Cooking club features
The soup club
with
Bibi Lorenzetti & Julie Peacock

at The Shala Yoga House
Saturday, March 14th
1:00 – 3:00 pm

It’s time to get cooking at The Shala! Whether you consider yourself a chef, a competent home cook, a complete beginner, or are just curious to learn more about cooking as an extended part of your yoga practice, this class is for you! In this session we will explore what a ‘detox diet’ is and how to structure and put together healthy soups!

Bibi Lorenzetti, Shala teacher & holistic health coach, and Julie Peacock, Shala teacher & nutritionist, will join forces for this special edition of The Shala’s Cooking Club.

Julie will share with us some of her soup making secrets from her new book ‘The Soup Club Cookbook’ co-authored with her three friends and just published by Clarkson Potter about their soup making and sharing project on the Lower East Side.

You don’t want to miss out on the delicious soup menu we have co-created for you. Discussion topics:

– What is a detox diet

– How to detox naturally: food, lifestyle & self care practices

– How to make simple & nutritious soups

– Yoga and cleansing
Class includes:

– a meal

– a hands on demo of 3- 5 recipes

– Q&A

– Special book signing from one of the authors of ‘ The Soup Club Cookbook’ , our lovely Julie Peacock (Books available for purchase online or at the Shala)

Register by march 12th

$45

Learn about common injuries among yoga practitioners, including knee, hip, spine and shoulder injuries. For each body part, we’ll outline the anatomy, discuss how to prevent common injuries and how to modify your practice if you are injured.

Great for yoga teachers, practitioners and those who are struggling with injuries. Take one day or both.

saturday, jan 31
3:30 to 6:30pm
introduction, knee and hip injuries

sunday, feb 1
3:30 to 6:30pm
spine and shoulder injuries

$35 per day or $60 for both

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP:
I’m pleased to offer a 2 hour session on Respiration—including lecture, question and answer sessions and hands on/experiential learning. This will not be a yoga or pranayama class per se, but we will experiment with asana and breathing as we review anatomical and physiological principles, so please wear loose comfortable clothes.

In the first hour, we will review the anatomy and mechanics of breathing: the way the bones, joints and muscles of the spine, rib cage, pelvis and other areas move when we inhale and exhale. We will play with different asana to see how having a full or empty rib cage/lungs supports specific positions and movements of the body.

In the second hour, we will focus on the physiology: oxygen and CO2 exchange (including how our cells use oxygen and make CO2), how breath relates to our blood circulation and also on the control of breathing through the nervous system. We will experiment with controlling breath, and observe the effects of doing so.

ABOUT CHISA HIDAKA:
I have been teaching anatomy at Barnard College and elsewhere for the past 7 years. My teaching is informed by my practice and study of yoga (with Kristin, Barbara and others at the Shala, as well as Genny Kapuler), my experience and training in medicine (Weill Cornell Medical School ’94) and medical research (Hospital for Special Surgery), my 20+ year practice of dance and Contact Improvisation, as well as my experience free diving with wild dolphins as director of the Dolphin Dance Project.

In this powerful and much needed workshop, we will address how injustice insidiously enters yoga studios, retreats and trainings and how as teachers and practitioners, we can unknowingly perpetuate the oppression of our society in ways that include: racism, homophobia, misogyny, transphobia, ableism, ageism.

In this supportive and judgment-free environment, we will take a look at ourselves and what brings us to this work, and reflect on what our life experiences allows us not to see, in the world and in our yoga classes. We will learn some techniques and strategies to create just classrooms, but also hold space for the pain and resilience that we each bring into the room, from the legacy of our lives in this country that is sewn with privilege and oppression. You will leave, empowered with the tools of mindfulness and awareness to see oppression, power, and privilege and through our commitment to love, class by class, to change the world to be one of justice and unconditional embrace.

*A limited number of scholarships are available. Contact Jacoby Ballard at jacoby@thirdroot.org

KATE JOHNSON works at the intersections of spiritual practice, social action, and creative expression. Currently, she teaches mindful yoga in NYC public schools, Buddhist meditation at The Interdependence Project, and facilitates an embodied approach to organizational and leadership development for social change agents and communities. Kate holds a BFA in Dance from The Alvin Ailey School/Fordham University, and a MA in Performance Studies from NYU. She has trained at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, The Interdependence Project, Laughing Lotus Yoga and The Presencing Institute.

MEREDITH GRAY began teaching yoga in 2009. For her, yoga has been an experiment with community, inquiry, and possibility, where hospitality and hope are political practices. Meredith currently teaches at Third Root Community Health Center, as well as in living rooms, universities, and nonprofits. She is grateful for the mentorship of Jacoby Ballard and Barbara Feldman. In addition to teaching yoga, Meredith facilitates workshops on topics including consensus, conflict, gender, and sexuality and works in restorative justice at the New York Peace Institute.

the practice of yoga asana belongs to a much larger philosophy with guidelines, principals and practicalities that bring out and fulfill our yearning for spiritual knowledge. this lecture will touch on the greater context of yoga beyond asana thru looking at poetic verses from old texts that include dialogues between 2 birds, a man and his son, teacher and student, wave and ocean, god and man/ woman. open to all levels….

 

 

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friday, january 2, 7 to 9pm
ayurveda and yoga: sister practices (lecture only)
this class will include a brief intro to ayurveda and practices for healing through specific herbs , anti-stiff/anti-aging daily routine tips, eating to support joy and ease in our larger planetary bodies and nourishing foods for mind, all of which can enhance and create more space and joy in the yoga practice.

saturday january 3, 2015: 12 to 2 (lecture only)
ayurveda 101
ayurveda is a science of health, wealth, pleasure and freedom. it can be applied as a healing salve at anytime of the day, season and time of life to rejuvenate and regenerate one’s ability to connect to nature. the connection to nature is the basic and blessed gift that can be anyones’ passage to deeper bond with all living beings. this bond is benevolent and sustainable to mother earth and the best chance one has to longevity that equally honors others in the process. join lisa to learn the foundation of this great science and how it can guide one on a daily journey that nurtures health and spirit.

sunday, january 4th: 12 to 2
asana and ayurveda (lecture and asana practice)
knowing your ayurvedic constitution ( unique mind-body type) benefits your practice of asana. understanding of your nature gives you an edge to the practice of yoga that achieves your personal best without stress and strain. the ” no pain no gain motto” for achievement is out dated and is redefined by ayurveda as “less is more”. in the bhagavad gita lord krishna tells arjuna, the great warrior the secret to success “first establish yourself in being, then perform action.”
in this asana class we will explore the cycle of the asana, entering, staying and after asana state. how the form of mind linked with breath can be and is a continual act of harmony with nature.