DATE: March 1 – 8, 2014
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Join Renee Sills for a week-long exploration through yoga and meditation. Offerings include energizing morning hatha/vinyasa classes and calming restorative/yin practices as well as a three-day workshop on chakra meditation and energetic anatomy. We are excited to have Renee as our guest yoga teacher for this week.
Guest Yoga Teacher Renee Sills
Renee teaches a variety of yoga styles and to a wide-range of practitioner ability and preference. Regardless of style or level, she teaches with an embodied awareness of anatomy and physiology and works with individuals to cultivate efficient, adaptive and supportive posture and movement practices that are challenging, therapeutic and transformational. She approaches her work with gentleness, humor and curiosity and seeks to offer movement and mindfulness practices that are opportunities to understand the inherent beauty and potential in all bodies.
Renee is a certifies Somatic Movement Educator and a registered yoga therapist with IAYT (International Association of Yoga Therapists). She has completed over 1000 hours of certification and training with her principle teachers including Richard Freeman, Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen and Amy Mathews. Renee is a graduate of the Somatic Movement Educator program and the Embodied Developmental Movement and Yoga program at the School for Body-Mind Centering and has also completed 7 years of apprenticeship in dance therapy and leadership with Melissa Michaels, levels I and II AcroYoga training with AcroYoga Montreal and she holds a BFA from Concordia University in Montreal where she focused on body-centered art and performance practices.
Renee continues to study with her teachers including Body-Mind Centering, yoga and anatomy with Amy Mathews whom she assists in the Embodied Anatomy and Yoga program in Portland, OR, Body-Mind Centering with Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen and yoga with Todd Jackson of Portland Yoga Arts.
Three-day Workshop on Chakra Meditation and Energetic Anatomy:
Chakra is the Sanskrit word for “wheel” or “disk” and is generally used to reference energetic centers that run along the front of the spine. These energetic centers are associated with physical, intellectual, emotional, psychic and spiritual levels of understanding and also correspond with the anatomical locations and functions of the organs and endocrine glands.
Each two-hour class will include anatomical study through pictures and partner work, movement exploration and the opportunity for participants to create personal chakra meditations and draw/paint a chakra map.
Sign-up for this workshop when you arrive at Anamaya!
Three-day package: $60 or Drop in: $30/class
