The source of gratitude already resides within our own awareness. We don’t need to go anywhere or search anywhere to find it, we only need to change our perception of what is already around us. In today's practice, we learn how to recharge our gratitude batteries.
Genuine gratitude comes from a feeling of contentment, safety, and being welcomed in your life – what Buddha called the “gladdened heart.”
Practice will include:
This block is an introduction to Native Awareness, the study in a variety of disciplines that increase your own “Sphere of Awareness” beyond your “Sphere of Influence”.
On a physical, psychological, and intuitive levelyou learn the tools to better understand Baseline as it pertains to multiple integrated systems in nature, reading the forested landscape, developing your “nature literacy”, or ability to understand what you see in the way of forest succession.You will understand how your mindset effects what you are aware of and how vast your blind spots can be. Through experiential exercises you will amplify the ability to detect subtle changes with all of your senses. Also the reliable techniques to slow and increase heart rate, brain wave activity, and pace to match the landscape you are in and better blend in and notice more.
Jim Kane will share Wide Angle Vision which activates the sensory portions of the brain while switching your brain frequency from Beta to Alpha. Which has been shown to improve eyesight in people who rely on corrective lenses, improving night vision, and provides an unlimited field of focus while increasing your ability to detect subtle movements. Fox Walking, known today as Chi Running, which is the most bio-mechanical efficient way of walking. The feet are our finger tips to the earth. Deer Ears to focus our hearing in darkness. Used all together on the String Stalk, which uses all of your senses, except sight, to navigate through the landscape, heightening sensitivity, balance, and fluidity.
Hurry up and sit still! Sit still until your mind is clear and you can levitate into the eternal light of Samadhi on a rainbow made of OM symbols! And do it in a perfectly poised lotus position in a robe of white at sunrise in the Himalayan Mountains! Or... don't. Who said meditation has to be so serious! Meditation is the simple act of noticing, of tethering your attention to something so that the other thoughts can come and go like a rain cloud on a sunny August afternoon while you remain anchored. We do this all the time as children, then lose the ability to "let go and flow" as we age, and vulnerability becomes harder to come by. Join Sarajean in MediPlayTion to come back to that childlike state of flow, and let go of everything standing in the way of you being you.
You will dance, you will color, you will smile and you will shake- all in the name of finding your center and being present for this lovely, lovely life.
Eating should be simple - but somehow it has gotten hard. Even exhausting at times. There are so many choices, and so many voices, all presenting themselves to us as we decide what to put into our bodies. How can we know what the right choices are? The right voices to listen to?
The right voice is the one inside you, the voice that knows intuitively what you need, and when, and why. To tune back in and listen to that voice, maybe all you need is a little NUTRinspiration!
NUTRinspiration is all about exploring our intuition when it comes to healthy food choices. It is about eating with gratitude, intelligence, love, kindness and self-care in mind. In this workshop, we will discuss easy to integrate tools from Eastern and Western medicine that aim to heal, inspire and nourish your body, mind and beyond.
What is it like to move silently through the woods unseen like the Bobcat? Want to learn how to read the woods like a raccoon? Join Jim Kane as he teaches the same skills and exercises used by the Native Americans to teach their children to live closer to Mother Earth and live in a symbiotic relationship with all living things.
This is a more quiet activity for kids. Creating "mindful crafts" is a relaxing and fun way to create a tool that children can take home and use to support their yoga and mindfulness practice.
Breathing Sticks serve as an anchor while practicing mindful breathing. The beads are really cool too!
The main cause of disease according to Ayurveda, the medicinal practice recognized as sister science to yoga, is Prajnaparadha, or “misuse of the intellect”. In other words, it is knowing better, but doing anyway. When we live our lives scattered, unaware, and distracted, we give our authority away to the latest and loudest. But when we live our lives with our eyes open, hearts balanced and minds clear of chatter, we take back the authority on what we know to be right and true. Learn how to Harvest Awareness in this mindfulness workshop by asking yourself two simple questions, and reap the profound benefits that come with living your life awake, using your intuition and built in intellect to support your journey along the way.
Your yoga practice is important, and what you eat either supports or assaults its sustainability. What would happen if you dove deeply into not only what you eat, but also how you eat, why you eat, when you eat and who you eat with? If you could pair these awarenesses with the principles of Yoga and Ayurveda to support you physical, emotional and psychological bodies as a yogi and athlete... magic! Using the three-season approach of Ayurveda, Western nutrition principles, and the Yamas and Niyamas of Yoga, you can learn to “Eat Your Yoga” with Nutritionist, Ayurvedic Practitioner, Health Coach, Master Yoga Teacher and Certified Personal Trainer Sarajean Rudman. Enjoy creating shopping lists, meal-planning, and the exploration into balancing both the subtle and physical practice of yoga with your real, daily life to land you in your healthiest body ever!
This is a more quiet activity for kids. Creating "mindful crafts" is a relaxing and fun way to create a tool that children can take home and use to support their yoga and mindfulness practice.
Eye Pillows block out light and calm the active muscles around the eyes while lying in savasana. We will learn how to make our own!
Whether you’re building a rock garden or in need of a beautiful paperweight for your desk at work, this class is for you! Each mandala is unique to its creator and becomes entrancing to work on. Relax your mind and meditate, while learning how to create a colorful dot mandala. River rocks and painting materials provided, but feel free to bring any of your own sentimental rocks to work on!
Ayurveda, yoga’s sister science, is a 5,000-year-old preventative health-care system indigenous to India that is still relevant and practiced today. At the very core of Ayurvedic teachings are two intuitive rules: “treat with opposites”, and “like increases like”. What does that mean for you, in your life, right now? Sarajean, The Ayurvedic Lifehacker, can show you! Make the ancient art and science of Ayurveda a part of your daily self-care regimen and discover how easy it can be to reduce stress, increase productivity, be happy, and harmonize the melody of nature as you become more aligned with your nature.
This is a more quiet activity for kids. Creating "mindful crafts" is a relaxing and fun way to create a tool that children can take home and use to support their yoga and mindfulness practice.
Glitter Jars are not only pretty to look at but can help calm the mind... in this session we will learn to make our own!
Explore yoga with your family! This class focuses on connections with your child and your child’s peers, and will work around the theme of growth. Root down like a tree, wag your tail like a dog, and row your own boat! Be prepared for:
Songs
Stories
Dance
Partner yoga
Thai massage
Breathwork and calming techniques
Yoga reduces stress, anxiety, and depression and increases focus and happiness and can be a wonderful way to connect with your child.
Appropriate for all children and families, but really targets ages 3-8. Danielle, an elementary school teacher by day, brings her 8 years of early elementary education training and expertise to her fun and playful work.
This block is an introduction to Native Awareness, the study in a variety of disciplines that increase your own “Sphere of Awareness” beyond your “Sphere of Influence”.
On a physical, psychological, and intuitive levelyou learn the tools to better understand Baseline as it pertains to multiple integrated systems in nature, reading the forested landscape, developing your “nature literacy”, or ability to understand what you see in the way of forest succession.You will understand how your mindset effects what you are aware of and how vast your blind spots can be. Through experiential exercises you will amplify the ability to detect subtle changes with all of your senses. Also the reliable techniques to slow and increase heart rate, brain wave activity, and pace to match the landscape you are in and better blend in and notice more.
Jim Kane will share Wide Angle Vision which activates the sensory portions of the brain while switching your brain frequency from Beta to Alpha. Which has been shown to improve eyesight in people who rely on corrective lenses, improving night vision, and provides an unlimited field of focus while increasing your ability to detect subtle movements. Fox Walking, known today as Chi Running, which is the most bio-mechanical efficient way of walking. The feet are our finger tips to the earth. Deer Ears to focus our hearing in darkness. Used all together on the String Stalk, which uses all of your senses, except sight, to navigate through the landscape, heightening sensitivity, balance, and fluidity.
What is it like to move silently through the woods unseen like the Bobcat? Want to learn how to read the woods like a raccoon? Join Jim Kane as he teaches the same skills and exercises used by the Native Americans to teach their children to live closer to Mother Earth and live in a symbiotic relationship with all living things.
