Mid-Spring Break: Restorative Reset
Join Helen for a class of deep relaxation and letting go. Ease your body and mind as Helen guides you into different forms using props to allow for profound openings and stimulation of energy lines. This practice is intentionally designed to bring you into a deep, centered, and relaxed state. Resting the body in different forms allows the mind to soften and the heart to expand open. Essential oils and reiki will be offered as optional additions to help the body in this process of release and restoration. The practice of restorative yoga is healing to body and mind. All levels welcome.
Ocean Bliss Yoga Study Group
Judith Lasater’s book “Living Your Yoga” is a down-to-earth discussion of how we can use the wisdom of yoga to connect with the sacred in everyday life. The book helps us expand our meaning of yoga beyond the familiar poses and breathing practices to include life off our mats. Judith uses timeless wisdom drawn from the classical yoga texts of the Yoga Sutras and the Bhagavad Gita to steer the course, and gives us off-the-mat practices to guide us in deepening our relationships with ourselves, our loved ones, and the world around us. It is both an inspirational and practical guide that teaches us to expand our awareness and presence, helping us to live more fully.
This free study group is for individuals looking to deepen their understanding and practice of yoga. It provides a community to discuss yoga's philosophical and ethical principles and learn how to apply them to our lives. We will meet once a month, on the first Tuesday of the month, starting on April 2nd. In addition, will have weekly reflections and a weekly check in with the group. This will be an ongoing series, and you can come as you are able. Please read the foreword and the first chapter, “Spiritual Seeking”, for our first meeting on April 2nd.
You will need:
1. Judith Lasater’s book, "Living Your Yoga: Finding the Spiritual in Everyday Life"
2. A journal
3. A sense of curiosity for learning and self-reflection
radiant face: an evening of beauty & bliss
Join Jen Kelleher and Marie Battaglia for an evening of beauty and bliss. After an opening meditation, you will learn how different essential oils benefit skin, and then make your own customized face serum based on your skincare goals and unique needs. Next, be guided with your oil through a tool-less gua sha routine to reduce inflammation, fine lines, and wrinkles, while improving elasticity and glow. Evening ends with a skin-toning sound bath. Dietary and lifestyle tips for glowing skin will be provided as well. Take-homes include: your customized face serum, informational handouts, and exclusive offerings on oils and health coaching.
ROCKAWAY BEACH ASTROLOGY MONTHLY FORECAST
Join Catherine McQuaid for your monthly Astrology Weather Forecast and track what major astrological energies are coming into the upcoming month. We will discuss how to work most effectively with them and develop a deeper relationship with the planets and signs of the zodiac beyond the newspaper horoscope.
May description coming soon..!
All levels are welcome with or without the knowledge of exact birth times.
Healing With Fascia Maneuvers & Sound
Jen Kelleher and Alex Venier invite you for an evening of healing with fascia maneuvers and crystal alchemy singing bowls. This workshop is designed to reduce stress, bring alignment and balance to you and your life, and replenish your energies. It includes 45 minutes of fascia maneuvers, followed by an organ reset with singing bowls, and a long Savasana sound bath. Bring your water, journal, and pen. Wear clothing that is comfortable and non-restrictive.
family yoga
We invite all ages to join certified yoga and children’s yoga instructor Alex Venier for a magical family yoga experience! Learn and practice centering, breath work, poses, concentration, and meditation, along with yoga’s moral values through play, sequences, song, and literature. Leave with tools to easily apply at home. 3 years old and younger must be accompanied by an adult; children over 3 years old may be dropped off and picked up.
transformational breath
What if you could find natural healing through breath, awareness, movement, and sound? How would it feel to have a powerful way to breathe intentionally, reset, and connect with your innate balance and calm? Is it possible to restore and open lung capacity to increase vitality, detoxify, cleanse your body, and refresh your mind?
Join Christine to learn and understand what affects your breath patterns and use this knowledge to shift to optimized outcomes in health. Transformational Breath is a powerful educational and experiential practice designed to improve your life and help you appreciate your natural flow state.
yoga for your best sleep ever
Dive into the true essence of rest– it’s more than collapsing after a busy day, it’s about deep nourishment and letting go.
Numerous benefits of proper sleep include muscle relaxation, rebuilding collagen, reduced inflammation, tissue repair, improved brain function, and much more. This workshop will include a brief review of the neurophysiology of sleep, preparing oneself for sleep, and the practice of several yogic, philosophic, breath, and self-massage techniques for profound, nourishing rest. Helpful for those with busy minds, insomnia, general anxiety, and elevated stress levels.
The class will include short lecture & discussion, movement, and stillness. Take-homes include handouts and sample of Young Living essential oils spray. Bring your eye pillow (if possible), journal, and pen. All levels welcome.
advanced yoga practice
Jen Kelleher invites you to the studio to challenge yourself in your yoga practice. Spend some time centering so that body, breath, and mind can quiet and work as one. Move as spirit in the body through an intentional warm-up, followed by a sequence of intermediate and advanced yoga asanas, all leading up to a peak pose. The practice ends with a cool down, essential oils, and an elongated Savasana with Yoga Nidra.
flower essence & sound bath
Jen Kelleher and Camila Vergara invite you for a magical, ceremonial evening of flower essence and crystal alchemy sound healing. In this hands-on workshop, Camila will teach how to make flower essence and talk about this extraordinary vibrational medicine, including how these tool can help us in our energy field. Jen will close the evening with a luxurious sound bath to replenish your energies and infuse your homemade flower essence with pure, high-vibrational crystal alchemy tones. Leave with your own, sound-infused flower essence. Please bring a journal and pen.
book club: the great divide
A powerful novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived, loved, and labored there.
It is said that the canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in history. But first, it must be built.
Searing and empathetic, The Great Divide explores the intersecting lives of activists, fishmongers, laborers, journalists, neighbors, doctors, and soothsayers—those rarely acknowledged by history even as they carved out its course.
Named a Most Anticipated Book By: Washington Post * Book Riot * Electric Literature * LitHub * ELLE * The Millions * Goodreads * Reader’s Digest.
We invite you to read the book and come join the OBY to discuss! Free offering, please pre-register.