Events, Workshops & Series Classes
Pre-registration for Workshops/Special Classes
To pre-register/pay for workshops/classes please use Bernal Yoga's Web Scheduler hosted by Mindbody Online.
Workshops, Extended Classes, Intro Series:
First Friday Restorative Yoga with Kate Truka
August 7 (7:45-9:30pm)
Cost per session: $20/paid in advance or $25/at the door
Join us on the First Friday of every month to relax, unwind, and let go of tension with an evening of restorative yoga. No prior experience with yoga is required and those working to live comfortably in the body and to heal injuries, as well as new and soon-to-be parents, are most welcome.
During the 2 hour class you will be invited to open your body by turning your senses toward your internal environment: to deeply nourish the systems of your body and the sweetness of spirit. Through passive yoga asanas fully supported by props, as well as jnanic (self-inquiry), bhakti (honoring), and pranayama (breathing) practices, this workshop encourages pratyahara (sense-withdrawal). As you re-align with the clarity within, you begin to unwind stress reactions and dis-ease in the mind and body.
To pre-register/pay for workshops/classes please use Bernal Yoga's Web Scheduler hosted by Mindbody Online.
Introduction to Children's Yoga- a Training for Adults - lead by Kate Roades and Rosey Wyland
Date: August 15 and 16, 2009
Time: Saturday 1:30-7:00pm and Sunday 1:00-4:15pm
Cost: $350 in advance/$375 at the door
This Teacher Training Certification is designed for anyone who is interested in sharing the joy of Yoga with children and families. We will focus on children 18 months - 12 years and families. This is a foundational course open to yoga students and teachers of all levels. The only requirement is that you have taken at least 4 Yoga classes and have a passion for kids!
In this training you will learn-
- Yoga poses, partner poses, games, breathing exercises, and relaxation/meditation techniques and more
- How to develop and sequence children's yoga classes
- A variety of behavioral management techniques and soothing strategies that support a safe, non-competitive and fun environment
- How to use props, games, music and books to keep children engaged and happy
For more information about the course or to chat with the facilitators please visit www.yogawithkateandrosey.com or email yogawithkateandrosey@gmail.com
To pre-register/pay for workshops/classes please use Bernal Yoga's Web Scheduler hosted by Mindbody Online.
EVENTS
Bernal Yoga Literary Series
The Bernal Yoga Literary Series will continue to
take place quarterly. Nationally known writers will
share the stage with writers from the community, and
a reception will follow each reading. $5-10
donations gratefully accepted to cover expenses.
For submission guidelines and deadlines please email
Elizabeth Costello (costello.elizabeth@gmail.com).
This year's line-up:
Autumn Series, November 8:
Sean Hill has received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Bush Foundation, The MacDowell Colony, and the University of Wisconsin. In March 2008 the University of Georgia Press published his first book, Blood Ties & Brown Liquor. Hill is currently a Stegner fellow in Poetry at Stanford University.
Stephanie Soileau's short stories have appeared in Gulf Coast, StoryQuarterly, New Stories from the South 2005, Best of the South: From the Second Decade of New Stories from the South, Nimrod and Tin House. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, where she is working on a collection of stories and a novel about fishermen in coastal Louisiana.
Winter Series: January 17
Roxane Beth Johnson's first book of poetry, Jubilee, won the Philip Levine Award for Poetry and was published by Anhinga Press, 2006. Philip Levine was the judge. Her poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from: The Pushcart Prize Anthology, 2008, Chelsea, ZYZZYVA, Sentence, The Bitter Oleander, Parthenon West Review, and elsewhere.
Suzanne Rivecca, a former Wallace Stegner fellow in fiction, grew up
in Michigan. Her fiction has received the Pushcart Prize, inclusion in
Harcourt's Best New American Voices 2008 and 2009, and fellowships
from the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, the Macdowell Colony, and the
Djerassi Colony. She has taught creative writing at Stanford
University, and currently works as a grant-writer for Homeless Youth
Alliance in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco.
The recipient of Stegner, National Endowment for the Arts, and MacDowell Colony poetry fellowships, Brian Teare is the author of the award-winning debut The Room Where I Was Born and the chapbooks Pilgrim and Transcendental Grammar Crown. Two new books are forthcoming: Sight Map (University of California, 2009) and Pleasure (Ahsahta, 2010). He lives, teaches and makes books by hand in San Francisco.
Spring Series, April 18:
D. A. Powell is the author of four books of poems: Tea, Lunch,
Cocktails and Chronic. His awards include a Pushcart Prize and a
fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches in the
English Dept. at the University of San Francisco.
Skip Horack was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in the Stanford University Creative Writing Program from 2006-08. A native of Louisiana, his fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Southeast Review, New Delta Review, Louisiana Literature, The Southern Review, StoryQuarterly, Epoch, Narrative Magazine, and elsewhere. His short-story collection, The Southern Cross, won the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference 2008 Bakeless Fiction Prize and will be published by Mariner Books in July 2009. He is currently a lecturer at Stanford.
Special Guest:
Ada Limon's first book,
lucky wreck, was the winner of the Autumn
House Poetry Prize and her second book,
This Big Fake World, was the
winner of the Pearl Poetry Prize. She's won the Chicago Literary Award
and fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and the
New York Foundation for the Arts. She is the Creative Director for
Travel + Leisure Magazine and teaches a Master Class for Columbia
University. Her third book of poems
Sharks in the Rivers, will be
published by Milkweed Editions in 2010.