All classes are from 6-7:15pm at the El Portal School. Appropriate for all levels of yoga experience. Donation-based classes benefit the Balanced Rock scholarship fund and training for our yoga teachers.
Monday, August 1: Heather Sullivan
Wednesday, August 3: Schuyler Greenleaf
Monday, August 8: Heather Sullivan
Wednesday, August 10: Paula Wild
Monday, August 15: Paula Wild
Wednesday, August 17: Jon-Paul Salonen
Monday, August 22: Jennie Wheeler
Wednesday, August 24: Jon-Paul Salonen
Monday, August 29: Paula Wild
Wednesday, August 31: Jennie Wheeler
Hope to see you there!
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Monday, July 18, 2011
Hands On Heath: The Maya Way
We're passing along a unique healing opportunity in the Yosemite area. Thanks Liz for sharing!
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Saturday 9:30 – 5:30
El Portal Community Center
5512 Foresta Road
El Portal, CA 95318
A Time for Self Care and Empowerment…
Hands on Health the Maya Way is a workshop designed for anyone seeking to improve personal health and wellness. It is a nurturing time to focus on your own digestive and reproductive health concerns such as painful or irregular periods, PMS, fibroids, fertility, difficult menopause, postpartum, postcesarean or hysterectomy scarring, constipation, IBS, indigestion, bladder infections, incontinence, or swollen prostate. This course is designed to educate and empower you to use your own two hands to help yourself! You will learn self care techniques that are founded on the ancient Maya method of abdominal massage.
Hands on Health the Maya Way will introduce you to Maya traditional healing, abdominal/pelvic anatomy and physiology, signs and symptoms of displaced organs (female and male), benefits of abdominal massage, contraindications, demonstration of the technique and group practice of self care massage, herbs and other Maya healing modalities.
This is an introductory class and no prior training is required. You will learn how to perform the Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy on yourself. It is not intended to prepare an individual to apply this technique professionally. Massage therapists can earn 7 CEU hours under NCBTMB. Note that the massage cannot be done with an IUD or during the first trimester of pregnancy.
*Please wear elastic waist pants and bring a yoga mat / blanket and 2 pillows
To register: www.arvigotherapy.com
Tuition: $125 includes workshop and tea/snacks. Early bird price $100 if registered by 9/22
This class is taught by Abigail Reagan LM, CPM, CAT, Licensed Midwife and Certified Arvigo Therapist.
She was trained by Dr. Rosita Arvigo and is passionate about this work to support health. For questions, contact Abigail at ar@rebirthmidwifery.com.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
July Yosemite Community Yoga at the El Portal School
All classes are from 6-7:15pm at the El Portal School. Appropriate for all levels of yoga experience. Donation-based classes benefit the Balanced Rock scholarship fund and training for our yoga teachers.
Monday, July 4: 6:00-7:15 pm | Holiday, no class
Wednesday, July 6: 6:00-7:15 pm | Yoga Holiday, no class
Monday, July 11: 6:00-7:15 pm | Heather Sullivan
Wednesday, July 13: 6:00-7:15 pm | Heather Sullivan
Monday, July 18: 6:00-7:15 pm | Jennie Wheeler
Wednesday, July 20: 6:00-7:15 pm | Paula Wild
Monday, July 25: 6:00-7:15 pm | Heather Sullivan
Wednesday, July 27: 6:00-7:15 pm | Paula Wild
Hope you can join us!
Monday, July 4: 6:00-7:15 pm | Holiday, no class
Wednesday, July 6: 6:00-7:15 pm | Yoga Holiday, no class
Monday, July 11: 6:00-7:15 pm | Heather Sullivan
Wednesday, July 13: 6:00-7:15 pm | Heather Sullivan
Monday, July 18: 6:00-7:15 pm | Jennie Wheeler
Wednesday, July 20: 6:00-7:15 pm | Paula Wild
Monday, July 25: 6:00-7:15 pm | Heather Sullivan
Wednesday, July 27: 6:00-7:15 pm | Paula Wild
Hope you can join us!
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Mountain Bliss
My most blissful experiences and "ah ha" moments have been in nature. About 10 years ago, I dramatically changed the whole direction of my career after a transcendent "mountain top experience" on my first real backpacking expedition. After 5 weeks of backpacking and hiking in New Zealand, I had a dramatic sense of intense gratitude and utter wellbeing that left me in a state of bliss for the next six months. Upon my return home, I left my office-based corporate job for training as a hiking guide, the Peace Corps, the National Park Service, and ultimately here, to Balanced Rock.
The natural world has become so sacred to me that two weeks ago, I made my entire family hike into the wilderness for my wedding. Watching my mother-in-law-to-be scale huge downed logs, large boulders, and trail wash-outs gave me pause, but the shared adventure created an atmosphere of heart-pumping excitement that might otherwise not have been there.
I deeply believe that very few experiences are as transformative as being in nature. Being in the outdoors refreshes, awakens, and rejuvenates us. We are biologically programmed to need sunshine, earth, and fresh air to feel most alive in the present moment. As usual, John Muir says it best:
"Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is necessity; that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life."
Go home to the mountains. Wash your spirit clean.
Warm summer wishes,
Pam (Meierding) Kuhn
Balanced Rock Executive Director
The natural world has become so sacred to me that two weeks ago, I made my entire family hike into the wilderness for my wedding. Watching my mother-in-law-to-be scale huge downed logs, large boulders, and trail wash-outs gave me pause, but the shared adventure created an atmosphere of heart-pumping excitement that might otherwise not have been there.
I deeply believe that very few experiences are as transformative as being in nature. Being in the outdoors refreshes, awakens, and rejuvenates us. We are biologically programmed to need sunshine, earth, and fresh air to feel most alive in the present moment. As usual, John Muir says it best:
"Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is necessity; that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life."
Go home to the mountains. Wash your spirit clean.
Warm summer wishes,
Pam (Meierding) Kuhn
Balanced Rock Executive Director
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