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Price list for Yoga Studio of Corpus Christi


Pricing

*Regular Yoga classes Drop-in Fee $12

Students $ 8 Student Monthly Unlimited $ 60 Classes to be taken within 30 days from purchase date 4 Classes $38 6 Classes $55 8 Classes $65 10 Classes $75 Monthly Unlimited $85 Unlimited classes to be taken in 3 months $225

Hot Yoga Pricing

Drop-in fee $15

4 Classes/ $50

Student drop-in fee $10

Combo Package Hot and Regular Yoga Monthly Unlimited


$175


Seniors – 20% discount off all class packages Military,Law Enforcement, Fire Fighter, and F.B.I.S.D. employees, discounts available


Go to http://www.yogastudioofcc.com/ for pricing on regular and Hot Yoga Classes

Available Classes & Description

  • Go to www.yogastudioofcc.com to get a complete updated description of classes!
  • Jivamukti Yoga ~Jivamukti Yoga class involves an ever changing flow of postures (vinyasa) that is intended to challenge you on many levels. Each class revolves around a theme based on ancient wisdom and emphasizes the importance of practicing with an elevated intention. Chanting, meditation, and inspiring music are a part of every class.
  • Mommy and Baby Yoga ~ In most mom and baby yoga classes, moms place a yoga blanket, usually covered with a blanket from home in case of spit-up or other spills, at the top of their yoga mat. Feel free to bring a couple of small toys too. In an ideal world, the baby will lie on the blanket happily for the duration of the class. This rarely happens. The nice thing about a mom and baby class is that you are totally free to pick up your baby and feed her, rock her, change her diaper, or walk her around the room if she cries.
  • Gentle Yoga- bring balance and clarity to the body and mind while creating flexibility. Beginners or even advanced practitioner who need a break.
  • Restorative Yoga- uses props and blankets to modify traditional yoga poses. The supportive postures gently open the body for deep relaxation and healing. This class is ideal for those going through stressful times, suffering from illness, injury or major life changes. Postures are held for extended times with the support of props.
  • Beginners Yoga- great for new students or students wanting a slower paced class.
  • Hatha Yoga- links postures, breathing, and concentration which promotes health and well being. Great for all levels.
  • Hatha Flow - use of sun salutations with movement through asanas that will increase stamina and flexibility, intermediate level and above students.
  • Piyo- Blend of Pilates and Yoga, includes meditations for the group exercise environment, yet offers exercise progressing to challenge all levels of participants.
  • Vinyasa- physically demanding, vigorous practice connecting breath with movement. This is a dynamic form of yoga which will build strength, flexibility, and focus. For intermediate level and above students.
  • Ashtanga Yoga- specialized sequencing of postures and focusing on breath. Ashtanga may be utilized as a method of keeping physically fit or it may be traversed as a pathway to explore the subtle realms of spirituality.
  • Prenatal Yoga- uses postures, breathing, and meditation to help ease pregnancy discomforts, while strengthening your body, mind, and soul for labor and the after effects of birth. The classes create flexibility, strength, focus, and awareness through a gentle practice that is designed especially for the pregnant woman's needs.
  • Postnatal Yoga- is a great way to support the body's recovery after birth. Use postures, breathing techniques, and meditation to offer a practice that helps to regain overall body healing and strength, abdominal/pelvic toning, and relaxation.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Jivamukti Yoga~Focus of The Month~November 2008






Compassion, Diet, Strength and Happiness
Compassion is an essential ingredient in the practice of ahimsa (non-harming), the first of the five yamas (ethical restraints) in Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. Through compassion, you begin to see yourself in other beings. This helps you refrain from causing harm to them. But developing compassion does something else that is of special interest to the yogi: It trains the mind to see past outer differences of form. The yogi begins to catch glimpses of the inner essence of other beings, which is happiness, and begins to see that every single creature desires happiness.
To develop compassion, examine the motives for your actions. Are they selfish or unselfish? Proclaiming that it is acceptable to eat meat because it makes you healthier, for example, is a himsic, or "harmful," attitude because the action of eating meat stems from a selfish motive - your concern for your own personal health or enjoyment. When you realize that cows and chickens want happiness just as you do, you see them as kindred souls: the distinction between you and other beings wears thin as awareness begins to dawn.
In truth, we all share consciousness, and harm inflicted upon one being, be it animal or human, is felt by all sooner or later. Some meat eaters like to argue that vegetables have feelings too, so what difference does it make if we eat chickens or carrots? The answer is simple: Patanjali gives ahimsa as a practice, meaning that you do your best to cause the least amount of harm. And it is clear that a vegetarian diet causes the least amount of harm to the planet and to all creatures.
Generally speaking, the "disease of disconnection" plagues the human condition. As a species, we are not at ease with ourselves - with our bodies, with our minds or with our feelings. We are not at ease with others - with other human beings as well as other animals. We can be nervous, competitive, fearful and worried; we crave respect and approval while simultaneously seeking dominance and power. We certainly aren't at ease with our environment, and are constantly altering it to suit our needs or wants with little regard for how our actions impact others or the earth. This dis-ease causes all sorts of problems. We are destroying ourselves, as well as other animal species and the planet, in a misguided quest to find happiness, or ease of being.
By enslaving and abusing other animals in order to feed and clothe ourselves, we deprive them of freedom and happiness. How can we hope to be free or happy when our own lives are rooted in depriving others of the very thing we say we value most in life - the freedom to pursue happiness? If you want to bring more peace and happiness into your own life, stop subjecting others to violence and unhappiness. We tell our children that "might does not make right," and yet we throw this high-minded idea out the window when it comes to the everyday reality of using might to humiliate, torture and kill the animals we raise for food.
Maitri-adishu balani PYS III.24:Through compassion, strength comes.
This sutra expresses a radical concept because it challenges the message of our enculturation, which is that strength comes from weakening another. The fork can be a powerful weapon of mass destruction or a tool to lead a movement of peaceful co-existence. Eating a compassionate, vegetarian diet will stop war and create peace in one's body, peace with animal nations and peace on earth.
Besides, it is very radical to be a vegetarian during these times! As Ingrid Newkirk, founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), reminds us: "Never be afraid of seeming radical. All the best people in history have always been radical." The word radical, like the word radish, derives from rad, meaning "root." A radical is someone who attempts to dig to the root of a situation. Yogis have always been radical. Yogis search for root causes because they understand that effective change can occur only if you change a course of action from the causal point. Failure to understand this is why so many "liberating" revolutions of the past never elicited long-lasting, positive change. They dealt only with surface symptoms, not the root causes of social and cultural problems.
Yoga means "liberation." Slavery is contrary to liberation. We can never become free by taking away the freedom of others. Through the practice of yoga, we begin to recognize ourselves as not separate from the whole, and we realize that what we do to others, we ultimately do to ourselves.
Yoga is said to be the perfection of action by the removal of selfish motivation. The yogi uses the world we live in, and the way we interact with the world, as a vehicle for transformation. A vegan diet offers an informed, intelligent, conscious and yogic way to act perfectly each time we make a choice about how we consume the world, rather than focusing on how to consume the world.
As we become more Self-confident, we become less fearful. We become less self-absorbed, and our ability to feel life all around allows us to hear what life is trying to communicate to us through nature. Through the animals and trees, water and air, the message is simple yet profound: All of life is interconnected. What we do to others affects us all. When we begin to feel this, we can free ourselves from the false idea that the earth belongs to us, and instead use our lives to benefit others. In turn, we will become happy as we discover that the best way to uplift our own lives is to do all we can to uplift the lives of others.
- Adapted from Yoga and Vegetarianism, by Sharon Gannon, November 2008

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Chakra and Tantra Yoga Workshop with Marco Mandrino, E-R.Y.T. 500

February 28-March 1, 2009

The Yoga Studio of Corpus Christi proudly announces a Chakra and Tantra Yoga Workshop with Marco Mandrino! Many of you have expressed interest in this subject so Marco has taken the time to come back to Corpus Christi from Italy.

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP:
This is a rare opportunity to be introduced to an in-depth Tantric perspective of the seven chakras in a format both theoretical and experiential. The two day workshop begins with an explanation of the concept of Sukshma Sharira (energetic subtle body), followed by an exploration of each chakra's meaning, position, element, symbolism (number of lotus petals, animal and Divine qualities), sense and action organ, imbalance diagnostics, rajasic, tamasic and sattvic aspects and practice suggestions to re balance and purify chakra energy. Participants will also learn a Kundalini Shakti awakening techniques.

Both Days will start with a component consisting of about 3 hours of Asana, pranyama and Dharana (concentration) techniques specific to each chakra. The practice is followed by theoretical component complemented by Kriya Yoga, Mantras or pranyama practice.

ABOUT MARCO MANDRINO:
Marco is registered as E-R.Y.T. 500, Experienced Yoga Teacher above 500 hours by Yoga Alliance. He studied and practiced different kinds of Yoga both in Tantric Tradition and others. He leads Yoga Teacher Training Programs, workshops and retreats for the development of the potential within and for personal growth through Yoga in Italy, Australia, India and The United States. Marco is also an Ayurvedic practitioner, classic and Ayurvedic Aromatherapy expert. He is author of several publications and collaborator of different Italian Yoga Magazines (similar to our Yoga Journal here). Through workshops and retreats he teaches an integral way to Yoga in Tantric Tradition with a consistent Hatha Yoga practice with Asana, Pranyama, Dharana (concentration), Dhyana (meditation). He is a strong supporter of Ayurveda to purify and cleanse the body. He gives practical advice that allows you to bring Yoga into your daily life routine through Karma Yoga teaching, Jnana Yoga approach in the Advatita Vedanta Philosophy which will allow you to burn out the veils of ignorance, Bhakti Yoga practices to bring love, joy and light into the present moment.

Monday, October 13, 2008

Yoginos Classes for kids starts November 2008


Yogiños classes will engage and connect your minds, hearts and bodies as you become animals, plants, birds, reptiles, bugs, yogis, yoginis and so much more. Yoga helps participants of all ages with stretching, strengthening, integrating senses, focusing, digesting, breathing, relaxing and sleeping. Classes for younger yogis includes literacy games while classes for older youth address self-esteem, focus, as well as stretching and strengthening for sports such as baseball, volleyball, tennis, swimming and more.Classes contain many of the following aspects: yoga and kids' music, singing, basic Pranayama, theme classes, Spanish, Asanas, story telling, games, focusing and visualization activities, relaxation techniques, meditation, and lots of laughing and fun. Come prepared to play and be present! Help you and your child grow into your unlimited power through the gifts of yoga!

Yogiños classes are facilitated by Elizabeth Reese, Ph.D. Reese is a teacher with over 20 years of experiences leading learners of all ages in creative problem solving, self-reflection and empowerment through skiing, windsurfing, arts education, and art museum activities. She is the author of several articles and book chapters as well as co-author of the book, Experience Art: Teaching and Learning through Works of Art. She has practiced yoga for over 10 years including Hatha, Ashtanga, Anusara, power yoga, and most recently Jivamukti. Reese is working towards certifications through Aerobics and Fitness Association of America and RYT 200 in Anusara. She is the mother of 3 yogiños under the age of 10.

The schedule will be as follows:

Tues., 10:45-11:10, ages 18m-3 years
Tues., 11:20-11:50, ages 3-5 years

Thurs, 2:45-3:15 ages 4-6 years
Thursdays 3:30-4:15 ages 7-12


This is the perfect way to compliment your pre/post Natal classes and The Mommy and Baby Classes. Now, we have your entire family covered! Join us. The best way to keep these wonderful classes coming your way is by attending them.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Join us in India!

The Yoga Studio of Corpus Christi is busy planning a trip to India!

Dates for the trip will be 5/26/2009 thru 6/6/2009. I am currently looking into transportation options. Once the transportation is arranged I will have a basic idea of the cost. We will be meeting up with my Mentor/friend Marco Mandrino and his students from Italy. Marco travels to India often and is very familiar with the areas we will be visiting. This will be the perfect trip for someones first time in India. You can find out more about Marco by visiting www.hari-om.it

"About India . There will be 6 nights in hotels with bed and breakfast(5 nights in twin rooms and 1 on dormitory) plus all the transport on personal excursion bus plus organisation and escort service. There will be around 6 more nights to pay as the trip will be of 12 days and all lunch and dinner and the flight. From Italy the cost is around 700 euro (950$).
Just some important advise. Gomukh and Gangotri are really high mountain ( Himalayas ) so people who come must to be in a good health condition. Second and maybe most important the accommodation in India in general but up there in particular are really basic, never really clean and you have always many people around. So people who want to come must to be ready for sure for an amazing, deep and mystic experience but also for a not easy condition and environment. In this you must to be really have a clear understanding. To have an idea about the place you can give a look on Internet using as keywords “Gangotri”."

I hope this answers some of your questions for now. Marco will be back in Corpus Christi the last weekend in February for a workshop. It will be a two day workshop on opening the chakras. Each day is about 8 hours with 30 min for lunch and maybe small little breaks in between. He is awesome. It would be a great time to meet him and have an idea of what things will be like for us in India. Let me know if you want more details as they come. Please contact me via comments on the blog or at our e-mail address yogastudioofcc@yahoo.com .

Monday, October 6, 2008

Infant Massage Workshop

























Thank you to all the parents and parents to be who joined us for the Infant Massage Workshop. Stacy Wooster, R.M.T. and RYT 200 did a fabulous job of presenting us with information on the benefits of infant massage, the studies on infant massage therapy, the homeopathic uses, and the techniques used for infant massaging.

Please watch the live TV interview and please leave comments http://www.kiiitv.com/news/local/30463659.html

The concepts of infant massage will be integrated into our Mommy and Me classes starting October 21st with Jennie Woelpern, RYT 200 Tuesdays October 21st.

Here are some pictures for all to enjoy!