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June 9, 5:12 AMPhiladelphia Yoga ExaminerJonathan Bartlett

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This Week in Yoga Workshops, Events and Miscellany, June 8 – June 15 

This events posting will be a regular feature at about this time of the week in this space in the Philadelphia edition of www.examiner.com. I don’t believe any other publication, online or otherwise, does it. There are at any given time, a number of interesting, entertaining and fun yoga-related activities going on in the Delaware Valley yoga world. Each week, this space will feature one event and list others occurring during the week.

Yoga on Main

4363 Main St., 'Manayunk', PA 19127 

http://www.yogaonmain.com/workshops.html

Inner Fire Yoga Morning Retreat Week with Shiva Das

June 15 – June 20

Every yogi or yogini in Philly should do this at least once.

Nearly everyone in the yoga zone in Philadelphia and beyond knows Shiva Das. A founder and director of Yoga On Main, ‘SD’ as he is affectionately known, is one of the pioneers of the local yoga culture. Way back in 1992, he and David Newman, now working the kirtan circuit as a rising chant artist, started Yoga On Main. Today, there are hundreds of yoga teachers in the Philadelphia area with the RYT (Registered Yoga Teacher) beside their names from the teacher training they received at Yoga On Main.

Several years ago, Shiva Das began offering a week-long early morning workshop four times a year, set to coincide with the change of the seasons. “The Inner Fire Yoga Morning Retreat Week with Shiva Das” blends yoga asana, meditation and breath work into a two-hour session that also includes a sharing session for personal and group expression. Each day’s instruction is centered around one or more of the chakras, those inner elements of the spiritual body that yoga folks believe sing a song inside our bodies as prana passes through, or doesn’t(more about that in a future post). The best part of the program is Shiva Das himself who I know you will agree after you’ve experienced even a day of the program, is a yoga jewel. Not to be missed in your lifetime if you can help it.

Other Events

Yoga on Main

4363 Main St., ‘Manayunk”, PA 19127

http://www.yogaonmain.com/workshops.html

Group Rebirth with Maureen Malone & Tony Lo Mastro 

Sunday June 14, 4 to 6 p.m.

Rebirthing sessions with a practitioner aim to facilitate positive change through working with the breath and taking responsibility for thoughts, feelings and actions. The sessions will help to identify birth trauma, family patterns, inherited attitudes and specific negative thoughts. [Editor's note: I have experienced this workshop. It is indeed an 'experience.' For most of the two-hour period, participants lay comfortably on the floor and breath fully and mindfully. Moderators are there at all times, to let you know that they are there when you are there and to help keep sleep from interfering. I myself left the room feeling light and somehow cleansed. Others in the room responded differently. Highly recommended.]

Dayana Yoga

1611 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA

"Yoga 101" Beginners Workshop

Saturday, June 13, 1 – 3 p.m

Power Yoga Works

3527 Lancaster Avenue, Philadelphia, PA

Thai Yoga Massage Bodywork Certification With 
Thai Yoga Massage Master Michael Buck 

http://www.poweryogaworks.com/workshops.asp

“Michael's classes are routinely infused with the teachings of the illustrious and auspicious Vedic culture. Traditional ayur-vedic ceremonial rituals such as puja (sacred invocations for family/social progress), tratak (centering meditation opening the "third eye" for physical/emotional stability), pranayama (conscious breathing disciplines producing inspired insight), and mantra (vocalizing sound resonances for mental clarity and self-empowerment) are typically experienced in his courses as satisfying and elucidating supplemental instructions.” Attention teachers! Michael Buck’s workshop is recognized by the Yoga Alliance as Continued Education hours. 

MOYO

4402 Skippack Pike, Skippack, PA 19474

Anatomy Workshops with Maureen and Patti Kinsey

Sunday, June 14, 1 – 3 p.m.

http://moyo-yoga.com/events

“This is a weekend workshop for anyone who may be interested in learning more about their body and how it functions. (CEU Credits are available for teachers). We will be reviewing the DVD “Anatomy for Yoga” with Paul Grilly, and discussing Comparative Anatomy: understanding the underlying skeletal structure of the body, how the bones differ significantly from person to person, and how to use that knowledge in gaining a much deeper understanding of our individual practices. Recommended Reading: Structual Yoga Therapy: by Mukunda Stiles & Trail Guide to the Body: by Andrew Biel”