December News & Happy Holidays from In Balance Yoga FREE BOOTCAMP with Essie Jackson this Sat., 12/6 from 12 1 pm Peak Strength & Conditioning BOOTCAMP classes are a total body strength & conditioning workout set in a progressive format of small group personal training and lead by the industries top certified trainers. In each Bootcamp class, PSC trainers implement their extensive knowledge in kinesiology (human movement), anatomy, and physiology which enables them to teach proper technique and to modify to every level of fitness and ability. Whether you are brand new to exercise, nursing an injury, a regular exerciser looking for a supportive and safe training environment, or an avid athlete working to reach at the top of their game, PSC's nationally certified instructor lead classes are sure to meet your expectations. Join us and Essie on Sat., 12/6 from 12-1 pm. No charge to attend. Come have fun! Page 1 of 7
Live music flow donations class for Andrew Lincoln this Sat., 12/6 from 2:30 3:30 pm taught by Jennifer Ivey Andrew has been a Hokie since he was a freshman! After graduating Virginia Tech in 2009 he stated working for the Innovation Space in Torgesen Hall and has had the pleasure of calling Blacksburg his home an being part of this amazing community most of his adult life. He was diagnosed with a nonseminomal germ cell tumor in January 2014 and underwent 7 standard chemo therapies and a medial sternotomy surgery. Currently he is in the process of undergoing stem cell transplant with the hope of complete remission, being in and out of hospitals for the past 10 months. He has not been able to work and has missed it greatly! Andrew and his newlywed wife Dragana are grateful for any help they receive and all the help from the Blacksburg community they have received so far. Music will be provided by El Capitán. El Capitán is the project of guitarist Rodrigo Sarlo, based in Blacksburg, VA. His music blends Latin and Flamenco rhythms with reggae and rock to create a uniquely smooth atmosphere. The range of influences spans the globe and includes vocals in Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and French. His live shows explore eclectic styles such as bossa nova, samba, tango, salsa, rumba, reggae and more through both originals and jazz/latin classics. Dance Workshop Introduction to Contact Improvisation, Saturday, December 13, 2014 from 12:00-3:00 p.m. No experience necessary! $15-20 suggested donation Contact Improv (CI) is a movement practice in which points of physical contact provide a starting point for explorations with a partner or partners. It was developed in America in the 1970s, and has been evolving in varied directions since then. In this introductory workshop, participants will learn some basic tools for practicing Contact Improvisation, including falling, rolling a point of contact, weight exchange, counterbalance, and physical listening. To pre-register, or for more information, email us at Bburg.Dance.Net@gmail.com. Registration encouraged, but not required. Check out our video of CI - it does so much more to introduce CI than words can. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed8hnoulzv4 Teacher Bios Rachel Rugh and Barbara Tait intellectually crushed on each other as soon as they met in 2007 at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and eventually developed a friendship and fruitful collaborative relationship. They both began studying Contact Improvisation (CI) with John Gamble in North Carolina, and then continued to practice in separate environments (Rachel in Seattle, Washington, Barbara in Philadelphia, PA). They are both most interested in the ways CI can enhance people's everyday lives. Thank you for joining us at our Fall Open House! Thank you to everyone who stopped by our Open House in November. We had 150 yogis attend and 47 new to the studio for the first time. Everyone that attended the Open House received one free class as a thank you for attending. We have entered the free class into our computer. Please give your name to the front desk Page 2 of 7
and they will help you use your free class. Our raffle winners are: Private: Aubrey Stephenson Group Class: Carter Norman and Kemia Amin Unlimited Week: Courtney Crist, Jean Paul Talledo and Sarah Oertel Unlimited Month: Meghan Miko and Alicia Galway T-shirt: Amanda Lakatos Pants: Katie Tesseo Towel: Erik Olsen Contact the studio to collect! Hope to practice with you soon. Thankful for Thanksgiving Day Yoga and Money Raised for Feeding America! Thank you to everyone that practiced with us on Thanksgiving Day for Hot Yoga and Dharma III. We raised over $250 for Feeding America. Very grateful to our yoga community. Free Karma Yoga Classes in loving service of Sri Dharma Mittra Join us for our Dharma Series taught by Nicole Boyle To complete my 500 Hour Life of a Yogi Teacher Training program and graduate this spring from Dharma Yoga Center I need to teach 12 Dharma II and 12 Dharma III vinyasa classes. I would like to offer these classes as a free class to our community. Open to all levels, variations and modifications included. The Dharma series includes asana, deep relaxation, pranayama and meditation. Hope you can practice with me, I would love to share what I have learned. Please note class times a 6:30 am on Monday and a few 9:00 pm class times to add to our current schedule. Dec 12: 2:00 3:15 pm Dec 20: 7:15 8:45 pm Dec 26: 4:00 5:15 pm Dec 27: 2:00 3:15 pm Jan 1: 4:00 5:15 pm Jan 3: 7:15 8:30 pm Jan 10: 7:15 8:30 pm Jan 17: 7:15 8:30 pm Jan 25: 8:15 9:30 am Jan 26: 6:30 7:30 am Jan 27: 9:00 10:00 pm Jan 31: TBD Feb 2: 6:30 7:30 am Feb 5: 9:00 10:00 pm Feb 7: TBD Feb 9: 6:30 7:30 am Page 3 of 7
Feb 10: 9:00 10:00 pm Feb 14: TBD Feb 16: 6:30 7:30 am Welcome Winter with 108 Sun Salutations with Nicole Boyle, 12/22 at 7:45 pm, No charge Winter is a season of recovery and preparation Paul Theroux Holiday Schedule Please check our webscheduler on our website for our Holiday schedule. Click on schedule and then webscheduler at the top of the schedule page. We will have a reduced schedule around the holidays and offer free classes to say thank you to our community and our gift to you for the holidays. December 24 Vinyasa with Jennifer Miller: 9:00 10:15 am Hot Yoga with Nicole Boyle: 10:45 12:00 pm December 25 No classes at this time. December 26 Hot Yoga with Nicole Boyle: 9:15 10:30 am Heated Vinyasa Core-Power Influence with IBY Alumna Shannon Cummings FREE 11:00 12:30 pm Dharma Vinyasa with Nicole Boyle Free: 4 5:15 pm December 31 Sunrise Vinyasa with Susan Beck: 6:30 7:30 am Hot Yoga with Amy or Nicole: 9:45 11:00 am Therapeutic Restorative: 12:00 1:00 pm January 1 Happy New Year! Vinyasa with Jennifer Miller: 12:00 1:15 pm - FREE Dharma Vinyasa with Nicole Boyle: 4:00 5:15 - FREE Donations Based Class on 12/26, Heated Vinyasa, Core-Power Influence from 11 12:30 pm with former IBY Teacher, Shannon Cummings Page 4 of 7
Shannon has been a yoga practitioner since 2006. After she began yoga at The Weight Club in Blacksburg, Virginia she knew that she wanted more. And a lot more. She did her yoga training in the style of Ashtanga at Blue Ridge School of Yoga under the tutelage of Jeff Tiebout as well as her training in The Barkan Method with Becky Crigger in 2009. She worked at In Balance for four glorious years after its opening. Fellow Virginian and San Diego CPY teacher Jenn Richardson brought the CorePower love to Shannon's small Virginia studio, and after she left Shannon was on a search to seek out CPY and to find a way to become a part of it. She currently lives in San Jose and works for Corepower Yoga. She looks forward to sweating, laughing and learning on the mat. The Preetirang Sanctuary is a wonderful place where Shannon is blessed to be able to volunteer in CA. She would love to give back to all those furry friends during the holiday season. http://preetirangsanctuary.org/ Prepare for an energetic, 1.5 hour, CorePower Yoga influenced class led by San Jose CorePower Yoga Teacher, Shannon Cummings. Get ready for a class that will balance dynamism with deep tissue stretching. Get ready to flow with the music, sweat and reconnect with your post-holiday self while practicing karma yoga! Jivamukti Yoga Returns to Blacksburg with Lisa Asha Rapp, January 12, 2015, 6:00 8:00 pm, $35 One Night Only! Sign up in advance. As a path to enlightenment through compassion for all beings, Jivamukti Yoga is grounded in the original meaning of the Sanskrit word asana as "seat, connection" - relationship to the Earth. Earth implies all of life. Citing Patanjali's Yoga Sutra, which states that asana should be sthira and sukham, Jivamukti Yoga maintains that one's relationship to others (asana) should be mutually beneficial and come from a consistent (sthira) place of joy and happiness (sukham). This is a radical idea that, when put into practice, can dismantle our present culture, which is based on the notion that the Earth and all other animals exist for our benefit and to be exploited for our own selfish purposes. So the practice of asana becomes more than mere physical exercise to keep one's body fit or to increase strength or flexibility; it becomes a way to improve one's relationship to all others and thus lead to enlightenment - the dissolution of the sense of separateness, the realization of the oneness of being, the discovery of lasting happiness. Lisa was born in Brooklyn, New York and as many practitioners began asana at a young age with Lilias Folan by watching Lilias! Yoga and You. Over 20 years later she found her first teacher Nancy LaNasa; this is where the seed of compassion and devotion were forever planted through the practice of Jivamukti Yoga. Nancy urged her to study yoga at the Satchidananda Ashram lovingly known as Yogaville. It was there that she was blessed to sit at the holy feet of Sri Swami Satchidananda who she reverently refers to as Sri Gurudev and upon completion of Integral Yoga TT came the birth of My Yoga Spirit; Norfolk s first spiritually based yoga center. Lisa was blessed to attend the 2005 Jivamukti Yoga TT where she sat at the holy feet of David Life and Sharon Gannon. This is where she met a teacher that spoke to her heart on the deepest level through the love of Sanskrit, dearly loved Manorama-ji who is reverently called Guru Ma as well as her mentor today and always beloved Lady Ruth Lauer-Manenti. Love for her teachers runs deep; she accredits them for everything she is today and devotes all to them. Every one of those teachers is in the room with her when she guides a class. In Lisa's class you will find emphasis on strength and breath to cultivate the spiritual warrior within as well as a hip hop vibe drawing from her old Brooklyn roots. Lisa has been married to Mike Rapp for over 20 years and has 3 beautiful children, Dominic (24), Andrew (20), and Angel (18). Mike and Lisa now live on the beautiful beaches of the North Shore of Hawaii where she hopes to build a new satsang and spread the teachings of Jivamukti Yoga. My dearest teacher Sharon-ji in the movie What is Yoga? said, The first thing that we do when we come into this life is we inhale, the last thing that we will do before leaving this life is to exhale. In between that first inhale and the last exhale is our life. This quote forever impacted me to make better choices and live for others. I hope I remain mindful of how to live... Page 5 of 7
Meet our Teacher Hannah Glasson Our second month of Meet our In Balance Yoga Teacher. We plan to highlight a different In Balance Yoga teacher in each month s newsletter. This month we asked Hannah Glasson a few questions for our IBY Teacher for December. Tell us about your first yoga experiences? I took my first yoga classes with Eileen Patzig of In Balance, though that was before In Balance had opened so Eileen was teaching at the Weight Club at the time. As a former competitive athlete, I originally thought of yoga as a really good fitness class that could help me to stay in shape. Yet Eileen s calming and wise teaching style led me to become interested in other aspects of the practice. And later, when I was facing the stress and pressure of a college workload, I discovered that yoga was incredibly helpful for staying mentally and emotionally balanced through the intensity. What is it that you hope to share to your students? What can students expect when they walk in the door to your class? I hope to share with my students a love of movement. Too often I have noticed in workout settings, and even in some yoga classes, that many people relate to exercise as something that is unpleasant or uncomfortable. I feel inspired by creating classes that use music and creative sequencing to make the experience of the class enjoyable, while challenging enough to feel empowering. We want to learn more about you. What would your perfect day look like? I love when I have enough time to both start and end my day with a nice long walk or jog, either in the woods or through the neighborhood. This is usually followed by some sort of yoga practice whatever my body is in the mood for. I m also very passionate about academic reading and writing, which I try to spend time on every day. Finally, even though I am still a beginner I love practicing and trying out new healthful and plant-based recipes in the kitchen. What is your favorite quote? The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams Eleanor Roosevelt What are 5 things you are most grateful for today? Today I am most grateful for the support of my family, for work that I feel passionately about, my dog, really great friendships, and the community of In Balance that always makes me feel at home. What inspires your teaching style? I have always felt inspired by teachers who have a strong message to share. Frequently people come to yoga because they have gone through some sort of hardship in their lives, or because they are committed to some sort of personal growth. Yoga gives us glimpses of incredible beauty and peace, but it also allows us to experience intensity, to face ourselves in different ways. And I think that this makes us braver, better able to share our truth with the world. Where is your favorite place in the world to practice yoga? I have to say that as much as I love having a personal practice, there is a lot of fun to be had in practicing yoga at studios. I love the community learning environment and the inspiration that I get from others. Back Bay Yoga in Boston is really incredible. I also have a special place in my heart for Kripalu, the mountainous retreat center where I completed my teacher training. How has practicing yoga transformed your own life? Practicing yoga has made me a stronger person, and has helped me to persevere through difficulty. It has Page 6 of 7
made me committed to learning more about myself every day. This has taught me to be more compassionate. I ve become more aware of the subtle impacts of my thoughts and actions, and I m able to make more mindful choices about how I relate to the world. What are your favorite artists to listen to while practicing? I love any sort of really hypnotic electronic trance music such as Tycho, and also really great vocalists such as Mazzy Star. What is your favorite aspect of teaching? My favorite aspect of teaching is definitely the students. The truth is that they inspire me all the time! And I learn so much from them every time I m in the studio. Other news: First Friday's Join us the first Friday of every month for our First Friday's - 20% off regular class packages. Stop by the studio from 4-7 pm or call anytime - 961.1030. Semester special pass does not apply for discount. Semester Pass (4 months unlimited yoga): $300 for students ($75 per month) and $350 non-students ($87.50 per month) Need Holiday Gift Ideas Give the Gift of Wellness We have gift cards available for any amount, yoga mats, and clothing. We have children s mats available as well for a special holiday gift for your little yogi in the family. Parking at Studio - We are working on a plan to validate parking at Kent Square in 2015. Hope to practice with you soon! Thank You For Your Continued Support! If you have any questions, please let us know. NAMASTE! 540.961.1030 inbalanceyogastudio@gmail.com Page 7 of 7