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Kids Yoga and Art Camp

• August 9-12
• 4 Days (Mondays – Thursday)
• 1:30-4:30pm
• $150
• School Age

- Enjoy a nurturing, supportive, non-competitive atmosphere.
- Stretch and energize their bodies and minds.
- Learn to express themselves creatively.
- Practice working cooperatively in large and small groups.
- Be introduced to activities they may not have tried before.
- Learn mindfulness, self-calming techniques and relaxation.
- Develop special friendships.
- Have loads of fun!

A typical day at camp:

• Gathering activities
• Kids Yoga Class
• Main activity/project
• Snack (please provide your own because of food allergies etc.)
• Craft project and/or photo journals
• Yoga Games & Relaxation
• Closing activities

Partner Yoga – Acrobatic & Therapeutic Flying

Partner Yoga – Acrobatic & Therapeutic Flying
with Leanne and Leonardo

• Sunday July 25th
• 12-3:30pm
• $55 per person
• Come alone or bring a partner.
• Please make sure to pre-register for this event

This workshop is designed to introduce you to the wonderful world of basing & flying.  By working with a partner we will explore how to take our yoga practice off your mat and share it with someone else.  It involves trust, patience, communication, compassion, and most importantly LAUGHTER!  We will warm up with a partner to live Sitar Music, experience counter balances, basics of flight, therapeutic and acrobatic routines.

Workshop guided by Leanne Rogers, assisted by Leonardo Nieto Joly.

Leanne:
A Texas native, I have been living in Playa del Carmen, Mexico for the past 5 years.  I have been practicing yoga for over six years and have been teaching ever since my return from India in 2008.  Partner yoga found its way to my life and it was an instant match.  There is so much joy and laughter while practicing with a partner that teaching it became automatic.  The most enjoyable part of sharing this practice and style of playing with anybody – experienced yogi to complete beginner – is the complete joy and awe experienced by them as they find themselves upside down, sideways, or balancing someone on their feet!!

Leonardo:
Leonardo was born in San Luis Potosi, Mexico to a French mother and Mexican dad.  At the young age of 14 he was drawn to go to India where he lived and studied Kundalini Yoga & Music.  His passion became the sitar and has given concerts and recitals throughout Mexico.  He is an amazing soul of peace and light.

Kids Yoga and Art Camp

• June 14-17
• 4 Days (Mondays – Thursday)
• 1:30-4:30pm
• $150
• School Age
• Register for this event

- Enjoy a nurturing, supportive, non-competitive atmosphere.
- Stretch and energize their bodies and minds.
- Learn to express themselves creatively.
- Practice working cooperatively in large and small groups.
- Be introduced to activities they may not have tried before.
- Learn mindfulness, self-calming techniques and relaxation.
- Develop special friendships.
- Have loads of fun!

A typical day at camp:

• Gathering activities
• Kids Yoga Class
• Main activity/project
• Snack (please provide your own because of food allergies etc.)
• Craft project and/or photo journals
• Yoga Games & Relaxation
• Closing activities

Radical Self-Esteem Makeover

• Mondays 11-1 pm
• Four week classes- May 3, 10, 17, 24
• Anne Schanz Ph.D.
• Suggested Donation $400 per person
  (one 2 hr group session each week for 4wks)
• Only 3 more spaces available (class limited to 8 students
  to insure the highest value and potential for students)

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.

Yoga for Kids

• 6 Week Series Starts April 9
• Fridays 4:30-5:15pm
• $70
• Ages 7-11
• Register for this event

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

Beginner Yoga

• with Tracy Carruth
• 4 Week Series Starts April 6th
• Tuesdays 7-8:00 pm
• $50
• Register for this event

This is a wonderful introduction to yoga where you will learn the fundamentals of the yoga postures, breathing and meditation.

Satsang with Blair Lewis

• Friday, April 2nd
• 7:00 – 8:30pm
• Suggested Donation
  to Alive and Healthy – $20
• www.aliveandhealthy.com

The yogic science of how to develop a personal philosophy and world view. This foundational process is supported by lifestyle habits that you choose to awaken and nurture – including diet, breathing, sleeping and meditation patterns.

Whether your role model is Nelson Mandela, Gandhi, Lord Rama or Parasurama, this class will teach you how to light the lamp of love in your heart and without burning yourself, nor others.

Blair Lewis is a physician assistant and the spiritual director of Alive and Healthy Institute. He was initiated as a Pandit n the 5000 year old tradition of the Himalayan Sages by his teacher, Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, in 1998. He began his study and practice of yoga and meditation in 1971. Today, he continues his studies with Pandit Rajmani and the teachers of the Himalayan Institute.

Satsang with Blair Lewis

• Friday, February 5th
• 7:00 – 8:30pm
• Suggested Donation
  to Alive and Healthy – $15
• www.aliveandhealthy.com

Bright and Shining Armor – the Yoga of Self-Esteem

The yogic science of how to develop a personal philosophy and world view. This foundational process is supported by lifestyle habits that you choose to awaken and nurture – including diet, breathing, sleeping and meditation patterns.

Whether your role model is Nelson Mandela, Gandhi, Lord Rama or Parasurama, this class will teach you how to light the lamp of love in your heart and without burning yourself, nor others.

Freedom and Flight

• with Tracy Carruth
• Sunday February 21st
• 1:30-3:30pm
• $25
• Register for this event

The ability to stand on one’s head or hands
teaches us how to stand on our own two feet.

This workshop is accessible to all as both the fundamentals and variations of arm balances, inversions, jump throughs and chakrasana (backward transition) will be taught. Excite your spirit as your move your body through space with grace and ease. Find your balance as you explore your edge while keeping the mind open, accepting and clear. We will work or core strength, bandhas, breath, drishti in a fun practice that will also help to regulate the nervous system.

Beginner Yoga

• with Tracy Carruth and Ann Macomber
• 6 Week Series Starts January 19th
• Tuesdays 7-8:00 pm
• $80
• Register for this event

This is a wonderful introduction to yoga where you will learn the fundamentals of the yoga postures, breathing and meditation.