May 2013 Yoga & Specialty classes

"if you can always smile at life, life will always smile at you"

Dear Ones,

Yoga Classes as follows for April 30th - May 4th:

April 30, Tuesday 9am Mongoose - Adam teaching
April 30, Tuesday 5:30pm Calabash - Cancelled
May 2, Thursday 5:30pm Mongoose - Cancelled
May 3, Friday 7:30am Calabash - Cancelled
May 4, Saturday 9:30am Mongoose - Lindsey teaching

YOGA CLASSES will continue until Tuesday MAY 21st with 3 specialty class offerings:

Tues 9am Mongoose
Tues 5:30pm Calabash
Thurs 5:30pm Mongoose
Fri 7:30am Calabash
Sat 9:30am Mongoose

SPECIALTY CLASSES:

YOGA NIDRA happening Thursday, May 9th @ 5:30pm at Mongoose Yoga Center & Tuesday, May 21st @ 5:30pm at Calabash Community Center   $15
2 CHANCES!!! - BETTER THAN A NAP!   you gotta try this if you have not!!!  

RESTORATIVE YOGA & AYURVEDIC PICHU happening Thursday, May 16th @ 5:30pm at Mongoose Yoga Center $15   registration necessary!

YOGA NIDRA is yoga without movement. Yoga nidra relaxes the body and the mind. It allows you to completely unwind and get in touch with your inner self. The benefits of yoga nidra are far reaching, and can be different for everyone. Yoga nidra is an ancient practice that is also referred to as yogic sleep or sleep with awareness that is done in a comfortable lying position. The goal of yoga nidra is full body relaxation and a deep meditative state that addresses physiological, neurological and subconscious needs using techniques including guided imagery, breathing, meditation, concentration and body scanning. The biggest benefit of yoga nidra is that anyone can do it. It doesn't involve physical expertise of any kind so even if you have a health condition, you can practice yoga nidra. Yoga nidra helps to quiet the overactive mind, promotes better sleep, eases anxiety and calms stress. 

RESTORATIVE YOGA is used to create the 'relaxation response' or trigger the parasympathetic nervous system, which is responsible for balancing the body. By stimulating this system, you experience a lower heart rate and blood pressure. This also helps stimulate your immune and endocrine systems in healthy way. When you experience stress or feel overwhelmed, it impacts the parasympathetic nervous system that restores balance. To read more about the relaxation response and how beneficial it is to us, visit http://www.massgeneral.org/bhi/basics/rr.aspx  We use bolsters, blocks, blankets & props to support the body in each pose.....a relaxing experience!   Ayurvedic Pichu is an authentic traditional treatment for relieving stress & stiffness in your joints & body. A cotton pad soaked in a warm medicated oils is gently placed on the area of the 3rd eye and a warm cloth covering the forehead nestles you in a cocoon of comfort and bliss.

 I hope to have the opportunity to see you on St John before my departure on May 23rd as I head to Bar Harbor, Maine once again blessed I as walk my path to spread the joy of yoga!  It is my honor to practice with you and share my love & passion!  Thank you for your continued support, love and inspiration!!!!
in love, joy & light.....Blessings, Beth
yoga with beth

April 2013 Yoga & Specialty Classes

"Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor." —Thich Nhat Hanh

Weekly Yoga group classes 

Tuesday 9am - Mongoose Jct Yoga Center

Tuesday 5:30pm - Calabash Community Center

Thursday 5:30pm - Mongoose Jct Yoga Center

Friday 7:30am - Calabash Community Center

Saturday 9:30am - Mongoose Jct Yoga Center

Value packages available

$135 for 10 classes

$250 for 20 classes

$330 for 30 classes

or $15 for drop in class

Custom Private sessions available $150.00 session for up to 2, $20pp over 2
call 340/643-6467 or email emoptician@aol.com to inquire or book

SPECIALTY CLASSES

RESTORATIVE YOGA & AYURVEDIC PICHU

THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2013 @ 5:30pm  $15

Mongoose Jct. Yoga Center

please register emoptician@aol.com or 643-6467

Restorative Yoga is a much underrated and yet extremely beneficial style of yoga. Aided by props (bolster, blankets, blocks), the body, placed into yoga poses, is completely supported, allowing it to passively relax, stretch and open at progressively deeper levels. This practice allows for the release of deep seated tensions and helps to bring the body and mind back into natural balance.

Ayurvedic Pichu is an authentic traditional treatment for relieving stress & stiffness in your joints & body. A cotton pad soaked in a warm medicated oils and a warm cloth is gently placed on the forehead and nestles you in a cocoon of comfort and bliss.

Coming in May.....YOGA NIDRA thursday, May 2nd @ 5:30pm

I look forward to the opportunity to practice with you!

Blessings, 

beth

directions & bio can be found on previous posts :)

MARCH 2013 yoga classes & events

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love - then make that day count!
Steve Maraboli

Weekly Yoga group classes 

Tuesday 9am - Mongoose Jct Yoga Center

Tuesday 5:30pm - Calabash Community Center

Thursday 5:30pm - Mongoose Jct Yoga Center

Friday 7:30am - Calabash Community Center

Saturday 9:30am - Mongoose Jct Yoga Center

Value packages available

$135 for 10 classes

$250 for 20 classes

$330 for 30 classes

or $15 for drop in class

Custom Private sessions available $150.00 session for up to 2, $20pp over 2
call 340/643-6467 or email emoptician@aol.com to inquire or book

EVENTS:

Yoga Nidra
happening on Thursday, March 7, 2013 @ 5:30pm at the Mongoose Junction Yoga Center
$15 please bring pillow & blanket   no registration necessary

Yoga nidra is yoga without movement. Yoga nidra relaxes the body and the mind. It allows you to completely unwind and get in touch with your inner self. The benefits of yoga nidra are far reaching, and can be different for everyone. Yoga nidra is an ancient practice that is also referred to as yogic sleep or sleep with awareness that is done in a comfortable lying position. The goal of yoga nidra is full body relaxation and a deep meditative state that addresses physiological, neurological and subconscious needs using techniques including guided imagery, breathing, meditation, concentration and body scanning. The biggest benefit of yoga nidra is that anyone can do it. It doesn't involve physical expertise of any kind so even if you have a health condition, you can practice yoga nidra. Yoga nidra helps to quiet the overactive mind, promotes better sleep, eases anxiety and calms stress. Dr Richard Miller (my teacher), consultant for a study performed at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, is both a psychologist and yoga instructor. The study used a yoga nidra protocol for active duty soldiers who were experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. Results were promising for soldiers with PTSD. They were able to sleep better, felt less depressed and were more relaxed on a daily basis.

RESTORATIVE yoga & Ayurvedic Pichu

Happening Thursday, March 21, 2013 @ 5:30pm at Mongoose Yoga Center - bolster will be provided $15

1st come for bolsters OR prepay and secure your space

Restorative yoga is used to create the 'relaxation response' or trigger the parasympathetic nervous system, which is responsible for balancing the body. By stimulating this system, you experience a lower heart rate and blood pressure. This also helps stimulate your immune and endocrine systems in healthy way. When you experience stress or feel overwhelmed, it impacts the parasympathetic nervous system that restores balance. To read more about the relaxation response and how beneficial it is to us, visit
http://www.massgeneral.org/bhi/basics/rr.aspx

Ayurvedic Pichu is an authentic traditional treatment for relieving stress & stiffness in your joints & body. A cotton pad soaked in a warm medicated oils is gently placed on the area of the 3rd eye and a warm cloth covering the forehead nestles you in a cocoon of comfort and bliss.

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Restorative Yoga will be offered monthly at Mongoose Yoga Center,......every 3rd Thursday of the month.

Please find further information, directions & bio on previous posts

I look forward to the opportunity to practice with you!

Blessings, 

BETH

FEBRUARY 2013 SCHEDULE & EVENTS

"Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections"

Weekly Yoga Classes:

Tuesday - 9am Mongoose

Tuesday - 5:30pm Calabash

Thursday - 5:30pm Mongoose

Friday - 7:30am Calabash

Saturday - 9:30am Mongoose

All classes are drop in basis

Value packages available

$135 for 10 classes

$250 for 20 classes

$330 for 30 classes

or $15 for drop in class

Custom in home/villa yoga privates available $150.00 session for 2 people, over 2 $20pp

EVENTS:

RESTORATIVE yoga & Ayurvedic Pichu

Happening Thursday, February 21, 2013 @ 5:30pm at Mongoose Yoga Center - bolster will be provided $15

1st come for bolsters OR prepay and secure your space

Restorative yoga is used to create the 'relaxation response' or trigger the parasympathetic nervous system, which is responsible for balancing the body. By stimulating this system, you experience a lower heart rate and blood pressure. This also helps stimulate your immune and endocrine systems in healthy way. When you experience stress or feel overwhelmed, it impacts the parasympathetic nervous system that restores balance. To read more about the relaxation response and how beneficial it is to us, visit
http://www.massgeneral.org/bhi/basics/rr.aspx

Ayurvedic Pichu is an authentic traditional treatment for relieving stress & stiffness in your joints & body. A cotton pad soaked in a warm medicated oils is gently placed on the area of the 3rd eye and a warm cloth covering the forehead nestles you in a cocoon of comfort and bliss.

.

Restorative Yoga will be offered monthly at Mongoose Yoga Center,......every 3rd Thursday of the month.

Please find further information, directions & bio on previous post.

I look forward to the opportunity to practice with you!

Many Blessings,
Beth

Yoga with Beth
340/643-6467
emoptician@aol.com

January 2013 Schedule & Events

Dear Ones, 

Peace Be With You

Peace be with you even in

uncertainty and change.

The peace that enters with

each breath also descends

from all directions.

The east brings hope,

the west opens up the door

for dreams. The north and  

south will reveal their secrets

in due time.

The mountains and the

solid ground beneath your feet

both offer peace.

The whispered voice of truth

refuses to believe in any

reality that isn't rooted in

peace of mind and heart.

Peace be with you, in doing

and in rest, now and always

by Danna Faulds

JANUARY 2013 EVENTS

-YOGA for a Peaceful New Year - January 1st - 9am @ Mongoose & 5:30pm Calabash

special class fee of $10

come welcome in the new year with peaceful intentions....2013 Intention board & practices to  manifest your own reality!!

-RESTORATIVE YOGA & Ayurvedic Pichu - January 17th - 5:30pm @ Mongoose

$15 fee        prepay to reserve your space or 1st come for prop set up (14 available) 

(see December 2012 schedule for full description)   .....a blissful experience!!!
pichu during savasana if you like 

-YOGA NIDRA - January 31st - 5:30pm @ Mongoose 

$15 fee        please bring blanket & pillow

(see December 2012 schedule for full description)  ....peaceful rest!

-JOURNEYDANCE - January 25th - 6:30pm @ Concordia Eco Resort Pavillion

$15 fee if you prepay or $20 at door   NO EXPERIENCE necessary  ...come get funky!

JourneyDance™ is a grooving celebration that will have you loving your body and loving your life! Weaving simple, guided movement sequences and free exploration, JourneyDance™ reconnects you with your innate state of joyous well-being. Your mind becomes clear, free, and positive, and your body feels supple, energized, and powerful. Practiced to inspiring world music, your dance is an empowering journey to self-acceptance and transformation.

What happens during a JourneyDance™?

JourneyDance™ moves us through deep, personal exploration into a loving, intimate relationship with body, mind, and source energy.  This exhilarating union of dance, visualization, and ritual calls us to get funky and divine!

In a Shamanic style, we are carried through an intentional and seamless flow of simple movement sequences and free expression. We are led with exuberance and compassion to a place of authentic communication with our creative spirit, where we discover our hearts’ desires. 

We embody our physical temple, unleashing animal energies from within as we ground ourselves.  We explore our inner realms, delving and diving into our ocean of emotion. We connect with our inner shaman creator to burn the mind’s clogging clutter and make space for the abundance of joy that is available to us. As we create this powerful ritual together, we liberate old cellular memories, cleanse the body and mind with sweat and breath, and elevate our vibration. 

We open to the joy of life. We are the Prayer: our body, our movement, our breath.  We are the Goddess: our passion, our emotions, our sensual heart.  We are the Warrior: our power, our intentions, our life’s journey.

JourneyDance™ is a transformational experience that does not require any previous movement or dance experience. Travel this sacred and provocative journey, feel bliss, and express ourselves as soul.

WEEKLY YOGA classes:

Tuesday 9am Mongoose Jct Yoga Center

Tuesday 5:30pm Calabash Community Center

Thursday 5:30pm Mongoose Jct Yoga Center

Friday 7:30am Calabash Community Center

Saturday 9:30am Mongoose Jct Yoga Center

All classes $15 drop in fee or Value packages available

30 classes for $330

20 classes for $250

10 classes for $135

In VILLA custom privates available $150 for up to 2 people & $20 pp over 2

 (all props available)

Directions:

Mongoose Jct Yoga Center located in Cruz Bay behind Mongoose shopping center.  go in back parking lot, on left you will see carport, go behind carport and up stone stairs, center on 2nd floor in stone building (fully screened, fans & A/C available...props available)

Calabash Community Center located in Coral Bay  Take right at triangle in Coral bay, you will pass Pickles deli, Cocolobo plaza, shipwreck restaurant and a little past you will see complex of yellow buildings with blue roofs on right (Calabash housing) go into complex...you will see playground on right and community center across street.  parking lot in front.  (fully screened, fans & A/C available)  call if you need to borrow mat 777-7140 and I can bring one for you!

please contact me at emoptician@aol.com or 340/643-6467 with any questions or concerns

I look forward to the opportunity to practice with you!!! 

In love,light & Joy.....

Blessings

beth

Yoga with Beth

emoptician@aol.com

340/643-6467

www.yoga-beth.blogspot.com

BIO:

Beth is a certified Kripalu Yoga, JourneyDance & IREST instructor. She offers an organic experience that incorporates her 17 yrs. of practice and extensive training in Integrated Yoga Therapy, Vinyasa, Yin, Restorative, Chakra, Tantra, Partner, Meditation, Ayurvedic sciences, Yoga Nidra and is a Reiki Master.  Co-creator/owner of Shakti Healing Arts Center in Massachusetts before moving to St John, USVI 11 yrs ago.  She currently is the Director of the Mongoose Junction Yoga Center in Cruz, on staff at the elite M’Ocean Studio at Caneel Bay Resort, The Spa at the Westin Resort, The Bar Harbor Inn & Spa in Maine and owner of Yoga with Beth. She has classes, workshops and retreats on St. John, USVI & Bar Harbor, Maine.  She is an ordained minister & USVI licensed to officiate weddings.  Beth's focus in teaching individuals practices in yoga and meditation is in the spirit of helping them to find some facet of freedom or liberation within their own life. Whether it be freedom from stress, negative thoughts, or liberation of movement--or the ultimate experience of who we really are.  Beth's intention is to allow the practices to enrich our everyday modern lives so that we can feel calmer, more comfortable in our skin, and to help to open us up to possibilities that we may never have imagined available.

December 2012 schedule & holiday events

"Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage" - claude bristol

Dear Ones,

With the Holiday season upon us....how many of us increase our "TO DO" list???? Invest an hour of your time to help balance your energy & renew your spirits to ENHANCE your experiences celebrating this holiday season.....come receive the gift of YOGA NIDRA & RESTORATIVE YOGA with Ayurvedic Picchu. Come "UN-DO" Refill your own well and spread the joy!!

Yoga Nidra
happening on Thursday, December 6 @ 5:30pm at the Mongoose Junction Yoga Center
$15 please bring pillow & blanket

Yoga nidra is yoga without movement. Yoga nidra relaxes the body and the mind. It allows you to completely unwind and get in touch with your inner self. The benefits of yoga nidra are far reaching, and can be different for everyone. Yoga nidra is an ancient practice that is also referred to as yogic sleep or sleep with awareness that is done in a comfortable lying position. The goal of yoga nidra is full body relaxation and a deep meditative state that addresses physiological, neurological and subconscious needs using techniques including guided imagery, breathing, meditation, concentration and body scanning. The biggest benefit of yoga nidra is that anyone can do it. It doesn't involve physical expertise of any kind so even if you have a health condition, you can practice yoga nidra. Yoga nidra helps to quiet the overactive mind, promotes better sleep, eases anxiety and calms stress. Dr Richard Miller (my teacher), consultant for a study performed at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, is both a psychologist and yoga instructor. The study used a yoga nidra protocol for active duty soldiers who were experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. Results were promising for soldiers with PTSD. They were able to sleep better, felt less depressed and were more relaxed on a daily basis.

RESTORATIVE yoga & Ayurvedic Pichu

Happening Thursday, December 20, 2012 @ 5:30pm at Mongoose Yoga Center - bolster will be provided $15

1st come for bolsters OR prepay and secure your space

Restorative yoga is used to create the 'relaxation response' or trigger the parasympathetic nervous system, which is responsible for balancing the body. By stimulating this system, you experience a lower heart rate and blood pressure. This also helps stimulate your immune and endocrine systems in healthy way. When you experience stress or feel overwhelmed, it impacts the parasympathetic nervous system that restores balance. To read more about the relaxation response and how beneficial it is to us, visit
http://www.massgeneral.org/bhi/basics/rr.aspx

Ayurvedic Pichu is an authentic traditional treatment for relieving stress & stiffness in your joints & body. A cotton pad soaked in a warm medicated oils is gently placed on the area of the 3rd eye and a warm cloth covering the forehead nestles you in a cocoon of comfort and bliss.

.

Restorative Yoga will be offered monthly at Mongoose Yoga Center,......every 3rd Thursday of the month.

yoga classes continue....

Calabash Community Center - Tuesday 5:30pm & Friday 7:30am

Mongoose Jct. Yoga Center - Tuesday 9am & Thursday 5:30pm & Saturday 9:30am

Value packages available

$135 for 10 classes

$250 for 20 classes

$330 for 30 classes

or $15 for drop in class

NO classes on Tuesday December 25th for Christmas Day

Join us for YOGA for a PEACEFUL NEW YEAR 2013 on Tuesday, January 1, 2013
at Mongoose Jct yoga center @ 9am & Calabash Community Center @ 5:30pm
$10.00 
come with your intentions for 2013......plant the seeds for a peaceful new year!!!!

Get ready for JOURNEYDANCE extravanganza happening at Concordia Friday, January 25 2013 @ 6:30pm  $15 pre pay or $20 at door

I look forward to celebrating the holidays and the opportunity to practice with you! Thank you for your continued inspiration!!

Sending love, light and joy....

Beth

www.yoga-beth.blogspot.com

340-643-6467

November 2012 schedule & summer recap....

Starting on July 1st I was invited to teach 14 weekly SeaSide Yoga at the Bar Harbor Inn & Spa and The Atlantic Oceanside Hotel in Bar Harbor, Maine…..within the beautiful Acadia National Park until the end of September.  A gorgeous summer meeting people from all over the world that came to hike the likes of Katadin mountain or cycling the carriages paths through the park…..yoga was a warm welcome to start or end their day!  This is the 1st season any hotel there has offered yoga to their guests and the response was wonderful with an invitation to return next summer!  

After finishing my teaching commitment in Maine, I headed to Massachusetts to visit family & friends along with taking time for surgery to repair a torn meniscus (part of my gift from the accident in India).  During my healing time after surgery I made my way to my yoga home at the Kripalu Institute where I first began my love affair with yoga.  As a Kripalu teacher….my heart swelled with more joy being back seeing old friends and accompanied by my sisters.  I had the honor to participate in the "Power of Love & Healing" with Mother Maya on her world tour spreading non-violence/ahimsa.  

 I just returned home this week and resumed my classes with an invitation to practicing the "Sacred Pause".  Stopping just for a moment to check in with yourself….how are you? where are you? and how do you want to be in that moment? can you just be in that pause - without judging yourself or the other or your situation?  just for a moment…..to breathe, to soften, to feel…what do I have here? Does this serve me? and what energy can I call on to meet me and nourish me here?  I am excited to explore & lead experiences through the practices to address what is here now……allowing you to be more comfortable in every moment. 

 My public class schedule is as follows as well as being available for custom privates by appointment:

Tuesday 9am mongoose

Tuesday 5:30pm Calabash

Thursday 5:30 Mongoose

Friday 7:30 Calabash

Saturday 9:30am Mongoose

Every 3rd Thursday of the month at Mongoose 5:30pm is RESTORATIVE yoga with a special Ayurvedic Pichu Treatment. The treatment is heaven!!!!

 All yoga classes are $15 drop in fee or value packages are offered - 30 classes $330.00, 20 classes  $250.00 & 10 classes $135.00…..valid for 1 year. 

YOGA NIDRA & JOURNEYDANCE special events will begin this season with the  1st JOURNEYDANCE Event being at Concordia on January 18, 2013!  

WIth appreciation & gratitude…..I am honored to have the opportunity to practice with you!

Blessings, 

Beth

340/643-6467

emoptician@aol.com