Friday, November 2, 2007: 7:00 -9:00pm
How Well Do You Sleep? 2-hours all levels
This workshop deals directly with the modern plagues of sleeplessness and anxiety.  Since every adjustment to the body affects the mind, opening the joints, spine and chest area, and igniting our breath also has a profound emotional effect.  This workshop is known to create a profound sense of serenity and gives you knowledge to take home with you to help you sleep and  live more at ease.  Class includes lecture, simple yoga postures, breath work, self-enquiry, and meditation.  Appropriate for all levels. Cost: $45

Saturday, November 3, 2007: 10am – 1pm
The Three Pillars of Yoga (for teachers and teachers in training) Intention, Breath, and Movement
Just as hydrogen and oxygen, depending on how they are mixed   together, can produce either fire or water, asana practice joined   with intention unifying breath, depending on how they mixed together  can produce either “just exercise” or can revolutionize  our lives.   This workshop begins with a talk, and then gentle movement.  The class then builds momentum.  At the apex of heat and breath we move directly into a special sequence of asanas, which bring the mind into stillness and the body into a new state of energy.  The second section of the workshop is dedicated to transformational breath work.  This class is both challenging and very healing and is open to all levels.  The principles you will learn in this workshop will take you to new depths in your practice and inspire you for weeks to come.   Bring your mat and writing materials. (Please no recording equipment) Cost: $55

Saturday, November 3, 2007: 3-5pm
Refining Communication
Seminar for Yoga teachers and teachers in training People often assume that their favorite teachers are able to  speak  clearly, concisely, and lovingly because they were born  that way.   But this is rarely true.  Teachers who excel with communication often simply work harder at it and never stop studying and improving their art of teaching.  This seminar offers several techniques for refining and empowering your ability to communicate what you want to say in the tone you want to say it with.  The practical principles you will learn in this workshop will take you to new levels in your teaching and inspire you for weeks to come.  Bring your mat and writing materials.  (Please no recording equipment) Cost: $45

About Max Strom (www.maxstrom.com)
Born with severe clubbed feet, Max spent much of the first 4 years of his life with his feet confined in plaster casts and braces.   After several corrective surgeries, he was able to walk fairly well, and by high school he had developed into a strong, competitive athlete.  But it was a powerful epiphany that spun him onto an entirely different path than his classmates.   With a new and burning imperative to understand life’s meaning, Max immersed himself in spiritual learning and by the age of nineteen had studied Taoism, esoteric Christianity, Sufism, and was practicing meditation and Chi Gung diligently. Today, Max Strom is known for inspiring and impacting the lives  of  his students, teaching with the aim of personal transformation  and  has become one of the most revered and respected Yoga  Teachers in the  US, Asia, and Europe.  He founded Sacred Movement, Center for Yoga and Healing in Los Angeles, and now travels extensively teaching and lecturing on yoga and  spirituality.  He is recognized by the Yoga Alliance at their Advanced Teacher Level (ERYT).  You can see more of his work on  his DVDs, Max Strom Yoga – Strength, Grace, and Healing,  and,  Learn to Breathe, to heal yourself and your relationships. 

“Only when we find gratitude do we begin to be liberated.   Gratitude humbles us, then that humility enables us to forgive, forgiveness leads us to love, and in Love we are liberated.”

–  Max Strom