Ayurveda is a traditional system of medicine that was developed in India over 5000 years ago. Ayurveda uses personal knowledge, herbs, meditation, yoga and other lifestyle choices to bring a person’s body into balance so that they can feel healthy and happy throughout life. It encourages tuning in, listening to your body and then caring for yourself rather than taking medication as a first step. Ayurvedic principles have helped many women navigate menopause and manage symptoms and they move through this phase of life. Ayurveda gives you a personalized and practical way of looking at how you’re experiencing menopause.

One of the key principles of Ayurveda is the way it divides people into three types of energies or ‘doshas’. Each dosha describes your mind/body constitution, although you can be a combination of two. This is particularly relevant at midlife because each dosha is likely to have different menopause symptoms, and you might experience a range across all the doshas. Once you know which dosha (or combination) you are, you can manage your symptoms by finding balance through diet, herb, and lifestyle change.

Join us to explore how Ayurvedic medicine can help balance your hormones and alleviate common symptoms such as hot flashes, mood swings, insomnia, indigestion, and fatigue, while minimizing bone loss.

This workshop will explain how Ayurveda and yoga therapy, hand in hand, guide you through this important transition in your life.

Speaker: Bita Bitajian: N.D. E-RYT, Ayurvedic and holistic medicine practitioner and therapist, and ayurvedic yoga specialist.

Bita’s Ayurvedica training began at the Kripalu Ayurvedic School. She then continued her training with many Ayurvedic Physicians and experts from all over North America and India including: Dr. Vasant Lad, Dr. David Frawley, Dr. Claudia Walsh, Dr. Sunil Joshi, and Dr. Jay Aptye. Bita also completed post graduate training with Dr. Lad, in Albuquerque, New Mexico where she focused on marma, pulse, and other integral aspects of Ayurveda. More recently, she has been studying at Kerala Academy of Ayurveda where she completed third level training with a specialization in digestion, Vata management and clinical studies.

Bita is the founder of Transformation Ayurvedic Center in St. Lambert, Québec, and is certified as ERYT. For more information about Bita visit us at: www.transformationyogacenter.<wbr />com

This seminar is a benefit event. All proceeds will go to insulating the dome and bringing heat and electricity to it so that we can practice together as a community for most of the year in this beautiful space. There are two price options, $60 to participate, $85 to add an additional gift toward our project.

Treat yourself to a blissful evening practice in the yoga dome with massage therapist and yoga movement specialist, Kerry Walker. Come and experience the benefits of restorative yoga and healing bodywork. This two-hour class will start with a gentle yoga sequence to warm up muscles to maximize release and relaxation. Then you will be guided into relaxing restorative yoga postures with the aid of belts, bolsters and blankets. The instructors will further relax you with massage. Class is limited to 6 people.

$50 per class.

Limit 6 participants

Pre-registration required.

Come share a week with us this summer for a hands-on, community-based exploration of mindfulness. Campers will learn and explore multi-sensory mindful activities with strong roots in creativity, breath work, yogic movement and connection to nature. These activities will help deepen self-awareness, build confidence, and strengthen emotional resilience. Let us show you how fun and empowering mindfulness practices can be in your life—FOREVER!

Ages: 7-10 (incoming 3rd-5th graders)

Who are we?

Sara Baer Farrell (also known locally as” Mrs. Baer”) is a mama of three, has taught grades K-4 locally over the last 18 years, and is a certified yoga teacher. Her life’s calling is helping others, especially children, develop self-love, presence, purpose, and community. Recently, she has left the classroom to launch her new business: Love-Led Parenting Support (sarabaer.com). It is her mission to help parents develop child-specific strategies to gain confidence, lower stress, and foster deeper connections with their children. Happy families make for a happier world! Sara is most at home around children and can’t wait to have some camp fun this summer!

Kelsey Reinhardt is a native Vermonter and has been involved in the Richmond community for multiple years. She has worked with children of all ages for over 10 years and is a certified yoga teacher with experience teaching kids yoga. Her hope is to not only deepen her own spirituality and self-care but to aid in others’ journeys of self-exploration and mindfulness. She’s hoping to create that space for growth for our campers this summer!

Join Ashley Hodgetts, a Trauma Informed Breathwork Facilitator, on June 28th at 5:45 pm for a 60-minute, in-person breathwork session in our beautiful dome!

Ashley will lead you through a meditative breathwork session where you will be using our
breath to get into the body to move and free yourself from stagnant energy. With the releasing of this energy, you simultaneously create space to receive more of what is
meant for you.

What are you ready to receive? What do you want to call into your life? Join us for this breath session to create the vision of what you desire and to embody the
feeling of already having it.

Please bring: The yoga dome has mats, blankets, bolsters and blocks. If you would prefer to use your own, please bring a yoga mat, a blanket, and pillows for comfort. Additional things you might desire:
essential oils, crystals, water, journal and pen.