Integral Yoga ® Center of Richmond

Journal Writing & Meditation Workshop with Cheryl Pallant & Nora Pozzi: Yoga through journalizing, articulating our personal journey, we will practice listening to our true self which is the source of wisdom and creativity.
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Meditation Workshops: Simple basic techniques to introduce you to meditation, sharpen your practice, or get you going again.
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Stress Management Workshop with Nora Pozzi: A new twelve week course designed to meet the requests of our yoga students, this comprehensive program includes hatha yoga, yogic breathing, meditation, yogic diet, and journal writing.
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Yoga for Singers with Nora Pozzi for Ronda Coltrane: A vacation for body and voice, especially for performers or anyone whose heavy schedule takes a toll on physical and vocal well-being.
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Commonweel Cancer Help Program with Shanti Norris: The "Commonweal" is one of the leading cancer support programs in the US. The program includes yoga, relaxation, meditation, imagery, massage, group support and exploration of options inestablished and complementary cancer therapies and is open to people with cancer who are under the care of an oncologist or qualified physician.
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Yoga for Stress Management: Stress! We can learn how to control its effects on our physical and mental health. This is a six-week experimental workshop that will help us identify causes of stress and develop a customized comprehensive system, that you can integrate into your lifestyle. Includes hatha yoga, breathing and meditation techniques, diet, journal writing, and sharing. Bring a blanket or mat. Minimum age is 18.
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Yoga & Writing Workshop with Cheryl Pallant & Nora Pozz.iThis workshop utilizes the energizing calm and deep awareness that yoga provides to gain insight into our being. Through journaling and articulating our personal journey, we will practice listening to our true self which is the source of wisdom and creativity. Great for practitioners of yoga as well as writers.
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Yoga for the Back & Heart with Nora Pozzi
This workshop is for those with back problems, back or neck strain, and heart conditions (such as high blood pressure). We present different ways of approaching the traditional yoga postures as well as offering alternative poses working on the floor and chairs. Developing awareness of your own condition through extra-gentle stretches and relaxation, you'll learn more about yourself and how to increase mobility, flexibility and strength of the problem areas. This workshop is NOT designed for individuals with severe medical challenges or major spinal limitations. Bring a blanket or mat and 2 pillows. Class size is limited.
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Yoga for Women
The non-competitiveness of yoga, enhances the opportunity to learn how to focus on what's important to women as individuals, to address the expectations and choices that we encounter daily, recognizing, understanding, and accepting our gifts and limitations without necessarily changing our goals.
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Deep Relaxation
An entire Hatha session dedicated to getting deeper into the DEEP relaxation.
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Yoga Explorations with Julian Gopala Pozzi
Come and explore the different facets of Yoga from the devotional chants of Bhakti Yoga, to the practical philosophy of Jnana Yoga. We will do some Hatha Yoga and focus on improving our Raja yoga, or meditative practice. Have you wondered what Vedanta is? Or Ayurveda? Come and find out.
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Fun Yoga with Balls with Lynda Hoffarth
Yoga is about being mindful. Yoga is about making our bodies healthier, stronger and more flexible. Yoga is about having fun while honoring the body, mind and spirit. It is about not taking ourselves so seriously. These inflatable big balls offered themselves as a tool to tone and strengthen the body while doing yoga postures. Join us in this new playful class while still following the Integral Yoga system that includes breathing, chanting, deep relaxation and meditation. The asanas aspect of this class will be over, under and with the ball. Bring your own ball or purchase one at the center.
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AYURVEDIC SECRETS OF HEALING WITH SOUND for Physical, Mental and Spiritual Health with Gandharva Sauls

According to the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda 3 the science of life2, sound is one of the most powerful modalities for creating health and restoring
balance to body, mind and spirit. You will learn to chant ancient sounds
used for healing for thousands of years. Through the chanting of these
sacred sounds you will experience leaving the mind behind and feeling the
pure peace of the heart.

The yoga of sound opens up many areas for inner growth. It is also a way of strengthening the lungs and purifying the blood. Most importantly, chantinghas the ability to point us back to the silence that is our true nature.

You will discover:
w the power of sound to heal the physical body.
w how to heal emotional imbalances with sacred sound.
w the power of the sound of Aum.
w the use of sacred sound to increase energy, quiet the mind, and open the
heart.
w the natural voice that is within each one of us.
w chanting as meditation.

The ancient sages say that using sacred sound is the best practice for the
present age that we live in. Please join us and share the good vibrations!

Gandharva Sauls is a Certified Ayurveda Lifestyle Counselor with a private practice in New York City and New Jersey. He has over fifteen years experience in holistic health and has certificates in Ayurvedic Healing from The American Institute Of Vedic Studies, The Ayurveda Holistic Center, and The Wise Earth School Of Ayurveda. Gandharva is on the teaching faculty of The Integral Yoga Centers, The New York Open Center, and The Health Classics Conferences.
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ANCIENT AYURVEDA CONSULTATIONS: A Multi-Dimensional Approcah to Holistic Living (Private Consultations)

Physical Health - Discover your Archetypal Disease Type as well as your Body Type, and learn how to achieve optimum health and longevity.
Mental Health - Discover your best stress management tools for mental and emotional health.
Spiritual Path - Discover which of the Eight Great Paths to God is in accordance with your innermost spiritual nature.
Desires - Your primal desires and how they support or distract your from your spiritual path.
Dharma - How to serve society through an understanding of your caste nature.
Career Nature - Your professional aptitudes and how to be happy at work.
Creative Play - How to find satisfaction in recreation.
Relationships - Your personal style of interacting with others.

Private consultations with Gandharva:

One Hour Consultation: answers the questions: "What is my archetypal disease type and body-type, and how can I balance this and maximize my longevity?", and "What is my mental/ emotional nature, and what are the best stress management techniques for me?" $150.00

Two Hour Consultation: includes your physical/ mental blueprint, as well as answering the questions: 3What is my spiritual nature, and how can I best actualize it?, and "What is my life mission in the world?" $300.00

YOou will Receive: Personalized suggestions for Nutrition, Herbs, Exercise, Yoga, Meditation, Mantras, Homeopathy, Bach Flowers, Yantras, Aromatherapy, Color Therapy, Sound Therapy and more, along with a tape of your consultation. and printed materials.

How to Schedule a Consultation:
... Call or email your request with requested day and time you are available. The office hours are:
NY Office - Tuesdays 11:00-7:00, Thursdays 11:00-4:00 Ph: 212.631.4283
NJ Office – (in-person and phone consultations) Mon 10:00-7:00, Wed
2:00-6:00, Fri 10:00-3:00, Sat 11:00-3:00, Ph: 201.440.3106
Email: gandharva@earthlink.net
Website: www.ayurvedayogainstitute.com
... Please specify the One Hour – physical/mental/emotional ($150), Two Hour Consultation–physical/mental/emotional/dharma/career/relationships/creative play/desires/spiritual path ($300), Follow-up Consultation ($75.00), or Energy/Sound Treatment ($80).
... Please give your complete birth information - month/day/year/time/place

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CHAIN-SAW JUGGLER & YOGA TEACHER explains the secrets of his balancing act. with David Van Derveer

Dave is a professional comedian and Integral Yoga teacher, having performed internationally for 20 years as an entertainer and juggler. He is currently building a solar vegetarian Yoga Spa B&B near Charlottesville. He has been a disciple of Sri Swami Satchidananda for 20 years and serves regularly in the video department at Yogaville. His experience and practice of yoga has influenced him in his profession and personal life.

Dave will explain how Yoga has helped to keep his extremities intact while keeping an operating chain-saw, a torch and an egg airborne. Come and have fun with him, while he shares the joy of yoga as learned from his teacher throughout his life. Warning!! We are not responsible for those sitting in the front row!
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PRANAYAMA, The HEALING POWER OF BREATH with Swami KARUNANADA MA from Yogaville

The yogic science of pranayama enables one to gain control over the breath and all the subtle energies that activate and motivate the body and mind. The breath is the link between the body and the mind. Control of the breath means optimal health and vitality, as well as mental balance and clarity.

In this workshop, we will review the basic breathing techniques and learn how to deepen and develop our practice. We will cover specific healing benefits for the body, as well as breathing techniques for overcoming and transforming negative emotions. The art of pranic healing visualization will be presented. Beginners, as well as those who wish to deepen and refine their practice, are welcome.

Swami Karunanada Ma is a senior Integral Yoga® teacher. Over the years, she has taught Yoga in various settings, including hospitals, businesses, prisons, schools, and colleges. She has led many workshops and retreats, focusing on meditation, the philosophy of Yoga, and pranayama for greater health and vitality. In 1989 she developed Teacher Training programs in Raja Yoga and Meditation. She has served as Director of the Integral Yoga® Institutes of San Francisco and Santa Barbara, and as President of Satchidananda Ashram-Yogaville, Virginia
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"YOU AND YOUR MIND, Getting the Most out of Meditation" with Swami SHARADANANDA MA from Yogaville

Explore the basic concepts of meditation:

focus
stillness
awareness
equilibrium

Bring your questions, problems, inspirations, and we'll see how these concepts relate to your own meditation and to your daily life.

About the Speaker: Swami Sharadananda Ma has been a disciple of Sri Swami Satchidananda for more than 30 years. She is presently serving as International Coordinator for Integral Yoga. She has now meditated long enough that she no longer counts the years. She has taught meditation and all aspects of Integral Yoga in many different setting in the USA, Canada and Europe, as a teacher, teacher trainer, and ecumenical speaker.
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"INTRODUCTION to the BHAGAVAD GITA" with Prahaladan Mandelkorn

About the Speaker: Prahaladan was the co-founder & former co-director of the IYI of Richmond back in 1981. He is a writer was the editor of the "Living Gita" , Sri Swami Satchidananda's version of the original scripture. He was also the editor for several other books such as "To Know Yourself" the basic teachings of Sri Swami Satchidananda and the "Yoga Sutras of Patanjali" also the version with commentaries by Sri Gurudev, among others. He is a yoga teacher and yoga trainer in the school of Integral Yoga.

Aboutthe Bhagavad Gita: The Gita is one of the oldest scriptural texts known to man, first set down centuries before the birth of Christ. Here are some quotes about the Gita by sages that have lived their lives by its teachings.

When disappointment stares me in the face and all alone I see not one ray of light, I go back to the Bhagavad Gita. I find a verse here and a verse there, and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming tragedies - and if they have left no visible scar on me, I owe it to the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita." Gandhi

"Scriptures ought to be read again and again... If any of the lines here catch your eye and your heart, read them in your life. You don't even need a whole sentence. Just a quarter of one line is enough to lift you like a rocket, not just to the moon or Mars, but to the heavenly sun itself". Swami Satchidananda

"The Gita expounds very lucidly the fundamentals of Yoga philosophy. It is a great source of wisdom. It is a great value guide, a supreme teacher, an inexhaustible spiritual
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TOOLS for MEDITATION, a Meditation Workshop with Prahaladan Mandelkorn

About the workshop: This workshop will present basic techniques of meditation & sharpen your practice. It will be a balance of entertaining lecture and hands-on experience, illustrated with stories, chants and the wisdom of the Sutras of Patanjali. Prahaladan will also share the benefits of meditation practice; preparation techniques; use of breathing methods and sound formulas to quiet and focus the mind; dealing with obstacles and distractions; and best diets for calming the mind. Interspersed between short periods of practice will be sharings, discussions, deep relaxation & walking meditation. Beginners and experienced students are both welcome. Bring a towel, a cushion and a shawl and wear loose comfortable clothes. Avoid eating a heavy meal at least 2 hours before the class.

About the Speaker: Prahaladan has served as the co-founder and co-director of the Richmond IYI in 1981 as well as Director of Teacher Training. He is a freelance writer and has edited Sri Swami Satchidananda's books "To Know Yourself" , "The Living Gita" and "The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali" and travels widely facilitating seminars and workshops on Yoga Philosophy, Torah and Meditation. He is a yoga teacher and yoga trainer in the school of Integral Yoga and has been a disciple of Sri Swami Satchidananda for more than 30 years.
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"The MEDICAL BENEFITS of YOGA" with Sandra Amrita McLananhan, MD

About the lecture: Yoga is a unique science of body mind and spirit. It provides practices for prevention and treatment of dis-ease. In this talk by Dr. Mc Lanahan she will explain the newest information on the medical benefits of Yoga, to prevent and reverse a wide variety of ailments and also talk about the aim of the spiritual journey and insights along the way. This workshop will be both lecture and experiential.

Dr. Mc Lanahan will also be signing her new book entitles: “Surgery and its Alternatives”, a book in which she helps make informed decisions on when and how to use alternative and complementary medicine, either as a substitute for or as an aid to successful surgery.

About the Speaker: Dr McLanahan is a nationally recognized authority on preventive medicine, nutrition, stress reduction, and primary family health care. She has spent extensive time in India and Asia studying a variety of ancient healing practices and has served a s Director of Stress Management Training at the Preventive Medicine Research Institute located in Sausalito, California, where for the last 20 years, she worked with Dr. Dean Ornish to document the benefits of dietary change and stress management to prevent and treat cardiovascular disease. Dr McLanahan is the author of the newly released book Surgery and its Alternatives: How to Make the Rich Choices for Your Health and is at work on a second book about the medical benefits of Yoga.
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"YOGA and the EMOTIONS" with Swami Vidyananda Ma, from Yogaville.

Experiential Workshop (Hatha Class:9:30am): “Healing the Mind Through the Body”: Integral Yoga® is a powerful and precise tool for transforming your emotions and for re-structuring your patterns of thinking. Yoga practice can integrate blocked energy to help you reach your goals. In this workshop you will practice postures and relaxation techniques along with breathing and visualization. Some of the themes will include: the psychological impact of various postures, and meditation to re-claim your inner peace in everyday life. You will learn to use the breath to balance your emotions in the middle of a sales presentation or when your car is stuck in traffic. A great session for Yoga Teachers as well as students. (Please bring your mat and do not have a heavy breakfast before class)

Interactive Lecture (2pm) This workshop will demonstrate how Yoga heals through working with both the physical and subtle layers of our being. Discover tools for taking a "back door" approach to solving our problems, whether they are physical, emotional, or mental. Yoga is designed to help us create a happier, more cheerful life. Since the emotions play a key role in our health, this is a wonderful way to learn to heal ourselves on every level.


About the Speaker Swami Vidyananda began her practice of Yoga in 1969. She is a long-time disciple of Sri Swami Satchidananda, the founder of Integral Yoga. She met her master in 1972, while working as a radio news reporter. That same year, Swami Vidyananda become an Integral Yoga® Hatha teacher, and later began training other Yoga teachers. In 1975 she took monastic vows, entering the order of Sannyas.

For many years she traveled to Europe and Canada with Swami Satchidananda, serving as his translator into French. She presently lives at Satchidananda ashram in Virginia, where she serves as the chairperson of the Integral Yoga Teachers Council, and produces videos on Yoga. Vidyananda is a very talented presenter and speaker. She is vivacious, humorous, quick-witted and joyful. She has a practical, no-nonsense approach to spirituality, and to life. She is word-traveled, and has taught to varied groups ranging from children with learning disabilities to directors of companies.
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"BEYOND CONTINUING YOGA" with Nitika Collins

About the Workshop This workshop is designed for students that are currently attending "Continuing Yoga" classes or have attended them in the past and are ready for a more challenging experience. In this class the teacher will introduce new poses, deepen the ones already learnt, exploring more in-depth the layers of our being. Be ready to test your limits in a mindful compasionate way. Self responsibililty for our own well being and the practice of AHIMSA: non-violence towards ourselves as well as to others is an important attitude to bring to class.

About the Speaker Nitika is a certified Basic and Intermediate Integral Yoga Instructor, who graduated from Yogaville Teacher Training. She is also certified as an Instructor to teach Yoga for Kids and has staffed many times the Basic TT program at Yogaville. She is part of our teachers staff at the Integral Yoga Center.
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"EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT YOGA BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK"
with Swami Asokananda, president of Satchidananda Ashram, Yogaville.

About the Interactive Lecture: Swami Asokananda will be answering questions from the audience on any topic in relation to yoga, not just as a practice on-the-mat, but as a lifestyle, philosophy, benefits, history, addressing the many ways yoga can be used and/or understood. He will be drawing from his vast personal experience of practicing yoga for a long time without interruption and great faith (as set forth by Patanjali in one of the Sutras), as well as from instructing and training yoga to thousands of students and teachers, and from his longtime relationship as a disciple and student of Gurudev, Sri Swami Satchidanandaji. In the tradition of the great masters of yoga, he will be sharing with us his wisdom in how to live life in a yogic way. Please bring your question written in an index card.

About the Speaker: Swami Asokananda serves as President of Satchidananda Ashram-Yogaville. Previously he served as President of the Integral Yoga Center of New York for 12 years. One of this organization's leading authorities on philosophy and Hatha Yoga, he instructs trainees in our Teacher Training programs across the country and abroad and develops the curricula for those programs. He also teaches multiple workshops, including very popular scripture classes on the Bhagavad Gita, Meditation and the Sutras of Patanjali. Swami Asokananda is the main trainer for the Advanced Integral Yoga Teacher Training in Yogaville and India.
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"YOGA in HIGH SCHOOLS" with Ram Bhagat and students of Open High School

Dharmabhandhu Ram Bhagat will start the program with an overview of "Yoga for Teenagers", focusing on the relationship between Yoga and Nonviolence in schools. His students will then describe the benefits of Yoga as part of the school curriculum and then each oth them will be offering their specific topics as follows:

"Yoga in High Schools" with Dharmabhandu Ram Bhagat: .Ram is a Chemistry, Anatomy, and Yoga teacher at Open High School. He is a certified Integral Yoga® Instructor who also teaches Yoga for School Teachers and Yoga & Drumming at the Richmond Integral Yoga Center.
"Yoga for Emotional Health" with Porchia Hunter: Porchia is a 17 year old junior who likes to read and meditate.
"Yoga for PMS" withTonya Maryland: Tonya is a 17 year old junior who likes to learn about self-improvement.
"Yoga for Teens" with Graylen Curtis and Gabriel Schultz: .Both Graylen and Gabe are graduating seniors. They are taking Yoga for a second semester.
"Yoga for Depression" with Nicole Stephens & Bekima Brown: Nicole is a graduating senior who is quiet at school but very outgoing away from campus. Bekima is a junior who loves Yoga Nidra.
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‘TEACHING RESTORATIVE YOGA" a workshop for Yoga Teachers & Students with Preeti Rachel Greene

About the Workshop This hands-on workshop will show you how to adapt poses or use the right “props” (pillows, blankets, bolsters, etc.) to help students reap more benefits from a yoga class and honor their bodies. Restorative asanas (passive, supported postures) are a valuable addition to a teacher’s repertoire. They are a substitute for more vigorous asanas when the mood of the class or need of the student requires it. In this workshop, we will focus in detail on a sequence of restorative postures,learning to tailor the poses for specific needs so that every student can have the experience – that moment of letting go into the pose. Recommended reading: “Relax and Renew” by Judith Lasater

About the Speaker Preeti Rachel Greene began her study of Yoga in 1989. She holds certifications in Integral Yoga®, Kripalu Yoga, Yoga of the Heart (adapting yoga for heart disease) having also staffed Nischala Devi’s Yoga of the Heart Teacher Training in Yogaville, and is an affiliated Anasura Yoga teacher. Preeti now serves as the Yoga Instructor for the Coronary Artery Disease Reversal Program (CADRe) at WalterReed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC. Her own healing journey led her to the gentle and compassionate practice of Restorative Yoga.
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"YOGA: A TREND or A LIFESTYLE" with Nora Vimala Pozzi, RYT500, PRYT

About the interactive workshop: Nora will share with the audience her experience of living yoga daily throughout critical events in her life. They include raising her teenage son, who graduated as a yoga teacher at 15; being a caregiver for 17 years for her former husband, a yoga teacher and a recipient of 3 kidney transplants, since she was 21 years old; facing divorce; being an immigrantfrom Argentina in a foreign country and learning a different culture; working fulltime as an architect for 15 years while juggling a family; running a small business; cruising through menopause and dealing with aging parents and the sudden death of her mother. If any of these circumstances seems familiar to your own or if you would like to hear how yoga can help to address your current issues in life, then come and join us on Friday Sept 12. During this interactive lecture you will be able to experience some yoga techinques to take home with you so you can use them when you need them and learn how to see difficulties as opportunities to learn and grow spiritually as you become stronger to face the next ones to come.

About Nora Vimala Pozzi: Nora has been directing the Integral Yoga Center of Richmond since 1993. She has been the director and main instructor for the Integral Yoga Teacher Training Program in Richmond since 1999. Nora has been certified in various specialties in Postgraduate Yoga Trainings suchas Yoga for the Heart, Stress Management, Prenatal, Raja Yoga, Yoga for Kids and Teens, Yoga for Arthritis, and is currently finishing her internship in Yoga for Cancer. Nora is a Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapist and is a speaker and workshop facilitator.
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KIRTAN & CHANT MUSIC with Wynne Paris

Performance Kirtan : Kirtan is a devotional form of singing and chanting traditionally performed with tabla and various Indian instruments, including the Sarod. Kirtans are "performed" by all participants joining in with the musicians as the melody and rhythms emerge spontaneously. At times the call of the lead chanter and response of the participants has a mesmerizing effect, almost like gospel spirituals. At other times the improvisation of the mucisian has an exhilarating jazz-like quality. But in all cases the kirtan participants are drawn into the music together, often eliciting an irresistible urge to join in by clapping, playing a percussion instrument, dancing, or just finding bliss within oneself.

AboutWynne Paris: Wynne is an accomplished and sought after sarod player, who has performed with well known international kirtan musicians and recording artists, most recently Krishna Das and Dave Stringer. Mixing expressions and merging styles that range from what Wynne describes as "Raga Rock" to Indian and Tibetan folk, Wynne uses tabla loops, Indian instruments, and an innovative string playing style that borrows from his previous life as a self-described "rocker". It is a spiritually funky and uplifting sound that inspires and enlivens all.
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"YOGA, HEALTH and ANATOMY" a video showing of Dr. Sandra Amrita McLanahan, MD

About the Video In this video, Dr McLanahan explains the anatomy of our body and how it works in relation to our lifestyle, what we eat, how we move and the effect it has on how we treat it. She actually draws the exact location of the various organs on a student's body, while explaining their function and how they are benefited by the Yoga postures being demonstrated. This video is a perfect aid to students as well as teachers of Yoga because it serves to deepen the appreciation and understanding of how this timeless science benefits the entire physical body. This video is a requirement of our Teacher Training curriculum, so you will share this event with our Teachers in Training.

About Dr McLanahan is founder and Executive Medical Director of Integral Health Services, a holistic health care practice in Buckingham, Virginia. She has served as Director of Stress Management for the Preventive Medicine Research Institute of San Francisco, California. She is a much sought-after speaker in the areas of nutrition, preventive and holistic medicine and stress management. A longtime student of Integral Yoga, Dr McLanahan has an extensive knowledge of the medical benefits of the Yogic practices and has been featured in Ms, Esquire, Prevention, Discover, Weight Watches and Complementary Medicine magazines and the following television programs, CBS Sunday Morning, NOVA, Bill Moyer's Healing and the Mind series and the PBS special Cholesterol Can You Cut it?

If you cannot attend this event, don't worry, her video is for sale at our center at $19.95 or you can even see her in person for a private consultation. She sees patients at the center on Fridays, with previous appointment. Call the center for more information
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BHAKTI YOGA: LOVE, What is Love? How Can We Show Love To One Another? PUJA Workshop
presented and performed by Sister MAJI from Yogaville

About the workshop: We will open the workshop with, a Puja - a beautiful, elaborate, exotic service based on a simple,familiar ritual - the welcoming of a guest. Please join us and bring something to place on the altar we will create together. It can be a religious symbol such as a cross, menorah, statute, light, scripture, sculpture or a photograph of someone (saint, sage, current religious leader, friend, family member), or a place. It simply should be something that you love and find inspiring.

About Sister Maji Chaitanya: Sister Maji is a senior disciple of Swami Satchidananda. She began her study of yoga in the early 70's in NYC, recieved her "certification" over 30 years ago in California, where she lived & taught for 7 years. In the 80's she moved to Conneticut; then to Northern Virginia, taking her love of Yoga with her. She moved to Yogaville, Virginia in 2000, received pre-monastic vows, and is currently serving in the Photo & Archival Preservation Departments. Some of her teaching credits include: United States Senate; U.S. State Department and various hospitals, churches, Senior Citizen facilities, gyms, universities, high schools, large corporations, small businesses and her local public radio/TV station.
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"DRUMMING for WORLD PEACE" - A workshop and celebration, "RHYTHMS: Yoga Drum and Dance Circle", with Ram Bhagat

About the Workshop In this celebration of health, spirituality, and creative expression, you will experience the joy of the way for you to achieve mental, physical, and spiritual freedom. Healing rhythms from Africa, Brazil, and the Caribbean will inspire you to embrace the dance of life. (Bring your own yoga mat and drum or we will provide you with one if you do not have one).

About the Speaker Ram is the Regional leader of the “Drums No Guns” national organization on violence prevention. He has presented his group of kids and teens in the city of Richmond and at various state and national events. Ramis an Integral Yoga instructor who graduated from our Richmond Teacher Program in 2001 and is currently forming a Yoga class for Teens to start this summer at the center. He is also a chemistry and yoga teacher at Open High School. Early this year Ram offered a presentation on “Yoga in High Schools” during Satsang with some of his high-school yoga students who presented the results of a semester research on various topics on Yoga.
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"DANCE & YOGA" Workshop with Nora Vimala Pozzi

About the Workshop: No previous experience with yoga or dancing required. Just bring your “dancing spirit” NOT your self-conscious or judgmental mind. Allow your natural creative forces of expression to manifest from the core of your being after an inner journey through a brief yoga class. Come to just awaken your body and discover the different layers of your being, but specially come to have fun. We'll make the different parts of our body dance, we'll dance blindfolded, we'll observe the effect of different kind of music on our delicate spirit. Open to all ages above 12 years old (some exceptions apply).

About the Speaker: Nora Vimala is a passionate dancer and experienced Integral Yoga Teacher and Trainer. She has been directing the Integral Yoga® Center of Richmond since 1993 and is a Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapist Practitioner. Dance is for her a spiritual path more than a performing act, and enjoys sharing this passion with all her students, friends and fellow teachers. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

FUNd Raiser Dance
The Latin Sounds of
Kevin Davis & BAN CARIBE Band
"Rumba with Sou"l
To support the Richmond Integral Yoga® Teacher Training Program Scholarship Fund

Saturday,  March 12, 2005, 5:30-9:00pm
Salsa Dance Lessons 5:30-6:00pm

Donation: $20 adults; $5 children
Vegetarian buffet available at $10 adults & $5 kids

Upper East Side Jazz Lounge
7103 Brook Rd (across from TheDump, furniture store)

About the FUNDRAISING:

With the support of her husband Kevin and his dynamic dance band, Shakila Maharani, who became an Integral Yoga® Teacher in May 2004, is organizing this event. She hopes to make it a yearly feature in Richmond. The Integral Yoga® Center of Richmond is a Yoga Alliance registered School of Yoga, that has been offering Teacher Training programs since 1999, having already graduated approximately 50 teachers.
The curriculum includes not only Hatha, the physical aspect of yoga, but all the different branches of yoga, including breathing, diet & nutrition, service, loving-kindness, meditation, self-inquiry, chanting, and the ethical principles of living as set up in the ancient yoga scriptures. These teachings are offered in the framework of ecumenism to further understanding among people of all faiths, races, nationalities, genders, opinions and beliefs and to the experience of inner peace
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So come alone or with your family, have FUN, be part of this event, listen or dance to the sound of the timbales, marimbas, congas, horns among other instruments and singing of “Rumba with Soul”. And enjoy knowing that you’re helping build a more hopeful future for everyone in our community.
If you cannot come to the dance, but still would like to contribute, you can mail your check to: Scholarship Fund - IYC, P.O. Box 7092, Richmond VA 23221, Re: Shakila Fundraiser. For more information please call Shakila Davis at(804) 282-8698; Nora Pozzi, IYC director at(804) 355-1008, e-mail us at info@YogaHelps.com or visit the web at www.YogaHelps.com
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COMPASSIONATE LISTENING, CLEAR SPEAKING - Friday FEBRUARY 12 - 10-12noon
A workshop on the Art of communication for Yoga Teachers and students
with Sister Maji Chaitanya

Saturday,  February 12, 2005, 10-12noon
Still Water Zen Center, 1004 Thompson St, Suite 301
(between Monument and Broad St.)
Donation $15

About the Workshop: (This workshop is part of our Teacher Training Program curriculum. Our teachers-in-Traning will be reading from short writings so that we can experience Sister Maji's teachings in a practical way..)

About Sister Maji Chaitanya: Sister Maji is a senior disciple of Swami Satchidananda. She began her study of yoga in the early 70's in NYC, recieved her "certification" over 30 years ago in California, where she lived & taught for 7 years. In the 80's she moved to Conneticut; then to Northern Virginia, taking her love of Yoga with her. She moved to Yogaville, Virginia in 2000, received pre-monastic vows, and is currently serving in the Photo & Archival Preservation Departments. Some of her teaching credits include: United States Senate; U.S. State Department and various hospitals, churches, Senior Citizen facilities, gyms, universities, high schools, large corporations, small businesses and her local public radio/TV station.

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Friday November 11, 7- 8:30 pm (chanting 6-7pm)

“Transition to a Yogic Lifestyle: Benefits, Useful Tips and How to overcome Obstacles in the way to Succeed” with Dr. Sandra Amrita cLanahan at the Still Water Zen Center, 1004 N. Thompson St, Suite# 300, 3rd floor. Suggeted Donation: $20. Please Pre-registe

About the lecture: Yoga is a unique science of body mind and spirit. It provides practices for prevention and treatment of dis-ease, physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.. In this talk by Dr. Mc Lanahan will explain the the benefits of Yoga and will give you a roadmap to a gentle transition into a healty yogic lifestyle. She will also talk about the aim of the spiritual journey and insights along the way as well as to learn to recognize the obstacles and how to overcome them. This workshop will be both lecture and experiential.

About the Speaker: Dr McLanahan is a nationally recognized authority on preventive medicine, nutrition, stress reduction, and primary family health care. She has spent extensive time in India and Asia studying a variety of ancient healing practices and has served a s Director of Stress Management Training at the Preventive Medicine Research Institute located in Sausalito, California, where for the last 20 years, she worked with Dr. Dean Ornish to document the benefits of dietary change and stress management to prevent and treat cardiovascular disease. Dr McLanahan is the author of the newly released book Surgery and its Alternatives: How to Make the Rich Choices for Your Health and is at work on a second book about the medical benefits of Yoga

Dr. Mc Lanahan will also be signing her new book entitles: “Surgery and its Alternatives”, a book in which she helps make informed decisions on when and how to use alternative and complementary medicine, either as a substitute for or as an aid to successful surgery.
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Topic: SELF-TRANSFORMATION: LOOSENING UP and LETTING GO! - Mindful Playfulness in Yoga, Meditation and Creative Self-Exploration.
Friday AUGUST 4, 6-7pm: FREE
Saturday AUGUST 5, 9:30-12:30pm - Fee: $45
with Julian Gopala Pozzi
Advanced Manual Therapy: 2927-A W. Cary St, 2nd floor. (across Capital Coffee & Byrd Theatre)
Limited space!! Register in advance.

About the workshop:   In this talk and workshop, we'll explore the idea of "loosening up", not only our physical bodies, but also of our tight restrictive sense of identity that is the cause of much of our stress. As many spiritual teachers advise us: the only thing we can depend on is change. And yet, knowing this, most of us face change with great resistance. (Why can't it, I, him, her...be different, or be the same?) Yes, our suffering can come from both sides of the equation: why did it have to change? Why isn't it changing? 
Stress can come about from any change in our life, positive or negative, because it disrupts our comfortable illusion of permanence. Many of our afflictive and painful emotions can be linked to a refusal to accept things as they are: fear, resentment, regret, guilt, disappointment, rage. 
But acceptance does not mean passive resignation. On the contrary, acceptance requires letting go of our sense of limitations to embrace a greater sense of possibility. At the core of the Buddhist notion of emptiness is the understanding that anything is possible at any time. Change may challenges us, but is also the way to our evolving sense of Self. Change pushes us to loosen up and to discover new possibilities inherent in new circumstances. At that is the essence of play and creativity: anything is possible!
Using a combination of yoga, buddhism, and creative imagination jolting exercises, we will engage the body, the heart and our innate sense of play to explore how to face change, create change and accept change. Swami Satchidananda used to say, "If you're not having fun, you're missing the point." So come have fun and play as we embrace change and transformation! 

Julian Gopala Pozzi became a certified yoga instructor in 1990. Six years later, he graduated from Earlham College, a Historic Quaker College, with a degree in Peace and Global Studies. In 1998, he resided at Yogaville Ashram for a year as the Director of the Integral Yoga Teachers Association, where he was a founding staff member of the Children Teacher Training Program. Since 2001, he has lived in New York, working in the art world. He is currently in his third year of his MFA at Columbia University in the Theater Department in the Playwrighting Program.  He has studied Buddhism with Robert Thurman and is deeply invested in the study of Jungian and Archetypal psychology, as well as Western and Easter astrology. 
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Topic: BLOOMING GARDENIAS: Richmond Alternative HEALTH EXPO
sponsored by Natural Awakening Magazine
Saturday SEPTEMBER 15, 10am:4:00pm
at Richmond Raceway Complex
Fee: FREE to the public

About the event: The mission of the Richmond Alternative Health Expo is to expand awareness of natural alternative health into less informed areas of the Richmond community.  Come meet 200 practitioners of 100+ holistic practices. Please check their website for more info at: www.rvaHealthExpo.com

About our Booth: Nora Vimala Pozzi, director of the Integral Yoga Center of Richmond, will be manning the booth on YOGA THERAPY. She will be offering information on the Therapeutic value of Yoga as it is applied to different health conditions such as Cancer, Heart Disease, Arthritis, Fibromyalgia, asthma, as well as mental and emotional imbalances. She will be also presenting information on Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy (PRYT). Nora offers currently yoga therapy private sessions and Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy, at the Center of Integrative Medicine. (see our page on PRYT) The following is an article written by Elissa Cobb, co-director of PRYT regarding yoga therapy written after the first Symposiun on Ygoa Therapy at LA on Jan/07, which Nora Pozzi attended:

"The Los Angeles Airport Hilton Hotel was recently overrun with thousands of Yoga teachers and Yoga therapists at the first Symposium on Yoga Therapy and Research, created by The International Association of Yoga Therapists. ...As the number of Yoga therapy practitioners grows worldwide, as Yoga becomes more accessible to all individuals, and as data from research on Yoga’s effectiveness reaches mainstream health care providers, so grows the debate over the need for defining Yoga Therapy and creating standards of care for the vast number of approaches to this valuable profession.The symposium posed the question,“What is Yoga Therapy?” It is a good question to ask, but it comes with as many answers as there are styles of Yoga. None of them are “wrong” and none of them are “right.” We enjoy a wealth of diversity in the Yoga world, and yet we all attempt to move toward one thing – “union.” And there are apparently many ways to get there. Michael Lee’s (Founder of Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy) shortest definition of Yoga Therapy is that it is a practice or method that produces a “change from one state of being to another state of being that is enhancing.” His definition is perhaps the simplest way to describe the overall power of Yoga therapy, without being exclusive of any type or style that is offered. Phoenix Rising is unique in the world of Yoga Therapy for several reasons, two of which seem the most noticeable. While other Yoga therapies are more physically therapeutic, PRYT is more psychologically therapeutic, while still being a body-oriented practice. And while other methods are prescriptive in nature, PRYT relies on empowering individuals to recognize and identify their own abilities to create and enact positive life change from the inside out". For more info on PRYT, check their web site: www.pryt.com

Note: Please remember to visit also the boothsr: " Yoga Retreats" by YOGAVILLE, the headquarters of Integral Yoga® International, and "Alternative Medicine" with Dr. Lindley Smth, medical director of the Center of Integrative Medicine, where we offer our weekly classes and yoga therapy sessions.
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Topic: YOGA FOUNDATIONS: Non-Attachment and Yoga Practice - A weekend Retreat in Yogaville
Friday DECEMBER 8 through Sunday DECEMBER 10
with Nora Vimala Pozzi, RYT500, PRYT
Satachidananda Ashram, Yogaville, Buckingham County, Virginia
Call 800-858-YOGA (9642) or check www.yogaville.ORG for information on dirctions, fees and acommodations.

About the workshop:   Imagine yourself at your very best in all circumstances: Peaceful in the midst of chaos. Able to offer unconditional love. Happily in touch with your true nature, your Higher Power. The many pracitces of Integral Yoga can help you experience all this and more. During this program, you will explore the power of Hatha Yoga, Pranayama (breathing practices) and meditation as tools to access your true state of vibrant good health, and peace and clarity of mind. There will also be discussion on how to apply key wisdom teachings from the Yoga Sutras and the important yet often-misunderstood yogic practice of non-attachment (vairagya). As we learn not to cling to peolpe, things and outcomes, we become more caring and vibrant human beings. Life's possibilityies open before us and invite us in. Join Vimala Pozzi and find out how to improve your life through these dynamic practices. Designed for all levels of experience, this workshop oculd be just what you need to leap over obstacles and be yor very best.

Nora Vimala Pozzi, RYT500, PRYT: has been the Director ofIntegral Yoga Center of Richmond since 1993 and has been the Director of Richmond Integral Yoga Teacher Training Program since 1999. Vimala is certified to teach Integral Yoga Hatha from Beginners' to Advanced levels, Yoga for Stress Management, Raja Yoga, Prenatal Yoga, Yoga for Kids and Teens, Cardiac Yoga and Yoga for People with Cancer. She is also a Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapist and a student of Zen. Vimala has cordinated Yoga classes for the Columbia Hospital Systems in Richmond and taught in numerous settings including prisons, colleges, corporations and government agencies. Vimala has been a speaker at the Teachers' Conerences at Yogaville and has staffed and assisted teachng stress Managementt TT and Yoga for Cancer TT. Her passion is Raja Yoga, which she incorportates into all of her classes.
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Topic: GLOBAL MALA PROJECT: Yoga as Peace in Action
with the participation of the Richmond Yoga Centers: Yoga Source, Just Be Yoga, Ashtanga Yoga and Integral Yoga®
Sunday, SEPTEMBER 23, 8am-12:00noon
at Yoga Source: 3122 W. Cary St.
Friday SEPTEMBER 21, 5:30pm
108 Sun Salutations at Ashtanga Yoga Richmond
Fee: Donations to benefit the organization of your choice

About the event in Richmond:
Schedule at Yoga Source, Sunday Sept. 23:
8-10am: 108 Sun Salutations with Tia Platte, co-director of Yoga Source ("You do not have to complete the 108 Sun Salutations, your presence is all that is necessary to help make a difference!!," Tia Platte)
10:15-10:30am: Yoga Nidra (Deep Relaxation) with Nora Vimala Pozzi, director of Integral Yoga Center
10:30-11am:: Guided Meditation, with Nora
11-11:15am: Sacred Mantra Invocatins lead by Nora
11:15-11:45am: Kirtan and Chanting with Lydia Griffith and Nalini Fazenbaker of Just Be Yoga
11:45-12noon: Closing Mantras for World Peace with Nora Pozzi and teachers of Just Be Yoga

About this International Event:
PURPOSE: The purpose of the Global Mala Project is to unite the global yoga community from every continent in the world, forming a "mala around the earth" through collective practices based upon the sacred cycle of 108. On September 21st - 23rd, Fall Equinox and the United Nations International Day of Peace, studios, teachers and organizations across the globe will create fundraising celebrations, raising funds and awareness for some of the most essential issues of our timesThe largest unified worldwide yoga event, dedicated to positive change, in the history of the planet. Fundraising celebrations will consist of meditation, yoga, music and  dance, with paradigm shifting speakers, workshops and educational programs.  Yoga centers and like minded organizations will experience the power of collective consciousness by creating a Peace Wave around the world. Hong Kong, Tokyo, Munich, London, Rome, Rio, Barcelona, Sydney, Manila, Vancouver, Athens, Mexico City, and cities all across the US, have already begun their grassroots efforts toward human action for change. Align yourself with the collective conscious and make a difference
US Organizing Council:
Shiva Rea (Catalyst), Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa, Seane Corn, Julia Butterfly Hill, Michael Franti
US Teachers Council and growing...
Ram Dass · Baron Baptiste · Kofi Busia · Nicole Doane · Ana Forrest · Richard Freeman · John Friend · Sharon Gannon · Sally Kempton · Gary Kraftsow · Cindi Lee · David Life · Tias Little · Timothy McCall · Elise Miller · Tim Miller · Eddie Modestini · Aadil Palkhivala · Sarah Powers · Saul David Raye · Tracey Rich · Desiree Rumbaugh · Erich Schiffmann · Ganga White · Mark Whitwell · Krishna Kaur
Supporting Activists, Musicians, Creative Artists:
Krishna Das · Donna de Lory · Girish · Deva Premal & Miten · Dave Stringer · Jai Uttal · Wah! · Chris Blackwell · Bruno Guez · Reverend Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith · Ziggy Marley · Sting & Trudie Styler · Jennifer Aniston · Courteney Cox & David Arquette · Rosanna Arquette · Rick Rubin · Elizabeth Berkley
ACTION & INSPIRATION
"Many scientists are now warning that we are moving closer to several "tipping points" that could within as little as 10 years make it impossible for us to avoid irretrievable damage to the planet's habitability for human civilization." - Al Gore
DONATIONS: All funds raised from the Global Mala Project will go directly to the organization of your choice. The following organizations have specific projects that the yoga world can collectively support, taking action to improve the critical issues of our times: Global Warming, AIDS prevention, and the effects of poverty and war. You can select one of these groups or dedicate your fundraising efforts to another seva organization of your choice.
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Topic: YOGA & PEACE Workshop, a Fundraising event to benefit the Richmond Peace Education Center
facilitated by Nora Vimala Pozzi, E-RYT500; PRYT, director of the Integral Yoga® Center of Richmond.
Saturday SEPTEMBER 29, 10:00-12:00noon
at Richmond Friends Meeting House, 4500 Kensington Ave
Fee: $20 in advance; $25 at the door (providing there is still space available)

About the workshop: What do the principles of yoga teach us about living a life of peeace? In this 2-hour workshop we will discuss the concept of "Ahimsa": non-violence or non-harming, in thought, word and deed and "Satya", truthfullness/honesty or non-lying, which represent the first two Yamas or Code of Behavior according to the ancient Yogic texts, the Sutras of Patanjali. These two principles were the basis for Gandhi's "Satyagraha" movement to liberate India from the English Empire in a non-violent way. Italso served as a model for Dr. Martin Luther King's civil right movement. The 45 minutes interactive presentation will be followed by an Integral Yoga Hatha class where we will be guided to apply these concepts to our personal practice on the mat. Open to all levels of experience, including beginners or people with physical limitations. To Register send a check to RPEC, 400 W. 32nd St, Richmond, Va 23225 wiht "yoga" in the memo line. For more information please call 232-1002 or e-mail rpec@rpec.org.

About Nora Pozzi: Nora Vimala Pozzi, ERYT 500, PRYT is the Director of Integral Yoga® Center of Richmond since 1993 and has been the Director of the Richmond Integral Yoga® Teacher Training Program since 1999..   She is certified in Advanced Hatha Yoga Instructor and in Yoga for Stress Management, Raja Yoga, Prenatal Yoga, Yoga for Kids and Teens, and Cardiac Yoga, and Yoga for People with Cancer Teacher Training.   Additionally, she has attended the Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Program (MBSR) and is a Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapist with a current practice in Richmond at the Center of Integrative Medicine. Nora has been a speaker and presenter at many yoga conferences and various public and private organizations, and has been part of the Raja Yoga TT teaching Staff. Nora has contributed in many ways over the years to the RPEC offering yoga classes and individual sessions for their annual fundraising and has worked as a graphic designer for the RPEC's newsletter for many years.