Maine Yoga Kids will ensure your little yogis have a blast during MYF!
Each session will be filled with creative activities, games, arts and crafts and outdoor fun for ages 3-8 (must be potty trained).
Maine YogaKids will host a playful class designed for our young yogis. Campers will explore yoga basics through song, dance, stories and imaginative play.
Each session is four hours in length. Cost is $40 per camper and must make a reservation in advance and pay through our ticket page.
The Metta Bhavana (Lovingkindness) practice is a heart-awakening meditation practice of offering unconditional friendliness to ourselves and others. Using ancient techniques passed down from the Buddha himself, in Lovingkindness meditation we honor our authentic connection with all beings and our common desire to be safe and happy.
Metta practice is a profound and powerful practice of remembering. Remembering that we all desire to be safe and happy. That we’re not alone. That we’re deeply connected with one another. That we all share the same vulnerabilities to change and loss. And it’s a practice of forgiveness, of ourselves and others. We generate compassion for ourselves, which very naturally becomes a beautiful gift we offer to others. We honor the inherent goodness of our own hearts, and become more able to recognize and celebrate the goodness of others. We tend our hearts that our hearts may tend the world.
This simple, transformative, and foundational practice helps us operate from our highest wisdom, cultivating our naturally kind, joyful, compassionate heart energy which naturally radiates outward. This energy is our inherent potential, our boundless birthright.
Anyone can learn to do basic Lovingkindness meditation and receive both immediate and long-lasting benefits. Metta meditation has been shown to increase positive emotions and decrease negative ones, reduce chronic pain, activate empathy and compassion centers of the brain, curb self-criticism and judgment of others, fight effects of aging, and drastically increase our sense of happiness, well-being, and connection with others.
Lovingkindness heals. It’s that simple. And the beauty of Metta energy is how it blossoms continually outward, transforming everyone it touches. As Rumi said, “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within you that you have built against it.”
Join Sagel for Learning Lovingkindness Meditation to learn the foundations of this beautiful, profound practice and concrete ways to bring it into each of your days. This workshop includes meditation instruction, guided meditation practice, and Q&A and no experience is necessary. If you can breathe, can meditate! You’ll walk away from this workshop with basic skills to continue your Lovingkindness practice both on and off the cushion.
Students are encouraged to bring blocks and or blanketd to use as a seat.
This is an overview of the seven natures including time for participants to complete a 7-question survey and ask questions.
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Class will begin with an introduction to the board followed by a 60 minute vinyasa sequence and will end with a ‘challenge’ session allowing students to work towards arm balances and other advanced postures. SURFSET Yoga is brought to you by Magnolia Fitness where our mission is to bring you fun and inspirational small group fitness classes taught by knowledgeable, compassionate and skilled instructors.
Every body can practice yoga when it is taught in a manner that respects and celebrates differences and encourages building strength, flexibility, and self-acceptance. Join Katie Beane for a special workshop designed for people who may not feel like they fit the description of the typical yoga student. Experience a safe, fun, and body-positive class with students of all shapes, sizes, and ability levels. Note: You do not have to be a specific size to attend, but this class will pay special attention to a practice that feels good and is safe for individuals with larger bodies.
Maine Yoga Kids will ensure your little yogis have a blast during MYF!
Each session will be filled with creative activities, games, arts and crafts and outdoor fun for ages 3-8 (must be potty trained).
Maine YogaKids will host a playful class designed for our young yogis. Campers will explore yoga basics through song, dance, stories and imaginative play.
Each session is four hours in length. Cost is $40 per camper and must make a reservation in advance and pay through our ticket page.
Class opens with a fast paced Vinyasa Yoga Flow, to get the heart rate up and to warm and tone the muscles. A mat-based workout full of planks and push-ups to target the arms and continue with Barre work targeting the lower-body by focusing on legs and glutes. This includes small isometric movements to build long lean muscles. Finally, you’ll finish with a series of core-focused moves on the mat. Class will wind down with slow deep yin style yoga.
Class will begin with an introduction to the board followed by a 60-minute vinyasa sequence and will end with a ‘challenge’ session allowing students to work towards arm balances and other advanced postures. SURFSET Yoga is brought to you by Magnolia Fitness where our mission is to bring you fun and inspirational small group fitness classes taught by knowledgeable, compassionate and skilled instructors.
"Practice becomes firmly grounded when well attended to for a long time, without break and in all earnestness.” - Patanjali's Yoga Sutras
In a society that bombards us with the idea that we are never quite enough, accepting yourself as is can feel truly radical and rebellious. Join Katie Beane for a gentle yet energizing flow and be a rebel for love! Embrace your yoga mat for what it truly is: a safe and sacred space to meet yourself exactly where you are. Throw out the notion that you need to be anyone or anything other than who and what you are right now. You are so much more than enough--you are a badass warrior made of stardust! Practice saying "yes!" to all of you--on and off your mat.
Bhakti Yoga (the yoga of devotion) is practiced to experience Bhava, the nectar of devotion through union of body, mind, and spirit. In this devotional practice, we surrender ourselves, and ultimately find union with the Divine that resides in our own hearts. This class is very fluid and will create more of a physical experience however, Bhakti Flow is in affect a moving prayer or meditation in motion in the spirit of devotion. Class is illuminated and complimented with devotional music. Let your awareness calm as you move into deeper layers of body and mind. Hanuman Bolo!
Journey the path of the subtle body using the chakras as a vehicle. We will use the foundational SPA Yoga experience of a slow-flow, floor-based, whole-body sensory practice with pranayama and vivid visualizations designed to help you make a deep connection to the chakras—energy centers that align in different parts of the body. We will use the physical practice to open the body and breath and meditations to connect to our inner wisdom. Class will culminate with a guided meditation and yoga nidra that will connect you with your chakras on an even deeper level.
By engaging all five of the senses with soothing music, aromatherapy, lots of hands-on assists and a renewed awareness of taste (and chocolate!), SPA yoga aligns practitioners with the inner wisdom of deep relaxation. The physical practice takes time to open the body’s subtle energy and prepares students to experience new depths of awareness in an extended, guided relaxation and Yoga Nidra. You’ll float off your mat feeling like you’ve just had a trip to the spa!
Maine Yoga Kids will ensure your little yogis have a blast during MYF!
Each session will be filled with creative activities, games, arts and crafts and outdoor fun for ages 3-8 (must be potty trained).
Maine YogaKids will host a playful class designed for our young yogis. Campers will explore yoga basics through song, dance, stories and imaginative play.
Each session is four hours in length. Cost is $40 per camper. You must make a reservation in advance and pay through our ticket page.
In this slow-flow, floor based, whole-body sensory experience of SPA yoga, we will connect to the four limitless truths of love, joy, compassion, and equal-ness of all beings presented in the yogic teachings We will use the SPA yoga flow combined with vivid visualizations, pranayama, and our senses to access these four truths and open body, breath, and mind. We will begin by focusing on opening the heart with a slow flowing vinyasa, move deep into our hips to find spaciousness through physical and energetic opening, and culminate in a powerful guided meditation and yoga nidra that will leave you feeling open and connected with the energy that connects us all.
SPA yoga is a slow-flow, floor-based, whole-body sensory experience. By engaging all five of the senses with soothing music, aromatherapy, lots of hands-on assists and a renewed awareness of taste (and chocolate!), SPA yoga aligns practitioners with the inner wisdom of deep relaxation. The physical practice takes time to open the body’s subtle energy and prepares students to experience new depths of awareness in an extended, guided relaxation and Yoga Nidra. You’ll float off your mat feeling like you’ve just had a trip to the spa!
Your motivation type is a wonderful part of who you are. It is the energy that moves you through life. When unaware of the three motivations and the times when life compels you to adopt one, you can get trapped and interrupt flow. This workshop explores the three motivations and how they affect your life when they are known and unknown. You will identify your innate motivational energy, gain an understanding of the motivations of others, and learn to adopt different types of energy in order to keep moving toward greater health and wealth.
With intelligent sequencing and anatomical precision, you will learn how to completely unlock neck, shoulders, and arm lines, inviting fluid freedom of movement. The use of the Roll Model Therapy Balls will help you build a deeper understanding of the root cause of neck, shoulder and upper back limitations, with techniques to identify body blind spots, ease tension, and invite more freedom into your unique body.
We will progressively unblock areas of your body that may be in the way of a harmonized, balanced, and safe yoga practice with focus on Downward Dog. The work will build upon your knowledge of the neck and shoulder girdle and its function. During this workshop you will gain valuable insight into the anatomy of your neck and shoulders and all possible direction of movements to bring ease and grace into your carriage and movements.
Maine Yoga Kids will ensure your little yogis have a blast during MYF!
Each session will be filled with creative activities, games, arts and crafts and outdoor fun for ages 3-8 (must be potty trained).
Maine YogaKids will host a playful class designed for our young yogis. Campers will explore yoga basics through song, dance, stories and imaginative play.
Each session is four hours in length. Cost is $40 per camper and must make a reservation in advance and pay through our ticket page.
A sacred space is a place to align with your deepest intentions. A sacred space within a home can help to build consistency in a personal yoga and meditation practice. In this lecture we will delve into how to create a home environment that is conducive to nourishing the spirit. How to create sacred spaces of all sizes will be explored ~ from an entire room to a small windowsill. We will go through step-by-step how to create a meditation altar and personal yoga practice space. The principles of fen shui , color therapy and space clearing will be woven throughout the lecture to give participants a deeper understanding on how to create their own individual sacred space.
In Reiki, it is said when the River is high and flowing well, we enjoy harmony and health, living blissfully aligned with our highest purpose. Join Sagel for this very special workshop designed to feed that River of Life within you to raise your vibration level and make manifest your spirit’s truest Intention. With Daoist Yin yoga acupressure, hands-on Reiki energy work, sound healing with live Harpist accompaniment, and a powerful Yoga Nidra practice, this one of a kind workshop is one you won’t want to miss.
We often speak of Energy as a feeling or emotion (we’re “full of energy” or “feeling low energy”), rather than an actual real physical thing – Life Force flowing into and out of every cell in our body, animating and activating every part of our being. Yet there are many maps of the Energy Body throughout the world: Japanese Reiki, Daoist Meridian theory, the Indian Yogic Prana and Chakras. Western scientists are beginning to understand what these Ancients in other traditions have long taught: we are, at our core, energetic beings. Modern technology is finally giving us a glimpse of the reality our eyes would have to be 1000x more sensitive to see: tiny light particles travel through the nervous systems of all living beings. We are, literally, Beings of Light!
You are Energy, and the health of your Energy body is intimately connected to the health of your Physical and Emotional Bodies. Together, they form a powerful and sacred triune that propels you toward your life purpose. This purpose is what the Yogis call your Sankalpa – the purest intention of your spirit, the wish that radiates from your soul that brings Bliss when made manifest. Disruptions and obstacles in your energy body can result in obstacles your life and keep you from manifesting the life you desire.
Sagel will lead you on a nurturing journey through the landscape of your physical, emotional, and energetic bodies to feed and harness the Energy inside you, to plant the sacred seed of your Sankalpa in the most fertile soil of your spirit so it can manifest as your personal, blessed reality.
Yin Yoga with meditation offers many layers of healing to the body…strengthening and restoring our connective tissues, encouraging spaciousness and equanimity in our minds, and stimulating, refreshing, and rebalancing the flow of QI, or Life Force, through the body’s energy channels called meridians.
Reiki energy healing offers deep relaxation and stress release by restoring Life Force energy balance and vitality. It is a gentle, effective way to clear and nourish the subtle energy body and professional Reiki energy healers will offer hands-on healing throughout the practice.
The healing vibrations of live harpist accompaniment will serenade your spirit and help to you heal on a cellular level, rebalancing and raising the energy vibration of tissues throughout the body into alignment with the vibration of the Universe.
Yoga Nidra, is the ancient yogic science of deep relaxation and guided meditation, often referred to as the Sleep that Awakens the Soul. Studies show that just thirty minutes of Yoga Nidra is equivalent to 4 hours of deep restful sleep.
So come find your Bliss and wrap up your weekend feeling rejuvenated and restored – you may want to bring a pillow, a blanket, and light kerchief for your eyes. Everyone is welcome, no experience necessary!
Throughout the practice, Reiki practitioners Jennie Foley (Reiki II, E-RYT 200) and Mea Tavares (Reiki Master, Polarity Therapist) will offer their healing hands in service of your good hearts.
The main goal of our workshop is to introduce mindfulness practices in a way that is joyful, playful, light and engaging. The practices themselves are simple and can be applied to many life situations. In his introduction to mindfulness meditation in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh, David Hughes will give a short dharma talk on the teachings. We then will put these into practice with a short sitting meditation, followed by an eating meditation. Finally, we welcome questions from participants.
