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Yoga for Health
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Gail Lichtenfels and Jean Farkas
Co-directors of Yoga Programs
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Harmonizing Mind, Body, and Spirit
Yoga for Health offers an individualized approach to stress management and aims to address your specific health needs. From Mindfulness Meditation to Yoga Nidra to Yoga workshops, our classes nourish your body and soothe your soul. Our experienced yoga teachers are trained in many discipines and integrate their Tender Loving Care to create a spe
cialized yoga environment in our cozy yoga studio.
Visit our Website
Great news! You can now register and pay for classes and workshops on our website.
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Newsletter Contents
- Welcome Fall, Reaping the Harvest
- Yoga as Therapy
- Private Yoga Sessions
- New Saturday Yoga Class-Reminder
- Fall Detox Pancha Karma
- Yoga and a Walk in the Woods
- New Tai Chi Class
- Mindfully Well Heart--Coming 2017
- Yoga Nidra
- Honoring our Veterans--Veteran's Day Open House
- Thanksgiving Gratitude Meditation
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Welcome Fall!
Reaping the Harvest
Please join us in greeting the beautiful Fall season. Fall is the seasonal cycle when the summer growth bears and scatters its fruit. It's a good time to reflect on what efforts and dreams are manifesting and coming to fruition in your life. What is the harvest of your efforts? It's also a good time to reflect on the cycle of life and death, as some things die back and new life is born. Take time to enjoy the beauty of the season and experience the inspiration, peace and calm that results from connecting to nature.
It's been just two years since Mindfully Well Center opened it's doors for the first time at a Labor Day Open House. Check out this newsletter and our newly updated website to see the "harvests" available to you. The Mindfully Well Center is the dream of Dr. Rose Mary Shaw, Neuro-psychologist, to create a holistic center which addresses mind, body and spiritual health, based on the ancient health system of Ayurveda. Visit our website
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Dr. Rose Mary Shaw, owner and founder of Mindfully Well Center
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Yoga as Therapy
Today, Yoga is often included as part of a person's individual heath strategy or therapeutic treatment plan, addressing a variety of health issues or concerns from weight loss to chronic pain or disease to mental health issues. Your physician or mental health counselor may recommend yoga. Now, private sessions as well as Yoga classes are available at the Mindfully Well Center.
Private Yoga Sessions
Have you ever wanted to attend a Yoga class, but not felt comfortable being in a group class due to special needs or conditions? Have you or a loved one experienced physical trauma so disabling you could not function in a regular class? Or emotional or mental trauma severe enough to leave you with paralyzing anxiety or depression? Whatever physical or mental condition you find yourself in, let us suggest adding yoga to your personal treatment plan. If an ongoing class does not work for you, try private yoga sessions with our yoga teachers.
In a private session the wisdom of yoga can be adapted to whatever is needed to help you move into a better state of health and well-being, using a variety of tried and true techniques that might include recommendations from Ayurveda, modified yoga postures tailored to the needs of your body, guided imagery, yoga nidra, breathing practices, and meditation.
Katrina Oost, now on staff at Mindfully Well Center, is certified as a Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Therapist. Due to her own life-long struggle with severe anxiety and depression, she comes to this work with a profound understanding of what it means to feel vulnerable, unsafe and unable to cope. "I get it," says Katrina. Yoga therapy has helped her tremendously. "It's almost a miracle!"
Katrina shares what happens in her Yoga Therapy Sessions. To find out more...
To schedule private sessions call the Mindfully Well Center at 937-769-5019.
Katrina Osst
Gail Lichtenfels
Joyce Reena Appell
Jean Farkas
See Yoga Teacher bios
Private Sessions are $35/hour with discounts available for the purchase of several sessions at once.
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Reminder--New Saturday Yoga Class with
Katrina Oost
Saturdays, 11 am-Noon
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Fall Detoxification & Rejuvenation Retreat
October 8 - 14, 2016
Welcome! You are invited to spend 7 days with us during the Fall Panchakarma, a Rejuvenating and Transformative Experience! Immerse yourself in our comprehensive, traditional Ayurvedic treatments
focused on restoring your Mind, Body & Spirit back to a state of balance & well-being.
Panchakarma is a journey of inner and outer mind & body cleansing and restoration.
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Schedule your Ayurvedic Individual Consultations with Kelly Lewis, Ayurvedic Practitioner. She will conduct a complete Ayurvedic analysis and provide Healthy Lifestyle management advice.
Call 937-769-5019 to schedule, Fee $99.
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YOGA WORKSHOP
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Yoga and a Walk in the Woods
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Did you know that researchers now confirm what we have always suspected-that being in nature is actually good for your brain? The therapeutic effects of a walk in the woods include increased attention span, better memory, reduced stress, greater creativity and improved moods. In addition, Japanese researchers have found lowered blood pressure and heart rate and improved immune function.
Join us for a yoga session at the mindfully well center focusing on nature elements which also correspond to our chakras or energy centers-
Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Space-using yoga movements, breathing and mudras (hand gestures) which evoke the qualities of these elements.
After opening to nature, we will go on an optional hike at Glen Helen, providing an opportunity to relate to and absorb these nature elements.
When: Sunday, October 9, 1:30-3:00 pm, (Yoga Session), 3:00-4:00 (optional hike--weather permitting).
Cost: $12. Reservations required.
For more information, please contact Jean Farkas at 937-657-5992 or [email protected]
Presenter: Jean Farkas. Jean is a yoga teacher with 20 years of teaching experience. She is a land steward, volunteer and board member of the Arc of Appalachia Nature Preserve near Rocky Fork Gorge and loves connecting to nature.
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Try This New Tai Chi Class
with Doc Pete and Master Dee
Tuesdays, 7:30-9 pm, starting Sept. 6
at the Mindfully Well Center
See Yoga Fees Schedule for class pass and drop in fees. Click here
Great for focus, calming and balance. Suitable for any fitness level. Seniors welcome.
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The Mindfully Well Heart
Welcome to our innovative program for healing our hearts by merging the ancient holistic wisdom of Ayurveda with highly effective stress management techniques and unleashing the power of human connection. Starts February 18 & 19, 2017, followed by 6 weeks of Life in Balance sessions featuring therapeutic group support sessions led by Dr. Rose Mary Shaw, Psy.D. and stress management, led by our yoga teachers. Read more...
Mindfully Well Heart Faculty:
Dr. Rose Mary Shaw, Psy. D. See Bio
Jean Farkas, MA See Bio
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YOGA WORKSHOP:
Yoga Nidra Six Week Session
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Are you experiencing anxiety, emotional distress, chronic health conditions or pain? Yoga Nidra, which means "deep rest" can be incredibly healing for you. In this 6-week course, you will learn both the theory and research behind this amazing practice, but will also experience first hand the benefits of Yoga Nidra.
In each session, we will spend 45 minutes in the practice with a slightly different focus each week. During the practice you will recline on the floor, using props such as pillows, blankets, and blocks to create complete comfort and complete relaxation.
Experience the Benefits of a Yoga Nidra Practice
· Muscular, mental and emotional relaxation
· Fewer physical symptoms, such as headaches and back pain
· Reduction in chronic pain
· Lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels
· Stres
s Reduction
When: Thurs. evening 6:30-7:30, Nov. 17- Dec. 22 (no class on Nov. 24 (Thanksgiving)
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: $42. paid at or before first session OR $10/session drop-in fee
Instructor:
Gail Lichtenfels, RYT 500, M.Hum.
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Veteran's Day Open House
Honoring Your Service
Friday, November 11, 2016
You've served us-----Let us serve you
Over two million Americans have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, many returning with PTSD, traumatic brain injury, chronic stress-related disorders and chronic pain.
Dr. Rose Mary Shaw, neuro-psychologist and founder of Mindfully Well Center, counsels many veterans. Her experience has led her to make the services of the Mindfully Well Center available to vets, helping them find tools to bring more steadiness, calm and resilience to their lives.
Come to the OPEN HOUSE anytime between 10 am-4 pm and sample free Yoga classes, Yoga Nidra (deep rest) , Meditation, Mudras (calming hand movements), Coping with Anxiety, mini-massages, Reflexology foot massage. Refreshments and information about the Mindfully Well Center Yoga Classes, individual therapy, rejuvenation spa services, workshops available.
Receive a free month-long pass to yoga classes and discounts on other services. Families welcome.
For free resources for vets,
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Wishing you a bountiful harvest of Gratitude
From Jean Farkas:
I always end my yoga classes with a gratitude meditation, one of the surest ways of bringing inner peace and calm, but I didn't to this with my classes taught at the homeless shelter for women. I didn't feel comfortable because I worried that they had nothing to be thankful for. A few years ago, during my Thanksgiving reflections, it occurred to me how wrong this was. Gratitude is a spiritual practice for all, not just theose with comfortable lives. My co-teacher, Jenny Berman and I discussed this and began to start each class with an opportunity for the students to say what they are grateful for. The response was amazing. If they had no home, they were grateful for the shelter's roof over their heads; if they had no relationship, they were glad to have gotten out of a bad one; they were grateful for being clean of drugs or alcohol; they were grateful for small kindnesses. It went on and on. Jenny, who is a social work professor, and I wrote an article published in Reflections, a social work e-magazine.
Read more...
Here's a simple, effective Gratitude Meditation
1. Sit quietly and breathe in and out of the heart center
2. Focus your mind on something you are grateful for
3. Hold this focus for 5-10 minutes or more
See more on Hearthmath
HAVE A THANKSGIVING FULL OF THANKS
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Weekly Yoga/Tai Chi Schedule
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Monday
10-11 AM Better Bones - Reena
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Tuesday
10-11 AM Yoga for the Soul - Gail
6:30-7:30 PM Yoga is Meditation - Reena
7:30-9 PM Tai Chi- Doc Pete & Master Dee (begins Sept 6)
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Wednesday
8-9 AM Gentle Awakening - Rose Mary
10-11 AM Yoga for the Soul - Gail
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Friday
8-9 AM Gentle Awakening - Rose Mary
10-11 AM Yoga for the Soul - Gail
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Saturday
11-12 AM Hatha Yoga Flow- Katrina
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CLASS RATES
$10 Drop-in for ongoing classes
10-Class Pass $80 ($8/class). 20 Class Pass $140 ($7/class)
Private Yoga Sessions
To schedule with one of our teachers call 937-769-5019
Jean, Gail, Reena, or Katrina
$35/hour
(discounts available for a purchase of multiple private sessions)
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MindFully Well Center | 937-769-5019
1525 Xenia Ave., Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387
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