Valentine Couple Massage

CelebrateValentines this year by giving each other a relaxing massage; a bonding, loving act that is sure to wow your special someone.  Learn basic  Swedish massage and acupressure techniques to relax the entire body, calm the nerves, and feel energetically connected to your beloved. Rukhshana will teach you how to release  tension in the upper and lower back, shoulders, neck and head, and finish up with a delicious and totally relaxing foot massage. Oils will be provided, along with  romantic ambience created with candle light, music, & aromatherapy! 

Rukhshana Surty, Director of Harmoni Holistic Center, is a Body-Mind Therapist, (deep-tissue and emotional release work), and teacher of Breathwork, Meditation, Yoga and Massage.

Date: Saturday, February 12

Time: 4:00 - 6:30 PM  (and a dinner date afterwards??)

Cost: $75 per couple (book early for this popular workshop)

Relaxation Massage Course

(30 hours - weekends)

9:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Rukhshana Surty

Many people feel that their lives are missing a purpose or some goal that they can't quite identify or reach. Here is a list of some of the common limiting beliefs that keep us from succeeding at what we set out to do, and things we can do to change them.

1. Rationalizing the way things are. The belief sounds like this: Things are OK the way they are now and I don't need to change. We become addicted to a certain comfort level. Family, friends and companies want you to stay where you are too because you are consistently providing them with the things that they want. If you stay there, the deep sacred part that makes you unique will wither and die. By the age of forty, many people experience spiritual demise in the form of depression, illness, injuries and relationship problems. A more constructive paradigm is to do activities that you are uniquely suited to do which draw upon your special talents and strengths. Then you are living your life's purpose.
2. Demand resistance is a chronic and automatic negative response to any expectations or demands by others on you. Some examples are feeling anger or resentment when someone asks you to do something, or finding every excuse not to follow advice from a well intentioned friend. Demand resistance can also arise when you set goals for yourself without conscious reflection and then unconsciously sabotage them. (did someone say New Year's Resolutions?),  The result is anger and frustration with yourself. A constructive way to begin to change this is to recognize it when it   happens. Notice negative self talk when you are demand resistant. Demand resistant people say things like "I have to do this" or "I should ..."  Consciously replace "shoulds" and "have to's" with "I choose to". Eventually you will choose to do the things that will further your life's purpose.
3. Perfectionism is characterized by all or nothing thinking. The thinking is, "If I can't do it perfectly then I won't try to do it at all".  Rationally, we all realize that it's impossible to be perfect but the drive for perfection is not based on rational thought. A healthier way to temper perfectionism is to identify the fear that underlies it. One common fear is lack of self esteem. The belief is that if I don't act perfectly then people will see me the way I really am and they won't like me. A more powerful belief is that "I can do things well and people will like me".
4. Fear of failure. We are conditioned by school to associate failure with negative consequences like parental animosity, summer school or repeating the grade. Many would rather live small and not take a risk that might lead to failure and dredge up painful memories but which could also lead to success. A more constructive paradigm is to associate failure with not reaching the goal that you set yourself and then using it as an opportunity to learn something valuable in the process. 
5. Fear of success. If you have an image of yourself as being flawed in some way, or if  you think that your success will result in outshining someone you care about, then you will self sabotage your own success or prevent it form happening in the first place. Here's an example: If I believe that I am a bad person, and also that bad people do not deserve success.  As I come closer to succeeding, the incongruence between my values and my success becomes greater and will cause me to sabotage, (undermine), my success. A way to identify if you have a fear of success is to ask yourself, "What will be different for me if I succeed at this?" Do the pros of your success outweigh the cons?

Sometimes we are consciously aware of our limiting beliefs but more often we have formed these beliefs in childhood and buried them so deeply that we are no longer conscious of them. If you have discovered a repetitive pattern of failure, for example your relationships always break down for the same reason, or people you meet always treat you with the same lack of respect, then you are spinning your wheels and acting out a hidden limiting belief over and over again. To learn more about how to identify and change hidden beliefs so that you can achieve your full potential, here are some further resources that you can check into:

 Awakening Mindfulness Course at Harmoni (8weeks - Feb.10-Mar.31)

"The Big Leap" by Dr. Gay Hendricks

Andreea is an electrical engineer who fell in love with yoga four years ago. She has taught Meridian Yoga since 2009. The focus of her classes is relaxation by using breath, calmness and stretching. This past Christmas, Andreea created and animated a ten day Meridian Cleansing Healing Yoga Retreat. She also presents workshops at Harmoni.

 

Andrea teaches Meridian Yoga at 6:30 on Mondays, Gentle Yoga on Monday at 8:00 PM, Yoga on Tuesdays at 2:00 PM and Wednesday mornings at 9:30 AM.

 

Ariane is Ashtanga certified and blends

Chi Kung and Meditation practices to help

calm and regenerate the body-mind.  She

loves teaching people of all ages including

children, teenagers, and older adults and is

an active and avid pursuer of many types of

healing techniques such as acupressure,

energywork and breathwork. 

June teaches the Yoga for Energy class on Wednesdays at 6:30, and Yoga classes on Saturday morning at 9:30 and Sunday Morning at 10:00 AM

Mahan Atma is a certified Kundalini and Hatha Yoga Instructor. She has attended white tantric meditation to clear her subconscious. Mahan Atma is also an artist and poet.. Always full of energy she also designs and animates workshops. (See Healing Kryias on Feb 26)

Mahan Atma teaches yoga on Monday Mornings at 9:30, Thursday at 5:00 PM, and Meditation for Stress Relief  every Tuesday evening at 7:45

Marie is a certified Hatha Yoga Teacher from the Omega Centre in New York and a Polarity & Cranial Sacral Therapist from the New Mexico Centre of the Healing Arts. Her inspiring classes focus on Hatha Yoga, breathwork, going within, and feeling movements from the inside out. She is an enthusiastic and compassionate teacher who brings joy and laughter to every class she teaches. Always growing and learning, Marie firmly believes that yoga is not a group of movements to be imitated, but rather a journey to experience and live your life by. Marie helped design and teach a yoga teacher certification program at Harmoni and then took time off to welcome baby no.2.  A warm WELCOME BACK to Marie!