welcome to yogani
Yogani offers a variety of yoga classes for a wide range of ability level. Our classes include: Bikram, Vinyasa Flow, Prana Flow, Power, Ashtanga & Mysore, Forrest Yoga, Prenatal, Mommy and Baby, Crawler to Toddler, Kids Yoga (ages 4-10), Gentle Yoga, Yin and Restorative. Whether you are brand new to yoga or have been practicing for years, our teachers have a minimum of 200 hours of Yoga Alliance Approved training and are excited to work with you to cultivate & deepen your yoga practice. We have 3 different yoga rooms and offer over 50 regularly scheduled classes per week. Instructors are also available for private instruction. Yogani has two Licensed Massage Therapists available by appointment. Facilities include ample parking, showers and we offer mat/towel rental. We also sell a variety of apparel in our store including: Be Present, Manduka, Yogitoes, Balance Collection, Funky Yoga, Shakti Wear, Tonic, Hotdrop, Twist and much more.
upcoming events
Yin Yoga For Athletes | Sunday with Lisa Jamison
Sunday June 23 | 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm | Yogani Studios Inc | learn more
Date: Sunday | June 23
Time: 4:30 - 6:30 pm
Cost: $25
Flexibility work can be active or passive. It can be relaxing, or it can be stress inducing. Yin Yoga for Athletes focuses on the need of the athlete, changes the environment to one that is conducive to relaxation, and then allows the practitioner to heal their self.
Practice yoga that focuses on countering sport related stress injuries and imbalances. Learn the science of stress and how it pertains to performance.
Use rest and visualization to allow the body to move past muscular stretching and into deeper connective tissue and joint flexibility. Leave feeling taller, moving through a better range of motion, and with the tools to maintain your flexibility.
Upcoming dates:
Wednesday | 6 - 8 pm | July 10
Sunday | 4:30 - 6:30 pm | July 28
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iRest Yoga Nidra (Yogic Sleep) with Annie Okerlin
Sunday June 30 | 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm | Yogani Studios Inc | learn more
Time: 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.
Upcoming dates: July 28 | August 25
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Independence Day Inversion Class with Eric Wheeler
Thursday July 4 | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm | Yogani Studios Inc | learn more
Date: Thursday | July 4
Time: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Cost: $20 in advance | $25 day of
Go upside down this July 4th. The freedom of balancing on your head, hands and arms can change your perspective, increase your circulation, calm the mind, reduce stress, strengthen your core, increase oxygen to your brain, and give you a natural high. Learning inversions is fun and there is a natural fear instinct that, when overcome in a safe way, will spice up your practice. We''ll explore postures like sirsasana (headstand), bakasana (crow), and galavasana (one legged crow), and adho mukha vrksasana (handstand). Join Eric in this yearly class that focuses on balance, strength and concentration.
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Backbends and Heart Openers: Let Go Of the Story and See the Soul with Kathryn Budig
Wednesday July 10 | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Yogani Studios Inc | learn more
It's easy to come onto your mat with preconceived notions of your body's abilities, and this master class is here to help you lose that story and create your own. We'll break down the different elements and body parts of a backbend and connect it with breath and emotional release.
Cost: $45 Each
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Yin Yoga for Athletes | Wednesday with Lisa Jamison
Wednesday July 10 | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Yogani Studios Inc | learn more
Date: Wednesday, July 10
Time: 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Cost: $25
Flexibility work can be active or passive. It can be relaxing, or it can be stress inducing. Yin Yoga for Athletes focuses on the need of the athlete, changes the environment to one that is conducive to relaxation, and then allows the practitioner to heal their self.
Practice yoga that focuses on countering sport related stress injuries and imbalances. Learn the science of stress and how it pertains to performance.
Use rest and visualization to allow the body to move past muscular stretching and into deeper connective tissue and joint flexibility. Leave feeling taller, moving through a better range of motion, and with the tools to maintain your flexibility.
Upcoming dates:
Wednesday | 6 - 8 pm | August 7
Sunday | 4:30 - 6:30 pm | July 28
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Informational for Foundations for the Mindful Teacher with Annette Scott
Wednesday July 17 | 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Yogani Studios Inc | learn more
Join us for a free informational gathering regarding Yogani’s upcoming 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training.
Deepen your asana practice.
Develop foundations for meditation and mindfulness. Expand your understanding of anatomy. Cultivate the confidence to teach your passion.
Upcoming Informational Dates:
Wednesday, June 5 | 7:30PM
Wednesday, July 17 | 7:30PM
Saturday, August 10 | 1:45PM
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Navigating Labor with Annette Scott
Saturday August 3 | 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Yogani Studios Inc | learn more
Time: 12:00-2:00pm
Date: Saturday May 18
Cost: $20 per person
"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 labors and births.
Upcoming Dates: October 19 | December 28
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Energetic Anatomy: Healing the Healer with Annette Scott
Friday August 9 | 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Yogani Studios Inc | learn more
Schedule:
Friday | August 9 | 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Saturday | August 10 | 12:00 - 6:00 pm
Sunday |August 11 | 10:00 am -1:30 pm
Cost: $180 full weekend immersion
*Earns 12 Board of Health Massage CEUs*
This three-day course is designed for body workers, yoga teachers and health and fitness professionals of all modalities to help cultivate personal awareness and healing. We will use the practices of yoga, iRest, active imagination, journaling and meditation to access tools and develop resources for your continued self-growth.
In keeping with the maxim, "Healer, heal thyself," we know that we can only authentically guide others towards integrated embodiment if we're committed to the work of awakening our own latent gifts and allowing them to flourish. You are your first patient. The commitment to continuous personal growth and self-care deepens your ability to provide clients with healthy, vital and illuminated care.
By continuously exploring how you define your own health, you will be more present and successful in helping others do the same. Most importantly, you will be happier and more fulfilled in your life's work.
Just as proper alignment in our physical bodies is the key to a long and healthy yoga or massage practice, there are also core elements to aligning our energy anatomy. Commit to the process of embodying your own creative potential, allow it to take shape and inspire others to do the same.
This course will help you:
- Pinpoint where your personal work lies
- Facilitate self-healing
- Advance the work you already do
- Support a deep and ongoing transformation
- Understand the stages of inner self development
- Understand how energy anatomy is part of the Ayurvedic approach to life
- Develop tools to address stress and ailments when energy is out of balance
- Pinpoint where your personal work lies
Come prepared to practice yoga each session. Bring a water bottle to fill, any snacks you would like as well as any useful note-taking tools.
Arm Balances and Inversions: Dropping Fear and Embracing the Moment with Kathryn Budig
Wednesday August 14 | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Yogani Studios Inc | learn more
We've all been scared to fall down, but what if we stopped fearing and started doing? Laughter and courage will be our buddies in the journey to balancing on our hands.
A basic and sturdy foundation will be estab- lished so we can continue to build and soar.
Cost: $45 Each
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Restorative Yoga Teacher Training with Stephanie Keach with Stephanie Keach
Friday August 23 | 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Yogani Studios Inc | learn more
Dates & Times:
Friday | August 23 | 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Saturday | August 24 | 9:00 - 11:30 am | 1:30 - 5:30 pm
Sunday | August 25 | 8:30 am - 1:30 pm
Cost:
$250 | After July 23 $290
Cancellation fee | $75
*Earns 15 Hours Towards the YA Teacher Training*
When the body is fully supported in a soothing and trusting environment, it will eagerly let go, releasing tensions and toxins. Restorative Yoga is also known as the yoga of Not-Doing. Come slow down and soothe away any disease with a series of postures using blankets, pillows and other props to restore balance, harmony, and happiness. Leave the weekend feeling refreshed and ten years lighter!
Come deepen your practice and learn how to truly relax.You don’t have to be a teacher, nor even desire to become a teacher to attend this course. Your yoga practice will reach new heights as you become more grounded and peaceful through this ancient practice.
Curriculum:
Over 14 hours, with each session containing asana practice led by Stephanie Keach, lecture and student teaching.
• 3 part breath, ujjayi, and viloma pranayama will be practiced.
• Physiology of stress and relaxation • Anatomy, including injuries,
scar tissue and ar tificial par ts • How to sequence
restorative postures
• How to integrate postures with
breathwork and guided imagery • Appropriate touching and
adjustments
• All sessions include forward
bending, backward bending, side bending, sequencing, breathing, props, adjusting
Required Reading:
Judith Lasater: Relax and Renew
Thich Nhat Hanh: Miracle of Mindfulness
Stephanie Keach: The Yoga Handbook
Biography:
Stephanie Keach has been teaching since 1988. With over 1000 graduates, She continues to be humbled and honored to help guide others along this path of
yoga. She lives in Asheville, NC with her husband (and 3 sons) and together they run the Asheville Yoga Center. Originally from southern California, her vinyasa flow classes are an experiential delight of music, sweat, stillness and energy that will open your heart and leave you overflowing with bliss.
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Foundations for the Mindful Teacher with Annette Scott
Thursday August 29 | 8:00 am - 6:00 pm | Yogani Studios Inc | learn more
Yogani Teacher Training: Foundations for the Mindful Teacher with Annette Scott and Annie Okerlin
Training Hours:
5-day intensive Aug 29th to Sept 2nd: 8:00 – 11:30am | 1:30 - 6:00pm
Ensuing months: Fridays 6:00 – 9:00pm, Saturdays 8:00 – 11:30am | 1:30 - 6:00pm & Sundays 8:00 – 11:30am | 1:30 – 4:30pm
17.5 TOTAL PER WEEKEND (No Jan meeting)
(+5hrs per month of observing, study sessions & self study)
Training Investment:
Cost $2850 | $600 deposit due at time of registration.
Remaining cost can be broken down into 4 payments of $562.50.
Full tuition must be received by Dec 15th, 2013. Please see our cancellation policy at www.yogani.com.
Over the course of our study we will spend:
20+ hours dedicated to learning the basics of Anatomy, Kinesiology & Physiology, Reading Posture and Correcting for Alignment
40+ hours on Teaching Styles, Methodology and the Process of Learning Itself
40+ hours on Yoga Philosophy, Lifestyle, Qualities and Ethics of a Teacher, Making Your business work
100+ hours on Asana: Techniques, Training and Practice
You will be introduced to gentle, beginner’s 101, power, flow, pre-natal, mommy & baby, restorative, yin and asthanga-based styles of asana practice as taught by some of Yogani community’s best including Ashley Halley, Cami White, Deb Bobier, Eric Wheeler, Laraine O’Neill, Lisa Jamison, Lisa Wilson and Stephen Bickle.
The training will provide a full-spectrum foundation approach to your practice and teaching with contributions coming from contemporary and traditional practitioners of yoga, philosophy, mind-body psychology, neurobiology and anatomy.
Module Schedule and Structure: Each module will include asana and pranayama practice, meditation, 8-limb philosophy, lecture, homework/reading assignments, self-care techniques and yoga nidra/iRest practice. There will be student teaching every weekend.
August 29th - Sept 2nd, 2013:
Foundation, Form & Function | Seeing Bodies & Learning How to Touch | Understanding why you should NOT believe everything you think | Intro to Sequencing | Audio, Visual and Kinesthetic Learning | Anatomy: Our Bones, Organs and Major Muscles | Yoga 101 with Laraine O’Neill E-YRT 500 | Mommy & Baby/Prenatal with Lisa Wilson E-YRT 200
October 4th-6th: Anatomy of Stabilization | Diaphragm and the Pelvis | The Energy Body – Nadis, Chakra, Koshas | The Teacher – The psychology of the archetype and its sacred role | The Timeline and History of Yoga | Bio-Energetic Flow w. Deb Bobier E-YRT 500
November 1st - 3rd: The Power and Ethics of words: Speaking to Your Edge | Dissection of Second Sutra by Patanjali | Anatomy of the Hip Socket and the Scapula | Yama and Niyamas in Practice | Vinyasa with Eric Wheeler RYT 200
December 6th - 8th: Psychology of Transference and Counter-transference: The Shadow Student | Anatomy of Muscles, Tendons, Ligaments, Aponeuroses | Ayurveda and Nutrition | The Endocrine System and Its Chemical Cascades | Restorative with Cami White RYT 200
February 7th-9th: The Gunas in the Body, Mind and Breath | Anatomy of Dristi, Balance and Joint Proprioception | Creating a Yoga Resume | Teaching Chaturanga and its Modifications | Going Beyond - Integration of the Energy Bodies with Ashley Halley E-YRT 200
March 7th - 9th: The Importance of the Pause: Pose and Repose | To LLC or INC and Filing Taxes | Adjustments and Corrections for Common Pathologies | Using Multi-media for Business | Yin For Athletes with Lisa Jamison E-YRT 200
April 4th – 6th: Establishing Boundaries and the Ethics of Engaging with Students | Using Your Voice | Getting Upside Down with Stephen Bickle E-RYT 200
May 2nd – 4th: Establishing the Vessel for Learning | Psychology of the Cycle of Completion: How to Close a Class | Final: Anatomy Learning Experience
Additional Requirements over the 9 months: Establishing and journaling about your personal @ home practice (no less than a ½ hr a day, no less than 5 days a week. It can include asana, pranayama and meditation). Attend 5 different classes (notes required) @ different yoga studios (fees not included in tuition) | Observe (notes required) 2 Yogani classes (fees included) | Teach either: a community class offering @ Yogani or offer your teaching to an underserved population (notes required for either option)
Come with an Open Mind, Heart and Willingness to Try New Things On….
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Hip Openers and Twists: Unpack Your Baggage with Kathryn Budig
Wednesday September 4 | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Yogani Studios Inc | learn more
Emotions often get stuck in our hips and heart, creating tightness and, let's face it, grumpiness. Deep, long hip openers combined with challenging and thoughtful twists will help us slowly chip away at what holds us back so we can come into a comfortable seat.
Cost: $45 Each
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Ashtanga & Mysore
Mysore | Monday -Friday | 6-9am | Sunday | 7-9am
Full Primary | Friday & Sunday | 9:30 - 11 am
Level: beginner, intermediate, advanced
The Ashtanga Yoga method is rooted in the development of the teacher-student relationship, known as Parampara. It is this teacher-student relationship which keeps the Ashtanga Yoga method alive and allows students to dive deeply in to their practice within the support and safety of a classroom setting.
This self-paced class allows students to receive individualized instruction while learning the traditional Ashtanga practice. Named for Mysore, India, where Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, Guruji, first taught the Ashtanga Yoga method to students from all over the world. This living lineage is being carried on by R. Sharath Jois and Saraswathi, and is still being taught to hundreds of students daily. You will learn the Ashtanga Yoga method at your own pace, working with new and challenging poses when your body is ready. This class is appropriate for ALL students, even if you’ve never done yoga before, because you get to move at your own pace under the guidance and support of a qualified instructor.
