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CLASS DESCRIPTION
Unstiffen your supple body (yoga asana)
Unchatter your quiet mind (meditation)
Unfreeze your fiery heart (pranayama, breathing practices)
Every Shanti Yoga class is a multilevel class, which is fully guided and demonstrated, with safety features incorporated throughout the class. Beginners are able to attend all of the Shanti yoga classes because of the way that Shanti Yoga is designed and taught.
ASANA: Shanti yoga hatha postures
This class focuses on cultivating sharp, vibrant and uplifting energy through the natural discipline of classical yoga asanas. Pranic energy acts spontaneously and without strategies, as all sense of boundaries and petty mindedness dissolves, creating even greater benefits.
BREATH: Pranayama. Breathe, relax, heal - for body and mind
The pranayama class offers gentle, powerful and easy-to-follow yoga breathing and visualisation instructions, to soothe away tiredness, stress and illness. It incorporates the body with universal awareness, diaphragmatic breathing for pulmonary health, the complete (three-part) yoga breath and sound (vibrational healing) to help you find your home in the breath. The breath is the ultimate power behind the cosmos. Central to the healing process, it is our first and last possession - the natural rhythm of life and our link with the divine of all creation. Breathing irregularities foster dis-ease. In this class, you will dissolve stress, relax your body and mind and open yourself fully and authentically to the transformative power of the spirit in action.
DANCE COURSE: Bollywood choreographed dance course
Become a Bollywood diva. Learn a fun dance. Tell an epic story through Bollywood moves and grooves. An exciting, fun-filled, exotic, total body workout with structured moves, timing, rhythmn, high energy, classical hand gestures and expressive movements. Come and experience the graceful and sensual style of Bollywood dancing through the use of full body movements danced to very rhythmical and powerful music with fantastic beats from the latest Bollywood movies. An experience not to be missed. Suitable for all ages.
DANCE FUN: Bollywood dance fun
Fun, energetic, total body, aerobic workout. Structured moves. Cardio-respiratory endurance is developed whilst you are guided towards fat-burning, health, vitality and wellbeing.
GENTLE: Easy, gentle yoga - Elongates the back, tones, energises; harmonises lunar and solar flows (cold and heat)
Yoga stretches and exercise for muscles, joints, glands and internal organs. A well-rounded class that coaxes you to engage in a gentle, yet powerful way to use your limbs, spine, muscles and lungs and contains all the Shanti Yoga elements. It starts on the floor with a short meditation, followed by yoga breathing (pranayama) and includes slow release floor stretches that restore health and are strenghtening. The deep breathing practices during the class help to balance your energies and experience freedom and relaxation. The class concludes with Shanti yoga sun salutation. For mind-body wellbeing. Walk-in stressed-out, walk-out energised.
FLOOR ASANAS. Slow, remedial, healing, core yoga for neuro-rehabilitation; cools the nervous system
A slower class that presents the grounded, humble and gentle foundations needed for your journey to health, mobility and strength for the lower back, abdominals, hips and legs. You will practice the simple, therapeutic pleasures of detoxifying your lymph system, toning your joints, stretching your muscles and invigorating your internal organs, without difficulty or pain. The long, slow-release floor stretches will help you release deep inner tensions and restore your body’s natural fluidity and sensitivity. These practices assist in the reduction of pain, spasming, rigidity and stress and increase abdominal tone, while deepening your awareness of your body, mind and spirit. For beginners and experienced students alike. If your schedule permits, stay on for the next part of the class, tag yoga Healthy and Active Yoga Flow and finish with the icing on the cake, Guided Relaxation and Meditation, for a truly wonderful experience.
FLOW: Healthy and active Yoga flow - Stimulates the breath, chakras, increases energy, vitality (shakti); solar flow
Practiced with awareness, gentleness and non-competitiveness, in a state of relaxation and with deep breathing, classical Shanti Yoga asanas are systematically combined with the additional help of other Yogic adjuncts, which are a combination of locks, seals and gestures. Prana, or life energy, is awakened, balanced and expanded in the body and mind and latent, physical tension and energy blocks are removed, leading to a feeling of clarity, lightness and wellbeing. This is a class for strengthening as well as stretching. If your schedule permits, attend tag yoga i.e. the earlier session of Yoga Peace or Pranayama and follow up with the Guided Relaxation and Meditation session, for a truly wonderful experience.
KIDZ YOGA: Children’s yoga 5 - 12 years
Incorporates Yoga postures and exercises (asanas), yogic breathing (pranayama), meditation (antar mauna) and relaxation (nidra). Kidz Yoga is a system of many different things to practice and ways to think and feel, which make the body and mind strong and healthy. It also helps children be happy, peaceful and full of good energy. It opens up a world of peace, creativity, joy and disciplines for children from all walks of life.
MEDITATION: In silence we grow, in stillness we heal
A relaxing way to still the mind, learn to stay calm, explore your inner universe, awaken extraordinary powers of the mind and access altered states of consciousness. Unlock feelings of pleasure, bliss and peace of mind, as well as give yourself a new perspective on life. Abandon personal agendas and allow your inherent inquisitiveness to help lead you to further exploration that overcomes doubt and hesitation. When the mind is silent, it radiates compassion, joy and humour.
RELAXATION: Yoga Nidra, guided deep relaxation. When the mind touches the body, cells respond
The literal translation of yoga nidra is yogic sleep. It is simple, guided imagery, practiced lying down, which encompasses a deep journey that transforms, develops and expands human consciousness. It promotes a sense of very deep rest, peace and spontaneous healing. Yoga nidra leads to a blissful experience, where the body is able to totally let go and the mind becomes calm and clear. Relax and heal. For stress relief and self healing.
STRETCH AND TONE
Classical Shanti Yoga with warm ups, ‘fix-its’ and classical resting poses. When time is of the essence (55 min. class). Increase and maintain health and flexibility. Walk-in stressed-out, walk-out blissed out.
YOGABILITY: Yogability - private group session
An integrated system of Hatha yoga poses, eye exercises, specialised breathing exercises, yoga poems, music and sound therapy, fitness and relaxation techniques specifically for children and adults with special needs. It is designed to increase basic motor, cognitive and communication skills in children with developmental disabilities such as Downs Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy and Spina Bifida. It helps soothe the emotionally disturbed, destructive and aggressive child. It helps reduce hyperactivity, balance the emotions, improves concentration, coordination and self-control in children with learning disabilities, autism, ADHD and ADD.
ALSO AVAILABLE
Private classes, weekend workshops and time-out retreats.
SHANTI YOGA:
A STILL MIND IN A HEALTHY BODY
Shanti Yoga is a contemporary discipline about the art of health that has its background in yoga which has been practised for over two thousand years. The practice of Shanti Yoga, which is suitable for both new and experienced students, uses the breath-body as a vehicle for accessing consciousness and has profound effects on the mind, emotions and physical body. We respectfully embrace ancient yogic teachings, within the context of an innovative, contemporary journey towards a mindful body and an understanding of the embodied mind.
A form of gentle, relaxing exercise, Shanti yoga strengthens your joints, muscles, tendons and bones, nourishes your internal organs, stimulates the circulation of energy in your body and enhances mental clarity. Shanti yoga introduces participants to several integrated practices that include the breathing body, locks, seals, internal self-massage and kneading and stretching. The postures are practiced in various positions from lying on the floor, sitting, kneeling and standing. At the end of the class are sun salutation and meditation practice. Our life stories are written into our bodies. Our bodies are the immediate physical environment through which all of our physical experiences are interpreted. Because we are living a physical life, it is necessary to know our bodies, if we are to know ourselves.
At our beautiful and serene yoga centre in Southport, experiential therapy and contemplative education methods of Shanti Yoga are taught with heart, creativity and clarity. Since its founding in 1972, Shanti Yoga has fostered a warm and friendly community of practitioners from diverese backgrounds and of different ages and levels. It offers yoga, meditation, bodywork, the healing arts and spiritual practices all uniting to provide a rich spectrum of daily classes, in a safe, yet playful environment where participants can befriend themselves and appreciate the uniqueness of others. Based on a Tantric philosophy of intrinsic harmony that celebrates health in all its diversity, its goal is to discover one’s deepest essence in the joyful and transformative exploration of healthy and universal principles of alignment.
Shanti yoga not only maintains physical and mental well-being for healthy individuals but is an excellent way to gently introduce mobility and relaxation to people who have physical challenges. We dissolve blockages and release healing life force energy, establish an intimate and nurturing relationship with our bodies and tap into our own inner knowing. This enables us to allow our blockages, sensations, thoughts and emotions to be safely experienced with compassion and tenderness. Shanti yoga takes great care to support individuals in healthy yoga practices and encourages students to pay close attention to what is right for them. Frequent referrals from physical therapists and medical practitioners underscore our reputation.
Shanti yoga is also used as a tool to build the foundations for sitting meditation. Our bodies become a temple in which we invoke the presence of the divine. These practices cultivate one’s dignity and natural gifts that are able to widen one’s sphere of compassionate and practical influences and are based upon a societal vision and aspirations to help the world.
This experiential exploration of yoga postures (asanas) has four aspects:
i. principles of alignment and coordination of postures, movement and breath within basic hatha yoga poses. Movement is direct, intimate and filled with a sense of ‘nowness’ (presence), a process of moving from inner mindfulness to outer awareness that unites intuition with the intellect.
ii. longer meditative holding of postures with harmony, balance and the breath. There is a deep place within the body where nature rests. Here, we come to experience peace and our mind quietens. The practices are both external and internal and there is also a dynamic interplay of focused action and receptive awareness supported by the breath. You are then able to explore the brilliance of the outer form, while awakening the life force that nourishes deep tissue layers and inner presence at our deep core, which is quiet and lucid.
iii. vinyasa, flow in the dance of the movement of asanas. When we discover, engage in and move with the natural rhythms and intelligence of our body, we begin to feel connected with our vitality. Energies flow in from all the meridians of the cosmos to be transformed and reconnected, as they pass through your central, ceremonial space. You are entrusted, via the breath, with the strength to receive and to push this flow. The rhythm of the breath through stillness, as well as gentle flowing asana sequences, support the body.
iv. joint mobilisation enables everyone to practice yoga, regardless of their age or level of mobility. This increases personal vitality and invigorates power and potency to the vision of Shanti yoga.
CLASS FEES
Note: Fee are non-refundable
• Single session, 55 min class $16
• Add-on per class back-to-back +$5
• Private 1-1 tuition $90
-not transferable/extendable/refundable
-includes everything on timetable
-excludes courses, lunch & juice
•30 DAY unlimited attendance $90
Bonus: $50 transferable discount for retreat to be taken during Pass validity.
includes 1 free w/end retreat to value of $450, to be taken
before pass expiry. Retreat transfer $90
(During school terms)
Mon 4.30pm. 5 weeks $49. Single $12
Thursday
Bollywood fun dance fitness Tu & Thurs 9.30-10.15am
Bollywood general 6:30-7:25 pm
Learn a fun dance - structured moves
10 week term $165
Casual session $25
Two or more courses in the same term, take 20% of each additional course.
Please Note: Shanti Yoga reserves the right to change its fees, the timetable or its teachers at anytime. All fees and conditions are subject to change or cancellation at anytime.
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