Monthly Plant-Powered Cooking Class
With Elaine Bryan
Of Body and Soul Nourishment
Monday, May 23^rd
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 on Friday.

This month’s theme is Mexican Food!

Dishes:

Tacos
Carmel Cookies
Cabbage Slaw with Honey Lime Vinaigrette
Awesome Sauce

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.

World of Dance Series
With Karin Hoffman
4 Wednesdays in May
May 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th
2:00pm – 3:30pm (PST)
Via Zoom

Workout while having fun with a culturally diverse dance experience! Explore simple repetitive movement choreography of popular street and line dances from Africa, India and Pakistan. Discover lively dance moves and music from the heart of West Africa, Ethiopia and South Africa. Learn creative hand gestures and the joy of Bollywood dance. Increase stamina and feel community joy as we dance together with enthusiasm!

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.

Hope Moves You Series
With Jennifer Sposato
4 Thursdays in May: 5th, 12th, 19th & 26th
11:00am – 12:00pm (PST)
Via Zoom

Join us for a low-impact exercise class that meets you where you are abilty-wise. This class is a mix of strength, pilates and qigong.

Jennifer Sposato has been teaching group fitness and personal trainer for 12 years. She holds multiple certifications in nutrition, medical fitness, corrective exercise, TRX and cycle. She is a 2-year breast cancer survivor. This experience prompted her to get her cancer exercise specialist, breast cancer recovery specialist, menopause nutrition and exercise specialist certifications. She is also a qigong practitioner and a certified reiki master who loves incorporating essential oils into her practices.

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

Blooming Beauty
With Marlu Soria
4 Thursdays in May: 5th, 12th, 19th and 26th
4:00pm-5:30pm (PST)
Via Zoom

Are you ready for a transformation? Are you transitioning into your “new normal” and are wondering what are the first steps? Maybe feeling a little disconnected from yourself? Are you wanting to reconnect with who you really are or maybe create a deeper relationship with yourself? If you answered Yes to any of these questions, this is the series for you! Register once and join the classes you can in this wonderful series led by Accountability Coach and Beauty Expert Marla Soria.

Week 1: Creating Conscious Self Care Practices
In this session we will learn how to incorporate conscious self-care practices into our daily personal care routines. For example, when washing our hands, taking a moment to be present to all the work and support our hands provide for us throughout the day and expressing gratitude. Or when cleansing our face at night before bed saying things like, “I wash away all those thoughts and conversations that didn’t serve me and others today. I forgive myself and others for any transgressions. I end my day cleansed and free from worry to wake up anew.”

Week 2: Breathwork as an access to self-care
Breathwork is a powerful practice to access our body’s innate intelligence to heal itself. Through the use of deep, rhythmic breathing we can move our minds and bodies out of fight or flight and into the parasympathetic nervous system. Breathwork can reduce stress, anxiety, grief, depression and anger. It can also increase energy levels and boost our immune system. Breathwork can also reduce pain, release toxins from the body and increase happiness and joy.

Week 3: Mirror Work for Self-Love and Self-Compassion
Mirror Work has been one of the most challenging yet one of the most impactful practices to elevate my own self-acceptance and self-love. A mirror work practice cultivates self-compassion and its simple requirements ask only for our time, a mirror, and willingness to be open to vulnerability and what’s possible. This week we learn about Mirror Work practice as an access to self-love, self-compassion, and mental well-being.

Week 4: The Power of Visualization
Visualization is creating mental pictures in your mind of an outcome you want to achieve. We will speculate and discover what is an outcome we want to achieve and begin to “paint a picture” to use in visualization. Then we will go through a guided visualization to create a foundation for a visualization practice that can be used any time. Having a regular image to refer to will make it easier than having to create a new image over and over again ensuring the likelihood of a regular practice.

Marlu Soria is a Mindset and Accountability Coach | Conscious Beauty Expert committed to shifting the beauty standard with women 40-65 while empowering them to live a life of their dreams. With over a decade as a Beauty Expert in beauty, fashion, and celebrity red carpet, Marlu has also coached hundreds of people in communication and transformation elevating their relationships to one’s self and the world around them.

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