Past Events: 2010

Preparing for Birth

Saturday, March 13, 1:00-3:00 pm
$45 Enroll
Pregnancy is an exciting time for family bonding! Preparing for childbirth may bring anxiety over the changes and discomforts that begin to take place almost immediately to both the body and the mind. As a couple, learn to work as a team in preparation for pregnancy and birth. The Yoga version of Lamaze!

• Asana (postures specific to pregnancy discomfort, labor, and partner exercises will be explored)
• Pranayama (breathing techniques for all stages of pregnancy and labor)
• Relaxation techniques used during labor and delivery
• Discussion of childbirth practices
• Prenatal bonding exercises

Jessica Apo is a certified yoga and prenatal yoga instructor. She taught prenatal yoga while pregnant with her first daughter, Samantha. Teaching prenatal yoga while being pregnant allowed her to feel and understand what her students were going through, creating an organic experience for her. She had a drug-free natural delivery this past November. She credits her stamina and strength during labor to her knowledge of yoga asana and pranayama. She loves teaching prenatal yoga and believes that yoga techniques help parents connect with each other and their unborn child. Mostly, yoga can help in pain management, breathing during labor and overall health while pregnant and after birth!

Kundalini Rising Workshop

Saturday, March 6, 1:00-3:00 pm
$30 / Enroll
Experience your inner Shakti (Creative Power) in this dynamic workshop. Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan is based on Kriya (purification) Yoga. We’ll flow through yoga sets that energize the body , unlease stored prana, and reawaken the spirit.

In this workshop you will :

• Gain endurance and fluidity in asana
• Breakthrough limitations with powerful pranayama
• Discover heartfelt expression through nada yoga (sacred sound) recitation
• Relax and Release through deep guided shivasana and meditation

Ugonma Fontaine received her 200 Hour Kundalini Yoga certification in 2007 under Elizabeth Greathouse (Gurmukh Kaur), Gurudass Kaur and Gurudass Singh. She found Kundalini Yoga to be a powerful practice of yoga that allowed for greater connection to flow. Ugonma believes yoga to be a balanced practice — both physically invigorating and spiritually expansive. Ugonma combines yoga with her love of energy work. Ugonma is certified to practice and teach both Western and Eastern ( Usui Reiki Ryoho) techniques through the Reiki Center of Greater Washington. Ugonma’s classes are energetic and she helps students explore the integration of their physical body with their spirit through creative sequencing, breath exercises and guided meditation.

Free Reiki Share

Sunday, Feb 28, 1:00-3:00pm
Free! Enroll
Ever wonder what is Reiki? Reiki is a traditional Japanese hands on vibrational healing technique. It's been known to releave stress and promote general health and well being. Come and experience an evolution of energy in our reiki share. Kick back and relax. Receive a reiki treatment by several reiki practioners all at once! To be led by Ugonma Fontaine and Ashley Greenfield who also provide Reiki training.

Deep Delicious Rest with Michelle Fry

Saturday, February 20 : 1:00-5:00 pm
Cost $59 / Enroll
Gift yourself deep delicious rest. The daily stressors and fast-pace of the holidays taxes your nervous system and creates deeply layered tension in the connective tissue that wraps your muscles, organs, and even bones. This proverbial 'shrink wrap' restricts your flexibility and sense of spaciousness in your body as well as your physiologic function. We will attend to this 'shrink wrap' utilizing Supported Restorative Yoga poses, hands-on energy work and visualization. Your body, mind and spirit will be coaxed into luxurious relaxation. You will remember what it is to feel supported, nurtured, and deeply rested -- as if you have been on a long overdue vacation.

Michelle Fry (RYT 500) holds a Master of Traditional Oriental Medicine and applies therapeutics of yoga along with acupuncture to help students ease pain and re-establish a healthy relationship between nervous and muscular systems. Michele works with students of all levels including athletes and students new to movement/yoga. Before joining Thrive, Michelle was a Yoga Instructor at The Chopra Center and La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, California; is International Association of Yoga Therapists, Professional Member; and Reiki Practitioner.

Haiti Relief / Yoga Day USA
Yoga to De-Stress with Susan Bowen

Saturday, January 23, 2:30-3:30 pm
Free! Register Today
Donations for Haiti Relief accepted at door
Join us to learn how yoga can help you de-stress and stay healthy! During our yoga practice (breathing exercises, yoga postures, relaxation techniques) you will learn more about:

• Your body's stress response system, the Relaxation Response
• How to use yoga to combat stress
• How to help others around you de-stress and the correct practice for your body type

Perfect for all levels of students, spouses & friends that are new to yoga! This is a great intro to yoga for a beginner. The advanced student will be equally as interested in specifically targeting yoga practice to reduce stress.

The Instructor: Susan Bowen, E-RYT, has been practicing and studying yoga since the 1980s. Susan's deepest interest and study is in how to balance and heal through flow; energetic movement and stillness. Without awareness of flow; we can walk around frenetically or with "low energy." Yoga training gave her the tools to achieve a more balanced and peaceful life.

Haiti Relief / Yoga Day USA

Saturday, January 23, 3:45-4:45 pm
with Ugonma - Enroll

Monday, January 25, 7:30-9:00 pm
with Lisa - Enroll
:Suggested Cash Donation: $10 (at door)

EVERYONE – ALL LEVELS & "never did a lick of yoga" can flow with us as we practice for a good cause. Thrive is hosting donation yoga classes to support the American Red Cross Haiti Relief Program. All Donations are going to the American Red Cross.

Desirée Rumbaugh:
The Heart Stimulus Plan Workshop

January 15-17
Full Workshop $210
Individual Sessions
Friday PM or Saturday PM $55
Saturday AM or Sunday AM $55
Enroll
Friday, January 15: 6:00-8:30 pm
Evoking Calmness: Hip Openers and Inversions
Saturday, January 16: 10:00 am-12:30 pm
The Ego Surrenders to Grace: Backbends
Saturday, January 16 : 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm
MindFULLness Begins with Emptiness: Forward Bends
Sunday, January 17: 10:00 am-12:30 pm
The Joy of Possibility: Arm Balances and Backbends

Desirée Rumbaugh teaches from the experiences of more than two decades of practice. She was one of the first students to study with John Friend, and one of the first to be certified in his Anusara method of yoga. As a full-time teacher, Desirée travels the world offering workshops, which are innovative and transformative, challenging and compassionate. She has a well-earned reputation for deepening the most new to the most seasoned practices, through humor balanced with a quest for authenticity. She gave a workshop at Thrive Yoga in July 2008.

September 2007 marked the release of her first DVD, entitled Yoga to the Rescue, which is specially designed for those who have avoided yoga because of a lack of flexibility, low fitness level or chronic pain. Her newest DVD, entitled Yoga to the Rescue for Back Pain, was released in January 2008 with wide acclaim. Desireée is also a contributor to various organizations and publications, including the Yoga Journal, where she was featured on the February 2008 cover. For more information, please visit her web site.

40 Days to a Personal Revolution

January 6—February 14
De-stress, get healthy, shed the winter doldrums!
Opening Night Practice and meeting January 6 from 7:15 till 8:30
Cosst: $299 /  Enroll

Program Includes:

• 6 weeks of Unlimited Yoga
• Meditation training & guidance
• Baron Baptiste’s book  40 Days to Personal Revolution
• Healthy Diet Counseling & Support
• Completion PARTY!

Special note:  We will freeze your current series during the "Revolution."  

Based on Baron Baptiste’s best selling book and designed for beginning and veteran students to experience a personal revolution in well-being.  During the 6-week program, you will transform naturally to become healthier (lose weight if needed), become less reactive and more calm, more fit, eliminate negative thinking and self-sabotage and uncover the beautiful person that you already are!

Thrive staff will mentor and support you through the process.  Each week you will focus on a specific theme as detailed in the book  (Presence; Vitality; Equanimity; Restoration; Centering and Triumph).

The Weekly Program:

6 Yoga practices a week.  At least 3 practices in the studio and other practices can be done at home.  You will be responsible for logging in at the desk.

 Weekly Meeting and Meditation.  Guided meditation practice at the studio on Thursdays at 6:30-7:25 pm, followed by a 15-minute check-in session. Sessions are optional but highly recommended to support each other, ask questions, share experiences and report progress.

Daily Meditation.  Twice a day on your own. Weekly meeting counts as one!  Meditation classes taken at the studio are great options too!

Healthy Diet Counseling.  The book specifically guides you or you can choose a plan that works for you. Healthy food choice discussion will be led by Dr, Rachel Levine during the Opening Night. 

TOTAL COMMITMENT IS REQUIRED!!

Goals, Dreams & Intention for 2010

Workshop & Working Session with ActionCoach Jeff Miller and Susan Bowen
Saturday, January 9, 2:00-5:00 pm
Cost: $65 / Enroll

Define yourself, set goals, &  practices to keep them!

Join us to create your intention (sankalpa) and use proven, real-life techniques to realize your intention while maintaining health and prosperity.  Do this in any economy and in your current conditions (the present moment is a great place to start)!

This is geat workshop for small business owners, executives, yoga students, anyone!

Explore:

• Psychological and behavioral basis for goal-making
• Yogic techniques to aide in setting goals & uncovering obstacles
• Visualization & Meditation to organize, stay on course and focus
• Learning to work (effort) less to get what you desire 
• Trusting your inner compass 
• Leave with a 12 month plan broken into quarterly goals

Jeff Miller is a certified ActionCOACH business coach and in the top 100 Coach of the Month Club which includes the top coaches of more than 1000 franchises.  Jeff works with diverse small companies and executives in diverse fields from accounting and law firms to home builders and contractors, with the goal of providing short-term assistance and long-term training and education. Jeff is immediate Past President of the Rockville Chamber of Commerce and Post Chair of Manna Food Center.  Jeff regularly meditates and culls the latest research and information on human potential from psychology, business and mind-body studies.

 Susan Bowen