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Events
Open your heart and help raise money for orphaned children
Heart Opening Yoga Workshop
  
 
  
  
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Feel more comfortable in your body
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Sleep more deeply
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improve your capacity to cope
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Reduce your stress level
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Relieve back and shoulder problems
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Have more energy and vitality
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Improve your posture
This heart opening workshop is perfect for beginners to advanced students. New students will learn how fun and stress reducing yoga can be for the body and mind while, advanced yogis will have the chance to deepen their heart opening and back bending techniques. If something is bothering you spiritually, emotionally, or mentally, it is likely to show up in your body. With simple heart and shoulder opening postures along with introspection, you will be able to practice heart opening in more challenging life situations, such as difficult relationships and those with whom you disagree philosophically or politically. This energizing workshop will provide the instruction needed to move safely into heart opening postures by incorporating principles of alignment, breath and awareness. Focus will be placed on proper shoulder alignment and the lower back. Heart opening postures bring vitality to the spine, create space for the abdominal organs and encourage more efficient breathing.
A Committee Member of The Future of Benin and Registered Yoga Teacher, Kat Mackenzie’s teaching style includes detailed instructions on correct alignment and body posture; techniques on breathing; and procedures to safely move into and out of yoga postures. She encourages her students to set an intention for each yoga practice so they can leave the worries of the day behind and focus on making their body and mind relaxed. She currently teaches Hatha, Vinyasa and Prenatal yoga in both group and private settings. Also teaching at the Namaskar event is Kelly Landrigan who began her yoga journey in 2000. After enjoying many different classes and teachers she decided to share the beauty and benefits of yoga with others. She became certified in the Global Yoga hatha and prenatal yoga teacher training and is currently deepening her personal and teaching practice by pusuing John Friend's Anusara Yoga Inspired certification.
All profits for this workshop go directly to The Future of Benin: The Orphanage Development Projectwhich is directed at building a home for 50 orphaned children in Benin, West Africa. The goal of this project is to not only provide a safe house for homeless orphans in Benin, but also to supply children with schooling, health services and community integration which are required for healthy development. Please visit www.thefutureofbenin.com to learn more.
When: Saturday, September 12th 2009 yoga 3:00-5:30, potluck to follow
Where: Namaskar, 3946 Southport, Chicago IL
Suggested Donation: $25 (space is limited)
**********Bring your faviorite dish to pass at the potluck!
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