Live. Love. Yoga. Chocolate.

Opening your heart, hips, and taste buds

With Andreas and Jennifer

Join us for a pre-valentine's day workshop focused on opening your heart through backbends, opening your hips, and alas, sampling essen organic raw vegan superfood chocolates.

Backbends help maintain a flexible spine for lifelong youthfulness and health. The workshop will include how to awaken the lumbar, thoracic and cervical spine while incoporating the use of your core and strength of your legs to provide a safe and reviltalizing practice.

Workshop Benefits:

• Open the front of your body, particularly the heart and lungs, improving   breathing and flow of enery.
• Stimulates abdomen, kidneys, reproductive and digestive systems.
• Strengthen muscles in legs, shoulder, and hips.
• Creates flexibility, suppleness and elasticity in the spine.

When:  Sunday, February 10 2013 from 3-5pm

Where: NuLife Yoga Studio

Cost: $25 if preregistered at studio | $30 at the door

Info: email jenn_lung@yahoo.com

Yoga Beyond the mat 

With Andreas and Doug

Most people come to yoga to get or stay fit.  But yoga offers much more.  It gives students the tools to improve the quality of their daily lives.  This 2 hour workshop introduces these navigation tools and then reinforces their application with an asana and pranayama practice. We will also introduce a meditation technique.

Experience new aspects on your personal yoga journey and add fullness to your life.

Workshop Benefits:

• Reduce and manage stress
• Shows ways to improve your professional and private life
• Calming and centering
• Improved focus and concentration
• Removing the obstacles for growth
• Expanding self-Knowledge

When:   TBD

Where:  NuLife Yoga Studio

Info:Doug@NuLifeYoga.com or Andreas.Kahl@gmail.com

Partner Yoga

With John Nadler and Wahila Wilkie

Have you ever received an adjustment from your yoga teacher that helped you get deeper into a pose or an assist that allowed you to come into a posture that you couldn't have done by yourself? If so, you have already experienced the benefits of partner yoga. This unique form of yoga allows you and your partner to work together to accomplish all the poses while participating in a practice grounded in acceptance, unity and love.

Partner yoga is for everyone; friends, roommates, spouses, life partners, siblings, parents and children. Please come join with us as we explore this beautifully bonding and expanding practice.

Benefits of Partner Yoga:

•     Supports both partners in deepening their own poses
•     Stimulates productive, open and caring communication between partners
•     Deepens your connection with another person
•     Teaches us interdependency and trust
•     Breathing together stimulates harmony both internally and in relationships
•     Provides an opportunity to share laughter and joy

Arm Balances and Inversion

With Andreas

The goal of this workshop is to deepen awareness on how to support arm balancing and inversion postures while protecting wrists, elbows & shoulders.

You will begin cultivating core muscle engagement and balance while being upside down, and you will explore transitioning smoothly and safely from one pose to another.

Benefits of arm balances:

•     Strengthens the muscles of the shoulders, elbows and wrists.
•     Improving the balance of the body.
•     Tones the muscles of the abdominal region
•     Improves the working of the entire digestive tract.

Benefits of inversions:

•     Calms the mind.
•     Strengthens the core.
•     Enhances ability to concentrate and remain focused.
•     Increases body awareness.
•     Helps with circulation.
•     Stimulates the endocrine system