Fall 2011

Class: Intro to Meditation

Wednesday Nights, 7:45 p.m.-9:00 p.m., Sept. 7-Oct.12

Yellow Springs Dharma Center

Contact: Joyce Reena Appell, LPC, E-RYT

Book: Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante Gunaratana

Class: Yoga with Weights

Monday Morning 10 a.m.-11:15 a.m.

Ongoing or Every Monday ! !

Yoga Springs Studio

Contact: Joyce Reena Appell, LPC, E-RYT

Yoga with Weights

NEW Wednesday Morning 10 a.m.-11:15 a.m.

Ongoing or Every Wednesday

Yoga Springs Studio

Contact: Joyce Reena Appell, LPC, E-RYT

Class: Yoga and Meditation

Tuesday Night 7:30 p.m.-8:45 p.m.

Ongoing on Every Tuesday Night

Yoga Springs Studio

Contact: Joyce Reena Appell, LPC, E-RYT

Class: Yoga for Immunity (subbing for Gail Lichtenfels)

Saturday at Noon

Sept. 24, Oct. 15, Nov. 19

Yoga Springs Studio

Contact: Joyce Reena Appell, LPC, E-RYT

Meditation Retreat: Half Day

Sunday, 8 a. m. – l p.m.

Oct. 30

Yellow Springs Dharma Center

contact: Joyce Reena Appell LPC, E-RYT

Class: FREE Hatha Yoga Class

Monday, 1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m.

Senior Citizens Center

Monday-Ongoing

Downtown Yellow Springs

Contact: Joyce Reena Appell, LPC, E-RYT

 

 

 

 

 

Hello Yogis!, Please see “What’s New” for

Winter 2011 Schedule, Thanks ♡

Fall Classes to Keep Your Mood ^ and Keep You Warm!

Monday, Yoga with Weights, 10-11:15 a.m. Yoga Springs Studio, Yogasprings.comStrong Women stay Young, look lean and work and live longer.

Tuesday, Yoga and Meditaiton, 7:30-8:45 p.m. Yoga Springs Studio, Yogasprings.com. We practice the conscious pauses between asana flows bringing us to the stillness of meditation. You will be soothed and pleased that coming to class over and over you learn the great skill of calming meditation benefits.

Thursday, Baby Boomer’s Yoga, 7:30-8:30 p.m. Yoga Springs Studio, Yogasprings.com. This is for us the “Boomer’s”! I teach a friendly user flow of 15 poses, easily modified to match the length of your body’s stretch, with love, Reena

WORKSHOP: Shining our Chakras, Bring Ancient Wisdom into Modern Truth. The Yogic Lore explains the improved major functions of the body with the methods of rhythmic breath, sound, color, meditation and guided visualization. Sunday, June 6, 1-4 p.m. Cost: $35.00. Registration at yogasprings.com or by phone 937 767 9300.

♡WORKSHOP: Baby Boomer’s Yoga, this workshop offers the principles of practice, 15 gently, safe asana, including user-friendly flows and modification poses for common aches and pains. Sunday, August 29. 1-4 p.m. Cost: $35.00

New Specialty Classes!!

Yoga 101 Learn the basics of yoga postures, philosophy, breathing, meditation and relaxation techniques. 4 weeks, $45

Saturday, May 8-29, 12-1:30 p.m.

♡Saturday, July 17=Aug. 7, 10-12:30 p.m.

Meditaiton 101 Learn simple meditation methods through yoga breathing, walking and sitting practices to infuse wholesome mental benefits, easing our entire body/mind. 4 weeks, $45

Boomer’s Yoga That is Baby Boomers. Claim Yoga as the best mental, spiritual and physical movement for our vibrant endeavor to live beter and longer! We will learn the principles of yoga, 15 gentle and safe asanas, user frindly sequences and examples of modificain poses for common aches and pains. All levels 4 weeks, $45

WORKSHOP: Spring Restorative

Nuture the body and calm the mind through a workshop that integrates mindful yoga movement, partner massage and walking and sitting meditation.

Saturday, May 1, 3-5:30 p.m., See below for registration.

WORKSHOP: Discover the Stillness Within

Come for a few hours and linger in the calm place you discover through gentle yoga moves to prepare for seated and walking meditation.

Sat., April 24, 1-4 p.m. See below for registering.

WORKSHOP: The Heart of Yoga: Meditation Retreat

The ancient yogis practiced the asanas to prepare the body for meditation.

Saturday, Feb. 20, 1-4 p.m. Yoga Springs Studio, register online at www.yogasprings.com or at 937 767 9300

Winter Classes 2010

New Class – SUBTLE YOGA

Learning postural shifts that bring ease to chronic tensions to shoulders, neck, back and joints.

Monday evening 7:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. Jan. 25-Mar. 1 Yoga Springs Studio teacher Joyce Reena Appell RYT 500

Wednesday morning 10 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Feb. 3-Mar. 10 and Mar. 17- Apr. 21 Yoga Springs Studio teacher Mary Sinclair/Joyce Reena Appell

YOGA 101

Saturday, Jan. 9-30, 12-1:30 p.m.

Come and learn the basics of Hatha Yoga, postures and breathwork. We will work slowly and review postures many times and add modifications to work with your body.

YOGA WITH WEIGHTS

Wednesday, Jan. 6-27, 10-11:30 a.m. Monday, Feb. 1-Mar. 8. 10-11:30 a.m.

A wonderful way to sculpt your shape, bring density to your bones and surprisingly move into to a calmer mind.

YOGA AND MEDITATION

Tuesday evening 7:15 p.m.-8:45 p.m. ongoing drop-ins welcome

In May this Spring, I got to study with Jean Couch, a star student of B.K.S. Iyengar of Pune, India. In the modern history of Yoga , he will be the singular Master Yoga teacher to bring Yoga practice to the West. In his efforts, he has trained many wonderful American teachers including Jean. She has refined Iyengar’s body posturing to reduce pain and improved functioning of the body and including senior bodies. After taking her workshop this Spring, I continued studying with Mary Sinclair at Yoga on High studio in Columbus, Ohio.

Posture Clinic Classes begin Oct. 5-Nov. 23, 2009 at Yoga Springs Studio, 108 Dayton St., Yellow Springs, Ohio, register by emailing me: JoyceReena@yogaismeditation.net or call Yoga Springs Studio at 937 767 9300

My current classes include many of the postural adjustments, they are:

Tuesday 7:30 p.m.=9:00 p.m. “Yoga is Meditation”, Ongoing, Drop Ins

Wednesday 10 a.m.=11:15 a.m. “Yoga with Weights”, Ongoing, Drop Ins

Vipassana Spring Meditation Retreat is Friday, April 17=Sunday, April 20 at Grailville in Loveland,Ohio sponsored, organized by the Yellow Springs Dharma Center. This is a residential retreat and follows a format of seated meditations and walking meditation, meals provided and Dharma talks in the evenings. Silence is honored throughout. It is possible to have in individual interview with our teacher if desired.

Our teacher is Rebecca Bradshaw, she has been a senior teacher at the oldest (30 years) and largest Vipassana Retreat Ctr. on the East coast. There is more bio information about Rebecca on YSDC website ysdharma.org.

You will also find a form for registration you can download for your use, then mail it to the YSDC. Be sure to put the name Parker Buckley, Registrar on the address for easy identification. Hope you can come! For more information about the retreat you may call me at 937 767 55671 or email me at JoyceReena@yogaismeditation.net

Below is what I teach that will support your mind, your body and your spirit. Contact me for more details about a class, retreat, or my one-on-one services.

The Yellow Springs Dharma Center, 503 Livermore St., Yellow Springs, Ohio will be offering a half day Beginner’s Zen Meditation Retreat on Saturday, March 21, 2009. The retreat will be lead by Ken Simon. Ken is currently teaching a Wednesday night Zen meditation class from 7:45 p.m.-9:00 p.m. Our retreats are donation based. Please contact Joyce Reena Appell at 937 767 5671 for more information. Register for the Retreat by phone or JoyceReena@yogaismeditation.net

Yellow Springs Dharma Ctr. will hold a half day meditation retreat on Sunday, March 29, 2009 for all interested in experiencing an extended meditation session. There will be breaks for walking meditation for 15 minutes after each 45 minutes of seated meditation.

Location: Yellow Springs Dharma Ctr., 502 Livermore St. Yellow Springs, Ohio

Time: March 29, 2009, 9:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Bring: Bag lunch and tea will be provided.

Contact: Joyce Appell 937 767 5671

I will be teaching a heart warming yoga class at Curves, CardioYoga on Mar. 9-Apr.13, Monday from 1:30 p.m.-3:oo p.m. designed especially for cardiovascular health. Join us for great music and movement. Cost is $3.00 for the class, pay at the desk. Please call Curves to register because space is limited. Contact Curves at 937 767 3700.

MEDITATION

Class:
Beginner’s Mediation
Wednesdays from 6-7:15 p.m
March 4, 11, 18 and 25, 2009

This is an important class because we cover the basic tools of breath practice, stress reduction through asanas, and forms of informal meditation that give us confidence to be able to benefit from meditationpractice. For more information please email me at JoyceReena@yogaismeditation.net,

Location:
Yoga Springs Studio
108 Dayton St.
Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387

Email: Yoga Springs.com

Phone: 937 767 9300

Meditation Retreat:
Beginner’s Zen Meditation Retreat
Yellow Springs Dharma Center
503 Livermore St.
Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387
Date: March 21, 2009
Time: 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Lunch and tea are provided
Wear loose clothing, chairs are available
Retreats are donation based

YOGA

Yoga Is Meditation : Deepen your Yoga practice by pausing to absorb the union of mind and body, this is meditation. In the Yoga Sutras, Patanjali called this Royal(Raja) Yoga. We have devoted ourselves to practice and see the world through friendlier eyes so come on, you are ready to meditate!!

Tuesday evening. I teach this class at YogaSprings Studio, 108 Datyon St., Yellow Springs, Ohio. Contact me at JoyceReena@yogaismeditation.net or info@yogasprings.com or my phone number 937 767 5671

Yoga with Weights

Bone density is a concern for some of us. Use your yoga to build your bones! It’s fun, yoginis unite for health. Wednesday morning, 10:00 a.m.-11:15 a.m. at YogaSprings Studio, 108 Dayton St., Yellow Springs, Ohio. Call me for information 937 767 5671.

Yoga for Diabetes
What a surprise to find out our lowered energy. sore joints, balance is off”, lower stress threshold, food cravings are a result of over or under functioning of our insulin level. Two things cause me to take a look at teaching Yoga as a tool for regulating blood sugar. The first, is that the Center for Disease Control most recent study shows an epidemic spread of Type I Diabetes among our youth population because of fast food as a source of daily nutrients. The second, is my contact with Diabetes patients in my day job as a Mental Health therapist in a long term care facility. They suffer from the outcome of unregulated dietary, exercise and stress reduction skills manifesting in blindness, loss of circulation and necessary amputation of limbs. Sounds grim but the future of treating diabetes is bright!

Yoga Journal sights that “several Indian and European studies have indicated yoga may help insulin-regulating medication by lowering blood sugar levels”. People under stress have elevated bood sugar levels so it is difficult to determine whether asanas and medication work because they relax patients or because specific poses stimulate the pancreas, causing it to release more insulin. These results are encouraging and offer patients the experience of feeling more energetic, more relaxed and confident as they bring a “new normal” of health back into their lives. Improved muscle tone and breathing habits have also been named as benefits from using Yoga for diabetic symptoms.

Email me at JoyceReena@yogaismeditation.net to find out my plans to set a class to work on this exciting health practice!

Add your name to my “Interest List” to plan a class to use gentle stretches, breathing habits to cope with stress and walking better from feeling better!

Yoga for Diabetes

I am offering the class Yoga for Diabetes on Mondays from 10-11:15 a.m. as a specialty class to run from June 8-June 29, 2009. To sign up please ontact me, JoyceReena@yogaismeditaion.net or info@yogasprings.co.

Chair Yoga

Be it during airline travel, during office hours, joint transplants or arthritis inflammation we all have reasons to stretch, twist and lengthen the spine and body while being seated. Also, useful just to enhance a regular practice by learning new easy poses to use while seated. I am offering the Chair Yoga class from 12-1 p.m. as a specialty class from June 3-June 24.

YOGA THERAPY

Yoga For You
Individual Sessions
Treehouse Solarium
700 Wright St.
Yellow Springs, Ohio

With information you have gathered from your physician or other healthcare providers, we can use yoga poses to enhance your well being or recovery.