It's August
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at Liberty Yoga!


Happy August! Summer is flying by and Liberty Yoga is hoppin'!  
Exciting things are happening like our last workshop ---Pilates on August 16 (sign up today!), the anticipation of the Fall schedule with our first Liberty Yoga Teacher Training and Hot Vinyasa classes. We are also going to be adding a specialty class, Melt, a pain relief technique.

Bike to the bay is coming on September 20,2014! Last year Liberty Yoga had a team of 2 - Christine Shaw & Katrina High. We are hoping to get a bigger group this year (3 or more!!). See below if you like riding and like helping a great cause (all money raised goes to MS research).

Please read on dear yogi and we will see you soon at the studio! 
                                
Namaste, 
Christine and Erin 
     
Workshops and Special Classes!
MELT
Having chronic aches and pains?  That's not normal! Consider trying MELT w/ Monique Claudio!

The MELT Method�: 
is a self-treatment technique that helps people get out and stay out of chronic pain in just ten minutes a day. By learning how to MELT, you can learn to actively partake in decreasing stuck stress daily so it doesn't accumulate and cause symptoms that sap your vitality and energy.

We had an overwhelming positive response from the MELT workshops. Now you can take MELT once a week!
Click below to express your interest in taking this class. 

MELT at Liberty Yoga:
Wednesdays at 11:45am
OR
Wednesdays at 7pm

10 Class Packs (Good for 12 weeks)
$140 / pack (non-members)
$120 / pack (members-Autorenew)

Limited spots! Minimum of 5!



NEW Classes 
coming in the Fall:
1. Rock Your Asana!

This class will be held at 7pm on Monday nights. Enjoy a fun and playful class with rockin' music, flow and adventure! Come and enjoy a practice that will "Rock Your Asana" and help you to learn to fly with moves powered by the anatomical principles of Core Strength Vinyasa. 

2. Hot Vinyasa!

This class will be held on Tuesdays (with Susan) and Thursdays (with Elizabeth) at 5:30pm. Enjoy a flow Vinyasa class in a hot room (90-100)!
Upcoming Workshops
 August:
Foundations of Vinyasa Workshop -
Donation Based! Hot Yoga! 
w/ Elizabeth Gehrt  

Thursday, Aug, 28 5:30 - 7:30 pm
Did you miss the first round of the Foundations of Vinyasa for teacher training? We are adding a second class of 200hr YTT (Yoga Teacher Training) taught by Elizabeth Gehrt
            
After clicking the link above, click on the top tab that says YTT 2014-2015. Scroll down to find the YTT for Liberty Yoga.
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Last workshop of the summer!
Pilates-
w/ Kim Stemm

August 16, 1-3pm 
 $30 / $15 (AutoRenew)

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September

Couples Yoga & Massage

 

with Erin Sweeney and 

Jan Owens

Coming Saturday 

Sept. 20  2-4:30pm

$60 per couple

Register Here!

 
YOGA in the PARK! 
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FREE / Donation- Every Saturday at Paper Mill Park 
8:30-9:45am 
Meet in the parking lot straight ahead. Please bring a guest who has not been to Liberty Yoga before!
The last 5 Classes will be:
August 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30

Watch & Try not to Smile & Dance!
Nico & Vinz - Am I Wrong [Official Music Video]
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IN LIFE ---Do what you Feel! Take advice from Nico and Vinz - listen to the song, watch the video and read the words! Here's a great message for living your life with energy, hope, a dream and intention! 
That's Just How I Feel!
Am I wrong for thinking out the box from where I stay?
Am I wrong for saying that I'll choose another way?
I ain't trying to do what everybody else doing
Just cause everybody doing what they all do
If one thing I know, I'll fall but I'll grow?
I'm walking down this road of mine, this road that I call home

Chorus:
So am I wrong for thinking that we could be something for real?
Now am I wrong for trying to reach the things that I can't see?
But that's just how I feel, that's just how I feel
That's just how I feel trying to reach the things that I can't see

Am I tripping for having ambition?
My prediction; I'mma be on the top of the world
Hope you, hope you don't look back, always do what you decide
Don't let them control your life, that's just how I feel
Fight for yours and don't let go, don't let them compare you, no
Don't worry, you're not alone, that's just how we feel

To Chorus
If you tell me I'm wrong, I don't wanna be right
If you tell me I'm wrong, I don't wanna be right

Liberty Yoga's
   Bike to the Bay
(only 75 miles)
Saturday Sept. 20
 
Last Year we had a team of 2- Christine and Katrina! Please join me this year and let's see if we can form a team of 3 or more! 
  *SPECIAL DEAL*
The registration fee is $55 BUT Right now you can register for FREE! If you are a first time bike rider and you join our team, Christine has 3 FREE registration tickets available (1st come first serve!) - Come join me for this FUN event!!
(this is a mail in offer only)

If biking is not your thing then please click below to donate to our Liberty yoga team and the MS fund raising cause! Thanks!! 
When you go to the bike to the bay website, click "join a team" and then search for Liberty Yoga. Join our team to ride or to make a donation! Thanks! 
Click here to Join our Team & /or make a donation!! 
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1 Liberty Plaza Kirkwood Highway
Newark, DE (near Perkins and Outback)
Christine: 302-367-5074
christineshaw@libertyyoga.org
Erin: 302-300-0977
erinsweeney@libertyyoga.org

August Schedule 
Cancellations:

Tuesday, Aug 7th at 6 am and 7:30am 
Friday, Aug 8th Prenatal Yoga at 5:30  Wednesday, Aug 13 at 10 am
Sorry for any inconvenience!!! 
 
Fall Schedule Changes:  
The fall schedule brings some big and awesome changes.  More class options and back to 90 minute therapeutic classes again!

 
  Fall Schedule (Starts Sept 2nd): 
Closed Labor Day- Mon, Sept. 1 
Due to low class attendance, 6am classes are cancelled in the fall. Sorry for any inconvenience!

Monday 
7:30am- Vinyasa Essentials 
10am- Therapeutic    
5:30pm- Vinyasa Fundamentals  
7 pm - Therapeutic
7pm- *NEW - Rock Your Asana - A Fly Vinyasa yoga class with Rockin' music and an energizing flow!
 
Tuesday 
7:30- Fly Vinyasa
10am- Therapeutic 
10 am - Therapeutic Fundamentals
5:30 pm - Vinyasa Essentials  
5:30pm- *NEW - Hot Vinyasa 
7pm- Therapeutic
(7pm- YTT)

Wednesday 
 7:30am- Vinyasa Essentials   
10am- Therapeutic    
11:45 am - MELT (Click to sign up!)
5:30 pm Vinyasa Fundamentals
7 pm - FLY Vinyasa
7 pm - MELT (Click to sign up!)   
                      
Thursday  
7:30am- Fly Vinyasa  
10am- Restorative
10am- Therapeutic / Fundamentals  
5:30pm - Vinyasa Essentials
5:30pm- *NEW- Hot Vinyasa 
7pm- Restorative

Friday  
8:30am- Therapeutic  
10am- Therapeutic/ Fundamentals  
5:30pm- Prenatal

Saturday 
8:30am- FLY Vinyasa (In the studio) 
10am- Therapeutic

Workshops are usually held on the weekends
The Therapeutic Family Tree

We are often asked about the different classes in the Therapeutic category at Liberty Yoga. All the therapeutic type classes are designed to promote healing but what's the difference between them?  

The classes called Therapeutic (Th) include a variety of focuses, often tailored to those who come that day, with stretching, strengthening, laughing and stress relief.  The main focus is posture and classes are relatively vigorous but do not require flexibility and modifications are easily made. Students should be able to get up and down off the floor.

Therapeutic Fundamentals (Th/Fun) is a chair yoga class that is less vigorous and that focuses on basic principles.  It is appropriate for people who cannot do the regular therapeutic class.  Some examples are: if you cannot get easily up and down from the floor, if you have a medical condition that limits your mobility or stamina, if your wrists or shoulders are injured or weak, or if you are brand new to yoga.

The Restorative (R) class is available to all levels from beginner to advanced.  I don't recommend it for pregnant women or for people who cannot get up and down off the floor easily.  It includes a warm up and yoga poses that activate the parasympathetic nervous system. These poses can sometimes be challenging but are often deeply relaxing and will promote healing. This is particularly good for people with chronic fatigue or lymes disease, who are working on a pranayama (breathing) and meditation practice, who are recovering from illness (ex: cancer, thyroid or adrenal issues), or who have a great deal of stress in their jobs or life.

The MELT class is new and will focus on pain relief through acupressure techniques that are quite simple and designed to open the channels of fluid flow in the tissue that connects your muscles to the skin.  Even though is is simple and gentle, it can really help. It is not yoga. 

 Prenatal yoga (P).  This class is appropriate for anyone who is pregnant. Pregnant yoginis may also come to other classes at Liberty Yoga.  Therapeutic yoga can be a nice overlap and with a few modifications some pregnant yoginis can do vinyasa flow.  No hot yoga, please.  :) 
 
The Vinyasa Flock!

Vinyasa is a flow class.The term vinyāsa may be broken down into its Sanskritic roots to decode its meaning. Nyasa denotes "to place" vi denotes "in a special way". It also means 1)the linking of body movement with breath; and 2) a specific sequence of breath-synchronized movements used to transition between postures. 
 
Here are the different types of Vinyasa we offer at Liberty Yoga:

Vinyasa Fundamentals is a flow class for all levels, especially beginners, designed to teach the basics of alignment, poses (asanas), names and yogic principles like breathing, mindfulness and body awareness.

Vinyasa Essentials is a flow class assisting students in proper breathing and alignment in the poses including sun salutations, standing postures, balance, seated postures and restorative poses at the end.  

Fly Vinyasa is a vigorous flow class incorporating the anatomical principles of Core Strength Vinyasa to help students to work from their deep core line for a strong, powerful, effective and safe practice.

Rock Your Asana is a fun, playful and vigorous Fly Vinyasa class with Rockin' music, flow and adventure! Learn to fly with lift and power and intention with these fun moves incorporating strength and balance. 

Hot Vinyasa is a series of flow vinyasa moves executed in a hot room (90-100 degrees). This class is for all levels who enjoy yoga in a heated environment. A heated room warms the body so your muscles can be more flexible. It flushes impurities out of the body through the skin.
Be sure to hydrate before, during and after class. Listen to your body and don't push it too far.

August Schedule Changes:
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1) Sunday, August 3: MEDITATION will be held at 8:30am on this date and NOT on the regularly scheduled date of August 10

2) Aug 4, 14 and 26: Susan Smith- Our YTT teacher will be teaching in August for these classes: 
Mon Aug 4- 5:30pm & 7pm
Thurs Aug 14- 5:30pm & 
Tues Aug 26-5:30

3) Cancellations! Thurs Aug 7: 6am and 7:30am FLY Classes canceled, Fri Aug 8: 5:30pm Prenatal canceled, Wed Aug 13: 10am Therapeutic Canceled. 
Sorry for any inconvenience.

4) Thurs Aug 28: Vinyasa at 5:30pm and Therapeutic at 7pm will be held in the Eagle Room. Foundations of Yoga- Hot Yoga Class will be held in the Tree Room. 

A Very Friendly Therapeutic Yoga Practice GIFT!:
 
I had a request for help this month with something!  Many of you are going on vacation as are Christine and I!  So... here's a reminder link to a short and easy therapeutic yoga practice you can do on vacation or during a break from our studio.  Keep moving and exercise every day!

Yoga Practice Blog 

Pose of the Month

Phalakasana (Plank) 
Get ready to work the legs, core and spine with this asana of the month!
Thank you from Liberty Yoga!
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