upcoming workshops
FLY! The Art of Arm Balancing & Inversions with Sherry Sidoti Tuesdays, February 7-28th 2012 at Lulubandhas in Ojai California . 10:30am-12:30pm
In this 4-week series we practice taking the mystery and fear out of arm balancing and inversions by exploring the postures from the inside out. With breath and bandha (energy locks of the body), we learn to untie internal knots (granthis) and seal our energy to access inner vitality, fortitude and a lightness to help us FLY.
2/7: Mulabandha: Pelvic floor to the core and into the arms: Crow, side crow and variations
2/14: Jalandara bandha: Open throat open-hips: Eka Pada Koundinyasana and Ashtavrakasana variations
2/21: Uddiyana bandha: Clear, no fear: Headstand & Forearm balancing
2/28: Handstands and variations
To register: www.lulubandhas.com
March on Martha’s Vineyard: Welcome Spring with two upcoming cleanses.
Metabolic Boot Camp on Martha’s Vineyard Lecture & Learning with John Bagnulo and Jan Buhrman & Yoga with Sherry Sidoti March 4-9th, 2012
Sherry is pleased to join Nutritionist and food expert John Bagnulo and Locavore Educator and Chef Jan Buhrman for a 5-Day Cleanse that will strengthen and invigorate you. In this program, you will gain a better understanding of which foods truly nourish your body and which foods deplete it.
Under John’s & Jan’s enthusiastic guidance, you will:
Learn about the best foods to assist the body with detoxification and provide greater energy
Share group meals centered around Paleolithic foods
Enjoy two guided hikes
In Sherry’s classes you will:
Learn breath work and movement techniques to help detoxify and purify the body
Calm your mind and assist the body during the days of the bootcamp
Practice loving compassion towards the self
Connect inward to existing gifts and light
Release unwanted “baggage” in the body, emotions and spirit
Yoga classes will take place daily at 7:30am for participants of the program only.
Answer your body’s call – take a journey of renewal that will leave you feeling great and inspired to change your habits. Register here.
March 10-24th: Spring Detox Wellness Program with Dr. Dardy Slavin, Dr. Kristine Koff, Locavore Food Educator Jan Buhrman and Yoga with Sherry Sidoti
Decrease pain & infammation, Alkalize the body, eliminate toxins, regenerate organs, restore body to natural state of health.
Program includes: Spinal Alignments, Nutritional Discussions, Cooking Classes and take-home meals, Detoxifying Footbaths, Nurishing Yoga, All Organic purification supplements
Yoga classes will be OPEN to the public, 6-7am on Tuesday & Thursdays: March 13, 15, 20 & 22nd. If you’d like to join Sherry and the group, please contact Sherry directly.
$495 to register: info@slavinchiro.com. Yoga only, $17/drop-in
April: Special Programs during the upcoming FLY Yoga Teacher Training that are open to the public
Morning Yoga Immersion April 2-13th, 7:30-9:30am Monday-Friday, $25/class or sign up for all 10 for $200.
Join Sherry and the teacher trainees for an early morning practice that includes a fluid yoga asana practice, work-shopping of the poses, philosophy, dharma talk, gross body and subtle body alignment, guided breath-work and meditation. Classes take place at a private retreat in Chilmark.
The Money-Spirituality Conundrum: Exploring the energy of money and our union with our business. For professionals in the Healing Arts (yoga, bodywork, self-help, wellness, health & healing industry) April 4th, 6-8pm, $10 An event sponsored by the Martha’s Vineyard Women’s Network. Location TBD
Co-taught by Sherry Sidoti & Sharon Duncan
For many professionals in the wellness and spiritual development fields, it is difficult to balance our business needs with our spiritual beliefs about helping others and healing. For many of us, the conundrum between personal/professional finances and spirituality/healing presents us with a business model that leaves us overworked and under-earning, competing with our colleagues for clients, and undermining the parts of ourselves that brought us into the healing arts in the first place.
We believe that this model is not only a disservice to ourselves, to our clients, as well as our colleagues but to the industry as a whole. If we are not taking care of our own needs, put quite simply, we can not help others.
In this workshop we will explore “The Yoga of Business”– diving deeper into our feelings of money, our relationship to finances, and our own spiritual principals about money and abundance. Additionally we will offer practical tools for mapping the ins and outs of your current financial situation and business, and outline tools to revaluate both. We will then use what we discover to help one another form a stronger community of healers and work towards developing a new, personal and nurturing ‘take-home” business model to move your business and life.
Healing Power of Chanting: the Mantra AUM, Friday April 6th 6-7:15 Devotional Yoga Practice, 7:30-8:30: Chanting. join either session or both for $10
Join Sherry at 6pm for a devotional yoga practice to explore the sound of AUM though physical posturing. At 7:30 we will surrender the physical practice and move into chanting the mantra, as separate sounds, and as whole. Learn the meaning of AUM, and experience it’s power and how the sound moves through you to create better connection with the divine inside and how the sound serves to re-boot the body-mind-spirit. Workshop held at a private retreat in Chilmark.
