Workshops
YOGI SEASONAL FOOD CLEANSE – Fall Dates Announced!
Tuesday, October 11th – Monday, October 24 (14 days). Just in time for Halloween ;)
It’s time to cleanse before the crazy holidays! Join our professional team of yogis for a 14 Day Fall Cleanse designed to align your physical and energetic bodies as the weather and season changes. You will learn how to detoxify and heal the body through the use of local, organic, sustainable food and use our yoga practice to further eliminate toxins and boost your immune system in preparation for the holiday and flu season. This is the ultimate “foodie” cleanse! No starving here, just wholesome clean foods that will make you feel better than ever! We hope that after participating in the 14 Day Fall Cleanse, you will attain the knowledge that will guide you toward long term healthier practices and an enhanced life!
14 Day Cleanse Includes:
- One in-person group q & a meeting (optional)
- Daily outdoor yoga classes at “Bronson Canyon Yoga” geared specifically toward the cleansing process. ** if you are out of town email us about discounts or book Skype privates for yoga sessions
- Email forum/Facebook
- PDF workbook including a detailed description of the cleanse, expert advice on how to succeed and get the most out of the cleanse, journal templates, 2 week sample menu, shopping lists, list of local farmers markets and organic markets, delicious seasonal vegan recipes and more.
Save the Date: (optional)
Sunday, October 9th
9:30am morning Yoga class + in-person group meeting
Price:
Early Bird Special!!! Pay by October 1st and pay only $150!!!
$190 (under $14 a day including yoga!!!)
For more information, look for us on Facebook: “Yogi Seasonal Food Cleanse”
Or email Nicole!
YOGA4BURNERS WORKSHOP
w/ Nicole Doherty and Dr. Gino Borges of The Wild Self
Yoga4Burners presents at three BM events!
“Prepare for the Playa”
Sunday, July 17th & August 14th
Cafe Cocomo
650 Indiana St San Francisco CA 94107
http://www.preparefortheplaya.com
“Beyond the Fence”
Sunday, July 24th
Mighty
119 Utah Street, San Francisco, CA
Black Rock desert is a great backdrop for radical self-expression… it is wild and raw, a perfect playground for the wilder part of our self that lives just below the surface of socialization… though the desert environment and around-the-clock circus at burning man inevitably takes a toll on the mind, body, and spirit… you can go from feeling like you are in burning man heaven to feeling like coyote s*#t in a gerlach minute.
Yoga4Burners can help keep you feeling fabulous all the time… whether you’re a novice to yoga or have many years of experience, yoga4burners will give you a unique foundation for responding to what our research designates to be 5 of the most common occurrences on the playa.
Join Nicole Doherty and Gino Dante Borges to come into contact with your ‘true burner self’ and learn some easy poses that you can take with you wherever you quest at Burning Man.
WORKSHOPS AVAILABLE TO BE BOOKED AT YOUR STUDIO
The Empower Yourself to Transform™ Workshops were developed to give you tools on and off the mat that will inspire, empower and transform your life. It can be a challenge to change habits and lifestyle, so start with baby steps, make it fun and work with self-compassion to generate progress. As you gain results, you will raise the bar for yourself.
These workshops combine effective, tested holistic disciplines and accountability so that you can empower yourself and monitor your own progress!
Empower Yourself to Transform™: Tools for Transformation
1p – 4pm
- Pranayama/Breath Work
- Chanting
- Vinyasa Flow Yoga Practice – All Levels
- Guided Meditation
- Inspirational Talk – Tools for Transformation
- ½ Hour Nutrition Appt w/ Christina McGold, Gayatri Healing Institute*
In this 3-hour workshop we will focus on various techniques on and off the mat that can create transformation such as breath, sound, meditation, partner work, law of attraction principles, affirmations and more!
*Consultation by phone or in-person
Empower Yourself to Transform™: Releasing Negative Thoughts & Patterns
1 – 4pm
- Pranayama/Breath Work
- Chanting
- Vinyasa Flow Yoga Practice – All Levels
- Guided Meditation
- Inspirational Talk – Creating New Thoughts and Patterns
- ½ Hour Nutrition Appt w/ Christina McGold, Gayatri Healing Institute*
In this 3-hour workshop we will focus on identifying our thoughts and releasing negative patterns that reside within our minds. We will talk and experience tools that we can use to continue this practice off the mat!
*Consultation by phone or in-person
Empower Yourself to Transform™ Workshop: 14 Day Challenge
Monday – Friday Daily Yoga Practice + 2 Sunday workshops
10 Day Class Semi-Private Class Pass (optional)
- Semi-Private Vinyasa Flow Yoga Practice (Mon – Fri)
- Targeted Yoga Sequences to Sculpt the Body
- Themed classes that transform your mind and spirit
Create New Thoughts and Patterns Workshop
Tools for Transformation Workshop
Bonus
- Additional ½ hour Nutritional Consultation
- Daily Transformational Journaling
- ½ Hr Private Consultations & Check Ins to Monitor:
Overall Emotions/Attitudes/Well-Being
Lifestyle/Habits
Stamina/Energy/Strength
Breath Capacity
Body Awareness/Posture
Are you seeking a way to let go of emotional stress, imbalance, resistance or patterns?
Are you seeking increased strength, more balance, muscle tone, flexibility, more energy, less stress, weight loss, or elevated happiness?
In just 14 days, you’ll learn how to think, move and eat for mind and body transformation with Nicole’s sequences, breath work, meditation and inspirational talks, and Christina McGold’s nutritional tips! You’ll free yourself from patterns, lack of motivation or feeling out of control in any aspect of your life. You’ll increase your confidence and gain insights about how to transform on many levels.
Through these holistic methods, Nicole has been able to transform her own life by releasing emotional and mental blocks and changing her habits and lifestyle to become an inspiration in her community!
Pranayama/Breath Work
Using a combination of techniques to extend and lengthen our breath and direct energy in our bodies.
Chanting
Call and response is a way to invoke spirit and intention for our practice and to connect the group using sound vibration.
Vinyasa Yoga – All Levels
As defined by the term Vinyasa, we will gain an understanding of how to link our breath with movement to bring conscious awareness to our practice.
We will explore basic postures, breathing and meditation methods that create a beautiful, positive experience and practice. You will leave with an understanding of proper alignment and safe, effective techniques.
Guided Meditation
We will focus our minds to cultivate an internal stillness and awareness of our own divinity.
Inspirational Talks
These talks will provide you with inspiration and tools to integrate your spiritual learning into your life.
Nutrition
Our body is our temple and directly affects our experiences. Learn the basics of food awareness from an expert.
ABOUT NICOLE DOHERTY
Nicole Doherty’s interest in yoga came when she was in search of a more peaceful existence after overcoming many physical challenges her body endured under the stresses of the corporate world. Nicole has a true passion for Yoga, conscious living and a love of people. With certifications from top Yoga training programs, Nicole provides safe and effective classes that help you meet your goals. Yoga is not just about flexibility, but a method to achieve strength, balance, a sense of calm, better health and so much more. She approaches your practice with the same passion and vigor as her own personal practice guaranteeing you a fun and safe experience. Nicole specializes in a creating a supportive ambiance were personal needs are met towards the growth of your own practice. She describes her classes with many words such as alignment-driven, safe, effective, sensual, yummy, fun, musical and challenging.
Nicole began her yoga practice in 2001 with Buddy Macuha (Power Vinyasa Flow) and Sherman Morris (Ashtanga Vinyasa Flow) at The Sports Club/LA. She also explored Iyengar, Forest Method and Bhakti Flow, finding further inspiration through Rusty Wells and Christopher Love’s classes at Yoga Tree SF. Enlivened by the bliss she was experiencing, her curiosity in the science of yoga grew bringing her to Nepal in 2003, where she taught Yoga to her small village in Patihani and attended a 10 day yoga and mediation program at the Ananda Yoga Retreat Center outside of Kathmandu. In 2006, Nicole decided it was time to fully honor her Yoga practice and began deep practice of Ashtanga Vinyasa Flow at It’s Yoga where she received her certification in 2008. She studied with Larry Schultz, Katie Cariffe, Marie Hajar Schultz, Reed Taylor, Donovan Hicks, Rene Henley and Todd Taylor. In 2010, she received a second comprehensive 200-hr certification at YogaWorks Center for Yoga, Los Angeles with Joan Hyman and Jeanne Hielman, a 20-hour teacher’s training with Maty Ezraty and 18-hr Yoga Ed Traning for At Risk Youth with Hala Khouri. Nicole has enjoyed continuing education of various yoga modalities attending classes and teacher’s workshops with other world-class teachers Shiva Rea, David Swenson, Duncan Wong, John Friend, Les Leventhal, Sianna Sherman, Jason Nemar and Jenny Sauer-Klein and more.
ABOUT Christina McGold
Christina has been serving clients in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1994. She was trained at Seattle Massage school and has accumulated 5000 hours of treatment massage therapy related education. She studied Taikyo Zen Shiatsu with world renowned Sensei Ping Lee, and studied Thai Massage in Thailand from a master on a beautiful island.
Christina has been meditating twice daily since the age of nine . She studied meditation teaching, yoga, and spiritual counseling at Ananda in Northern Ca. Ananda follows the teachings of Paramhansa Yoganada, Babaji Krishna, Lahiri Mahasaya, and Sri Yukteswar a line of teachers from India dating back several hundreds of years.
Christina’s mother does acupuncture and raised her with Chinese holistic medicine so she has been trained, since childhood, to treat the person holistically, not just the symptoms.
Christie has enthusiastically shared her service with 75,000 people over the last decade in private and corporate settings such as Critical Path inc, Covalent Technologies, Concrete inc, Socratic inc, and Quintiles. She has appeared on CBS Market Watch, Business 2.o Magazine,Ripley’s Believe it or Not,NPR amoung others.
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