Date: Saturday, February 4

Hours: 3:00-5:00 pm

Cost: $35 for each | $60 for part I & II

Expand your knowledge of the Bikram series – join us for a Bikram Posture Intensive,the first of two workshops that break down the postures of the Bikram practice.We will begin with a review of Beginning Deep Breathing then proceed to further prepare the body by practicing one setof each of the postures in the standing/balancing series. This week's Intensive will give the participant greaterknowledge of the 1st group of 12 postures. Ways of modifying, adjusting, and intensifying the posturesand their specific benefits will be explored.As a cool down to prepare for an extended Savasana, paricipants will be guided through wind removing pose, spinal rocking and a few easy floor twists.
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Dates: Sunday Feb 12

Time: 2:30-4:30pm

Cost: $20

Please bring a journal or something to write in.

Rasa Vinyasa: Exploring the attraction of divine love as well as the creative power of its shadow side, repulsion/aversion.

Our practice will involve embodying emotion, mind and body through a dynamic flow integrating the two states of being, attraction/attachment and repulsion/aversion.

Our vinyasa practice is designed to awaken states of bliss, divine love, and passion by accepting the embodied wholeness of our emotional and physical being. Through activating namaskars, we will unravel layers of our being arriving to a still and nurtured sense of center.

Our workshop includes writing sadhana and interactive lecture to access our energetic and gross aspects of mind/body awareness.

Thru a deep journey through the koshas and chakras, we learn to "embrace" our total selves, integrating past experiences with powerful mind/body practice. By tasting the rasa of our own authentic state of being, exploring its flow as movement of energy throughout your body, you will learn to ignite your deeper truths and seeds of potential on and off the mat.

Bio:
Ashley Halley grew up in the fitness world. A childhood spent dancing led Ashley to yoga in 1998. After completing a 200 hour teacher training with Shiva Rea in 2007, Ashley joined Shiva for three trance dance trainings including one in Greece. Currently Ashley is living bicoastal; enhancing her knowledge base in L.A. and bringing that variety to the emerging Tampa Bay Yoga community. She attributes her teaching style to studies with Annie Carpenter, Duncan Wong, Mark Whitwell, Sean Corne, Julian Walker and Micheline Berry. Ashley currently teaches at Yogani Studios, where she is also assisting Micheline Berry for the second year with a 200 hour Prana Flow Teacher Training. Ashley’s passion for ecstatic movement and dance coupled with her love for the body and energetic teaching style helps every student find the fiery bhava within.
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Dates: Sunday Feb 12

Time: 4:30-6:30pm

Cost: $25

Focused. Driven. Busy, Schedule-packed. Adrenalized. These are words that characterized the typical mulitsport athlete. Balancing sport with the rest of life can be a challenge. Without recovery, overuse or stress related injuries occur. Learn to practice yoga that focuses on countering these sports injuries and imbalances. Come learn the science of stress and techniques for recovery and balance. Work includes visualization and meditations for improved performance.
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9 Weekends | February 17 – July 15
Cost | before January 6 $2800 | after January 6 $2950 | $600 deposit due at registration

Dates
February 17-19
February 24-26
March 9-11
March16-18
April 13-15
April 27-29
May 25-27
June 22-24
July 13-15

Hours
Fridays 6:00 – 9:30pm
Saturdays 8:00 – 11:00am | 2:00 - 7:00pm
Sundays 8:00 – 11:00am | 1:30 – 4:00pm
17.5 TOTAL PER WEEKEND (+5hrs/month observing, study sessions & self study)

Cost
before January 6 $2800 | after January 6 $2950 | $600 deposit due at time of registration | please see our cancelation policy at www.yogani.com
Remaining cost can be broken down into 4 monthly payments of $550 or $587.50 depending of purchase date due March 1, April 1, May 1 & June 1. Full tuition must be received by June 1, 2012.

Description
Join Micheline Berry for a comprehensive, empowering and inspired 9-month journey into the art and skill of teaching Vinyasa Flow Yoga. Training is appropriate for both aspiring teachers as well as those who would like to seriously deepen their own practice. Our Prana Flow 200-hr Vinyasa Flow Yoga Teacher Training will provide you with a full-spectrum foundation to begin teaching Vinyasa Flow Yoga with skill, creativity, intelligence and authenticity. You will learn from both, tradition and innovation.

Vinyasa Yoga embraces diversity. Micheline Berry’s Prana Flow 200hr Teacher Training will draw from Krishnamacharya’s teachings (Patanjali, Ashtanga’s 8-Limb Path & Iyengar-informed Alignment), Tantra Roots (Vijnanabhaïrava Tantra & Spandakarika), Shiva Rea’s Prana Flow Yoga system (Tantra Hatha Yoga), Micheline Berry’s own Teacher Empowerment Training, as well as eclectic and powerful contributions from somatics, yoga philosophy, mind-body psychology, yoga anatomy, and contemporary masters in yoga including SHIVA REA joining us as a special guest for one module!

An ancient technology of ecstasy, Vinyasa Flow Yoga creates a bridge from the mundane to the ecstatic, the ordinary to the sacred, the slothful to the awakened state of being through the vehicle of the soma (the non-verbal, direct experience of the body). In this living practice, layers of cultural, psychological and physiological contractions unwind, releasing a wellspring of creative energy (aka prana or shakti).

Becoming a yoga teacher is a deeply personal, healing journey towards remembering who we really are and returning home to our organic, life-affirming rhythms so that we may guide others to do the same. For the only way we can authentically guide others towards integrated embodiment is to commit ourselves to the work of awakening our own latent gifts and allowing them to thrive. Yoga is not just a path of asana and alignment… it is a path of living life as a vibrant, breathing, ever-evolving sacred art. Committing to the path of a yoga teacher is therefore, committing to the process embodying your own creative potential (shakti prana), allowing it to take shape in the world while inspiring others to do the same.

Our Vinyasa Flow Teacher Training will awaken the living, healing art within and give you the essential tools to actualize some of your deepest potentials and thrive as both a teacher and an artist of life. Start where you are. Compassion and a sense of humor required. Dive in!

Teacher Training Module Schedule and Structure
Each training module will include morning sadhana, lecture, teaching and/or hands on adjustments, homework and reading assignments, plus occasional dinners to bond and let loose with your fellow yogis.

Required Texts:
Modules 1
The Heart of Yoga--TKV Desikachar, Revised 1999
Yoga: The Iyengar Way--Silva Mehta, 1990
Yoga Anatomy--Leslie Kaminoff
Liquid Asana DVD-- Micheline Berry(You may choose either volume 1 or 2)
Module 2/3/4
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience--Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The Radiant Sutras: a version of the vijnana bhairava tantra--Lorin Roche
Yoga Spandakarika--Daniel Odier
Modules 5
Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System as a Path to the Self--Anodea Judith

Recommended Texts:
Module 1
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Commentary on the Raja Yoga Sutras-- Sri Swami Satchidananda
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: A New Edition--Edwin F. Bryant, July 2009
Modules 2/3/4
Tantra: Path of Ecstasy--Georg Feuerstein, 1998
Asana Pranayama Mudra Bandha— Swami Satyananda Saraswati
Modules 5
Yin Yoga--Paul Grilley
Ayurveda: A Practical Guide: The Science of Self Healing--Vasant Lad

Modules and Schedule

Module 1: Mandala of Asanas: Foundation, Form & Function

February 17-19
Part 1: Family of Asanas, Alignment & Classical Yoga Philosophy

February 24-26
Part 2: Family of Asanas, Alignment & Yoga Anatomy

Module 2: Embodying the Flow: Essential Tools for Teaching Vinyasa Flow

March 9-11
Part 1: Foundations of Wave Sequencing & 3-Part Vinyasa System

March 16-18
Part 2: Wave Sequencing & 3-Part Vinyasa System (cont’d.) & Introduction to Tantric Hatha Yoga & Philosophy w/ Chris Tompkins joining Micheline

Module 3: Fluid Power Teacher Training Intensive

April 13-15
Sequencing & Practices to Liberate your Creativity, Embodied Freedom and Authentic Power

Module 4: Teacher Empowerment Training

April 27-29
Part 1: Seeing Bodies & Teaching 1-on-1 / Individual Somatic Coaching

May 25-27
Part 2: Seeing Bodies & Teaching Vinyasa for Groups & The Biz of Yoga

Module 5: Introduction to Bhakti Yoga & Ayurveda

June 22-24
Restorative Asana, Mantra, Pranayama, Meditation & Ayurveda for Healing w/ Joey Lugassy & Denise O’Dunne joining Micheline

Module 6: Yoga & The Muse

July 13-15
Nada Yoga: Using Music and Rhythm to Enhance the Flow featuring DJ Drez, Joey Lugassy, Domonic Dean Breaux and Red Musette joining Micheline
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Prana Flow Master Class | Friday | 7:30-9:30pm
Dynamic, yet deeply nurturing, Micheline Berry’s Prana Flow Master Class will teach you how to embody flow with on a deeper level within your own yoga practice. You will activate dynamic asana sequences with creative fluid movement, core stability, and breath as you explore the healing aspect of the “flow state” - Cultivate a deeply nourished and empowered state of being through the purifying heat of vinyasa kramas (flowing yoga sequences) leading to peak poses and states of embodiment.
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Prana Flow Master Class | Saturday | 8:00-10:00am
As you ignite the inner flow of Prana Shakti (the powerful creative energy within), you will cultivate a deeply empowered and embodied state of being. This Master Class will help open a free flow of energy in the spine and major joint systems and unlock stagnant areas within the body/mind.
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Prana Flow Master Class | Sunday | 8:00-10:00am
This class will explore asana (arm balances, backbends and inversions) while integrating deep core work (mula bandha, udiyana bandha & nauli), energizing pranayama and ecstatic meditation and integrate spontaneity, somatic dance movement and prana yoga as creative elements within your yoga practice. You will come away from this experience deeply fed and in touch with the creative potential of your yoga, on and off the mat.
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Dates: Sunday February 19

Time: 4:30-6:00pm

Cost: $25

Join us for this special 1.5 hour Sound Healing Journey with crystal singing bowls guided by Eluv host of88.5 “Ultrasounds” Thursday night radio show. This Journey of amazing healing sound will leaveyou rejuvenated, revitalized, clear minded and totally relaxed. Plus, it will increase your life force energy, purify your blood, and energize your lymphatic and circulatory system and every cell in your body. Sound Healing is an excellent way to re-align, cleanse, refresh, relax, and increase positive Qi throughout the whole body.

Eluv will begin with a short introduction on the benefits and experience of Sound Healing. After the 60 minute savasana, participants will be guided through different chants to allow the reverberating sound within their own body channel back out. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to receive healing. This is the savasana we all dream of experiencing!
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Prana Flow Master Class | Friday | 7:30-9:30pm
Dynamic, yet deeply nurturing, Micheline Berry’s Prana Flow Master Class will teach you how to embody flow with on a deeper level within your own yoga practice. You will activate dynamic asana sequences with creative fluid movement, core stability, and breath as you explore the healing aspect of the “flow state” - Cultivate a deeply nourished and empowered state of being through the purifying heat of vinyasa kramas (flowing yoga sequences) leading to peak poses and states of embodiment.
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Prana Flow Master Class | Saturday | 8:00-10:00am
As you ignite the inner flow of Prana Shakti (the powerful creative energy within), you will cultivate a deeply empowered and embodied state of being. This Master Class will help open a free flow of energy in the spine and major joint systems and unlock stagnant areas within the body/mind.
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Prana Flow Master Class | Sunday | 8:00-10:00am
This class will explore asana (arm balances, backbends and inversions) while integrating deep core work (mula bandha, udiyana bandha & nauli), energizing pranayama and ecstatic meditation and integrate spontaneity, somatic dance movement and prana yoga as creative elements within your yoga practice. You will come away from this experience deeply fed and in touch with the creative potential of your yoga, on and off the mat.
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Date: Sunday, February 26

Times: 4:30-5:30 pm

Cost: Donation $10 Exalted Warrior Foundation

Enjoying your Yoga practice? Ready to dive further into your practice of self-inquiry? Come experience authentic, deep relaxation through "yogic sleep with awareness."

iRest Yoga Nidra has been developed over the past twenty-six years by Richard Miller, PhD, a clinical psychologist, author, researcher and yogic scholar, and is uniquely suitable for a Western audience. iRest (Integrative Restoration) is integrative, in that it heals the various unresolved issues, traumas, and wounds that are present in the body and mind. It is restorative in that it aids its practitioners in recognizing their underlying peace of mind that is always present amidst all changing circumstances of life. By building a secure launching point for the body to come into a deep state of ease we are able to relax deeply into being with everything just as it is.

Extensive research has shown that iRest effectively supports the healing process across a broad range of populations. Currently, there are iRest programs in military hospitals across the U.S., as well as in correctional facilities, hospices, clinics, schools, and organizations supporting personal growth and well-being. In June of 2010, iRest was endorsed by the US Army Surgeon General and Defense Centers of Excellence as a complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).

During your practice of iRest, you will be supported in a reclined position by bolsters and blankets as the facilitator takes you through a meditation that involves body sensing, intention setting, emotional awareness and the practice of finding an inner resource. No physical asana (postures) will be practiced.

This practice is suitable for ALL levels of practitioners as it is a guided meditation. Become more grounded, focused and at peace. Embody serenity.


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Dates: February 16-18

Times:
Friday 7:00-9:30pm
Saturday 4:30-7:00pm
Sunday 1:30-4:00pm

Cost: $30 for 1 | $50 for 2 | $60 for 3

For several millenia, yoga adepts have described the moment of spiritual liberation to occur when the Soul (Purusha), forever whole and content, is discriminated from the constantly fluctuating states of mind that we experience in our daily lives. Sage Patañjali, the author of the Yoga Sūtra (2nd-4th centuries C.E.), the classical work of Rājā Yoga, explicitly teaches us how the illusory nature of mind-activity keeps us from experiencing our true Being, which is usually obscured by the constant whirling of the mind (citta-vritti).

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Date: Saturday March 17
Hours: 4:30-7:00pm
Cost: $30 for 1 | $50 for 2 | $60 for 3

Join Christopher for this enlightening, yet basic exploration of the roots, history and philosophy (darshana) of Tantric Yoga. There will be a specific focus on the 9th century Spanda (‘Vibration’) School of the Tantric tradition, which posits that Yoga is the practice of attuning with the Divine source of the universe which pulsates as the rhythms of energy and consciousness inherent in all of life and experienced as the dynamic flow of our own thoughts and awareness.
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Seniors 65 and older are the fastest growing population right now. These baby boomers are in desperate need of yoga and education to help them adapt to their older bodies, minds and spirits.

Come join a special group of both teachers, aspiring teachers and seniors for this weekend training program. Join us as we use chair yoga and deep breathing to address such issues as Fibromyalgia, Osteoporosis, Arthritis, Heart Disease,Chronic Pain, Menopause, Prostate Health, Disk Disease, Depression, Insomnia, JointReplacement, Parkinson’s, Ms, and more.

You will receive credit for the Asheville Yoga Center's 500 hr. program after attending. All levels are welcome!

Training Investment: $375

Training Hours:
Friday, April 20 | 8:30 am - 12:30 pm and 1:30 - 6:30 pm
Saturday, April 21 | 8:30 am - 12:30 pm and 2:00 - 6:30 pm
Sunday, April 22 | 8:30 - 11:30 pm and 12:30 - 3:30 pm

Required Reading before class begins:
Alice Christensen, Easy Does It Yoga $15
Timothy McCall, Yoga as Medicine $15

Recommended Reading (not required):
Kristen Rentz, YogaNap $16;
Satchidananda, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali $17;
Stephen Mitchell, Bhagavad Gita $14;
Essential Rumi;
Stephanie Keach: The Yoga Handbook $35.

Upon registration you will receiveconfirmation, lodging, directions, etc.No Prerequisites Required. Cost: $375
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Everyone dreams of flying but fears the chance of a crash and burn. This workshop builds a strong foundation of strength in the mindset and physical body to break through preconceived notions of our abilities. We are gifted beyond our imagination, and this workshop will playfully support and encourage your untapped potential to dance on your hands and see the world from a different view. We will explore the foundation of arm balancing, the technicalities of leaving the ground on our hands and the playful mindset needed to maintain the balance. This is an empowering practice! Drop fear and step forward with a smile on your face and love in your heart and you'll already be lighter and ready to flip it around.
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Yogis are pros at finding comfort in the uncomfortable. They know that nothing is permanent and that flexibility of the mind and body frees us from fear and expectation. This workshop will nurture the hips back into a place of space and surrender so we can exorcise discomfort or anything blocking our way. From there, we can jump on the highway to open hamstrings—traffic free! we will gently nurture the legs into a place of warmth and space so we can feel free to open up and cruise. Lunges, standing splits, Hanumanasana and Vashistasana B will be addressed as well as the mindset needed to get there. Fill up your tank of hope and off we go!
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Love yoga but feel like you're in a bit of a slump? Freshen up your routine and add some spice to your mat! This dynamic workshop explores new and exciting Sun Salutation variations, fun transitions, vigorous vinyasa, and new exit strategies. Add life to your yoga practice through an energetic class that gets the pulse and laughter flowing. Come with an open mind, a hungry appetite for excitement, and a towel to mop it all down.
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Everything we do stems from a place of love and often all we need is a little reminder to get us back on that track. Backbends are the ultimate ticket to look fear in the face and react straight from our heart center. This love inducing flow will open your heart and shoulders preparing you for deeper backbends such as Urdhva Dhanurasana and Eka Pada Raja Kapotasana. Once the heart soars the possiblities are endless!
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Date: Saturday, February 11

Hours: 3:00-5:00 pm

Cost:$35 for each | $60 for part I & II

Expand your knowledge of the Bikram series – join us for a Bikram Posture Intensive, the second of two workshops that break down the postures of the Bikram practice. We will begin with a review of Beginning Deep Breathing then proceed to further prepare the body by practicing one set of each of the postures in the standing/balancing series. This Intensive will give the participant greater knowledge of the 2nd group of 12 postures. Ways of modifying, adjusting, and intensifying the postures and their specific benefits will be explored As a cool down to prepare for an extended Savasana, paricipants will be guided through wind removing pose, spinal rocking and a few easy floor twists.
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SOLD OUT | this excursion is currently full | please contact Yogani at (813)251-9668 to be put on the waiting list

Dates: April 13 - April 27 (does not include travel days to & from Kathmandu)

Cost: $2800 + airfare + $40 for personal visa (to secure registration a $1200 non-refundable deposit by check or money order must be made by January 15, 2012. Please make payable to Kirti LLC and mail along with completed Yoga Ascent Application to Yogani Studios 1112 West Platt Street, Tampa FL 33606)

Please Note: The $1200 deposit will be deducted from the total cost ($2800) of the expedition. This deposit will be non-refundable

You will practice yoga at its intended height, in the country of Buddha’s birth, enmeshed within the natural beauty of a forest mountain terrain. In this unique village immersion, you will experience the richness of rural Nepal as the guests of local villagers. Through the altruistic heart of yoga we will offer the gift of the hope, support and education for children in remote areas.

We will visit some of the most scenic locations of this rich and majestic center of spirituality and yoga. This is a opportunity to take your practice out into the world while living your yoga at the altitudes where the gods and goddesses of the yogic pantheon still abide.

Getting There & Back

Participants must arrive in Kathmandu by April 15th therefore must arrange to leave the U.S. by April 13th. Individuals will meet up with the group and be escorted to lodging and accommodations (See Day 1 in itinerary). The first full day April 16th will be spent in Kathmandu (Day 2 in itinerary). First trek begins on April 17 (Day 3 in itinerary). Last day of journey is April 27 (Day 13 in itinerary).

Download a Fully Detailed Itinerary, an Application to Participate & Gear List at www.yogani.com

Cost: $2800 per person - includes porter fees, all lodging, transportation, yoga/meditation and at least one to two meals per day.

Cost does not include air fair (approximately $1200- $1400). Individual participants will be responsible for arranging their own airfare to and from Kathmandu

If you are considering participating in this journey abroad trekking adventure please apply for you passport ASAP. Whether applying for a passport for the first time or for an update, it can take up to six to eight weeks or more to receive your passport. Visas will be processed in Kathmandu upon arrival. Please bring $40 USD in cash for your visa.
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Time: 12:00-2:00pm

Date: Saturday February 25

Cost: $20

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."
-Helen Keller

This workshop will provide families assistance and support to clearly establish and outline their individual birth preferences. Learn how to navigate the limitless information and influences available to parents today. Learn to ask the right questions so medical and support providers supply the information needed to make sound decisions during the uncertainty of labor and birth.

Three Keys Areas of Understanding –

· Primordial: learn to recognize, acknowledge and respond to your innate maternal instinct and intuition.

· Modern: become informed, thus empowered about the modern day hospital culture and setting particularly obstetrics, labor and delivery.

· Self: understand your particular path, acknowledge your family background and culture and where you stand now.

Explore the Possibilities – Look deeply at the depth and breadth of birth potential. Learn to open to the distinctively unique unfolding of each child’s birth. Let go of “ideal” birth scenarios and embrace your own.

Embracing Fathers and Partners – Fathers and partners are more present than ever and are experiencing the profound power of birth! Practical tips for assisting and supporting a woman in labor – know what’s really needed from you - the partners - to support the birth process.

When Medical Support Is Needed – How to give birth from within and experience the empowerment of labor, even when intervention becomes necessary.

Biography:
Annette K. Scott has being attending women in birth since 2003. She has delivered with women in water, in bedrooms, in L&D rooms and in birthing centers. She is proud to have been alongside so many women, in so many settings and hopes that her experience can inspire and empower today’s mommies in their upcoming labor s and births.
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Dates: Saturday March 24

Time: 12:00-2:30pm

Cost: $40

Learn to make delectable, healthy, wholesome snacks that travel and can satisfy a craving in a snap!

Create simple, nutritionally dense goodies:
-energy bars
-granola and nuts mixes
-crackers
-fruit leathers
-veggie chips

No prior cooking knowledge or experience needed. Sign up and come ready to take home some snacks samples; a list of recipes; and the know-how for creating your favorites.

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Set every practice, day and breath with the power of your intention. Tap into what it means for us to ‘aim true’ in our lives on a physical, emotional and spiritual level. The yogi will find their inner archer and physically manifest through asana what it means to be strong, aware and compassionate. Creative sequencing will create discipline with the perfect blend of humor and thoughtfulness. Come join the hunt for our authentic selves. Please bring a strap, block and blanket for practice and paper and something to write with. 1 hour talk followed by asana.
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