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A very pregnant me and my husband demonstrating partner yoga poses from our book.

Our partner yoga book, entitled Yoga with a Friend, is out. We are offering a special for anyone who orders directly from us in January.

Yoga with a Friend

Develop trust, communication,
strength, and compassion when
you practice yoga with a partner

Practice this unique form of yoga where you and your partner work together to accomplish creative and challenging poses. Your partner can be your friend, roommate, spouse, life partner, sibling, parent, child, or anyone else whose company you enjoy.

In Yoga with a Friend you will learn breathing techniques to facilitate tranquility together, and partner poses that develop trust and mutual support. You will develop strong non-verbal communication skills as you work together to achieve balance. You will amaze yourselves as you accomplish the poses.

Along with poses and breathing techniques, you will learn some great visualizations and meditation techniques. You will also be introduced to yoga philosophy and understand how to apply yoga lifestyle guidelines to your various relationships. In Yoga with a Friend we hope to share this fun, challenging, and deeply rewarding practice with you.

http://8thelementyoga.com/books/partner_yoga.php

Yoga for Scuba Divers teaches you poses, breathing exercises, visualization techniques, and yoga lifestyle principles that combine to make you a better diver. By practicing the yoga poses in this book you can: improve your balance and stability, build core strength to protect your back when carrying tanks and weights, build abdominal control to fine-tune your buoyancy, strengthen your legs for those fun walks down to the water in full gear, and develop powerful muscles that improve your finning. The breathing exercises will teach you to breathe steadily during physical exertion, which will keep you calm and rational under water. The visualization techniques will help you prepare mentally for dive challenges. You will also learn yoga principles, such as non-violence, and how they apply to scuba divers. All of the poses in Yoga for Scuba Divers are practiced on land, not in the water.

Todd Stedl is a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor and holds a doctorate in chemistry. Kimberlee Jensen Stedl is a member of the American Council on Exercise Continuing Education Faculty, and is a Registered Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance. Together they have been diving and practicing yoga since they met in 2002.

 

See sample pages: http://8thelementyoga.com/books/yoga_scuba.php

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Thursdays 6:00 - 7:15 pm

Velocity Dance Studio

915 East Pine Street #200, Seattle, WA

Drop in rate $10

Yoga comes to life with this energetic fusion of flowing Hatha yoga and dance. Using moves from martial arts, belly dance, African dance, and modern dance, we dance our way into and out of yoga poses in this playful lively class. You get cardiovascular benefits plus strength and flexibility while exploring your own unique creativity.

Dance movements are both strong and soft, yang and yin, for a balanced mind body workout. Choreography is simple – we emphasize movement, not memorization. No prior dance experience necessary but some prior yoga experience is helpful, as this is a dynamic and challenging class.

dance side plankJust when you thought you knew yoga, you discover a whole new way to experience it.

Punk Rock Yoga discount class cards can be used for this class.

Why yogis should take this class: Freeform spontaneous dance is the natural progression of yoga, according some some yoga lineages. In this class we have a mix of structured time and freeform time which enables you to catch a glimpse of liberation. When we're moving freely, all the movements stemming from a seat of joy, disregarding comparisons to others or perfection of movement, it opens a window to liberation. Also, because we dance to warm the body and prepare the muscles for a pose, we can often get deeper into poses. Because we dance our way into balance poses,we can trick ourselves into challenging poses we might normally dread. The combination of dancing, a training method used by athletic trainers, further strengthens our balance.

Why dancers should take this class: While performance dance is beautiful and powerful in its own right, dancers can sometimes focus so rigorously on choreography and perfection, that they sometimes forget the joy of moving and feeling the movement deep from within. In this class, we move to work our way into poses, we move to express and we move just to move sometimes. It helps dancers remember their joy of movement and music. Because we use movements from a variety of styles we move in a variety of ways: strong, slinky, choppy, fast, slow, wild, controlled. It challenges dancers to move in ways outside of their normal realm, which helps make them stronger dancers all around. Finally, because we often dance while holding balancing poses, dancers sharpen their balance and learn how to move while holding intricate stances.