our gardens, those hours of stooping and squatting can take their tole on your back.
Enjoy a yoga routine customized especially for you and filmed onto DVD.
You will be able to practice at home with confidence and remain pain free All Season!
Now that is a great way to enjoy your garden!
May Special Offer -Save $60. Enjoy 3 private sessions with DVD filming and customized home practice series, Only $88 each.
Session 1, complementary bottle of Sun Breeze.
Session 2, complementary Back Care DVD.
Session 3, complementary Neck and Shoulder DVD.
Call the studio to register and make your first appointment. 828.254.7756
June 6, 2009
Free Yoga Day
Join us for a fun day of yoga and meet the teachers at Lighten up.
Saturday classes begin at 9 am - last class starts at 2 pm.
Teachers change on the hour. Free Yoga Day
June 12 - 14, 2009
Lighten Up Continuing Education In Depth Studies
500-hr Yoga Alliance Weekend
Topics for June 12-14, 2009 Weekend
The importance of developing safe / progressive back bending sequences. Yoga for MS and other disabilities (in co-operation with the Southeast chapter of the National MS Society). Intermediate Practice, Pranayama, peer teaching. The Yamas and Niyamas in our teaching practice.
Please enroll by May 25, 2009 in order to receive your homework assignments.
Visit our 500 hr web page or Contact Lillah at [email protected] for more information.
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July
July 10 - 12, 2009
Lighten Up 200 hr Yoga Alliance In Depth Studies Program
Weekend #4 Building Poses: Progress with Confidence.
EFT, Meditation and Awareness with Gary Schwartz Ph.D.
Six Wednesdays, Starting July 22nd 2009 - 7:15 to 9:15 pm
July 22nd - Learning the Emotional Freedom Technique
July 29th - Learning Meditation & Practicing EFT
August 5th - Applying EFT to Personal Issues & Meditation
August 12th - Applying EFT to Law of Attraction & Meditation
August 19th - Cultivating Awareness and Group Insight Game
August 26th - Meditation & More
• balance emotions • release fear
• improve your relationships
• enhance performance • achieve your goals
EFT is easy to learn and remarkably effective for relieving and eliminating: Anxiety, Guilt, Cravings, Anger, Phobias and Self Defeating Patterns. It is based on balancing the energy meridians and is an amazingly effective self-help tool that offers you lasting change.
Meditation reduces stress, increases resilience and immune function and is a pathway to deeper awareness of the spiritual dimension.
Join us in applying EFT to your specific issues and for an exploration into discovering and cultivating who we are as spiritual beings. My intent is to go deeper than concepts, into a direct experience of the “Ground of Being” that is usually overlooked, but is always present.
Location: Lighten Up Yoga Center, 60 Biltmore Avenue
$60 - Call 253-9451 to register or www.garyawake.com
or send full payment to 16 Finalee Ave, Asheville, NC 28803
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August
August 21 - 23, 2009
Lighten Up 200 hr Yoga Alliance In Depth Studies Program
Weekend #5 Language of Teaching : Group Practice.
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September
September 5, 2009
Lose Weight - Gain Health
with LINO STANCHICH, L.N., L.M.B.T.
SATURDAY MORNINGS
9:30 - 11: 30 am
Cost $15.00
Lose weight and gain health at the same time! Avoid toxic foods in unhealthy weight control gimmicks. Natural health expert and author, Lino Stanchich, will present a healthy, dynamic weight loss program that is both effective and natural, using the healing power of delicious, satisfying whole foods, revitalizing weight loss exercises, and positive mental attitude.You may have tried many diets that failed to inspire and nourish you. Learn the drug-free, chemical-free totally natural way to achieve your fitness goals. Discover which common foods contain toxins and fat that increase weight and depression. Return to natural health and slimness with pure power foods proven to melt fats. Increase your vitality, confidence, and joy of life!
September 19, 2009
TRANSFORM YOURSELF!
with Macrobiotics
with LINO STANCHICH, L.N., L.M.B.T.
SATURDAY MORNINGS
9:30 - 11: 30 am
Cost $15.00
We are meant to be healthy and happy, to live vibrant, dynamic lives with vitality and joy. You can! Our health is created by the choices we make each day, all day. So make the choice to be the fit, energetic person you desire to be. Begin to rid yourself of pain, overweight, depression, and hopelessness with healing, wholistic macrobiotic principles. Practice a way of living that is economical, ecological, and humane. Learn a powerful, delicious natural dietary program, energy "chi" exercises, and a vibrant, positive attitude. Discover and deepen a macrobiotic philosophy that brings awareness, understanding, and balance, physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. Feel the connection to universal higher power as you practice profound, yet simple methods of transformation.
September 18 - 20, 2009
22nd Annual Fall Equinox Retreat
with Lillah Schwartz
Location: Prama Institute, Marshall, NC
Contact: 828.254.7756
Friday First class at 3:00 pm thru Sunday 1:00 pm
Open to all levels of Yoga Practitioners • 16 Yoga Alliance Instructional hours
Pre -requisite for 500 hr course (price varies with option choice)
Equinox Retreat open to general students
$275 / $260 if registered on or before 9/1/09 for Yoga, Room & Meals
$245 for Yoga, Meals & Tenting option
$220 Meals and Yoga only
Two double occupancy rooms remaining $50 extra per person
Make Up Weekend for current 200 hr teacher training students: $185
Who should attend?
• All yoga enthusiasts
• Students looking to inspire their practice.
• Yoga Teachers
Finding Stability & Ease in Asana
• Friday 3:00 pm to Sunday 1:00 pm
• Two years yoga experience recommended
• 16 Yoga Alliance Instructional hours
“a stellar hands on teacher”
- L. Cooke
Come and deepen your understanding of yoga - Learn to successfully sequence your personal and /or yoga teaching practice. Handouts covering anatomical and sequencing principles, the use of stability in asana, interspersed with the study of yoga philosophy will be presented. You do not need to be a Yoga Teacher to participate. You may earn credit towards the Lighten Up Yoga 500 hr. YA Teacher Training Certification.
Your weekend includes 7 classes in asana, pranayama, and yoga theory, organic vegetarian meals, dormitory rooms with a few double occupancy rooms available in the beautiful Prama Institute in Marshall, NC. Enjoy forest lands and hiking trails on a mountain top retreat. Only 20 minutes from downtown Asheville.
What to bring: Yoga mat, 3 blankets, strap, 2 blocks, or you may purchase your own gear and books at the retreat.
Cost: $275 Airport shuttle: $25 Pre-Register by September 5th and save $15 (Only $260)
From Asheville, North Carolina
Take 19/23 North towards Weaverville (approx. 10 miles).
At Weaverville, take 25/70 North towards Marshall/Hot Springs.
Go approximately 7 miles, after a long down hill and crossing a bridge, proceed up the hill and turn left onto Ivy River Rd (25/70 Business to Marshall) and alongside the Ivy River towards Marshall.
Go one mile to the T intersection of Ivy River Rd. and 251, take a left onto a four lane bridge on 251. Heading south along the French Broad River towards Asheville, a garage and a church will be on your left.
Continue along the river for approximately 1 mile to Panhandle Rd. and take a left. Go ¼ of a mile to mailbox 310 on your left (among a bank of 5 mailboxes); just past these mail boxes take a right up the hill through an open metal gate onto Ananda Girisuta Drive.
Proceed up the hill past a white house on your right. About 100 yards up the hill, there will be a gravel parking lot on your right. If going to the dome, take a right into the parking lot, park and walk up to the dome on the knoll entering the door covered by a porch on the right side of the dome.
September 12, 2009
Free Yoga Day & Fundraiser for Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project (ASAP)
www.asapconnections.org
Join us for a fun day of yoga and meet the teachers at Lighten up.
Saturday classes begin at 9 am - last class starts at 3 pm.
Teachers change on the hour.
Free Yoga Day Schedule
We all love and appreciate all the wonderful organic foods we have here in Asheville.So this is your chance to support your local farmers as they support our vibrant health. Join Us it will be a great day!
September 25-27th, 2009 - Body Mapping, Hip & Spine Series
Massage CE - Yoga for Bodyworkers and YA Continuing Ed.
with Lillah Schwartz
20 hours, plus 4 online = 24 Massage CE
20 hours YA CE
Better body mechanics through alignment based Iyengar yoga. A practical study of applied anatomy and physiology to relieve muscle tension and build neuromuscular balance in the massage practitioner. Course includes elements of corrective exercise for the massage therapist to relieve and prevent hip, back, shoulder, and arm dysfunction. Try this weekend with Lillah to see if you are a fit for her 200 or 500 hr yoga alliance teacher training.
Learn to offer the blessing of fundamental yoga poses based in the science of anatomy and physiology to yourself and your clients, to build your confidence to heal and theirs.
Description/Review of weekend objectives:
1) Hip series, seven non-weight bearing poses
2) Twisting series, six poses
3) Shoulder stand progressions, six poses
4) Basic restorative poses, five poses
5) Twenty minute sun series for tone and stamina
6) Core strength sequence
7) Pranayama, for breath and mental clarity
Tuition: $ 265.00 or Early Registration on or before September 4th, 2009 = $250.00 ~Plus 4 CE credits in Ethics online course FREE, a $25 dollar value.
Approved provider # 336538-00, Massage Pro Ce
Please call 828.254.7756 to register
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October
October 3, 2009
CONSCIOUS EATING MEDITATION
with LINO STANCHICH, L.N., L.M.B.T.
SATURDAY MORNINGS
9:30 - 11: 30 am
Cost $15.00
How you eat is as important as what you eat. Author Lino Stanchich, macrobiotic health expert, will teach how to become more energetic, yet calm, with Conscious Eating Meditation. Learn and practice an amazing eating technique to powerfully improve your digestion, mental clarity, and immunity, while you activate and absorb the natural energy in your food. Conquer common digestive disorders with greater ease. Discover how to increase your vitality, health, and healing. An added bonus is that you will achieve greater weight control. You will be more satisfied with the food you eat! This technique works with all diets. Lino teaches with great knowledge, dedication, warmth, and humor how greater peace and health can be yours.
October 9 - 11, 2009
Lighten Up 200 hr Yoga Alliance In Depth Studies Program
Weekend # 6 Language of Teaching 2: Group Practice.
October 23 - 25, 2009
500-hr Yoga Alliance Weekend
Lighten Up Continuing Education In Depth Studies
Yoga for Heart Health & Sleep Disorders
With Guest Instructor Linda Camarada, RN, ERYT and Lillah Schwartz, ERYT
Who should attend?
Teachers wishing to transform their teaching practice thru Continuing Education
Students pursuing a 500 Hr Yoga Alliance Registration with Lighten Up Yoga
20 Y.A. Instructional hours
Weekend Topics: Discover the anatomy and physiology of heart disease, contemporary approaches in medicine, and beneficial sequencing from Indra Devi’s heart program and the Iyengar method. Restorative yoga poses and approaches for better sleep, pranayama and meditation, and practice teaching.
Please enroll by September 15, 2009 in order to receive your homework assignments.Visit our 500 hr web page or Contact Lillah at [email protected] for more information.
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November
Yoga for Bodyworkers
with Lillah Schwartz
Weekend 2: November 13th-15th, 2009 - Sequencing formulas and Anatomy of Movement
20 hours
Description/Review of weekend objectives:
1) Poses to improve posture, six poses
2) Shoulder flexibility series, seven non weight-bearing poses
3) Meditation guidelines
4) How to guide deep relaxation
5) Anatomical actions for 45 yoga poses
6) Breath practices to balance depression or hyperactivity
7) How to build an effective yoga sequence based on anatomical movements
Tuition: $ 265.00 or Early Registration on or before October 23rd, 2009 = $250.00 ~Plus 4 CE credits in Ethics FREE, a $25 dollar value.
Approved provider # 336538-00, Massage Pro Ce
November 20 - 22, 2009
Lighten Up 200 hr Yoga Alliance In Depth Studies Program - Weekend #7
Open to general students for a fee of $285
All New Asana Weekend with Yoga Journal's Anatomy Expert
Roger Cole, Ph.D., Instructor.
Co-sponsored by One Center Yoga and Lighten Up Yoga
Back by popular demand! Join Yoga Journal's anatomy expert to learn first hand from this highly respected instructor. An excellent workshop for current and aspiring yoga teachers! Roger is an internationally recognized yoga teacher trained at the Iyengar Institutes in San Francisco and in Pune, India. He is known for his deep understanding of yoga, thorough knowledge of anatomy and physiology, and a clear, gentle teaching style. He is also an accomplished anatomist and research scientist, specializing in the physiology of relaxation, sleep, and biological rhythms.
Open to all levels - Yoga Alliance Instructional hours.
Friday • November 20
2 pm - 5 pm: Twists, Anatomy and Practice
6:30 pm - 9 pm: Yoga Injuries: Causes and Prevention
Saturday • November 21
8:30 am - 11:30 am: Backbends: Anatomy and Practice
2 pm - 5 pm: Inversions:Physiologyand Practice
Sunday • November 22
8:30 am - 11:30 am: - Breathing: Physiology and Practice
12:30 pm - 3:30 pm: Sacroiliac joints: Anatomy & Practice
Cost
$285 for whole weekend
$110 day rate
$60 individual class
Location: One Center Yoga
To Register: Please contact Lighten Up Yoga at 828.254.7756 or [email protected]
Check out this new EFT video!
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December
Saturday, December 2009, 9 am- 11:30 am
Pranayama and Meditation for Winter Solstice with Lillah Schwartz
Cost: $30 Please pre-register.
Pranayama and Meditation for Winter Solstice with Lillah Schwartz
Learn the art of Prananyama: Breath Control and enjoy the subtleties of the Iyengar Method. Lillah skillfully guides students into deep relaxation, a sense of well being and a renewed connection to their "Source". Deeply center yourself and find your personal bliss just in time for the holidays.
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