Restorative Yoga Workshop
Experience Deep Yogic Relaxation with Camilla Sinclair & Katie Beroukhim

Yoga can work for many different types of bodies, many different stages in life, and for each person’s many different moods. While for some a Power Yoga class may seem like the way to go, for others a gentle restorative or Yin Yoga class may be optimal. For some people their needs change daily. However, the restorative effects of yoga should never be over-looked, no matter what age, and sometimes slowing down the practice, going deeper in poses, and just feeling the restorative power of them does wonders for the body.

Benefits of Restorative Yoga
Restorative Yoga focuses on relaxing the body in restful postures. Note that ‘rest’ is different than sleep. Rest provides the body an opportunity to renew and heal. Countless studies have proven the physical and emotional benefits of this.

Restorative yoga, as well as other forms of yoga, help to trigger the Parasympathetic nervous system also known as the PNS. The PNS is responsible for balancing the body and bringing its response system back into equilibrium. Stimulating the PNS helps to lower heart rate, blood pressure; it helps to healthily stimulate the immune system and keep the endocrine system operating healthily. When this system gets out of whack, or when the Sympathetic nervous system, SNS gets over-stimulated, the PNS helps to bring all back in balance. It is believed that is the PNS is tapped out or under-active, illness pervades. Thus, forms of relaxation, such as yoga and meditation, that help to stimulate the PNS are generally beneficial for overall body health.

$55 per person (Earlrbird price extended until May 19th!)
Limit 20 students

NO YOGA EXPERIENCE NECESSARY

We shape clay into a pot.  But it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.        -Tao Te Ching #11

like this space / how an empty room / without furniture / No pictures hanging on the wall / bare wood floor and draped windows

How an empty room / can hold so much

the modern temple / more than just a bare room / in a strip mall / but a room whose emptiness / holds such vast worlds / that we, 10 years later / have ripened and  bloomed / within this clean and unstructured space / and from it / formed a temple.

not a temple in a religious sense / for we are a varied tapestry of difference / our kula hails from all over the world / different cultures, countries, religions, perspectives. / what we share is the reverence for health and discovery / you could even say radical self discovery. / our bodies become the moving temples within the light of this reverence / daily painting vibrant worlds and stories invisibly upon the walls / each practice, a new mural of moving meditation.

the one image that moves its light across the walls / that is visible only in certain light and times of day / the embodied heart logo on the frosted door. / the heart is central, linking open brush-stroke legs /and DNA helix twisting arms joined in a pryer overhead / but notice, at the bottom, the heart is OPEN / allowing an entry to the empty and inviting space within / the head is also open:  its entry directly above the heart / the body the temple, the heart the open center of the temple / the heart the central point we all share in this empty yet vibrant temple space / of yoga del mar.

here we are given space / to be with ourselves and others / to be held and nurtured within the clean open space / to enter, and to leave no physical trace / of our comings or goings / except written in the fibers of our bodies / the halls of the mind and the movement of touch across our hearts. / the empty space that holds so much / for friendships, epiphanies, griefs, losses, gains, and celebrations. / the emptiness birthing forth a space for exquisite contemplations / realizations, peacefulness, and resolutions.

and to the woman who has maintained this space / through her efforts and wide open heart / always guiding her head / blessings / for creating a space of longevity that lasts.

The bell is hollow / so the sound may ring it.

This room is empty / so our hearts might fill it.

          - nikyta palmisani

           (written for, and read at, the Yoga Del Mar 10 year anniversary celebration / Sept. 20, 2009)