Start your day differently and celebrate this Merdeka by waking up early and treating yourself to an outdoor yoga session amidst the greenery and fresh air of TTDI Park.

Time:        7:00 – 8:15 am
Date :        August 31 (Tuesday)
Venue:     TTDI Park (Taman Lembah Kiara)
Opposite SRK TTDI 2 on Jalan Abang Haji Openg
Level:       All levels (Bring your own mat)
Fee:           Minimum contribution of RM25 per person
(all proceeds will be donated to Mahila Mandiram Girls Home in Thiruvananthapuram)

All funds raised will be directed to Mahila Mandiram, a Home for Destitute Girls in Thiruvananthapuram, India. The home is dedicated towards the betterment of women’s lives by providing shelter for poor women and orphan girls from all religions and castes.

Join us for this fun and feel good event.

For more information on the home, please visit www.mahilamandiram.org

Check out Manasa Yoga for more information.

Core Strength Vinyasa Yoga Breakaway
6-8 August 2010
Miami Beach, Batu Feringghi, PENANG
RM590.00 per person
CORE STRENGTH VINYASA YOGA with Roslin Mohd Daud

Details

• Aeroline luxury coach transfer from Kuala Lumpur to Penang
• 3 days 2 nights @ Hydro Hotel Penang in twin or triple room (not extra bed) with breakfasts and buffet dinners
• 4 Core Strength Vinyasa Yoga sessions
• Shuttle to Georgetown
• 1-night Cruise-to-Nowhere on Star Pisces from Penang to Port Klang (deluxe stateroom)
• Hotel return transfers

Further details at: www.theposeclub.worpress.com (upcoming events),
www.facebook.com/theposeclub
Tel: 017-907 4834
Email: jeeszer@gmail.com / jeeszer@yahoo.com

Unifiedon4th designs and manufactures a range of Yoga Pose pendants in sterling silver. As a manufacturer it usually supplies to wholesale clients who sell to retail customers. However this time, it is offering this range directly to yoga studios in various countries at its factory price.

We are told that the business owner is himself an avid yoga enthusiast and has involved many of his staff and factory craftspeople in yoga during their work week. Visiting yoga studios during his travels, he understands yoga and the studios that support yoga is often a labor of love and life style choice.

The company has started with a small choice of twelve male and twelve female postures. Prices range from US$3.00 to $6.00 per sterling silver pendant.

Contact Person: Ms. Tia Prasetya
PT. DMD ASIA / Latitude 37 /Unifiedon4th
999X JL Lasmana Denpasar Bali Indonesia 80361
Tel: 62 361 735 546
Fax: 62 361 735 593
Cell: 62 811 380 345
Email: tia@unifiedon4th.com
Website: http://www.unifiedon4th.com

Karen has worked in the corporate environment and also in a clinical setting as a psychologist in Kuala Lumpur. She is also an aspiring author with her first book to be published in August 2010.

As a psychologist, she has borne witness to the constant dissatisfaction in the lives of the rich, successful and famous. she has also seen the psychosomatic illnesses that people developed due to mental and emotional stress, lack of self esteem and disillusionment.

Throughout this however, Karen has continued to progress her yoga practice with many teachers including Ann Barros, a senior Iyengar teacher with over 30 years experience, who taught and guided her on how to teach yoga for conditions such as sciolosis, backpains and insomnia.

Karen’s passion for yoga led her to train under the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre (Registered Yoga Schools RYS®) founded by Swami Vishnu-Devananda, a committed student of Swami Sivananda from Rishikesh, India. Living the yogic lifestyle in an ashram following the gurukala system under the guidance of Swami Atmaramananda, Swami Krishnadevananda and Swami Durgananda. During this time, she has became even more convinced that there is so much more to yoga than just fancy poses and health benefits.

Since then, Karen has extended her learning and practice to Ashtanga Vinyasa as taught by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and the teaching methods of B.K.S. Iyengar. To further advanced her training, she has also studied the speciality of prenatal and postnatal yoga with Sonja Rzepski who is based in New York.

Karen strongly believes the most important thing she has learned regarding being a teacher is to always remain purely as an instrument of yoga and that remains her aspiration. To facilitate and allow yoga to unfold gracefully and gently into each students life, at their own individual pace. That they may reap all the benefits through sincere practice, inquiry and discipline.

Karen humbly wishes each eager student, a wonderful journey of discovery and experiencing of the beautiful practice that is yoga – a journey one will not regret – the journey to inner peace and self realisation.

Tuesday 7:30-9pm

Aug 3,10,17,24
Sep 7,14,21,28
Oct 5,12

This comprehensive course will jump start the student into the mysteries of Tribal Belly Dance of North Africa.

The student will learn the most important dance moves in order to lead in a circle. The beauty of this form of dance is it empowers the student to awaken their feminine energy in a community format. Hand, eye and body signals are used without words to improvise together as one.

Nanci will take the student on a journey of rhythms based on Jamila Salimpour’s research of zill patterns. The use of zill’s (Turkish term for finger cymbals) as a musical accompaniment to dance is documented to be 1500 years old. Each dance step of North Africa has it’s own zill pattern that goes along with it.

Through Nanci’s own personal pre-historical research she has theorized that the tribal dances hold the knowledge of our ancestors.

She feels this knowledge has been hidden from the public eye for a few thousand years. She also feels that this knowledge holds the key for building stronger communities that make the human environment a better place to live.

Course fee: RM425
*Includes zills

About the teacher:
Nanci is American-born Irish hailing from San Francisco. She is a fierce woman who expresses her feminine power through a dance form called Tribal Style Belly Dance. This dance form is born from the non-ruling class of Nomadic Tribes of North Africa, India and Central Asia. She mostly taught herself how to dance, but her dance lineage can be traced to Jamila Salimpour’s student Rossah. Nanci Traynor, a semi-nomad herself, encourages people to be self-sufficient, empowered and non-judgmental of others. She has proven that the human mind can manifest anything as long as the intention is clear, positive and benefits the surrounding life force. She spent a year in isolation on a cliff in Southern India. During her self study under the stars the universe was mapped out and translated through movement. Her greatest performance achievement to date was an invitation to perform in Lahore, Pakistan. She was awarded best performance and costume.

When KL-based yoga teacher Jason Isaac Collar was to try a yoga class for a bad back, he could never have anticipated the journey that followed. Jason tells his story:

“I had suffered from lower back pain for many years due to a birth defect called Spina Bifida. Spina Bifida, which literally means ‘cleft spine’ is characterized by the incomplete development of the brain, spinal cord and or meninges which is the protective covering around the brain and spinal cord.”

Jason decided to give yoga a try after reading an article suggesting yoga can help treat niggling lower back problems.

“My first yoga class was in the central business district – Jalan Brickfields. The class, which was taught by my Guru Manisekaran of Malaysian Yoga Society, was made up of a series of fixed postures, culminating in deep relaxation. My immediate sensation afterwards was that my back felt amazing, something which for many years I had not felt. I also felt peaceful and incredibly contented – a feeling that stayed with me for many hours.”

What made Jason launch his career as a Yoga teacher?

“Well, I guess I was very much in the state of transition. My initial intention was to further my experiences in the Recreation Department because I am a trained swimming, aerobic, golf and fitness instructor. However, during a conversation with my Guru Manisekaran, sometime in year 2005, he said: ‘You are good at it, why don’t you be a yoga teacher?’ This indeed was a defining moment for me. I decided that I wanted to share the benefits I found in Yoga with ALL.”

Thereafter Jason went on to pursue the Malaysian Yoga Society teacher training program accredited at Malaysian Yoga Society. When he completed the Malaysian Yoga Society teacher training program, his mind was set and that was when he knew he wanted to teach Yoga. Like the saying goes, the rest was history!

Quite quickly Jason found different places to teach – leisure centers, fitness centers, offices, and sports clubs and even on a coach trip.

“When I look back on what’s happened and how things have just fallen into place, I know and believe it was meant to be. Through teaching Yoga, I have the rare privilege of leading people back to themselves – out of their busy minds and back into their bodies, turning into the body intelligence we all possess. I am an “IRYT®”s (International Registered Yoga Teachers) with The International Yoga Federation and I am also Registered Teacher with Yoga Alliance International, a world-wide association, was set up by Swami Vidyanand. Yoga Alliance International supports the integrity of Yoga practices and philosophy throughout the world, marking the commonality of the Universal Spirit.”

Jason’s personal biodata is as follows:

NAME: Jason Isaac Collar
DATE OF BIRTH: 18th August 1971
NATIONALITY: Malaysian
HEIGHT: 172cm
WEIGHT: 72kg
TEL: 012-366 0454
E-MAIL: jason_isaac@hotmail.com

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION
Executive Committee Member, Malaysian Yoga Society
“IRYT®”s (International Registered Yoga Teachers)
International Yoga Federation
Certified Instructor & Life Member
Life Saving Society Malaysia
Registered Teacher, Yoga Alliance International

Currently, working as a freelance Personal Trainer, yoga and swimming instructor at;

• Fitness Clubs (Yoga)
• Celebrity Fitness (Promenade One Utama, Wangsa Walk Mall, Sunway Pyramid, Mid Valley, Lot 10, Subang Parade and Bangsar Village)
• Sweat Club (Renaissance Kuala Lumpur Hotel)
• F1 Fitness One (Owner – Wong Ngai Hong, the only IFBB pro bodybuilder in Malaysia)
• Recreational Clubs (Yoga & Personal Trainer)
• The Waterfront Sports & Club Center (Desa Park City KL)
• Canopy Club, (Setia Eco Park, Shah Alam)
• American Express (Main Office KL)
• Schools (Swimming) Sekolah Sri KDU®, Kota Damansara with Advance Aquatics National Aquatic Centre (Kompleks Sukan Negara) with Pro Swim, One Club (Kota Damansara) with Aqua Nuzt

Jason is also a personal yoga teacher and trainer to a number of VIP clients in Malaysia.

Come join Manasa Yoga for a charity poolside yoga class at The Saujana. To participate, a minimum donation of RM25 per person will be collected. All funds raised through this event will be channelled to the Home of Destitute Girls in Trivandrum, India which Manasa Yoga continues to help and support. Bring your friends and family, do some yoga and feel good knowing your donation will help make the lives of these poor abandoned girls better.
This event is open to everyone and suitable for yogis of all levels.

Bring your own yoga mat and come yoga with us for a good cause.

Malaysia Yoga Society will be holding a Yoga Carnival & Competition on Saturday, 17 July 2010.
Venue: Bangsar Sports Complex
Time: 9am to 6pm

There is a Yoga Asana Competition for both Adults and Children. Registration is open to all. Contact Vivien at 03-2260 5322 for the registration and carnival tickets.

Iyengar Yoga

Iyengar Yoga is a form of Hatha Yoga that is taught with primary emphasis on the physical alignment of the body in each pose. Usually only a few poses are performed during a class, but with great focus and awareness on the finer adjustments required to achieve proper alignment. Poses can be modified or intensified with the usage of props such as blocks, straps, ropes, blankets and chairs, thus making the practice friendly for beginners and challenging for regulars.

This systematic and structured method of over 200 classical yoga poses allows practitioners to progress gradually and safely from basic to more advanced poses as they gain greater physical flexibility, strength and achieve better awareness of the subtle harmony between mind and body.

Suitable for all levels. Great for beginners.

Bikram Yoga

Bikram Yoga is one of the fastest growing yoga styles in the world today. Highly popular in the West, this 90-minute session consists of 26 asana, 2 pranayama and is performed in a heated room (105 degrees Fahrenheit / 40 degrees Celsius with a humidity of 40%). This series of postures is designed to maximise oxygen exchange as and to detoxify the entire body. Mental concentration, strength and flexibility are the main points of focus as the practitioner moves from pose to pose, creating a blissful harmony between mind and body. Performing yoga in this heated environment is claimed to promote flexibility, prevent injury, increase perspiration and aid circulation.

However, first time Bikram Yoga practitioners should remember to drink plenty of water at least 2 hours before class as due to the intense heat, nausea, dehydration, headache and fatigue are common, especially for over-enthusiastic newbies. But generally, just follow the rule of thumb of listening to your body and unnecessary complications can be avoided.

Suitable for all levels. Triple thumbs up for sweat factor.

Anusara Yoga

Founded in 1977 by John Friend, a veteran Iyengar Yoga teacher and practitioner, Anusara Yoga offers a playful and uplifting approach to an alignment focused practice. The tantric-inspired principles of Anusara are a celebration of life, self-discovery, creative freedom, diversity, beauty and unconditional love for all living beings. Individual creativity and investigation are encouraged, allowing acceptance and the freedom to explore, within the philosophical context of Anusara.

Every class has a spiritually meaningful theme which strongly connects to each pose and is reflected upon metaphorically during the entire practice. Anusara practitioners believe that each pose originates internally and eventually manifests itself in a physical form through deep creative expressions. The main aim of the practice surrounds opening of the heart, mostly experienced in the backbends that Anusara Yoga is famous for.

Suitable for all levels.