Michelle Edwards comes to Santa Barbara
from Hawaii bringing her very special work Yogalign

Learn how to release your body from habitual holding patterns and create more joy and ease of movement.

Friday, April 4th 7:30 - 9:30
Sunday, April 6th 1:00-4:00pm

To Register call 805.569.2505 and leave your Name & Number.
For more Questions, Call Nicole at 805.252.2621

Michaelle Edwards resides and teaches on the island of Kauai in the beautiful area of Hanalei. She is the owner of Mana Yoga Studio where she lives, teaches yoga, and practices organic farming on her 5 acres in paradise.She began her study of yoga in 1972 with Swami Satchidananda and Integral Yoga. She practiced daily for 20 yearsuntil she began to teach hatha yoga in 1992. Her vastwork with the body includes her yoga teaching but also working as a professional massage therapist for over 20 years. She is very musical and has been performing and recording as a vocalist and guitarist for over 30 years.

Michaelle has created a unique painless yoga system called YogAlign which tones, aligns, adjusts, and massages a person all in one session. YogAlign is not about contorting the body or forcing the joints. This method can be practiced by anyone and people get immediate benefits by learning how to use the body in natural spine alignment. Since our body is about 75% water, YogAlign works with neuromuscular education for flexibility as opposed to isometric contractions which engage the stretch reflex. Yogalign helps correct dysfunctional muscle and fascia patterning which create misalignments that are causing a US epidemic of hip, neck, knee, shoulder and back pain.

Michaelle has a DVD entitiled Yoga From Hawaii and will be publishing her book on YogAlign in the summer of 08. She holds workshops all over the US, Canada and New Zealand . She owns the Kauai Yoga School and is hosting a 200 hour Yoga teacher training in the fall of 2008 on Kauai and a summer 200 hour program in Nelson British Columbia. Michaelle has a love of the outdoors and participates in many adventure sports including swimming, surfing, windsurfing, kayaking, biking, hiking, skiing, horseback riding, and running.

I have created a yoga-like system that tones, aligns, adjusts, and massages a person all in one session. I think the essence of yoga is to unite the body mind and spirit through breathing and connecting to our deeper selves. I now know that this path is not about contorting the body or forcing the joints. My method can be practiced by anyone and people get immediate benefits when they start to do positions that encourage the natural spine alignment rather than forcing the form of a pose. People are so encouraged when they learn that do not have to do painful stretches to be flexible and that they can get flexible fast without spending years by mastering muscle tension at the nervous system level.

Yogalign corrects alignment which causes hip, neck, knee, shoulder and back pains. In my experience working with thousands of clients, I would have to say that misalignment causes almost all pains in the body. Some of the ailments that I have worked with and helped people heal from are herniated discs, migraines, acid reflux disease, vertigo, plantar fascia problems, tmj, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, eye strain, depression, carpal tunnel syndrome, flat feet, prostrate dysfunction, constipation, nervousness, and of course poor posture of all kinds.

I feel very motivated to teach and write about YOGALIGN and I want to help people to be their own healers through this method. Our entire culture is overly dependent on prescription drugs and adjustments to keep us functioning. My system truly gives an individual the key to their own health and the knowledge of letting the body heal itself.

Recording and performing professionally as a musician and vocalist for the last 25 years has also helped me to develop many of the unique aspects of YOGALIGNtm. I participate in many sports including swimming, surfing, windsurfing, kayaking, biking, hiking, skiing, horseback riding, running and childrearing. I am injury-free and more mentally, emotionally, and physically fit than I was as a teenager. Here I am below at 54 years young!!

"Yoga has been a useful tool in keeping my body and spirit balanced. I appreciate Michaelle Edwards showing me a safe and effective way to practice yoga. I highly recommend her YogAlign style of yoga with it's emphasis on neuromuscular balancing, natural spine alignment and core breathing."
Laird Hamilton

"Michaelle has been a passionate yogi for years and her love for teaching guided her to a genuinely effective and healing yoga technique...YogAlign" 
Mariel Hemmingway

"Michaelle's teaching offers inner and outer alignment in harmony with the beautiful island of Kauai. A practice with mana and prana"
Shiva Rea

Tantric Holotropic Breath Blast
1st Fridays of every month 7:30-9 pm at Source Yoga Studio
April 11th, June 2nd

Wake up your sexual/creative energy and learn how to safely channel the Inner Fire through your body, expanding your vessel as a container for Life to flow through. Tap into non-ordinary states consciousness for clearing mental chatter and old emotional wounds stuck in the organs, rebirthing yourself through your own inner Healing Intelligence. Connect your Root to your Sexuality to your Power to your Heart to your Expression to your Sight/Intuition to the infinite Source that you are, becoming a fully integrated, activated Human Being..

$20/person For more information call Lisa @ 805.450.1772 or email Magdalenewomen@yahoo.com
See also Www. MagdaleneWomen. com

The Kirtan Klub
Invites you to celebrate with us an evening of ecstatic heartsong and chant.

March 29th and April 26th at 8 pm
All ages welcome
By donation suggested $12
Hosted by Nicole and Kabir

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