6:45-8:00 pm

Yoga Center of Santa Rosa, 420 Mendocino Ave (enter through Riley Street)

Yoga helps you connect with your shakti, the divine life force within. Increase your energy and stamina, build strength and flexibility, and improve focus and concentration to assist your labor and delivery. Also become aware of how to practice yoga during this powerful time in your life. No previous experience practicing Yoga is required. Postnatal mothers are also welcome. During pregnancy it’s best to eat a light snack before yoga practice, giving about an hour to digest before class. Wear comfortable clothing that you can stretch in. Mats, blankets and props provided.

Cost $52 for 4 classes OR $15 drop in. Sign up in advance.

Spring Into Fitness @ Airport Club
Join me for 4 thirty minute private yoga or pilates reformer sessions for $109.50. I will provide you with a yoga asana workout, specifically for your needs, at the end our 4 sessions.

Are you ready for some videos or audio yoga classes? Email me with requests or suggestions!

Email me @ monibravo@att.net or call (707) 321-9484

2010 will be about remembering the teaching of my past. I will be writing about experiences of the early 2000’s, as I realize that I’ve been studying yoga for over a decade. I recall my first practices of yoga. They were uplifting and I quickly felt the lightness in my body. I felt a fullness for life. I did not jump on the band wagon very quickly. I was a student that would flow in and out of classes. I was not quite sure what style was right for me. I now see that all styles are perfect for me. I’ve learned something from Iyengar, Hatha, Vinyasa, Prana Flow, and Anusara yoga. I’m very blessed to have to studied with so many wonderful teachers. I will continue to study and learn and share my teachings with everyone.

Yoga helps us balance our life. In my early days of becoming a yogini, I was also a triathlete, college graduate and soon to be a wife.  I did yoga on Sundays. It was like a holy day for me.  I spent most of my weekdays learning new skills and riding my mountain bike with my friends. I was not ready to sit in the still. I was going Constantly. The awesome thing about yoga is that it is always there for you. You can grab a yoga mat and practice at any time. The hardest part for the beginners mind is what to do?

This week try to open up your yoga mat at home or at a studio or club. Sit in a comfortable position and open up to the known. Let your heart feel the energies all around you. Then come onto your hands and knees and play in cat/cow. You’ll know when your body is ready for downward dog. Take each breath as it comes and flow with it. You’ll soon be moving into your first sun salutation and then you’ll continue on to some standing poses or sitting poses. The best part is that you get decide what to do.

Let yourself look inside this month. There is no other place to look. Everything you have is already within you.

If you are a beginner, welcome to a year of changes and awakenings. If you are an experienced practitioner, what did you awaken to last year?

Enjoy this video after a workout, in the morning or afternoon. This will open your hamstrings, hips and shoulders. Sign up for my videos by registering on my website. Make sure you check your spam to confirm you’ve been added. I am starting a Yoga for Athletes class on Monday mornings in October in downtown SR.

Join me this fall for extended yoga classes. I will be offering 2 hour classes at the Yoga Center of Sonoma County and Airport Club. Sign up early for my August workshop and you’ll get $10 off.  Class is from 2:00-4:00 pm. We will be moving in a mandala and opening our hips and hearts! If you are having financial difficulties, please let me know so I can accommodate you.

You won’t want to miss this workshop! Please see my workshop page and visit yogacenterofsonomacounty.com

Namaste’

“Now is the time that every thought and action is sacred” ~Rumi

We strive to know ourselves, yet we all have unsolved questions in our hearts. We don’t need to answer them to achieve self understanding; all we need do is accept them and understand ourselves as creatures with questioning hearts.

When we’re ready to receive it, the answer will come within our grasp. Perhaps a lot of work will be required of us: as much as learning a foreign tongue. Or perhaps the answer will be as simple as a key that fits the door of a locked room. But no effort will get it until we’re ready.

Patience seems like such a dull virtue, especially when we’re young and eager for accomplishment. But patience is another name for love. If we’re patient with ourselves, it is because we’ve achieved self-acceptance, and because we trust that, when we need it, the secret language of the locked room will open to us.