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Feb. Break Week Studio Specials Feb. 20,22, 23

Tuesday, February 7th, 2012

Opening Lotus Yoga will be closed for its regular weekly yoga classes the week of Feb. 18-25.  We have 3 very  special offerings during that week , listed below.

Monday Feb. 20, 6-7:15 pm OPENING YOUR HEART WITH KUNDALINI YOGA with Dalilah Rain

Fee : $15.00  This class can be used as a makeup for current students.

Join Dalilah in this Heart Opening Kundalini Kriya. Through a sequence of mantras, mudras , pranayama and physical movements, you will activate the energy of your Heart Chakra to increase your Awareness of this vital integrative Chakra as well as invite greater healing and balance into your life. Open to All.

Wed. Feb. 22: 5:30-7:30 pm Warm Your Spirit with Sun Salutations Celebration of HOPE with Sarah~ Fundraiser for the American Cancer Society

Donation Fee $ 27 (all fees will to to ACS). Sarah will lead a gently paced Sun Salutation (Surya Namaskara ) Flow with each side counting as one set.

Pausing at 27 and 54 for a few moments of reflection. Students can choose to take their savasana at any time. This gathering will end with the 61 points of Light for deep relaxation.

Thurs. Feb. 23: 6:30-8:30 pm Purification Flow Through the Chakras with Anne

Fee: $25. Register Early by Feb. 15 and receive $ 5.00 discount!

Through mantras, mudras , pranayama and asana flows , we will journey through the’ rainbow bridge’ to the soul, the 7 chakras from root to crown,elevating your vibrational field. Open to all without pain or injury.

To Register: Sign up clipboards are in the studio. If interested Contact Opening Lotus Yoga.

Feb. Break Week Workshop: Mantra,Mudra, Asana & Pranayama- Purification Flow Immersion

Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

Thurs. Feb. 23, 2012

   6-8pm

  Fee ;Drop- in $ 25.  ***Register Early by Feb. 15 and receive $ 5.00 discount!

 Immerse yourself in an energy purification practice merging powerful mantra and mudras to activate the subtle bodies, asana to open the path of energy flow and pranayama to magnify the pranic flow!  We will begin in the Root Chakra (muladhara) and travel along the central energetic channel , Sushumna, to the Crown chakra of Infinate Light!

Open to All with a minimum of one year yoga experience. Please bring your own mat.

Winter 2012- Spiritual Book Study Group-Falling into Grace by Adyashanti

Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

Sundays: 3-5 pm   Dates: Jan 15 & 29, Feb. 12 & 26, March 11 & 25

Fee: $ 15. Drop-in; Series of 6 for $ 60.00

Pre -Registration is Required: Students are responsible for purchasing the Book: Falling into Grace By Adhyashanti available at www.soundstrue.com and or www.amazon.com

 

Facilitator: Anne Duffey -Director of Opening Lotus Yoga

Format of Book Study: We will meet every two weeks through the winter  with several chapters assigned reading. We will have an open circle of discussion on the principles shared within the book as well  opportunity to share personal experiences with your meditative practice. We will end with some gentle yoga and silent meditation.

I am pleased to offer our first spiritual book study group. Adyashanti is a contemporary realized non-dualism teacher who has informed my practice greatly.  We will explore the meditative and conscious insights in his latest book: Falling into Grace- Insights on the End of Suffering (Sounds True Inc. 2011)

‘ Adyashanti asks us to let go of our struggles with life and open to the full promise of spiritual awakening, the end of delusion and discovery of our essential being.  In Falling into Grace, Adyashanti shares what he considers fundamental insights that will ” spark a revolution in the way we perceive life”

 The book study format will include open discussion of the chapters focuses, personal sharing of how your meditative practice is unfolding and how to integrate and embody the spiritual awakening of releasing identity with ego.

Areas of  exploration,discussion and practice:

  • ‘The Human Dilemma’-Concept of Seperate self and the choice to stop believing the thoughts that create seperation and suffering
  • Taking the Backward Step” Into the pure potential of the present moment.
  • ‘Why Spiritual Awakening can be a Disturbing Process’
  • ‘Intimacy and Availability’-Feeling absolute union (the true meaning of yoga) with every part of our experience
  • ‘True Autonomy’: the unique expression of our own sense of freedom..

 This is a wonderful opportunity to advance your practice within a satsang (supportive group) . I encourage your exploration.

Winter 2012 Heated Detox Vinyasa Flow Monthly Immersion

Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

Fri .6;30-8:30 pm  Fee: $ 25. ea.  Series of 3/$60.00

 All Levels: This is a vigorous practice in an 80 degree heated room. Bring a towel,  dress in layers, hydrate before class and bring water, a mat and refrain from a full meal two hours prior to class.

 Heat up through breath, asana, mantra and pranayama to release stored tension and open to your natural pranic energy flow. This immersion will invite you to explore your edge, physcially, mentally and emotionally. By releasing what is unessential we access the essential energy of our Being! Come prepared to sweat, resonate and glow. Great monthly winter detox opportunity.

Pre-Registration is Required with the Fee submitted to hold a space.

Living the Lotus Life- An Advanced Course of Yoga Embodiment

Sunday, December 19th, 2010

Join Anne Duffey, Director and founder of Opening Lotus Yoga for this 16 hour Yoga Immersion Course on Living The Lotus Life. The Lotus symbolic of pure consciousness that is not affected by the energies of the world emerges through the accumulated and created muck of our lives. Through this 4 experiencial embodiment course is focused for students with 2- 3 years of yoga and an established daily meditation practice. Students interested in this course should have experience with asana, pranayama, knowledge of the yamas and niyamas, the 8-Limb Path of Patanjali as well as a strong willingness and desire to journey to the next level of embodied consciousness.

All four modules must be taken. This course is not suitable for drop-ins.

Sundays 1-5pm Fee $ 295.00 Early Registration Discount 10 % by Jan. 5 .

Dates; Jan 16, Feb, 6, Feb. 27, March 13, 2011

Modules:
1. Jan. 16. Accessing Your Divine Being:

Initiating a daily yoga maha sadhana including clarifying intention, consistent practice of specific asana, pranayama and meditation for 30 days with journaling energetic observations. Integrating the 8 limbs of Patanjali within your practice as well as daily living.

Module # 2 Feb. 6: Activation of Your Divine Being

Clearing the body temple through nutritional alignment, hydration, Ayurvedic kriyas, asana and pranayama. Detoxing the mind through Japa Mantra and initiating a 40 Day Japa sadhana practice to facilitate clearing and releasing unessential energies as well as invitation to explore various levels of nutritional simplification by observing a short period of time eliminating one category of less optimal energy sources: ie, meat protein, dairy, wheat and sugar and caffeine. As the body-minds vibration increases, the body temple requires pure whole foods nourishment.
Module # 3 Awakening Your Subtle Energy Anatomy

Activation and clearing of the seven sacred energy chakras through Bija mantras, meditation, chakra specific asana, pranayama, yoga nidra and creating a chakra healing
puja. Students will integrate the many levels of Saucha or purification.
* Students will complete an individualized chakra inventory questionaire prior to this class enabling for specific chakra balancing and healing.
Module # 4: Awakening to Presence: Integration~ Living the Lotus Life

“The most salient feature of consciousness as it gravitates and anchors in motionless is luminosity”- Cliff Hartranft- The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

By clearing and dis-identifying from what we are not(non-attachment) we rediscover the essential core of our Being, revealing the embodiment of consciousness to blossom in any condition. Living the Lotus Life reveals ‘ being in the world, but not of it’. Aligning with that which is whole, holy and eternal. This module will introduce the importance of Sangha-spiritual community, communing in deep silence and surrender. Activation of the transformational practice of Intuitive Life Visioning will be taught as a tool to live your life aligned with SAT NAM.

If interested in Enrolling: Please Submit Your Fee to Opening Lotus Yoga
For More Information: Please Contact Annd Duffey at openinglotusyoga@gmail.com

Private Energy Healing Sessions

Saturday, August 21st, 2010

Opening Lotus Yoga offers private and semi- private energy healing sessions in a comfortable smaller room to assure privacy and safety. Choose from the following options;

1. Private Yoga Session with Anne 1 hr. 65.00  90 min. $ 80.00 Private sessions can address specific health challenges whether from chronic stress,illness,  injury, surgery recovery or life span issues  in a highly individualized focus to engage the highly therapeutic tools yoga has to offer including breath work, guided visualizations and meditation, pain reducing methods and yoga postures to detox and clear energetic blocks. Often individuals begin with a few privates session to assess their readiness to join the group energy of a class. Read more »

Restorative Yoga Immersion Class With Reiki Fri.6:30-9pm

Sunday, June 6th, 2010

R&R is temporarily on hold until the Spring. New dates TBA.

6:30-9pm $ 40.00.

Advanced Registration Required: Please send your fee to the studio to hold a space. These immersions always sell out in advance. Read more »

Community Yoga Class

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

Winter 2012 Schedujle- Time 11am -12:15 pm

1/ 8 Kundalini Yoga with Dalilah

2/5  Power Vinyasa Flow with Erin

3/4  Mantra/ Asana/ Chakra Flow with Anne


$5.00 – All Levels, All Welcomed

All proceeds will benefit local Charities Read more »

Yin Yoga Monthly Full Moon Immersion

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

Fri.  : 7:00-9:30pm Fee:$30 each.

9:00-9:30 pm Liver Cleanse tea & refreshments offered.

Winter 2012 Series:  Jan 13, Feb 10, March 9

Explore the profoundly quiet yet dynamic Taoist Practice of Yin Yoga with Anne in this monthly Full Moon immersion class. Read more »