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Yoga, Health & Happiness Conference & Senior Yoga Fundraiser, February 19th-21st, 2010

You can leverage the web to reinforce your New Year's resolution for health and happiness and give back to our community at the same time.  Join "Yoga, Health & Happiness" and 30% of your registration fee is donated back to Listening's Senior Yoga Program.

You can stay at home or get together with friends at Listening to connect with experts all over the world who will share tools and techniques to help live a fulfilling and happy life. Topics will include: How to increase your energy with simple food & lifestyle changes, meditations for mood management, yoga for emotional health and resiliency, ten ways to support children through yoga and creative movement, how to manage chronic pain, and more!  This conference is co-produced by Megan McDonough, a yoga teacher here at Listening. Megan will also be running a workshop called "A Minute for Me, Learning to Savor Sixty Seconds" which is based on her soon-to-be-released book by the same title.

All you need is a phone line. Most of the workshops will be held as a conference call. You just pick up the phone, dial-in, and join the session. All your handouts will be on the web. There will also be additional video streamed over the web in case you want to take a yoga or movement class as a stretching break in between the calls. And all calls will be recorded, so you won't miss a thing! You can listen to the replay after the session is over.

To register or for more information go to:  http://www.yogahub.com/go2.php?c=AFF-List

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YOGA Classes are held in the yoga studio at Listening at 35 South Street, Barre MA. Most are $10/class with drop- ins welcomed at $12.00. Please call 1-978-355-3501 for additional information or to register. Not all classes are ongoing and are subject to change. Please contact the instructor for more details.

More About the Movement Modalities

Mindful Movement
Learn to express yourself using open, cooperative, modern movements, based on the traditional Japanese martial art of Shintaido. This class hopes to empower students by helping you to move more wholistically, get the chi flowing, while encouraging you to interact with others more freely and playfully.

Practitioner:  Matt Shorten

Pilates
Pilates (pronounced puh-LAH-teez) was developed in the 1920's by the legendary physical trainer Joseph H. Pilates.  Pilates is an exercise system focused on improving flexibility and strength for the total body without building bulk.  Pilates is not just exercise, it is a series of controlled movements engaging your body and mind. Imagine an exercise program you look forward to, that engages you, and that leaves you refreshed and alert with a feeling of physical and mental well-being.  Pilates will do all this... and more.  Pilates mat instruction is offered at the Yoga Studio.

Practitioners: Linda Maznick

Traditional Goju-Ryu Karate

Goju-Ryu is one of the major styles of Japanese Karate and is widely practiced all over the world. It is well known for its strong self-defense (Goju’s combination of “hard” and “soft” techniques allow a weaker person to defeat a stronger one.), as well as its character building qualities. The training features two types of meditation, one is practiced while sitting (zazen), and the other while moving (taizen). Specialized breathing methods are also taught. Emphasis is on uniting body, breath, and mind into a single cohesive unit. Traditional Goju-Ryu Karate is practiced as a way of life, with physical and mental benefits that continue well into old age. The training is flexible in nature and allows you to learn at your own pace. (It's also lots of fun!)
Instructor: Brad Warren
 

Yoga
The ancient art, science, and philosophy of Yoga is several thousand years old. It has stood the test of time. It is also a therapy. The poses of yoga offer a training capable of creating a vigorous body, well-functioning internal organs, and an alert mind. The poses can give a variety of effects: stimulating, calming, energizing, building stamina and concentration, internally soothing, etc. The standing poses give vitality, the sitting poses are calming, twists are cleansing, supine poses are restful, balancing poses give a sense of lightness, and backbends are exhilarating. Many chronic physical ailments can be improved, as in areas such as the joints, the liver, kidneys, and heart. In addition to the physical benefits of yoga, practice of the postures invites us to focus and quiet the mind as we move seamlessly from one pose to another, encouraging the experience of moment-to-moment awareness that brings balance, flexibility, and strength to the mind, as well as to the body.
Yoga classes are 1 1/4 hours long, and usually come in 8-week courses. Please wear loose comfortable clothing and allow 2-3 hours after a heavy meal before doing yoga.
Practitioners: Jen Baum, Beverly Duda, Roberta Lewis, Loren Magruder, Megan McDonough & Eowyn Ahlstrom

Yoga Coaching
Coaching is unique and effective way to approach your work/life balance. Using two primary methods, conscious dialog and yoga, you become more attuned to inner strength and body feedback, cultivating your ability to hear the wisdom within. Conscious dialog involves nonjudgmental listening combined with an exploration of hidden assumptions. Movement and breathing exercises in the yogic tradition take the process from the intellectual realm into physical integration.
Practitioner: Megan McDonough
 

Practitioners

		Éowyn Ahlstrom, RYT, LMT, BA brings significant experience and knowledge of the art of healing to her work. As a yoga teacher and massage therapist, her main goals are to facilitate your development of body awareness and help you create greater wellbeing. Over the past decade, Éowyn has trained extensively in yoga, bodywork, and meditation, and will continue to study and practice indefinitely. Éowyn learned therapeutic massage at the Stillpoint Program with Patricia Wachter, and received her certification in 2002. Her yoga training comes from many sources, including regular practice and teacher training (RYT200 certification, 2006) with Eileen Muir (Karuna Center for Yoga and Healing Arts), workshops Rodney Yee, John Friend, and other nationally recognized teachers, and dedication to home practice. Eowyn is currently enrolled in an advanced yoga teacher training that will conclude with Yoga Alliance RYT500 certification in May, 2008. Regular meditation retreats at the Insight Meditation Society also play an important role in Éowyn’s study of the human condition and methods for cultivating wellness.
		Jen Baum is a registered yoga teacher and also a certified Color Me Yoga Teacher enabling her to teach not only adults but children as well.  She has studied yoga for several years and has accumulated over 250 hours of training and in excess of 450 hours of instruction. She works with men, women, teens and children.  She has taught yoga in the Hubbardston Center School and at various studio locations in Worcester County.  Although trained in Hatha Yoga, Jen enjoys teaching many styles of yoga and integrates these styles together in many of her classes to create a wonderful mix of movement and meditation. Jen has written and self published a booklet on Yoga of IBS, a stress-induced gastrointestinal syndrome that is easily managed by the benefits of yoga.  She continues the study of yoga and the countless health benefits and the subtle spirituality it can bring to ones life. She resides in Hubbardston with her husband Andrew and her two sons Gabriel and Christopher.
		Renee Carleen has been dancing since age 4. She is a graduate of the Dance Teachers’ Club of Boston’s Teacher training program in the styles of ballet, jazz and tap and has earned a Certificate in Arts Management from UMASS Amherst.Renée's has been teaching dance to students of all ages for 20 years. Her choreography and teaching experience ranges from solo and duo to small and large group dance. She has directed and choreographed dance performances for annual dance recitals and national dance competitions. Competition awards include Silver and Gold medals. To register for classes, please contact Renée at (781) 710-4492 or by email at: dancerenee20@gmail.com
		Beverly Duda R.Y.T., Studied and trained with Patty Townsend at Yoga Center Amherst in her Teacher Training and In-Depth Yoga Study Program 2001 and again in her 500hr "EMBODYOGA" teacher training program in 2004. Beverly continues to train with Patty and her guest teachers as time allows. Beverly likes to keep it real in class and teach to the level of the students who come. There is emphasis on alignment, organ support, breath and movement, pranayama, and guided mediation. You will be challenged in her classes. Requests are always considered and often met. Beverly teaches from the heart and can only hope to inspire others in their bodies and well being.
		Linda Kabo offers yoga classes at Listening on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8am. For more information contact Linda at: (978)434-1598 or email lckabo@verizon.net .
		Roberta Lewis, M.S.W., offers a weekly yoga class that emphasizes slowing down, relaxing and bringing mindfulness into the present moment. We will practice simple yoga postures, lending themselves to all kinds of bodies, and will end the class with a body scan. The hope is that this class will help to counter the push and rush of daily life and offer another, more gentle and accepting way, of being with ourselves and our reality. Roberta was trained in the Integral Yoga tradition of Swami Satchidananda in 1978. She has also trained in Mindfulness- Based Stress Reduction, a program of the UMass-Memorial Medical Center's Stress Reduction Clinic founded by Jon Kabat-ZinProgram as clinical staff for four years. Her meditation practice began in 1976, she has lived in contemplative community, both at a yoga ashram and currently lives and works at Insight Meditation Society, a Buddhist retreat center. Roberta’s intention is in teaching skills that remind us of our inherent well-being, encouraging greater awareness, and greater loving kindness towards ourselves and towards all beings.
		Loren Magruder is a certified yoga teacher with over 9 years of in-depth training and fervent practice. Combining the precision and alignment of Iyengar yoga and the meditative awareness of Ananda yoga, her classes challenge both beginner and advanced yoga practitioners. She is a committed yoga student and hopes you will enjoy her creative, dynamic and energetic teaching style. She has completed two 200hr teacher trainings and a rigorous 300hr Iyengar-based training.  Call Loren for more information: (978)724-3337.
		Megan McDonough  - Yoga with Megan is a relaxed, open, and welcoming class for students of all abilities. Class starts with Megan asking about any particular needs (sore shoulders, stress relief, back pain, etc). Postures are chosen based on these needs, so each class is different. Instructions are given for gentle, moderate, or vigorous options-you choose what your body needs. The focus is on listening to your own body/mind, rather than getting a pose "right". Your first class is free so you can evaluate the style and see if it's a match.  Along with teaching yoga, Megan is the award-winning author of Infinity in a Box, Using Yoga to Live With Ease. She is a consultant to wellness organizations and a corporate trainer specializing in work/life balance. Her clients include the Kripalu Center-the largest site for yoga and holistic health in the United States-and the American Cancer Society. Megan is on the teaching faculty of the Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy Advanced Training. For additional information on Megan's work, visit www.ugetclear.com.
		Brad Warren has owned and operated his own Karate Studio, Brad Warren’s Karate, for over 30 years. In addition, he taught self-defense for women as part of Worcester’s adult education program for more than ten years, and a children’s program for the Shrewsbury Parks and Recreation Department also for more than ten years. He taught Goju-Ryu Karate at Worcester State College as part of their regular physical education program for three years, and has also taught at numerous other schools and facilities including, Quinnebaug Valley Community College.  He formed Karate Clubs at Clark University, Blackstone Valley Regional High School, and State Mutual Insurance Company. In 1981, Mr. Warren was asked by the American Institute of Buddhist Studies to act as a bodyguard for the Dalai Lama of Tibet during his ten-day stay at Harvard University.

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