Join us for a Sacred Soundbath Ceremony.
We begin with a guided meditation to settle in, becoming immersed in sound and one-on-one Reiki throughout the experience. We welcome all to spend time in community and connection and heart centered discussion following the soundbath.
Please bring a journal, water, mat, blankets, pillows, and an open mind + heart.
A sound bath consists of crystal singing bowls and sometimes other instruments that are played to promote deep relaxation, stress reduction and inner peace. The frequency of the singing bowls shifts your energetic frequency in your physical, mental and emotional bodies assisting in releasing anything not serving your highest good. We combine the sound bath with the expansive healing power of Reiki. Reiki is a Japanese energy healing technique which adds to and enhances all the benefits of the sound bath to promote a deeper healing experience.
Welcome to the magical world of Crystal Healing. In this enchanting workshop, we will review how crystals are made, how to choose the perfect crystal for specific intentions, cleansing and charging crystals properly, and using crystals to aid in healing yourself and others. Please feel free to bring your own crystals as there will be an opportunity for practicing on yourself. A gift of palo santo will be given to smudge your own crystals at home.
What is Meditation?
Meditation is finding mindfulness, stillness, joy, and peace. It offers an ability to look inward and connect to your divine, enlightenment, and universe.
Numerous studies have shown that meditation is an effective stress-management tool, ultimately reprogramming the brain to the extent that meditators end up with more capacity to manage stress. Not only is meditation a path to self awareness and compassion, but it is also a guide to better health.
Some Benefits:
- Lowers blood pressure
- Higher ability to focus
- Better sleep
- More mindful in speaking/reacting
- Mental discipline
- Decreased anxiety and depression
- Improved relationships
- Ability to better handle stress
- Quieting of the mind so that you can better hear Self
- Improved memory
- Greater compassion for self, others, and all around
In this workshop Jami and Michelina will share history of meditation, meditation basics, techniques, different types of meditation, and setting up your own meditation practice. They will also facilitate you through multiple forms of meditation, as you can then connect to what best practices serve you. You will receive tools and ways of developing routines and rituals to more easily tap into your meditation practice and path.
Learn how to incorporate a yoga wall into a mat yoga practice with Vayu Yoga Level 1 Yoga-Align Teacher Intensive. This training consists of a 20-hour training intensive plus practice and self-study, to learn how to safely and effectively teach yoga wall classes. Yoga-Align incorporates the Yoga Wall into a mat practice, enhancing alignment, traction and decompression. Yoga-Align sequences will be taught, as well as tips on necessary pre-requisites for the practitioners, based on their body anatomy and converging histories. My goal is to give you the knowledge and information to safely and successfully offer yoga wall classes as a part of your program or personal practice.
Successful completion of the training and mentorship will lead to a Yoga-Align Level 1 Teaching Certification. Non-contact hours include observing 4 Wonderful Wall Yoga classes, assisting in 2 Wonderful Wall Yoga classes, and 4 hours of documents self-study (with yoga wall), will equate successful completion of the course. This course is open to certified yoga teachers with a minimum of 200-hour RYT, and a minimum of 6 months of teaching experience.
Find your yoga, emerge from the heart.
In My Yoga Teacher Training you will dive within and lead from the portal of the heart - personal consciousness, wisdom, intuition, and love. This is a time in your life to open yourself to the vastness of possibility available to you - a gateway toward your purpose, grounding with clarity of who you are - and who you are becoming. My Yoga teacher training will keenly connect to the inner yoga and study of self. The inward focus will enrich & deepen your yoga alongside the path of expanding your practice & developing into an authentic teacher - shining your energy and heart within & alongside the rich yoga heritage.
The lineage of this school streams from Astanga & Bhakti - but this training will infuse alternate descents + focus on your essence & experience, your yoga.
The forefront of this training will begin with honor in the foundations of Philosophy + History of yoga alongside a practical approach to teaching. You will begin to study & cue the yoga asanas & pranayama in week two and throughout the rest of the yoga school. You will develop your niche in teaching & sprinkle in themes + your heart.
Furthermore, study and absorption of Chakras, Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, Pranayama, Music & Mantra, Meditation, Prenatal Yoga, Anatomy, Physiology, Biomechanics, Koshas, Mudras, Business of Yoga, Unique sequencing, Hands on Adjustments, and so much more will be a part of this beautiful journey.
The intention of this school being a 5.5 month program is that you not only learn how to teach yoga, but you live yoga, you become yoga - you find your yoga & emerge from the heart!
Created by Michelina Payetta + guest teachers Madison Canary-Onufer & Wendy Hassenpflug in 2023-2024. Offered with immense love & gratitude for the practice of yoga & all who were the teachers who taught the students - who became teachers - who taught the students…as the ancestry continues with My Yoga Teacher Training.