I’m taking matrika style on the go and you can find me offering yoga and meditation classes on Sundays and Mondays at mookshi wellness center!  Save your space in a series today.  I’m also offering a workshop for women and one for meditators.  I hope to see you at mookshi soon!

GROUP CLASSES

Mindful Flow
Join me for this esoteric bliss mission!  In this yoga series open to all levels, we move with the breath creating joy in open awareness.  As our practice is a moving meditation, we use a variety of poses, breathing exercises and visualization techniques from Chinese, Tibetan and Indian yoga traditions to create flexibility and strength in body, mind and spirit.  This healing practice will help you feel centered, relaxed and inspired.  Enjoy a stronger and more flexible body as you build a foundation for profound happiness and tranquility.

SERIES I: Mondays, March 4, 11, 18 and April 1 from 10:00-11:15 am
SERIES II: Mondays, April 8, 15, 22, 29  from 10:00-11:15 am
Tuition: $60 for each series of 4-classes or $18 to drop-in on single classes (as space permits)
Register by contacting Sharon at (412) 855-5692 or send an e-mail to: sharon@yogamatrika.com

 

Meditation
Do you feel down, scattered, overwhelmed, anxious or bored?  Is your stress level out of hand?  Or, perhaps you have a regular meditation practice that feels stale and you need a new infusion of ideas, skills and inspiration to get you back on your cushion?  Regardless of your reason, join Sharon for this open-level meditation series where we will learn a variety of meditation skills for both seated and moving meditation practices.  Everyone can meditate and no experience is required.  After each session you will not only feel remarkably happier, but you will have very specific skills for practicing at home and on the go.

SERIES I: Sundays, February 24, March 3, 10, 17 from 11:00-12:15 pm
SERIES II: Sundays, April 7, 14, 21, 28 from 11:00-12:15 pm
Tuition: $60 for each series of 4-classes or $18 to drop-in on single classes (as space permits)
Register by contacting Sharon at (412) 855-5692 or send an e-mail to: sharon@yogamatrika.com

 

WORKSHOPS

PERIOD.
A workshop for women facilitated by Sharon F. Rudyk
SUNDAY, April 14, 2013 from 1:00 to 3:30 pm
$35 (tuition includes a cycle tracker kit and all handouts)

Register by calling Sharon (412) 855-5692 or by sending an e-mail to: sharon@yogamatrika.com

In this workshop, you will be re-introduced to your amazing menstrual cycle on physical, spiritual and energetic levels.  The cost of the workshop includes a kit with everything you need to learn about fertility signs and tracking the length and phases of your own unique cycle.  Never be surprised by your period again!  You will learn a unique yoga-based meditation to tune into the energy your moon cycle to help you time creative projects, big decisions and times for rest and rejuvenation.  Respect your natural energetic rhythms and learn self-care techniques for PMS, painful periods and pelvic pain from the seemingly mysterious to ovarian cysts and other challenges to fertility and reproductive health for women.  This workshop is for women of all ages and in all phases of cycling.  Young women under the age of 17 may enjoy attending with a wise woman who is over the age of 25 who can support them in understanding this alternative approach to women’s health and wellness.  Even if you are entering menopause or have experienced menopause, this workshop will be enlightening and you will learn techniques for greater health that you will use each and every day.  This workshop is a beautiful way to heal your relationship with the cyclical nature of womanhood and embrace one of your greatest powers.

Location: möökshï wellness center, above Biddle’s Escape Café at 401 Biddle Avenue, Pittsburgh
www.mookshi.com   or call (412) 407-7829

 

YOGA for MEDITATORS
A workshop facilitated by Sharon F. Rudyk
SUNDAY, April 28, 2013  from 1:00-3:00 pm
$25

Register by calling Sharon (412) 855-5692 or by sending an e-mail to: sharon@yogamatrika.com

In this workshop, we will explore a variety of yoga-based movements for body and breath that help prepare the body, mind and spirit for meditation.  Sharon will introduce practice ideas for meditators who want to do yoga to help solve common obstacles faced by adults with a regular meditation practice.  We look at ways to increase energy, calm agitation, relieve stress, open the hips and ease back tension.  In this active workshop we explore asana that provide support for a seated meditation practice and a few restorative and rejuvenating tricks that super-charge the benefits of meditation.  You will learn how to find a more comfortable seat, address aches and pains associated with a seated practice and find relief for physical obstacles that may be preventing you from enjoying a rewarding meditation practice experience.

Location: möökshï wellness center, above Biddle’s Escape Café at 401 Biddle Avenue, Pittsburgh
www.mookshi.com   or call (412) 407-7829

 

About Sharon

Sharon F. Rudyk, MA, E-RYT, RPYT, DONA trained birth doula, has over twenty-years of experience with personal practice and teaching yoga and meditation.  Her practice and teachings are informed not only by her advanced studies with Jill Satterfield in Vajra Yoga, embodied anatomy with Mark Chandlee Taylor and vipassana meditation with Bhante Pema of the Pittsburgh Buddhist Center, but also from academic research in medical anthropology and East Asian studies.  Sharon’s goal is to facilitate a deep practice that starts with an invitation.  We are invited to explore the tools of the human experience: sensation, movement, awareness, breath and relationship and how we can use them to bring ourselves relief and to a place of well being.  Find out more about Sharon’s unique style of yoga that includes a carefully selected combination of techniques and practices from Tibetan, Chinese and Indian yoga traditions through her website: www.sharonrudykyoga.com.  Interested in all things related to “great expectations” and Sharon’s birth doula services?  Then check out: www.pittsburghyogadoula.com.