Events and Workshops
We frequently host special guest teachers, extended classes from your favorite local teachers, music, art and other special events at PPY. If you walk away learning one thing from any of these offerings that is a good and worthy practice, and will boost your daily yoga. Make it a staycation: a regular morning weekend class, grab a healthy bite in the neighborhood and then come back for an afternoon workshop. Instant Day of Yoga Retreat! ~Please scroll down, pre-registration is recommended… 48 hours advanced notice for cancellation required for refund~
For registration assistance ~ please email us at: info@pleasurepointyoga.com
Cardio Funk
INSTRUCTORS: Alison Chesley
DATE: Tuesdays – beginning March 17th
TIME: 6-7pm
COST: Regular class pricing!
CARDIO FUNK is a high energy all level choreography dance class to upbeat music where we build a fun and accessible dance over the hour for some serious satisfaction by the end. Starting with a warm-up then breaking down moves with a continuous cardio flow that includes some glut and ab toning, Alison’s clear and experienced style makes dancing our way to wellness AWESOME and available to all levels with no dance experience necessary!
Bio:
Alison is a veteran of the Santa Cruz dance scene having taught classes for all ages at Motion Pacific while running and performing with her teen performance troupe Scene 13 for almost a decade. She has also performed and taught her own fiery style of Cardio Funk/Hip Hop/Street Jazz for three years in LA, stints in Paris and Japan, and recently in WA state where she again ran a kids Hip-Hop group and also started her unique class for adults, Energizing Flow. Alison is now a licensed Physical Therapist Asst. and works with the rehab department at Pacific Coast Manor where she incorporates her Energizing Flow with both rehab patients and in classes for residents using elements of dance, Tai Chi and Pilates with music to spice up their recoveryand daily lives.
Energizing Flow
INSTRUCTORS: Alison Chesley
DATE: Tuesdays & Thursdays – beginning March 17th
TIME: 2-3pm
COST: $10
ENERGIZING FLOW is a gentle strengthening class for any level that can be done seated or standing. Elements of Tai Chi, dance, and Pilates are combined in a slow reaching, stretching and strengthening flow that is beneficial for balance, posture, cardio and respiratory health and is proven to facilitate the neuro-muscular connection. Using relaxing music, deep breathing and flowing arm and trunk movements combined with lower body strengthening, this class is perfect for seniors or anyone who wants to gain strength and range of motion, and to improve posture and seated/standing balance.
Bio:
Alison is a veteran of the Santa Cruz dance scene having taught classes for all ages at Motion Pacific while running and performing with her teen performance troupe Scene 13 for almost a decade. She has also performed and taught her own fiery style of Cardio Funk/Hip Hop/Street Jazz for three years in LA, stints in Paris and Japan, and recently in WA state where she again ran a kids Hip-Hop group and also started her unique class for adults, Energizing Flow. Alison is now a licensed Physical Therapist Asst. and works with the rehab department at Pacific Coast Manor where she incorporates her Energizing Flow with both rehab patients and in classes for residents using elements of dance, Tai Chi and Pilates with music to spice up their recoveryand daily lives.
REPLENISH * REJUVENATE * REVIVE
INSTRUCTORS: Megan McAllister, Joss Jaffe, & Victoria Icaza
DATE: Saturday, February 29th
TIME: 4-6:30pm
COST: $70 in advance, $75 at the door
✨ Live performance of Sound Healing and Meditation Music from an award winning, world renown musician.
✨Guided Meditation to calm and relax your mind-body and spirit
✨2 hour Restorative Yoga Class with hands-on assist and touch by a certified yoga instructor and owner of PPY
✨Professional Mini Massage while in Restorative poses on each participant by a Certified Massage Therapist
Space is limited to 15 participants. Preregistration is encouraged.
Relax your senses, restore your mind and body, and revive your spirit in an afternoon of deep healing supported by three experts of healing modalities that will replenish your parasympathetic nervous system and hit the reset button on your internal systems. Join Joss, Victoria, and Megan in an afternoon of restorative yoga with a live music sound-healing bath while enjoying a mini-massage from a licensed massage therapist. You will be guided into a state of deep relaxation beyond the physical realm by combining yoga, touch, and sound to allow yourself to receive healing.
About the Artist:
Joss Jaffe is a musician, singer, producer and workshop leader based in Los Angeles California. He has taught and performed at large scale yoga and conscious living events around the world including Wanderlust, Bhaktifest, Lightning in a Bottle, Yoga Journal Conference, Korea Yoga Conference and True Nature. He has 4 albums of original music incorporating mantras, traditional sounds of India and modern instrumentation. His most recent album Meditation Music debuted on the Top-Ten Billboard New Age Chart.
Joss will be playing live music from his newly released sound healing music and meditation album, “Meditation Music”, released October 4, 2019.
About the Massage Therapist:
Victoria Icaza, C.M.T.
#10884
Certified Massage Therapist
Completed a 200 hour Yoga Alliance Approved Yoga Teacher Training
Victoria has worked in a variety of clinical/ therapeutic settings-Physical Therapy, Chiropractic and Acupuncture offices as well as award winning day spas and five star resorts such as the Post Ranch Inn- Big Sur and the Ritz-Carlton- Half Moon Bay. She has a private practice in Santa Cruz County. Victoria blends and utilizes various modalities and techniques using light to deeper pressure to customize and tailor the massage based on what her client needs and wants to experience. She is a gifted and intuitive masseuse who is ambidextrous, using both hands while working on clients. She is also the recommended massage therapist for Pleasure Point Yoga’s community.
About the Yoga Instructor:
Megan Brooke McAllister is the inspired owner, yogini, and dance / sacred movement instructor at Pleasure Point Yoga. Megan is registered with the Yoga Alliance as a RYT-500, is Zumba Instructor Certified and dance enthusiast, and leads yoga and dance retreats around the world. Megan is deeply connected with the cosmos, the mystical, the moon, directions and elements, teaching vinyasa flow inspired with mudra, manta, meditation, pranayama and sacred movement to connect back with sacred self, to sit with the light and the dark, while honoring and integrating all parts. She has been leading and participating in Women’s Moon Circles, working with the goddess, ritual and ceremony for 20 Years. She found the jewel of her heart as student at Pleasure Point Yoga, which offered her refuge and a loving container to heal and awaken to her soul’s calling.
Crystal Bowl Sound Journey
INSTRUCTORS: Kim Molloy
DATE: Sunday, March 1st
TIME: 7:30-8:30pm
COST: $15-20 sliding scale
Every first Sunday of the month!
Kim Molloy is a Sound Alchemist divinely gifted with
Sound and Energy Healing. She integrates Theta
Healing, Reiki, and Angelic Healing energies. Kim
channels energy and vibration from the higher dimensions into this earth plane. The Crystal bowls are the vehicle for transmitting these light codes, sounds, and energy vibrations. They are musically attuned to the chakras in the body infusing pure light vibration and harmonic sound waves that resonate into every cell.
Restorative Yoga + 432hz Sound Healing
INSTRUCTORS: Magnolia Rasak and Shane Thunder
DATE: Saturday, March 7th
TIME: 3-5pm
COST: $30 in advance (before 2/23), $35 at the door
Come return to balance with Magnolia Rasak and Shane Thunder as they guide you through restorative yoga and healing sound bath w/ gemstone bowls, planetary and elemental gongs, and many more instruments. This fusion of gentle yoga and vibration will expand your heart and invite you to sink deeper into the present moment. We will journey through a series of slow and gentle poses to soften and stretch before dissolving into a long and deep savasana.
You will be guided into a state of deep relaxation, as we open ourselves to conscious states beyond the physical realm. The combination of yoga and sound unifies the body, mind and spirit into a potent force of healing. Come share your presence as we move, breathe and flow to the sweet vibration of sound.
Shane Thunder and Magnolia Rasak have been offering their co-creation of yoga and sound for the past 5 years at festivals, retreats, and yoga studios throughout California and the US. By combining an eclectic blend of yin, restorative, hatha, and vinyasa flows with the healing vibrations of 432hz gemstone infused crystal bowls & elemental gongs a unique healing experience awaits the body, mind, and spirit. Shane and Magnolia’s return to balance collaborations accelerate the body’s ability to drop into a state of deep relaxation, and rejuvenation, while allowing a deeper connection into the heart space. Participants will feel more grounded, aligned, and cleansed after this powerful combination of sound vibration and yoga.
For more information about who we are and what we offer, please visit: magnoliarasak.com and spiritmetacine.com
YoMassage
INSTRUCTORS: Meghan Robinson CMT, ANMT and Shea Nelson CMT
DATE: Saturday, March 14th
TIME: 5:30-7pm
COST: $45
432hz Floating Sound Meditation
INSTRUCTORS: Shane Thunder
DATE: Monday, March 16th
TIME: 7:45-9pm
COST: $25 non-hammock; $35 in advance (hammock included); $40 at the door; Limited 20 hammocks available
Come Float Your Stress Away! Join us for this special Floating Sound Meditation experience w/ Shane Thunder! Utilizing a plethora of gemstone crystal bowls, planetary & elemental gongs, chimes, and other instruments, you are in store for a blissful and uplifting journey! No experience necessary, all paths are welcome!
Benefits of Hammock / Floating Seating:The sound healing is different when you are in hammock because of the way you experience it.
Instead of being on the ground, experiencing the sound healing, you are floating, like you are in space, so its more zero-gravity experience, or like being in a cocoon.
Bio:
Shane is a California-based Master Sound Alchemist residing in Santa Barbara, CA. After self-inducing a kundalini awakening in Dec. 2011, he has traveled throughout the country for the last 8 years offering his 432hz Spirit Metacine in the passionate belief of unifying the body, mind, and spirit thru the healing arts. He has held space for workshops, instructional classes, and ceremonies guided by his Higher-Self to share his musical gifts with the crystal Gemstone singing bowls and many more instruments.
Shane is currently on tour with national and international events, festivals, retreats, and studios for 2018 and beyond! He looks forward to sharing a unique experience to release what no longer serves you and will align you with Spirit!
www.spiritmetacine.com
www.artistecard.com/spiritmetacine
www.soundcloud.com/spirit_metacine
www.facebook.com/spiritmetacine
www.instagram.com/spiritmetacine
Sign up ahead of time!
SPRING EQUINOX Flow + Restore
INSTRUCTORS: Katie Jacobson & Magnolia Rasak
DATE: Saturday, March 21st
TIME: 4-6pm
COST: $25 in advance, $30 at the door
Join Pleasure Point Yoga teachers, Katie and Magnolia, for this special workshop to welcome the shift into Spring and celebrate the vernal equinox. This offering is a journey through Meditation, Pranayama / breathwork, Chanting, Vinyasa Flow, Restorative Yin, ending in a deep savasana to rejuvenate and renew body, mind, heart, and spirit.
The vernal equinox, on March 19th, is when day and night (light and shadow) are in divine balance, offering us an opportunity to pause, reflect, and balance within.
Let’s come together in community to honor this transition and align with the powerful invitation this new season offers us.
This practice will focus on clearing out the old and creating space for the new. Come clarify your intentions and plant seeds for this cycle ahead.
Regenerate: Yoga Nidra + Acupuncture Designed just for You
INSTRUCTORS: Kayla Copeland & Diana Moll L.Ac.
DATE: Saturday, April 4th
TIME: 5-6:15pm
COST: $50 in advance, $55 at the door
Experience the healing benefits of Yoga Nidra (AKA Psychic Sleep) and Acupuncture
You will be guided into deep relaxation of body and mind while receiving an acupuncture treatment designed specifically for you.
Our workshop will begin with a personalized intake of physically, emotional, and overall wellbeing. Diana will choose points based on this and the balancing points of the season. Kayla will lead you through the deeply healing Yoga Nidra session.
Our session includes optional hot stones to warm the body throughout our session and an after treatment seasonal tea.
Space is limited to 10 participants. Pre-registration is encouraged
ALUNA Breathwork
INSTRUCTORS: Alex & Atilla
DATE: Sunday, April 5th
TIME: 12-3pm
COST: $65
Group size: max 10 people
What to bring: yoga mat, blanket, small pillow and your water bottle
Please* try not to eat two hours prior to the session
* wear comfortable clothes
* drink plenty of water after the session
* make sure you have no commitments after the session
* and come with an intention. What would you like to explore, transform, integrate or let go off?
Contraindications:
* recent surgery or fractures
* acute infectious illness
* pregnancy
* Glaucoma
* cardiovascular problems
* severe hypertension
* epilepsy
* history of severe mental illness or psychiatric hospitalization
About Alex & Attila:
Alex: For the past ten years Alexandra has facilitated for many to find their true bliss and purpose in life, supporting and empowering others through energy healing, massage therapy, Huna, meditation, Transformational Breath™ and plant medicine. Her greatest joy lies in guiding people to embrace themselves and their authenticity. Alexandra is a strong believer in creating your own reality. Limiting beliefs and programming are a big player in feeling stuck and not experiencing the full potential we came with. Undoing those limitations can results in a more, fulfilled and joyful life. Her work is rooted in self-forgiveness and self-love.
Attila: A former Marketing Executive for multinational companies for 25 years Attila now facilitates and coaches, committed and serving others to achieve greater spiritual and emotional awareness by transforming existing traumas, releasing limiting beliefs, getting in touch with deep emotions, to find meaning and purpose in their lives. Once being in touch with yourself, self love has the power to bloom to help each one of us to achieve anything we aspire. Thoughts manifest creation, and by giving all, you will receive all…more than you could possibly imagine. He shares his message and techniques through 1-on-1 sessions, group workshops and retreats.
YoMassage
INSTRUCTORS: Meghan Robinson CMT, ANMT and Shea Nelson CMT
DATE: Saturday, April 11th
TIME: 5:30-7pm
COST: $45
Skill in Action
INSTRUCTORS: Michelle Johnson
DATE: Friday April 18th 6-9pm ; Saturday and Sunday April 19-20th 9am-4pm
COST: $250 before February 29th, $275 after February 29th
Skill in Action is a workshop designed to explore patterns of oppression, power and privilege, and to respond to the current cultural challenges through practices of self-study, contemplation and collective action.
It can be difficult to remain centered amidst the chaos of a culture that continues to divide and conquer. Many are wondering how to respond to increasingly oppressive policies, political divisions and the current cultural upheaval. While we have questions about how to respond, I believe that we must respond with steadfastness and courageous hearts to the urgent concerns of this time. Contemplative practices, including meditation and yoga, allow us to work with sensation, toxic thought patterns, cultural conditioning, overwhelm, and anxiety through mindfulness and thoughtful care. In this workshop, we will deepen our understanding of the principles of justice and yoga; the workings of power and privilege, oppression and identity, suffering and liberation, and loving kindness.
The most effective tool of White Supremacy is Divide and Conquer. This system of oppression causes us to distance from ourselves and others, leaving us split apart both individually and collectively. Dismantling White Supremacy and systems of oppression requires turning towards, and facing one another. Through the practice of yoga, we can experience personal transformation that allows us to approach one another with honesty, skill and awareness. Through sharing and conversation we will explore the ways White Supremacy and oppression become internalized, and how we, in turn, embody and perpetuate oppression individually and collectively. We will practice asana (postures), meditation, mindfulness, pranayama (breathing), chanting and mantra work to sharpen our goals and visions for our work to change the world. We will create concrete plans to put our goals into action.
Some of what will be explored:
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Meditation
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Embodied practice and asana
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Creating culture: Agreements and assumptions
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Social location
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Privilege, Power and Oppression
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Racism, Internalizations and intersectionality
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Spiritual Bypassing and Cultural Appropriation
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Dharma and Duty to intervene, disrupt and dismantle systems of oppression
Instructor Bio:
I am a social justice warrior, author, dismantling racism trainer, empath, yoga teacher and practitioner, and an intuitive healer. With over 20 years of experience leading dismantling racism work and working with clients as a licensed clinical social worker, I have a deep understanding of how trauma impacts the mind, body, spirit, and heart. My awareness of the world through my own experience as a black woman allows me to know, first-hand, how privilege and power operate.
I have a Bachelors of Arts degree from the College of William and Mary and a Masters degree in Social Work from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. I have worked in several non-profits and served as an elected official and on many non-profit boards of directors. I have led Dismantling Racism Trainings with large corporations, small non-profits, and community groups, including the ACLU-WA, Duke University, Google, This American Life, The Center for Equity and Inclusion, Eno River Unitarian Universalist Church, Lululemon, and many others. I published Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World in 2017; I teach workshops in yoga studios and community spaces nationwide. I am on the faculty of Off the Mat Into the World, and serve as the Co-Director of 18 Springs Healing Center in Winston-Salem, NC. I was a Tedx speaker at Wake Forest University in 2019, and I have been interviewed on several podcasts in which I explore the premise and foundation of Skill in Action, along with creating ritual in justice spaces, our divine connection with nature and Spirit, and how we as a culture can heal.
I lead courageously from the heart with compassion and a commitment to address the heartbreak dominant culture causes for many because of the harm it creates. I inspire change that allows people to stand in their humanity and wholeness in a world that fragments most of us. Whether in an anti-oppression training, yoga space, individual or group intuitive healing session, the heart, healing and wholeness are at the center of how I approach all of my work in the world. There are myriad of ways to work with me. I hope to support you on your healing journey and path towards wholeness in whatever capacity allows you to live your fullest life.
FREE! Community Flow
INSTRUCTORS: PPY Faculty
DATE: Sundays
TIME: Please see times listed below
COST: FREE!
Free Community Yoga Flow taught by either our 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training Graduates or YFAM Instructors every Sunday. Please see rotating schedule below for teacher, time, and PPY Location (Main Studio or Movement Studio). ALL BODIES WELCOME, ALL WAYS, ALL LEVELS
* donations accepted but never expected*
DATE / TEACHER / TIME /LOCATION
January’s Schedule (2-3pm):
1/26th: Shanie Gill YFAM / Main Studio
February’s Schedule:
2/2nd: Tiffany Cottle from 12-1pm (main studio)
2/9th: Shanie Gill YFAM from 12-1pm (PPM)
2/16th: Jeff D’Arpino from 2-3pm (main studio)
2/23rd: Shanie Gill from 12-1pm (PPM)
Monthly Sunday Night Yoga Nidra
INSTRUCTOR: Kayla Copeland & Katie Jacobson
DATE: Rotating 2nd and 4th Sundays
TIME: 7:30-8:15pm
COST: $12 drop-in OR suggested sliding scale donation of $5-15
When the body is relaxed and the nervous system is in a ‘resting state’, we are much more apt to heal from within. Sometimes in our busy lives we don’t always have the time to “hurry up and relax” or sometimes finding relaxation itself can be a challenge.
This class is designed to guide you into a deep and conscious relaxation of body and mind, to a place between dreaming and waking. Yoga Nidra is often referred to as ‘Yogic Sleep’. It is said that 45 mins of Yoga Nidra is equivalent in benefits to 4 hours of traditional sleep.
Join Kayla Copeland and Katie Jacobson for a sweet cap to your week! Every 2nd and 4th Sundays of the month
Sunrise Satsang Weekly
INSTRUCTOR: Sherry Cassedy
DATE: Every Monday
TIME: 7:30 – 8:30am
COST: Free and open to all!
Pleasure Point Yoga’s Monday morning Satsang is a unique (and free) opportunity to delve deeper into the esoteric teachings of Yoga in the company of one another. It is a great introduction for anyone who is curious to learn more, and an open invitation to revisit and share in the supported space of the Sangha as we deepen our practice.
We will begin the Book on Practice on February 10,
combined with chanting, pranayama and meditation.
Come clear your mind and refresh your soul.
In Satsang, we gather together, in community to seek truth or, more simply, to be with the truth. We create the space with chanting, light, and intention, gentle rituals that help us to dedicate this hour to our study and practice and to one another.
New Class! Inversion Therapy Yoga
INSTRUCTORS: Carissa Nations
DATE: Mondays
TIME: 3-4pm
COST: Class passes Accepted (Monthly unlimited, Yearly, 10 class passes) ; $20 Drop In
HeartBeat Dance Fitness
INSTRUCTOR: Danu
DATE: Monday and Wednesday
TIME: 6-7pm
COST: Regular class pricing
LOCATION: Pleasure Point Movement, PPY’s 2nd Studio located a few doors down at 3603 Portola Dr.
Come dance and sweat with us! This hour long adults’ dance fitness class blends high and low intensity dance moves, toning calisthenics and feel good music to work your body and feed your soul. All levels welcome!
Danu Schoeck is back on the Santa Cruz Dance scene and excited to bring you Heartbeat Dance Fitness! This class combines heart pumping cardio dance in hip hop, street jazz and world dance styles with fitness movements to tone and strengthen. Danu is a well known local dance and fitness choreographer and teacher. She has over 9 years of experience teaching dance and fitness classes and a strong belief in movement as medicine. Come see what the buzz is about!
A message from PPY’s Owner (Megan McAllister): Danu is BACK on the Dance Scene and joining the line up of classes at Pleasure Point Movement (Pleasure Point Yoga’s new and forming second studio). Pleasure Point Movement has crafted its class offerings to inspire students to get out of their heads and back into their hearts – – all centered around movement of some sort (stay tuneded for much more!!!). Danu is one of my favorite dance teachers of all time (Hip Hop, Street Jazz, Zumba). Danu is such a talented dancer and a prolific teacher. She may be small in size but her dance moves are HUGE! She is such a light – – her radiant personality, contageous smile, encouraging teaching style, and dope choreography had classes packed when she was teaching!! No matter the level of dance experience, Danu will make it FUN!! Get ready to drop it like it’s HOTT!!!
Monthly Monday Night Yoga for Social Justice Book Club
INSTRUCTOR: Gwen Benjamin
DATE: 1st Monday of every month
TIME: 7:15 – 8:30pm
COST: FREE!
LOCATION: Pleasure Point Movement, PPY’s 2nd Studio located a few doors down at 3603 Portola Dr..
This monthly reading and discussion group is a safe container to hold difficult conversations about social justice issues in the yoga world. Through examining modern yoga’s relationship to race, class, gender, colonialism, activism, trauma, body positivity, and agency, we will explore a variety of complicated topics that inform the ways in which we in the West consume and create yoga culture.
Each month when the new book is announced, participants will receive a list of guided questions to accompany the readings. The Yoga for Social Justice Book Club is 90 minutes long and open to all bodies, all ways.
Yoga for Social Justice Book Club – Reading List: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rb_8magvutAVN7V_KkXyG319jFADOFmv9K1BjWA1FDk/edit
Monthly Monday Night Kirtan
INSTRUCTOR: Emily Perry & Friends
DATE: 3rd Monday of every month
TIME: 7:30 – 9:30pm
COST: $10-20 Suggested Donation (no one turned away for lack of funds)
Urban Cardio Glow
INSTRUCTORS: Desiree Phillips
DATE: Tuesdays
TIME: 9-10:15am
COST: Regular class pricing
Désirée Phillips is a local dancer with a 20+ year background of promoting self-esteem and body-love through movement, dance, workshops, and motivational seminars worldwide. People of all backgrounds, ages, and fitness levels benefit from her passion to spread the experiences of self-love through urban hip-hop moves and dance.
This class blends a warm-up, light choreography breakdown, steady-state cardio and a short cool-down.
Peace Warriors Kids Yoga (all ages 5+)
INSTRUCTORS: Ilana Ingber
DATE: Tuesdays and Thursdays
TIME: 3:45-5:15pm
COST: $150 for 6 sessions; $30 drop in
LOCATION: 3603 Portola Dr. located a few doors down and to the left of our main yoga studio
Please note: Thursday classes to begin January 2020!
Pleasure Point Yoga is excited for the return of Kids Yoga (all ages) with Ilana Ingber! Beginning EVERY Tuesday and Thursday afternoon from 3:45-5:15pm
Peace Warriors-in-training will practice cultivating a kind and compassionate inner voice as they are guided through yoga, mindfulness, martial arts, and art activities in a safe and supportive environment. Each week will focus on a different theme.
Peace Warrior students will:
- Build inner and outer strength
- Flexibility and creative thinking skills
- Students will be guided through breathing exercises, flowing sequences, balancing poses, martial arts
- Art exploration
Classes will focus on balancing effort and ease, ending in a deep relaxation. Finally, students will be guided into art exploration as meditation. Through the blend of yoga and art making, students will focus on building self-awareness, confidence, positive self talk, and compassion.
Tribal Fusion Belly Dance (all levels)
INSTRUCTORS: Kaelin Bovee
DATE: Wednesdays
TIME: 7:15pm
COST: Regular class pricing
This class focuses on American Tribal Fusion technique and isolation drills, use of props followed by combinations. Come learn sensual movement to feel the benefits of moving your body intuitively while stretching and strengthening abdominal muscles. Strong encouragement of your creative expression and a likely boost of confidence.
Bio:
Kaelin began Egyptian Belly Dance at eight years old with Melanie Kareem in Topanga, California. She fell in love with this dance form for its freedom of expression and exotic costumes. She danced professionally in Los Angeles for a few years and went on to study with the highly respected Rachel Brice, Zoe Jakes and Gina Bruno. Kaelin still performs but truly enjoys teaching and creating community through dance.
Creativity Flow Yoga & Art Mash Up – for adults!
INSTRUCTORS: Ilana Ingber
DATE: Thursdays
TIME: 6-7:30pm
COST: Regular class pricing
Creativity Flow! (Meditation, Yoga, Art making Mash up) ~ For Adults of all ages!
“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong” Joseph Chilton Pearce
Release fear and come practice creating with non-attachment and non-judgement in the loving PPY environment! This class is a meditation, yoga, art making mash up for anyone who wants to enhance their creative thinking skills and let go of self-limiting beliefs/blocks. Class begins with a warm up (infusing practices from qi gong, kundalini, and hatha yoga). We will center our minds, awaken our bodies, and focus on expanding our second chakra, our creativity center. Students will then be led in creativity enhancing meditations or journal exercises to help heal our relationship with our inner artist/child and open our inner channels of inspiration, intuition, and imagination. Finally students will be guided into an art exploration (or given time to explore art materials freely based on comfort level) in community. Let’s use our art practice as an opportunity to increase our inner friendliness, compassion, and positive self talk muscles. This class is open to beginner artists, recovering perfectionists, and experienced artists. All are welcome!
Bio:
Ilana Ingber, founder of Happy HeART Studio and Happy HeART Teacher Mentorship program, is an expert on teaching mindfulness and creative thinking through art and yoga. She has her masters in Art and Art Education from Teachers College, Columbia University and her 200-hour yoga certification from YogaWorks. She has been a dedicated yoga practitioner since 2011. Ilana has taught as an educator in public school, private school, museums, as well as yoga studios and national conferences. She has over 1000 students from Kindergarten to adults. She began her career in New York City where she worked for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s Learning through Art Program and Creativity Institute. She later taught at Success Academy Charter School and became the Art Content Lead, providing mentorship and professional development for art teachers across the network of Success Academy schools. Ilana is an active member of the National Art Education Association and has presented at National Conventions on topics such as: Teaching Collaboration Skills through Painting Curriculum, Assessing Creativity, and Infusing Mindfulness Practices into the Art Studio. Additionally Ilana attends neuroscience, experiential education, and mindfulness conferences every year as part of her ongoing learning. Overall, Ilana is most committed to teaching herself and others how to find inner love, joy, and creativity, to create a more compassionate and peaceful world.
Youth Inversion / Trapeze Yoga (Ages 5+)
INSTRUCTORS: Carissa Nations
DATE: Wednesdays
TIME: 4-5pm
COST: $25
EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) Monthly
INSTRUCTOR: Cat McDaris
DATE: 2nd Tuesday of every month
TIME: 7-8:30pm
COST: FREE! Donations accepted but not expected
LOCATION: Pleasure Point Movement, located a few doors down at 3603 Portola Dr.