Women of Color Cultural Foundation

Saturday, February 6th the Women of Color Cultural Foundation hosted Heart of a Woman, a great event for learning about cardiovascular health. It was a luncheon held at WJCT.

250+ women and men all dressed in beautiful red ate lunch and learned about preventing and treating heart disease. I did a short presentation on yoga and how to slow down using breathing techniques and easy yoga postures. A cardiologist and a doctor of pharmacy also educated us on heart disease. I learned a lot about women's risk for developing heart disease and heart attack. Didn't know that it is the leading cause of death for women.

Also got to talk with women interested in doing yoga on the Northside-- my neighborhood. It would be great to do some yoga closer to home!

Renaissance Saturday Morning Yoga Calender

Heather Hixon and I share teaching of the Saturday Morning class at Renaissance Healing Center.

One Saturday Heather teaches and the next I teach...or maybe she teaches two in a row and I teach the following two in a row. It depends. To help folks keep track of who will be teaching when, I made a calendar that takes us from December 2009 through September 2010.

Click here to check the calendar. See you then!

August Teaching Schedule

I will be teaching at Renaissance Healing Center at 10am on the following Saturdays in August:

• 8th

• 15th

• 29th
  

Thai Yoga Massage

On August 15th and 16th I'll be learning some Thai Yoga Massage with Iain of Blue Lotus Ancient Healing.

Thai Yoga Massage is an amazing art that is a dynamic and meditative dance of putting the recipient in yoga-like postures. I've heard it called "lazy man's yoga."

I am very much looking forward to my first Thai Yoga Massage at the end of this month and next month's workshop. The following month I'll be traveling to another Thai Yoga Massage workshop-- this one for five days. The teacher is from the Lotus Palm School.

One of the things that I find most striking is that at the heart of Thai Massage is the idea of metta, loving-kindness.

Stay tuned for more in the coming months...

Restoration and Cellular Repair Yoga:
Saturday, July 25, 1 pm to 4 pm.

This Workshop focuses on stress management, physical and emotional healing and soothing and harmonizing the nervous system. When we experience illness, injury, emotional turmoil or stressful periods of life, our Yoga practice should be supportive and nurturing.

Open to Yoga practitioners of all levels and teachers, we will learn and practice a series of restorative poses, healing breathing techniques, conscious relaxation and peaceful meditation.

Hey, y'all! I'm going to this workshop! Shri is fantastic and it will be great. Sign up at Bliss Yoga Shala

Laura's Teaching Schedule in May and June:

Saturday, May 9 - 10am-11:10am at Renaissance Healing Center (RHC)

Saturday, May 23 - 10am - 11:10am at RHC

Monday, June 8 - 9am - 10:30am at Discovery Yoga Center

Saturday, June 13 - 10am - 11:10am at RHC

Saturday, June 27 - 10am-11:10am at RHC

Chakra Yoga Workshop

March 21st from 1-4pm at Renaissance Healing Center.

Joan E. Ryan, RYT500, is a Certified Professional Integrative Yoga Therapist (500 hours) and Kripalu Certified Yoga Instructor (200 hours). Joan began her study of yoga in 1972 with Eunice Wellington- Siddhi a yogini who lived and studied yoga extensively in India. Moving to Florida, Joan left her corporate career in Human Resources Management. This gave her the opportunity to live her life’s dream of sharing her gift as a healer. Desiring to expand and broaden her healing talents after a bout with breast cancer Joan completed Joseph LePage’s Integrative Yoga Therapy-Professional Yoga Therapist program. She has studied Ayurveda with Dr. Narayan and Scott Blossom. She is also a Reiki Master and sometimes combines this gift with yoga therapy when working with her private and group students. Joan has developed and taught many special interest yoga classes and lessons such as: Alzheimer’s Disease, Anxiety Disorders, Arthritis, Asthma, COPD, Depression, Digestive Disorders, Fibromyalgia, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Parkinson Disease, Pre and Post cancer and heart surgery, and Scoliosis. Joan lectures and volunteers her services at hospitals, Hospice, cancer and other support groups in the greater Jacksonville area. She also teaches Yoga for Stress Management at local businesses and Not-for-Profit organizations.

Yoga teachers earn 3 CEUs for a mere $35...so if you want to go too, call 521.4845. For map and location of Renaissance Healing Center, scroll to bottom of blog. See you there!