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June Yoga Workshops and Upcoming Events

Please contact the yoga teacher directly for details and registration.


Interior Wellness Festival - Hosted by Let's Move Yoga Studio Thompson River University, Kamloops, BC, June 1st - 3rd 2012. For more information go to www.InteriorWellness.com or to www.facebook.com/events/270972892967720/.

3 Days of Transformational Wellness. Yoga & fitness classes, health and wellness workshops, healing garden, entertainment and more


Kids’ Yoga Teacher Training - With Maalaa, E-RYT, RCYT Vancouver, June 1st - 3rd, 2012. For more information go to www.langara.bc.ca.

Kids’ Yoga is an invaluable educational technology that balances the influence of the digital age with our natural simplicity. We are inculcating an attitude, an awareness, an atmosphere of body, breath, mind, heart, and world to fulfill the potential of this incarnated life and living moment. At home, at school, in the playground, in foreign lands… wherever we are, Kids’ Yoga is relevant today, tomorrow, and forever. Yoga for Kids is Yoga for Life!!!


Overcome Pain Yoga Reatreat Level 1 - Neil Pearson Salt Spring Centre of Yoga, BC, June 7-10 2012. For more information and to register go to www.lifeisnow.ca or phone: 250-486-5056, E-mail: info@lifeisnow.ca. Click on this poster.

Immerse yourself in safe effective practices to decrease your pain and improve the quality of your life. Explore modern knowledge of chronic pain, and empower yourself with practical tools and yoga techniques designed to wind down your nervous system and promote positive, lasting changes in your body. Facilitated by Neil Pearson, a highly respected physiotherapist, yoga therapist and educator, this session will leave you with an individualized plan to allow you continued improvements.


Ganga White and Tracey Rich - Presented by the South Okanagan Yoga Academy June 8th - 10th, 2012 at Naramata Centre in Naramata BC. For further information click here. To register go here

Here we are, blessed again with the opportunity to learn from the great yoga masters of our time! For the year of transformation, 2012, we are so fortunate to have Ganga White and Tracey Rich from White Lotus Foundation in Santa Barbara, CA share their teachings with us!
Those of you who have come to our annual retreats know what a special gathering they are! If you haven't been to our Annual SOYA Yoga Retreat before, it is time to join us!


Kids’ Yoga Teacher Training - With Maalaa, E-RYT, RCYT Oakville, June 11st - 14th, and Toronto June 15th - 17th, 2012. For more information go to www.theyogasanctuary.net.

Kids’ Yoga is an invaluable educational technology that balances the influence of the digital age with our natural simplicity. We are inculcating an attitude, an awareness, an atmosphere of body, breath, mind, heart, and world to fulfill the potential of this incarnated life and living moment. At home, at school, in the playground, in foreign lands… wherever we are, Kids’ Yoga is relevant today, tomorrow, and forever. Yoga for Kids is Yoga for Life!!!


More Than Asana - Mugs McConnell June 15th - 16th, 2012, Location: Multipurpose Room, Mackenzie Recreation Centre, 400 Skeena Dr, Mackenzie BC. For more information click on this poster. To Register: Call Cindy Szekely at 250-997-3519 or Email szekely@mackbc.com Cost: Friday $45; Saturday $95; Both Days $125 (prices include hst) Register by MAY 15 and save the hst!

Mandala Salutation & Meditation, Friday June 15, 6-9pm. Let’s create a sacred space on our mats, designing a mandala with our bodies, going deeper each time as we circle our mats with our asanas and engage our thoughts with each action. We will follow the practice with a mandala meditation.
More than Asana - Saturday June 16, 9am – 5pm. Yoga is a pathway that incorporates many more practices than asana. In this workshop we will explore these practices passed onto Mugs from Yoga Masters of the past.


More Than Asana a Series of Workshops - Mugs McConnell June 19, 21, 22 & 23, 2012, Location: Three different studios in Dawson Creek BC. For more information click on this poster. To Register: Contact the studios below for your choice of workshop.

Tuesday June 19, 6-9pm Sivananda Yoga: a system to balance the body including Mantras for the Sun Salutation: Contact Tabitha Logan, Yoga Works Studio, 1120 103 Ave, 250-784-8167
Thursday June 21, 6-9pm Vinyasa, Mudra & Mantra with Long Form Gayatri Mantra Meditation: Contact Lisa Irvine, One Fitness Studio, 1323 – 102 Ave Suite #202, phone 250-784-0056
Friday June 22, 6-9pm Mandala Salutation: Forming the Sacred Circle, including Mandala Meditation: Contact Crystal Hayward, Inner Peace Yoga, Pilates & Fitness Studio, 10109B 10th St, 250-219-3147
Saturday June 23, 9-12 noon More Than Asana! Contact Crystal Hayward, Inner Peace Yoga Pilates & Fitness Studio , 10109B 10th St, 250-219-3147.
What students say: “…her teaching took me deeper into yoga and my personal practice… she is an inspiration to living a truly yogic life path…she creates a full and rich experience pulling all aspects of yoga together…she is both insightful and inspiring…an amazing resource!...”


Atma Vichara - Mugs McConnell June 24th, 2012, 9:00am to 1:00pm, Location: Chinook Yoga Studio 320 Vancouver St, Prince George, BC. For more information click on this poster. To Register: Call Carla Wainwright 250- 564-9642 or Email info@chinookyoga.ca Cost: $70 early bird price to June 10th. $80 June 11th onward.

Enjoy a morning Asana sequence focused around the theme of Atma VIchara, the self-inquiry of “Who Am I?” Let us take this theme into the depth of our being so that it may permeate all of our actions.
Following our asana practice, we will incorporate the use of bandhas during pranayama, as taught by Swami Kuvalyananda.
This workshop will include some mantra and mudra practice, ending with a delicious “Who AM I?” meditation as taught by Ramana Maharshi.



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