Monday Classes: 2010

Come transform your wounds into Love and Power, explore your connection to your Life Force, and surrender your heart to the heavens in Denise K. Bonnaig's creative deep Power Vinyasa Yoga class. In this creative power vinyasa with inversions and arm balances class, you will be encouraged to experience your own: Inner Strength, Focus, Flexibility - with Determination, Challenge, Balance. We will explore a new way of being through the practice of yoga philosophies, linking one breath to dynamic flowing movements while encouraging you to explore your edge and allow your authentic personality to shine.

The combination of strength, sweat and spirituality will heal, transform and detoxify your body and mind from inside out, bringing vitality and power to your life. Denise is known for pushing limits in her students while offering modifications. Be prepared to sweat and transcend your limitations, in this class which incorporates a vigorous approach to asanas and pranayama. The class is suited to students with a strong, regular yoga practice and NOT recommended as an entry level class.

Vinyasa krama means intelligently placed, orderly steps. It is an ancient practice of physical and spiritual development. This class emphasizes an intelligent progression of movements synchronized with the breath in the tradition of master teachers such as Yoga Acharya Krishnamacharya and enables both beginning and continuing students to explore higher levels of energy, vitality, strength, flexibility, balance, alignment. The endeavor is to make each pose done as a worship and as a meditation.

The class is ideal in combating stress and lack of energy and at the end of the class you feel refreshed with a deep relaxation technique called "Yoga Nidra" expounded by Swami Sathyananda Saraswathi. Suitable for all levels as level of challenge is individualized to needs of each student.

Drop-ins: $18

Twenty-six sequenced postures practiced in a heated room. Work deep into your muscles, tendons and ligaments - change your body from the inside out. Increases flexibility, improves circulation and reduces stress. The class is designed for all levels. Bring water, a towel, and a mat. Plan to sweat! Detoxifying, healing and energizing. Change your body!

Not recommended as a students first yoga experience and/or those with serious injury, illness, epilepsy, high blood pressure, heart condition or pregnancy. Some prior experience with yoga suggested.

Bring joy of yoga into your life, on and off the mat! Come, learn and experience GENTLE yet INTENSE postures with breath and movements. Bring balance to your body and mind by holding the postures with flowing breath. Improve flexibility, release your stress and relax into restorative postures.

All levels are welcome. Class will adapt to the student needs. Objective is to promote the innate healing resources of the body, helping to restore the proper functioning of the various bodily systems.

The 8-week MBSR is back at PCYH! We invite you to work with this outstanding team to bring your life to a new level of quiet strength and purpose. You will be taught the same 8-week series that forms the basis today for the key research studies with meditation. Its structured educational approach offers mindfulness meditation and gentle yoga as the core of its program to guide people to take better care of themselves and to live healthier and more adaptive lives. People who have participated in MBSR have found help with a range of physiological and stress-related conditions including chronic pain, IBS, migraine headaches, high blood pressure, cancer, sleep disorders, anxiety and depression.

Mindfulness is as simple (and as difficult) as living in moment-to-moment awareness. It is invoked by first paying close attention to your breath and then to every other aspect of your life. MBSR provides training in meditation, mindful-yoga, and relaxation to mobilize your mind/body resources to work with stress, pain, and illness in new ways that can promote growth and healing. Its success requires a strong commitment to daily practice.

About the teachers:

The course is taught by Pat Vroom, PhD, Capital Health Systems' first Director of Complementary Medicine and Deborah Metzger, RYT, LSW, PCYHˆs Founder & Director.
      Dr. Vroom trained at the University of Massachusetts Medical Centerˆs well-known Stress Reduction Clinic and taught MBSR at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in NYC before coming to Princeton.
      Deborah Metzger studied with Jon Kabat Zinn and Saki Santorelli and also at U Massachusetts Center for Mind Body Medicine in addition to her teaching, yoga therapy and Hakomi certifications and trainings.

$495. Please call PCYH for early registration discount, 609-924-7294.

Learn more and sign up now on the Workshops page at PCYH OnLine.

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is an innovative and highly researched program designed to help people who suffer chronic or repeated bouts of depression. It combines the clinical application of mindfulness meditation with the tools of cognitive therapy and is based on the model developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn. MBCT teaches us to recognize the connections between spiraling thought patterns and tendencies toward setting oppressively high standards for ourselves, overwork, chronic feelings of “not being good enough,” and losing touch with life’s enjoyment. This rigorous course mixes didactic, experiential, and small group learning, and includes meditation and yoga in an 8 week 2 hour class format and will include an all day retreat.

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