THE FRIDAY SPECIALS
The Friday Specials offer sustenance for your body, mind and spirit!
Master classes to advance your postures, therapeutic workshops to keep you safe and strong,
Kundalini to set your spirit soaring and Yin Yoga to transform body, breath and mind!
10AM - Noon every Friday at Mandala!
Advanced registration strongly recommended
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JUNE 3RD, JULY 8TH & AUGUST 12TH WITH SIRI RISHI
KUNDALINI VENUSIAN FRIDAYS w Siri Rishi
Join us for three monthly Kundalini Workshop Unlocking the Venusian Codes through curated Kundalini Kriyas, mantras and guided meditations. Fridays are ruled by Venus and we invite you into this exploratory container, giving ourselves permission to create copious amounts of joy and pleasure through embodied presence. Invoking luxurious devotion, timeless beauty, radiant sensuality, and cosmic abundance. We will explore and awaken The Divine Feminine Principles, accelerating ourselves in the most expansive and boundless expression of Self Love. Click below for more info:
REGISTRATION FOR JUNE 3RD
REGISTRATION FOR JULY 8TH
REGISTRATION FOR AUGUST 12TH
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JUNE 24TH WITH ROBIN - PT & PILATES INSTRUCTOR
MASTER YOUR POSTURE w Robin Stoller
Posture, is the foundation for every movement your body makes. Learn how to develop strong posture in this lively and interactive lecture taught by Robin Stoller, a physical therapist and certified Pilates instructor. Together we will learn the importance of posture on balance and overall health, delve into the basic anatomy and spinal mechanics involved in proper posture, find balance in your body by strengthening and lengthening the correct muscles, learn the fundamental techniques that will allow you to retrain your body to sit and stand effortlessly. Please wear loose comfortable clothing because we will be moving!
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JULY 1ST WITH FRANCES
IGNITE YOUR INTUITION WITH INVERSIONS w France Cole Jones
Many of us are hesitant about inversions because they seem too fancy, too complicated, or just too hard. Luckily, an inversion is any time your head is below your heart-- so if you’ve ever been in downward facing dog, you’ve done inversions!
Now wasn’t that easy? (Or at least not too complicated.)
And what is the benefit of getting your head below your heart? It allows you to tune into your intuition: to turn down your thinking, so you can access your knowing. This Friday Special takes a step-by-step look at inversions of all kinds-- from the accessible to the fancy. Come join us! What you discover may surprise you.
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JULY 15TH WITH LATOYA
NOURISHING SLOW YIN YOGA FLOW WITH MEDITATION - MORE LOVE, LESS FEAR w Latoya Maria
Heart Openers to tap into the emotion of joy and vitality. Yoga Nidra to settle into receptivity. Suitable for all levels.
Summer represents the transition from action to nourishment, which is exactly what the Sun gives us during the long nights of summer, both to our actual crops but also to the continual journey we travel from darkness to light.
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JULY 22ND WITH FRANCES
DISARM YOURSELF WITH ARM BALANCES w Frances Cole Jones
Arm balances bring up mixed emotions—everything from “Fun!” to “No, thank you.” Luckily, any and all approaches will work for this Friday special! Taking a step-by-step approach,
Frances will take you through the preparation needed to approach arm balances safely and confidently. Each pose—each student—will be offered with the modifications needed to disarm thought patterns that say, “Oh, I could never do that…” Because you can—maybe not on day one, but one day.
For today, you try.
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JULY 29TH WITH SHERYL
OPEN HEARTED BACKBENDING w Sheryl Hastalis
Please join Sheryl for a healthy back-bending workshop. Focus on learning, refining, and practicing asanas to expand and open the front structures of the body including the throat, chest, solar plexus, hips and thighs, while utilizing limb, and core engagement to stabilize alignment, and energize the mind, body, and spirit. Explore the role of prana/breath in entering and pausing in the asanas. Understand the fundamental aspects of healthy anatomical alignment in both simple and complex asanas, through practice which will include back-bending inversions. Props will be utilized for the workshop. Open to students with at least one year of a dedicated yoga practice.
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AUGUST 5TH WITH FRANCES
SHOW YOUR LOTUS SOME LOVE w Frances Cole Jones
“Ugh, lotus” , “Not ever”, “Not me.” '
What if all those thoughts could lead you to: “My lotus” ?
Here’s the thing: Getting into (and out of!) lotus is a lifelong journey. Some people pop into it with astonishing ease. Some people need to spend time (days, months, years….) easing their way toward it. Luckily, whatever your lotus looks like this Friday special is right for you.
Moving slowly, safely, and carefully, Frances will take you through the preparation needed to enter and exit your version of lotus; and alert you to modifications you can use day-to-day. So come show your lotus some love. The primary demand on your flexibility will be your mind.
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AUGUST 19TH WITH KIM LARSON
NO MORE PAIN IN THE NECK! w Kimberly Larson
Where did that kink in my neck come from? It wasn’t “sleeping wrong” as many people suggest. Overuse of the hands contributes to tense neck and shoulders. Combine that with poor posture and the neck will certainly suffer.
Join us to learn the secrets to unraveling the tensions in the neck from yogic postures, to emotional expression, to daily self-care.
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AUGUST 26TH WITH SHERYL
HEALTHY, HAPPY HIPS w Sheryl Hastalis
Please join Sheryl to learn how to achieve a healthy alignment of your legs and hip sockets. Practice initiating, pausing in, and moving out of yoga asanas, with accuracy and ease. The workshop will focus on both fundamental and complex asanas, the structural anatomy of the hips and lower limbs, and practice sequences for healthy hips.
Props will be utilized for the workshop. Open to students with at least one year of yoga practice.