Kirtan! An Evening of Ecstatic Chanting

Embark on a vocal journey through the sacred sounds of ancient India. Drawing from an unbroken tradition of Indian devotional singing, Jai Uttal will introduce and lead us in the ancient practice of "Kirtan" (or chanting), the heart of devotional yoga. This practice of calling to the divine creates a bridge between the individual and the eternal, opening the heart and welcoming the spirit. Sometimes soft and meditative and sometimes loud and wildly rhythmic, Kirtan takes the participant on a deep emotional and musical journey through our mostly unexplored inner world. With solo performance and call-and-response group chanting, Jai creates a space of invocation, prayer, and heartfelt expression.

Jai has been leading Kirtans worldwide for over thirty years. "These ancient chants," writes Jai "contain a transformative power and healing energy. By singing these prayers we join a stream of consciousness and devotion that has been flowing for centuries."

No previous experience is needed. This is an exploration of the heart, independent of vocal or musical technique.

Every day our bodies work to neutralize and eliminate toxins, and sometimes our bodies can use a bit of extra encouragement and assistance in this naturally occurring detoxification process.

In this two hour workshop, we will use pranayam and asana to flush out toxins that have been stored in the body’s tissue, allowing for a deeper sense of purification and renewal. Within the context of a specifically designed series of postures that stimulates the digestive, circulatory, and lymphatic systems we will cleanse, purify, rejuvenate and restore from the inside out.
Good for body, mind and spirit. Be prepared to sweat.

Jennifer discovered yoga in 2000 while living in Chicago. This discovery lit an internal fire that allowed her to quiet the mind and open to love, devotion and gratitude, sending her down a path of conscious transformation. She attended Baron Baptiste's Teacher Training in 2007 and continues to study Bhakti Flow with Rusty Wells after fulfilling 200 hours of training with him in November, 2008. Inspired by her passion for life, her classes are a vigorous, yet nurturing, celebration where movement, awareness and the breath merge to create a balance between peaceful surrender and energetic devotion.

This two-hour class introduces various breathing techniques while students enjoy deep relaxation restorative yoga poses.
Guided meditation included.
Suitable for everyone.

Early registration encouraged since space is limited.

Rusty Wells is a yogic messenger in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. He infuses his joyful, energetic, and often mind-blowing classes with his belief that we can best serve others and heal ourselves - through unconditional love and devotion. To this end, he passes along his profound gratitude for breath, body, and mind through yoga's time-honored practices. An experienced instructor and humble student, Rusty teaches free and donation-based classes around San Francisco, and leads teacher trainings, retreats and workshops around the world. His classes are an experiential explosion of music, sweat, stillness, and energy that will open your heart and leave you overflowing with bliss.

Spice Up Your Practice
Love yoga but feel like you're in a bit of a slump? Freshen up your routine and add some spice to your mat! This dynamic workshop explores new and exciting Sun Salutation variations, fun transitions, vigorous vinyasa, and new exit strategies. Add life to your yoga practice through an energetic class that gets the pulse and laughter flowing. Come with an open mind, a hungry appetite for excitement, and a towel to mop it all down.

As one of the youngest and most widely recognized faces in yoga, Kathryn Budig's appetite for yoga is infectious. Kathryn's playful mixture of challenging classes with her lovable personality is the recipe for a truly inspiring class. As an avid food lover, she is also passionate about sharing healthy, organic and eco-friendly recipes. Kathryn shares her zest for life, yoga & food in her contributor writings for The Huffington Post, Yoga Journal, Yahoo Shine's Living Section and MindBodyGreen. She has graced the covers of Yoga Journal, Yoga International, Om Yoga and Common Ground. Budig has been featured on E!Entertainment, The Food Network, Shape and The New York Times. She also serves as the brand representative for apparel company ToeSox and ambassador for Pangea Organics. Kathryn is dedicated to giving back to her community. She co-founded "Poses for Paws", an organization dedicated to raising money for animal shelters through yoga. You can practice with Kathryn around the globe or save yourself the plane ticket by practicing with her weekly online at Yogaglo.com. Find her on faculty at Yogaworks Santa Monica, Kripalu or through her upcoming Gaiam DVD, "Aim True Yoga".

Enjoy this two-hour workshop learning how to deepen your backbend practice in a creative, safe, and fearless way.
This practice is open to everyone! Using props and careful warm-ups, we will discover how backbends can awaken the heart center and rejuvenate courage in your life.

Early registration encouraged since space is limited.

Rusty Wells is a yogic messenger in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. He infuses his joyful, energetic, and often mind-blowing classes with his belief that we can best serve others and heal ourselves - through unconditional love and devotion. To this end, he passes along his profound gratitude for breath, body, and mind through yoga's time-honored practices. An experienced instructor and humble student, Rusty teaches free and donation-based classes around San Francisco, and leads teacher trainings, retreats and workshops around the world. His classes are an experiential explosion of music, sweat, stillness, and energy that will open your heart and leave you overflowing with bliss.

Date: Monday-Friday 07/16/2012 - 07/20/2012
Monday-Friday 07/23/2012 - 07/27/2012
Location: Urban Flow, 1543 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
Practice: Vinyasa Yoga, Seated Meditation, Pranayama, Mantra Recitation

This 20 hour program - open to dedicated students of vinyasa yoga for at least one year - may be applied towards the 60-hour Module 1 Bhakti Flow Teacher Training, a required component to the BFTT Certification Program.
This program always qualifies as Continuing Education credit for Teachers.

For more information on Rusty Wells, please visit www.rustywells.com.

Bryan Kest Power Yoga Master Class

Power Yoga Master Class Description:
Bryan Kest’s Power Yoga Master Class is a well rounded flowing asana practice integrating mental practices that enhance everyday living. The class is intended to invigorate your body and help you practice developing a calm, less reactive state of mind with dynamic flowing routines.
In a Power Yoga workshop, you are encouraged to focus on the process and not the end result. This allows ALL levels of yoga practitioners to enjoy and benefit from the workshop.

A Power Yoga Master Class typically includes:
• 1 hour lecture about basic philosophy and fundamentals
• 2 hour physical practice incorporating principles from the lecture

Biography- Bryan Kest has been practicing yoga since 1979 and has been teaching since 1985. He developed his unique, distinctive style of yoga, Original Power Yoga, in 1979. Over the years, this style, an amazing workout for the body, mind and spirit, has made him a well-known, popular teacher across the country and around the world.
His mainstream popularity is matched by an authentic foundation in the ancient practice of yoga and a long path of development as a yogi (a practitioner of yoga). At age 15, Bryan uprooted from his native Detroit home to make a life change in Hawaii. He moved to live with his father, a doctor, who understood the benefits of yoga. Like many of us, Bryan originally thought yoga was nothing more than strange contortions, but that changed when his father introduced him to a physical style of yoga called Ashtanga. This appealed to him immediately, and he soon observed great changes in himself, both physically and mentally. Yoga quickly became his passion, one that would take him to India for a year to study with the great yoga masters of the world, Pattabhi Jois. He has been continuing on his yoga path ever since.

Bryan founded and teaches at two studios in Santa Monica, CA. He also teaches at workshops and retreats around the world; provides an intensive teachers training program; and is featured in his own Warner Brothers video series from 1995, as well as a newer video series and audio CD series. His most recent endeavor is www.PowerYogaonDemand.com. This on-line tool features streaming video of Bryan’s classes in Santa Monica, which are recorded live and streamed to students around the world.
For articles by Bryan and more information about Power Yoga, visit www.PowerYoga.com.