SOUL TITIRANGI TERM TWO WEEKLY CLASSES  6 May – 12 July 2013

Morning mysore practice has started again - YIPPEE!!!!

SOUL PONSONBY TERM TWO WEEKLY CLASSES  6 May – 12 July 2013

 For help choosing a class that is right for you, please call or stop by our reception and we would be happy to assist you with your choice.Scroll down for descriptions.

SOUL CENTRE  DROP-IN CLASS DESCRIPTIONS 2012

HATHA FLOW YOGA

Hatha Yoga is an ancient holistic system of health and self-development that begins with the body as a practical way to affect all aspects of ones being on both the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels. Hatha Flow is a combination of dynamic, energizing sequences of postures for strength and flexibility, rejuvenating flows for deep release and relaxation, moving into still postures for longer periods. Breath and movement are linked together to create flowing sequences of related asanas, which helps to rejuvenate the body and release mental and emotional tension, inducing deep relaxation as awareness of breath, body and mind becomes integrated.

 HATHA - FIRE

SHIN YOGA

Drawing on the developmental postures of Shin Somatics, Skinner Releasing principles and somatic practice these classes focus on opening and lengthening the body and quietening the mind. Based on the founding principle of Yoga – to create balance - we begin with balancing the nervous system and endocrine system, using asanas and pranayama inspired for healing and inner reflection. Help manage stress, learn to wind down and create a space to just be in your body.  This is a transformative practice. Also suitable for those new to yoga, recovering from illness or injury, those in the later stages of the life cycle, or those in HOLIDAY MODE, also helpful for post-natal mums. Shin Yoga will move gently through the postures with a focus on healing, restoration and revitalization.

Bookings essential for the Leys Institute classes, SOUL CENTRE classes feel free to drop in anytime. To book email info@soulcentre.co.nz (Release Me class is right after at 7.30pm, so feel free to stay for the evening) For more info see www.shinyoga.com

ASHTANGA YOGA

Ashtanga yoga links the breath, physical poses and concentration in a flowing meditation. The practice generates heat which cleanses the body of toxins allowing it to become light and strong. Suitable for beginners wanting a more dynamic yoga practice, or for intermediate level students. The practice focuses on the primary series of Ashtanga yoga.

MYSORE MORNING PRACTICE 

Start your day feeling alive and wonderful! In Mysore-style classes you learn the Ashtanga yoga routine at your own pace, advancing to the next pose only when you are ready. Taught one-on-one in a class environment, this class is perfect for beginners as well as experienced students. Best practiced regularly, you can practice from 30 minutes up to 1.5 hours. There are no Mysore classes on the new moon and full to allow us to rest when our energy is vulnerable.  Ask at reception for a moon-day calendar or check the website. Mysore classes are a different payment system than other SOUL drop-in classes. (Mysore prices: $15 casual or $100 per calendar month)

M-BODY

This is a fun class set to music, that will help you to tune your body safely, increasing tone and generating heat.

Activating the muscles and the nervous system through movement is a positive way to bring warmth and tone to the body and exercise the cardio-vascular system in a safe and fun way. This is an energetic class that integrates principles of Yoga, pilates, dance and simple Muscle and Bone techniques to stimulate and condition the mind and body.  A challenging work out combines simple dance based movement to music, blending cardio, strength building and stretching in a well-balanced session that will improve rhythm, spatial awareness and co-ordination.

 CHI KUNG (QI GONG)

Elemental Chi Kung (Qigong) is an easy, gentle form of exercise that will keep you agile, flexible and in the flow of life. Encourage healthy qi flow throughout the body - leading to improved or enhanced health, the maintenance of good health and the healing of illness. A meditative body-mind class that encourages connection between the body-mind and a deeper connection to self.

For more information on Elemental chi kung go to www.natural movement.info

CLASS PRICING INFORMATION:

Introductory Special: Two weeks of unlimited classes for $30. Try all the different types of classes we offer to find the one that fits your style and fitness level best, or just take as many beginning classes as you can and really start to get comfortable with the basics!  Whatever you do, this offer will allow you unlimited access to all our yoga and pilates classes, giving you plenty of choices, and total freedom to create a schedule that works for you.

*Offer is good for students new to SOUL Yoga and Pilates classes, one time only and does not include mysore

GOLD CARD: 6 month membership  $30 per week automatic payment OR $750 if paid in a lump sum. + Complimentary Back to Bliss Massage! DIVINE!!

10 Class Card: $140  (expires after 3 months)

10 class card Silver series (for 65+ only) $100

Drop-in class: $16

SOUL CENTRE SPECIALTY CLASS DESCRIPTIONS 2013 (registrations essential)

RELEASE ME

Wed 7.30 – 9pm Starting Wed 8th May – for 10 weeks at SOUL CENTRE

Thurs 7.30 - 9pm starting Thurs 9th May for 10 weeks at Leys Institute Gymnasium Hall, Ponsonby

$170

 MORE FLEXIBLE, MORE FLUID, MORE FREE, MORE EASE, MORE ENERGETIC, MORE RELAXED, MORE SPACE, MORE IN HARMONY WITH YOURSELF

These classes will introduce a meditative movement practice, teaching us how to release old postural habits and experience new ways of moving with efficiency and ease. Experience creative movement, deep meditation, partner-work and body awareness, as part of a fluid way of developing a more integrated sense of moving and being. No dance experience necessary, just a willingness to experience your body in a new way. Students have reported feeling more creative, more energetic, more relaxed, with easier and deeper sleep.

I felt as free and at ease as I ever have. As if that kind of soft but total awareness, without aggression or fear, is my natural state of being. I felt unabashedly present.”  

SOUL CENTRE ONE-ON-ONE and SMALL GROUP DESCRIPTIONS 2013 (registrations essential)

PILATES – SMALL GROUP CLASSES

$90 per session ($30 per person)– bookings essential!

One-on-one pilates is a great way to work with your body and it's individual needs. Pilates – small group classes provides you with a way to work with a one-on-one session in a way that is affordable and fun. A small group of 3, gives you all the attention you need and deserve, in a warm and cozy private studio. So rustle up your girlfriends or mates and book in a group session – or book a group session on a weekly basis. Let us know what time would suit you and we will do our best to fit into your schedule.

PRIVATE CLASSES: Pilates, Yoga and Movement Education

$80 per session (or $350 for 5 sessions – save $50) bookings essential!

Want an hour of attention all to yourself? One-on-one sessions available by appointment: An excellent way to improve your technique and ask any questions. Call for appointment times.

HATHA YOGA  - Private classes:

Private yoga classes offer people the opportunity to align the body, mind and emotions in a private space with undivided guidance and teaching. Regardless if you are a complete beginner or wanting to move deeper into your personal practice, private classes offer a space for you to do so at the level appropriate for your health and physical ability. There is plenty of opportunity for questions, explanations of practices taught and the space to go over anything that you may be having difficulty with in classes or your own practice. The class can be dynamic and flowing; gentle and restorative, or a mixture of both. You may set the pace and direction of the class according to how you feel on the day. Karma will guide you through a practice that includes postures, breathing and deep relaxation or meditation to facilitate openness and total wellbeing of body, mind and spirit. For those who are new to yoga, private classes are a wonderful way to learn yoga practices at your own pace in a private peaceful space where the teacher is there just for you.

PREGNANCY YOGA  - PRIVATE CLASSES:

Spend an hour with Wilhemeena Monroe as she takes you through a program designed to bring you peace, harmony and gentle asanas and breathing techniques to help you centre on your self and your baby. Add an extra ½ an hour for a cranio treatment or Birth into Being session and you will be feeling blissed from top to toe and walking away with program in hand to practice at home.  Gift vouchers for this luschiousness are also available.

For more information or to reserve your place on one of the above classes please contact us:

18 Huia Road, Titirangi, Waitakere City, Auckland, New Zealand 0604

Ph: 064.9.8173051       E: info@soulcentre.co.nz    www.soulcentre.co.nz

SOUL CENTRE TRAINING COURSES:

 - Yoga Teacher Training and Registered Somatic Movement Therapist Training with EastWest Somatics Institute (ISMETA and YOGA ALLIANCE)

 - Biodynamic Cranio-Sacral Therapy Practitioner Training Cert CST, (PACT REGISTERED)

 - Open Source Forms Teachers Training

 - Embodied Massage  Training

 - Chi Kung Teacher Training

TRAINING PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS

EMBODIED MASSAGE TRAINING - 1 and 2 year practitioner training

with Wilhemeena Monroe and guests

Registrations open for the new intake 2013

This training offers a 50-day practitioner course for individuals wanting to become somatic- based massage therapists and movement educators. As a Somatic Massuer, you learn to connect with and support the fullness of your clients' embodied experience, not just their muscles and bones. Somatic approaches support you to develop body connectivity, re-pattern habitual alignment and movement patterns, increase kinesthetic awareness through embodied anatomy, and learn skills for deepened communication with self and others. The curriculum is rooted in experiential exercises and supported through lectures and readings. 

"Our key goal is creative empowerment of trained practitioners - a crucial component of wellness and wellness practice"

NEXT Intro day Friday 1 March 2013

Training module one starts March 21 - 24th

BODY-INTELLIGENCE TRAINING

CRANIO-SACRAL THERAPY – 2 year Practitioner training

With Ged Sumner (UK) and Simon Gosling

BECOME A LISENCED CRANIO-SACRAL THERAPIST

This training offers a 45-day practitioner course for individuals wanting to become qualified cranio-sacral therapists. The training is biodynamic in it’s approach orientating to the body’s natural wisdom allowing innate intelligent processes to emerge and bring about authentic change. These changes will be physiological and psycho-emotional. The body’s own priorities for change are listened for and encouraged to arise. The art of the therapist is to connect with the underlying forces and health and facilitate a process of natural reorganization. These forces express as subtle motion of tissues and fluids that can be felt by sensitive hands. Biodynamic craniosacral therapy takes a whole-person approach to healing and the inter-connectedness of mind, body and spirit are deeply acknowledged.

Thank you so much for a fantastic seminar full of exploration, discovery and inspiring, open minded people, loved it !!! Nadine Vollmerg - First year student 2012

For more information visit www.bodyintelligence.com/

Next course starts March 2013 

INTRODUCTION TO BIODYNAMIC CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY

2 February, 2-4pm

$FREE

The Intro talk is a great way to gather more information about Biodynamic Craniosacral therapy and to see whether the training might be the right thing for you. Whether you are just curious or seriously wanting to pursue this therapy as a career, this course will give you more indepth information to experience and practice at home, as well as resources for more indepth inquiry.

www.bodyintelligence.com

Registrations essential to SOUL CENTRE

SHIN SOMATICS®

LAND TO WATER YOGA 

BECOME A REGISTERED SOMATIC MOVEMENT THERAPIST and/or a YOGA ALLIANCE 200hrs Yoga Teacher through EastWest, ISMETA and the SOUL CENTRE.

 A unique opportunity to experience the work of one of the worlds leading somatic educators, these workshops are two modules of the EASTWEST Somatics training, an International somatics training association.

Module 1: January  2014 (TBA)

Module 2: January 2014 (TBA)

Modules can be taken individually or together, 7 modules are required for full certification. Take both modules at a reduced cost and earn two levels of credit towards becoming a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist through EastWest and ISMETA 

Land to Water Yoga is a unique contemporary style of yoga, grounded in processes of Shin Somaticsâ as developed through our work at the Eastwest Somatics Institute. Much yoga today emphasizes physical competition, having lost the original intent of spiritual healing and self-awareness. Yoga means "to yoke": it signals our kinship with the environment and all forms of life. In practice, yoga can be a psychophysical means for transforming personality—progressing through enjoyable shapes and movements that anyone can do.

This unique new form of yoga—maintains yoga’s original intent of spiritual healing and awareness and offers a way to deepen clear seeing and a calm mind, urging one past his or her limited ego. It is based on five stages of infant development and the methods of Shin Somatics® Moving Way. Its progression moves backward from the most complex movement in terms of balance to the least: from walking to floating (from land to water), providing the opportunity to retrace our personal human development back to its watery soma source.

All Eastwest Workshops include Fraleigh's unique Land to Water Yoga & Chakra Unwinding. Become acquainted with the seven energy vortexes of human life and infant development in processes that have grown over a period of twenty years at Eastwest. In Eastwest workshops, Sondra, Karen, and other associates teach the characteristics of the chakras through somatic processes. Learn how to open to the energetic qualities of each chakra in your own body and development.

At Eastwest, we use the models of dance technique, improvisation, and choreography throughout our work. Our approach is basic, so no previous dance study is required.

Sondra Fraleigh: Sondra Fraleigh is an international leader in dance, yoga, and healing arts. She is a Registered Feldenkrais® teacher, and certifies Registered Somatic Movement Educators and Therapists through ISMETA, International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association. She has been a professor of dance and somatics for over thirty years in the Department of Dance at the State University of New York at Brockport and is a valued mentor to dancers and somatic practitioners in the USA, Europe, Japan and India.

Wilhemeena Isabella Monroe: Wilhemeena Isabella Monroe is the founder and director of the SOUL CENTRE. 

www.ismeta.org                           

 www.eastwestsomatics.com

How: $900 per module

Open Source Forms (OSF) Teacher Training

Open Source Forms is a Teacher Training & Certification program begun in 2009 by Stephanie Skura. It's an 'open source' system culled from decades of continuing research & practice in improvisation, performance, choreography, writing, & theater directing, and it draws on Skura's extensive experience as a core Skinner Releasing teacher and teacher trainer.

OSF focuses on cross-fertilizations and deep commonalities of Skinner Releasing technique and creative process. It's guided by the philosophy that the source of creativity & wisdom is available in each of us.

OSF Teacher Training is a rigorous program that prepares teachers to be inventive & responsive to specific needs & situations, while deeply understanding the underlying spirit & intentions of the work involved.

OSF offers methods to access depth, specificity, courage, rigor, honesty & freedom in movement, vocal practice & performance. Its aim is to empower participants to adapt these methods & discover their own in response to teaching & performance situations they find themselves in.

This is a two-year training with two intensive workshopping process in Oct/Nov of each year and homestudy to do during the rest of the year. The training includes one-on-one sessions with Skura.

Pre-requisite are at least the first 15 introductory classes of the SRT intro series and is by application only.

STEPHANIE SKURA: "A radical & perpetual innovator", Stephanie has created interdisciplinary movement-based performances for over 20 years. Her process focuses on the power and totality of each performer, collaboratively discovering & developing material.

Called "a major American experimentalist", she has an international reputation for her adventurous work, performing and teaching in 30 of the United States and 13 countries.

Her New York City-based touring company performed worldwide for 10 years.

Now based in the Pacific Northwest, she works independently with many companies, artists and institutions. Formerly on Graduate Faculty at the University of Washington School of Drama Professional Actors Training Program, and Core Faculty of the Skinner Releasing Institute, she has taught at such places as the American Dance Festival, Florida Dance Festival, European Dance Development Center, Naropa Institute, Movement Research in New York, and as a guest at many colleges and universities around the country.

www.stephanieskura.com

When:  Year one: Oct 29^th – Nov 23^rd 2012 Mon – Fri 9.30 – 5.30pm TBC

How: By APPLICATION ONLY

          $5,000.00 for the 2 year training ($2,500 per year) - payment options available

Elemental Chi Kung with Ged Sumner

4-7 April, 15-18 August, 7-10 November

$600 per module

Elemental Chi Kung is a progressive approach to chi kung that incorporates classic styles and philosophies with modern bodymind and energy concepts. The approach explores body and chi awareness as a way to deepen into our internal chi flow through movement, stillness, meditation and breath. A creative space is sought to allow our essential nature to express itself and bring about transformations. The approach emphasizes the five elements as the foundation of chi kung. the workshops in Chi Kung are an ongoing series that interested participants can enter at any point. The workshops can either be attended individually or as a whole series.

There are ten, 4 day workshops and the overall intention of the workshops are to present Chi Kung as a way to open to a deeper and richer connection to the life force within the human system and within nature. In particular to listen and be aware of the subtle power of your health and become aware of movements of chi within your body and mind.  The workshops will teach the following skills:

* self reflection

*stability and groundedness

*stillness of the body and mind

*sensitivity to chi

*Use of intention

*Strength, Stamina and flexibilty

*synchronisity of movement, along with an understanding and appreciation of the body's structure, traditional chinese medical concepts and taoist philosophy.

Registrations: 

http://www.naturalmovement.info/auckland.html

Body-Mind Centering teacher training coming soon in 2014

3-month Full-time Somatics School coming soon!

Work-study and payment options available

Here at SOUL we are committed to providing you with the optimum care and preparation needed for bringing soul into your pregnancy, birth and post-natal experience. 

Whether you are trying to get pregnant, a first time-mum or have done it all before, we provide ways of creating a resting place for both you and your little one. 

We provide a team of dedicated practitioners who can stand beside you and show you ways to make it easier and inspire bliss and peace into your practice as a mum or mum-to-be.

Pre-natal care :

Benefits of Craniosacral Therapy and Massage for fertility and during pregnancy

Biodynamic craniosacral therapy and massage are powerful tools for accessing the wisdom of your body while in a state of deep relaxation. Treatments give you the time and space to connect with yourself, your baby and the process of being pregnant. You can also practice nourishing ‘belly’ breathing and relaxed awareness techniques to participate in your own healing and to prepare for giving birth. Our therapists have been thoroughly trained in safe practice during all stages of pregnancy.

SOUL Birth Massage                                            60 minutes    $80

This gentle massage cares for both you and your baby.  Using healing aromatic oils, the therapist will melt away the tension in your body, mind and soul through a combination of rhythmic strokes, deep tissue techniques and gentle mobilisations. This treatment may be done on the table or on a futon on the ground where you will be supported by bolsters and pillows.

SOUL Birth CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY             60 minutes  $80

Lying easily supported by bolsters and pillows – allow this gentle treatment to ease your way into a state of fluid bliss. Reduce anxiety and create the space to just BE.. Creating a baby is no small task and the nourishing quality inherent in craniosacral therapy reflects this understanding. Many of the common ailments of pregnancy, such as back, neck and shoulder pain, symphysis pubic discomfort (SPD), heartburn, nausea, cramps, fatigue, stress and anxiety can be worked with effectively. While one off treatments are a taste of bliss, regular treatments during pregnancy support a mother and baby in preparing themselves optimally for birth. 

PREGNANCY YOGA

Ante-natal Yoga for nurturing and growing the new Mum and her blossoming being within. This class will focus on connecting you both, and developing a happier, healthier, less stressful pregnancy, easier labour and post-natal experience for both of you. Best after the 1^t trimester.

SOUL BIRTH YOGA IS  a private or small group class – focusing on individuality and personal care.

 We can also recommend the Shin Yoga classes here at SOUL, as a regular yoga practice for those wanting to get pregnant, pregnancy and also post-natal.

SOUL BIRTH PACKAGES                                      

Combine any of the two above for a 2-hr BIRTH bliss package.        2 hours  $150

Any of the three above for a three hour day of BIRTH bliss and receive a beautiful belly oil as our gift to you, and hot steamy tea and treats to nurture and nourish.                                           3 hours  $240

Post-natal care :

A postpartum body is an ocean of change and a new baby counts as one of life’s major challenging events. Giving birth transforms women’s lives in profound, and often unexpected, ways. every experience is different, and each birth calls for a new integration of physical and spiritual well-being.  

CRANIO-SACRAL THERAPY

After all  that opening up, it is only natural to withdraw from the world and spend time recovering and bonding with your bundle of bliss!

In South East Asia there is a long-held traditional lie-in practice, which usually lasts a month, called Motherroasting. During that time, the mother is relieved of her usual household duties and waited on hand and foot so she can attend to the newborns needs. It is a special time for the mother and father to bond with the baby and the house is kept warm so that they can have as much skin-to-skin contact as possible, which is very soothing to the infant. While grandmothers and friends attend to the housework and provide meals to the couple, a therapist skilled in traditional healing arts will visit frequently to massage the mother ensuring that her milk supply is plentiful and that her body heals rapidly. 

In keeping with this traditional practice, SOUL offers nurturing treatments at our clinic or in the comfort of your own home to help you adjust to the changes and demands of being a new mother!

MUM AND BABY YOGA

Mum and Baby Yoga provides mothers time to restore their bodies, calm their minds, and create community with other mums!  The class is informal, lively, and interactive. Communication, touch, play and fun naturally occurs – as Mum and baby connect with themselves and each other.

Previous yoga experience is not necessary to fully benefit from the classes.  This is a place where we honor the needs of parents and children.

When can I start and how long can I continue?

Generally Mum and Baby Yoga is for Mums and Babies from 6 weeks to crawling.  It is a good idea to wait for about 4 - 6 weeks after the delivery of your baby before attending class. If you had a caesarean delivery this time should be extended to about 8-10 weeks. In either case, please consult with your doctor or LMC to ensure your safety.
 

Bouncing back with SOUL  - choose from:

Get your tone back, restore your energy, revitalize and replenish your being with a selection of classes and therapies

Classes:

private yoga/pilates

yoga/pilates small group classes

Yoga/pilates general classes

Therapies:

Massage

Craniosacral Therapy for mum and babies

“A Stretch Class with Wilhemeena is a heavenly combination of yoga, massage, meditation and stretch rolled into one!

I have practiced the Stretch techniques in both group and one on one classes while in a more slender agile body and more recently in a full blown pregnant one and I can highly recommend the many healing benefits you'll receive from the experience. In short, it's a BLISSFUL MUST DO!  - Tiffany de castro

“I had the best sleep and felt really calm the next day”  - Andrea holmes (SOUL BIRTH MASSAGE)

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We love hearing your stories about how to create more SOUL - right here and all over the globe! It's a SOUL revolution!

  We are here Mon-Fri 9-6pm, other times by appointment.

Street address: 18 Huia Road, Titirangi

Postal: PO Box 60415 Titirangi, Waitakere 0642
E: info@soulcentre.co.nz

T: 09.817 3051

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Don’t know how to find us, see the map above to find your way. On-site parking for up to 20 cars or park in the village, and take a wee stroll down to see us.