Thursday, July 02, 2009

Tips for Calling Abundance into your Life

Visualize what it is that you want to create in your life. Everyday, during meditation or when you go to sleep, close your eyes and imagine exactly what it is that will assist you in living a blissful, easeful and abundant life. Imagine the colors, textures and smells of this life. Put yourself in that life and let it fill every cell of your being. Do this day after day and see what unfolds right before your eyes. Let this exercise come from a place of gratitude, humility, acceptance and love, rather than from a place of greed, lack and wanting. See yourself living the life that your soul is meant to be living. Your destiny!

Visualizing the Life you Choose to Create will be the theme of our first Calling in Abundance class on Wed. Oct. 14th. See workshop listing for details and contact Prana at info@pranaheals.com or call (207) 632-6698 to preregister.
Yoga for the Season

Summer is a great time to loosen the spine and make some progress in your back bends. This is not about getting anywhere, but more about expanding your ability to open the front body and heart center to experience more joy, bliss, compassion and your fullest potential. Begin with spine warm ups like cat cow and forward bends. Once the spine is warmed, you can begin to play in the following poses in order of range of motion...

Sphinx Pose to Cobra and/or Up Dog
Camel
Bow Pose
Wheel

After each pose, spend equal time in a counter pose like child's pose or down dog. This will create even more flexibility in the spine and balance out the energy. Backbends can generate a lot of energy, openings and compassion. If you feel chatty after a yoga session like this, I encourage you to reserve that prana for Self and not give it all away. Choose carefully how you want to use this precious summer energy. Notice if you feel drained by expending too much energy. If this happens, balance the energy with a restorative practice.
Therapeutic Yoga
Weekend Workshop for Yoga Instructors


November 6-9
(Fri. 7 p.m. - Sun. 3 p.m.)
Portland, Maine
$130 if preregister by Sept. 1st, or $150 after
info@pranaheals.com

Share a weekend with your peers by deepening your yoga instruction and private practice with Therapeutic Yoga. Expand your awareness of what the body is asking for from the yoga, so you can focus your classes toward individual needs. Review and enhance your awareness of the metaphysical benefits and contraindications of poses. Practice modifications for illness and injuries using props, gentle and restorative poses. This workshop will help you to be more sensitive to the needs of your students and increase your skills to provide private sessions. Give your students what they really need and watch your clientele grow.

To learn more about Prana and her Therapeutic Yoga background, visit www.pranaheals.com

Jet Blue flies direct into Portland, Maine.
Prana's Summer Schedule...

Individual and Couples Retreats

We now have this very sweet zen apt. set up for guests. If you have often thought that you want to work with me, but do not live in Portland, Maine, this is an affordable way to do it. We won't charge much for use of the apt. Just enough to cover cleaning and utilities. Mainly, I want to provide a space for individuals and couples to come and do some focused healing. You can also make a vacation of it. Portland is a small friendly progressive city with beautiful beaches only a 10 - 20 min. drive away. Below I will list some of the retreats I offer or we can design one based on your individual needs...

Cancer or Chronic Illness Healing Lifestyle Assistance
Personal Coaching (Healthy Lifestyle and Life/Work Transitions)
Spiritual Counseling
Tantra (Sacred Sexuality) Instruction for individuals or couples
Therapeutic Yoga
Yoga Lifestyle Counseling
Yoga Therapy

Visit www.pranaheals.com for details on these services.

Contact me when you are ready to schedule your retreat.

In Health,

Prana


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Awake! on the Eastern Promenade
Morning Movement Practice


Outdoors Daily
June 15 - August 31st
7 - 8 a.m.
donations appreciated to support the project
www.theawakecollective.com

Prana will be sharing Therapeutic Yoga Tuesdays June 16, June 30, July 14 and August 11.

Daily outdoor movement classes will be held on the Eastern Promenade in Portland, Maine directly across from Quebec St., between the tennis courts and the baseball field. If it is raining, class is canceled. Check theawakecollective.com for schedule of classes and instructors.

Bring a yoga mat and any props you like to use.




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Yoga with Prana at
Spiritfire Festival


Wed. July 29th - Sunday August 2nd
www.spiritfirefestival.org
Located at a sacred site on the NY, MA, CT borders
Preregister no later than July 25th. No walk ins.

Join Prana and others for this spiritual community gathering. Prana will be offering a special yoga class on Friday morning. Deepen your connection with Self as Prana guides you to find the yoga within. Create your intention for this yoga practice, which can be carried throughout the day or gathering, adjusting as is needed, feeling who you are in each moment. Learn to find your center in every moment as you move through the festival, feeling what postures will serve your needs. Learn new poses, pranayama (breath) and meditation techniques and deepen your experience in the yoga that you already know. What moves your body today, tomorrow, the next day?



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Therapeutic Yoga at
Dance New England Dance Camp


Saturday August 22nd and Sunday August 23rd
(camp is Aug. 14 - 25th with attendance options)
Preregister at www.dne.org

Join Prana in this relaxing and transformative Therapeutic Yoga class. Participants will experience a deep, slow paced yoga flow of a variety of gentle and restorative yoga poses. This unwinding allows participants to transform emotions held in the body, relieve chronic pains and recover from illness and injury. Prana will share Therapeutic Yoga the mornings listed above, as well as offer private sessions while she is at camp.

Dance New England Dance Camp will be held in its new location in Freedom, New Hampshire. It includes 10 days of movement and personal growth workshops and classes with "barefoot boogie" dances every night. It is a very family friendly and accessible experience. You can sign up for part or all of the camp. I look forward to sharing this playful and healing time with you :)


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Calling in Abundance

Fall dates...Weds. Oct. 14, 21st, 28th, Nov. 4th

$48 if preregistered by Oct. 1st/$60 after Oct. 1st
Space is limited, so preregister early
Preregistration and full payment in advance is required.
To preregister, call (207) 632-6698 or email info@pranaheals.com

What "Depression"?! Don't get sucked into the downward spiral of the economy. Instead, manifest your dreams with a group of others who are on a similar path. Practice visualization, language, thought and action techniques that will bring abundance, in many forms, into your life. The classes will be lively; including movement, creative projects and small group activities. Each class will provide tools that, when applied in your daily life, will bring immediate results.

If these nights do not fit into your schedule, Prana is always available to share these valuable tools and techniques with you privately via phone or in person sessions.

Oct 14: Visualizing your Dreams
Oct 21: Affirming Thoughts and Language
Oct 28: Action through Seva, Tithing and Getting into the Flow of Giving and Receiving
Nov 4: Manifestation...Your Dreams are Your Reality


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Body Love Retreats for Women

Dates to be announced

Soul Sanctuary, Newton, MA
web.me.com/adunwell
For more info and to express interest, contact Anna Dunwell at annadunwell@comcast.net

Prana will be a workshop facilitator for Body Love Retreats to be held at the beautiful and inspiring Soul Sanctuary in Newton, MA. Join other women in loving your body that the ancestors have given you. Love it with heart, mind and spirit. Love it with yourself and with others. Love your Life. You are the beauty that makes life worth living. You are the power that renews. We are all connected. In fact, everything is connected. But finding that requires beginning from the inside out. Connecting to self, accepting that self and working on creating self love for all of who and what you are now. These Body Love Retreats allows you to do that, in safety, with the support of other women, exploring aspects of body love with an experienced team of workshop facilitators in sacred space.

Monday, April 06, 2009

Yoga for the Season

The body will naturally begin to respond to the increase in light by getting busy. In order to create balance in the body, so it does not get depleted and sick, include the following poses in your daily yoga practice. Although, your mind may want to move out of these poses quickly, instead, breathe deeply and allow yourself to deepen in each pose. Notice the balancing effects.

Child's Pose
Forward Bends
Alternate Nostril Breathing
Malasana

Tips for Calling Abundance into your Life


Notice your language and thoughts. Are you affirming abundance or are you pushing it away? Complaining about money and what is lacking in one's life, is exactly what is being sent out to the Universe. Instead, use language and think thoughts that bring in what you are creating in your life. For example, a statement like "I need more clients or I am not going to be able to pay my bills this month", is more effective if worded, "More clients are on the way and my bills are paid this month." Change your thoughts and words to create your dreams. If you misspeak or misthink, you can always delete that and reword. The Universe is very forgiving and you will be rewarded for your good intentions :-)

Calling in Abundance April 22nd class will be devoted to practicing these language techniques. For more information visit www.pranaheals.com To preregister contact info@pranaheals.com or call (207) 632-6698.

Prana's Spring Schedule...

Calling in Abundance Weekly Workshop Series

POSTPONED til Fall 2009. Stay tuned for dates and preregistration deadline

Wednesdays April 15, 22, 29, May 6
6:30 -8:30 p.m.
$10 - 20 sliding scale per class.
Series commitment and preregistration requested.
Prana's home in downtown Portland, ME
To preregister, call (207) 632-6698 or email info@pranaheals.com

What "Depression"?! Don't get sucked into the downward spiral of the economy. Instead, manifest your dreams with a group of others who are on a similar path. Practice visualization, language, thought and action techniques that will bring abundance, in many forms, into your life. The classes will be lively; including movement, creative projects and small group activities. Each class will provide tools that, when applied in your daily life, will bring immediate results.

April 15th Visualizing your Dreams
April 22nd Affirming Thoughts and Language
April 29th Action through Seva, Tithing and Getting into the Flow of Giving and Receiving
May 6th Manifestation...Your Dreams are Your Reality


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Yoga Therapy
Free Workshop

Greater Portland YMCA
Sunday April 26th
10:30 a.m. - Noon
Preregister at the YMCA or by contacting Prana at info@pranaheals.com or (207) 632-6698

Experience the healing benefits of yoga therapy though this experiential workshop. Participants will practice simple yoga therapy adjustments based on the group's physical, emotional and spiritual needs. We will share a yoga therapy practice, as well as observe demos of Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy. This style of yoga bodywork includes a client centered dialog technique. Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy combines the healing benefits of receiving yoga with contemporary body mind psychology. Participants will witness and participate in sacred space held by the group. Wear loose comfortable clothing. Bring your personal yoga mat, a blanket (mexican blanket size) and pillow (throw or bed size). Yoga mats and blocks are available for loan.


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3rd Annual Yogapalooza
Greater Portland YMCA Yoga Retreat

Sunday May 3rd
Noon to 4 p.m.
$36 by April 15th/$45 after that date
Camp Ketcha Scarborough, ME
Call (207) 874-111 x 112 to register

A peaceful and healing community yoga retreat. Prana and the other YMCA yoga instructors will be offering a series on 20 min sample classes. A 1/2 hr social gathering with light refreshments will follow. Bring your own yoga mat. This retreat is very popular and fills quickly, so preregister today. This is a fundraiser for the Greater Portland YMCA. Your donations and participation are appreciated.


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High School Yoga Class
With Prana

Monday May 18th
2:30 - 3:30 p.m.
Rm. 212 Deering High School

Free and Open to the Deering School Community. Sponsored by Deering's Wellness Team. For more information contact johnskr@portlandschools.org. Yoga classes are ongoing with other teachers throughout the spring.


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Spiritfire Festival

Wed. July 29th - Sunday August 2nd
For lowest entry fee, early registration deadline is April 10th
www.spiritfirefestival.org
Located at a sacred site on the NY, MA, CT borders

Join Prana and others for this spiritual community gathering. Prana will be offering a special yoga class on Friday morning. Deepen your connection with Self as Prana guides you to find the yoga within. Create your intention for this yoga practice, which can be carried throughout the day or gathering, adjusting as is needed, feeling who you are in each moment. Learn to find your center in every moment as you move through the festival, feeling what postures will serve your needs. Learn new poses, pranayama (breath) and meditation techniques and deepen your experience in the yoga that you already know. What moves your body today, tomorrow, the next day?


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Body Love Retreats for Women
Dates to be announced

Soul Sanctuary, Newton, MA
web.me.com/adunwell
For more info and to express interest, contact Anna Dunwell at annadunwell@comcast.net

Prana will be a workshop facilitator for Body Love Retreats to be held at the beautiful and inspiring Soul Sanctuary in Newton, MA. Join other women in loving your body that the ancestors have given you. Love it with heart, mind and spirit. Love it with yourself and with others. Love your Life. You are the beauty that makes life worth living. You are the power that renews. We are all connected. In fact, everything is connected. But finding that requires beginning from the inside out. Connecting to self, accepting that self and working on creating self love for all of who and what you are now. These Body Love Retreats allows you to do that, in safety, with the support of other women, exploring aspects of body love with an experienced team of workshop facilitators in sacred space.