Monthly Plant-Powered Cooking Class
With Elaine Bryan
Of Body and Soul Nourishment
Monday, September 19^th
4:00pm – 5:30pm (PST)
via Zoom

If you’ve been wanting to start incorporating delicious, healthy and plant-powered meals into your routine, join us for our monthly cooking class with Elaine!  All dairy and gluten free! Recipes will be emailed to all registrants.

Dishes:

Jackfruit Tacos
Awesome Sauce
Easy GF Tortillas
Cabbage Slaw with Honey Lime Vinaigrette
Raw Tahini Energy Bites

Elaine Bryan is a nutrition counselor and herbalist, beginning her studies in nutrition and herbs in 1998.  Elaine is a certified health coach with Dr. William Sears and Certified Holistic Cancer educator with CACE, the Center of Advanced Cancer Education.  She is passionate about sharing the benefits of incorporating an abundance of plant foods into our daily lives and assists others in growing their own plants either in ground or on the state-of-the-art vertical tower garden growing systems.  Elaine teaches educational plant-based meal prep classes in Carlsbad CA a number of times per month and includes demos, recipes and yummy food tastings! Elaine Bryan is also Registered yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance since 2008, teaching primary gentle hatha yoga in various locations around north county San Diego. To learn more about Elaine, please visit: www.bodyandsoulnourishment.com

Email Indyra: [email protected] for more information on how to attend.

Balance and Align with Chakra Yoga
With Karen Apostolina
4 Tuesdays in September
Sept 6^th, 13^th, 20^th & 27^th
2:00pm – 3:00pm (PST)
Via Zoom

The Chakra system (or systems as there are many) has been used for centuries to bring attention to different energy centers in the body. In this 4-week series taught by Karen Apostolina, each class will include an introduction to one or more of the chakras and gentle guided practices to connect with its qualities. We will utilize physical poses as well as the subtle work of visualization, breathwork and meditation to bring loving awareness to these energies and harness their power for healing.

Karen Apostolina is a Yoga Alliance E-RYT 500 ® and a Yoga Therapist through Loyola Marymount Yoga Therapy Rx program. She is also a certified Y4c- Yoga4cancer Senior Teacher and a Relax and Renew™ Trainer. Karen works with cancer patients and survivors to strengthen their immunity, reduce the side effects of treatments, ease stress and activate their natural capacity for healing.

Email Indyra: [email protected] for more information on how to attend.

Listen, Learn & Love Your Body Series
With Suzan Tusson-McNeil
Of Wisdom Quest Arts and Coaching
4 Wednesdays in September:
Sept 7^th, 14^th, 21^st & 28^th
10:00am – 11:30am (PST)
via Zoom

In this Listen, Learn and Love Your Body Playshop September Series you can:

Learn powerful ways to listen to your body’s wisdom.
Explore what you need to feel healthier with less pain and more energy.
Discover easy, creative techniques for your well-being that you can do on your own.
Have fun and gain insight. This is not an art class. There is no artistic talent required for this work – we focus on the healing aspect of creating art.

Participate in an engaging, experiential expressive arts program which includes:

Sept 7: A Body Scan Meditation
Sept 14: Authentic Movement (without sound) (you do what feels safe)
Sept 21: Reflective Writing and optional Art Making
Sept 28: Art Journaling and Movement with Art (you do what feels safe)

Suzan Tusson-McNeil is a woman of vibrant energy and passion for helping women tap into their own innate wisdom. She is the Founder of Wisdom Quest Arts and Coaching and is certified both as an Expressive Arts Coach/Facilitator and as a Life and Wellness Coach. Suzan has been developing and leading insightful and fun well-being playshops for women since 2001. She is the author of Women at P.L.A.Y! (Peace, Love and Acceptance of Yourself after 40), to help women learn to put themselves first. Suzan considers herself a life adventurer having been married at the top of Mount Whitney (14,495 feet), traveled to over 60 countries (sometimes solo), and has been pursuing her passion as a performer after age 50. To learn more, you may visit her website: https://suzantussonmcneil.com/

Email Indyra: [email protected] for more information on how to attend.

Move into Balance Series
With Karin Hoffman
4 Thursdays in September
Sep 1^st, 8^th, 22^nd & 29^th
Please note: there is no class on Sep 15^th
4:00pm – 5:30pm (PST)
Via Zoom

Creatively explore and encourage held stress patterns in the body and mind to “let go” through movement. Zone into your inner experiences as you move in and out of balance and imbalance, holding and releasing, effort and ease, discord and tranquility. This is body expression from our internal state. All levels welcome.

Karin Hoffman, C-IAYT, YTRX 500C, E-RYT 500 is a cancer survivor who emerged from her own struggle through yoga. Her personal understanding of health challenges allows her to teach from a place of compassion. She supports her students in a safe practice, to encourage self-confidence through the expression of movement

Karin is a certified Yoga Therapist C-IAYT. She teaches and has taught Yoga Therapy, Belly Dance and Movement Therapy to Oncology Patients at TCRF, Cedars Sinai, Brandman Breast Center, Center for Radiation, and Healing Odyssey programs. She served 6-years as Stress Management Specialist for UCLA’s Ornish Program for Reversing Heart Disease, and conducted Yoga Therapy workshops for UCLA’s Integrative Medical Collaborative. Karin is a staff instructor for Loyola Marymount’s Yoga Therapy Rx program, teaching Yoga for the Cardiovascular System.

Email Indyra: [email protected] for more information on how to attend.

Monthly Yoga Nidra
With Sharon Holly
Thursday, September 22^nd
7:00pm – 8:00pm (PST)
Via Zoom

Yoga Nidra is an ancient meditation practice that uses your innate biological process of sleep, to access the deepest state of consciousness where it can attain restoration on all levels of your body and being.  You will be guided through a series of breath and awareness techniques that support the body in releasing physical, mental and/or emotional tension.

This practice allows the body to enter the space between wakefulness and sleep unlocking your healing potential. This ancient yogic technique effortlessly takes you to a state of deep relaxation where you may change your relationship to pain, habits, and stressful situations.   With practice it can provide you the capacity to move through life with greater ease and peace no matter what the external circumstances are around you.

It is typically done lying down on the floor, couch or bed, but can also be done in a recliner or comfortable chair.  Each class will start with a short lesson followed by Q&A. The actual meditation will be approximately 40 minutes.   Benefits of Yoga Nidra have been reported to support better sleep, decrease pain, anxiety, blood pressure as well as increase energy, mood and overall well-being.

ALL LEVELS WELCOME and no prior experience is needed.

Sharon Holly is a Living Beauty, Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT) & y4c (yoga for cancer) instructor.  On her healing journey with breast cancer in 2011, Sharon found the Living Beauty Serenity Yoga Retreat not only a tremendous part of her healing process but also inspirational, setting her on the path of her life’s purpose…teaching fellow survivors/thrivers.  She currently teaches small group classes and private yoga therapy sessions online, through her own company, Healing Breath Yoga Therapy as well as through various yoga studios, PT offices and cancer centers including: TCRF/Magnolia House, CSC-LA, Cedars-Sinai/THO & Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute/Cedars-Sinai with Alison Crowley.  Teaching fellow surviving thrivers is the most fulfilling job thus far in her life.  She feels blessed to be able to give back the gifts that were so readily given to her and continue to help her heal. Sharon holds certifications in both adult and children’s yoga as an E-RYT/CYT-500, Amrit Yoga Nidra, Certified TRE® and The Resilience Toolkit Provider and is a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists. To view a schedule of ONLINE classes, please visit: http://www.sharonholly.com/

Email Indyra: [email protected] for more information on how to attend.