Forrest Teacher Training - Forrest Yoga Intensives - Forrest Yoga Workshop - Ellen Heed - Foundations - Backbending - Dynamic Flow - Core Strength & Arm Balances - Prenatal Yoga - Transitions - Shiva Rea - Bryan Kest

Workshops may now be purchased online! Links available under individual workshop

The Secrets of Backbending

with Liz Doyle

Saturday, February 6, 2010, 1:00-3:30pm

Pre-register: by calling (206) 297-9642

Cost: $35 before January 22, 2010; $45 after

Location: SHAKTI Vinyasa Yoga West, 2238 NW Market

Street Ballard, Seattle, WA 98107

Join us for a transformative practice that reveals the magic of back bending poses. This workshop is designed to strengthen and liberate the core for safe backbends. Technically, back bending poses can only be accessed freely with deep opening of the hip flexors, the spine and the shoulder joints. Back bend poses serve as powerful tools to access the chambers of the heart.  You will be guided through an innovative repertoire of sequences and be empowered and revitalized by the depth of this practice. All levels are welcome and the class will be very accessible for everyone!

What you will learn in this 2.5 hour workshop:

• Little known secrets to achieving backbends

• Basic anatomy of the spine

• Purpose and benefits of back bends - both physical and energetic

• What and how to warm up for back bends

• How to support safe back bending postures

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Dynamic Flow -- 2 hour special class

with Tina Templeman & Stephanie Greco

Saturday, February 13, 2010, 2:00-4:00pm

Pre-register: by calling SHAKTI East at (425) 646-YOGA

Cost: Pre-register $20 before Jan. 30, $25 after Jan. 30

Location: SHAKTI Vinyasa Yoga EAST, 10245 Main St,

Main Place Bldg, Suite 104, Bellevue, WA 98004

You are invited to 2 hours of Dynamic Flow Yoga taught by

Tina Templeman and Stephanie Greco. This class will incorporate

excitement, energy, fun, fluid movements, inversions and arm

balances. Tina and Stephanie will share dynamic sequencing along

with fabulous music that will help you discover the freedom of

movement that our boides were created for. Explore how this special combination of teachers, music, and flow can open your spirit and

invigorate your body!

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Transitions Workshop - Moving from Level 1 to Level 2

with Dora Gyarmati

Sunday, February 28, 2010, 11:30am-2:30pm

Pre-register: by calling SHAKTI East at (425) 646-9642

Cost: $50 before Feb. 14th, $60 after

Location: SHAKTI Vinyasa Yoga EAST, 10245 Main St,

Main Place Bldg, Suite 104, Bellevue, WA 98004

Take your practice to the next level!

In this workshop you will learn and explore poses that are

incorporated into the Level 2 classes. We will review chaturanga, flipped dog, half moon, sugar cane, half and full binds, bird of paradise, and many more. This workshop is also perfect for those intermediate practitioners who wish to review alignment and deepen their understanding of the asanas. Whether you just finished the intro series, or have been a long time practitioner, this three hour workshop is a great way to take your yoga practice to the next level.

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Save the date! Ana's only 2010 West Coast tour!

Ana Forrest Foundations Teacher Training Course

March 2-28, 2010

March 2-4: 8am-9:15am, 11:15am-5:15pm Functional Anatomy

March 16-17: 11:30am-3:30pm Business Course

March 5-28: Mon-Fri 6am-9am, 11:30am-5pm, Sat & Sun 6am-9am, 12:30pm-6:30pm

Pre-register: by calling SHAKTI West at (206) 297-9642

Cost: $3725 (includes Functional Anatomy Workshop with Ellen Heed), Non-refundable $450 deposit must accompany application (Please call or email the studio for the application)

Location: SHAKTI Vinyasa Yoga West, 2238 NW Market Street Ballard, Seattle, WA 98107

The teacher training process is the most effective tool that I have developed to mend the hoop of the people. Through this journey you will begin to discover your correct relationship with yourself, others and all forms of life. - Ana Forrest

The Forrest Yoga Teacher Training Program is designed to deliver a solid foundation in the art of teaching Forrest Yoga. The program includes the Forrest Yoga Teacher Training Foundation course, a 24 day immersion course, which will focus on intense personal and professional growth and will promote powerful insights that provide deeper integration with one's true self.

Taught by Ana Forrest, a world-renown instructor and practitioner of yoga, this course will open you to deeper truths and perceptions and teach you how to apply these truths to your lives - both in and out of the yoga studio. The Forrest Yoga Teacher Training Course will prepare you to be a Level I/II Forrest Yoga instructor. It is the first step of becoming a fully certified Forrest Yoga teacher. There is great emphasis on all aspects of teaching and living yoga.

The Forrest Yoga Teacher Training is a registered RYS 200 school by Yoga Alliance, and fulfils the 200 hour teacher training requirement.

The Forrest Yoga Teacher Training Course is designed for both aspiring instructors and advanced yoga students who are ready to move deeper within themselves and increase the mental acuity needed to explore the rich tapestry of Forrest Yoga. This course is also appropriate for current yoga teachers who are interested in learning how to work more deeply with their students on all levels. Yoga students with as little as three months and as many as thirty years experience have enjoyed the transformative benefits of this training program. It is not essential that you want to be a yoga teacher, but it is essential that you have a dedicated and resolute commitment to yourself and this course. Learn more about this course...

You will have the opportunity to:

• Study, tailor and improve your own yoga practice

• Learn to work with injuries

• Teach clearly and specifically

• Enhance communication skills

• Embark on your own personal process of healing and discovery

• Gain a greater understanding of the poses and their effects

• Develop personal and professional ethics and boundaries in teaching

• Gain insight into your own habitual behaviors and learn the tools and skills needed to change them

• Learn to set up your own Yoga Business and promote your new skills

Ana Forrest is recognized worldwide as a pioneer in yoga and emotional healing. Born with leg and torso deformities, her own life trauma and experiences compelled her to create Forrest Yoga . Having studied many yoga styles and healing modalities, most importantly Native American medicine & ceremony, her focus in Forrest Yoga is to guide the student in the sacred exploration of truth, healing, and "the Great Mystery". She is a well-known contributing expert to Yoga Journal and other national wellness publications. She travels internationally teaching at yoga conferences, workshops, and teacher trainings.

More info about Ana and Forrest Yoga...

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Ana Forrest Intensives

Ana's only 2010 West Coast tour!

March 5-28th, 2010

Session 1: March 5-15; Session 2: March 18-28

6:00am-6:45am Meditation (optional)

7:00am-9:00am Daily Intensives

Pre-register: by calling SHAKTI West at (206) 297-9642

Cost: All 22 classes $485*, Any 11 classes $295*, Any 5 classes $150*,

*For registration after Feb. 5th please add $10

Location: SHAKTI Vinyasa Yoga West, 2238 NW Market Street Ballard,

Seattle, WA 98107

*No classes March 16-17

*All students must take their first class of their series within the first four days of the Intensive Program

Take your practice to a new level, work your edges, and bring new awarenesses to your poses. Join Ana for her 22 day series of Forrest Yoga Intensives. Through a carefully instructed and rigorous series of yoga asana, Ana will take you on a physical and mental journey deep into your core. Each class is designed and sequenced to build on the previous classes to help you make the most progress in a brief amount of time.

Forrest Yoga addresses the stresses and challenges of todays lifestyle. It's an intelligent yoga designed to strengthen your whole body, especially your core, and heal physical and emotional injuries. It is a powerful yoga that sets free your primal core vitality.

Appropriate for Intermediate and Advanced level. The Intensives are also part of the Forrest Yoga Foundations Teacher Training course.

More info about Ana and Forrest Yoga...

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Forrest Yoga Workshop

Taught by Teacher Trainees and supervised by Ana Forrest

Ana's only 2010 West Coast tour!

Session 1: March 12-14

Session 2: March 19-21

Fridays, Saturdays, & Sundays 1:30-3:30pm

Pre-register: by calling SHAKTI West (206) 297-9642

Cost: $30 a session or $15 per class

Location: SHAKTI Vinyasa Yoga West, 2238 NW Market Street Ballard, Seattle, WA 98107

A rare and affordable opportunity to receive abundant and caring individual attention for your yoga practice.

You will receive plenty of individualized attention and hands-on adjustments with a yoga teacher assisting you personally in almost every single pose. Learn how to use yoga to address your own unique health issues and personal concerns as well as how to assimilate the changes you begin to experience into your daily life.

Using Forrest Yoga technique and breath awareness you will learn how a mindful yoga practice can give you more energy and help you develop greater strength, flexibility and inner awareness. Each student will be encouraged to explore the safe and correct way to work in each asana under the guidance of the trainee instructor.

Open to all!

More info about Ana and Forrest Yoga...

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Functional Anatomy:

How to Read the Body for Yoga Teachers & Bodyworkers

with Ellen Heed

March 2-4, 2010

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday: 8:00-9:15am, 11:15-5:15pm

Pre-register: by calling SHAKTI West at (206) 297-9642

Cost: $325, materials $25

Location: SHAKTI Vinyasa Yoga West, 2238 NW Market Street, Ballard, Seattle, WA 98107

Functional Anatomy is the art of assessing your students and clients in order to streamline their healing. In this class you will learn to integrate the many skills that distinguish a master healer from a well-meaning teacher. Ellen will teach you the fundamentals of anatomy and much more. We will go beyond the muscles and bones and learn to SEE deeply into what troubles our students & clients, and how use our enriched skills to bring pragmatic information, comfort, and insight to their process.

Tuesday, March 2nd , 8-9:15am, 11:15am-5:15pm

Reading Posture: Psyche in the body

Spinal Anatomy and Pathology

Learning the Postural Muscles

Wednesday, March 3rd , 8-9:15am, 11:15am-5:15pm

Reading Body Types: Appreciating our Differences

How Connective Tissue determines Body Type

Joint Structure & Function

Thursday, March 4th , 8-9:15am, 11:15am-5:15pm

Ruled by Blood: Reading Biochemical Imbalance

The Biomechanics of Breath

The Nervous System: Hardware of the Chakras    

This class brings anatomy to life using richly illustrated lectures, hands-on experiences, lively Q&A, and stores from Ellen’s professional practice to demonstrate how to facilitate healing. We will discuss how posture, psychology, physical trauma, nutrition, and organ cleansing directly effect the teaching and practice of yoga and bodywork. This course is theoretical and experimental so come prepared to take notes and do some yoga.

Ellen Heed teaches Anatomy & Physiology, Pain & Orthopedic Evaluation, and Craniosacral Therapy & Adjustments worldwide to Yoga professionals. She most enjoys teaching workshops about human energetic and sexual empowerment. She has taught Functional Anatomy for Yoga Teachers for the Forrest Yoga Foundation Level Teacher Training since the turn of the century. She also maintains a thriving professional practice with clients and students all over the world that includes sexual education & counseling, Visionary Craniosacral Work, Scar Tissue Resolution, Pelvic Floor Reclamation, as well as Emotional Release Bodywork. She lives in Los Angeles with her partner, Bob Niemerow and their two eccentric cats. Learn more about Ellen...

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Core Strength & Arm Balances

with Tina Templeman

Saturday, March 27, 2010, 11:30am-1:30pm

Pre-register: TBA

Cost: before March 13th $30; after March 13 $40

Location: SHAKTI Vinyasa Yoga EAST, 10245 Main St,

Main Place Bldg, Suite 104, Bellevue, WA 98004

Core Strength and Arm Balances will help:

- Deepen your yoga postures from a place of strength and  balance

- Cultivate coordination, develop muscle tone, increase concentration

- Improve mental strength and flexibility

- Achieve control in your postures

In this workshop you will learn how to use your core to gain freedom and strength to balance with lighness, stability, and agility. You will learn the skills necessary to take flight with calmness and strength in poses such as crow, side crow, side-scissors, firelfy, and more.

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Save the Date!!

April 16-18, 2010 Shiva Rea Teacher Training

April 17, 2010 Shiva Rea Open Level Workshop

Pre-Register TBD

Cost: TBD

Location: SHAKTI Vinyasa Yoga West, 2238 NW Market Street, Ballard,

Seattle, WA 98107

Teacher Training --

Tending the Sacred Fire: Living Yoga Sadhana

Within Tantra, Ayurveda, and Krisnamacharya's teachings of Vinyasa, we thrive when we find the form of yoga practice that fuels, nourishes and illumines what is needed to evolve our life. How do you practice when you are feeling the natural human emotions such as stuck, overwhelmed, stressed, shut-down, bored, lethargic, mechanical, tense, etc. that inhibit the flow of yoga. How does yoga practice and living yoga form a continual circle of transformation?  All of these practical realities of adult life center around the metaphor of "tending the fire".

Based on Shivas innovative program 30-day Living Yoga Sadhana Program, we will explore Four Paths of Practice: Bhakti (the power of love and devotion), Vira (awakening the fire of ones potential), Shakti (unleashing the creative power), and Shanti Sadhana (living peace) as ways of cultivating our inner light.  Beginning with a collective fire ceremony, we will explore each one of these Four Paths of Practice for a weekend of rejuvenating practice to then create a living yoga sadhana to balance and activate your life.

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Baptiste Power Vinyasa Yoga Foundations Workshop

with Peter Avolio and TBA

April 23-25, 2010

Friday, April 23rd, 7:15-9:15PM

Saturday, April 24th, 11:30-2:30pm

Sunday, April 25th, 11:30-2:30PM

Pre-register: TBA

Cost: $160 by April 9th, $170 after

Location: 10245 Main Street, Main Pl. Bldg, Suite #104, Bellevue, WA 98004

Perfect for students who have completed the intro series as it will prepare them for Level 2!

Join SHAKTI Instructors, Baptiste trained by Baron Baptiste and Lisa Black, as they help you tap your strength and grace through learning the Baptiste Power Vinyasa Yoga philosphy and sequencing. This comprehensive style combines the alignment & form of Iyengar, breath & flow of Ashtanga, and balance and power of Bikram. Through demonstration and explanation, your will be guided through Sun Salutations, standing poses, twists, balancing, backward & forward bending, hip opening, and inversions that leave you cleansed and inspired. Your instructors will provide you with corrective and deepening adjustments that heighten your body awareness to a new level. The weekend builds progressively to include 53 postures, 11 series, and incorporates the 5 Pillars: breath, locks, gaze, flow, and heat. You will learn how to modify postures to adapt to your individual needs and experience levels. Be prepared to work hard, to raise your awareness, and to have fun!

This weekend will progressively cover:
• Safe alignment and form of 53 postures
• Modifications to suite all levels of experience
• 11 series within the 90 min Baptiste sequence
• 5 Pillars: breath, locks, gaze, transitions, heat
• Inspiration and philosophy to guide your life

Required Reading before workshop:
Journey Into Power by Baron Baptiste (We sell this book in our retail boutique)

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Power Yoga Weekend -- Save the Date!!

with Bryan Kest

February 25-27, 2011

Pre-Register TBD

Cost: TBD

Location: SHAKTI Vinyasa Yoga West, 2238 NW Market Street, Ballard,

Seattle, WA 98107

Details TBA!!

Power Yoga is directed at creating the highest level of energy, vitality and freedom. The only way to do this is to work with yourself, not against yourself. By working hard sensitively, we create an environment that's healing and that honors each individual, an environment that respects our boundaries and works within him or her. In this way, we create an atmosphere conducive to natural expansion and growth. We're not interested in pushing past our edge to get to a place where we've been brainwashed into thinking we need to be in order to have happiness!

Bryan Kest has been practicing yoga for over 24 years and has been teaching for over 19 years. He developed his unique, distinctive style of yoga, Original Power Yoga, in 1979. Over the years, this style, an amazing workout for the body, mind and spirit, has made him a well-known, popular teacher across the country and around the world. Learn more about Bryan...

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ONGOING-

Second Saturday Ballard Art Walk- Free Event!

Featured Artist Reception 6:00-9:00pm

Join Us for a fun evening!!

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