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Hatha Yoga • Meditation
• Personal, Professional, &
Spiritual Development
| Lead Teacher and Owner Darcy Cunningham
has studied meditation and yoga for 25 years, has traveled
to India to study, and attends frequent retreats to deepen
her practice and continue learning. She is an IHT Certified
Instructor (Institute of the Himalayan Tradition), has
trained with Michael Morrison in “Moving Anatomy,”
and holds Yoga Alliance Certification. |
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Sharon Wilke Teacher and Acting Studio Director
With 15 plus years experience, Sharon has a soulful, down to earth style to renew and invigorate you. Drawing on diverse yogic traditions including Iyengar and Anusara, she uses her depth of experience, warmth and humor to help her students reach their unique potential. Sharon has an expertise in Therapeutic Applications of Yoga focusing on increasing range of movement and injury rehabilitation. |
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HATHA
YOGA
HA=SUN THA=MOON
Meditative postures lead to a stable, restful
mind and body, supporting focus, will and higher states of
consciousness. Postures for physical well-being, make the
body supple, strong and free from disease. Both types of postures
work with the muscles & tissues, as well as body systems
including nervous, digestive, circulatory & glandular.
Mixed Level
Hatha
Designed for people with a range of experience with Hatha
Yoga - from just a little to years. We'll begin each
season with a review of basics, then progress quickly to work
with a variety of postures, breath, and awareness, allowing
you to enter into each pose at your own pace and depth.
Wake-Up
Hatha
A great way to wake
up and begin your day - leave energized and focused.
We will begin with breathing and centering, and warm-ups including
several sun salutations. We will do a range of other
poses, stringing some together for new challenges and satisfying
flow. We will close with guided relaxation. Some
experience with Hatha required.
Personalized
Yoga
One-on-one sessions to fit your needs. Get guidance on therapeutics, specific
postures, correct (and safe!) form, coaching on any of the
8 limbs of Astanga Yoga, or to help integrate yoga and its
benefits into your life! (By appointment-call for fees.)
Holiday Restorative Yoga
An invitation to step out of the frenzied pace of the holiday season and take a deep breath...or two. Resynchronize with the gentle Rhythms of winter using restorative yoga and guided meditation. Special Offering Sunday, December 21, 2:00 - 4:00PM
Other Hatha
Classes not currently offered. Please inquire.
Basic/Gentle
Hatha
Similar to Beginning
Hatha, but designed for people who have some experience with
yoga and want to gently build a practice.
Beginning
Hatha Yoga
An introductory class. Introduction to basic asanas
(postures), basic breathing practices, stretching, and centering.
Sessions include floor work, standing, balance, twists and
very basic, inversions. Props (blocks, straps and cushions)
are used to support safe, correct movement. Exploring mind/body
connection. Appropriate for most people. (NOTE: coming again
next fall. We will do many of the same poses as the Mixed
Level classes but at a gentler pace. Great Foundation.)
 Continuing
Hatha Yoga
A more advanced class building on basics, developing strength
and duration of postures. Pre-requisite: 3 series of Beginning
Hatha or permission.
 MEDITATION
Introduction
to Meditation
Understand meditation, how to begin or deepen your practice.
Explore sitting posture, breath, mind, sound, stillness and
more. Come learn how it can change your life!
Meditation
Group
For those with an
on-going meditation practice, come join with like-minded others
to: meditate, discuss "roadblocks," and learn or
refresh skills, philosophy, and supporting practices.
Pre-requisite: Intro to Meditation or permission.
Meditation
Basics Series
Designed to begin or ground students in a practice of meditation.
Each session will be experiential and include some sitting
meditation. Topics include: Why Meditate? (benefits; sitting
postures; Pranayama (4 different breathing practices); Dharana
(Concentration and distilling the mind); partnering with the
mind- dealing with “chatter.” Coming again
soon! Or call about scheduling this at your work place!
PERSONAL,
PROFESSIONAL, & SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT
Satsang:
Keeping the Company of Like-minded Souls (Free)
"A
Spiritual Community can help dissolve the sense of separateness
that
causes so much of our suffering."
A monthly gathering
to join with other "explorers" seeking meaning and
peace, happiness, and bliss.
Format will be
brief lecture drawing on the wisdom of yoga, but also other
mystical and spiritual traditions, and include discussion
time and group meditation. Tea will be served.
TOPICS: tbd
January:
An Evening in India Dharmi shares her experiences
from her pilgrimage to India Sept/Oct.
Movie
Night (Free)
Come see great movies
either with a direct yoga theme or whose story has great yoga
teaching points! We'll watch the movie together, then
Darcy will lead a discussion about how we are impacted and
what we can take away. Tea served.
TBD
Darshan: the Embrace. Powerful moving look at
Amma (aka "the hugging saint" & winner of Gandhi
King Prize in 2002.) See Amma (& India) from a disciple's
perspective- learn about her work, her spirit and a few of
her lessons of yoga. Get a taste of a wholey different
culture. Let yourself breathe in some of Amma's love
as you watch and listen!
TBD:
Ram Dass: Fierce Grace Ram Dass is best know
for his icon of a book Be Here Now. In 1997 he
suffered a stroke and this movie tells of the consequent remaking
of his life "a poignant meditation on spirituality, consciousness,
healing, and the grace of aging.
Other courses we
have offered and may do so again: Please inquire.
Myths
We Live By: A Mystic's Perspective.
Who am I?
Why am I here? Where am I going? What is the purpose
of life? How do I attain it? These are known in
yoga as "the perennial questions" as we all ask
them at least once if not many times in our lives. Come
explore how these questions have been answered for you perhaps
(myths we live), how you may have lived the answers given
you without even realizing, and finally, explore how you might
answer them today, and live into those new answers.
(Experiential Learning Design)
Confusion
Strategies: Keeping Ourselves Stuck.
Ever wondered why
change is so hard? You want to change - but some ways
of doing things are so ingrained and habitual - and you just
KNOW they are "right." Often the secret to change,
to greater peace of mind, to new experiences is "hiding
in plain sight." Explore what your "default"
is and what secrets may be awaiting you. (Experiential
Learning Design) (This course is based on materails
from Yogiraj Achala aka Charles Bates and I am grateful for
his Teaching.)
The Gestalt
of Hatha Yoga (Part 1)
For people new to or experienced in Gestalt or Hatha Yoga
(or any combination!). We will look at the Gestalt Cycle of
Experience, a powerful model for taking in and making meaning
of our experience, using Hatha Yoga as we initiate, sustain,
complete and integrate an asana or series of asanas. For Gestaltists,
a chance to get the cycle at a cellular level in your body.
For Hatha Yogis, a chance to deepen your experience and “contact”
with your body and Hatha practice. Fall.
The Gestalt
of Hatha: Using Resistance (Part 2)
Come explore the Gestalt concept of resistance which helps
us understand how we resist change, or said another way, how
our bodies and our psyches maintain our integrity and continuity
of form. We will continue to use Hatha to explore various
types of resistance. For people with either Part 1 (above)
or some Gestalt experience.
 Polarity
Mapping for Gold
Based on the Polarity Mapping Technology of Barry Johnson,
we will explore how many of the choices that we make in life
are not either/or problems to solve, but rather dilemmas to
manage. For example: Do I decide with my head or my heart?
Or the classic dilemma of inhale/exhale. Clearly we need to
do both, so how do we find a life-enhancing balance? Coming
again soon.
Ten Jewels
of Spiritual Development– An Introduction
The first 2 rungs of Astanga yoga - Yamas and Niyamas - restraints
and commitments. Come explore these guides for right
action and contented living. Ideally this is a 9-12
month study program.
Introduction
to Mysticism
What is mysticism?
What does it mean to be a mystic living and working in this
day and age? A glimpse into this exciting realm!
Constellations:
Touching the Soul
Much of the suffering and dysfunction in our family and organizational
lives arises because of unresolved problems and issues. Conventional
therapeutic and consultancy interventions tend to focus attention
on the individual who is manifesting the greatest distress
and disturbance. But such approaches tend to ignore the subtle,
often hidden, dynamics that occur within the system as a whole.
Without addressing these dynamics, such problems cannot be
solved.
The nature of these
entanglements is often out of our awareness, and may even
go back several generations in the case of family issues and
to our predecessors in organizational life. Constellations,
originally developed by Bert Hellinger in Germany, provides
an innovative way of seeing systems, offering a larger frame
of reference that can open life-enhancing solutions.
This work is being
applied to family, organizational and wider social systems
addressing issues such as:
- troubling thematic life issues or traumatic events
- difficult family or personal relationships
- difficult issues and relationships at work and in community
- dilemmas about leadership, business strategy, structure
or "right"
- placement in a system
For more descriptive
information about this work applied to families, or applied
to larger social systems go to the Constellations section
of this web site.
COMING
IN MAY 08- DARCY CO- LEADS "Dancing Your Family Story:
Orders of Love Constellations work and Ecstatic Dance"
with Roger Sams in CLeveland Ohio.
Click
on the link for more info: "Flyer for "Dancing
Your Family Story"
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