Develop a Personal Yoga Practice

January 5 to 9, 2011 - Vancouver, Canada

Wednesday to Sunday, 5 Days/4 Nights

Retreat Includes

Three meals daily, snacks, tea, accommodations – single or shared, tuition and a yoga writing journal.

Registration

Registration is Open
Early registration before Sept 15, 2010 : $800
. . . and after Sept 15 : $900
[includes HST]

Contact Info:  1 604 375 8586 / smiles@sixsenses.ca

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People for many reasons are affected by anxiety for a couple ‘panic attacks’ or for years. Those who experience anxiety attacks realize why they come and what situations may trigger an attack. Some of the symptoms associated are shortness of breath, stomach aches, headaches, nausea, fatigue and chest pains. Personally each person will have one or more of these reactions with or without a feeling of fear, angst when having a ‘panic attack’ commonly associated with anxiety.

Mainly the challenge with Anxiety is the emotional causes and effects. In this workshop we will work through awareness that when anxiety rises or you feel a panic attack coming on who to use your body and mind to reduce or stop the attacks.

Deep Slow Breathing

We explore how deep breaths and slowing down your breath help to calm and give you a feeling of control. Learn how what to do when you hyper ventilate and how breathing deep keeps the mind from going to fear mode.

Movement/Exercises

Our body holds onto anxiety and has long term effect on our muscles, joints, and organs. We will learn how to move the body on a regular basis through yoga to expel the effect these generally.

Meditation

Meditating for a minute to 20 minutes regularly is known to help your anxiety immensely. When our minds are thinking fast, have many unnecessary thoughts or go in circles pondering the same thought(s) the body reacts, the breathing gets quicker and the anxiety may worsen. This long term stress and angst, takes a toll.

We will learn how to meditate and which meditation is best to help you slow your mind, help clear your thought, and help you control how you think. Several types of meditation will be offered for you to feel which is best at one time; a combination may work best also.

Breathing, Yoga and Meditation is known to help ease Anxiety; over time is found to lessen your anxiety and may even help by lessening your panic attacks

Cilica, Facilitator of Workshop

£35 Children £45 Adults

25 September 2010 – 09-00-12:30
Slough, Berkshire

Senior Yoga Teacher

Six Senses Yoga College developed through Cilica’s personal journey to embrace nature and the senses into the context of classical yoga. When yoga comes alive; our mind awakens, we hear and feel our bodies in our ever changing surroundings. It is in the development of our senses that human nature blossoms.

Cilica believes it important that Six Senses Yoga function on a linear rather than hierarchical foundation maintaining closely to Traditional and Modern Indian Yoga, creating a profound link to the original 6,000 years old tradition.

Knowing instinctively to meditate and be in the moment, spirituality is a way of life. It is through continued exploration of yoga asanas, meditation and pranayama that her physical presence becomes inspiring and empowering.

An intuitive instructor, Cilica encourages personal interpretations of postures meditations, and philosophies, while preserving asanas’ alignment and integrity. Her approach is mischievous, encouraging individual body shapes, abilities, and mindsets to simply be. Cilica challenges each participant to see themselves anew, while conscious that each is already perfect.

Cilica’s recent yoga studies took her to Aranmula, Kerala in Southern India for 4 months in 2007, where she increased her knowledge of Classical Yoga, received daily instruction in Kathakali, Carnatic Chants and Song, Ayurveda Medicine and Southern Indian Cooking and Culture.

She holds a Traditional Hatha Yoga and Chakra Yoga certificates from Grace Broughton, British School of Yoga, in the lineages of Krishnamacharya and his son, teacher Desikachar. Though Cilica’s initial yoga studies began in Vancouver, B.C. she studies in the U.K., Europe and Asia.

In addition to valuing the knowledge of mentors, apprenticing, and self-study, she learns by doing, observing and absorbing what she needs. Her mentors include Buddhist Monk, Reverend Koten Benson, Lions Gate Buddhist Priory and Swami in Aranmula, Kerala India.

She holds an advanced degree in music composition/voice, and extensively studies cultural vocal forms and communications. Cilica specializes in experimental and new music/voice techniques. She amalgamates her knowledge and studies into her facilitating and mentoring.

Facilitates: Pregnancy Yoga/Asana, Healing Yoga and Classical Yoga Training, 500 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Programing,

Bet you can jump from one cloud to the other without falling!

Open to 10 participants of all ages

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While this workshop is not about getting off your medicine directly it is about managing your Asthma in a different manner that may lead to less dependency on drugs and inhalers or the need to increase dosages.

Asthma is the restriction of breathing to which the person is unable to gain proper breath and my lead to fainting, anxiety attack, or worse. Restrictions may be caused by underdeveloped lungs, diaphragm and organs, by pollution, and or viruses.

Breathing

In this workshop we will develop the breathing system to develop your lungs, passage ways and diaphragm through deep breathing and other breathing techniques. Creating a strong body will help when Asthma may come on or you get a full attack.

Calming and Movement

We will work on exercises to open the chest and ribcage, expand lung capacity and release the neck, shoulders from tension. As important as increasing the breath, creating space for the breath to move into in the body is important. Gentle and calming ways to move, stretch and strengthen the body will be taught.

Cilica, Facilitator of this Workshop

£35 Children £45 Adults

26 September 2010 – 13:00-16:30
Slough, Berkshire

Open to 10 participants of all ages

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Chronic pain is commonly known as “pain that extends beyond the expected period of healing.” It’s almost as if the body is continuously on high, there is no low setting enabling the body and mind rest or peace from your pain caused by an injury or illness. Drugs/medicines are helpful though many pharmaceuticals simply tell the brain there is no more pain. These drugs may help in the short term but often not long term (some with unwanted side effects).

While this workshop is not about getting off your medicines, it is about managing the chronic pain in a different manner that may lead to less dependency on drugs or the need to increase dosages.

Continual pain in a holistic sense is when the body stores the energy created by pain in the body, giving it nowhere to release, to move out of the body. In this workshop we will explore meditation and movements for more mobility, and managing your breath to help.

Meditation

Some believe that meditation may cause acute awareness of the pain, causing even more distress and discomfort in aiding solutions to their pain. In this workshop we will discover a balance between awareness and calming the mind and body by easing the direct effects of this pain through meditation. We will learn a meditation technique in where we concentrate our mind away from the pain, in which we can learn to direct the pain outwards of the body. Pain is energy and when we learn to move energy through our body and outwards, we help not store up this energy, hence lessening chronic pain.

Breathing

Controlling our breath through pain is often not thought about when we hurt. Often when we hurt or are in emotional pain, we stop or hold our breath. This momentarily helps, but the pain is just felt again when we breathe again. Learn various breathing techniques to help ease your pain and lengthen your life.

Movement

Gaining back mobility lost from chronic pain is important if we want to remain healthy. Learn small to large movements specific for your body in this workshop, to regain or maintain your mobility, flexibility and strength.

Cilica, Facilitator of this Workshop

£35 Children £45 Adults

25 September 2010 – 13:00-16:30
Slough, Berkshire

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London, UK Oct 5-10 ~ Halifax, Nova Scotia, Nov 9 – 14

presented by Six Senses Yoga

R e g i s t e r

Lunch and Tea included Daily

Expand your Yoga Teaching with Classical Yoga for to teach or further understand Pregnancy Yoga. This Intensive explores Classical Healing and Experimental Yoga asanas, meditations, vocal toning & yoga nada, yoga nidra and pregnancy anatomy enabling participants to aid expectant mums in having the most natural, comfortable pregnancy and child birth. Some partner yoga will also be introduced.

In this Intensive understand the effects of how creating life effects the female body, emotions, and hormones. Work with pranayama, asana and meditation to ease, release and correct common and more specific discomforts of pain and postural changes.

Specifically we’ll work on sciatica, shortness of breath, back pain, pelvis alignment & pain, along with the general discomfort as the baby grows. Learn how to ease childbirth with specialized techniques for delivery and post-delivery recovery. Dispel the myths about the physical and the emotional woman during pregnancy and childbirth.

SSYS’s Pregnancy Yoga Intensive integrates nature and the senses into the practice of pregnancy yoga classes and one to one sessions.

Vegetarian Lunch and Tea included each day.

Open Hearts ~ Open Minds ~ Open Living

Facilitator
Cilica is a well versed, warm and giving Yoga Instructor who began teaching Pregnancy Yoga to accompany her regular yoga classes as awareness grew of the benefits of Pregnancy Yoga.

After receiving her yoga certification in Hatha Yoga, Yoga Therapy and Pregnancy Yoga Cilica began to study with a *Canadian midwife learning more about general pregnancy and birthing. She continues to educate herself on the new techniques in birthing, regulations and myths of pregnancy, baby and mum still prevalent in Western Society.

Her teaching is open, honest, warm and intuitive, while giving you the necessary tools to learn you are able to adopt the teaching to your own perspectives, style and knowledge.

Cilica also teaches and instructs yoga teachers on ‘mum’s and babies yoga’, ‘baby yoga massage’, ‘pregnancy couples yoga’, pranayama yoga, and variety of hatha and ashtanga yoga. She is the director and senior yoga instructor of Six Senses Yoga Society. You may reach Cilica through her E-mail, Full Bio

*Canadian Midwives have the same authority as doctors to care for pregnant women, their delivery and babies; except their training and registration is fully concentrated on the natural process of childbirth (being it is not a medical procedure) as well as knowing medical aspects.

Participants
This intensive is open to Yoga Teachers, Yoga Enthusiasts with a parctive of 2 years and those in the Healing Fields: midwives, nurses, massage therapist and more.

Certificate
Certified Training Intensive with intensive manual for each participant. When all aspects of the Intensive are completed, the participants earn 100 Yoga Hours applicable to the yoga alliance and international standards of yoga organisations.

Registration
Registration is Open for all Intensives
Early Registration ends August 15, 2010
. . . and All Registration Closes One month before Intensive

Fees: Register before August 15 £719 – afterwards £799

Six Day Yoga Training for Yoga Teachers and Enthusiasts

London UK, Oct 19-24 ~ St. John’s, NFL, Nov 23 – 28

presented by Six Senses Yoga

R E G I S T R A T I O N

Yoga by the mere practice is to balance and heal the body, mind and our spirits. In this 6 day intensive encapsulate the balance between a practice of yoga, with the intent to heal the body, yourself and your students. Tap into your own intuition to discern what and where you need to heal, bringing stillness to the moment; emotional and intellectual as well as spiritual connections with your inner balance.

Just as Patanjali says in his Yoga Sutra there are as many Asanas as there are living creatures on earth, so are there as many subtle differences, and layers, complexities to each person. Develop the integration between knowing yourself and knowing how your students can heal themselves through the mindfulness of Yoga; asana; classical and experimental with nidra, nada, vocal toning and more.

Through the Intensive learn, understand and feel how subtle adjustments and simple asanas to more complex asanas aid in healing and maintaining your own health and/or issues giving you personal insights as a teacher for your students either in class or one-to-one. Two days are spent on the spine exclusively as the spine affects the whole body, wellbeing, moods, and mobility: such as back and neck weakness, pain, disc alignment, posture, injury, and scoliosis.

During the Intensive learn how to use pranayama to ignite the healing mechanisms of the body/mind to elevate individual and common health issues as anxiety, asthma, low blood pressure, holding the jaw (tight muscle holding) to more complex issues as spinal challenges, chronic pain, and organ function. We also work on the importance of organ, joint and sciatica health through asana, pranayama and touch.

SSY’s Healing Insights Yoga Intensive integrates nature and the senses into each intensive enabling participants a richer, more enlightened yoga practice.

Open Hearts ~ Open Minds ~ Open Living

Participants
Certified Training Intensive including manual for each participant. When all aspects of the Intensive are completed, the participants earn 90 Yoga Hours.

Certificate
This intensive is open to Yoga Teachers, Yoga Practitioners of a minimum of a year’s practice and those in the Healing Fields: midwives, nurses, massage therapist and more.

This course may also be known as ‘Yoga Therapy’

Facilitator: Cilica, BA, BYS

Registration
Registration is Open for all Intensives
Early Registration ends August 15, 2010

Fees: Register before August 15 £719 – afterwards £799

Lunch and Tea included Daily