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Relax and renew yourself, Restorative Yoga with the incredible Susi this Friday at 6:00 pm; drop-in or class packs accepted.
Gabrielle will teaching the Saturday 8:00 am class and the 9:30 am Vinyasa 2-3 class; Harrilyn will be teaching the 11:00 am Beginner's. Sunday morning Suzanne is teaching the 10:00 am Soul Sweat; Sarah is teaching the 5:15 pm Candlelight; Unicorn Yoga with Ninette at 7:30 pm (drop-in for $10).
Sarah's Self-Care Weekend is SOLD OUT; let me know if you want a spot on the waiting list in case we receive any cancellations.
Still accepting registrations for the weekend with Wolf Purnananda, as well as his Free class on Friday, October 19. I have about six spots left to book for private sessions with Wolf, so let me know asap if you want to schedule.
Mindfulness for Educators with Wendi is coming up on October 20; please help spread the word to teachers, parents or anyone who might be interested in bringing mindfulness into the classroom setting to aid educators AND students.
The GO OUTSIDE Festival (GoFest) in Roanoke is always a great time, and we're offering yoga classes as follows; just inquire at the gate as to where we are. We hope to see you there!
GOFEST Schedule:
Suzanne Saturday, October 20 -- 11:00 am All-Level
Ninette Saturday, October 20 -- 1:00 pm Family Yoga
Laura Sunday, October 21 -- Noon All-Level
Weekly Meditation:
This week for the meditation I want you to work to amplify your intuition and inner connection. Often in life we feel alone or abandoned; even if we have loving friends and great relationships, there is this sense that we are not supported. But truly, a loving Divine force is always there, waiting for us to connect if we would just take the time to create space and silence and tune IN.
Sit tall; close your eyes; resurrection breath (double exhale through the open mouth over the left shoulder). Imagine bringing in pure, golden-white light through your crown, let it saturate you and then visualize thick white-light roots sinking down into the Earth, connecting and supporting you. Surround yourself with the sacred, protective geometry of the octahedron.
Then begin lunar breathing; gently sealing the crease of the right nostril with your right thumb and breathing smoothly into the left nostril; sealing the left nostril; and exhaling out of the right nostril. Repeat the process, only breathing in through the left; only breathing out through the right. Keep your tongue and throat relaxed, and keep the breaths smooth and similar in intensity and duration.
Continue for at least 12 rounds, and then simply let your hand relax back down to your lap, and steep in the aftereffect of your practice.
Then imagine you are standing out in a field surrounded by beautiful white-capped mountains. Wind blowing, you are wrapped in elaborate robes. Then visualize in your mind an ornate, golden archway. You are standing on one side; and you can see someone approaching in the distance, coming down from the moutains. Watch them as they move towards you and then see them; what do they look like? Do you know this person? Accept them as your guide in this moment. Imagine bringing your hands to prayer and bowing to them; and them bowing to you. And then ask them .... "What do I need to know right now?" See what they have to say to you.
Complete your practice with gratitude; prayer; and by blessing all beings, everywhere.
Shanti, my friends,
Jill
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|  | Restorative Yoga
with Susi Hutchison
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Tuesdays: 7:00 - 8:15 pm
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Fridays: 6:00 to 7:15 pm
Oct 12, Nov. 2
Stressed? Tired? Need to reset? This class is for you.
We begin with gentle long-hold restorative poses; then relax into savasana, during which you will be guided into a deep state of inner stillness. Amazing for stress reduction. Please pre-register, space is limited; drop-in fee/class packs apply.
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| Self Love Rituals: A Yoga, Herbalism & Ayurvedic Weekend Workshop
with Sarah Bowles
sold out
October 12 – 14, 2018,
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Workshop Fee: $150.00 Early Registration by Oct. 5; After Oct. 5th, $175
Single Day passes before Oct. 5th: $50; after Oct. 5; $75.00 (Includes everything from that day with a summary of the information we went over)
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| Wolf Purnananda
Private Healing - Pricing and Booking Information
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SIX SESSIONS REMAIN AVAILABLE; please book asap.
Assorted time slots are available for October 19, 20, 21, and 22. All slots are two hours.
Private session fee $225 (discounted for Uttara students, regular fee is $350); to book, please contact Jill 540-676-1473 Jill@uttarayogastudio.com
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| Private Sessions with Wolf
RISING STAR Healing System
The 'Rising Star' System is an experience of Healing the total Being in relation to the Physical, Mental, Emotional and Energetic or Spiritual Body. This modality raises the vibration of the Aura (Human Energy Field) and restructures your Energetic patterns throughout the 7 body system. Through this process, we will venture into 7 unique Healing Modalities stemming from traditions all over the World. The Sessions will be 2 hours in length and in a 1 on 1 setting.
INDIGENOUS CLEANSING PRACTICES
INTUITIVE READING/MEDIUMSHIP
AYURVEDIC OIL TREATMENT
OCULAR FREQUENCY WORK
SOUND HEALING & CRYSTAL THERAPY
RISING STAR ENERGY MODALITY
Wolf Purnananda of Spirit-Fi
My dear friend Lloyd "Wolf" Purnananda is flying in from the West Coast to offer workshops and private healing sessions. I promise you, you do not want to miss this opportunity. Register soon!
Healing from the Spirit or ‘Spirit Yoga’
Friday, October 19, 7:30 – 9:00pm
This class is a Free/Donation class
This Restorative practice heals a body in need of healing, rejuvenates and activates change at a very deep level in a body to increase range of motion, movement and overall performance.
Discover Your True Self & Nature
Saturday: 9:00am -1:00pm
Learn to activate and deliver your full purpose and power by exploring the importance of Self-Love/Self-Care practices and how these practices relate to your own personal growth. Self-care practices to include an Total Being Cleanse (Sage&Sprays), Ayurvedic Oils, Breath work / Pranayama, chakra meditation and intention setting.
Spiritual Service
Sunday: 10:00am – 1:00pm
Continue to explore these themes of a Self Care/Self Love Pracitce as it pertains to your own needs. The practice includes Invocation (Prayer), and energizing Morning Cleanse followed by breathwork, Pranayama and Meditation. Each student/attendee will get a chance to design and share their individual Self Care practice. The workshop will end with a Closing Ceremony.
Fee: $108.00 for both Saturday and Sunday or $55.00 each
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| Gentle Yoga and Massage
With Sarah Bowles &
Christina Lofaro
Fridays: Oct 19, Nov 16
6:00 – 7:00 p.m.
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The ultimate unwind from your week. Join Sarah Bowles who will guide you through a gentle yoga class as Certified Thai Yoga Massage Therapist Christina Lofaro works her magic with Thai massage assisted stretches and acupressure.
Class Packs Welcome or Drop-In
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| Mindfulness for Educators
With Wendi Wagner
Saturday, October 20, 1:00 - 3:00pm
Early Registration $25.00
After September 15: $35.00
Discover simple daily practices and strategies for working with young people affected by stress, trauma, depression, and anxiety. Learn ways to help students increase steadiness, resilience, and resource to access and express higher potential.
This session will offer yoga poses and practices that cultivate balance and steadiness; breathing techniques that soothe and settle the emotions and nervous system; games and strategies that develop focus and self-awareness; and kid friendly meditation for enhancing imagination and self-expression.
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|  | YogaDance with Kimberly
Fridays:
Oct. 26, Nov. 30
6:00 – 7:00pm
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This class blends together great music, fun yoga sequences and hip swaying dance moves to create YogaDance. Get your groove on in this fun class that alternates between yoga warm-ups, standing and balancing poses and free form dance sections.
We will end with cool down yoga poses and a brief relaxation. Everyone is welcome and no dance experience is necessary. Come with an open heart and mind and leave feeling energized and filled with joy! Class Packs Welcome or Drop-In.
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|  | Astrology 101 with Jill Loftis
Saturday, October 27, 2018,
3:00 – 5:00 pm
Fee: $40 (Includes manual and astrological charts)
You will need to provide your birth date/time/location to have your astrological chart prepared.
Maximum 12 participants.
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This workshop will help you to understand astrology basics; offer resources to deepen your knowledge; and teach you tools and techniques that will help you to weave the cycles of cosmos into your daily yogic and spiritual practices.
Launch your study of these powerful tools that will help you to understand yourself and the complex astrological cycles that are approaching.
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Sound Savasana
with Kimberly Vest and Betsy Whitesell
Sundays 6:30 – 7:15 p.m.
(Donation Class)
Only on November 4
NEW CLASS Fridays, 6:00 - 7:00 pm
(Class packs welcome or drop-in)
Only on November 9
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This bi-monthly class will take you into a deeper state of relaxation. Kimberly and Betsy will use singing bowls and different instruments to create sounds that promote healing vibrations. When the body and mind are fully relaxed, this is when the body can truly heal and repair itself.
 A typical sound savasana experience will include laying on the floor while being supported by props and blankets as the sound washes over you. All you need is an open mind and heart to experience the benefits of this special class. |
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| Yoga for Addiction
with Cori Phillips
A Workshop for Students and Yoga Teachers
Saturday, November 3, 1:00 – 5:00 pm
Pre-registration fee $65.00 by October 6 (Uttara TT Graduates receive discount); fee $80.00 after October 6
Addiction is now an epidemic and most of us struggle with some form of it, whether it's an accepted substance like sugar, a stigmatized substance like heroin, or a behavioral addiction like gambling or shopping. In this workshop led by Mental Health Counselor and Yoga Instructor Cori Phillips, you will learn why addiction affects most of us, and how regular yoga  practice can alleviate symptoms, calm the addictive drive, and often send addictions into remission. This workshop is open to all levels (no prior yoga experience required) and is appropriate for individuals struggling with addiction (of any kind...even sugar or caffeine!) or for professionals who want to help others (mental health professionals, physicians, nurses, yoga teachers, etc). This experience will include lecture on addiction and yogic philosophy, as well as gentle yoga movement and practical instruction
accessible to anyone!
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| Cori Phillips, LPC, 200 Hour RYT
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Cori Phillips is a licensed professional counselor and a certified yoga instructor. Cori found yoga as a teenager after suffering a severe spinal injury in a horseback
riding accident. She used yoga to help her body heal, but become increasingly aware of the profound positive effects yoga also had on her mind, emotions, and spirit. Yoga teacher training quickly become a life goal, and she completed the 200 hr training at Asheville Yoga Center in Asheville, NC in 2014. Since then she has taught in studio environments, created independent workshops, and has found exciting ways to utilize yoga in talk therapy. Cori strives to create unique and profound experiences for all students by integrating her knowledge in both mental health and yoga, and especially loves teaching about how yoga can help overcome universal human struggles like stress, addiction, trauma, anxiety, and other mental health disturbances.
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With Ninette Carnevale
4 Week Series
Wed AM & Sun PM
Wednesday, 7:30 - 8:30 am
Sundays, 7:30 - 8:45pm
$75.00 for 4 Week Series/$10.00 Drop In
NEW SERIES BEGINS ON WEDNESDAY, Oct. 3
and continues Oct. 7, 10, 14, 17, 21, 14, 28
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This is the yoga class that you didn't believe could exist. We can't guarantee rainbows and fairy dust, but your body will feel more glittery and light after attending Ninette's informal and upbeat yoga classes.
This all-level class is designed to therapeutically target tight bodies and is
particularly good for athletes and others who feel that yoga just doesn't work for their bodies. Traditional poses are modified in unique and fun ways so that they work for all types of bodies and the focus is on myofascial release and strengthening the mid-line.
If you don't think yoga is for you, then this is your class.
Wednesday mornings are a wake-up class targeting hips, shoulders and fostering a kick-butt attitude for the day. Sundays are a mix class with some heat building followed by restorative-style poses that will calm your mind before you start your week.
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| Acupuncture & Restorative Yoga with Susi Hutchison &
Alex Watkins, LAc
Sunday, November 4th
SOLD OUT
2:00 - 3:30pm
Fee: $30. Pre-registration encouraged as class size is limited to 10 participants.
Herbal tea will be served afterwards as you slowly ease yourself back into the day.
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Join Alex and Susi as they guide you to a state of calmness and clarity in mind and body by combining Acupuncture and Restorative Yoga. This practice begins by slowly moving through simple poses with the support of props, exploring the mind and body at a steady pace. You will then settle into a rest position where you will receive the gentle application of acupuncture through the use of ear and simple body point needles while being guided to a state of stillness through the cultivation of body and breath awareness.
This practice is a healing and nurturing experience that eliminates stress and fatigue, soothes the nervous system and encourages mindfulness by allowing yourself to be fully present, improving your overall well-being.
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Alex Watkins is an acupuncturist, herbalist and yogi in the Roanoke Valley. A recent transplant from Chicago, she is LOVING getting back to her southern roots. Alex started meditating through martial arts and yoga practices as a teenager which sparked a life-long interest. She has further deepened her study the last 6 years and loves the connection between mind-body that is explored through acupuncture and holistic medicine.
Susi Hutchison completed her Yoga Teacher Training through Uttara Yoga's Teacher Training Program in Roanoke, Virginia. She currently teaches Restorative Yoga at Uttara Yoga Studio.
Please arrive at least 15 minutes prior to this session to complete both an Acupuncture and Uttara release form.
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with Kathleen Barrett
November 10, 2018
12:00 Noon – 6:00 pm
$135.00
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“Stillness is the altar of spirit.”
—Paramahansa Yogananda
Kathleen Barratt invites you to embark upon an inner journey of self-awareness, rejuvenation, and awakening. This one-day breath immersion offers a sacred space to unwind, be still, and deepen your connection with your true spiritual essence. We will combine a progressive sequence of contemplative breath practices with yin yoga and meditation. This transformative program offers a sequential process of moving inward; first the body, then the breath, then the mind, and then the emptying into a deep inner silence. In this silence, one awakens to an unmistakable presence of consciousness, aware, all-pervasive, and resting in the heart of transcendental awareness.
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|  | Sound Healing Gong Bath
with Kimberly Vest and Betsy Whitesell
Friday, November 23
6:00 – 7:00 p.m.
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Get bathed in the frequencies of 5 different gongs and let the gong sound waves help digest the excess and wash away holiday stress. Allow tension to vibrate out of the body as your mind eases into a peaceful and meditative state. This is a wonderful way to cultivate awareness and experience gratitude for the present moment.
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| Pinnacle Poses
with Suzanne Gardner & David Landes
Tuesdays, Sept. 18, 25; Oct. 2, 9, 16, 23
7:00 - 8:00pm
$15.00 drop-in
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Are you feeling stuck in your yoga practice? Do you feel ready for more advanced poses but aren't exactly sure how to progress? This class is designed to help you take your yoga routine to a whole new level by working with the "unease" and challenging your current practice. After an invigorating warm-up, Suzanne and
 David use their training and expertise to teach advanced yoga poses, followed by a cool-down and savasana. The class is designed in a workshop fashion with preparation poses that lead up to the pinnacle pose/s. Then detailed instruction of the pinnacle pose will be taught with a focus on safety, including demonstration and spotting. A new advanced pose is workshopped each week. Variations are offered so each student can work at their own level. It is recommended that students have a strong foundational practice before attempting advanced poses. We can't wait to meet you on the mat! |
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| PreNatal Yoga Series with Precious McCullough
Mondays, October 1, 8, 15, 22, 29; November 5
7:00 – 8:15 pm
$15 drop-in
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When a woman is living in calmness, radiance, joy and good health, this is the atmosphere in which her baby will enter the world. Yoga helps to create this atmosphere.
This class is designed to help you relax and strengthen your rapidly changing body as you become present with your experience. The class combines yoga stretching and movement, chanting, meditation and deep relaxation with the goal of helping the mother relax and calm herself, connect with her baby, and find the strength within herself to deal with the everyday stresses that come with our busy lives.
This is a wonderful way to connect with other women, share experiences and create community.
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| Thai and Fly Workshop with Christina LoFaro and Lynsey Grace
[Date TBA]
5:00 – 6:00pm
Fee: $75.00 per couple
$35.00 individual
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Join us at Uttara yoga studio for this fun one-hour introduction to Thai massage and using one-base partner balancing as a tool for assisted stretching (sometimes called acrotherapeutics). In this class you will give and receive Thai massage and therapeutic flights; You will practice deep relaxing, trust and release. Enjoy a new awareness of your body through the mirror of someone else’s touch. Give and receive, connect, breathe, come out refreshed and with new tools to help treat and sustain your body and energy.
The techniques you will learn in class will help you build a foundation of knowledge of these practices. Experience the joy of giving and and receiving!
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Whew! That was a lot! Thank you for reading it through. And thank you for supporting Uttara Yoga Studio.
To save your space in any of these great events you can register online on the Calendar page; through our PayPal link; or by mailing a check to Uttara Yoga Studio, 401 Highland Ave, SE, Roanoke, VA 24013.
Questions? Call Kimberly at 540-309-0071.
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