SPECIAL EVENTS

Relax and Restore your Qi (“Chee”) with a calming and supportive restorative sequence based in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). The whole class will be done on your back supported by a variety of props. As the class winds down, Tara will give each student a sampling of Zen Shiatsu Bodywork.

Tara Rachel is a certified Asian Body Work Therapist. She began studying Shiatsu with her private teacher in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 1997-1999. Since 2000, Tara has studied and is a graduate of the Charles River Institute for Healing and Inner Arts. From 2001-2006, Tara taught a Qi Flow Yoga Class at Charles River Institute – which combines yoga and the meridian system.

The class is limited to 6 students so you can each experience Zen Shiatsu.   

Melissa Patrick is a yoga teacher and local physical therapist who specializes in treatment of the pelvis and pelvic floor muscles for both men and women. Her 2.5 hour workshop, for all people and all genders, is both educational and experiential.

The pelvic floor muscles create the foundation of our movements and make up an important part of our core stability. While improving our posture, our mobility, and our breathing, the practice of yoga lays excellent groundwork for improved pelvic floor health.

In this Pelvic Floor Anatomy & Asana workshop you will discover:
• Pelvic floor anatomy and normal body function
• How posture impacts pelvic floor muscles
• Diaphragmatic breathing for optimal pelvic floor length
• How hip and lumbar spine mobility impact pelvic floor muscles
• Asana to both strengthen weak pelvic floor muscles and lengthen tight pelvic floor muscles

You will also:
• Banish the taboo, unknowns, and mystery around the pelvic floor
• Discover the fundamentals of stress regulation for your pelvic floor

• Learn if practicing Mula Bandha is right for you

• Practice mindfulness and imagery to help map this area of your body

• Find out how the pelvic floor is connected to both the jaw and your feet

Join Ramsay and Lisa Kawski for this special event as the light fades on the year's longest day. If you are seeking peace, serenity, balance or a mental reset, this evening's session will provide for this. We have created the perfect setting where you can be free from distractions and get into deep relaxation and stillness. This is where you can reset, recalibrate and activate your body's natural healing response. This stimulates the release of happiness hormones to relieve you of stress so you can feel the bliss!

Ramsay will lovingly guide you into supported relaxing yoga positions while Lisa provides a live sound scape of gongs, crystal singing bowls, chimes, drums and more magical sound instruments to support a meditative mind/body experience. The benefits of this experience include better sleep, lower blood pressure, reduced symptoms of anxiety, increased oxygen flow, mental clarity and enhanced creativity. If you are in need of serenity, healing or just want to give yourself the gift of self-love, this is it.

There is NO EXPERIENCE required for this session. All levels are welcome. We have props at the studio but please bring anything that may aid in your comfort (and your crystals for an energetic charge). We will begin promptly at 7:00 pm. $45