South Valley Yoga Festival 2013

South Valley Yoga Festival

Yoga Classes | Holistic Holiday Bazzar | Meditation | Live Music | Indian Food | Giveaways | Raffle

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When:

Saturday – 14th Dec, 2013 | 8.00 am – 5.00 pm

Where:

Indian Cultural Center, South Jordan, Utah  ( Google Map)

Cost:

$15 for one all day admission! Each admission which includes a raffle ticket good for numerous different giveaways at the end of each class! Additional tickets are available for a 5 dollar donation per ticket.

Cost for Vendors:

$100 for vendors OR free if the vendor donates $100 or more in merchandise to be given away by raffle to the students.

Holistic Holiday Bazzar:

Feel great about shopping local/national businesses for your holiday. Find that perfect gift, art, clothing, holistic products, henna tattoo etc.

Festival Schedule:

8:00-9:30am: Ashtanga Yoga w/ Amy Williams and Nicole Snow (3B Yoga)

10:00–11:30am: Life Power Yoga  w/ John Cottrell and Kimberly Wells (Life Time South Valley)

11:30-1:00pm: Lunch (fresh Indian food made from scratch at the temple) and Live Music with Leraine Horstmanshoff

1:00-2:30pm: Yoga w/ Julie and Marc (Mountain Yoga Sandy)

3:00-4:30pm: Restorative Yoga w/ Kimberly Deutsch and Monica Hambleton (Owners of Yoga Path and Breathe)

4:30-5:00pm: Closing Ceremony w/Santosh

TEACHERS:

[title size=”2″]Amy Williams[/title]

A professional cycling career is what led Amy Williams to develop a relationship with yoga.

It was love at first class with her and Ashtanga yoga. Through the discipline, tradition, and physicality of the practice, she has experienced greater happiness and abundant health.

Amy is currently the co- owner of 3B Yoga (formerly known as It’s Yoga) where she has taught over 6,000 classes and is the Training Director of Utah’s longest running Yoga Alliance Certified Teacher Training program.

 

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Micah helps people find out who they are and what they stand for by sharing ancient yoga in a way that works for the modern world.

He leads yoga teacher training programs, workshops and retreats nationwide. Working directly with Master Teacher Jonny Kest, Micah helps manage and refine the LifePower Yoga Teacher Training program. An Ambassador for both Lululemon and Manduka, Micah is also sponsored by Freemotion Fitness, mBody, MPG, and Altra. In his spare time, he enjoys competitive pistol shooting, rock climbing, and Tai Chi. He has completed more than 1,600 hours of Yoga Alliance Certified Teacher Training, and attended hundreds of yoga workshops and intensives with many of the world’s top teachers. Micah is also a bar licensed Attorney at Law. He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in English Literature from the University of Utah and a Doctorate in Law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law.

Micah’s yoga classes share the joy and inspiration that exist in every moment, even those that are challenging and difficult. His students describe his teaching style as intense and empowering. In every class, Micah guides his students to a mental and physical edge where they find the necessary strength to achieve any goal or objective.

 

[title size=”2″]Monica Hambleton[/title]

My passion for yoga has grown over the last few years since I have moved from Layton to my home in Daybreak, South Jordan. Yoga helped me to transition to my new home, and gave me a great friend, Shandell (my partner in crime with this little studio we dreamed up). Coming from a fitness back ground, I believe yoga is the complete package. Not only does this beautiful practice tone our bodies, but it relieves stress-physical, emotional and mental, and most times without you even knowing it is happening. This therapeutic exercise has changed my life and helps me in my day to day living. So I if I am feeling stressed I know exactly where I need to go…. on to the yoga mat my happy place!

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[title size=”2″]Leraine Horstmanshoff[/title]

Leraine Horstmanshoff is a devotional singer who’s path has led her to the practice of Bhakti Yoga. She is a soulful multi-instrumentalist with a wide range of vocals, didgeridoo, percussion, flute, strings and much more. Leraine naturally flows with her instruments and becomes one with the music and sound that comes through her. Not only does she love sharing the practice of Kirtan (call & response chanting) she enjoys playing & accompanying yoga teachers regularly in SLC & abroad. She has been a part of Utah’s growing spiritual community offering her gifts in many communities.

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Marc
began practicing Bikram Yoga in 2006 after years of conventional physical and drug therapies did not alleviate the painful, daily muscle spasms in his back. Having had a severe motorcycle accident in 2002. he was left with multiple injuries, including compressed vertebrae, soft tissue damage throughout his body, and a fractured scull and Traumatic Brain Injury. “I was dealing with an extremely severe post-concussive syndrome that was manifesting in severe depression, anxiety, insomnia, memory & socialization issues. I came to yoga for my back pain, but I found it healing all of the issues I was dealing with including the brain injury.”

“My memory improved, depression lifted and about six months into practice, I was out of pain and decided I needed to teach this yoga. I remember thinking “How do people not know this?”” Almost exactly two years after he began his practice, and as he continued to heal he was granted a full scholarship, and attended teacher training with Bikram in he fall of 2008. Upon returning from teacher training, Marc began teaching at Bikram yoga Sandy, and subsequently took on teaching at, and managing the Bikram Ogden studio for the summer, returning to teaching full time in Sandy that fall.

“I tell people that If someone would have said to me 10 years ago that I was going to be a yoga teacher I would have laughed . . . but here I am. I teach it because it works. I teach it because it gave me my life back.” Marc enjoys Boarding (snow, wake, and surf), Cycling (road and mountain), rock climbing, hiking, backpacking, mixing underground dance music, and generally having a good time. “Don’t be afraid of dying. Be afraid of not living.

Julie grew up in Connecticut and moved to Utah in 1996, after graduating from Springfield College, MA with a B.S. in Health/Fitness. A competitive gymnast for 17 years, she transitioned to rock climbing, eventually to become co-owner of a climbing gym. Julie has experience coaching gymnastics, climbing, and general fitness in both clinical and recreational/gym settings. She has also done some team building/ ropes course facilitation.

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Julie began teaching Bikram Yoga in the fall of 2006 after a friend introduced her to the practice 4 years before. She decided to become an instructor as an extension of her own personal practice. “Bikram yoga is a practice where your excuses, and patterns are constantly being shown to you, if you choose to look. It’s an arena where you can dissolve your self-imposed limitations, and your fears. Not only does your practice offer great health benefits it is also an amazing tool for self-realization. I knew that if I wanted to continue to grow I had to get up on the podium.”

“Being an instructor is a yoga practice in itself. For me, my physical practice gave me a lot, and it was also something that came pretty naturally to me, what didn’t’t’t come naturally to me was standing up on a podium and being willing to speak, to lead a group of people through their own trials and tribulations as they grew in there own practice…frankly that scared the crap out of me! Teaching has a funny way of amplifying whatever issues, and self judgments still plague you personally. You have to learn to make your peace with what ever shows up in class on any particular day. To me that, ultimately, is doing yoga…the place were you have total awareness of everything, and no judgment on any of it. My students are my teachers. I enjoy learning from what they reflect back at me, as much as I enjoy watching them transform and grow.”

Julie has also had the honor of demonstrating her yoga practice in the Bishnu Gosh National Yoga competitions in 2007 and 2008. In addition to her athletic creativity, Julie is also an artist and energy worker. She creates blown glass sculptural pieces as well as jewelry.

Julie began practicing various modalities of energy work in 2002 and has been Access Consciousness Practitioner/Facilitator since 2007. Access offers many tools for clearing limitations, facilitating awareness, which in turn allows the ability to generate the life you’d truly like to create. Julie teaches classes in Access and also does private sessions.

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Kimberly received her general education from the University of Utah then studied Early Childhood Education at the London

Montessori Centre. Shortly afterward she moved to the Middle East and began teaching at the American Creativity Academy in Kuwait. While living overseas Kimberly began learning yoga from the local Indian Community. The first styles she learned and practiced throughout her late twenties were Hatha then Sivananda. Later, during her thirties, Kimberly explored and practiced the Ashtanga tradition inspired by David Swenson and later Richard Freeman. Upon returning to Utah in her forties, Kimberly began practicing Power Yoga with the local crowd at Centered City and went on to certify with D’ana Baptiste who continues to be an inspiration. Following certification she taught at Centered City Yoga for five years. During this time her own practice evolved into a moving meditation entitled Soft Flow. This type of yoga practice is energizing and body friendly. It helps practitioners connect with the life force energy that became so tangible to Kimberly during her Reiki training and certification with her beautifully intuitive teacher Dr. Carol Wilson. Motivated to bring the practice of Yoga to the South End of Salt Lake Valley, Kimberly opened Yoga Path in her hometown of Draper in 2010 where she now teaches with many other amazing teachers. Soft Flow continues and is now supporting many yoga students through the trials, tribulations and beauty of daily life. Kimberly also teaches at the Utah National Guard for the sixth year running and is continually amazed by the focus and adaptability of her students. Now, moving into her fifties, her main yoga posture has become a ‘steady and comfortable seat’ for Meditation. Her twice daily meditation practice follows some simple yoga postures that prepare the body for stillness. Kimberly’s biggest desire in this lifetime is to help people become happy and comfortable in their bodies that they may enjoy peace.

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In 2010 I was unintentionally introduced to Yoga. I Quickly realized Ashtanga Yoga was much deeper then just a physical practice, but a spiritual experience every time you step onto the mat. Ashtanga Yoga has made me into a more balanced, patient, and humble person. I was fortunate to become certified through 3B Yoga, studying under Amy Williams in 2011. My goal as a teacher and assistant is to encourage students to connect deeper emotionally and spiritually by focusing their awareness to the Breath, Bandhas, and Drishti. I enjoy watching everyone evolve through their dedication to the practice.

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Vendors:

Guru Yoga

Yo Bagga Bagga

Henna

ICC Indian Food center

nectarsingularity.com

dōTERRA Essential Oils