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MAY/2014
Om My Yoga Academy
 
RYT 500 training begins in June

  

  








Each workshop can be taken independently or as part of the 500  program. While it's not necessary to have a 200-hour RYT certification to attend one of Rachel's workshops, you must have your 200-hour RYT certification in order for these workshops to qualify towards your 500-hour RYT certification. Each three-day workshop is $395.  
 
500 Hour RYT Program
Three day weekend sessions: 
Friday-Sunday 8:30 AM - 6 PM
 
June 27-29: The Yoga of Communication with Dr. Christine Kiesinger (pictured above)

August 1-3: Chakra Energy System
 
Other workshops to be scheduled in 2014/2015:
Adjustments
Aerial Yoga
Aerial Yoga II
 Aerial Yoga III
 Arm Balances and Inversions
 Meditation + Yoga Nidra
The Yoga for Mental Health
 Yoga History and Philosophy
 Yoga as Therapy
 
 

             

 

Get detailed information on each module/workshop, as well as register, online or call Carla at 717-645-2214. 
Host a party at "Om"!
Rainbow cake decorated with birthday candles
Graduation, Showers, Birthdays (any age!), Anniversaries!  We'd love to celebrate with you!  Book a private, group class for your party today!   Whether you'd like to bliss-out in a restorative yoga class (how about that for a mom-to-be?), "hang" out with your closest friends in an aerial yoga class, or indulge the bride-to-be in her ballerina fantasy during a Barre Fusion class--we can customize a class based on any of the many styles that we teach, suited to any skill level.  Group classes are one hour long, and are tailored to meet your needs.  

Call Carla to book today! 717-645-2214 or [email protected]
 

 
NEW Reiki Infused Visualization Classes

Monday, May 19th @ 10:30 AM

Tuesday, May 20th & 27th @ 7:30 PM
 
Reiki Infused Visualization Class with Certified Life Coach and Reiki Practicioner Magali Diskus! Come discover the amazing feel and benefits of Relaxation, Meditation, Visualization and Reiki Energy combined together! Each class starts with a relaxation routine, followed by a guided meditation/visualization script and ends with Magali sharing Reiki energy individually with each participant. You will leave relaxed and centered, re-energized in love and light! Namast�!
$15 per person. 
Magali Diskus was born and raised in France and moved to the US fifteen years ago after obtaining her Masters Degree in Cognitive Psychology. A Certified Life Coach for over a year now, this summer Magali started her own coaching business--Essential Vision Coaching (EVC). EVC empowers active spiritual individuals to define, strengthen and affirm their inner power and turn their unique essential vision into actions and success using focused-relaxation and visualization techniques.

         It starts with Your Inner Vision!
  • Learn about yourself
  • Improve focus
  • Raise energy levels
  • Define & achieve specific goals
  • Discover focused relaxation & visualization
Join the Party!
 
Acrobatic Yoga is now every Wednesday night from 7:45 - 8:45!  Regular mat rates. 
 Everyone is welcome! 
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POLICY ON PREMIUM CLASSES 
Unlike mat classes, our limited availability premium classes require prepayment so that we can insure that as many students as possible enjoy class.  We require at least a three hour notice for cancellation from a premium class.
 
Thank you for understanding!  We hope that this policy will help ensure that as many people as possible are able to experience our premium classes.
 
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Join us for these special events in
May!

Important FEATURED EVENT
Saturday, May 17th - ALL DAY

 Plein Air Festival in Camp Hill Borough  

 

Join us for LIVE MUSIC, Food and Drink to help celebrate the 4th Annual Plein Air Arts Festival hosted by the Economic and Cultural Development Group (ECDG) of Camp Hill, PA. Come browse the gallery spaces filled with original works of art created by 
ARTISTS
, both local and national. Walk the streets and alleyways around Willow Park and Market Street and sample local food traditions, while enjoying live music and games for the entire family.

 

Om My Yoga will be leading yoga classes during the morning between 8:30-noon, as will several other local yoga studios!  Come out to support us and enjoy a beautiful day in the park!  
View the schedule of events here!
 
Friday the 16th, 7 PM 
Restorative Aerial w/ Regina Varos
$22 drop-in
Sink into the aerial yoga silks as you experience weightlessness and relaxation in 5-8 minute long poses for deep rejuvenation.
 
Sunday the 18th 
12:30 pm Karma Class with Ana Maria Lugo
Donation only
Ana Maria, recently returned from an extended trip to her home country of Colombia, South America, will lead us in a Vinyasa Yoga class to benefit the abused children of her native land.  In addition to the class, beautiful native jewelry and hand-woven purses are available for purchase--proceeds from which will support the cause!
 
  
3pm Restorative Yoga with Reiki 
w/ Karen Pelton and Johanna Geister
regular mat rates
Resident Reiki Master and RYT Karen Pelton will lead us through supported relaxation postures providing the body and mind with a designated time for healing, rest, and integration. Restorative yoga is a perfect way to help your body rest and regenerate. It also allows your mind a rest from the stresses and anxieties of life. Reiki Master Johanna Geister will also lend her healing touch as she administers the nourishing energy of Reiki during these restorative poses. Space is limited, so pre-registration is required.
 
5pm Mood Elevation with Essential Oils w/ Ana Maria Lugo and Carla Irvin
FREE
There are no shortcuts and quick fixes to mental health.  But supporting ourselves with Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade essential oils can help uplift the spirits and provide a pick-me-up when we need it the most. Register in advance for free samples and light refreshments!

  

Saturday the 10th 
Essential Vision Coaching: Law of Attraction w/ Magali Diskus
$35 per person - $5 discount when you come with a friend!
Some people seem to have no problem applying the Law of Attraction in their lives but others are struggling with it. Learn about the theories behind this wonderful law and how to make it work for you! 
AcroYoga Elemental Immersion 
with Justin Caruso and Daniel Scott
  
May 10th -14th 
10 am - 5:30p,
 
Spring cleaning has never felt so good! Immerse yourself in the world of yoga, Thai massage and flying transitions
. Explore newfound freedom by mastering the true power of gravity in inversions and three dimensional healing touch. Relax into the rejuvenating warmth of supportive community... Come fly with us!
  Join us for the weekend or all 5 days! 
  
    
Need help boosting your health and nutrition?

Give yourself the gift of better health and nutrition!  Join Om My Yoga's Juice Share to receive 32oz. of fresh juice each week.  Om's Nutrition Coach Mary Lusk uses a commercial grade Norwalk Juicer to create top-shelf juice for complete nourishment and delicious taste unlike any juice you've ever experienced. 

SPECIAL OFFER:
32 oz. of "orange" juice anti-inflammatory blend -- carrots, green apples, cucumber and a dash of fresh pineapple - $25

32 oz. of "green" juice  energy boost blend- various green leafy veggies, green apples, celery, cucumber, ginger and mint with other herb greens - $29
 
Contact Carla at 717-645-2214 or [email protected]. Availability is limited, so call today!




 Practice, Not Perfection
by Rachel Wilson
 
One key quality for the yoga student to develop is a sense of patience in practice. Somehow, in our fast-paced, goal-oriented society, we easily forget about the process of practice and have begun to classify even yoga as something we must successfully accomplish.  Not only do we want to succeed at this practice, but we want to nail every pose and every breath at the exact right moment, the first time and every time thereafter.  

But yoga, like most things in life, isn't about how far we advance on the mat or into a pose, and there is never a need to bring a hurried or competitive sense to the experience.  The postures are useful and beneficial for a myriad of reasons, but more important are the small and large shifts that can occur in our deeper layers of being when we offer some of our time to practice. The nudge into a more expanded consciousness, subtle transformation of character, gentle assimilation of ideas and increased broadening of awareness that occur are the real markers of progress in yoga, and these things take at least as much time as loosening up tight hip flexors, so the rushed mentality is one that we can drop. 
 
Yoga is always about practice, not perfection .  It is what happens on the way to each posture, throughout the journey of patience, that counts in this realm.  Surprisingly, some of the most profound bits of progress for the yogi(ni) may even happen after the mat has been rolled up and put away.  The nice thing about consistent yoga practice is that it continues to give its gifts, even when we are no longer reaching for them.  No one minds if you cannot touch your toes.  Those who approach a yoga practice with non-judgmental dedication will certainly be transformed, and sometimes in the most unexpected moments after many seemingly-uneventful times of enduring practice.   

Patience asks that we do not look towards some bigger, better, more impressive version of a posture, our circumstances or ourselves, but that we acknowledge, accept and embrace what is, now
 
I have heard the saying, "Practice makes Perfect," but I will be the first to admit that I rarely have a day or a mat-session without at least a few mishaps.  Sometimes the mind fluxes.  The heart races.  The body tenses up and our emotions fool us into thinking that if we could only know, reach or achieve something today, then tomorrow will certainly contain the better future we have been longing for.  Maybe instead of striving for perfection, having patience in practice is a better goal.  
 
Ranier Marie Rilke urges us, "Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer." 
Practice like this.  One day at a time.  One mat session at a time.  Living, breathing, patiently experiencing each stumble and success along the way and allowing life to continue to unfold. 

See you at OM.