Jeff Reifman

Hala Khouri: Yoga for Trauma - Seattle Workshop February 2013

Hala Khouri is holding a three day workshop in Seattle, register early to reserve your spot:

The focus of this training is on understanding the physiology of trauma and how it shows up in the body. The majority of people considered “at-risk” have had significant trauma in their lives. Hala will share important tools from Somatic Experiencing, a technique that helps to resolve the symptoms of trauma such as dissociation, anxiety, chronic dysregulation, depression and addiction. You will learn how to incorporate these tools into a yoga class.

You do not have to be a yoga teacher to benefit from this training. You will leave with yoga-based tools that can be applied in any setting!

Dates: February 22-24

Location: The Samarya Center, 1806 E Yesler Way, Seattle, WA 98122

Learn more or register now.

Read more about Hala Khouri and Off the Mat Into the World.

 

 

Seattle Art Museum Yoga Event Used as Corporate Email Gathering Gimmick

Yoga practice inside the Seattle Art Museum is a great idea but the RSVP process was a bit misleading. Visitors to the event site were told to RSVP ... then later they were told that there RSVP did not guarantee a space. The RSVP was actually just a way for corporate partner Flavorpill to collect names and email addresses of everyone in Seattle who thought doing Yoga at the museum seemed like a fun event.

Worse yet, when you click unsubscribe to the first Flavorpill email, the link takes you to a login page (for an account I never created). In other words, there's no easy way to get off their email list.

 

 

 

Star Wars Yoga

Thank you Alissa for pointing out the emerging Stars Wars Yoga movement. Take that Desikachar, Iyengar and Jois ... your lost brother Lucas has returned... No word if this discovery is related to Alissa's Watson Fellowship work.

Fun Time Lapse Video from Wanderlust 2011

The Men of Wanderlust

I liked this article by Chelsea Roff about the men of Wanderlust, also available here:

I’d learned men were hard, men were fierce, men were smooth and sultry sweet-talkers who’d say anything to get what they want. Although I wouldn’t have admitted it if you’d asked, I had grouped any human being with testes into one sloppily stereotyped pile. I believed that the men in my life honestly had good intentions, but probably couldn’t be trusted if worse ever came to worse. I’d castigated a full half of the human race with my fears.

Cue Wanderlust. Funny how no matter where you are and what you’re doing, life will bring to you exactly the lesson you’re ready to learn. From the moment I boarded the plane, I was surrounded by some of the kindest, gentlest, most safe and loving men I’ve ever known. Some of them flew solo, others showed up in support of their partners. All of them were refreshingly kind, heart-achingly vulnerable, open and expressive in a way I don’t normally see embodied by “leading men” in our society. These men were my brothers. These men became my friends.

Seane Corn's Off the Mat Leadership Training intro was incredibly moving and powerful.

 

DJ Drez - Janet Stone's Fire & Flow Vinyasa

Really enjoyed the live music by DJ Drez at Janet Stone's Fire & Flow Vinyasa class at Wanderlust. We were all dancing around our mats by the end of class.

Steve Gold - Live a Life You Love (Squaw Wanderlust)

Steve Gold brings down the Squaw Mountain cable car at Wanderlust ...

Michael Franti at Squaw Wanderlust

Fun beach ball action at Michael Franti's Wanderlust set: