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Prenatal Yoga at ISHTA

22.5.2018

We are celebrating the moms-to-be at ISHTA this month! Their enthusiasm and consistency at their yoga practice is joyously witnessed by our prenatal instructor team Gina Menza, Esther Palmer and Tisha Ford each week. We sat down recently to chat about the wonder and respect they experience. Upcoming Prenatal Workshops and Trainings: Prenatal Workshop Series Part 1, Creating a Prenatal Home Practice with Gina Menza July 12 6:30-8:30pm 85-hour Prenatal Teacher Training with Gina Menza August 13-25 | Yoga Alliance Registered | Learn More How is a prenatal class different than a general population class? In ISHTA prenatal classes, we honor the journey of each woman. This is reflected by a conscious intention to foster community amongst our prenatal students, to craft safe asana sequences for women in every stage in their pregnancy, and...

Mona Anand on the Power of Yoga Nidra

08.5.2018

Journal

ISHTA Co-Owner and Yogiraj, Mona Anand, will lead her Yoga Nidra and the Chakras Training, Part 1 and Part 2, this Spring. (Part 1 February 27 - March 2) (Part 2 May 14 - 16) Below she shares how she came to the practice of Yoga Nidra and why she think's it is so beneficial for the modern yogi. I was first introduced to yoga nidra in Mumbai, India in my teens. I was a competitive athlete at the time and didn’t know how to stop and rest. Then I took my first Yoga nidra class and it took me to a place of deep inner stillness and peace that I had never experienced. I was hooked from the very first class! My teacher used to say that twenty minutes of yoga nidra was equivalent to four hours of sleep....

Mona Anand Specialty Training Yoga Nidra

Dharma Talk with Alan Finger

26.4.2018

Wellness

Consult with Alan Finger about your life path. Alan will share his keenly insightful observations and offer guidance in the form of recommended meditations, movements & kriyas and may also suggest a mantra for recitation based on his insight on how to navigate an easeful dharma no matter what your karma. 250 USD via pay-pal: yogiraj@ishtayoga.com. $250 | 50 min...

Alan Finger Dharma

Marma Therapy with Elissa Lewis

25.4.2018

Wellness

ISHTA’s signature Marma Therapy is drawn from a traditional Ayurvedic bodywork which clears stress from the muscles, soft tissues, fascia, and vital points of the body. Marma Therapy opens up strangled Marma points, allowing the intelligence of the different bodily systems to regain their homeostasis. Marma therapy also restores one’s perspective on life to a point of clarity, insight, and inspiration. 60 mins | $175...

Marma Therapy

Expanding what is possible in the private practice by Cassandra Ferland

09.4.2018

Journal

Cassandra will be launching her new 15 hour training, The Art and Science of Working with Private Clients at ISHTA on April 21 + 22. Early Bird Pricing is available through April 11th. Below Cassandra discusses her journey to building a thriving roster of privates as well as the nuances of teaching private yoga that there might not be time to cover in 500 hour teacher training. When people think of yoga what often comes to mind is breathing and stretching in a large group class. This makes sense because the majority of people now practice yoga in this way. It is, therefore, surprising for most that yoga was traditionally taught one on one, teacher to student, with each session created specifically for that student. Since the evolution of every...

Chakras 101: Aligning With the Inner and Outer Universe – Sarah Finger

18.1.2018

Journal

Sarah and Alan Finger’s new online course, Chakras 101: A course to Add Years to your Life and Life to your Years, launches January 29th, but if you sign up by January 19th and use the code SFINGER100 you’ll get $100 off the regular price. Click here to register The chakras are vortices of energy that run along our spine, and can actually be identified as the headquarters of each element that exists in our bodies: earth, water, fire, air, and space. You may have heard the chakras being referenced in a yoga class or in social media but not have a full understanding of what they are. In our upcoming course, Chakras 101 in partnership with Yoga Journal, Alan Finger and I hope to demystify these whirling...

Sarah finger Yoga Journal

New Year, New Member Special

05.1.2018

Journal

"Practice becomes firmly grounded when well attended to for a long time, without break and in all earnestness"- Patanjali, The Yoga Sutras Our habits shape our reality. What we think, how we communicate, and the decisions we make are all determined by our habits, whether they are conscious or unconscious. A daily yoga practice can help us to become aware of our habits so that we can live our lives more authentically. With the New Year in full swing, we have a few offers to help you create conscious change in your life and tap into your unbound potential through daily practice. New Year, New Member Special For the month of January only, we are offering our unlimited monthly membership to new members for $100 a month (Regularly $150)...

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Cheerleading for Meditation by Peter Ferko

01.12.2017

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Yogiraj Peter Ferko will co-lead the upcoming ISHTA Meditation Training with Alan and Sarah Finger. (Dec. 15 - 17) I was speaking to a student in a private yesterday, and she told me that her whole view on life was so different since she’d been practicing meditation and mantra and processing things with me over the past year. She said, everything is so open and of the moment, but there is no way to say it — it sounds hokey when I try. And yet, we need to do what Alan Finger calls “cheerleading” sometimes, to encourage people to try the simple, yet profound, techniques of meditation. And that requires words, whether they sound hokey or not. So here are some words about why studying meditation is...

ISHTA Meditation Meditation Training Peter Ferko

Claire Kinsella Holtje writes about Financial Yoga

02.11.2017

Journal

The Autumn leaves are one of the most gorgeous gifts of nature! For those of us on the east coast we are experiencing a late fall, the leaves are taking their time. But sure as night follows day, nature is plugged into a Higher Intelligence, a Flow that supports this natural order a progressing that leads to evolution and change. So as in nature, flow and healing happens when we realize and practice the soulfull art of surrendering to this circulating energy.As we practice directing the flow of energy within us through choice, breathwork, meditation and clear/purposeful intention, we cultivate our capacity for clearing pathways within us. This flow supports us in making deliberate decisions in our day to day lives. Conscious choices correlate to clear rewards. Clearly circulating...

Claire Kinsella Holtje Financial Yoga

Sarah Finger Discusses the Origin and Twofold Meaning of ISHTA

25.10.2017

Journal

Yogiraj Sarah Finger will join Yogiraj Master Teachers Mona Anand, Ulrica Norberg, and Katrina Repka, and other ISHTA Senior Teachers to lead the upcoming 200-hour ISHTA Teacher Training at Hi Yoga in Oslo. One of the greatest gifts of teaching yoga is being able to share the teachings with others in a Training format. At ISHTA, our Teacher Training program is about so much more than just learning how to teach Yoga: it is about understanding how to integrate the practice into your living. I have been lucky enough to witness the growth and connection of many different Training groups over the years. Even though each person is unique, the shared experience is commonly one of evolution and self-discovery. ISHTA has a twofold meaning. One is an...

200HR Norway Sarah Platt-Finger

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Prenatal Yoga at ISHTA

Mona Anand on the Power of Yoga Nidra

Dharma Talk with Alan Finger

Marma Therapy with Elissa Lewis

Expanding what is possible in the private practice by Cassandra Ferland

Chakras 101: Aligning With the Inner and Outer Universe – Sarah Finger

New Year, New Member Special

Cheerleading for Meditation by Peter Ferko

Claire Kinsella Holtje writes about Financial Yoga

Sarah Finger Discusses the Origin and Twofold Meaning of ISHTA

Prenatal Yoga at ISHTA

Mona Anand on the Power of Yoga Nidra

Expanding what is possible in the private practice by Cassandra Ferland

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