UPLIFT; Yoga, Dance and Coaching for a Life Worth Loving: Workshops and Yoga Dance

UPLIFT YOGA DANCE

6 week Series

Uplift Yoga Dance will be back in the fall! A time to turn slightly more inwards and re-nourish, remembering and realigning with our beautiful creative playful selves after the busyness of summer. Through dance!

Details:

6 weeks of lunch-hour awesomeness for WOMEN through Yoga Dance

at Contemporary Dance and Fitness Studio ( 18 Langdon St., Montpelier)

Tuesdays ( look for specific dates by the end of August)

12:05pm-12:55pm ( time to get from and back to work!)

Cost for series is $72

( after there are at least 6 people signed up I will offer drop-ins for $15 per class)

More movement, less talk. That's how this 6 week series will go. I'll spend less time focused on themes and intro talks, more time guiding movement of all wonderful types, so we can maximize our time during the lunch hour to celebrate being in our bodies . (No worries, if you want the deep juicy themed Yoga Dance, look for the fall and winter workshops, to be announced eventually...)

I ask for commitment to the whole series. If I get enough I may open it up to drop-ins. But it won't run without at least 6 people enrolled. (This encourages your commitment to caring for yourself, as well as making it sustainable for me to teach it).

SPECIAL! BRING A FRIEND NEW STUDENT DISCOUNT: Bring a friend new to Uplift Yoga Dance, and they pay only $55 for the series ( that's nearly 25% off the already discounted series price)! A GREAT way to fall in love with this joyful, deep, liberating way of taking care of oneself! Encourage those friends to join you. It SO fun to come with a friend.

ENROLL NOW! Email: hannahmariah@tds.net

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Look for this later in the year:

THE DIVE FOR ALIVENESS

A Four Session Plunge into the Heart of Vitality!

“What a beautiful class. I am dazzled by how much you put into it. I worked out a lot of stuff that needed moving and I feel wonderful. I cannot thank you enough. It was so very special.”-past class participant

For questions or to register contact:
hannahmariah @tds.net call (802)485-9470 more info movementasmedicine.blogspot.com

WHAT IS YOGA DANCE?

Yoga Dance is a whole person workout, promoting physical, mental, and emotional well-being through a joy-inspiring synthesis of fun and frolic meets yogic fitness and rejuvenation; it is a practice to help you thrive! We are all born into rhythm. Yoga Dance, accessible to everybody, provides the delectable pulsing music, the guidance, and the safe space in which to honor, explore and delight in your birthright of movement, joy, and freedom. High-spirited, groovy, and meditative guided sequences are woven with focused free-form exploration in a group context to help you tap into, cultivate and express the multitudinous qualities of energy that constellate your being: power, pleasure, grace, playfulness, divine funkiness and more. In this expansive and connecting class, we come into a sweeter and deeper relationship with our bodies, our emotions, our awareness, our imaginations, and our larger Self, which inherently activates our base state of bliss. You will leave feeling vibrantly alive, sweaty, and strongly connected. No dance or yoga experience needed!
More:

-- A meet-you-where-you're-at user-friendly form of dance for everyBody

-- Same benefits as a posture-based yoga practice, with a freedom, fluidity and deliciousness not found therein
--Move in the safety of a supportive community

--Access playful, wild, sensual and courageous parts of yourself

--Delve deeply into rhythm and the sacred joy of being embodied

--So much more!You must try it to understand it.

For a sense of what Yoga Dance can look like watch this video ( similar to some aspects of my classes).http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjdP4BPlhEE&feature=player_embedded

MORE BENEFITS

--increases physical fitness, strength, flexibility, cardiovascular health

--deepens awareness and enhances energetic flow in body
-creates brain health! your brain is nourished by learning new things, especially through movement.

--helps discharge and release more challenging emotions

-- creates opportunity to forge positive neural pathways, helping you to maintain positive mental states on an ongoing basis

--expands your sense of self as you embody a wide range of life energies

--guides you into new enriching ways of moving, creating fresh perceptions of your body and self

--brings you more fully into connection with self, other beings, and life source

--uplifts and heals on the physical, emotional, and energetic levels

--provides you with a structured time to be seriously playful and revel in the bliss of being alive – from the feisty fun, to the divinely expansive, to the serenely calm , and beyond.

"Dance is the fastest, most direct route to the truth -- not some big truth that belongs to everybody, but the get down and personal kind, the what's-happening-in-me-right-now kind of truth. We dance to reclaim our brilliant ability to disappear in something bigger, something safe, a space without a critic or a judge or an analyst." -Gabrielle Roth