Farm to Table
Teri Rippeto, owner/chef of Potager Restaurant and Wine Bar in Denver, strives to decrease her mark on the environment by simple cooking, simple eating and simple living. Teri says, “It’s never about trends, but about doing what’s right.” Please join us for the third annual Farm to Table Cooking Classes with Teri Rippeto, cooking begins at 6:30pm with dinner served at 8PM. For more information about Teri and Potager, please go to: http://www.potagerrestaurant.com/Kitchen.html.
When: Saturdays, June 16, August 11, September 29
Cost: $210 for all three sessions or $80 per session.
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Yoga Rocks the Park 2012!
Now in its fourth season the gathering has blossomed into a full-blown wellness festival attracting hundreds each week complete with massage, integrative therapy exhibitions, vendor booths, organic food and drink vendors, and even more live music along with National and local yoga teachers-lead classes for adults and children.
Vital Yoga co-owners Micah and Desi Springer will open the YRTP event, Sunday, June 3rd. We hope you’ll join us for this fabulous community event – barefoot in the grass, yoga under the open sky, getting together with fellow yogis, meeting new yogis…
When: Sundays throughout the summer, the event kicks off 9:30 am – noon (registration opens at 9am, 9:30 music starts; 10 am yoga!)
Where: Please click on the “register” button for different Denver Park locations each week.
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Hanuman Festival, Boulder Colorado
Are you an Inspiration Junkie? Are you interested in community and heartfelt experience with like-minded yogis? Join Richard Freeman, Kathryn Budig, Amy Ippoliti, Beryl Bender Birch, Noah Maze, Suzanne Sterling, Desert Dwellers, DJ Drez, Durga Das and over 30 other teachers and musicians in yogic heaven`s Boulder, Colorado. It’s happening at the foot of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains in celebration with world-class yoga instructors, mind-blowing music, inspirational experiences and a deep, nourishing community. Immerse yourself in body, mind and heart as you relax and rejuvenate, dance and devote, connect and expand, have fun and just be…
We hope you’ll join Vital Yoga’s co-owners Desi and Micah Springer as they will guide the Vital Roots series, Saturday, June 9, 3:30-5:30pm.
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Dharma of Eloquence
“Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world” Rumi
How much of the Divine can we have available? How can we speak and write and move, holding in our heart and minds that we are a part of the cosmic re-cycling of the Divine back to the Divine? And how can we access and bow with beauty, from this place of deep knowing, so that others might hear? Please join the dynamic Dharma Queens: Madhuri Martin and Judyth Hill as they demystify and uncover our innate ability to reach and touch soul to soul, turning the movement of our yoga practice and our words into deep connection.
When: Sunday, May 20, noon-4pm
Cost: $45 early bird thru May 18 ($50 after)
Location: Vital Yoga Highlands
Madhuri Martin has trained in yoga since 1986 with Shri K Patthabi Jois and Richard Freeman. In 1990, she began her studies with John Friend. and in 1999 began training with Martin’ Prechtel. Madhuri’s teachers guide her passion for authenticity, nobility and cultural legitimacy. “Yoga sits in a historical and cultural nest of immense beauty ~ when we practice with the knowledge, gifts and understandings that the holy has prearranged, we ourselves become Divine.” To find out more about Madhuri and her teaching, please go to www.muddyoga.com.
Judyth Hill, a stand-up poet, has published six books of poetry and is the recipient of numerous grants, endowments and awards for teaching and writing. Judyth is described by the St. Helena Examiner as, “Energy with Skin”, and by the Denver Post as “A tigress with a pen.” To find out more about Judyth, please go to: http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/04/the-dharma-of-eloquence-language-that-shines-from-soul-to-soul-judyth-hill/ or www.judythhill.com
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50 Hour Anusara Yoga Teacher Training
Each time Jai me Allison steps onto her mat; she brings with her the wisdom that Anusara Yoga offers. The Universal Principles of Anusara Yoga truly are a road map to the heart, a road map for skillful living, and a way to embrace and maximize one’s potential. When we make changes in the tangible outer form of the body we make huge shifts in the heart and mind as well. Anusara Yoga is based in the science of biomechanics. There is an optimal way to place the bones of the body in relationship to each other. This optimal alignment goes beyond the body to affect all the subtle energies of the heart and mind. Does it take work, dedication and consistency? Yes. Is it worth it? More than you can imagine!
To Jai me there is no completion to the journey. She unfolds and reaches new levels of understanding, moment to moment. This practice is a tool for personal growth. It restores balance in mind, body and spirit. Her desire for her students is self-empowerment so they can practice safely and live deeply. Having an understanding of the Anusara Yoga Universal Principles of Alignment allows students to take responsibility for their health and well being. As the physical body opens and heals, there is opening and healing on all levels. It is an on-going process of learning and opening, of seeing and owning the radiance within. This path of yoga continues to unfold in all ways possible. Great souls met along the way guide, sustain and uplift. To be blessed with good company on this journey of life is something Jai me offers her deepest gratitude toward everyday.
For more about Jai me, please visit www.jamieallisonyoga.com
When:
Part I: The More you Know, the More you See. Being able to see the energetic flows in the body is a hallmark of a successful teacher. A keen capacity to observe allows you to offer optimal verbal and manual adjustments.
July 28-29, 9am-5pm (Saturday and Sunday) Focus – cultivating observation skills and enhancement skills (verbal and manual adjustments) from the waist down.
August 4-5, 9am-5pm (Saturday and Sunday) Focus – cultivating observation skills and enhancement skills (verbal and manual adjustments) from the waist up.
Part II: Sequencing for Success and Speaking Heart to Heart. The art of inspiring the heart combined with the science of sequencing.
August 11-12, 9am-5pm (Saturday and Sunday) Focus – sequencing and theme creation beginning with the apex pose. Practicing what we learn in the workshop.
August 25-26, 9am-5pm (Saturday and Sunday) Focus – sequencing and theme creation beginning with the theme. Practicing what we learn in the workshop.
Cost: $500 early bird by July 15, or $550 after.
Location: Vital Yoga Highlands. Refunds available as Vital Yoga credit only.
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Springboard for Transformation, An Anusara Workshop with Jai me Allison
Jai me Allison has been described as a woman who has, “little propensity for small talk and bullshit”. Superficiality holds fleeting interest in a world filled with wonder hiding in plain sight. Life is a precious gift, a treasure waiting to unfold, a story longing to be told.
Jai me has studied with both John Friend and Dr. Douglas Brooks since 1994 and 1998 respectively. She received her certification in Anusara Yoga in 1999. Over the last 18 years Jai me has made the Universal Principles of Alignment her own. She has taken them to heart and offers them in a way designed to educate and empower her students. The two greatest gifts a teacher can offer students are a rekindled desire to learn and the tools for self-empowerment.
You won’t find her at the latest “circus tent” of yoga. She and her husband Justin reside on 10 acres in the Arkansas River Valley of Colorado at their retreat center, Ananda Tandava. While endeavoring to live with the land, grow food and pursue perma-culture and biodiversity, Jai me offers retreats and trainings that invite each student into the wonder of their life, the treasure of their existence and the telling of their story.
When:
Friday: 6-8 PM Stand Strong, all about the legs as a spring board for transformation!
Saturday: 10:30-1 Open to your Heart, back bends.
Saturday2:30-5pm Make the Impossible, Possible! Hip openers and arm balancing.
Location: Vital Yoga Highlands
Cost: $99 by May 18, ($120 after) or individual sessions for $45.
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Kick-Asana
Party like a yogi with ‘Rock Star’ teachers, Shannon Paige Schneider, Tina Porter, Kenny Graham and Julieta Claire for an advanced yoga class. Their classes are sure to delight, challenge, entertain, and inspire your practice on and off the mat.
Living fully as an author, sacred activist, motivational speaker, dedicated teacher of Shiva Rea’s Prana Flow, and founder of Anjali Restorative Yoga and Bhava Vinyasa Yoga, Shannon is an expressive student of the symbolic nature of Tantra and mystic poetry. She interweaves her student’s unique purpose driven inspiration into the divine play of body and breath to unlock the secret wisdom held within the heart. Her classes are dedicated to a sense of mystery and wonder within a vinyasa of self-honoring, self-cultivation, and radical self-participation.
Kenny Graham is a fully Certified Yoga teacher. Kenny teaches workshops, teacher training’s,immersions and retreats in the United States and around the world. His passion is to support others in finding more ease in their life and in discovering their own unlimited potential.
Tina coined her style of yoga with a foundation of Power Yoga that combines the flow of a Jivamukti class with the traditional alignment of Ashtanga, the spirituality of Kundalini all wrapped in the grace of Anusara. Her classes are a progressive sequence of flowing asana that build functional strength both physically & mentally with an emphasis on breath. ”As we practice Yoga, we build a reservoir of equanimity (not only) to tap into during class, but to be able to access in our everyday lives. Yoga is challenging and through our practice we awaken in many ways. Everyone, all folks/all levels, are welcome in my classes because they’re designed to help cultivate a sense of awareness. I encourage my students to do what they’re physically able to do, but only if they’re able to remain calm which is represented by a free-flowing breath. If the breath isn’t there, give yourself permission to back off and take it easy. My class empowers you to purposefully train and use your body, mind and spirit with more acceptance, ease, flexibility and balance”.
Julieta is a Certified Anusara Yoga teacher in Denver, Colorado, and has been practicing and studying Anusara since 2000. Julieta teaches from her heart and leads playful and inspiring group classes and workshops around the country, that incorporate detailed alignment instructions into a fluid asana practice, balanced with meditation and relaxation.
When: Fridays June 22, July 13, Aug 3 and Sept 1, from 6-8pm,
Cost: $15
Where: Vital Yoga Highlands
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