Schedule

"A mind stretched by a new experience
can never go back to its old dimensions"

                           ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Click on class below to see description)

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Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
 Saturday
1:30 Swami Radha Yoga
6:00
 Belly Dance
Holly McWilliams
(90 min.)
Gentle Yoga & Reflection
Utpala Pittman
(75 min.)
7:00
 Buddhist Meditation
Cristiano Potamianos
(120 min.)
7:45

Belly Dance
Andrea Hanslip
(90 min.)



CLASS SUMMARY - MONDAYS



DANCER'S COMPANION SERIES – MIXED LEVEL (NEW!)
September 12 – October 24 (No class Oct. 10)
6:00 – 7:30 pm
$115.50 for 6 classes
Instructor: Holly McWilliams (BIO)
Registration: 403-863-4655
holly@indigoarts.ca
www.indigoarts.ca

Discover your inner dancer - embrace beauty, connect with balance, grace and ultimately, your femininity. I invite all of you dancers to try out this new Dancer’s Companion Series. It’s a 6 week long series that is designed to help you connect to you dancer’s body by stretching out and opening up all of your aches and pains, strengthen your body with balance and build up your technique with drills and dance combo’s. This class is a fusion dance class. Work on bad habits such as poor posture through dance and be thrown into the method of my madness for Belly Dance!!

CLASS SUMMARY - TUESDAYS



ORIENTAL (BELLY) DANCE - Beginner Class - Technique and Presentation (NEW!)
September 20 - November 2
7:45 -9:15 pm
$140 for 7 classes
Instructor: Andrea Hanslip (BIO)
Registration: 403-681-9048
andreadances@shaw.ca
www.andreadances.org

Come join Andrea to discover and to develop your belly dance talents. This class is for women of all ages and fitness levels and covers basic movements of Oriental dance, focusing on proper posture and alignment to avoid injury. We will examine some Middle Eastern rhythms and learn some appropriate steps. We will also be doing a short choreography so that you will have something to show your friends and family! This class does count as a workout, so bring a water bottle. Absolute beginners welcome!

This class has an upper limit of 12 students to allow for greater individual attention.


CLASS SUMMARY - THURSDAYS



GENTLE YOGA & REFLECTION
September 29 - November 3
6:00 - 7:15 p.m.
6 classes for $60.00
drop-in welcome, $12 per class
Instructor: Utpala Pittman (BIO)
Registration: 403-246-3997
yoga@radhacentre.org
 www.radha.org

Take the time to nurture body, mind, and spirit with gentle relaxing Hatha yoga stretches and poses. Brief reflective questions, guided meditations and breath awareness are also included.

Bring a journal, pen and yoga mat (mats are also available at the studio) and wear warm, comfortable clothing.

TIBETAN BUDDHIST MEDITATION
September 8 – 22
7:00 - 9:00 pm
September 29 – November 3
7:30 – 9:00 pm
Instructor: Cristiano Potamianos (BIO)
Suggested Donation: $10 per practice
Drop-in Class - All are welcome from beginner to advanced meditators

Cristiano will be facilitating meditation and Buddhist teachings in a flexible "course" format in order to bring people's awareness to a broader perspective of reality, as well as themselves, combining different stages of meditation, each going further into more subtle perception of how we establish relationships with ourselves, with other people, and with the planet.

The types of meditation to be practiced are:
Analytical Meditation - Using Guru Yoga Technique
Impure Shamatha - Concentration With an Object
Pure Shamatha - Awareness Without an Object
Metta-Bhavana - Loving Kindness Meditation
Prajna Meditation - Contemplation on Emptiness (Insight into subtle aspects of phenomena)