Attaining a sense of ease, one asana at a time! Is your stress running you? Now you can take back your life by learning how to truly feel at ease. Asana is a yoga pose or posture – one Sanskrit meaning is “comfortable seat” – that helps you reunite your mind with your body. Asana practice will focus your mind’s attention into your body, so you learn to move in more unified harmony. The result? No matter what stresses you face, you can remain “comfortably seated” and centered. In these classes, we will explore the ways to develop a genuine sense of ease within, using guided visualization, restorative yoga and asana practice. During each session, we will experience the bliss of conscious breathing, examine our inner vision and discover how to move our body in ways that generate the energy and awareness we need to restore ease and increase the happiness in our life. Suitable for the novice or intermediate yoga practitioner. Come for the yoga, leave feeling open and clear – with a smile on your face.

Karen Cappa has been a Bodyworker and Hypnotherapist for over 20 years. She is a group facilitator for Memorial Hospice and Final Passages Educational Foundation. She is an Ordained Priestess and Ceremonialist as well as an avid gardener and wild woman. Her passion for Yoga has been alive ever since she took her first yoga class in 1969. In 2011, she became a Certified Yoga Teacher by completing the Integrative Yoga Teacher Training at Bodyworks. She is now joyfully teaching yoga classes and private students.

First, wake up, unscramble and balance your energies with Pat Martin, using simple Energy Medicine techniques. Then enjoy a delicious balancing Yoga session with Karen Cappa and finish with Rhonda Gerhard guiding you into a deep Yoga Nidra relaxation. Each session will run about 30 minutes with a short break in-between. This workshop is a great way to experience these three wonderful ways of engaging your own energy, body and spirit. Absolutely no prior experience is needed. For your own comfort, wear yoga or workout-type clothing.

Co-Instructor Pat Martin is an Eden Energy Medicine Certified Practitioner (6 years) and a State Certified Massage Therapist (16 years).  Pat teaches and works with individuals by appointment in her Petaluma office.

Co-Instructor Rhonda Gerhard is a Certified Integrative Yoga Therapy Teacher and a Psychotherapist since 1992. She teaches and guides Yoga Nidra and has brought this practice to BodyWorks, SSU, Kaiser Hospital and yoga conferences. She joyfully brings the integration of mind, body and spirit to her work with others. For more information about Rhonda and her work, go to www.rhondagerhard.com.

Co-Instructor Karen Cappa has been a Bodyworker and Hypnotherapist for over 20 years. She is a group facilitator for Memorial Hospice and Final Passages Educational Foundation. She is an Ordained Priestess and Ceremonialist as well as an avid gardener and wild woman. Her passion for Yoga has been alive ever since she took her first yoga class in 1969. In 2011, she became a Certified Yoga Teacher by completing the Integrative Yoga Teacher Training at Bodyworks. Her lifelong love of yoga has allowed her to learn from experience how yoga practice, meditation, and conscious breathing can bring deep calm to the body, mind and spirit. She also loves to laugh, so be prepared.

Photo: Karen Cappa, Rhonda Gerhard, Pat Martin

Join best-selling author and much-loved workshop presenter, Anodea Judith, for an experiential weekend of climbing up your spine and opening your chakras to the cool breeze of Shakti. Through yoga, bioenergetics, psychological exploration and enlightening dharma talks, you will learn how to diagnose, heal and balance your own chakra system. With this architecture of the soul, you will have a map for your journey to consciousness.

Anodea Judith, Ph.D. is the founder and director of Sacred Centers, and a groundbreaking thinker, writer, and spiritual teacher. Her passion for the realization of untapped human potential matches her concern for humanity’s impending crises – her fervent wish is that we “wake up in time”. She holds Masters and Doctoral degrees in Psychology and Human Health, is a 500-hour registered yoga teacher, with lifelong studies of healing, mythology, history, sociology, systems theory, and mystic spirituality. She is considered one of the country’s foremost experts on the combination of chakras and therapeutic issues and on the interpretation of the Chakra System for the Western lifestyle. She teaches across the U.S., Canada, Europe and Central America.

Explore the fascinating neurobiology of meditation. Join us and gain a working knowledge of key practices to:  steady your concentration, foster an overall sense of ease through life’s uncertainties,  take life less personally, and strengthen your compassionate heart.

A progressive series with each class building upon the previous classes. Each session generally 30 minutes presentation and 30 minutes meditation. Meditate on a chair or with cushions ~ both provided

Deb Reid is a certified Dru Yoga, Dru Meditation and Yoga Alliance teacher. Classes are light-hearted and well-rounded, integrating all aspects of yoga while offering beneficial information about the workings of the body. Though dabbling with yoga since the 1970s, Deb began studying Iyengar seriously in 1993. Along her life’s journey, while living and working as a Massage Therapist in Australia, she mastered her 4-year teaching certification in Dru Yoga. In 2010, Deb gained a teaching certification in Dru Meditation, a 3-year course. She continues to study both yoga and meditation, incorporating new practices into her classes. For 2012 Deb is studying Restorative Yoga with Judith Hanson Lasater, Yoga and Addiction Recovery with Nikki Myers, Somatic Gateway Meditation with John Records and the neurobiology of meditation with Rick Hanson, co-author of “Buddha’s Brain”. You can find more about Deb and her continual Yoga explorations at https://www.facebook.com/YogaSpark and http://www.linkedin.com/in/debreidyogaspark 707-490-2066.

Anne O’Brien, a senior yoga teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area offers classes, workshops, retreats, trainings, and therapeutic yoga courses. Anne has taught for nearly 20 years, trains teachers domestically and internationally, is the yoga consultant to The North Face, and is completing her first book, Modern Yoginis, on the contribution of Western women to the practice of yoga. She holds a BA from UCLA and an MA from Dominican University.

The feet and legs are the roots from which our structure rises. Unlocking the feet and building strength in the legs through standing poses can reduce strain in the torso and access the core, promoting freedom of movement. A grounded and agile foundation cultivates a sense of inner trust and ability to meet the flow of life. This session will include standing, seated, and inverted poses.

Djuna Mascall’s primary inspiration comes from her ongoing work with Tias and Surya Little and her teaching is a reflection of their focus on mindfulness in asana, anatomy, and wisdom training. She is a Prajna senior teacher, has assisted Tias at numerous trainings, and teaches Prajna Yoga workshops nationally. She is one of four Prajna Yoga Senior Teachers featured on the Prajna website. Additional influence in teaching comes from in-depth study of Iyengar Yoga as well as in the Ashtanga system, her initial inspiration. One of the essential teachings of yoga is acceptance of the ever-changing nature of life. For Djuna, the sea is a great teacher of these lessons, which she experiences through sailing and kayaking. She and her husband sailed their 28’ engineless sailboat from Washington to Mexico, to Hawaii, and back to Washington. She also circumnavigated the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska, a 500-mile journey along open coast. She has published in Sea Kayaker Magazine and appeared in the film, Pacific Horizons, combining yoga and kayaking.

Low back pain is so prevalent in our culture. We will investigate how a weakened core, hamstring strain and imbalanced movement patterns lead to stress and misalignment in the lumbar region. This session will include anatomy illumination, therapeutic movements and yoga postures to unwind and realign the spine, cultivating the awareness necessary to free your low back.

Djuna Mascall’s primary inspiration comes from her ongoing work with Tias and Surya Little and her teaching is a reflection of their focus on mindfulness in asana, anatomy, and wisdom training. She is a Prajna senior teacher, has assisted Tias at numerous trainings, and teaches Prajna Yoga workshops nationally. She is one of four Prajna Yoga Senior Teachers featured on the Prajna website. Additional influence in teaching comes from in-depth study of Iyengar Yoga as well as in the Ashtanga system, her initial inspiration. One of the essential teachings of yoga is acceptance of the ever-changing nature of life. For Djuna, the sea is a great teacher of these lessons, which she experiences through sailing and kayaking. She and her husband sailed their 28’ engineless sailboat from Washington to Mexico, to Hawaii, and back to Washington. She also circumnavigated the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska, a 500-mile journey along open coast. She has published in Sea Kayaker Magazine and appeared in the film, Pacific Horizons, combining yoga and kayaking.

Also appearing – Edna’s sister, Louise
Singing, Dancing, Special Guests
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Seating will be limited, so get your tickets early ($5-$15 sliding scale) – Paypal below or by calling BodyWorks 707-769-9933.

Sliding Scale $5-$15

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This 3-hour workshop offers cancer patients an opportunity to discover relaxation and peace of mind through gentle breathing and movement awareness. We will alternate periods of sharing in the group with instruction and practicing breathing exercises and slow movements designed to enhance flexibility, strength, reduce stress and increase your energy. No previous yoga experience necessary.

Jean Grant-Sutton is the Founder and Director of BodyWorks Integrative Yoga and Stress Management Center. She has been practicing and studying Yoga since 1980 and teaching since 1994. Jean’s teaching encompasses her extensive experience as a bodyworker (Certified Massage Therapist) and her passion for yoga.

Anne Brody was first introduced to yoga over 30 years ago at the Sivananda Yoga Center in San Francisco. She became passionate about studying and practicing yoga for the next 10 years. Later, her home practice tapered off while she raised 2 children and went to work full-time. In 2002, Anne was diagnosed with leukemia. Her journey through treatment and survival of this cancer brought her back to yoga, as it once again became a major focus in her life. Yoga not only rebuilt her physical strength but also opened the door to emotional and spiritual healing. The yogic path led her to Bodyworks and the yoga teacher training program, where she received her IYT teacher certificate in November, 2008. Anne teaches weekly classes at BodyWorks and frequently subs for other teachers at the studio. As well as her teachers at BodyWorks yoga, Anne is a regular student of Janice Gates and Anne O’Brien. Her interest in learning more about the “inner world” led her to Spirit Rock where she now is a regular attendee of meditation workshops with a variety of teachers. Anne has also been a practitioner of yang-style Tai Chi for the past 15 years. She brings her love of yoga, tai chi, meditation, poetry and music into her mixed-level teaching style with gentleness and compassion.

The opposite of stress – notice the good and have more of it!

InterPlay® is multicultural, intergenerational, gender-empowering and interfaith.

We play with our own unique ethnicity, spirituality, geography, learning styles, sexuality, economics, gifts and challenges.

We dance with those who are different – side by side, one at a time, walking, stopping and running – and we sing, babble, shout and tell our stories to applauding witnesses. This is how we are changing the world.

Wear loose, comfortable clothing. To reserve your space, call Mary at InterPlay Sonoma (707)658-2486. www.interplay.org.

Mary Sobrina Kuder is a Visual Artist, InterPlay® Teacher, InterPlay® Life Practice Leader, and Improvisational Performance Artist. She brings a lifetime of art, healing practices and 15 years as a Certified InterPlay Leader to inspire individuals and build community. The integrity and dedication of her own artistic life and InterPlay practice are the strengths of her teaching and leading. Her gatherings – whether an afternoon or a retreat – are spirit-filled, passionate, creative and sensitive.