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Event Date: February 14, 2011.
Open your heart on Monday, February 14th. Join us at 7:30pm to 8:45pm at the City Studio for a special Kundalini Valentine’s Day class with Gloria Latham. Attend on your own or bring a friend.
We will work on heart opening postures and meditations to let the love flow. Come prepared to have a lot of fun.
Chocolate treats will follow class.
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Make the ultimate New Years resolution. Open your heart and connect to the splendor of life, with a Yoga Lifestyle program led by Master Yogi + Blissologist Eoin Finn. Read More
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Shiva Rea is a leading teacher of transformational Prana Flow Yoga and Yoga Trance Dance™. Her studies in the Krishnamacharya lineage, Tantra, Ayurveda, Bhakti, Kalaripayattu, world dance, yogic art and somatic movement infuse her approach to living yoga and embodying the flow. She is known for bringing the roots of yoga alive for modern practitioners in creative, dynamic and life-transforming ways and for offering the synthesis form of vinyasa flow out in the world.
As a global adventurer, she has led over 70 retreats and pilgrimages nationally and internationally as well as served as a creative catalyst for conferences, festivals and actions for the environment, yoga and the arts including the third annual Yogini Conference of Kripalu and Omega. Shiva writes for Yoga Journal and is the author of award-winning CD’s and DVD’s to empower and transform yoga home practice. She lives with her family near their favorite surf break at Sunset Beach in Pacific Palisades, California. See the seva page for more information on the service and action projects that Yogadventures supports.
Event Date: October 30, 2010.
The Semperviva Yoga Challenge is a commitment to attend yoga classes for 40 consecutive days.
Yogic science confirms that it takes 40 days to fully develop a new life-promoting habit or to drop a current destructive habit. The Semperviva Challenge is a great way to strengthen the body, unburden the mind, and begin a daily commitment to yourself.
In 40 days, you can create a whole new way of being.
This is an opportunity to transform your life. Through this program, you will experience
Transformation is just a few yoga classes away!
This program will challenge your personal philosophy about your body and its abilities. It will teach you how to tap into the deepest resources of strength and vitality within you.
1. Register online through this rsvp or at the front desk at any Semperviva location. Joining the Challenge is FREE but we like to know who’s on the team!
2. Come to a Semperviva yoga class every day from October 30th-December 8th
If you are new to yoga, don’t worry. We will show you how to progress safely.
We challenge you to take at least 30 classes within 40 days; 40 classes is fantastic but 30 classes is also amazing!
Students who complete 40 classes within 40 days are entered to our draw for the chance to win one of the following three prizes:
1. What if I go out of town?
Please bring a receipt from a class attended out of town.
2. Can I take more than one class in a day?
It is best to develop the consistency and commitment of doing one class daily.
If you do take more than one class, we will count it towards your 40 class total but please consider that developing a daily practice is far more beneficial.
3. What else will Semperviva give me?
The Semperviva Yoga Challenge team will have 2 team gatherings.
Meet on October 30th at 4:00pm at Semperviva City Studio to kick off our challenge with a class that will introduce you to all styles of yoga taught at Semperviva. We will follow with an Open House providing healthy treats.
On November 18th, day 20 of our challenge, we offer an optional meet up at Kits Beach Studio, starting at 8.45pm, for a Semperviva Signature All-Styles class to celebrate the successful completion of the first half of our 40 Day Yoga Challenge.
Our challenge ends December 8th at Semperviva Kits Beach Studio with another special class. Class time is scheduled for 8:45pm. It will be a fun class featuring all styles again, plus healthy snacks to follow. Come and celebrate your success!
Space is limited, so reserve yours today!
| Kickoff: | Saturday, October 30th, 2010 at 4:00pm Semperviva City Studio at 1985 West Broadway |
| Mid-Way Class: | Thursday, November 18th, 2010 at 8:45pm Semperviva Kits Beach Studio at 2201 West 4th Avenue |
| Challenge End: | Wednesday, December 8th, 2010 at 8:45pm Semperviva Kits Beach Studio at 2201 West 4th Avenue |
| Cost: | Free with membership |
| Contact: | 604.739.2009 info@semperviva.com |
Event Date: October 30, 2010. October 31, 2010.
The focus of this workshop is to strengthen the foundations of your vinyasa practice. Learn how to develop a strong home practice and explore the roots of yogic philosophy from the Bhagavad Gita and Pantajali’s Yoga Sutras. Study and understand the therapeutic value of sirsasana (headstand) and sarvangasana (shoulderstand). Learn to sequence them properly, and cultivate proper alignment to facilitate longer holds.
Pre-requisites:
Reading: Bring and familiarize yourself with Barbara Stoler Miller’s translation of the Bhagavad Gita.
Backbending and Arm Balancing
Pre-requisites:
Reading: Bring and familiarize yourself with Barbara Stoler Miller’s translation of the Bhagavad Gita, and Mukunda Stile’s translation of the Yoga Sutras.
Reno Muenz is a charismatic, inspirational yoga teacher who brings his strength, humour and philosophy to every one of his yoga classes. Since the first time he opened the pages of Bhagavan Das’ It’s Here Now Are You?, he knew there was something radical about the practice of yoga.
| Dates: | October 30th-31st, 2010 |
| Time: | 1:30pm to 4:00pm |
| Location: | Sea Studio at Granville Island (Saturday) City Studio at 1985 West Broadway (Sunday) |
| Cost: | $75.00 + HST (one workshop) $125.00 + HST (both) |
| Contact: | 604.739.2009 info@semperviva.com |
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Develop grace, strength, and concentration with standing balance postures. Learn how the habitual practice of balance poses can increase your longevity by many years. This workshop will begin with a talk about internal and external balance. Then, after warming up we explore simple standing balance postures and transitions. This class is ideal for all levels, even those who think of themselves as “clumsy.” These techniques are known to calm the mind and increase one’s patience and compassion toward others.
How does the way we breathe affect our stress level, quality of sleep, depression, and even our relationships? Breath penetrates, breath invigorates, and breath heals.
The class begins with a lecture and then moves into simple but profound breathing exercises, and gentle movement. The effect of these done in sequence can lead to profound release and calm. Other benefits may include increased energy and mental clarity. Once people have experienced the power of their own breath, they understand why it is called Life force. Class will include a lecture, breathing exercises, very gentle breath-initiated movement, and meditation.
In this inspiring book, Max looks beyond the often-written-about philosophies of yoga to what he sees as the purpose of this practice: to help with the journey within. Yoga offers the tools, but each person’s jail is a little different. He encourages readers to focus not on the tools, but on the endeavor. He reveals how to make changes in mind, body, and emotions simultaneously. The result is a new state of being: a life with meaning, a life full of love, a life worth breathing.
This special workshop is focused on lifting us up from burn-out and re-igniting the inner fire, transforming depression into inspiration and anger into courage. This workshop is known for its healing, penetrating affect, leaving students feeling renewed and open. In this special workshop we will begin with a talk by Max based on ideas from his new book. This will be followed by the integration of breathing exercises and vinyasa flow. The final segment of the workshop will focus on simple chants unfolding into a transformational meditation.
The ancient ones teach that in the world of spirit we do not ever learn, but to remember. “Our task before us is to remember who we are and what we are.” Part I of the workshop will include a short talk, gentle postures, and breath work. Part II will be on the floor as we gently open the hips with long holds in preparation for a guided meditation on remembrance.
Born with severe clubbed feet, Max Strom spent much of the first five years of his life with his feet confined in plaster casts and braces. Today, he is known for inspiring and impacting the lives of his students, teaching with the aim of personal transformation and has become one of the most respected teachers of yoga on three continents. He reaches beyond the boundaries of yoga postures, and addresses the internal and emotional aspects of our life, subjects which often lie painfully neglected in the yoga community. Many teachers have cited Max as a most important influence in their teaching and life-journey.
Former director and co-owner of Sacred Movement Yoga in Los Angeles, Max taught over 400 dedicated students a week, now travels extensively teaching and lecturing on yoga and transformation and leading teacher trainings. He is recognized by the Yoga Alliance at their Advanced Teacher Level (ERYT 500). You can see more of his work on his DVDs, Learn to Breathe, to heal yourself and your relationships, and, Max Strom Yoga–Strength, Grace, Healing. Visit MaxStrom.com for more information.
| Dates: | November 27th-28th, 2010 |
| Times: | Saturday, 1:00pm to 3:00pm – Standing Balance Poses (all levels) Saturday, 3:30pm to 5:30pm – Learn to Breathe (all levels) Saturday, 7:00pm to 8:30pm – Free Book Signing Evening Sunday, 1:00pm to 3:00pm – A Life Worth Breathing (all levels) Sunday, 3:30pm to 5:30pm – Yoga: An Act of Remembrance (all levels) |
| Location: | Semperviva City Studio at 1985 West Broadway |
| Cost: | $55.00 + HST (per workshop) or $195.00 + HST (for all 4 workshops) |
| Contact: | 604.739.2009 info@semperviva.com |
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Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa is a pioneer in yoga and the mind-body-spirit connections. Based in Los Angeles, Gurmukh teaches Kundalini yoga, meditation, and pre- and post-natal care.
Among her clientele are Cindy Crawford, Madonna, Gwyneth Paltrow, David Duchovny, Courtney Love, Annette Bening, Melissa Etheridge and Rosanna Arquette. She is founder and director of the Golden Bridge Yoga Centre.
She has been featured in many magazines, including Vogue, W, InStyle, and People. Gurmukh teaches all over the world, from India to Europe and from Central America to the United States. Her kind, compassionate wisdom and counsel touch the life of everyone she meets.
Many people feel that to be spiritually successful they must ignore the planetary level. In the Ancient Scriptures, as taught to us by Yogi Bhajan, to be spiritually successful is to be bright, radiant and beam the Infinite Creativity throughout our lives. To be successful on the physical plane, in the world, includes creating worldly goods that we can then share with others. Sharing to help others is a large part of the success cycle. When our spiritual plane success is exemplified through the physical plane success, we are power on all levels. Join us as we discover the underlying energy of success! Discover new pearls to take home with you and apply in your lives right away. All levels welcome.
A student comes to a Kundalini Yoga class for the first time and his life is forever altered. In one class, you can have a Kundalini experience that will reveal possibility, destiny and an inner knowingness faster than perhaps anything else. Similar to a near death experience, it gets down to the bones so quickly, yet so safely with absolute beauty. We will take our anger to innocence as we journey through the earth slipping off the cause and effect of karma, so that we might come to realize ‘the wanting of nothing’ and that our only need is ourselves. All levels welcome.
Conquering Our Imagined Disabilities by Opening the Heart. Experience how to make the impossible possible, by accessing the source of strength within you to become crystal clear with a calm and open heart. Through Kundalini Yoga and Meditation, we will unload our unconscious burden, unlock our minds and understand our goodness. All levels welcome.
When the subconscious is not clear, it is filled with unfulfilled desires and thoughts. Our life becomes filled with dreams at night and dreams during the day. Dreams may be very entertaining, romantic, or distracting but they are never a reality. We waste a lot of our energy when in these dreamlike states. At some point the dreams even take over our reality, and we start acting out the scripts that were handed down from the subconscious. Through Kundalini Yoga and Deep Meditation we’ll gain the ability to face the underlying currents behind our dreams, bringing the energy of our soul’s purpose into the picture. Then our goals and steps in life will be more satisfying. All levels welcome.
Event Date: February 7, 2010.
Our 40 Day Challenge begins with a one hour event at Kits Beach this Sunday from noon-1pm at Kits Beach – attend to learn more and to kick off your own challenge by sampling a variety of yoga styles. If you’re unable to attend this event but would like to enroll in the 40 day challenge, let us know and we will register you and send you more information. If you have any questions, please contact us at 604-739-2009 or info@semperviva.com, or see our 40 Day Challenge page at for more information.
Event Date: February 14, 2010.
Free Kundalini Mix Valentine’s Day Yoga and LOTS of chocolate on Sunday Feb 14th, 7:30pm at Semperviva City Studio.
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