Explore the Playful Possibilities of Your Practice With a Partner or a Friend, using Partner Poses and Thai Massage.

In this rich, nourishing practice of duo asana, basic Acro Yoga and flying techniques, and closing with luscious Thai Massage, we learn about trusting, supporting and evolving each other. We experience increased presence, mindfulness, emotional intelligence and open-heartedness. Every encounter of this yoga love-in, hilarious or holy, awkward or divine, is a precious exchange and increases our capacity to give and receive.

This practice is open to couples, friends, siblings and complete strangers.

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Friday March 9th
7 – 9 pm
Kushala Yoga at Suter Brook
$40 + HST per couple

about Chris and Teresa

Chris Brandt & Teresa Campbell unite divergent backgrounds into a common thread that is Contact Yoga. Chris has trained in India and Thailand, and is a certified in the Wat Po lineage of Thai Massage. Teresa has studied with amazing teachers from Gurmukh to Sarah Powers, and brings her experience leading prenatal yoga teacher training programs as well as doula work to Contact. They believe wholeheartedly that “the great art of life is sensation” (Byron).

Circles are an ancient yet also new approach; simple yet profound. Circles offers a space for introspection and sharing, to give and receive support, and to engage in productive conversations to create positive change. By empowering people to reach across differences, conflict can be transformed and relationships are built.

The focus of the workshop will be on Circle processes and facilitation for dialogue and community building. Like the nature of Circles, this workshop will be structured, yet flexible to meet the needs of the group.

You will learn and apply the fundamentals of Circles process, including:

• Types & uses of Circles
• Circle structures & core elements
• Circle processes & stages
• Circle facilitation (learn to be a keeper of the Circle)

If you would like to gain an understanding of Circle process and to begin to develop skills for using Circles in your personal or professional life, then this workshop is for you! Come step into another possibility…

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Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012
9 am – 5 pm
Facilitator: Evelyn Zellerer, Ph.D.
Cost: $125 + HST

Evelyn is a facilitator and trainer. She has been a peacemaker her whole life. Over the past 15 years, Evelyn has worked with a wide variety of groups in many countries, including arts collective, boards of directors, social housing residents, insurance company, government agencies, and maximum security prison. For more information, visit www.peaceofthecircle.com

For more information about workshop content or to speak with the facilitator, contact Evelyn Zellerer at evelyn@peaceofthecircle.com

Create change and evolve, using asana (posture practice) to expand and rewrite the story of your potential. This intermediate 6-class workshop series will focus on the meaning and application of transformation both on the mat, and to your approach to life off the mat. In each class we will delve into a different class of asana: arm balances, inversions, a supreme spectrum of standing asana, big back bends and turning inward with twists and folds. All students must be willing to stretch their edges while being intent on honoring their boundaries and needs.

Prerequisites: You must be able to kick to handstand at the wall with ease, push up into wheel with straight arms without a spot, and hold headstand in the center of the room. This intensive is not appropriate for anyone with injuries or illness. Please don’t hesitate to contact Andrew if you have any questions about whether this intensive is appropriate for you.

Dates

Friday February 3rd from 6pm – 8:30pm
Saturday February 4th from 3pm – 5:30pm
Friday February 10rd from 6pm – 8:30pm
Saturday February 11th from 3pm – 5:30pm
Saturday February 18th from 3pm – 5:30pm
Sunday February 19th from 3pm – 5:30pm

This class will be limited to 12 participants, so please register early to hold your space

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Instructor: Andrew Colyn
Cost: $149 + HST

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Come join Todd Caldecott, author of the new book Food As Medicine: The Theory and Practice of Food, on an exploration of food, what it is and how it impacts your health. Using the framework of Ayurveda, learn how to develop a healthy diet for your unique needs, how to eat strategically for the different seasons, and what herbs and foods can be incorporated into your diet to treat common health issues. In this workshop you will learn about the basic elements of food preparation, cookware, detoxification, and therapeutic diets.

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February 25th (Saturday)
1pm – 4pm
Kushala Yoga at Suter Brook
$10 + HST

Todd Caldecott
Medical Herbalist
Practioner of Ayurveda
Registered Profession Member, American Herbalists Guild, RH (AHG)
Author of Ayurveda: The Divine Science of Life
Editor of Ayurveda in Nepal
www.foodasmedicine.ca
www.toddcaldecott.com

Money today is the very antithesis of the sacred. The modern money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth. Today, these trends have reached their extreme – but in the wake of their collapse, we may find great opportunity to transition to a more connected, ecological, and sustainable way of being.

Tapping into a rich lineage of conventional and unconventional economic thought, Charles Eisenstein presents a vision that is original yet commonsense, radical yet gentle, and increasingly relevant as the crises of our civilization deepen.

In this talk, Charles Eisenstein will explain the forces driving the collapse of our current system, and lay out a vision of a new kind of money system that will replace it. Explore avant-garde concepts including negative-interest currencies, local currencies, resource-based economics, gift economies, and the restoration of the commons. Explore of way of living in accordance to your ideals in a world seemingly ruled by money. It is a vision already emerging today as institutions and individuals step deeper into transition.

This will be a mind-opening glimpse of solutions and new ideas for the future of money and economics – and how we can contribute to it and be part of the positive change.

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Thursday January 12th, 2012
7:30pm – 9pm
Kushala Yoga at Suter Brook

Following the talk, participants may make a donation based on their sense of gratitude, propriety and value.

“I consider Charles Eisenstein one of the up-and-coming great minds of our time. Rarely have I met a person who combines such philosophical and spiritual depth with such practical insights into the cultural and institutional origins of the potential terminal dysfunctions of modern society, and the potential solutions.”
~ David Korten, Author of The Great Turning

about Charles Eisenstein

Charles Eisenstein is a teacher, speaker, and writer focusing on themes of civilization, consciousness, money, and human cultural evolution. Eisenstein graduated from Yale University in 1989 with a degree in Mathematics and Philosophy, and spent the next ten years as a Chinese-English translator. He currently lives in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and serves on the faculty of Goddard College.

Visit Charles Eisenstein‘s website.

Video Featuring Charles Eisenstein “The Revolution is Love”

books

Interested to read more before the event? Charles’ books are available online and will also be for sale at the event.

Sacred Economics

“This brilliant and beautifully written book is an indispensable must-read for all those who believe our economic system is terminally sick and in need of radical, sacred rehaul. Charles Eisenstein has the great gift of being able to make complex ideas both thrilling and inspiring. I hope this book begins a serious, worldwide conversation on how we can reinvent our attitude to money.”
~ Andrew Harvey, author of The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism

“With his breadth of knowledge, enthusiasm, commitment, diligence, and sensitivity, Charles has become a beacon of hope for others. Your heart and mind will be opened by this treasure of a book that shines with wisdom of crucial importance to our troubled world today.”
~ Kamran Mofid, founder of the Globalisation for the Common Good Initiative

The Ascent of Humanity

“Brilliant and original, with great depth of insight and understanding, Eisenstein’s Ascent of Humanity easily ranks with the works of such giants of our age as David Bohm, Julian Jaynes, Jean Gebser, Whitehead. It is a profoundly serious, indeed somber portrait of our times, even as it opens a door of honest hope amidst the dark destiny we have woven about us. Accept the challenge of this major accomplishment and discover the light shining within it.”
~ Joseph Chilton Pearce, author of The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Magical Child, Evolution’s End, and The Biology of Transcendence

“Quite marvelous, a hugely important work… This book is truly needed in this time of deepening crisis.”
~ John Zerzan, author of Future Primitive and Elements of Refusal

A FUTURE TO BELIEVE IN –

108 Reflections on The Art and Activism of Freedom
Global Revolution Informed by Nonviolence, Art, Environmental Sanity, and the Right to Be Free

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Sunday November 20th
7pm – 8:30pm
Kushala Yoga at Suter Brook
Cost: By cash contribution at the door

“This book is the music of wisdom, a dance with the finest places of the human heart. It is also like a walk with your favorite friends, mentors and teachers as they point out the beauties of the journey. You will want to keep this timeless treasure within reach, so you can open it to any page, and let a paragraph or a line ignite you again to the truth of your own being.”

~ Joanna Macy, Buddhist Teacher, Activist, and Author of World as Lover, World As Self.

We very much look forward to seeing you at this very special event.

Read an Overview of the Book
Endorsements

“At a time when the contemporary spiritual landscape has become dangerously gentrified and domesticated, Alan Clements restores us to our senses – wild and elemental. He summons the voices of those who, along side him, have not traded their souls for the market-driven need to be tame or acceptable, and points us to the wilderness of true, engaged, fiercely authentic awakening. This is why we are alive—to set freedom free, in ourselves and for others, in every aspect of our lives from the most mundane daily task, to the most profound political act.”

~ Kelly Wendorf, author of Stories of Belonging and publisher, Kindred Magazine

“A Future to Believe In is a message the world needs to hear now!”

~ Bill McKibben, Author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet

On Saturday November 19th come celebrate our official Grand Opening and Community Celebration at Suter Brook! Bring your friends and family, all are welcome. Check out our schedule of FREE events and activities:

1:00pm – 4:30pm Check out the Studio and Wellness Center
1:30pm – 2:30pm FREE all-levels Yoga class
3:00pm – 4:00pm FREE all-levels Yoga class
4:30pm – 5:30pm Intro to Belly Dancing Workshop lead by Nicole Roy
7:30pm – 9:00pm Community DRUM CIRCLE with Diana and Andrew Clark

RSVP through our Facebook event page

Drum Circle

Saturday, November 19th at 7:30pm

Create unity and rhythm at our Kushala Community Drum Circle. West African djembes and other percussion instruments provided, or bring your own hand drum. No experience necessary- just the willingness to get in the groove! Expect to play and move as you pick up basic patterns and strokes, and “the universal break”.  Diana and Andrew Clark from Coastal Sound Music facilitate the drum circle.

According to Mickey Hart (Grateful Dead drummer): “The Drum Circle is a huge jam session. The ultimate goal is not precise rhythmic articulation or perfection of patterned structure, but the ability to entrain and reach the state of a group mind. It is built on cooperation in the groove, but with little reference to any classic styles. So this is a work in constant progress, a phenomenon of the new rhythm culture emerging here in the West.” 

The drum circle is lead by Coastal Sound, singing programs that enrich lives, for preschoolers to adults.

Intro to Belly Dance Workshop

Saturday, November 19th at 4:30pm – 5:30pm

Free your body and move to universal rhythms through belly dancing. This art originated from the Middle East and other Arabic influenced regions many centuries ago. In this introductory 1-hour workshop, learn some of the basic movements and liberate your inner dancer! Lead by Nicole Roy, in her own words: “Life is a dance. Belly Dance is an expression of life. It calms the mind and soothes the soul even as its movement inspire the senses. It expresses the multiple dimensions of the feminine: passion and reserve, chaos and order, softness and strength.”

Named as one of LA’s top 10 yoga teachers, Chris travels the globe year-round.

If you haven’t experienced a workshop with Chris he is not to be missed!

Participants of Anusara-Inspired Inversion classes get 20% off this workshop!

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Thursday November 10th
7pm – 9pm
Suter Brook Studio
$50 + HST

About Chris Chavez

Chris Chavez, Certified Anusara Yoga Instructor, Yoga Alliance – E-RYT 500 & RYT 500,
Lululemon Global Ambassador.

Chris Chavez first began the practice of yoga in Ireland, where he was touring as a professional musician in the mid 1990’s. While traversing the globe several times playing music and studying various methods of yoga, Chris imparted the knowledge and the gift of yoga upon everyone he met.

In 2001, Chris landed in Los Angeles, California, where he submerged himself into the practice and study of yoga and began to teach and build community.
Named as one of LA’s top 10 yoga teachers, Chris travels the globe year-round inspiring thousands of students and teachers through his workshops and trainings.

Chris is one of the most down to earth yoga teachers you will ever meet. His playful personality and practical approach to yoga makes his teachings accessible, fun, challenging, and spiritually uplifting.

Chris has found the power of practicing and teaching yoga to be an integral part of being a great artist as he continues to maintain a rockin’ music career and yoga practice.

You will learn:

• about stress and how it affects the body
• how to identify tension in your body
• you will be guided through a deep relaxation session

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Sunday October 2nd
3:45pm – 4:45pm
Kushala Yoga at Suter Brook
Cost: free!

Randy Persad will be teaching Deep Relaxation Therapy classes at Kushala starting in November. A registered massage therapist and educator with over 25 years in the health care profession, he brings a wealth of knowledge, experience and focused dedication in his teachings and practice.