Workshop Schedule

All workshops are held in the Yoga In the Adirondacks Studio in Bakers Mills unless noted otherwise. Please register with Susanne at Susanne@YogaInTheAdirondacks.com or 518 251-3015.

Yin and Yang: Yoga for Healing and Wellbeing

Sunday, March 7, 1–4:30pm with Ken Nelson and Lesli Lang

Taoist yoga is still as a mountain and flowing like a great river.

Create a yoga flow for your condition, mood and constitution with the wisdom of Chinese medicine. Target the life force, chi, or prana, to where it's needed. Enjoy two ways to practice. While yang yoga takes you to your muscular edge, yin goes to your center.

Yang Yoga: Power up your practice. Energize and direct chi to your muscles with breath and motion. Enliven your standing poses with flowing rhythm and creativity. Stretch and strengthen to invigorate and flush the body with blood, heat and vitality, for cardio-conditioning and cleansing.

Yin Yoga: Relax your muscles and deepen your concentration. Ready your mind for meditation with a quiet, peaceful practice. Surrender your body to gravity with long-held floor poses for flexibility and range of motion. With slow, steady compression and gentle traction, yin poses moisturize joints and nourish ligaments, helping them to become healthier, stronger and more pliant. Reverse the stiffening and shortening effects of aging, injury or lifestyle. Relieve pain and chronic tension in the hips, low back, pelvis, and spine. Yin yoga rehabilitates fascia, our body's crystalline web of connective tissue. This structural and energetic support system is a semiconducting matrix of matter and energy. Restoring this fabric of life allows the organizing wisdom of chi to flow freely, telling the cells how to form and reform.

• Discover the secret of stress and rest to strengthen and heal
• Learn to trust your choices about how and when to practice
• Tune-in and target your practice to meet your needs
• Shape your practice for your body-type and lifestyle
• Leave with a set of yin and yang postures you can do on their own, or integrate into your regular yoga or exercise routine.

Cost: $60, early bird price of $50 if payment is received by February 26

Ken Nelson, PhD practices the wisdom traditions and teaches the healing arts of yoga, meditation and bodywork. He offers workshops worldwide since 1975. Former Fulbright lecturer and Kripalu scholar-in-residence, Ken is one of the most popular presenters at Kripalu Center for Yoga in Lenox, MA, where he lives and works with his partner, Lesli Lang. He's writing a book about tools that link the heart and mind, creating the conditions for group wisdom. Ken's Yin Yoga CD, is a Kripalu best-seller. His soothing voice leads you to deep states of awareness, finishing with a guided relaxation. SacredHealingArts.net & PowerfulWorkshops.com

Mini-retreat with Joan Ruvinsky

Saturday, March 27, 10:00am–5:00pm

Using a myriad of practices from the yoga tradition including pranayama, quiet sitting, body sensing yoga, chant, yoga nidra and inquiry dyads, a multi-dimensional exploration of the aspects of Being is experienced. The gift of silence allows true listening to emerge. Living as Presence, all thought, images, perception and experience are seen to be simply coagulations of pure awareness. Nothing to seek, nothing to reject, just realizing things as they are, simultaneously real and shimmeringly transparent.

Sample Schedule
10am to 12:30pm quiet sitting, bodysensing, pranayama, yoga nidra
12:30 to 2pm lunch break (vegan lunch provided at 12:30pm)
2 to 5pm dyads, discussion and chanting

Cost: $85 (lunch included), $75 if payment is received by 3/12.

Joan Ruvinsky: In 1989, after 13 years of attempts at path-finding, Joan Ruvinsky met Jean Klein, who, having never taken himself to be a teacher, eliminated the need to be a student, to have a path, a method or a goal. At home in these nondual wisdom teachings, Joan shares body sensing yoga, conversation and presence at her center Pathless Yoga in Montreal and at retreats and workshops in other states and provinces. She has kept close fellowship with Richard Miller and Eric Baret since their days together with Jean Klein. Joan has the regular approbations from Integral Yoga, Integrative Yoga Therapy and Yoga Alliance E-RYT500. She offers seminars on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, iRest Yoga Nidra, and is a member of the Council of Stewards of the Center of Timeless Being. For more information: www.pathlessyoga.com.

Personal Grounding with Todd Cunningham

Sunday, April 18, 1:30–4:00pm

Learn to consciously operate your human energy field in this experiential workshop. Consciously grounding yourself will:
• align your personal energy field
• increase your mental, emotional and physical bodies efficiency and wellbeing
• expand your ability to receive intuitive information
• deepen your confidence of self expression and decision making

In this workshop we will learn and practice:
• A Guided Grounding Meditation
• The Personal Sensation and Inventory Technique
• A Personal Energy Body Alignment

Cost: $45; $40 paid before 4/9.

Todd Cunningham is a pioneer in energy work and a highly accomplished facilitator and teacher. He developed River of Life Therapy, Conscious Language and Energetic Mirroring and holds a BS in Physics. Todd is certified in CranioSacral Therapy, Somatic Emotional Release, Body Electronics, Massage, Chakra Balancing and has been in private practice for twelve years.

Workshop Cancellation Policy
Workshops cancelled due to weather conditions or presenter cancellation will be rescheduled. For workshops that are not rescheduled, you will receive a full refund.

If you are unable to attend a workshop due to serious illness or family emergency, you will receive a credit and 15 months to schedule another workshop. We guarantee outside presenters a retainer and hold workshops dependent on the number of students registered. Thank you for your understanding.

The care that Susanne has taken in the creation of Yoga in the Adirondacks studio extends to the respect she gives all that come there. It is a very special place: serene and beautifully
~ Wendy, yoga teacher and workshop participant