Yin & Pelvic Floor Yoga Workshops
May 18, 2012
Yin & Pelvic Floor Yoga Workshops
With Chery Owens
Saturday August 18 ~ 12:00-4:00 p.m.
Yin Yoga: “Learning to Listen to Your Body’s Wisdom”
Sunday August 19 ~ 12:00-4:00 p.m.
Pelvic Floor Yoga for Women
Location: Edwardsville Fitness Studio
Fees:
Registration by August 1: Saturday OR Sunday only $70 | Saturday AND Sunday both $120
Registration after August 1: Saturday OR Sunday only $75 | Saturday AND Sunday both $135
Space guaranteed when payment is received. Limited enrollment.
YIN YOGA is a meditative style of yoga, encouraging yoga practitioners to take their practice to a new level through a deeper understanding of themselves. “
As we practice techniques that bring us into the Present Moment, we learn to become friends with our body, relating to it as an ally rather than something to control, judge, manipulate, or push away.”
This practice gives you a powerful sense of working with your body in partnership to achieve the highest beneficial outcome from your practice.
Some previous yoga and/or meditation experience is helpful but not necessary.
Proper strengthening and stabilizing of the PELVIC FLOOR helps to create the correct foundation for each movement in the body. This is the true meaning of “core work.”
Whether you experience any of the following conditions (or are just plain curious about this region of the body) this workshop is for you!
Pelvic pain
- Lower back, hip or groin problems
- Discomfort during sex or while using tampons
- Skin irritation
- Leak when laughing or sneezing
- Frequent urge to urinate
- Prolapsed organs
- Pregnancy and birth issues
Bring your friends, sisters, mothers and daughters. No previous yoga experience is required.
Cancellations after August 5 will be charged a 25% administrative fee.
Registration: Contact Sally Burgess at (618) 779- 5378 or email edwardsvillefs@gmail.com
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Benefits of Raw Food Nutrition: Presentation and Sampling Session
May 11, 2012
Benefits of Raw Food Nutrition: Presentation and Sampling Session
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Time: 1:00 – 3:30pm
Location: Edwardsville Fitness Studio
Fee: $15 per person, $25 for two
Pre-Registration REQUIRED
You know you SHOULD eat more fruits and veggies; this presentation will help you understand why and how.
Raw Food Educator Sally Burgess will illustrate how adding more raw or living food to your daily nutrition will help you optimize your metabolism and feel great.
The sampling session will likely include zucchini pasta with marinara sauce, salad with a variety of delicious and healthy dressings, carrot cake and a demo of how easy it is to make raw banana ice cream!
Registration:Contact Sally Burgess at (618) 779- 5378 or email edwardsvillefs@gmail.com
Raw Food Adventure: Ignorance CAN be Bliss
February 29, 2012
Ya know at times I wish I didn’t know what I know. Like when I am traveling and have limited options for nutrition and hydration.
Today is day two of a raw food adventure that I have looked forward to for months. The challenge thus far is getting to the Living Light Culinary Arts Institute http://www.rawfoodchef.com/ —it is in a remote location on the gorgeous Mendocino Coast of California.
Day 1 had me on a plane at 8:00 AM, another plane 3 hours later, then a shuttle, then another shuttle, then a taxi. So I spent the night in Santa Rosa, CA and await the next shuttle that will take me the rest of the way.
Plane rides mean water in a plastic cup or bottle. (Plastic scares me). A teeny bag of salted peanuts. I did manage to score a cabbage salad at Wolfgang Puck’s for the second plane ride and amused myself with how devoted I was to each and every bite! When I got to Santa Rosa I was starving but most of the local restaurants were closed for the lag time between lunch and dinner. Finally settled down for some chowder and prawns—I know, not raw, but it seemed like a better choice than say, a cheeseburger! (Which would have been okay with me if it were grass fed beef…)
After an absolutely glorious night of sleep I did some Nia and Yoga then headed off to breakfast. Two eggs (very pale yolks—my hens would scoff!), wheat toast and lovely strawberries. The packet of grape jelly contained first grape juice and the second ingredient was high-fructose corn syrup. I opted to eat the toast dry. Are the strawberries organic? I didn’t ask. Strawberries that are NOT organic usually carry a high level of pesticides. In fact, strawberries are on the list of the Dirty Dozen fruits and vegetables (most contaminated by pesticides) listed by the Environmental Working Group. Learn more here: http://www.ewg.org/foodnews/. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and you’ll see EWG’s articles on the Dirty Dozen.
See what I mean about blissful ignorance?
Now to shower, pack and wander around town until my shuttle arrives at 2:40. Living Light Institute—here I come!
~ Sally
Immersion into Inversions Workshop
February 12, 2012
Immersion into Inversions
with Emmett Schmelig
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Time: 1:00 – 4:00pm
Location: Edwardsville Fitness Studio
Fee: $35.00 Early Registration
$40.00 after Feb. 17th
Pre-Registration REQUIRED
Inversion poses have numerous benefits:
- improve circulation
- increase mental awareness
- strengthen the core
- help rid the body of toxins
Explore the world from a different point-of-view in this Introduction to Inversions workshop.
Learn about headstands, forearm balance, handstand and more.
The workshop is designed to increase your understanding of the proper alignment of inversions and to strengthen the muscles needed for them.
Come and turn your fear upside down!
Some yoga experience is required.
Registration:Contact Sally Burgess at (618) 779- 5378 or email edwardsvillefs@gmail.com
LETTING GO of the old habits: a free event at Edwardsville Fitness Studio
January 25, 2012
Make “Losing weight and getting in shape” a goal you
NEVER EVER EVER
have to make for the rest of your life!!
Sunday, January 29, 2012
That time of year – again
- Weight and Fitness Goals become a high priority (maybe a slight obsession)
- Will Power, denial, and ‘change’ become ‘The M.O.’ (motus operandi)
and
- Old Habits and your Inner Critic become an everyday opponent! (oh joy)
Are you tired of this?
- No matter how hard you try or ‘will’, you end up doing ‘what you always do’ with your food and caloric intake
- You maintain your exercise program for 3 days or 3 weeks, and then avoid the gym for 3 months (or more)
- Getting dressed for work or an event becomes a full scale attack on your self esteem and mood for the day
I can help you have this – always
- Complete control of your choices and actions around food (holidays, vacations, bring it on)
- Consistency with keeping your body active and in shape
- Being FREE of this ISSUE!! So you can pursue other more interesting goals and challenges in your life
How am I sure I can help you
First, I am living proof. Second, I don’t say I can or will do anything that I can’t! Third, it is easy….and easy is, well, easy!!
For 15 years I have lived FREE from obsessing (or even thinking about) my weight and my relationship with food. I lost my unwanted weight in the first year of this new approach and for the following 14 years have maintained it. Period!
What’s the secret….
Well, it’s not really a secret (but then, it kinda is). I discovered a method for finding the HABITUAL PATTERNS that put on – and kept on – my weight (no matter what I tried to do to change it) and a method for changing my bad habits to SOLID good habits, for good. The interesting thing is, you’ll be amazed at what habits are actually keeping your struggle going for you. (Trust me, not the one’s you’d think)
I TRULY CANNOT BELIEVE IT….
I cannot believe that nobody (meaning the big voices in the diet and exercise industry) have not found, or are NOT touching on this approach AT ALL!
I will share a little more with you on how I have done and continue to do this.
I will give you a few cool tips and strategies that WILL make an immediate and positive difference toward YOUR goals and change.
And, I will ask you to join me on LETTING GO of the old habits that keep you where you are now, and WELCOME new habits that will get you where you want to be.
Think this sounds ridiculous.
That’s okay. Come anyway and we can have a good laugh together. ;)
See you there,
Laura Burkey
Professional Life Coach
MELTing Nia Feet Workshop
January 13, 2012
MELTing Nia Feet
MELT Hand and Foot Treatment
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Time: 1:00 – 4:00pm
Location: Edwardsville Fitness Studio
Instructor: Robin Bach, Nia Black Belt and MELT Instructor
Fee: $69, includes MELT mini treatment kit for you to take home
Registration:Contact Sally Burgess at (618) 779- 5378 or email Robin@RobinBachNia.com
Erase pain and tension in your hands, feet, neck, and low back brought on by everyday stress, overuse, and age. This simple self-treatment can make your whole body feel better and provide relief from neck and low back pain, arthritis, bunions, plantar fasciitis, and carpal tunnel syndrome.
Join MELT Instructor Robin Bach for an introduction to the MELT Hand & Foot Treatment. Learn how the connective tissue in your hands and feet gets dehydrated, the common aches and pains it can cause, and how to rehydrate this essential system in our bodies for vibrant health and pain-free movement.
The MELT Method® is an innovative self-treatment program that’s being taught in some of the most prestigious health and fitness centers in Manhattan. Learn more about it at meltmethod.com
Treat yourself to a relaxing, healthful, and educational afternoon at the Edwardsville Fitness studio. Sign up today!
Awakening, Balancing, & Enlivening Ourselves
January 13, 2012
Awakening, Balancing, & Enlivening Ourselves
a Chakra Yoga Workshop Series in 2012
Sunday, March 11, 2012 – 3rd Chakra / Navel Center
Sunday, April 15, 2012 – 4th Chakra / Heart Center
Participants are invited to sign up for all three, or any one or two they’d like to attend.
Time: 1:00 – 4:00pm
Location: Edwardsville Fitness Studio
Teacher: Rhonda Mills
Fee Request: $50 per class, $40 per class if prepaid 5 days prior to the workshop
Registration: Contact Sally Burgess at (618) 779- 5378 or edwardsvillefs@gmail.com.
The awakening of Kundalini Shakti is at the heart of Tantra
We suffer in grief, doubt, and fear only when Kundalini is asleep. The purpose of Kundalini
awakening is to come to understand ourselves, and know and rejoice in our essence; to dispel
confusion, fear, and doubt; to heal ourselves; to integrate and balance our thoughts, speech and
actions; to experience life as beauty, joy, and bliss: in other words, to empower ourselves to live
life fully both in a spiritual and worldly sense. At the workshop we will learn about, discuss and
practice Meditation, and Asanas (yoga poses), Pranayama (breathing, sensing, and working with
Pranic energy), and Relaxation to awaken, balance, and enliven particular Chakras, which are
intersection of nadis (energy pathways) in the body.
View/print the entire flyer with additional information about Rhonda and each individual class.
Opening the Heart and Cultivating Compassion with Kristen Coyle
November 6, 2011
When: Sunday November 13th, 2011
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Where: Edwardsville Fitness Studio
What: In this workshop, we will go deeper into cultivating an open heart to release blockages in the body and mind, with the intention of deepening your yoga practice and cultivating compassion within yourself. You will explore the back-bending postures in a supportive and fun environment, using alignment and props to awaken your true potential within your yoga practice. We will also discuss the energetic effects of heart openers, and how they can play a role in becoming more compassionate. Workshop will be conducted by Kristen Coyle, a Certified Vinyasa and Dharma Yoga Instructor at the 500hr level.
How much: $25 at pre-registration. Please pre-register early, space is limited.
Registration: Contact Sally at (618) 779-5378 or edwardsvillefs@gmail.com
Body Centered Learning Playshop with Rhonda Mills
October 31, 2011
Rhonda Mills
When: Saturday November 19th, 2011
10:30 AM to 12:30 PM
The Playshop will be followed by a potluck gathering. Details shared at registration.
Where: Edwardsville Fitness Studio
What: Learn and practice body-centered awareness and expression techniques to enhance your life and relationships. This will be a playful way to explore our individual capacities for pleasure in life and learn how to expand them!
How much: $35 per person, or $30 if received by 11/11/11.
Registration: Contact Sally at (618) 779-5378 or edwardsvillefs@gmail.com
Wear comfortable clothing, bring something to take notes with, and bring yourself with an openness to learn in the easiest, friendliest way, to laugh and to play.
Learn more about Rhonda at www.RhondaMills.com
