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Discover THE “FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH” By DASHAMA
May 19-26, 2012
- 8 DAY YOGA CHAKRA SEQUENCES WITH THAI YOGA MASSAGE THERAPY incorporating yoga, fitness, healthy diet and detox energy diet.
- visits to Dubrovnik and the ancient walls of Ston – second in length only to the Great Wall of China – where you can taste the unique Stons oysters, considered the most powerful aphrodisiac in the world. This will be a holiday – and a workshop – to remember!
Pranashama Yoga is Dashama’s Unique Fusion style combining ancient wisdom and technique with modern science and healthy lifestyle practices. Most notably distinguished by her signature 7 Chakra Balancing Yoga Sequences, Detox Yoga Flow, Partner Yoga and Self Massage / Healing with Yin, Pranashama Yoga is the Sacred Life force energy that stills the mind and creates harmony with the Universe. Designed to balance, heal, strengthen, tone, stretch and expand your body, mind and soul.
Dashama’s innovative yoga style combines the most effective and powerful techniques from ashtanga, power, vinyasa, kundalini, thai, and tantra yoga lineages with martial arts, dance, functional fitness core training and love. Offering 200 & 500 hour Yoga Alliance approved Yoga Teacher Training Certification Retreat Programs in Bali, Indonesia, Central America, Europe, Croatia and many locations globally.
Dashama is an internationally known Yoga Teacher, Lifestyle Coach, Producer/Author - 5 full length instructional DVDs, as well as 2 Ebooks, 2 self published books and 150 tutorial and inspirational videos. She is a Founder of the Pranashama Yoga Institute, Global 30 Day Yoga Challenge, Perfect 10 Lifestyle online community and Yoga for Foster Children. Dashama is an innovator in the field of yoga, mind/body transformation and healing. Her personal approach to yoga as a lifestyle and life path to healing, awakening to more joy, love and abundance on all levels is unique and highly sought after.
For more information about Dashama please visit:
www.Dashama.com
www.perfect10lifestyle.com
Price includes accommodation, meals (beginning the night before the day the workshop starts), all classes, visits to Dubrovnik and the ancient walls of Ston.
Chi Gong, Partner Yoga & The 5Rhythm Dance Meditation Practice:
Ellen Watson & Daniela Urbassek
June 25-29 2012
Moving through the waves of the 5Rhythms is a spiritual practice of self-discovery illuminating the essence of life on and off the dance floor. Organic movement through a dancing body reveals endless inner reflections. The body expresses through movement what it may not communicate or reveal in other ways. Releasing through a body in motion invites rhythmic balance between right and left, feminine and masculine, input and output, parasympathetic and sympathetic, harmony and disharmony. Developing strong roots through your feet on the ground and letting go to the beat supports this process.
As the physical body releases through rhythmic movement, the mental constructs relax. Chatter ceases. Dancing through the 5Rhythms helps people get out of their heads. The mind becomes liberated. "If you put the psyche in motion, it will heal itself."
Integration within the mind-body opens a gateway for the spirit to expand. The 5Rhythms are a catalyst into an embodied presence where spiritual awakening occurs. Deep experiences in soulful states provide insights into identity and purpose. Dancing the 5Rhythms helps people experience the bigger picture by returning to and connecting with their truest essence. This remembering contains profound healing.
For more information on 5 Rhythms Ecstatic Dance & Body Movement contact our Esalen® Teacher Ellen Watson at: Ellen@movingventures.org
An experiential introduction to TRE (Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises) with Maria Alfaro
July 8, 2012
9:30am-4:00pm (lunch break 12:30-2:00pm)
TRE was developed by David Berceli, a bionergetic therapist and social worker, who has used it successfully all over the world for more than two decades, working with soldiers, fire fighters, police officers and survivors of war, earthquakes, domestic violence and other traumatic circumstances to help alleviate the many symptoms of stress and post-traumatic stress disorder.
What is TRE
TRE is a gentle, simple and profound technique that facilitates the lengthening and relaxation of the Psoas Muscle. This relaxation provides a very effective release of physical and emotional tension and stress. The Psoas muscle is a very thick, deep and stubborn muscle that acts as a guardian of our lower belly. It contracts in response to life small and big traumatic experiences. A tight Psoas can cause many problems including sciatica and neck and lower back pain, just to mention a few.
How does TRE work
The TRE exercises work the legs, tiring them and creating a trembling response which begins in the legs and often spreads throughout the body. This gentle (and sometime vigorous) shaking is actually the nervous system way of discharging long held tension or unconscious muscle contraction in order to restore the body to wholeness.
Some of the benefits you may expect from TRE:
Discharge of buried emotional and physical trauma
Shake loose unconscious involuntary muscular contraction
Improved mood and decrease of aches and pain
The healing of sciatica and fibromyalgia
Release of deep chronic tension and increase of overall energy
Increased flexibility
This workshop is designed to introduce the participants to the theory and the practice of TRE and to empower them to practice on their own. During the class we will do the Exercises twice and we will discuss the theory behind them. We will also have time to address people's questions and concerns.
This class is suitable for people of all ages and level of fitness as the TRE exercises can be modified to accommodate anybody's needs.
About the teacher
Maria Alfaro has been designated as one of five TRE trainers in the United States by Dr David Berceli, the creator of TRE. Maria has a background in Yoga, Martial Arts and Esalen Massagee. She has been training with Dr. Berceli since 2004 and teaching his work ever since.
For more information please visit:
www.TREcalifornia.com
www.traumaprevention.com
If you have any questions or concerns about the class please contact Maria:
maria@TREcalifornia.com
TRE Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises Workshop and Level I TRE Training with Maria Alfaro
July 8, 2012
Friday, July 27th 9:30am-5:30pm
Saturday, July 28th 9:30am-5:30pm
Sunday, July 29th 9:30am-5:30pm
TRE is a set of exercises based on neurological, biological and anatomical functioning following trauma and chronic tension. These exercises are drawn from non-traditional therapeutic approaches such as bioenergetics, tai chi, yoga and other eastern practices.
TRE is designed to tap into the body's natural functioning to process the internalized effect of trauma.
This certification is especially appropriate for those who seek tools to aid their clients of for anyone who seeks to understand and heal chronic tension and trauma.
The Level One Training prepares the practitioner to lead individual safely through the Exercises and it is the initial requirement for the Level 1 Certification. Enrolling in the Certification Program is not a requirement for taking this training. If you are not interested in being certified and you are only participating for your own personal healing you will not have to fulfill any additional requirements after the training.
For questions, concerns about this class and additional information about the TRE Certification Program please visit www.trecalifornia.com or contact Maria at maria@TREcalifornia.com Maria' s website is www.TREcalifornia.com
Maria Alfaro teaches TRE since 2004 and she is one of David Berceli's certified trainers. She is a native Italian who lives in Santa Cruz, California. She has a background in Yoga, Martial Arts and Esalen Massage.
175 HR Certification Training in Esalen® Massage August 24, 2013 – September 22, 2013
Esalen® Massage is a unique form of bodywork developed over the past forty-five years. Known for its long, integrating strokes that create an experience of deep relaxation, the Esalen® approach supports the natural ability of body and mind to self-heal. 
This training is for those who plan to professionally pursue massage or another type of body-mind discipline, as well as for those seeking an in-depth experience in bodywork. It offers the big picture of the Esalen approach: an inter-weave of body-mind-spirit, sensory awareness practice, meditation, psychological aspects, self-care, and more.
Participants will study massage as a tool for optimal well-being and stress reduction, as well as a valued component of transpersonal growth. The teachers distill more than a half-century of experience to offer 175 hours of comprehensive massage basics: centering skills, quality of touch, lengthening integrative strokes, movement and stretches, detailed structural work, and an energetically balanced approach to massage. Anatomy will be taught experientially as well as in lecture format. Students will also have ample time for guided practice with each other. Body mechanics, self-care, and presence will be emphasized.
Upon satisfactory completion, and after documenting thirty additional massages at your home site, an Esalen® Massage Bodywork Association Certificate will be issued. The certification fee is $150.00 USD. Enrolling in the Certification Program is not a requirement for taking this training. If you are not interested in being certified and you are only participating for your own personal healing you will not have to fulfill any additional requirements after the training.
For Course information email: ellen@movingventues.org or Call Bianca at 805-895-8537 (Pacific time)
You will experience in your own body the qualities of aliveness and flowing presence central to this method. The atmosphere and culture of Croatia fit well with our intention to teach this method as a path toward healing, self exploration and transformation.
“The most important aspect of Esalen® massage, style wise or technique wise, is not technique at all, but the quality of the touch.” - Peggy Horan
LEARN FROM THE BEST AND MEET WITH LIKE MINDED PEOPLE FROM AROUND THE WORLD
Join us for this very special four week journey with this extraordinary instructor!
Learning the art of Esalen® Massage is an experience that often changes lives. Whether you intend to create a new career path, deepen your knowledge of bodywork, or spend time healing yourself through touch, our time together is sure to stay with you for years to come. Having taught certification courses in Bali for a number of years, we notice the lasting power of these memories - for some, as a healing recollection of new friendships made in the extraordinary Balinese landscape; for others, a time of self-exploration and transformation. Enrolling in the Certification Program is not a requirement for taking this training. If you are not interested in being certified and you are only participating for your own personal healing you will not have to fulfill any additional requirements after the training.
Our hearts will convey our experience through our hands as we learn to heal ourselves and others using this wonderfully effective method called Esalen® Massage.
Certification Training Cost starting at $5,500.00.
Price includes FOUR WEEK accommodations & most meals, training materials, oils, lotions, training manual, very nice gift bag.
Additional costs: airfare (approx. $1,000- $1,500 USD), dinners out (approx. $200 USD), snorkel/scuba($40-100 USD), other excursions($100USD) and shopping.
Travel Insurance: We require travel insurance for your journey to Croatia. There are many travel insurance companies; STA Travel (www.statravel.com) and AAA (www.aaa.com) for affordable worldwide travel insurance.
For Course information email: ellen@movingventues.org or Bianca@healingartscroatia.com or Call Bianca at 805-895-8537 (Pacific time)
For Location/Accommodations info. go to:
http://www.healingartscroatia.com/students/makarska-riviera.php
For Excursions info. go to:
http://www.healingartscroatia.com/students/excursions.php
Sign up now for Early Bird Special if paid in full by December 7, 2012 $4,999.00.
Check or money wire only. For all wire transfers please add $30USD to cover wire fees.
If paid by January 7th 2013 $5,150.00, check or money wire (for wire transfer add $30USD to cover fees) only.
Whether your intent is to explore a change of career, deepen your knowledge of bodywork, or to spend time on a journey of self-exploration and transformation, the skills and knowledge gained may last a lifetime.
The workshop will provide ample time for discussion and attention to individual challenges. This is a professional training program with limited admission.
This retreat is designed for EveryBody - for family members, for partners, for healing arts professionals, and anyone desiring to re-open their hearts, for those new to yoga, dance, & touching another with skilled & loving presence.
CE credit for bodyworkers and yoga teachers.
If paid by credit card there is a 4% credit card fee.