Every Tuesday from February 21 to March 20

Aerial Silks Class with Kameko

Learn to fly! Aerial Silks Class series with Kameko Learn aerial silks basics with opportunities to explore net, hoop and rope. Open to ages 13 and up. No experience necessary. We will explore body awareness and conditioning techniques. All bodies welcome. Become empowered in the air! Reserve your spot today.

This is a series class - drop-ins welcome only if there is space, please check in with Kameko.

email: kidkameko@gmail.com
phone 707.205.5251

 

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February 17th, 11am - 1pm

Overcoming Candida & Other Fungal Infections
with Amy Smith

Get the information you need to address yeast, candida & fungal issues.

 

 

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Friday February 24th, 5:30 - 7pm

Rhythm Yoga
with Brad Parker, Ryan Ferreria & Sahar Pinkham

Info to follow or contact dhyana center (link on right)

 

 

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Wednesday February 29th, 6:30 - 8:30pm

Free Intro Class the Art of Empowering Performance with Frankie Travis

This class introduces the Eric Morris Technique including warm-ups, relaxation, sensitizing, personal inventory, as well as an exploration of the actual tools of the Morris Technique.

Frankie Travis is a graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, NYC. She also studied private voice with Broadway performer Thelma Dare Ahner and the Eric Morris Technique with Master Teacher Lennie Dean. She has worked with award winning director Hans Friedrichs & Lawrence Kasden in Mumford, as well as the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, the Peninusula Civic Light Opera, and Studio Be Theatre in Santa Rosa.

Read more on Frankie's website

 

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Thursday March 1st 6 - 9pm

Love in Action
with Transition Town

for info, call or email the dhyana center (link to right)

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Friday March 2nd, 11am - 1pm

Bio-Identical Horomones for Men & Women
with Amy Smith

An introduction to hormones and how they work within men and women’s bodies and how diet and Ayurvedic remedies can assist you in being more balanced.

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Saturday March 3rd 7:30 - 10:30pm first saturday of March, April, May

the Mystic Dance Café

Come for a live music dance jam on the first Saturday of the month for three months starting in March. DJ, improvisational music making, Sacred sound bath, Ecstatic singing, sacred chill space.

 

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Monday March 5th, 7 - 8:30pm

Brazilian Dance Class
with Tika Morgan & Kim Atkinson

Tika Morgan seeks to connect people with the universal and important world of dance expressed through the African diaspora. She teaches with great passion inviting people to focus on rhythm, symbolism and body awareness, rather than heart rates and body image. She is dedicated to introducing people to the rich and important world of dance stemming from West Africa, to understand how it influences all dance and to open the body/mind though movement. www.tikamorgan.com

 

Kim Atkinson is an internationally recognized percussion artist, teacher and ritual drummer who uses sound, rhythm and noble intention for personal and group transformation. A master facilitator and inspiring performer, he has recorded and performed with renowned musicians and dancers from many cultures since the 1980's. His rigorous studies in African and Cuban music and dance, Brazilian Shamanism and Asian Spirituality inform all his presentations. He has released 9 CDs and 2 DVDs of his own work, both instructional and entertainment. For more on Kim and his offerings, please visit www.PulseWave.com

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Thursday March 8th, 7 - 11pm

Amazon Productions & dhyana Center Education Lofts Presents

"Oh My Goddess" International
Women's Day Celebration featuring...

• Sherry Glaser "Oh My Goddess"
• Afia Walking Tree & Friends
• Feisty Females ~ Alyra & Kym Trippsmith
• Kris Freewoman & Rhythm Divas
• Wild Women's Coucil w/ Cho'Qosh
• Spoken Word w/ Auralee

Each year around the world, International Women's Day is celebrated on March 8th. Thousands of events will occur on this day to mark the cultural, economic, political and social achievements of the women of Earth 2012. The dhyana Center Lofts invites you to celebrate in solidarity with women & families in communities not so unlike our own all over the planet.

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Friday March 9th, 8 - 11pm

Kirtan & Sacred Music
with Jaya Lakshi & Ananda Yogiji

Serving Coconut Bliss: A benefit for Yoga for Youth www.yogaforyouth.org

Jaya Lakshmi and Ananda’s music is a glimmering reflection of what is possible in the realms of transcendental love. They sing and play music that initiates deep healing and opens the heart to divine joy, sharing the grace they have been given through their partnership. Alternating guitar, harmonium, bass, tabla and vocal weaving, they create a magic together that sets the stage for the Devas and Devis to dance upon. Offering a combination of kirtan (call and response singing) mantra repetition, bhajan and original songs, they mix English, Sanskrit and Gurumukhi as a bridge for all those who have been mysteriously called to Yoga and teachings from India.

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Saturday March 10th, 9pm - 12am

Kirtronica: Yoga Ecstatic Dance
with Jaya Lakshi & Ananda Yogiji

‘Kirtronica’ is a term for a new genre of music that is currently being established in the yoga world which is electronic dance music combined with live Sanskrit/Indian chanting and singing over it. Jaya Lakshmi was one of the pioneers of ‘Kirtronica’ with her previous band “Lost at Last”, founded in Maui, Hawaii in 1997. Over the last few years Jaya Lakshmi has composed original electronic music using Ableton Live. Similar to the the Lost at Last sound, her new music is a mixture of house and tribal trance beats, with (recordings of) acoustic instruments like tabla, guitar, flute, and sarod. In the current duo format, Jaya Lakshmi sings live while Ananda runs Ableton Live. They lead the audience through an ecstatic dance journey that awakens their shakti, inspiring devotional trance states and deepening their connection with the divine.

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Friday March 16th, 8pm

Amazon Productions & dhyana Center Education Lofts Presents
Jim Page Concert

"Jim Page is a lyrical genius, a wicked guitar player and the ultimate troubadour of our times." www.jimpage.net

“If Jim Page ain’t the bastard son of Woody Guthrie I’m T-Bone Walker” - Robert Hunter

“Searing, compassionate lyrics, with an always rightfully placed ironic or humorous note; Jim Page's words, like his music, are for both the mind and soul. He urges us to live our lives to their fullest, and, reassures those who do.” - Winona LaDuke

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March 16th - 19th (second weekend of three-weekend series)

Ayurvedic Education Series: 10 Monthly Weekends
Course 2: Foundations & Diagnostics
w/end two out of three, with DeAnna Batdorff

Covered in the second weekend of second three-weekend course:

• Ayurvedic View of protein, fats & Carbohydrates
  the need for adequate and balanced energy
• Enzymes & the medicinal value of spices
  metabolic fuel, proteins that build & cleanse
• Fats EFAs vs. saturated fat

we will be in the kitchen cooking for a day

 

Coming up in the third weekend of this three-weekend course:

• Clinical Aromatherapy & Ayurveda
  the physical and emotional aspects
• Essential Oils
  Application, toxicity, dosage, property, function & use
• Ayurvedic Elemental Chemistry
  How to use chemical constitutents to know properties of plants
• Traditional Blending techniques as an art form
• Understanding Herbs as Hot, Cold, Wet & Dry
• Ayurvedic Approach to carrier Oils: choosing appropriate oils for clients

we will create recipes & protocols in class

Check the education page for details on the first and third courses!

 

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Thursday March 22nd

Intro to Homebirth
with Collete Mercier and Shiela VanDerveer

Explore the scope of the midwifery, the safety and benefits of choosing to birth at home when you are having a low risk pregnancy and what informed choice means for you and your family.

We invite you to join us for a homebirth information night.   Over the course of this informational evening, we will inform you of the scope of the midwives model of care, the safety and benefits of choosing to birth at home when you are having a low risk pregnancy and what informed choice means for you and your family.  We will end our time together with a spacious question and answer period.   Our hope is that you will leave informed and inspired to choose the birth your heart most desires!  

This month’s session will be facilitated by licensed midwives:

Colette Mercier attended her best friend's birth in 2003. She was so moved  by the joy of the event that she enrolled in a doula training the following weekend, and was attending midwifery school shortly thereafter.  Practicing as a Licensed Midwife since 2006, Colette has a home birth practice based in Sebastopol, CA serving Sonoma, Napa, Marin Counties and beyond. She loves birth because it is an opportunity to support parents in a time of complexity, growth, wonder and excitement.  Connect with Colette and learn more at her blog or website

Shiela VanDerveer was called to midwifery in 1998, during a trip to rural India that sparked an irrepressible desire to help women design their reproductive destinies with intuitive wisdom + grace. As a licensed midwife + childbirth educator, Shiela has attended nearly 300 births since 1999, and supports women in the Bay Area with pre- and post-natal counseling, home birthing guidance, and annual wellness exams. Comadres is Shiela’s vocational home — a women’s health, counseling + educational sanctuary in Sebastopol, CA. Connect with Shiela on Facebook and online at Comadres Midwifery

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March 26th - April 6th (third two-week intensive)

Ayurvedic Education Series: Two Week Intensives
Course three: Treatment, Bodywork & Application
last two-week intensive, with DeAnna Batdorff

In the third two-week intensive: Learning to Trust Your Hands

• The Dhatus
  the tissues in the body & their importance
• Rasa Chikitsa
  Lymphatic drainage massage
• How to change the tissues through massage techniques
  The Tools - hot rocks, compresses, cupping, gua sha, etc
• Tandem Massage (two practitioners)
  The support system for the client
• Nadis
  The meridians of the autonomical nervous system
  

Putting it All Together:

• Pancha karma
  Netra Basti, Shirodhara, Sweating techniques, Fomentation
• Client Intake Charts
  The importance of listening, and how to build a clientele. We will end with clients, tending to them physically & emotionally
• Cleansing & Nourishing Pancha Karma programs
  Take clients through the full Pancha Karma process - assesments, pulse, cooking, preparations, remedies & treatments.
  

We will work on each other during this class. Three day final exam during the last weekend.

Check the education page for info on the previous two Intensives!

 

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Mon April 9th - Thurs April 20th (spring intensive)

New! Four Seasonal Cleanses:
10 days of yoga & Ayurvedic philosophy

co-designed by Lyric & DeAnna Batdorff, led by Lyric

Expand your health and body wisdom with an infusion of Ayurveda & Yoga, with a seasonal focus to help you attune to your body's needs in this environmental moment in the earth's journey around the sun.

Includes body aligment, devotional flow, individualized Ayurvedic assesments & comprehensive nutritional support.

4/9 - 4/20 Spring: Liver & Gall Bladder
Free intro class March 11th

6/18 - 6/29 Summer: Heart & Small Intestines
Free intro class: June 7th

dates TBA Fall: Lung & Large Intestines

past sessions: Winter Cleanse: Kidney & Colon

Lyric teaches Ayuryoga at the dhyana Lofts. Read about her here

DeAnna is the founder of the dhyana Center, and carries a rich background of Ayurvedic study and clinical practice in India and the USA. As the dhyana Center's core practitioner, mentor, educator, and creative force, she creates and holds a deeply expansive, inspirational, healing and empowering space.

 

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every Wednesday

Aushadi Donation Clinic by appointment only

with DeAnna Batdorff + Ayurvedic students, interns & practicioners

Ayurvedic Pulse, Nutrition & Health Assesments for All
A Sebastopol institution, the Donation Clinic (operated through the Aushadi health foundation) offers healing and care to all regardless of economic health. The donation clinic is a service that the dhyana Center has been offering for years with love and passion.

What do I receive? You will receive a pulse diagnosis and discussion with members of the dhyana Ayurvedic healing team who have learned and practice their own valuable perspective on DeAnna's powerful pulse-reading abilities. Expect to feel supported and to walk away with written recommendations for your own unique proactive self-care regiment, including nutrition, herbs, essential oils & lifestyle practices.

Who is clinic for? If you need help, if you struggle with a mind, body or spirit imbalance, if you have a chronic ailment, if you have something minor, major, physical, or emotional. If you are curious about Ayurveda and the dhyana center. If you are a student of healing arts and would like to volunteer. If you have already come to clinic and want to continue receiving support. You are welcome, and your children & babies are welcome too.

Be sure to make an appointment before you come, and keep in mind that the clinic is able to run solely based on the generosity of donations!

 

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Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday mornings (ongoing)

AyurYoga

with Lyric

Lyric's yoga classes offer a vigorous yet gentle workout that details traditional and modern Vinyasa & Iyengar yoga practices. She is inspired deeply by her teachers Shannon Donovan from Thrive yoga, and world famous maya yogis, Nicki Doane and Eddie Modestini. Currently she is continuing her studies locally and plans to travel to India to attain more inspiration in the upcoming year.

Regular weekly yoga classes will continue regularly every Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday mornings from 8 am- 9:30am. Please contact Lyric directly to reserve space in her classes or if you have questions about retreats.

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Thursday, Friday & Saturday mornings (ongoing)

Yoga with Tirza Dawn
with Tirza Dawn

Revitalize and renew! Start your day right with a combination of stretching, meditation and breathwork that will put your body in allignment, sharpen your mind, and soften your heart. This class offers the strength of Iyengar style muscle and bone building, with the flow and spinal awakening of Tri Yoga. All levels of experience welcome!

about Tirza: Tirza Dawn is a certified yoga instructor who has been practicing and teaching yoga in its many forms for 20 years. With ceremony work as her root, Tirza teaches yoga, breathwork, meditation, and somatic creativity for private sessions to large group rituals and retreats. Through asana, satya, and breath, her teaching focuses on the mind/body connection and finding pathways to self love.

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