Upcoming Events

THURSDAY, JULY 23

7:00 P.M. – 8:00 P.M. Maitri Yoga Clothing Swap. A friendly reminder about our clothing swap happening this Thursday! Bring your clothes (doesn’t have to be athletic) and accessories and trade! All clothes will be 25% off for the night and left over clothes will be donated. Come mingle and have a great time. 11160 Washington Blvd. Culver City.

FRIDAY, JULY 24

July 24 – July 30. No Asylum: The Untold Chapter of Anne Frank’s Story. A film by by Paula Fouce. Regent Theater. 1045 Broxton Ave. Los Angeles.

SATURDAY, JULY 25

July 24 – July 30. No Asylum: The Untold Chapter of Anne Frank’s Story. A film by by Paula Fouce. Regent Theater. 1045 Broxton Ave. Los Angeles.

July 25. Synergy Partner Yoga with Amanda Dykann. Synergy Yoga is a healing art that incorporates Partner Yoga, Acro Yoga and guided Thai massage. It inspires trust, playfulness, and communication.This workshop is wonderful for people who are new to yoga as well as advanced practitioners. Preregister by July 24th $25 individual; $45 per couple. Hot 8 Yoga. 1422 2nd St., Santa Monica.

8:00 A.M. – 6:00 P.M. Trauma Informed Yoga Training.This 2-day training will provide you with effective, yoga-based tools for working with incarcerated youth and other at-risk populations. $300. SBCC-Thrive LAEmpowerment Center. South Bay Center for Community Development. 540 N. Marine St. Wilmington.

1:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. Meditations with the Radiance Sutras, A Workshop with Dr. Lorin Roche & Camille Maurine. The workshop uses movement and stillness to work with the 112 approaches to meditation presented in the Bhairava Tantra, a classic yoga text, presented in fresh language as The Radiance Sutras. $25/$35. At Yoga Soup, 28 Parker Way, Santa Barbara.

9:30 A.M. – 1:45 P.M. TBFM® Sat. Intensive. Technique Class; Teacher Forum. $65/each class. Two-Snake Studios. 1637 S. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles.

SUNDAY, JULY 26

July 24 – July 30. No Asylum: The Untold Chapter of Anne Frank’s Story. A film by by Paula Fouce. Regent Theater. 1045 Broxton Ave. Los Angeles.

9:00 A.M. – 6:00 P.M. Trauma Informed Yoga Training.This 2-day training will provide you with effective, yoga-based tools for working with incarcerated youth and other at-risk populations. $300. SBCC-Thrive LAEmpowerment Center. South Bay Center for Community Development. 540 N. Marine St. Wilmington.

10:30 A.M. – 2:45 P.M. TBFM® Sun..Clinic. Technique Class; Shoulder Girdle. $65/each class. Two-Snake Studios. 1637 S. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles.

6:00 P.M.DTO Album Release + Yoga Event @Dang Good Yoga. Join us for yoga, live music concert and celebration. VIP tickets receive a signed copy of DTO’s album, Nameless Spirit. Cristi Christensen will be guiding the flow. $25 early bird; $35 at the door; $45 VIP. Dang Good Yoga. 1440 S Escondido Blvd., Escondido.

MONDAY, JULY 27

July 24 – July 30. No Asylum: The Untold Chapter of Anne Frank’s Story. A film by by Paula Fouce. Regent Theater. 1045 Broxton Ave. Los Angeles.

TUESDAY, JULY 28

July 24 – July 30. No Asylum: The Untold Chapter of Anne Frank’s Story. A film by by Paula Fouce. Regent Theater. 1045 Broxton Ave. Los Angeles.

WEDNESDAY, JUL 29

July 24 – July 30. No Asylum: The Untold Chapter of Anne Frank’s Story. A film by by Paula Fouce. Regent Theater. 1045 Broxton Ave. Los Angeles.

THURSDAY, JULY 30

July 24 – July 30. No Asylum: The Untold Chapter of Anne Frank’s Story. A film by by Paula Fouce. Regent Theater. 1045 Broxton Ave. Los Angeles.

FRIDAY, JULY 31

7:00 P.M. Paulo Coelho. A wild ride through a lifetime of stranger-than-fiction adventures, this profoundly moving film goes straight to the heart of the most beloved literary guru of our time, an everyman whose simple wish started small and grew to encompass the world. Musica Hall 3. 9036 Wilshire Blvd. Beverly Hills. 

Going Deeper: Looking for Something More?

Many yogis lately have expressed a need for something deeper than a momentary reprieve on their mat. This is why I created Hypno Yoga LA and Studio City Hypnosis to help yogis and normal folk who suffer from stress, weight issues or habits they just can’t break.  I create guaranteed hypnosis programs that help people live the life they deserve. Schedule a consultation to find out if you are a candidate:www.studiocityhypnosis.com

LA Film Premiere: Paulo Coelho’s Best Story

JULY 31ST OPENING NIGHT:   Global phenomenon Paulo Coelho was not always the best-selling inspirational author he is today. For decades he searched for his calling, just like the allegorical heroes in spiritual classics The Alchemist and The Pilgrimage. Growing up in Sao Paolo as a misunderstood young rebel, Coelho alternately flirted with death, escaped madness, experimented with drugs, survived torture, fell in and out of love, and made rock history in Brazil…all the while never giving up on his biggest dream: to triumph as a writer.  A wild ride through a lifetime of stranger-than-fiction adventures, this profoundly moving film goes straight to the heart of the most beloved literary guru of our time, an everyman whose simple wish started small and grew to encompass the world. Tracing his journey from humble roots to eventual emergence as the prolific author of 30 books that have sold over 165 million copies, PAULO COELHO’S BEST STORY reveals the most unbelievable wonder of all: the man behind the masterpieces.  For tickets please visit : http://www.laemmle.com/films/39579

YOGAMAZÉ 200 HOUR TEACHER TRAINING STARTS SEPTEMBER 8

200 hour YOGAMAZÉ Teacher Trainings take you on a journey of self-discovery and education into all things yoga, providing you with sound knowledge and skills to teach safe and effective yoga classes. Curriculum covers asana, pranayama, meditation, applied anatomy & therapeutics, yoga theory & practice, yoga history & philosophy, basic Sanskrit, yoga academics & ethics. We meet you where you are – students include interested and committed yoga students, aspiring teachers and teachers with various levels of experience.

Congratulations Wanderlust! Opening this weekend

After weeks of preparation, the Wanderlust team opens their Hollywood location with a weekend full of classes, music, and celebration. The cafe menu selections offer flavorful items that support mindful eating, meditation instruction provides tools for engaging in mindful living, and then there is the time on the mat accompanied by music and more. We look forward to seeing you at the studio to celebrate and practice.

TONIGHT July 23rd! Clothing Swap Maitri Store

A friendly reminder about our clothing swaphappening this Thursday! Bring your clothes (doesn’t have to be athletic) and accessories and trade! All clothes will be 25% off for the night and left over clothes will be donated. Come mingle and have a great time!
Thursday, July 23, 7-8pm

Sita Couture Summer Giveaway

Sita Couture is now running their Sita Summer Splash Mermaid Giveaway! The winner will recieve their choise mermaid from the Earth Mermaid Summer Collection.

The contest will run until July 23, 2015. Everyone who enters will recieve a coupon sode for 15% off the entire Summer Earth Mermaid Collection!

For more information and rules of entry, click here.

Dance of Liberation Screening + Workshop

As a spiritual leader, Parashakti has helped to transform many lives. In addition to soul healing and other supportive practices, she has developed and branded a ritualistic movement called Dance of Liberation™. Using the freeing power of blindfolds to help participants tap into their innermost visions, Parashakti has guided over 10,000 people on a spiritual journey through dance.

Dance of Liberation™ places a great emphasis on the importance of lineage and listening to the Elders, following Parashakti’s intensive work with Native American healing practices and elders. But her own history, born with the Hebrew name Sigalit, to a Jewish family in Israel, begins to call her back. Having developed her career in the US, she realizes that in order to complete her own healing, she must return to Israel to reconnect with her father. He has undergone his own, very different spiritual journey, becoming a deeply religious Jew later in life, remarrying at age 40, and subsequently raising seven children. Parashakti seeks connection with him, but a deeper union between the two worlds doesn’t come easy.

Cultivating Meaning and Happiness through Mindfulness and Yoga at Esalen

Many of us would benefit from learning how to dis-identify with the mental chatter in our heads and cultivate equanimity and non-reactivity. These qualities help us make healthy, long-term decisions and engender loving, positive, secure, and supportive attachments to other people. We must learn to transcend any blunt tools we developed over the years — negative self-talk, over-reactions, judgments, facades, fears, expectations, passive-aggressive behavior — and replace them with precise tools such as authentic communications, loving relationships, balanced lifestyles, commitments to personal integrity, and yoga and/or meditation practices.

In this workshop we will explore specific practices that bode favorably for creating meaning and happiness in our lives. We will determine our long-term goals and the skills we should cultivate to realize them. There will be all-level vinyasa flow yoga classes as well as restorative yoga classes, and we will practice myriad mindfulness meditations to cultivate non-reactivity in order to reduce drama and de-escalate conflicts. Most importantly, we will learn how to replace the resentments that our minds create with gratitude. Please bring a yoga mat.

Combine Flavors to Encourage Mindful Eating

Pomegranate and Lentil Salad with Yogurt Dressing
by
Linda Nahai -Nassib CN, CNHP

Enjoy the combination of different flavors and entice your senses with this salad that is an invitation to eat mindfully.

When you eat mindfully, you eat just enough, so that you are satisfied after your meal; when you eat mindlessly, you get up from the table feeling uncomfortably stuffed to the point of feeling sick. It takes time and practice to make the shift to choose mindfulness over mindlessness. On a daily basis, choose Mindful Eating and create a new habit that supports balance in all areas of our life.

For the recipe and more information about mindful eating, click here: http://layoga.com/food-home/healthy-eating/mindful-eating/

Accessible Yoga Conference in Santa Barbara

Conference founder Jivana Heyman, one of the co-owners of the Santa Barbara Yoga Center, offers this advice for people who want to increase the accessibility of their yoga classes. It is advice we would all do well to remember, “ Offer Inspiration instead of competition. Generally, when teaching we offer a form of a pose to the whole class, and then if an individual student is struggling we offer them a “modification.” Consider a different approach: teach the whole class a modified form of a pose, then offer individual students other variations. Or, offer a few different variations of a pose and have the students choose which they want to practice. Remember, students want to please you and can be competitive, so they will often try to do the most challenging form you offer. Be conscious of your language in suggesting that one variation is more “advanced” than another. What is “advanced” Yoga anyway? My teacher, Swami Satchidananda, used to say that “Yoga is not just standing on your head, as many people think, but learning how to stand on your own two feet.” Read more here: http://layoga.com/practice/yoga-therapy/opening-the-door-to-yoga-students-with-disabilities/. Sign up for the Accessible Yoga Conference September 12-13 here: http://www.accessibleyoga.org

The Road to Bhakti Fest : Saul David Raye

Saul David Raye will be leading kirtan and teaching at Bhakti Fest. Yoga teacher Leeza Villagomez (also teaching at Bhakti Fest) wrote a profile of this practitioner filled with devotion. Leeza says, “In each and every one of his classes, Saul calls upon the elements: Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Ether. As he expresses, ‘In Yoga, the maha bhutas (great elements) contain the essence of life from the cosmic to the microcosmic.’ He is always encouraging people to connect viscerally with these forces and states that the means to do so is found throughout all of the world’s sacred teachings. “We are all alive inside a living field of intelligence that expresses itself through the elements.”Saul’s approach is not based on accomplishing handstand in the middle of the room, holding chaturanga, or analyzing the precise geometrics of a pose. Instead, he is interested in teaching students about energy, reminding us that we are each comprised of energy. Read more here:http://layoga.com/community/teacher-profiles/saul-david-raye-inspiring-a-healing-journey/

Learn more about Bhakti Fest and register here: www.bhaktifest.com
Donate to the Accessible Yoga Conference Scholarships

The mission of the 1st Annual Accessible Yoga Conference is to provide a forum where the Yoga community can come together to connect, share, and support those who wish to expand access to the Yoga teachings for people with disabilities, chronic illness, seniors, and people who may not feel comfortable in a regular yoga class.

Please join us in raising money for our scholarship fund to bring yoga teachers and students with disabilities to the 1st Annual Accessible Yoga Conference, September 12-13, 2015 at the Santa Barbara Yoga Center in Santa Barbara, California.
Tuition is $300 per person, and we’re raising $3000 to provide 10 people the chance to attend the Conference for free.

To learn more and donate, please click here.

Student Clinic @ National Holistic Institute

At the Moksha Festival this past weekend, we collaborated with the National Holistic Institute. Student interns worked on event volunteers, teachers, artists, and other people fortunate to experience their expertise. The school has a clinic open to the public where people can sign up for Swedish or Shiatsu sessions with student therapists. Rates are $25 for 50 minutes or $50 for 100 minutes at the school’s campus in Studio City (with free parking). Learn more here.

Vedic Astrology: Love and Connection

The Moon will be full in Capricorn today and opposite the Sun in Cancer, an intensely emotional sign. The rational quality of Capricorn is to balance these intense emotions. This particular Full Moon is also called Guru Purnima, the Full Moon of the Guru or teacher. Today is the greatest day of the year to fully understand the teachings of your Guru, and see into them beyond your fantasies and beliefs. All great teachers want nothing more than to see their students applying their teachings; make your teachers happy by putting their teachings into practice. Mars is debilitated in Cancer, so we may be lacking in discipline. Maintain physical strength and routines. You may substitute devotion for discipline.

This Full Moon will be in Shravana Nakshatra. Shravana means hearing. It shows a connection to music, mantras, and listening for the hidden truth behind words.

For more of Sam Geppi’s forecast, read online here.

LA Yoga App On Your Phone and Tablet

We are excited to announce the LA Yoga app is now available for Apple and Android devices.

The app is a free download, and each issue is only $.99 or the entire year for $9.99.

Peruse the 2015 Teacher Training Guide on the LA YOGA App platform

Read the entire yoga teacher training guide through our interactive app platform with enhanced social media sharing and live links to programs and websites. Read stories on your mobile device or tablet and take LA YOGA with you anywhere for your research and inspiration.

Get your LA Yoga app now.

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