Yoga Teachers of Colorado September 2010 Newsletter

Asana Yoga Studio, Arvada
Susan Merrill has owned Asana Studio in Golden for eight years. As time went by, she envisioned that the perfect yoga studio would feel like: a home, on a tree-lined street, surrounded by gardens. It would include places to sit and have tea after class with new friends. There would be crowds of children, moms, dads, babies, old, and young.

The studio would have high ceilings with natural lighting using lots of windows and sky lights. The atmosphere would be happy, easy, nurturing.

And all this would be a short walking distance into town.

Susan found just the perfect place in Olde Town Arvada and has materialized her vision. Opening August 18, 2010, there will be classes in meditation, vinyasa, pre-natal, alighment, hips and shoulders, and gentle yoga

Children's yoga will have special emphasis with the availability of a second room. Children's classes will be offered in conjunction with the adult classes. The disabled and wheelchair-bound will find classes specifically designed to meet their needs. There are also two more rooms for massages and other treatments.

Susan feels like her realized vision of an ideal yoga studio is her gift to the community. The old bungalow at the corner of 57th and Yukon has been the perfect place to reclaim and build something wonderful.

Asana Yoga Studio in Olde Town Arvada
5701 Yukon, Arvada 80002
303-437-6666
e-mail: susan@asanastudio.com
website: www.asanastudio.com

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Kosha Yoga--Littleton
Despite firm resistance to opening a yoga studio because of the intense amount of time and work involved, Carrie Searles has finally relented.

After teaching yoga since 1995, she began to notice that there was a strong imbalance in the local community offerings of yoga. Hot yoga, power yoga, and vinyasa yoga all had a strong voice and presence. Yet there was a distinct shortage of studios offering a gentle, classical hatha yoga approach, her kind of yoga.

Carrie decided that she was the change that needed to be made to resolve the situation. Taking two years off from teaching yoga, she got her MBA from Denver University. Upon graduation, Carrie immediately went to work designing Kosha Yoga Studio in Littleton.

Carrie relates, "The main philosophy at Kosha Yoga is to create a supportive and save environment for our Self-discovery; cultivating and nurturing peace through our practice."

This will be a studio for teachers to learn and find community. The upcoming continuing education workshops include asana and alignment, yoga philosophy, pranayama and meditation classes (taught in the style of Baba Hari Das at Mount Madonna), yoga nidra, and Sanskrit. There will be Ayurvedic cook Amadea Morningstar (who wrote Ayurvedic Cooking and Ayurveda for Westerners) early next year.

Kosha has two rooms offering basic massage treatments. In the near future, ayurevedic treatments such as abhyanga, shirodhara and swedhana will be available. A structural yoga therapist is on staff who is also an RN, for anyone needing something more than just PT.

Starting September 6th Tom Fuhrmann and the Littleton Kirtan Gang will perform kirtan every Thursday night at 7:30 pm.

Kosha Yoga
1500 W. Littleton Blvd, Littleton
303-875-2438
e-mail: carrie@yogarific.com