SPECIAL EVENTS AND WORKSHOPS
(Please scoll down for workshop descriptions, date, time, instructor and cost).
Registration is on a first come / first served basis, pre-registration is required.
To register for the class, please contact Akke's Yoga Place, (540) 953-2553 / akke@akkesyogaplace.com / www.akkesyogaplace.com

ESPECIALLY FOR YOGA TEACHERS or TEACHERS IN TRAINING:
WORKSHOP on ASSISTING,

Where: Akke's Yoga Place, 2401 South Main Street, Suite J, Blacksburg, VA 24060

When: Saturday, September 25th, 1:00-4:00 p.m.

Cost: $35 before September 15, $45 after that date

Instructor: Akke Hulburt

As Yoga teachers, do you ever look at your students and see that only a slight adjustment would allow them to move much deeper into a pose, thus enhancing their experience in your class?

In this workshop we will explore creative ways to assist our students in making adjustments by:

Exploring the major joints and their range of motion in relation to asana

Bringing awareness to alignment in standing poses, twists and forward bends

Identifying limitations and using cool yoga ticks to assist your students

About Akke Hulburt
Born and raised in the Netherlands, Akke Aramati Hulburt has been a student of Yoga since 1973 and has been teaching Yoga since 1988. She completed Integral Yoga Basic and Intermediate teacher training at Satchidananda Ashram in Yogaville.
She is also certified to teach Acu-Yoga by Michael Gach and Structural Yoga by Mukunda Stiles.
Akke has taught at wellness centers and health clubs and in the public schools at elementary and high school levels since 1988 and at her own studio since 2000.
In addition to teaching Yoga at gentle, beginner and intermediate levels, she also teaches prenatal Yoga.
Akke has been involved in the Intermediate T. T. Programs at Yogaville, as well as in India, Portugal and Mexico. Akke is certified as a Structural Yoga Therapist by Mukunda Stiles and is also certified as a massage therapist.
She is registered with the Yoga Alliance as E-RYT 500.

A COURSE ON ALIGNING ENERGIES

4-Day Workshop in Blacksburg, Virginia

When: Saturday and Sunday from 9-12 and 2-5 on October 2 and 3, 9 and 10, 2010

Where: Akke's Yoga Place, 2401 South Main Street, Suite J, Blacksburg, VA 24060

Cost: $275 before Sept. 15, $300 after Sept. 15

Instructor: Jant Veenstra

The workshops will have both a theoretical and experiential component.

You will learn how to work with and deepen your understanding of the concepts of energy and will learn to strengthen your intuition, your sense of inner guidance.

You will learn the theoretical elements of how energy works in the chakras and the psychological aspects behind it.

You will learn how to be grounded, how to clean your energy field and your chakras and how to align them.

You will learn how to let go of energy no longer needed and energy of others in your energy field.

You will learn how to strengthen your energy field and how to have access to more energy from the Universal Energy Field.

You will become more aligned with your true nature and your inner needs.

The techniques enhance relaxation and a sense of clarity and will give you a greater understanding of the more subtle quality of your inner life.

Since all is cennected and as your perception of your inner life changes it has its retinue in the world that surrounds you. There are many ways to perceive that reality, as there are different levels of reality. Be ready to let go of the old and enjoy the flow!

About Jant Veenstra
Born and raised in the Netherlands and in New Mexico, I later on moved to the big city of Amsterdam to study and work. Recently I have lived in Norway with my husband and three daughters, we currently live in France.

I received a Masters degree in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Amsterdam, curious about different ways of looking at health and illness/wellness issues, world religions and behavioral patterns in society. One of the important lessons I learned is that we are all different and that one way of living is not better or worse than another, just different; every culture has its' own customs. I love the beauty of the similarities and differences that humans have.

During and after the Anthropology study, I have taken many additional courses and workshops. I completed a three year study to become a healer and energetic reader. After that I completed a study in becoming a personal and corporate coach. I am trained as a biophoton therapist, as well as a shiatsu massage therapist, psychosynthesist and am a Reiki Master. I have attended classes and workshops on magnified healing, reconnected healing and have explored merkaba geometrical fields, meditation, diet and Shamanism among many others.

I have worked and taught many workshops in these areas over the last six years in The Netherlands, Norway and in France. I have found my own way in combining the different modalities I have learned over the years.

My passion is to motivate and stimulate you to have a loving and healthy experience of who you really are. Over time some part of us may have become blocked and we are no longer aligned with our higher Being or with the energies of our environment. There is a way back to the experience of unity!

My approach is holistic: I work with physical, energetic, emotional, mental and spiritual levels. We are beings of energy, and we are full of potential; we have the possibility to learn how to bring out the qualities we have within ourselves. I believe that we as human beings have the capacity of living life to the fullest, to co-create life and be free within ourselves, our spirit, mind, heart and body. If we are in tune with our Being, this will radiate throughout each level. Insight and awareness of who we really are and how we can let the energy flow freely will help us lead a full life!

I am available to give personal readings for those interested from 4 to 8 October and from 11 to 15 October.

The readings take about an hour and a half to two and cost 100 dollars. Please contact akke@akkesyogapace.com or call 953-2553 to set up an appointment. For more information about the readings see www.jantveenstra.wordpress.com

Registration is on a first come / first served basis, pre-registration is required.
To register for the class, please contact Akke's Yoga Place, (540) 953-2553 / akke@akkesyogaplace.com / www.akkesyogaplace.com

Preparing for MATERNITY/PATERNITY

Support group for New parents and Pregnant women/couples

Coach: Silvia Setubal, MPH

Where: Akke's Yoga Place
2401 South Main Street, Suite J
Blacksburg, VA 24060

When: Saturday, 9:30- 11:00 a.m. Date July 24th
Baby Day for recent or current prenatal yoga students and their babies

Who: New parents and pregnant women/couples

Please pre-register by e-mailing: akke@akkesyogaplace.com or call (540) 953-2553

Having a child is considered a natural transition in a couples life, nevertheless, it is one of the most intense emotional experiences for human beings.
Pregnancy involves dramatic body changes for women and immense emotional adjustments for the whole family.
It can be exciting but also overwhelming for fathers and mothers-to-be.

Support group for pregnant women and her partner

There will be opportunities to openly discuss issues related to having a child and share similar experiences with other women and men.
The discussions will be focused on the emotional aspects of pregnancy, labor, delivery, and early parenthood.
Silvia creates a friendly environment for bringing up concerns, fears, questions that can smooth the transition to parenthood.

Meetings are open to any pregnant woman/couple
The group will meet for one hour and a half
The coach will guide the discussion and explore the most common themes
Topics to be discussed are brought by the participants, according to their needs

Some themes to be discussed

Does my body function well enough to produce a healthy baby?

Will I be able to adjust to all these changes?

Will I recognize the signs of labor?

Can I become a good enough parent?

How do I deal with the pressures and expectations from family, co-workers, society?

Post partum depression: Will I suffer from it? Can I prevent it? How to recognize the symptoms?

Support group goals

To empower women and men within their capacities to adjust to their new roles as parents
To help parents to achieve the best possible childbirth experience
To prevent unnecessary stress and unwanted interventions
To facilitate the bonding process between parents and their newborn

About Silvia Setubal

Silvia worked for 20 years with pregnant women in a University Public Hospital in Campinas, SP, Brazil, coaching families through the childbirth process.

She was the head of the Psychology Group at the Center of Integral Attention to Womens Health (Centro de Ateno Integral Sade da Mulher- CAISM) - University of Campinas (UNICAMP) from 1999 to 2003

Psychology degree from University of So Paulo, SP. Brazil, in 1981
Masters in Public Health from the University of Washington, Seattle, WA in 2001