NEW Introductory Classes – beginning February 6th

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Kick Start Your Resolutions!

Immerse yourself in one of our Introductory courses for “newbies” – those who have never tried yoga, pilates or power yoga before. Learn the basic foundations of each of these movement styles in four, one-hour lessons with our expert instructors.

A new session begins every four weeks, and students may pre-register for the next session at any time. Click on the class names below for a detailed description and online registration and payment options.

Questions? Call or email the studio at 519-471-4540 or info@oakwellness.com.

Intro to Yoga with Sandy Hunt & Doug Varty
Monday 7-8 pm & Tuesday 2-3 pm
Next session begins February 6th & 7th

Intro to Power Yoga with Christina Matthews
Monday 5-6 pm
Next session begins February 6th

Intro to Pilates with Bizz Varty
Thursday 7:30-8:30 pm
Next session begins February 9th

Partner Yoga for Couples Workshop Feb 11 & 12

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PARTNER YOGA FOR COUPLES Workshop
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 6TH

with Couple’s Counsellor & Yoga Teacher Elizabeth Lacey

Oakridge Wellness Centre
759-254 Hyde Park Road, London Ontario

Sat & Sun February 11 & 12, 2012 (Valentines Day Special)
9:30 am – 12:00 & 2:00 – 4:30 pm
$199 plus HST per couple
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 6TH

Or call the Centre at 519.471.4540 or email info@oakyoga.com to register

Bring your beloved to a fun-filled, spiritually uplifting, and invigorating weekend of partner yoga for couples. As you learn how to breathe and flow together on the mat, you learn how to find ease and balance in your relationship off the mat. In this workshop you will deepen your compassion, trust, sensitivity, and love for each other, enjoy a healthy, playful, and life-affirming practice that you can take home and share together, learn how to adapt the postures to accommodate various body sizes, flexibility levels, and yoga experience, develop closeness and connection through co-meditations and partner breath work, experience a variety of partner yoga forms, including doubles yoga, partner-assisted yoga, and contact yoga and celebrate and honour each other’s uniqueness while connecting with the one spirit that unites you.

This program is suitable for couples of all sexual orientations and all levels of yoga experience. Whether both partners are dedicated practitioners, beginners, or at different levels of experience, come grow and deepen together.

Partner Yoga for Couples Workshop Online Registration and Payment:

 

New Classes and Teachers for 2012!

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Challenge yourself in the New Year and check out our new line-up of classes for 2012. Click here to view our schedule.

This January we welcome two new teachers to our studio:

Christina Matthews brings us Pre-Natal Yoga, Mom & Baby Yoga and Power Yoga.

Bizz Varty offers Pilates Lengthen & Strengthen and Fusion Fitness.

Plus our amazing current classes continue with a few small changes (see schedule for details). See you soon!

 

Inspiration: Chit Ananda by Elizabeth Lacey

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Chit Ananda
by Elizabeth Lacey 

There is no joy like the joy I felt in those brief moments,
especially the moment I realized it lives in me too.
That it wasn’t about success, status or money,
but the subtle smile my heart wore when it entered my awareness.
I reached out to touch it, and like a snowflake it was gone, wet like my tears.

Like snow accumulating on the earth, I encouraged my breath to settle. Each snowflake unique, like each being that roams the earth. I can’t touch it, own it like I would a car, a house or a sweater, it just is, and in that “isness”, it is somehow perfect.

What if my true nature is like a snowflake? Real, yet untouchable, quiet, bright enough to light up the whole world, pure white, heavy when left unattended? Designed by Mother Nature to know it’s purpose on earth.

What if I don’t need to touch it, see it, understand it, for it to be real? What if I just am it, and in that “isness”, I too am somehow perfect?

There is truth in those moments, a not so subtle smile my heart wore when it entered my awareness. I reached out to touch it and like the breath that breathed my body it was there, riding on the crest of the wave – a snowflake in summer form.  Liquid sunshine poured from my eyes as I encouraged my breath to settle.

As the waves washed over me I knew it was true. Like all beings that roam the earth, like the snowflakes that fall from the sky, I am unique, I am goodness, I am joy and in this “isness” I know it lives in me too.

 

Elizabeth  A. Lacey

January 23, 2012

Family Day Fun and Yummy Yoga – February 20th

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Family Fun and Yummy Yoga
with Lotus Why
Monday, February 20, 2012
4:00 –5:15 pm
Children ages 6-12 and adults of any age
$12 +hst per person.
 
Family members please join us for 1-1/4 hours of frolicking festivity using yoga as the inspiration. In this class you will creatively express poses, partner in poses and enjoy each others’ company in play, song and dance. Anyone you consider as family is welcome (Pets excluded – that’s another class altogether!)