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Focal Point Yoga™ has a diverse offering of workshops on Yoga and
Eastern Practices. If you have a yoga studio and would like to host a workshop,
please contact us at
NOSPAMelena@focalpointyoga.com (remove the words NO SPAM from the
email address please!)
WORKSHOPS FILL QUICKLY –
PRE REGISTRATION RECOMMENDED
Here is a listing
of workshops we offer:
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Yoga
Nidra - Learn to relax your entire body and come to a healing sense of
peace. Excellent techniques taught for insomnia, Chronic Fatigue
Syndrome, channel healing energy, pain management, high stress and learn to
reduce stress and balance mood. Handouts provided on basic techniques
to practice at home.
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Pranayama - Breathing Techniques
- there are a variety of breathing techniques used for various purposes.
I have assisted professional athletes maintain and monitor energy using
tools such as breathing techniques. The techniques taught will be for
various purposes. Increase lung power for athletes, avoid pneumonia
for those who are inactive due to physical issues and more. Use breath
to calm your mind, balance your mood, increase the health of your body,
quiet down with one technique and increase energy with another.
Handouts provided. Learning to breathe properly is one of the simplest
and easiest things you can do to increase the health of your entire body.
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Yoga Basics
for Absolute Beginners - Are you interested in starting a yoga practice
or learning more? Come to this workshop with other beginners where you
will learn correct basic techniques and principles and how to use them best
for your body! We take ourselves lightly and this is a very open
accepting environment that makes yoga fun and teaches you how to use it to
improve your life. There are many styles of yoga and we can help find
the style right for you.
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Developing a Home Practice:
Learn to use simple items at home, and find brief moments during your
day to gradually develop your own practice and knowledge of what your body
needs to stay healthy and happy daily!
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Full
Ashtanga Primary Series:
Guided, not Mysore Style. Ready for a challenge in strength,
cardiovascular health, discipline and letting go of some ego? This 2
to 2.5 hour workshop will take you step by step through the entire Asthanga
Primary Series (which is the ORIGINAL POWER YOGA - as practiced by Madonna,
Sting, Woody Harrelson, Willem Dafoe and more). It's not easy, but
there are many methods of adjusting and going step by step as you grow into
this practice. Pre-Requisite - the ability to do 5 Sun Salutations A
and 5 Sun Salutations B.
This workshop is
perfect for those of you already practicing Ashtanga who need help with
certain asanas or more detail, or great for physically fit beginner to
intermediate students interested in one of the most intense practices in
yoga
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a) 5 sun a
and 5 sun b are the warm up for the practice
2.
b) standing
sequence of 20 asanas (poses)
3.
c)there are
38 seated Asanas with sun salutations with 18 vinyasas (sun salutations)
between asanas - classically if you do the sequence, you would do vinyasas
with sun salutations between left and right sides of certain asanas. If you
get tired, it is okay to skip an asana and prepare for the next - this is a
fast paced sequence but incredibly healthful
4.
d) Closing
Sequence - 16 asanas and then Savasana (corpse pose - relaxation)
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Yamas and
Niyamas
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the ten foundational principles of yoga which are
guidelines to a healthy joyful confident path. Handouts on these
concepts and discussion of how we apply them in the modern day are included
in this workshop, as are handouts on the principles the ancients felt were
the foundation to enlightenment and joy.
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Yoga for Sciatica and Low Back
Issues:
Focus exclusively on the wide range of asanas (poses), movements and
techniques to facilitate healing and managing pain in the hips and low back.
Discover the possibilities of living without pain.
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BEING IN THE MOMENT- PRINCIPLES
OF MEDITATION:
3 Basic Methods of Meditation taught. We begin with a brief discussion
of the benefits of meditation then learn to quiet our chattering minds, slow
our thoughts, and discover connection and how to open to your light inside
and out. As we learn meditation, we observe thoughts that go by first,
and discover many of our own thoughts and self criticisms are untrue.
Our mind is like a puppy that needs to be trained to focus, and we learn to
focus on being in the moment, the only place true peace is found.
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Tibetan Healing Light Meditation:
In a state of relaxation, we use visualization to open our healing
energies and direct energy and healing light to our bodies to help with
illness and to learn to channel energy to open to healing energy around us,
in our bodies, hearts, minds and souls.
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Yoga for those in Difficult
Circumstances:
If you are in an unhealthy circumstance - relationship, codependency,
job, stress, difficult life in any area - it can be overwhelming.
Learn to find peace and joy within yourself, and find the support and
confidence to make healthy decisions a little at a time. 2 hour
workshop.
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Anger? In Yoga?:
How do we apply principles, techniques and methods to quiet our
emotions, still the chattering mind, be non-reactive and make good
decisions? A calm balanced mind is the best place from which to make
the best choices, and they are not often easy- we must face reality and
respond to what is real and true, not to our own reactive thoughts.
This can be challenging when anger is for good reason, or it is time to make
changes and it is easier to blame others or use frustration to get stuck and
not grow. Several yogic techniques can help tremendously. This
is taught in a discreet, safe, non-judgmental atmosphere. We are all
in it together trying to do the best we can in this life. Gain a few
tools on your path to joy and learn to manage your life better.
Handouts provided.
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Ear Coning
- Learn to use the ancient technique of Ear Coning (also called Ear
Candling) to clear blocked energy channels.
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Couples Yoga
Workshop for Birth Preparation - Beneficial at any point of the pregnancy.
This workshop
is an opportunity for you and your partner to cultivate awareness,
understanding and enjoyment of the birthing process. The presence and
support of a partner is powerful for labor and birth. In this workshop,
partners gain greater understanding of how to support the birthing mother
with confidence, sensitivity, and calm. Couples who practice yoga together
are more connected to one another, and partners feel more connected to the
unborn baby. Increase your connection with your body, your baby, and each
other. Breath work, gentle yoga postures, discussion, vocal toning,
meditation and massage enhance confidence in pregnancy, labor and birth.
Support the low back and increase your repertoire of comfortable positions.
Cultivate greater relaxation and learn safe and simple breathing
techniques. Calm and flexibility ease the birthing process, increasing the
joy of giving birth to a new life.
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Step By Step
Towards Advanced Asanas
- series of 3 workshops (you do not need to sign up for all three) - the
three advanced workshops are Inversions, backbends, and hips.
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How to Assist
- Workshop for Yoga Teachers
- taught at many yoga teacher training
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Hip Openers
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"familiarity with yoga recommended" - Tight hips have been linked to low
back pain, sciatica, lumbar/sacral spine issues, knee issues and scoliosis.
Opening the joints of the pelvis allows you a greater freedom of movement, a
longer stride, and may help with these issues! This class will focus on deep
hip openers, and some level of familiarity with yoga is recommended. - this
is an excellent flow, helps yoga teachers and students deepen their practice
and some students sign up for it year after year.
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Partner Yoga
- I have offered this workshop a number of times. Try something new and fun
with your partner, and connect with yourself and your partner on the deepest
levels! I offer a 2.5 or 3 hour format, including some partner massage.
It is a lot of fun.
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Tantric
Relationships - Love and Partnership in Yoga. Partner Yoga and pranayama, then some exercises in
connecting with each other on a deeper level, sharing ourselves completely.
We do a little partner massage, and we have handouts on Tantra and some
suggestions for exercises to do at home. This workshop is for partners and
those who are curious, who want to learn to connect on a deep,
physical/spiritual and emotional level. It is a beautiful workshop. As you
might imagine, this workshop gets a pretty good attendance. Depending on the
intent of the workshop at your studio, I offer this in a 2.5 hour format, a
3-4 hour format for a half day partner connection (more experiential
learning and exercises) or a full day of love - wonderful day-long workshop
with break for lunch.
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Raja Yoga
- exploration
of the full yogic path, discussing the teachings of Patanjali, the
application of the 8 limbs of yoga to our daily western lives, meditation
and spiritual exploration. Deep, spiritual and philosophical exploration -
this is a 2 to 3 hour workshop. Appropriate for all physical levels of
students. For truth seekers and those wishing to deepen their spirituality
and understanding of Eastern Teachings.
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Basics of
Ayurveda
- Basic overview of Vedic Cosmology, what Ayurveda IS, how it works, and
small precise adjustments to implement in your daily life to attain greater
health, balance and well being. This workshop is an opportunity for you to
determine your primary Dosha, and learn what types of adjustments to
lifestyle would bring you into harmony and vibrant good health.
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Yoga Teacher Training - specialties -
how to assist, common assists, asana analysis, pranayama and how to teach
it, how to structure a class, creating unique vinyasa, how to give private
sessions, specialty yoga.
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Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training - for
yoga instructors - certification provided.
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Wavework – the polar bear. Feel your feelings.
MY BIO:
Elena Case
is a Certified Kripalu and Ashtanga Yoga Instructor, an RYT (Registered Yoga
Teacher), member of the National Yoga Alliance and Board Member and former
President of the Massachusetts Yoga Network. Elena holds several advanced yoga
teacher certifications, including Pregnancy Yoga, and she has taught many yoga teacher trainings. Elena is a very popular instructor in the area, and has
appeared on television several times to discuss yoga. Her teaching style is
clear and direct, with a manner that is compassionate, humorous and
approachable. Elena feels that yoga has healing gifts to offer everyone, and has
the unique ability to help her students have fun while improving their health.
She has touched the lives of thousands of students. Elena is currently at work
on a book and video on yoga, she is the principal of Focal Point Yoga and
Health
Center, and is on staff at several other yoga organizations.
I look forward
to working with you, and sharing some of the healing gifts that yoga has to
offer!
email:
NOSPAMelena@focalpointyoga.com (remove the words NO SPAM from
the email address please!)
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