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Intuitive Health: Yoga for your Spirit

September 18, 2009
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Kari Samuels will be leading a series of workshops titled Intuitive Health at Yoga Matrika in October and November.

Intuitive Health: Balancing your Body, Mind and Spirit

We are all born with an intuitive awareness that guides us, protects us, and helps us make purposeful decisions.  Through subtle messages from our body and our circumstances, our inner guidance communicates with us, leaading us towards our natural state of joy, vitality, and self-esteem.  This fun, interactive class offers tools for transforming your life form the inside out.  You will learn how to increase your positive energy, reclaim your power, and start living the prosperous healthy life you deserve.

October 21: Listening to your Body’s Wisdom
Every day you are receiving messages from your body that guide you towards your personal truth.  In this workshop, you will learn now to listen to those subtle messages, so you can make empowering choices for your body and your life.

October 28: Mapping Your Inner Landscape
In this dynamic interactive class, you will explore your sacred architecture–the seven major energy centers of the body (chakras) and the human energy field, otherwise known as the aura.  We will explore the many ways that your body reveals your personal blueprint, and ways you can create lasting change in your life through balancing your energy.

November 4: Positive Energy
Our outer world is a reflection of our internal reality.  When we learn how to heal our fears and limitations, we can create more peaceful harmonious circumstances.  This class offers practical techniques towards growth, healing and love.  Practiced daily, these techniques will result in more joy, vitality, passion, and purpose.

November 11: The Energy of Relationships
We can attract and maintain healthy relationships when we understand the energy dynamics that transpire between ourselves and others.   Through meditation and exercises, you will learn how to protect yourself against energy drains, create healthy boundaries, and live more compassionately towards yourself and others.

Register for workshops here: http://dharmatribeonline.com/matrika/index.php?tab=2

Find out more about Kari Samuels here: http://www.karisamuels.com/index.html

Posted by Sharon Fennimore Rudyk
Owner and Director of Yoga Matrika in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
https://www.yogamatrika.com/

Yoga Matrika Schedule

August 31, 2009
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Creating a schedule of yoga classes for Yoga Matrika has always provided me with great illumination and inspiration.  When I first opened the little studio on South Negley, I was teaching the majority of classes myself and a number of very talented local instructors generously agreed to teach a few classes each week.  But, for the most part, it was me and there were less than 10-classes on the schedule each week.  The reality of finding talented instructors who were a good match for Yoga Matrika proved to be one of my earliest challenges in this business.

Then, what started to happen was that the Universe started to send me fabulous instructors and many of these teachers have shaped the path of Yoga Matrika.  For example, Heidi —–an angel who took over at the studio without any guidance when I needed to travel for my grandmother’s funeral.  And Julie who became one of the community’s favorite prenatal instructors after agreeing to take some of my own classes without very much guidance or support.  And Bethany, who inspired me to stay with my prenatal passions even when I was feeling open to letting go of these programs all together.  The list of instructors who have gently, and sometimes not so gently, shaped my experience and the growth of Yoga Matrika is long.

This autumn, the new schedule that starts on September 1st, is one that I am incredibly proud to offer to the community.  There are over 27-drop in class options each week including four prenatal yoga classes and three class options for postnatal moms.  Every single instructor on the schedule is accomplished and dedicated to the profession of yoga and sharing what they have to offer with the Yoga Matrika community.  It is the most comprehensive class schedule that Yoga Matrika has ever offered.

In addition to theese 27-drop in classes, Yoga Matrika offers series of classes that provide opportunities for deep study in an intimate setting with some of Pittsburgh’s most talented and diverse instructors.  Workshops are scheduled with Lisa Clark (EmbodiYoga) and KK Ledford (Anusara) and Yoga Matrika offers the only prenatal yoga teacher training program in Western Pennsylvania.

I’m delighted to start this new season and I hope that you will find a class or two (or three!) that work with your schedule and offer the style and pace of yoga or pilates that you desire so that you can join me in supporting this fabulous team and comprehensive schedule.