Angela McLinden takes the mat this morning with Nancy Levenson at her side starting at 8:15 to guide Free Yoga in the Park, Civic Green, Highlands Ranch.  Come join us for an hour of inspiration to carry through your day.

Only 5 classes remain of the Free Program sponsored by NamasteWorks Yoga + Wellness, the Highlands Ranch Metro District and Stonewear Designs.  Offered twice weekly through September 3, 2011.  Please join us indoors beginning September at NamasteWorks Yoga + Wellness, 5860 S. Curtice St, Littleton, CO.  We are not a walk-in center, rather a private yoga wellness center.

Come claim your space early this morning – Jenny guides us through a practice on the Space Element beginning at 8:15 at FREE Yoga in the Park brought to you by NamasteWorks Yoga + Wellness, the HR Metro Districts and Stonewear Designs.

Every teacher “gives” of her time to bring this beautiful practice free to the community, come and give a little of yourself today to brighten our community and you.

In recognition of International Angel Day – September 10, 2011, NamasteWorks Yoga Presents

Special Workshop Series – September
FINDING THE ANGEL WITHIN – A Four Part Series
Sat. Sept. 10,  10:30-noon, $19. – Introductory Workshop
Wed. Sept. 14, 6:30-8:30, $29 – Session 2
Wed. Sept. 21, 6:30-8:30, $29 – Session 3
Wed. Sept. 28, 6:30-8:30, $29 – Session 4

Do you believe miracles? Have you longed to feel the love of Angels? Do you want to discover what the angels have to say to you? Are you interested in healing yourself with Angel Therapy? Everyone has the ability to experience the healing presence of the Angels. NamasteWorks Yoga + Wellness will be holding a 4-part series of enlightening workshops guided by Ashli Pritchard, an ANGEL THERAPY PRACTITIONER® certified by Doreen Virtue, Ph.D. This series will help you discover and strengthen your connection to Spirit and assist you in your journey within, healing your mind, body, and soul in every area of your life, always, and in all ways. We welcome you to join us during this discovery of the angels, who are here to guide you to a more peaceful and joy-filled destiny!

Fill your Spirit and have some fun with your fellow classmates. This class will be light- hearted and full of inspiration. There will be several activities to help you discover your path with the Angels.  For full details of this workshop series, click here.  RSVP required.  Space for this workshop is limited to 15 participants.  To reserve a space send an email via the contact form or call 303.725.1434.

This program will be held at NamasteWorks Yoga + Wellness, A Place to Discover Yoga as a Healing Art, 5860 S. Curtice Street, Littleton, CO 80120.  We are not a walk-in center but by appointment only.

Sue Khodarami takes the mat this morning with Nancy Levenson at her side starting at 8:15 to guide Free Yoga in the Park and this fall join both on Tuesday evenings at NamasteWorks Yoga. Come join us for an hour of inspiration to carry through your day.

Program is sponsored by NamasteWorks Yoga + Wellness, the Highlands Ranch Metro District and Stonewear Designs.  Offered twice weekly through September 3, 2011. 

If you are finding the summer heat unbearable, you can always turn to a yogic pranayama to cool you from the inside out. Kaki Pranayama employs the use of forming a small beak with your lips, allowing the inhale to cool as it travels over the tongue, then seal the mouth and exhale out the nose.  Follow the practice below:

Coolness in Every Breath

Pranayama:  Kaki on the inhale

• Sit/Lie and be with yourself
• Eyes closed, body grounding
• Soften the structure of what you call you
• Let out all rigidity
• And ask yourself am I breathing?
• Invite in Kaki Pranayama on the inhale
• Take a slow breath in through pursed lips
• At the same time notice how the navel radiates outward toward the sky
• Seal the mouth and exhale the breath
• At the same time invite the navel to draw inwards to the spine
• And stay with this breath
• Imagine yourself as a small inflatable boat
• Allow each inhale to draw the cool air slowly inside you
• Each exhale, seal the mouth and feel your boat slowly moving
• And as you breath, notice if your body needs something from you
• As you inhale, feel the texture of the breath
• As you exhale, hear the sound of the breath
• Kaki beathing, drawing breath in and down
• Sealed lips, nose releasing the breath
• Noticing how Kaki helps you to lengthen your inhalation and begins to cool you
• How the exhale continues to move your small boat
• And noticing now, where is my mind?
• What emotions/sensations am I feeling right now
• And now imagine rowing a boat to a peaceful location, by slowly rolling the arms forward and back in rhythm to your breath
• And invite the arms to mimic oars
• With each pull of the oars feel yourself becoming more graceful
• Your breathing slowing
• And your strokes , longer and more open, allowing this cooling breath in for a minimum of five minutes

Kaki Pranayama is just one of the therapeutic yoga breathing strategies offered to our clients to improve overall respiratory health.   To learn more about pranayama or breath with movement, just contact us. NamasteWorks Yoga + Wellness is a center focused on helping you Discover Yoga as a Healing Art.

One of the most ancient spiritual practices used to quiet the mind, anchor us in the present and strengthen our energy field is Kirtan.  This sacred form of call and response meditation or chanting repeats a mantra over and over again.  If you have ever attended a Kirtan you know the powerful energy that is created by sound vibration, collective chanting and the shared presence of others. 

Next weekend you have an opportunity to attend a Kirtan in the foothills of Colorado.  I hope you will consider stopping in and joining us at this Kirtan Retreat, hosted by Tom Fuhrmann.  Come for a single session or a whole weekend.  We’d love to share our energy with yours.

Kirtan Retreat at Peaceful Hills

July 22-24, 2011

The Schedule

The cost of this retreat to each individual is $45 per day. You can pay when you arrive (cash or check only).  Price includes meals.  There are very limited overnight accommodations.  Most will need to commute.  If you come for the full day or day portion only, breakfast, snack, lunch, and dinner will be provided.  If you are vegetarian, please indicate so in your reply.  If you are vegan, no meat or dairy product, you may want to bring your own food.   There is a refrigerator on-site.  

Because of limited space, RSVP required.  You can contact Tom at 303-435-3152       

7133 Peaceful Hills Rd, Morrison, Colorado 

Peaceful Hills is the creation of Charlie Wick – he’s renovated an old one-room school house into a lovely community center with large hot tub, fire pit, and meditation areas and he’s building a few cabins on the property too.

Directions: From C470, take Hwy-285 south to N.Turkey Creek Rd, turn rt. (past S. Turkey Creek Rd exit).  Go 2.8 miles, turn right on Peaceful Hills Rd. take 1st two lefts and you are into the property, located inside tall cedar fence. For more information contact: Charlie Wick 720.217.3518

The Peaceful Hills property is about 10 minutes west of C470 & 285 (Hampden).

Today’s Morning Gatha:

Water flows from high mountain sources
Water runs deep in the Earth
Miraculously, water comes to us
I am filled with gratitude
- thich nhat hanh

Morning Gatha provided by NamasteWorks Yoga + Wellness

Namaste…..why do we say that at the end of a yoga class and what does it mean?

If you’ve come out to Yoga in the Park or attended any yoga class, you’ve most likely experienced our closing as a simple gesture, Namaste. The hands are drawn together at heart center in a mudra called Anjali (Ahn-jah-lee), prayer hands. The instructor …says, Namaste as a deep form of respect and participants repeat the gesture back to the instructor. It’s a beautiful way for us to connect energetically between our spirits.

Namaste, has several interpretations, you’ll find one on the photo attached. But, I like to simply say; “The spirit in me honors and blesses the spirit in you, and when you are in that place and I am in that place, we are one.”

NamasteWorks Yoga, the business name was conceived to support that statement. When we come from this place of meeting each other, it simply works.

Highlands Ranch, Colorado, July 11, 2011– NamasteWorks Yoga + Wellness is offering another in their series of workshops, this one targeted specifically to migraine suffers.  Making Peace with Migraine Headaches offers individuals a natural way to help relieve and minimize migraines with coping skills, educational and breath awareness, meditation, mudras and yoga practices to take them on a path from feeling frustrated and trapped to finding freedom and making peace with their migraines. 

“While yoga poses offer many therapeutic benefits, doing the wrong practice can trigger an episode or aggravate an existing one, rather than provide relief.  This program has been carefully constructed to assist in that relief from a therapeutic perspective” said Nancy Levenson, founder of NamasteWorks Yoga + Wellness, LLC, and a certified yoga instructor and therapist. 

Each program will be facilitated by Renee Carrillo, a 200hr Therapeutic Wellness Instructor, who herself has battled through years of migraines and finding relief in yoga.  Renee will guide this program on Saturday, October 1 from 10:30 am to 12:00 pm and introduce individuals to a broader six-week program, Therapeutic Yoga for Migraine Sufferers.

 All workshops are held at NamasteWorks Yoga + Wellness, located at 5860 S. Curtice Street, Littleton, CO 80120.  To sign up for this workshop an RSVP is required – send a request via the contact form on the site or call 303.725.1434.

It’s not all about bending like a pretzel……
Drop into today for FREE Yoga in the Park
8:15-9:15 am
Civic Green Park, Highlands Ranch

Lead off instructor: Meghan Ecklund with Co-instructor Sasha
All of our instructors Volunteer their time to the community, so come join us today as we practice our annual SEVA

A Program of NamasteWorks Yoga + Wellness 
Offered every Wednesday and Saturday morning for FREE from June 4th through September 3rd