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NEW FALL WORKSHOPS AND CLASSES
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Managing Tension Headaches and Migraines with Yoga
Workshop with Trish Robbins - Sunday Nov 7th 1-4 p.m. at the JCC
To register click here.
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Critical Alignment Therapy
with Sherryn Rault.
Ideal for anyone, especially those suffering chronic pain from injury, stress or repetitive strain. For beginners and continuing students.
Wellington Square December 5 1:00 - 4:00 PM $65.00 + GST
To register click here
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MARGOT KITCHEN PRANAYAMA
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Major Workshop
Learn how yoga helps you find balance physically, mentally, and spiritually in all aspects of your life.This is a workshop for anyone practicing Iyengar Yoga regularly for a year or more.Margot is one of Canada's most popular and senior Iyengar Yoga Teachers. She has a reputation for precision and clarity laced with a rich dose of humor and compassion.
PranayamaControlling the breath is a key element in yoga. Senior Iyengar yoga teacher Margot Kitchen presents one more 2-hour class Pranayama (breath work) classes. If you missed the first two workshops in Sept and Oct we recommend you have some experience of Pranayama.Saturday Dec. 4th - 1 to 3 p.m.To Register Click HereRelax with Restorative YogaLearn postures to keep you balanced during the challenges of the Christmas season. Calm the mind, cool the brain, balance the intelligence of the head with the intelligence of the heart. Saturday October 23rd - 1 to 4 pm To register click hereMargot's Tuesday 5.30 pm Intermediate classes in the fall at Wellington Square:November 30December 7
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Some newer
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Very popular in Northwest Calgary, Kelly Cooper is now offering an intermediate class on Thursday evenings at 7.30 pm at Wellington Square.
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Andrew Jackson is offering a registered-only one-hour Discover class at the Calgary JCC Wednesday mornings at 6.15 am. New session starts this week. Click here to register
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CALGARY WOMEN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER
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Yoga Studio South is a proud supporter of the Calgary Women's Emergency Shelter
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Greetings!
 | | Safe Hamstring stretch done with correct alignment using a strap |
Misconceptions about yogaThe commonest reason I hear for not doing yoga is that "I am too stiff!" This would be like fearing to enrol for French lessons because "I don't know any French!" There are many misconceptions about yoga. A woman came up to me after a recent talk I gave on yoga and said she had taken one yoga class in her life and had never gone back because everything happened so fast, no one explained how to do the poses and everyone was competing with each other. Now she is inspired to take it up again. I explained in my talk that Iyengar Yoga was non-competitive and the use of props enabled people of all ages and levels of fitness to do the poses with correct alignment. I told her that holding the pose longer enhanced the benefit and enabled her to find the correct alignment without being rushed. That is what changed her mind.
 Yoga Studio South Director PS You should be able to see all the pictures and text in this newsletter without distortions or glitches. If your email program is distorting the layout, then click on the link at the very top of this newsletter and view the page correctly in your web browser.
Also, if your first name does not display correctly please hit "reply" and let us know so we can fix it. Thank you. |
| Cirque du Soleil comes to Yoga Studio South |
. . . .Singer seeks out an Iyengar Yoga class
 | | Tara Baswani of Cirque du Soleil |
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Tara fell and injured her back in 2009. Nothing was helping her recover and get back to work. Finally "after two months and three cortisone shots later, I found myself in San Diego, itching to get back to the stage, and fighting a foot that would go constantly numb, a leg that refused to stay strong, and an L5/S1 disc that bulged its way to severe pain most days."
At her wits' end she called an Iyengar studio and took Iyengar Yoga classes, which had helped her
recover from an earlier fall in 2000. She was able to get back on her feet again in days. Since that time she has been an avid Iyengar Yoga fan and tries to get her colleagues to take classes too.She recently attended classes and workshops with Margot Kitchen and Rob Walker at Yoga Studio South. |
Teacher Training
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Teacher Training Program
There are still spots in the teacher training program that begins January 2011. Remember you don't need to be a pretzel and you don't even need to want to be a yoga teacher.
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If you have questions email Rob Walker at this link.Check out the full program details by clicking here.
Yoga Teacher Refresher Weekends
For existing teachers we are offering five refresher weekend courses from January to May. Find more details by clicking here.
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Our Survey Winners!
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 | | A record 380 people filled out the survey |
Most of you are pretty happy with what we do
Congratulation to Kate Pooley and Gord Dickson who won the ten class passes in our recent prize survey. We were excited to see from the survey that two out of every three survey respondents were highly satisfied with Yoga Studio South classes. A further 25 per cent were somewhat satisfied. Less than two per cent were dissatisfied.
But we are not resting on our laurels. We are carefully reading and digesting the hundreds of comments you made about us and considering ways to do better! If you didn't get a chance to fill out the survey it is still available for a few more days by clicking here.
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Your say now . . . .
Heather by email: "I have MS and found the classes extremely helpful to  build core strength and balance. I have only been able to do the "intro to yoga" classes and that's okay. Unfortunately I had to stop as life got in the way. Things are finally getting back to normal and I am looking forward to returning. I believe that for people with MS (depending on how aggressive it is) yoga can be VERY helpful. Thank you for having such great instructors."
Comments from survey respondents:
- We really like the high quality teaching at the JCC. We went to other classes and came back to the JCC because we liked it the best.- Yoga is one of the events I look forward to each week. I am happy to have discovered it.- When I first purchased a pass for the Yoga Studio, I was asked why I chose it. I answered, "Well, your location is really convenient for me". I was told, convenience has got nothing to do with it, you come here because we are the best in the city. And you know what, after attending just the discover classes (and purchasing a 1-month pass), you were absolutely right.- I appreciate the training and expertise that is required to be an instructor at the yoga studios.- Great classes, very professional but friendly staff. Most instructors take their teaching role very seriously.- The calibre of the teachers is consistent and high. I like the environment as well and the friendliness of the teachers and staff.- Best Studio in town.- The quality of instruction is consistently very high.- One of the best Yoga Studios in Calgary that I have been to!- With every sunrise, I look forward to the yoga class of the day and realize how serene and calming it is to be in a yogic state of mind.Thank you and your team of teachers for a blissful yoga experience and I hope to continue practicing it for life.."
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| Painting Wellington Square |
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Come and Check it out!
We had the two rooms at the Wellington Square Yoga Studio South location painted this weekend by K C Painting. The colors are Ivory, Grey and White in line with Yoga Studio North. The Benjamin Moore Aura paint is low odor and environmentally friendly. Hope you like it. |
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Nothing to do with yoga . . .
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Do you know who . . .
never heard the word "yoga" and yet coined some 2,000 new  words in the English language and invented the phrases, one fell swoop, in my mind's eye, more in sorrow than in anger, to be in a pickle, bag and baggage, vanish into thin air, budge an inch, play fast and loose, go down the primrose path, the milk of human kindness, the sound and the fury, to thine own self be true, to be or not to be, cold comfort, salad days, flesh and blood, foul play, tower of strength, to be cruel to be kind?
The answer is on page 65 in the fascinating book, The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson.
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