Now is your chance to take that private yoga, pilates, or Alexander Technique private lesson you've always thought about taking but never did. With the benefit of the proceeds going towards support for survivors of sex trafficking, this will be money well spent!
Four women from Yoga Freedom Project are traveling to Cambodia next month to visit Somaly Mam's shelters, educate ourselves more so we can best support Somaly Mam's work and do further fundraising on 2013, and bring school supplies, yoga mats, and other materials needed at the shelters.
From now until October 1, you can donate to our cause and help us make this trip happen and receive a lesson of your choosing.
Select your lesson from the below options and make your donation now!
Select your lesson from the below options and make your donation now!
Alexander Technique lesson with Heather Snyder
Join Heather Snyder for a one hour Alexander Technique lesson. Perfect for anyone experiencing chronic pain with a desire to understand the root cause of it.
The Alexander Technique is an educational method that penetrates to the heart of our everyday movement. It shows you how to undo habitual patterns of tension that interfere with your body’s inherent design. It is a powerful tool that can be used in anything you do, whether you are sitting at your desk, walking down the street, practicing yoga or playing golf. Most people begin their lives moving with ease and grace. Yet as we get older, we tend to override our inherent freedom of movement with physical habits that confine and compress our bodies. Negative influences such as stress, poor role models, and difficult school and work environments also contribute to habits of tension and misalignment in the body. These harmful habits may result in common problems such as neck or back pain, muscle tension, or unnecessary stress in the body. The Alexander Technique addresses the cause of these problems by teaching you to become aware of your harmful habits, thus opening the way for you to make more conscious and intelligent choices in the way you use your body. The Alexander Technique is not a treatment or a series of assigned exercises, but rather an education with a foundation of principles that is used to bring more awareness to everyday activities.
www.thegracefulbody.com
The Alexander Technique is an educational method that penetrates to the heart of our everyday movement. It shows you how to undo habitual patterns of tension that interfere with your body’s inherent design. It is a powerful tool that can be used in anything you do, whether you are sitting at your desk, walking down the street, practicing yoga or playing golf. Most people begin their lives moving with ease and grace. Yet as we get older, we tend to override our inherent freedom of movement with physical habits that confine and compress our bodies. Negative influences such as stress, poor role models, and difficult school and work environments also contribute to habits of tension and misalignment in the body. These harmful habits may result in common problems such as neck or back pain, muscle tension, or unnecessary stress in the body. The Alexander Technique addresses the cause of these problems by teaching you to become aware of your harmful habits, thus opening the way for you to make more conscious and intelligent choices in the way you use your body. The Alexander Technique is not a treatment or a series of assigned exercises, but rather an education with a foundation of principles that is used to bring more awareness to everyday activities.
www.thegracefulbody.com
Pilates Lesson (full equipment) with Danielle O'Connell
Join Danielle O'Connell for a one hour Pilates session to learn to connect to your core and experience a full workout on the equipment Joseph Pilates designed.
Pilates is an exercise system designed to increase strength, flexibility, and coordination throughout the entire body. The method focuses on the deep layers of muscles in the center of the body including the abdominals, back, buttocks, and hips.
These “core muscles” initiate each exercise although the entire body is engaged in the movement. When strengthened, these core muscles create optimal support for the spine, thereby enabling the body to move more naturally and efficiently. Quality of movement is emphasized over quantity, resulting in longer, leaner, more flexible muscles.
The Pilates method also focuses on the connection of the mind and body. Each movement requires focus and concentration, promoting heightened awareness of muscle function at both the superficial and deeper levels. Applying the principles of the Alexander Technique can bring greater awareness and consciousness to the movement. It can also bring more understanding of optimal alignment in each exercise.
www.urbanwellness.com
Pilates is an exercise system designed to increase strength, flexibility, and coordination throughout the entire body. The method focuses on the deep layers of muscles in the center of the body including the abdominals, back, buttocks, and hips.
These “core muscles” initiate each exercise although the entire body is engaged in the movement. When strengthened, these core muscles create optimal support for the spine, thereby enabling the body to move more naturally and efficiently. Quality of movement is emphasized over quantity, resulting in longer, leaner, more flexible muscles.
The Pilates method also focuses on the connection of the mind and body. Each movement requires focus and concentration, promoting heightened awareness of muscle function at both the superficial and deeper levels. Applying the principles of the Alexander Technique can bring greater awareness and consciousness to the movement. It can also bring more understanding of optimal alignment in each exercise.
www.urbanwellness.com
Private Yoga Lesson with Sandra Sirota
Join certified Jivamulti Yoga teacher and Off the Mat Facilitator for a private one hour yoga session to help deepen your practice and take t to a new level.When watching a person practice yoga, you may notice the physical strength and flexibility that is gained through the work in the the poses. However, yoga is much more than that. In sanskrit, yoga literally means union. This has many interpretations: union of mind/body, of physical/mental/emotional, of egoic self/ spiritual self. Yoga does includes stretching and strengthening the muscles of the body in a series of poses, however the reason the poses were created was so that the muscles would be prepared to stay still in a sitting position for hours of meditation.
The focus of yoga has always been a spiritual one, focus beyond the body and of the body at the same time. Practicing yoga cultivates presence of mind, patience, and discipline. It can bring you into alignment with who you truly are and connect you to your deepest self. Yoga promotes conscious choices in how you move and react, on and off the mat.
The focus of yoga has always been a spiritual one, focus beyond the body and of the body at the same time. Practicing yoga cultivates presence of mind, patience, and discipline. It can bring you into alignment with who you truly are and connect you to your deepest self. Yoga promotes conscious choices in how you move and react, on and off the mat.
Private Pilates lesson (full equipment) with Heather Snyder
Heather Snyder has been teaching Pilates for over 10 years and brings her Alexander Technique expertise to her teaching.
Applying the principles of the Alexander Technique can bring greater awareness and consciousness to the movement. It can always bring more understanding of optimal alignment in each exercise.
Pilates is an exercise system designed to increase strength, flexibility, and coordination throughout the entire body. The method focuses on the deep layers of muscles in the center of the body including the abdominals, back, buttocks, and hips.
These “core muscles” initiate each exercise although the entire body is engaged in the movement. When strengthened, these core muscles create optimal support for the spine, thereby enabling the body to move more naturally and efficiently. Quality of movement is emphasized over quantity, resulting in longer, leaner, more flexible muscles.
The Pilates method also focuses on the connection of the mind and body. Each movement requires focus and concentration, promoting heightened awareness of muscle function at both the superficial and deeper levels. Applying the principles of the Alexander Technique can bring greater awareness and consciousness to the movement. It can also bring more understanding of optimal alignment in each exercise.
Applying the principles of the Alexander Technique can bring greater awareness and consciousness to the movement. It can always bring more understanding of optimal alignment in each exercise.
Pilates is an exercise system designed to increase strength, flexibility, and coordination throughout the entire body. The method focuses on the deep layers of muscles in the center of the body including the abdominals, back, buttocks, and hips.
These “core muscles” initiate each exercise although the entire body is engaged in the movement. When strengthened, these core muscles create optimal support for the spine, thereby enabling the body to move more naturally and efficiently. Quality of movement is emphasized over quantity, resulting in longer, leaner, more flexible muscles.
The Pilates method also focuses on the connection of the mind and body. Each movement requires focus and concentration, promoting heightened awareness of muscle function at both the superficial and deeper levels. Applying the principles of the Alexander Technique can bring greater awareness and consciousness to the movement. It can also bring more understanding of optimal alignment in each exercise.