Spring has sprung and it is time to get in to summer shape! Also for a lot of students, get over some crashes on the hill and put the body back together. There is no better way to stay healthy and prepare for summer than to commit to a regular yoga practice.

Yoga keeps you strong and supple and helps you stay out where you want to be, having fun, not home sick or injured.

For the month of September, Studio Sangha would like to offer a 10 class concession card (normally $160)  for $120! If you come in with a friend and buy 2 at once. I’ll give you both for $100 each!

The only condition is that is must be used in 3 months instead of the normal 1 year. That makes it only $10 per class if you have bought 2 cards or $12 per class and is good for both studios.

We have all our regular 6pm classes, 10am classes as well as 8am Pilates classes.

Get to it and stay with it! A regular yoga class is like brushing your teeth, good daily maintenance and not something to be missed and all the systems of the body need maintenance every day.

Sale starts on Tuesday! See you soon,

Namaste, Peggy

The Spiritual Nature of Yoga, a talk by Swami Govindananda

Swami Ji’s talk “The Spiritual Nature of Yoga” picks up where the practice of physical yoga naturally leads you to – inquiry in to the self, the desire to meditate, and to gain a deeper understanding of the origins of yoga from a spiritual perspective.

Swami Ji is an accomplished and charismatic speaker. An author and producer of 100’s of recorded talks, he brings us the fruit of his many years of experience of living in India studying philosophy and meditation at the deepest levels.

Please attend this talk and support his effort to come to Queenstown as well as continue your understanding of what yoga really is. He is a regular lecturer at Lance Schuler’s teacher trainings and comes highly recommended.

Everyone is welcome.

$20 members, $30 non-members proceeds support schools and hospitals in India

What a great start to winter! Ok guys, heaters are cranked up so get in here and get ready to work hard and stay warm!

Just to get it going, say thank you, make some money to go to the Bikram Advanced training!  I am having a huge clothing sale!  Everything I have. That’s all clothes, tops and bottoms. Get a new wardrobe of yummy, long capris and hoodies, hot gear bikini style tops and bottoms.I have men’s shorts, and some tops for the blokes too. Here is how it works….. you buy 1 item and get 10% off, 2 items 20%off , 3 items 30% off, 4 items 40% off, and 5 or more items you get 50% off the whole lot.  This sale will be to the end of June. Get the first choice! Get in here now!

Just a quick reminder, my L2 Tues and Thurs 8am,  and L2 Wed 6pm L2, will be canceled until I get back and school starts back July 20th. Amanda is here covering everything else so stick to your regular schedules.

Friday June 25th 6-8 pm we will have an evening satsang, talk,  about yoga, an infinite and fascinating subject the more you study it, with Swami J from Byron Bay. He comes  recommended by Lance Schuler so I think this one will be well worth the evening. Everyone welcome and encouraged, $30 non members, $20 members, and members, if you bring a friend they can attend for $20. Bring your friends!

Lance Schuler is coming back  January 21- 23 for a  workshop.  Of particular interest, Lance is planning on coming here Oct 2010 for  a 4 week L1 Teachers Training, 200 hour course. We are just starting to put this together. He is confirming dates though and that is the first step to making it happen.  So, put that on our calendar Oct 2011 if you have ever wanted to attend a 4 week training. It will be amazing and fun. I am really happy about hosting and being a part of a international standard in yoga study. We all love Lance Schuler, and he’ll be bringing another few super talented teachers with him.

I am going this Thursday to the Bikam advanced training in Las Vegas to study the 84 posture series that the 26 posture series came from. I am so excited! I’ll practice each morning with about 250 other people, first the beginning series then the advanced, about a 4 1/2 hour practice. I’ll be with Bikram, Emmy, and all the senior teachers, as well as teachers from all over the world! Wow! Can you imagine in a room with 250 other people and 100 degrees outside! Huge energy!

It is 100 degrees now in Vegas. Is that too hot? Too cold? Who is to say, I am going to practice. Life is not perfect, nor is it predictable. Just practice and try to let go of the attachment to what we think “is”.

While I am gone, please know I think about the studio a lot and I do care that you all get the same dedication you get when I am here.  I know you will be well taken care of.

Amanda will be here for all of the Hatha classes. She is amazing. Get lots of her now, take Amanda’s classes. I have the heaters cranked.  We have to work hard to build the heat in the bodies right now.  Sun Salutations, our base foundation of the classes,  were developed to build heat.  Bhakstrika, a pranayama teachnique, was  designed to build heat in the belly. These techniques work.

As the seasons change from one to the next, I hear “it’s too hot”, and “it’s too cold”. You can imagine I hear that all the time. Remember, yoga is about trying to become not so opinionated about everything. Being accepting and using these tools we have been given to change our condition or perception of our condition. I also hear, “too poor, too fat, too old”….  I don’t believe any of it.

Our mind is either our servant or our master. Be master of your own mind and create the life and experiences you want.

Brush your teeth only in the summer? Do you wash your hands only if you have hot water? Sound ridiculous? It is. This is your body, the systems of the body need daily maintenance, compressing and flushing,  year around.

On that note, thank you all dealing with, and loving our little room. I do have plans for the future. I love to move and grow. I do look forward to including you all in the new, and up and coming. Watch that space and this space….

In the meantime, take care of the studio while I am gone, it is your place as well as mine. It has been a great little spot for a really good practice. Rock on guys. I’ll be back for heaps more practice with the advanced starting to get thrown in the higher level classes. There are some of you ready to step up to the L2 classes and challenge yourselves a bit more…

Have a great Winter Festival and Winter Solstice. The Sun is coming back our way!  These are the shortest days right now.

Namaste and thank you for being a part of this awesome yoga community,

Peggy

With the biggest apologies we have to cancel the Friday 8am class tomorrow. We have been unable to get the class covered for Amanda.  It has been unavoidable and I am so sorry if it messes up your core for a week. Please come take Maria Bradley’s 10am core and stretch class. We will be back to normal for next week.

Restorative yoga in the big room this Monday at 6pm.

Have a great Queen’s Birthday weekend, stay warm and be safe!

Peggy and the crew

“See for yourself” with Chevy Chrisholm

Starting Saturday May 15th

at Studio Sangha 8:30-9:45 am every Saturday morning

$10  everyone welcome and encouraged!

I would like to offer private lessons with me, Peggy,  through my Dynamic Hatha Studio, Studio Sangha. I am finding some people want the one on one and some clients want a way to introduce their family or friends. As well, it is a great way for other practitioners to send their clients to a one on one session instead of a big class. This allows me to slowly integrate students in to the studio.

We can focus on the core, imbalances, the Bikram series, Vinyasa flow, breathing techniques, meditation and ways to reduce stress. As well, we can work on specific injuries and movement patterns and ways to move beyond them in your yoga practice.

Just to kick off this program, for the month of May I will offer sessions at $50 per hour.  After May, the normal rate will be $80 per hour and $120 for 2 people.

If you, or anyone you know, would like to book a private session with me, please call me on 021 942 496 or leave a message at the studio on 442-9642.

Thank you! Peggy

This weekend, ( supposed to be rainy!), will be a perfect weekend for a workshop. We have Paul and Jaylee Balch, over from Australia, bringing Anatomy of a Yogi. For more detailed information please look on the website.

It starts at 1pm on Saturday. I talked to Kate Buford, owner of Bikram Yoga CC, and she said the students absolutely loved the workshop! That is great news and makes me look forward to meeting these 2 world yogis.

This workshop is open to students of all traditions. Just bring a pen, paper, yoga mat and clothes for a class.

There is a session as well 12-6 pm on Sunday. Each day $80 or $150 for the weekend.

See you this weekend, Namaste,

Peggy

Happy Easter and have a great long weekend.

We will be closed Friday

but there is a 9:30 am Bikram class.

Saturday 10 am Hatha is happening.

Monday there will be a 9:30 am Bikram only

Monday Restorative 6 pm in the Big room!

Lots of breathing, gentle stretches and Yoga Nidra.

LWB has a 5$ off coupon in it for anyone to use on a class.

If you have friends and family in town, bring them in!

Namaste

]]> http://queenstownyoga.com/2010/04/01/closed-friday-class-sat-10am-restorative-in-big-room-monday-6pm/feed/ 0 http://queenstownyoga.com/2010/03/16/heart-soul-meditation-with-3d-animations-april-7th-630-930-pm/ http://queenstownyoga.com/2010/03/16/heart-soul-meditation-with-3d-animations-april-7th-630-930-pm/#comments Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:17:12 +0000 admin http://queenstownyoga.com/?p=1237 Tarun Kumar from India will be leading a 3 hour Heart-Soul meditation Wednesday April 7th at Studio Sangha 6:30-9:30pm . No previous meditation experience necessary.

The technique takes about 24 minutes to teach and is a guided meditation. During the session we will learn about the complete human being and the major subtle bodies including the chakras .

The Heart-Soul meditation significantly lowers stress levels in body and mind during meditation. The brain waves reach their theta state which causes deep relaxation and a feeling of bliss.

The Heart-Soul is considered as a centre of higher emotions. One of the important properties of this energy is the cleansing of negative energies from the physical and all subtle bodies.

Members are welcome to use their passes for this class or the cost is $20.

Everyone welcome and encouraged.

Did you know, in a recent group of 40 Queenstowners, asked if they had smoked in the last 24 hours, eaten 5 veggies or fruits, or exercised 30 minutes, only 5 people could say no and yes yes? That is a group of 40 regular business people in Queenstown. No wonder everyone is run down!

Hey people! Your health is more important than anything you have. Make the effort. If you don’t have our health, you can’t help your family or yourself. Stress and stress related diseases are some of the biggest diseases on the rise in society today and are easy to understand and control with yoga and diet. Oh my! Back to veggies! At least everyone has gardens now with heaps of fresh greens!

Click here for the Studio Sangha Hatha schedule

Yoga is a scientifically designed system of self healing and self knowledge. It is a commitment  to know ourselves, feel sensation, and live fully through breath, energy and body awareness.Yoga offers practitioners the tools to prevent disease and reduce stress. Yoga is an amazing gift. So is Studio Sangha and Bikram Yoga Queenstown. We are very lucky to have these studios. We have a funky, inspired, well educated and always on the move yoga studio offering great daily yoga classes and international standard workshops every few months. We have 4 teachers who live and breathe our practices. We have a dedicated space for “Sangha”, people coming together to learn through experience and study.

We have evolved from one studio to two. We are one of the only locations on the planet where you can find an affiliated and passionate Bikram studio, while right next door, in a separate studio, Studio Sangha, we offer Mat Pilates, Restorative Yoga Nidra and Dynamic Hatha. We watch students decide which style suits them,  and offer the highest quality instruction.

Yoga is totally cool. The more you practice, the better it gets. If you are not practicing it, you’re missing it. And according to this poll taken a few nights ago at St.John’s, a lot of people are missing it, and life, through fear, being embarrassed, not wanting to fail, being too inflexible, too out of shape, uninspired and lazy.

Inspiration comes through dedication, practice, effort and study. Reading, breathing, spending time in postures and feeling their very specific medical benefits fosters passion and a drive to know more.

This is it guys! No one gets out of here alive! Why not live to the best of your ability while here?

90 minutes a day of suffering is nothing compared to 90 amazing years on planet earth!

Only practicing yoga offers extension, expansion, and growth of the body, mind, breath, and spirit.

Tues-Fri  8am classes! They are an awesome time of the day to get started summer and winter!  Get in to the habit now!  Done by 10am and feel great all day long. Set yourself up for your best day ever!

Sunday Bikram 4pm  will either be a silent led class or a music class with low light. I have found that it is very much a flow series when experienced through silence and awareness of breathe.

Click here for the Bikram schedule

Also and last but not least, we have some great new yoga gear!

We sell a thicker 6mm studio mats purposely bought for the Studio Studio for a bit more comfort and padding at $59. I’ve got blue in stock with black on the way.

We have the Eco-mats! 3 great colors, blue, purple and green! They have awesome grip as well as being nice to the earth. I think these ones will be good ones for long term durability as well as good traction. They are $79.

Yogitoes towels are here with great gripping and light weight. They are washable and great for Bikram (but can be used for any practice on top of another mat).  Bright orange, blue and purple Yogitoes towels at $45. Great price for these towels!

And finally, our newest order of Lucy Lucid Pants is in the mail and expected to hit the rack early next week! These stylish New Zealand made pants are all hand-made, high quality and each one unique. Students loved the last order and this new order has been long awaited. ! They are great colors and good for autumn around town as well as in and out of practice. All pants $99.

That’s it for now, great to make contact with a lot of you and hope to see you soon,

You guys rock!

Namaste,

Bikram Yoga Queenstown and Studio Sangha

Peggy, Amanda, Kelly and Nicci