VALENTINES SPECIALS

Free Vinyasa Class for Couples on Feb 14th!
Bring your honey to our Vinyasa Yoga class at 6 pm on Valentines night and you both get the class for free! This class is a level 1/2 and perfect for beginners. We hope you will join us! Oh, and there will be chocolate involved!

SAVE $50 ON A COUPLE'S PRIVATE YOGA SESSION Schedule this couple's session with Gina during the month of February to benefit from this special pricing.
Regular price $150, Valentine Special $100!

THERMAL BODY THERAPY & MASSAGE
Cleansing, exfoliation and hydration are just as critical for the body as they are for the face. This awesome treatment serves two purposes: to deliver healthy skin and feel incredible! Thermal Body Treatments help relieve fluid retention and toxic accumulation. The body is gently heated with lamps, heated blankets, and special formulated products. In addition to keeping you comfortable, the heat will serve to relax your muscles, induce sweating, increase sensory nerve conduction. These responses relieve pain and calm the psyche, all while creating a body temperature that is more conducive to the penetration of essential product ingredients into the skin.

Please allow three hours for this indulgent treatment! The thermal body treatment will be done by Brenda and Trish will be doing the massage.
Regular price $225.00 Valentine Special $185.00

Obviously, it would be much easier to be a yogi in a cave in the Himalayas than it is for me. I don’t think ascetics realize how good they have it. They don’t have to worry about how to make the next college tuition payment or tolerate telemarketers at dinner. No one cuts them off in traffic or expects them to put their world on hold for the Super Bowl.

It is especially difficult being both a mother and a yogini. It's the whole detachment thing. I’m sure it’s a snap to detach in an ashram. But just try it when your oldest child calls from an army hospital in Korea thousands of miles away. Or, when you daughter is crying her heart out over some loser who didn’t call.

To the yogi, detachment and even-mindedness are everything. We search for balance in mind, body, and spirit. We flow through poses meant to make us strong and centered and, hopefully, able to handle the day the washer overflows and the dog barfs in front of guests.

I meditate and practice poses and read yogic texts, but I still fall apart in the midst of calamity. I still burn with anger and sink into depression. It is quite obvious – I am an awkward yogi. I don’t look like a yogi. I have a shape that runs screaming from a unitard. I have fat cells as old as my children. I also don’t eat like a yogi. Sometimes bliss just comes as fettucini alfredo. A vegetarian meal is just an excuse to eat bread. And some days, I wonder why I even unroll the yoga mat.

Then something will happen and I will discover a tiny corner of yogini in me. In a long line of Christmas shoppers, the woman behind me is moving her baby from one hip to another. I suggest she move ahead of me. She declines, but I see the hope in her eyes and insist. As she brushes past me, a wave of calm and patience swamps me.

When a spider invites itself into my house, I call for my husband to capture the creature and release it outside. Although challenging, I try to refrain from glaring at impatient and rude people who should in cell phones in public places.

As I said, being a yogi isn’t easy, especially in the wireless age, but then maybe it isn’t supposed to be. So I continue to breathe and, in my own little way, alway make my decisions from a place of love and shift from fear, which sometimes is our greatest teacher. ---Jonda Watson

HEALING KITCHARI

One of the great balancing and easily digested complete meals in Ayurvedic cooking, this simply prepared and endlessly varied grain recipe called kitchari combines protein and carbohydrates in a single dish. Serves 4

INGREDIENTS
2 Tablespoons ghee (clarified butter)
1 Tablespoon celery seed
2 Tablespoons ground fennel seeds
2 Tablespoons ground coriander
1 cup organic white basmati rice or organic pearled barley, rinsed
1/3 cup organic mung beans
3 cups filtered water or Vegetable Stock
1/2 cup organic vegetable stock cube
salt to taste
freshly ground black pepper
fresh cilantro

1. Rinse the mung beans and soak in 1 cup cold, filtered water for 2 hours.
2. Heat the coconut oil or ghee in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add the celery seeds, fennel, and coriander. Saute, stirring frequently, until fragrant, 3 to 4 minutes.
3. Add the barley, mung beans, water or stock, and vegetable stock cube.
4. Bring to a boil, reduce the heat, and simmer, covered, for 45 minutes, stirring occasionally.
5. Season to taste with salt and pepper and add the fresh cilantro. Serve warm.

Beginner's/Gentle Hatha Yoga Series begins Tuesday, February 6th and Thursday, February 8th for a four-week session. Classes are Tuesdays at and Thursdays at 10:30 am.

$40 for 4 sessions (1 class per week for 4 weeks) or $80 for 8 sessions (2 classes per week for 4 weeks).

Students must pre-register and pay before the first class. Remember these are not included in the 10-Class Passes. No refunds for missed classes and missed classes can be made up within 30 days.