Feel free to do as much or as little you like. We will have several teachers on hand to give you wonderful adjustments throughout the class and for RELAXATION at the end. Come together as a group to welcome a new season (Fall Equinox) and cycling through 108 sun salutations provides the opportunity for a challenging practice as well as a focused, meditative experience. The number 108 has been considered sacred for thousands of years in India and symbolizes wholeness and completion. Mala or prayer beads come as a string of 108 beads – much like the Catholic rosary. Renowned mathematicians of Vedic culture viewed 108 as a number of the wholeness of existence. This number also connects the Sun, Moon, and Earth: The average distance of the Sun and the Moon to Earth is 108 times their respective diameters. Such phenomena have given rise to many examples of ritual significance. It is also the number of stitches on a baseball… smiles.

Proceeds from Event will benefit local Dog Rescue Groups and Pet Adoptions. Special Thanks to Stonbriar Vet Center for their Sponsorship.

Yin and Yang describe opposites in Chinese philosophy. This class is the perfect balance between the passive and introspective aspects of Yin Yoga where postures are held promoting relaxation and restoration and the energetic and lively aspects of a Yang Yoga class where the poses are dynamic and fluid.  We will explore how to deepen our yoga practice and postures by bringing balance to these opposite energies.

Yin is an introspective and passive yoga practice. This class offers an opportunity to bring peace and harmony to busy lives and active yoga practices. Yin Yoga will invite you to hold seated postures on the floor with relaxed muscles lending to the opening of the deep connective tissues of the hips, spine and shoulders. Yin yoga will help prevent loss of mobility and bone density while reducing popping of the joints and provide hydration. The meridians are subtle energy channels running through our connective tissue that correlate with the promotion of healthy liver, gall bladder, kidney, bladder, intestine, lung and heart functioning. This practice is available to practitioners of all levels and can be safe and beneficial for folks with back, hip or shoulder pain or injuries.

• Begins September 17th, 2010
• Fridays: 5:30-8:30pm
• Saturdays: 9:30-5:30pm
• Sundays: 11-6:00pm
• Contact Tracy for registration information

An in-depth 11 week course series will be beginning in mid June consisting of 18hrs for each weekend series being offered. The dates for all the courses are located on our ‘In-Depth Courses’ page. Click here to learn more about ‘Yoga for Freedom’ including topic, times and cost.

The suggested contribution for a 3-day weekend courses is $200-$240

These courses are designed to provide you a deeper understanding of the yoga tradition and practice leading to transformational life experiences. Yoga Balance is Registered with Yoga Alliance. Yoga for Freedom is a contribution based series of in depth courses that offers the wisdom, knowledge and benefits of this ancient sacred practice to all devoted students and teachers on the path of self realization creating freedom of mind, body and spirit.

Top Ten Reasons to start a Yoga practice

1. Yoga reduces physical and mental stress while encouraging relaxation
2. Yoga boost immune system
3. Yoga improves flexibility and mobility
4. Yoga increases strength from head to toe
5. Yoga can aid in weight loss
6. Yoga improves circulation and digestion
7. Yoga improves body alignment and posture
8. Yoga helps us focus on the present
9. Yoga helps us cultivate our virtues
10. Yoga can ease pain

Top Ten Reasons to start a Yoga practice

1. Yoga reduces physical and mental stress while encouraging relaxation
2. Yoga boost immune system
3. Yoga improves flexibility and mobility
4. Yoga increases strength from head to toe
5. Yoga can aid in weight loss
6. Yoga improves circulation and digestion
7. Yoga improves body alignment and posture
8. Yoga helps us focus on the present
9. Yoga helps us cultivate our virtues
10. Yoga can ease pain

Using Yoga Psychology and the Philosophy of the Himalayan Sages, you will activate a process of awakening that will cause you to become more and more conscious in your experience of life. You will learn to use simple inquiry techniques to identify and challenge the thoughts and beliefs that are driving your negative reactions and feelings.

Stress and unhappiness are just warning signals telling you that your thoughts and beliefs are not in harmony with the world. When you feel distressed and unhappy your beliefs about who you are, your expectations of others and the world are in conflict with what is. Once you clarify the discrepancies between your thoughts and your actual experience, you will see how your own unconscious inner voice is creating your misery. YOU have the power to change your thoughts, beliefs, and expectations. You can be in harmony with what is – TODAY.

YOU CAN BE HAPPY NOW.

Stop criticizing yourself and enjoy the blessings in your life. Give yourself the gifts of gratitude and compassion. Come and join Anne Schanz, Ph.D. as she begins a four week crash course in self acceptance.

Understand where your negative beliefs come from and let them go. Begin your journey to compassion for yourself and others today.

Dr. Schanz’s Journey into Holistic Health

I came to the counseling profession after a fulfilling career in corporate America. Wanting to dedicate my life to diminishing the toll that stress was taking on my friends and neighbors, I went back to school. I received my Ph.D. in counseling from the University of North Texas and began my private practice in North Dallas in 1994. Initially I could only offer traditional psychotherapy in individual, couple and group therapy formats, because that was what I knew. Those years were an incredible learning laboratory that allowed me to deepen my understanding psychopathology from the modern western medical approach.

Having been born of military parents stationed in the Panama Canal Zone and traveled extensively around the world, I was culturally initiated into global perspectives on health, healing and family dynamics. Seeing both the strengths and weaknesses of western cognitive/behavioral methods and medications, I continued to search for better solutions.

In 2003, my own health crisis changed my personal and professional life forever. Having been told that I had an incurable, degenerative kidney disease that would eventually destroy my kidneys, I went searching for alternative solutions. Through the unexpected serendipity that we all experience when in crisis, I found an energy treatment called BodyTalktm. Within three months of this therapy, my lab results had improved to almost normal ranges. Within six months my body was healed and my clinical studies verified the cure.

After this miraculous result, I began to study BodyTalktm and energy healing so that I could provide the same healing to my clients. During my studies of energy treatments, I discovered another invaluable tool called Thought Field Therapy. Astoundingly, this modality had been around for twenty years! It was “miraculously” effective for treating psychological problems (80% of the time), yet had I never heard of it! Of course, I added this to my specialties.
Next came my introduction to yoga science, Ayurveda and the science of breath. Here I found the scientific basis for all of the energy healing techniques that I had mastered. Just as the river merges into the ocean, all my therapies merged into the ocean of Ayurveda. No longer could I define my work by trademarked names, for as mighty and wonderful as they are in isolation, when they are combined in systematic order, their sum is much more powerful than any single part/therapy.

To me, Ayurveda is the mother of integrative medicine and my Combined Therapy Program is my personal culmination of all that I have learned. I am so grateful to all of my instructors and professors who greatly contributed key parts to my lifelong quest as a therapist and counselor.

This fun yoga class, led by Mary, will help kids develop strength, flexibility and balance as well as foster awareness, teamwork, compassion and creativity

In this class you will learn:

• Specific postures to help you build Strength and Stamina without weights, which often shorten muscles, impede quality circulation and create misaligned “rounded” posture and joint problems
• Specific postures and breathing practices to build Endurance without repetitive exercises that can cause stress fractures and chronic pain
• Specific postures to increase Flexibility, Balance and proper Alignment that result in pure functional strength
• Specific postures and breathing practices to sharpen Mental Focus and reduce stress, improving overall Performance and well being