Monthly Archives: December 2009

2nd Annual Valentine’s Day Gooey NYC Yoga Classes for Couples and Stuff

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  • Saturday, February 13th 8-10 pm
    Valentine’s Couples Massage Workshop with Nancy

    $65 per couple
    Join us for one of our most popular workshops! Senior Lotus teacher and massage therapist Nancy Elkes will guide you through this amazing workshop where you will learn how to share your love with one another through the power of touch. Wear loose comfy clothing for some yoga fun stuff and please bring lotion rather than oil. (No lavender please).
    laughing lotus
  • Valentine Couples Workshop with Mary Aranas
    Melt into bliss with your partner, be it a lover, close friend, or family member, in this partner yoga workshop that celebrates Valentine’s Day.
    Connecting deeply through breath and touch, we will relax and open both body and spirit in mutually supportive partner yoga poses. We will end by giving and receiving delicious guided Thai Yoga Massage with our partner.

    February 13th, 2010 Saturday 1-3pm
    $70 per couple by 1/30, $80 per couple after 1/30
    Yoga Works

  • Feb. 14
    Open Your Heart
    Dmitri Shapira | All Levels
    2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
    $25 members / $35 non-members
    When the chest drops, our spirits follow. We will lift and open our chest through a variety of asanas to help foster a more open, engaged and positive outlook toward the world.
    iyengar yoga institute
  • Blooming With Love with Jillian Pransky
    Come join Jillian Pransky for a deeply restoring mini-retreat designed to cultivate a deep sense of loving-kindness that will relax your body, open your heart and calm your mind.
    In an inspirational studio, glowing with candles and filled with gentle soothing music, Jillian Pransky will lead you through a unique series of Restorative yoga poses, peaceful flowing stretches, deep relaxation, and metta meditation. As you move through this special sequence, you will release blocked energy and tension as you relax into a sense of spaciousness and open-heartedness.
    Restorative Yoga poses are simple yet profound. You relax and allow your body to melt open as you lay over props such as bolsters and blankets. With the help of gravity and intention you can surrender, layers deeply held tension. Muscles release, the mind calms, and the heart softens.
    For an extra special treat, while you enjoy these delicious poses, you will receive gentle hands-on attention. You will leave feeling connected, open, and as if you just returned from a week long vacation!
    Date: Feb. 12th
    Time: 6:30PM-8:30PM
    Price: $45
    Location: ISHTA Yoga
  • Couples Partner Yoga & Thai Massage Workshop with Mary Aranas & Becca Krauss
    Sunday, February 14th, 2010
    Spend your Valentine’s evening celebrate the blessings of love in your life by exploring partner yoga and Thai Massage together. In this special workshop for lovers, or close friends, you will nurture intimacy by moving playfully through partner asana, connect energetically through breath and gaze, and practice deepening your relationship with an unconditional loving kindness (metta) meditation…
    Time: 7-10:00pm Price: $75/couple
    Pre-registration is required
    Enjoy 2 hours of yoga stretching, breathing (pranayama), inversions and massage between 7 PM and 9 PM.From 9-10 PM feed your love with wine & chocolate! Come with a romantic partner or a friend who you care deeply about.
    Please register only one couple at a time and do not register multiple couples under a single payment.
    om factory
  • Couples Partner Yoga and Thai Massage Workshop with Chris Loebsack & Emilia Conradson
    Sunday, February 14th, 2010
    Time: 7-10:00pm Price: $75/couple
    Pre-registration is required
    Spend you Valentine’s evening celebrate the blessings of love in your life by exploring partner yoga and Thai Massage together. In this special workshop for lovers, or close friends, you will nurture intimacy by moving playfully through partner asana, connect energetically through breath and gaze, and practice deepening your relationship with an unconditional loving kindness (metta) meditation. We will also trust & support each other with gentle inversions & relax one another with luscious massage – mmmmmmm. Open your practice with ease by relying on the support of your partner as we cultivate trust, strength and flexibility while working as a team. From this place of mutual support the true self can be realized, honored and shared for the benefit of all. No experience necessary to attend! Pre-registration required.
    Enjoy 2 hours of yoga stretching, breathing (pranayama), inversions and massage between 7 PM and 9 PM.From 9-10 PM feed your love with wine & chocolate! Come with a romantic partner or a friend who you care deeply about.
    Please register only one couple at a time and do not register multiple couples under a single payment.om factory
  • Valentines Day Couples’ Thai Massage Workshop with Dana Goeglein & Kevin Courtney
    Sunday, February 14th 1-4pm
    $70 per couple
    Sangha Yoga Shala
    Celebrate Valentine’s Day with your partner (or friend!) learning the basics of Thai Massage.
    Kevin and Dana will guide you through a hands-on experience of Thai Massage and Pranassage movements and techniques, with an emphasis on creating a caring, restoring, and relaxing experience for both partners. Enjoy the benefits of giving and receiving compassionate touch throughout the workshop, and leave with a simple sequence that you can replicate at home.
    No prior yoga or massage experience is necessary. No oils or lotions needed. Comfortable clothes and a yoga mat are recommended. (Mats can be rented at the studio upon arrival).
  • Cupid Yoga: PARTNER YOGA, THAI MASSAGE & REFLEXOLOGY with Anna Carbonell & Kirtan
    Location: Exhale Central Park South
    Date: Sat 2/13/2010
    Time: 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
    Cost: $70 per couple. $60 per couple if registered by Feb. 7, 2010

    Join us on Valentine’s Day for a very special event with your loved one or friend. Enjoy deep partner stretches, Thai and foot massages in a romantic setting complete with mood lighting, flower petals and essential oils. No prior yoga experience needed. Suitable for all ages and levels. Come with a friend, a partner, or your spouse!

  • Couples Massage:  Learn How to Heal One Another
    Iris Savernik, D.O.
    Saturday, Feb. 13 • 3:30–6 p.m.
    $76 per couple
    When two people engage in the therapeutic massage of each other, they increase self-awareness while healing themselves. Specific techniques for making the most of the massage experience form the core of this unique workshop. You don’t need to be a romantic couple to learn couples massage; friends can also offer one another this healing modality. Couples or friends of any age may participate, and neither member needs any experience in massage. You need only to be able to go down on and get up from the floor.

    Iris Savernik, D.O., has been a professional dancer and figure skater, Yoga teacher, and licensed massage therapist. She is currently working as a resident physician in Queens, New York.

    Integral Yoga

  • Love Satsang:  Celebrate Valentine’s Day
    Sumati (Karen Bates)
    Saturday, February 13 • 6–7:30 p.m.
    By donation
    Come celebrate the power of the greatest force humanity can harness in its quest for a better world—love in its many aspects. By tapping into our own capacity for love and developing a more loving attitude and presence, we help to spread peace and understanding throughout the world.Sumati (Karen Bates) is certified to teach Integral Yoga Hatha I, II, and III, in addition to dance and fitness. She has taught professionally for more than two decades. With experience in jazz, modern, African, and Caribbean dance, she earned a B.F.A. cum laude and also works as an artist and illustrator.
    Integral Yoga
  • Restorative OM yoga for Couples with Brian Liem & Adam Gwosdof
    Sunday, February 14, 1 – 3 pm & 4 – 6 pm $50 per couple
    New Ways of Being Intimate Together

    This workshop is specifically designed for couples – husbands, wives, boyfriends, girlfriends – who want to explore new ways of being tender and intimate together. You will take turns placing each other in restorative poses and then massaging your partner’s hands, feet, neck and face while they simply get to relax, relax, relax.

    Open to all levels, including no experience.  Pre-registration required.
    Om Yoga

  • Thai Yoga Workshop w/ Paula Tursi
    Sunday, Feb 14, 2010 4-6:30pm Cost: $75 per couple if you pre-register by 2/7, $90 per person after 2/7 Call 212.974.2288 or email brenna@reflectionsyoga.com to sign up!
    Reflections Yoga
  • 1+1+ 3: Partner Yoga and Massage Workshop with Gayla Marie Stiles and Aaron Stiles, LMT
    Sunday, February 14 | 4-6:15pm, $100 per couple

    A 2-hour and 15 minute yoga and massage workshop for pregnant mothers and their partners! Experience flowing yoga sequences, restorative postures, and massage designed to teach fathers, partners, or friends how to help with the discomforts of pregnancy and labor. This session is designed to benefit any pregnant woman by opening energetic pathways using breath-centered shiatsu techniques, stretching, and acupressure points. No previous yoga experience necessary.
    Prenatal Yoga Center

  • Valentine’s Day Couples Yoga Workshop with Megan Walsh
    Greenhouse Grand Location
    Date: Sun 2/14/2010, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
    Join Megan and Clare for an afternoon of Partner Vinyasa and Restorative Yoga. In this workshop we’ll work with a partner on both active and restorative postures. Working with a partner can build intimacy, harmony and trust and these benefits will transition off of your yoga mats and into your relationship! Moving through a vinyasa practice together gives you an opportunity to explore strength and balance, to negotiate, play, support and let go-all of which will deepen your connection to each other, to your breath and to your yoga practice.
  • Valentine’s Day:  Benefit for Haiti
    Sunday, February 14th
    The Shala
    vinyasa class with live music taught by jeremy fahey and kristin leigh 4:30 to 6 pm class is by donation. you may use your cards and you may register early at the front desk or by email: info@theshala.comlive performances:  6:30 to 8 pm.  emily mcdonnell…introduction
    ori flomin and antonio ramos…dance
    antonio ramos…dance
    kaleidophonic…music
    sheila anozier, belinda becker, marguerite hamden, shola jones, joseph laurro…dance (mike ramsey-drum)
    jennifer burch…wordsongs
    oren bloedow…music
    charlie burnham…music
    all donations from 4:30 class and performances go to partners in health. 50% of the shala’s income for feb 14 will go to partners in health.
  • Free Valentine’s Day Yoga
    Introduce someone you care about to Bikram Yoga NYC on Valentine’s Day and he/she will receive a free class! Valid for any class at all 4 locations.
    Bikram Yoga NYC

Do you drink tap water? Think twice.

That Tap Water Is Legal but May Be Unhealthy

Irfan Khan/The Los Angeles Times, via Associated Press

This Los Angeles reservoir contained chemicals that sunlight converted to compounds associated with cancer. The city used plastic balls to block the sun, but nearby homeowners asked why, if the water didn’t violate the law.

The 35-year-old federal law regulating tap water is so out of date that the water Americans drink can pose what scientists say are serious health risks — and still be legal.

Only 91 contaminants are regulated by the Safe Drinking Water Act, yet more than 60,000 chemicals are used within the United States, according to Environmental Protection Agency estimates. Government and independent scientists have scrutinized thousands of those chemicals in recent decades, and identified hundreds associated with a risk of cancer and other diseases at small concentrations in drinking water, according to an analysis of government records by The New York Times.

But not one chemical has been added to the list of those regulated by the Safe Drinking Water Act since 2000. read more

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