Date: May 19th
Time: 8:00pm to 10:00 pm
Jewelry Trunk Show: 7:30pm
Cost: $50 or $45 before may 4th
Instructor: Luciana Freire
Register today: www.yogasamba.com 

Want Joy and Magic in your Life? Dance your way into it.  For the first time in Minneapolis YogaSamba™ meets YogaTrance™.

Join us on this moving meditation and high-energy journey to liberate your creative force.  Space is limited.  This is more than a yoga class. More than a dance class. It’s an inner exploration and a deep healing journey. Many of my students have shared that they often spend $100 for healing sessions like reiki, energy work, acupuncture, therapy and more.

I’m so happy to be able to offer this powerful healing journey for only half that price. At $50, this is a experience that will help you shed the layers you know longer need and emerge more joyful, confident and filled with purpose and divinity. Each experience is so unique, I invite you to try it yourself. With Mother’s Day this month, this is the ultimate way to honor the divine mother within you, as well as your inner goddess who is dancing with anticipation to emerge.

Music by Dj Bras i Lion

Special trunk show of Jewelry Designer, Donna Menne Designs Crystal and Leather Collection at 7:30pm

30-Day Eat-Clean Challenge

June 10 6:30-8:30pm
June 17 6:30-8:30pm
June 24 6:30-8:30pm
July 8 6:30-8:30pm

Cost: $195 per person/ $350 per couple
Instructor: Chris Pietrzak-Wegner, CSCS, MTA

Participants are encouraged to attend all four sessions to receive maximum benefit in order to pave the road to success.

Embrace a challenge that will create deep change in your life.

Are you living with digestive discomfort? Confused about how to eat? Overwhelmed by information from the media regarding nutrition? Tired of dieting? Not feeling supported in your journey with food?

Take the 30-Day Eat-Clean Challenge where you will be given tools, education, and support to create eating habits and a lifestyle that promotes individual health on all levels.

Chris Pietrzak-Wegner, CSCS, Level I Holistic Lifestyle Coach and a certified Functional Diagnostic Nutritionist, will guide participants through the 30-Day Eat-Clean Challenge educating individuals on how to tailor their eating habits specifically to their body’s needs. This program is a facilitated group format, meeting four times throughout the 30-day challenge. Each meeting will address a different aspect of nutrition and discuss over-coming common road blocks. The group format also gives participants a support network creating a forum to exchange ideas, concerns, successes, and challenges. The in-person support will extend online though weekly inspirational emails as well as an online forum to connect with other participants.

The 30-Day Eat Clean Challenge IS a challenge; it is a personal journey that requires full engagement by the participant. It will involves discipline, self-discovery, self-care, and courage to break away from learned behavior and conditioning and to develop new and healthy patterns. This challenge will involve eliminating foods that are often common to daily meals, but are also often the biggest contributors to digestive imbalance and disease. Throughout the journey of this 30-day challenge participants will be held in a non-judgmental supportive community.

Some of the benefits you may experience from this journey include reduced cravings, balanced energy, improved mental clarity, and decreased digestive stress. One of the most important benefits available is finding balance and well-being within you.

All interested participants are required to have a short (5 minute) phone call with Chris prior to registering. This will ensure that this program is the right fit for you and provide you with the detailed information you need to make the commitment.

REGISTRATION: Contact Chris at 612-817-5292 or metalandearth@hotmail.com

Sunday, May 13th 7-8:30pm: Seeking Simplicity
Sunday, June 3rd 7-8:30pm: Nature as our Teacher
Sunday, July 15th 7-8:30pm: Balancing Yin & Yang
Sunday, August 19th 7-8:30pm: Finding Center: The Middle Path

Cost: $15 per person. 
Pre-registration would be helpful, please email omwithmichelle@gmail.com.
Drop-ins are welcome.

Curious about Taoism and how to fold this simple philosophy into life?

Join us for a casual evening of discussing the Tao. We’ll take one aspect of Taoism to focus on and personally digest by creating a discussion around how we might invite the elements of the Tao into our daily living. Our evening will end with a 20-minute meditation approachable to all. Gongfu style Chinese tea will be served.

Facilitated and hosted by Michelle Pietrzak-Wegner, E-RYT 500 & Chris Pietrzak-Wegner, CSCS, MTA. Michelle and Chris have just come back from furthering their studies in Taoism in Wudangshan, China.

Guest Teacher & Sanskrit Scholar  

We are so thrilled to host Professor Sanghavi again this year teaching “Gita as the Scripture of Yoga”.  He will be with Yoga Prairie, Devanadi, and the OM collective from June 14-16th, 2012.

Professor Nagindas Sanghavi [b. 1920] got his Master’s degree from the University of Mumbai [1947] and taught in three renowned colleges in Mubai for thirty years. [1950-81]. After his retirement he kept up writing in various Journals including Economic and Political Weekly, Freedom First and India. He concentrated on Gujarat and wrote Gujarat a Political Analysis and his Gujarat at Cross Roads Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan. His Agony of Arrival-Gandhi in South Africa [Rupa Publishers] has been acclaimed as a work of considerable research. He is the principal author of the Swaraj Darshan- [Gujarati] a review of post independence India was on the reference list for post graduate students in the Universities of Gujarat. He has written several pamphlets on Constitution and politics of India [Parichaya Pamphlets]. Professor Sanghavi writes regularly in several newspapers and magazines in Gujarat and was awarded the best commentator on Political issues by the Government of Gujarat in 1996. Prof.Sanghavi every year visits Madison, WI to talk about the philosophy of Yoga and allied subjects to the Teachers Training Program class of Alignment Yoga under the guidance of Scott Anderson.

With Rev. Alan L Pritz, Meditation Teacher & Interfaith Minister 

Sunday, May 13th 2012
1:00 – 4:00pm
For: Anyone Wanting to Start or Deepen their Practice
Cost: $55

Meditation promotes joyful, balanced living and enriches the journey of life. It is not a passive process of closing the eyes and hoping for the best, nor, inducing a silent, blank-
mind.  It is a state of awareness achieved through correct practice of specific techniques.  Such techniques are part of the Inner Sciences derived from universal tenets perceived and handed down through the ages. In classical yoga, meditation frees us from a limiting sense of self-identity and awakens realization of our universal or Infinite Self.

In this workshop we address:

♦ The Spiritual Journey
♦ The Yamas and Niyamas
♦ How to Free the Body/Mind of Tension
♦ Why Meditation Works
♦ A Classic Concentration Technique
♦ Daily Practice Guidelines

To Register: Call 612-721-4100 or email: AlanPritz@q.com
Registration required by Friday, May 11th

The Spiritual Journey
The Yamas & Niyamas
How to Free the Body/Mind of Tension
Why Meditation Works
A Classic Concentration Technique
Daily Practice Guidelines

About the Facilitator:
Alan Pritz has trained and taught for over 38 years and is a disciple of Paramhansa
Yogananda. Selected by the US Army Reserves as “Meditation & Life–Balance Resource”
Alan is also the author of Pocket Guide To Meditation, Meditation and the Spiritual Life,
plus producer of two chanting CD’s. He provides counseling, coaching Weddings / Life
Ceremonies, and weekly All-Faiths Meditation Worship Services in Minneapolis.
Website: www.Awake-in-Life.com

Waves: Essence

Cost: $175 ($155 if paid by May 15), $30 for Friday only

Connect with your Essence by releasing your mind and responding to the inner calling of your body. Allow the vibrant energy that lies beneath the mind chatter of right and wrong to move you. In this weekend, explore the 5Rhythms® – Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical and Stillness with an awareness of the vital Essence that moves through all life. Whether you have had a lifetime of dancing or this is your first movement experience you will be held in a field of acceptance and appreciation. Find yourself here.

Feeling the power of healing through movement is what lead K’Lea to become certified in Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms Wave in 1997 and a few years later Vinn Marti’s Soul Motion. Being a lover of learning, throughout the last 28 years she has dedicated her life to developing and integrating a wide variety of healing modalities. Along with offering classes and workshops in movement, K’Lea has a holistic healing practice in Jackson WY.

The Yoga of Meditation: Practicing the Middle Way

A 2 hour meditation workshop for those interested in expanding their capacity to access harmony, balance and peaceful presence through these challenging times of change. This workshop is designed to introduce and support meditation as a renewal practice to rest and relax the soul/body, while inspiring the contemplative spirit. Through a combination of simple postures, visualizations and specific ancient meditation exercises from the Tibetan and Hindu cultures, each participant will walk away with more tools and an uplift of energy to continue to manage the stress of these changing times. If you are looking for an opportunity for immersion into relaxation, while opening your spirit of gratitude and faith, this workshop is for you.

If you are new to yoga, or even if you have tried yoga before, come try this style of hatha yoga. Anusara yoga is a style of yoga that emphasizes a life-affirming philosophy, and clear, precise alignment. In this class you will learn basic yoga poses taught with proper biomechanics of movement, but also in an engaging style that encourages celebration from the heart! Certified Anusara yoga instructor Ronna Rochell has taught yoga for over 20 years, and absolutely loves teaching this class. She is known for engaging her students in a serious, yet playful manner. Please Pre-register with Ronna at ronnaomcollective@gmail.com

the OM collective owners; Lisa Van Ahn, Ali Certain, Ronna Rochell and Jennifer Colletti, at our November, 2010 Grand Opening Party.