UPCOMING WORKSHOPS, EVENTS & TRAININGS (IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER)
Unraveling The Conditioned Self: How To Live Karma-Free with Miles Maeda, May 26
Special Classes with Lauren Peterson, June 13
Prosperity Through Practice: Cultivating Energy And Awareness For Abundance with Miles Maeda, July 7
Sun and Moon Yoga Charity Meditation/Kirtan w/Tomoko, July 8
Mira Shani and Jarret Levine Tokyo Workshops, July 19 and 22
20-Hour Restorative Yoga Teacher Training Certification Course with Leza Lowitz in October, 2012 WAITING LIST ONLY
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Unraveling The Conditioned Self: How To Live Karma-Free
A Workshop with Miles Maeda at Sun and Moon Yoga, Meguro
Saturday May 26th, 5:00-7:30 pm
3,500 yen
Japanese Translation by Sawano Takano
Let’s ask ourselves this one question, “Do I make choices in my life based on my fears and worries, or do I make choices out of love and inspiration?” This is one of the most important and powerful ways to see our conditioned self. And if we want to unravel the complex mental and emotional web inside of us in order to make healthy and supportive changes in our lives, we must see clearly if our foundation is one of love or fear.
So what does it mean to be karma-free? What is karma and why would we want to be free of it? Karma is the law of cause and effect, the wheel of existence, good and bad, life and death. Some say it is the cycle of suffering which is never-ending until we become aware enough to see that we are in it. Life provides many opportunities to grow and evolve out of our conditioned self. When we learn these lessons and stop making new karma, we free ourselves from this cyclical existence. We free ourselves of problems, our suffering.
In this workshop we will look at a very simple teaching showing us that karma is finite, and the simple tool to completing it is an open state and the attitude of ‘yes’. We will learn practical exercises (pranayama and meditation) to prepare the mind and body, developing awareness of our inner condition, feeling the confidence that we can make choices based on love. When we begin this journey, we will see for ourselves the beauty, the magic, the adventure that is life and how it radiates from the magnificent light of our true nature.
To Register: Hit Contact and put the name of the TTC or workshop in the subject line, including your full name, phone number and email address. You will receive an automatic confirmation and later, individual confirmation and payment instructions. If you don’t hear from us within a week of registering please email us again. Sometimes mails do get lost!
Special Classes with Lauren Peterson, June 13
June 13 Wednesday 5:30-7:00 Beginning Yoga w/Leza –> Lauren Peterson
June 13 Wednesday 7:30-9:00 Vinyasa Flow w/Leza –> Lauren Peterson
Come practice with a humble master.
Space is limited, first-come first served.
Use your class cards or 3,000 yen drop-in.
No advance registration
Prosperity Through Practice: Cultivating Energy And Awareness For Abundance
A Workshop with Miles Maeda at Sun and Moon Yoga, Meguro
Saturday July 7th, 5:00-7:30 pm
3,500 yen
Japanese Translation by Sawano Takano
When we think of prosperity and abundance, we mostly think of money. But if we examine this idea, at it’s root is actually energy/prana/ki. And when we look even closer, we see that this energy is all-pervading and naturally abundant. So if we indeed want to live a life of prosperity and abundance, the first step is to understand this simple truth and to develop habits that support this reality within and without.
We have the potential to build and store vast amounts of energy if we are aware of our work, what we create, and how we manage it. Our bodies are containers of energy. So prosperity comes when we can strengthen our container, build the energy we store in it, and finally circulate that energy in our body and in our lives. The inner moves toward the outer, so as we develop this ability within, we experience the results as increased resources like money as well as opportunity.
In this workshop, we will examine our attitudes to discover and clear any obstacles that stand in our way of prosperity. We will learn simple exercises to create a supportive inner and outer environment where we can build, store and circulate energy and develop necessary awareness for abundance. In the end, we realize that we can practice and eventually stabilize our activity, our mind, our awareness and live effortlessly a life of prosperity and abundance.
To Register: Hit Contact and put the name of the TTC or workshop in the subject line, including your full name, phone number and email address. You will receive an automatic confirmation and later, individual confirmation and payment instructions. If you don’t hear from us within a week of registering please email us again. Sometimes mails do get lost!
Sun and Moon Yoga Charity Meditation/Kirtan
Sun, July 8th 6:30-8:30pm
Fees: Donation (Suggested donation: 2,000 yen)
*Half of the donation will be sent to YCIP, and the other half go to
earthquake and tsunami relief through YAM (Yoga And Music in Tohoku).
The money we raised for these charities has now reached 298,000 yen. Thank you so much for your love + support!
Facilitator: Tomoko Kawahara (Lead in Japanese and English)
All are welcome. NO RSVP necessary. Please just drop in!
Mira Shani and Jarret Levine Tokyo Workshops
Thursday, July 19 2:30-4:30 Workshop at Sun and Moon in Tokyo
Strong As Diamond, Soft As Grace
Use the physical body to dive into the majestic depths of the subtle body. By connecting to the energy that runs deep within our physical body, we will access the subtler levels of our form: the winds, the primary channels, and the focal points, or chakras, which convey our life force, our prana. Learn the precision of asana through optimal alignment and the breath to most fully open your heart. Two hours of yoga and heart-filled conversation.
Cost: 3,500 yen, or class cards can be used.
1 tick on 4 pass + 1,000 yen
2 ticks on 10 pass
3 ticks on 20 pass/UL
Japanese translation by Tomoko Kawahara
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Sunday, July 22 6:30-8:30 Workshop at Sun and Moon in Tokyo:
Yoga of the Body. Yoga of the Heart. Asana and Kirtan to Awaken the Soul.
Get onto the mat. Walk into a divine universe.
Every pose is like a doorway into a mandala, each one, trying to cultivate some quality of heart to reveal a magical wisdom to you. What does Warrior III ask of you? Determination, commitment, drive. Child’s Pose offers you humility, harmony, and quietude. Pigeon makes you receptive and surrendered. Each pose wants to bestow upon you a gift, pave a new neuro-pathway leading to new habits and in turn, new divine visions of our world. Are you willing to receive? This workshop will offer a deep and powerful flowing vinyasa style exploration of the physical and subtle body. We will round off the evening with devotional music.
Cost: 3,500 yen, or class cards can be used.
1 tick on 4 pass + 1,000 yen
2 ticks on 10 pass
3 ticks on 20 pass/UL
Japanese translation by Tomoko Kawahara
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Mira and Jarrett will be teaching the following regular classes while in Tokyo in July. Please come on your class ticket or drop-in. No reservation necessary!
Wednesday July 18 5:30-7:00pm Beginning Vinyasa Flow Yoga w/Leza–> Mira/Jarrett
Wednesday July 18 7:30-9:00pm Vinyasa Flow Yoga w/Leza–> Mira/Jarrett
Friday July 20 5:30-7:00pm Vinyasa Flow Em–> Mira/Jarrett
Saturday July 21 10:30am-12:00 VInyasa Flow w/Leza–>Mira/Jarrett
Saturday July 21 12:30pm-2:00 VInyasa Flow w/Leza–>Mira/Jarrett
Saturday July 21 5:30-7:30pm –>Asana class Mira/Jarret
Sunday July 22 4:30pm-6:00pm Ashtanga Basics w/Em–>Mira/Jarrett
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS:
Mira Shani has been teaching yoga and philosophy for over twelve years. Amidst her thousands of hours of yoga training over the past 13 years, Mira received her first 200-hour Hatha yoga training and 200-hour Ashtanga yoga training with Veronica Zador in 2000. She did further teacher trainings and Therapeutic Yoga training in the Anusara tradition with John Friend and Darren Rhodes. Mira has done the extensive 8-series Tibetan Heart Yoga training with Lama Christie McNally and all Classics of Yoga studies with Geshe Michael Roach and Lama Christie McNally. Her playfulness and sincerity make the sometimes esoteric yoga teachings accessible for beginners and deeply engaging for dedicated students alike. She recently completed seven years of advanced Buddhist studies with her teacher, Geshe Michael Roach.
Jarret Levine has spent his life in devotion to his teachers and was born into the teachings of Meher Baba, a guru in Pune, India, who kept silence from his twenties until he passed away in 1969. The emphasis of Baba’s teachings was to master the art of caring for and serving all beings to our deepest potential. He said, “LOVE is essentially self-communicative: those who do not have it catch it from those who have it….Being is Dying by Loving.” Jarrett’s path has been one of Guru and Bhakti Yoga. He has spent the last five years studying with Geshe Michael Roach and Kimberley Theresa. Through his sadhana and studies, he has become well versed in the subtle body and physical body consciousness.
Mira and Jarret are the founders of Pranahata, a yoga lifestyle company–www.pranahata.com.
To Register: Hit Contact and put the name of the TTC or workshop in the subject line, including your full name, phone number and email address. You will receive an automatic confirmation and later, individual confirmation and payment instructions. If you don’t hear from us within a week of registering please email us again. Sometimes mails do get lost!
20-Hour Restorative Yoga Teacher Training Certification Course
with Leza Lowitz at Sun and Moon Yoga in October, 2012
Japanese Translation by Tomoko Kawahara
October 5 Friday 5:30pm-10:30pm (5 hours)
October 6 Saturday 4:30-9:30pm (5 hours)
October 7 Sunday 6:30pm-9:30pm (3 hours)
October 8 Monday (holiday) 10:00-5:00pm (7 hours)
FULLY BOOKED! WAITING LIST ONLY
Come join us for this popular, comprehensive and life-changing teacher training.
Course Translation by Kanae. Japanese and/or English training manual provided upon completion. Certificate awarded upon successful completion of course. Payment instructions will be sent upon receipt of your request. Early application is strongly suggested.
Cost: 65,000 yen
Limit: 24 students. Course fills up quickly, so register soon to ensure a spot.
Why Restorative Yoga? Why Now?
Daily life is incredibly stressful, especially in an urban environment. We spend a great deal of energy just trying to survive, often running on adrenaline (the “fight or flight response”) until we burn out. Now more than ever, we need a slower, deeper yoga practice that helps us regain our equilibrium and combat the stresses of modern life. Restorative yoga is one such practice that invites the body’s “relaxation response,” calms the nervous system, and quiets the mind. Restorative Yoga is a deeply relaxing, “passive” practice of Hatha Yoga in which we let go of physical, mental and emotional tension by practicing yoga poses in a fully supported environment, holding the poses for longer durations of time, and focusing on the breath. Supported by a variety of props such as bolsters, blankets, blocks, belts, sandbag weights, and other props, this practice helps us regain the equilibrium of the body/spirit, allowing deep relaxation, surrender and opening. This practice is perfect for those who have injuries, are recovering from illness, those with physical limitations, or those who simply want to relax and regain harmony and balance in their lives.
COURSE CONTENT
In this teacher training, you will learn: What is Restorative Yoga? How does it work physiologically, psycho-spiritually, and emotionally? Proper use of Props: How to set up each pose. How to spot and correct common mistakes in prop usage Restorative sequences for different effects Many original restorative postures developed by Leza Specific poses/practices for specific therapeutic needs (insomnia, chronic fatigue syndrome, etc). Pranayama for Restorative yoga How to design a Restorative yoga class around a specific theme or focus. How to incorporate other forms of yoga therapy into Restorative yoga, such as Thai Yoga Massage, Visualization, Guided Meditation, Yoga Nidra, etc.
COURSE FORMAT Classes will be part lecture, part practice, part demonstration in which students will set each other up in the poses and practice with each other, and part question and answer period/discussion.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Leza Lowitz has been teaching and practicing Hatha and Restorative yoga for over a decade. She was the first teacher to introduce Restorative yoga to Japan in 2003. (When Sun and Moon shipped all the props from America, customs officials held them for months because they had to test every pillow and eye bag for hidden drugs!) She has offered her highly popular Restorative yoga classes at workshops and on retreats internationally. She appeared on “99 Size” teaching Restorative yoga in 2004. She is a writer and certified yoga teacher who has studied many yogic and healing traditions with many illustrious teachers and masters from all over the world. She is the owner of Sun and Moon Yoga and author of the best-selling book Yoga Poems: Lines to Unfold By and Sacred Sanskrit Words: For Yoga, Chant and Meditation (with Reema Datta) in addition to 15 other books.
What to Bring:
The studio has everything you will need for this training. No need to bring bolsters, blankets, weights, yoga mats, eye pillows or anything else. Just bring a notebook and water. You will be given take-home handouts after the end of each session. No recording will be permitted
How to Apply:
If you are interested in attending this training, hit Contact and send in a request with RTTC OCTOBER in the subject. Include your full NAME, ADDRESS, PHONE NUMBER and PLEASE ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS BRIEFLY AND FROM THE HEART.
1. PLEASE DETAIL YOUR YOGA PRACTICE AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE: (HOW MANY YEARS, STYLE, WHERE?)
2. WHAT IS YOUR RESTORATIVE YOGA EXPERIENCE AND WHY DO YOU WISH TO TAKE THIS TRAINING?
3. WHAT IS YOUR INTENTION FOR THIS TRAINING? PLEASE BE SPECIFIC.
4. PLEASE LIST ANY INJURIES OR MEDICAL CONDITIONS WE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT.
REQUIREMENT: Students are required to have taken at least 10 restorative yoga classes prior to this training.
Payment instructions will be sent upon receipt of your request. Early application is strongly suggested.
When Registering for our workshops: If you do not receive a confirmation reply within ONE WEEK, your registration has not been received. If that is the case, please re-send your registration request. NAMASTE
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