An Introduction to Vini Yoga & it's Therapeutic Applications

AT YOGA BLEND
2918 1/2 Magnolia Blvd.
SATURDAY AUGUST 26TH
1:30 - 4 p.m.

$30 before August 15, $35 thereafter
with Susan Raglin
C.Y.T. Certified Yoga Rx Therapist

Vini Yoga is a versatile and therapeutic style that encourages each individual to work up to their personal potential, at their own pace. It is about adapting each pose for each individual's needs. Susan's style is ideal for all students - beginning through advanced - and for those who have back problems, injuries, and other chronic health issues.

In this comprehensive workshop we will address the common areas that affect most people: the neck and shoulders and the pelvis and low back areas. Students will also explore how to adapt common asanas and modify them for the individual's specific needs.

Benefits of Vini Yoga:

* Improve Flexibility
* Increase Respiratory Capacity
* Increase Energy
* Reduce Stress
* Create Deep Relaxation
* Increase Strength
* Relieve Pain and Muscle Tension
* Improve Circulation
* Improve Health

Dance of Yoga

Warm up, using Yoga, moving into the art of hand gestures (mudras) . Into slow dance movement from your center within, letting the music move you. We will explore dance through different cultures. African, Hawaiian, Classical Indian, Ancient Hula, & modern expressive dance.

-develop your inner core strength and move from there into the dance. Allowing an attitude of exploration into your inner self and giving your expressive self freedom to express from the depths of your soul. Profound joy, sadness, anger, fear, ecstasy . Be present for and with yourself and embrace whatever you discover.

Let your mind go and trust and follow your instincts and intuition. Release, let go, and embrace and integrate a new way of being in your body and moving from within. Feel held in the embrace of a loving presence and supported by others to be all you were intended to be. let your spirit move you wherever you need to go and celebrate your Dance of Life.

This class/workshop is suitable to all levels and only requires a desire to dance and move. Beginner's welcome!!!

A Yin and Restorative Yoga Workshop

Yin Yoga is a style of Yoga that uses deeply held poses for up to five minutes to stretch, not only the muscles , but to get to the myofascial connective tissue that surrounds all the muscles in the whole body. Myo means muscle and fascia is the fibrous bands of connective tissue around the muscles. By stretching and freeing the fascia, tension on bones, muscles, joints and nerves is relieved. This helps release deeply held tension and allows areas of trauma or injury to gently heal by bringing circulation and prana (life force/energy) into these deeply protected areas.

We will warm up gently so the body is prepared to deeply stretch and release. Then in the second half of the workshop we will go into deep restorative poses and allow the body to rejuvenate, renew, and deeply relax.

In this workshop we will address the common areas that affect most people: the neck and shoulders and the pelvis and low back areas.

* Improve Flexibility
* Increase Respiratory Capacity
* Increase Energy
* Reduce Stress
* Relieve Pain and Muscle Tension
* Improve Circulation
* Improve Health
* Create Deep Relaxation

**Susan Raglin is a Certified Yoga Rx Therapist and is a member of the Yoga Therapists Association. With over 20 years experience, she has worked for such clients as Dreamworks and the Esalen Institute . She was also the director for the J. Paul Getty Museum.