IN THIS ISSUE:
Coming to Samyama this Autumn and Winter:   Ben Thomas...Leslie Howard....Compassion Cultivation Training...Conscious Creating...Reflexology...and our great, full schedule of classes... 
October in Ascension
BEN THOMAS
The Splendor Within
October 1st & 8th
12:30 to 3:30
$150.00

Ben is a local legend and Samyama is honored to welcome him back to the studio for this wonderful two-day workshop exploring our accumulated experience, the collective wisdom, and our 20th and 21st century environment.  This workshop will include asana, pranayama and discussion.

Registration is still open but this workshop is filling fast.

Upcoming Classes and Workshops
Amy Rogg & Devin Begley :
The Zen of Teaching
Saturday October 29 & November 5
12:30 to 3:30
$120.00

This workshop will help you re-discover your truth as a teacher and to find your teaching voice.

The Zen of Teaching will guide students toward utilizing their talents, values, unique energy signatures, and personal experiences to become more effective teachers. We will breakdown the use of internal energy and how it can be joined with external expression to create a holistic and harmonious balance for teaching yoga.


Anirudh Shastri:
Ego's Last Attack
Saturday November 12
1:00-3:30
$35.00

Life is tremendously ravishing. Laughing and Crying are gestures of life, moods of life. Life is prepared to divulge itself provided we are willing to accept it, welcome it and live it completely. Problems are self-created and make us aggressive to the life. Let us all learn to remain with fact, the existential, not querying why it is so and why that is so. This means accepting all gestures of life.

Joanie Cartal:
Mindfulness & Yin
Saturday November 19
12:30-3:00
$35.00
An elegant marriage of two inward, quiet, harmonizing practices. In this workshop we will intertwine Yin Yoga and Mindfulness Meditation to promote an inner state of connection and well being.

As days move into the Yin time of the year, long nights and cold temperatures, as the wonderful and stressful holidays approach, give yourself the opportunity to cultivate the rejuvenating practices of Yin and Mindfulness.


In December & January
December 10 & 11 "The Pelvic Floor Workshop" for women
with Leslie Howard

Starting January 9 CCARE's Compassion Cultivation Training with Adam Burn

Starting January 11 Conscious Creating: A Vision Map Making Class with Chrisanne Brennan

Sunday January 22 Reflexology with Mimm Patterson

October in the Lounge
BECCA CUELLAR:  Working with Crystals and Creating Malas & Prayer Beads 
3 Wednesday Evenings
October 12, 19 & 26 from 6:30-8:30 PM
$65 plus materials

You may have noticed the beautiful mala necklaces in the boutique.  They were created by artist Becca Cuellar, who is coming to Samyama for three evenings to teach us about the power of crystal energy.  She'll then teach us the techniques for making our own mala.  Learn how to use your intuition to pick crystals.  Learn to choose stones for creating a mala meditation necklace. Open yourself to being guided by crystals and their messages. Listen to your heart when it wants to help you make a decision. 


New Faces
Meet Martha Mank

Martha joins our blossoming therapy team, offering cupping, pregnancy and postpartum massage on Sunday mornings from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM.  

Cupping massage
is a modification of an technique rooted in Chinese and Egyptian cultures.  It works to loosen adhesions, relax muscles and stimulate lymphatic flow. Unlike traditional cupping, cupping massage uses Swedish massage movements to facilitate change within the tissues. The technique can create marks on the body that look like bruises. Unlike bruises, however, they are not broken blood vessels and are not tender. 
 
Pregnancy and
postpartum massage techniques are aimed to soothe and relax the mother. Utilizing a variety of massage techniques, including Swedish and lymphatic drainage, pregnancy massage works to relieve tension and tightness.  The safety of mother and baby is of the utmost importance at this time, so pregnancy massage is typically performed in a side-lying position, unless otherwise advised by a doctor or midwife. 

Class Notes
Misako Matsuoka is now teaching Yin on Friday afternoons from 2:00 to 3:15.

Nicole Dydasco will be teaching Yin/Yang on Saturday afternoons from 4:00 to 5:30.  

Anirudh Shastri is no longer teaching his Monday evening class. But he's still willing to make that long commute from Merced every Wednesday and for special workshops throughout the year. 

October in the Boutique
30% off

synergy
a beautiful range of clothes 
for the active yogi
Bookclub
Our next meeting is:
Wednesday November 2nd
(no October meeting)
7:00 to 8:15

November's Book:
Pick Your Yoga Practice 
by
Meagan McCrary

Birthday Blessings

Birthday wishes to Joanne.

  Thank you for the work you do and for the 
gentle energy you bring to Samyama.
Contact Us
John Berg, Owner & Director
650.320-9262