Dancing For Birth™ Six Week Series in Bozeman

Dancing For Birth Spring 2013 Poster

I’m teaming up with local belly dancer and fellow  Dancing For Birth™ Instructor Isis Ptak to offer a 6 Week  Dancing For Birth™ Series on Tuesday Evenings at Birth Place (820 N. Wallace)!  Pregnant and Postpartum/BabyWearing Mamas Welcome!
Join us, Tuesdays, April 23 through May 28, 2013
6-7:15 pm
$75 for the 6 week series, or drop in for $15/class
Call (406) 595-2547 to register
Dancing For Birth™ is a fun and uplifting dance workout for prenatal and postpartum women. Weaving together African Dance, Belly Dance, Caribbean Dance, and Latin Dance, Dancing For Birth™ teaches women how to use world dance moves to facilitate more comfortable pregnancies, labors, and births while encouraging optimal fetal positioning. Postpartum women can wear their baby in a wrap or sling and use the same dance moves to stretch, strengthen, and tone their bodies after childbirth.

Birthing from the Core Workshop

UPDATE (4/2)  Due to low registration numbers and a change in my travel plans, the workshop as planned has been cancelled.  HOWEVER, Kathleen is still willing to offer an abbreviated version of the workshop (Ecstatic/Orgasmic Birth Lecture and Family Constellations only) for those who are interested, out of her home, at a reduced rate.  Please call her at (406) 599-7128 for more information.

Birthing from the Core

I’m happy to announce that I’ve teamed up with the wonderful Kathleen Rauch to offer a one-of-a-kind pregnancy workshop called “Birthing from the Core!”  Join us on April 7, 2013, from 12-5 pm for an afternoon workshop designed to give you the tools and education you need to birth from your core.

As a certified Dancing For Birth™ and Khalsa Way® Prenatal Yoga Instructor, I’ll be leading the movement portions of the workshop.  Dancing For Birth™ teaches women how to use world dance moves to facilitate more comfortable pregnancies, labors, and births while encouraging optimal fetal positioning. Prenatal Yoga will keep us moving and in touch with our bodies as we stretch, tone, and strengthen while connecting with our babies and cultivating a meditative mind.

Kathleen is a Birth Doula, Graduate of the Corelight Teacher Training Program, and an expert on Women’s Sexuality.  In her lecture, we will explore how the G-Spot can be engaged during birthing to create an ecstatic birth experience.  Later on, through her work in Family Constellations, we will have the opportunity to gain insight and clarity into the hidden patterns and entanglements that disrupt the flow of love from generation to generation in family systems. By bringing the system into balance, we restore the flow of love to our own lives and the lives of our children.

Please join us for a fun, inspiring, uplifting, and educational afternoon!  Cost is $50 for the 5 hour workshop.  Please call me (Gloria) at (406) 595-2547 to register.

UPDATE (4/2)  Due to low registration numbers and a change in my travel plans, the workshop as planned has been cancelled.  HOWEVER, Kathleen is still willing to offer an abbreviated version of the workshop (Ecstatic/Orgasmic Birth Lecture and Family Constellations only) for those who are interested, out of her home, at a reduced rate.  Please call her at (406) 599-7128 for more information.

Morning Sadhana and the Aquarian Dream

A few months ago I stumbled across at post in my Facebook feed from a musician in the Kundalini Yoga community named Livtar.  It read, “Does anyone want to write a short review (a few words or sentences) of the sadhana cd Aquarian Dream to help get it out there?  Thanks, Livtar.”  My interest was sparked, you see, because although I love Morning Sadhana, my practice of this special pre-dawn yoga & meditation experience had been sporadic to non-existent and in dire need of resurrection and restoration.  In the back of my mind I’d always thought that someday I’d get into doing Morning Sadhana more regularly, even every day.  Someday, when the kids are older, when I don’t have to worry about tiptoeing around in order to not waken everyone else.  Someday when I get enough sleep and we all go to bed early enough.  Someday…………

One of the Five Sutras for the Aquarian Age is “When the time is on you, start, and the pressure will be off.”  Over the past year I’ve been really feeling the pressure to get going on this Morning Sadhana practice.  All I needed was a little inspiration to get started!  Traditionally done 2.5 hours before sunrise, carving out the time and obeying the alarm clock are essential to beginning this practice and over time the body’s natural rhythms will synchronize with the practice of Morning Sadhana and waking up will become effortless.

My yoga space sits in front of a large east facing window- with a view of the sunrise and the Bridger Mountain range- though it’s dark when I begin and my eyes are closed during this time to go within.  Sadhana is as much of a spiritual practice as it is a lesson in self-discipline.  By cleaning the subconscious mind through meditation at a time when the sun’s angle to the earth is perfect for this task, we have an opportunity to achieve a kind of victory- a self victory.  Life flows easier after Morning Sadhana and I notice that I am able to relate to my children better, I feel more energetic, polished, even sparkly, and I live my life from a higher level of consciousness.  I’m on top of my game and the little things that used to bother me don’t seem to be such a big deal any more.  And you know what?  I don’t even miss the sleep I lost.

Livtar says his new Sadhana album “Aquarian Dream” was made in service to those who practice Sadhana.  It’s true.  You can feel it.  His steady voice carries the mantras in the proper rhythm while maintaining a peaceful meditative space.  Grounded and earthy as well as expansive, this album sets the stage for an authentic experience of Morning Sadhana.

I hope you enjoy Livtar’s “Aquarian Dream” as much as I have!  You can download it here.

Blissful Heart Women’s Kundalini Yoga Workshop

Click here to view the flyer for the Blissful Heart Workshop

Sat Nam!
I’m excited to offer a workshop next Sunday afternoon at Your Yoga especially for women.  The Blissful Heart Women’s Kundalini Yoga & Meditation Workshop will focus on kriyas (yoga sets) for the heart center as well as relationship specific meditations for healing a broken heart, transforming your karma with men, clearing the psychic imprints of past lovers, and elevating the men in your life.  I sure hope you’ll join us.

 

Stretch and Sing for Stella Blue

stretch and sing for stella blue

Dear friends……..

Once upon a time my husband, son and I lived in a tiny ger (Mongolian yurt) out on Corbly Gulch Road on the same land as our friend Andy who lived there also in his tipi.  Fast forward 8 or so years, and now our friend Andy’s kindergartener Stella Blue is fighting cancer for the second time.  Having a child with cancer is a huge drain on a family’s finances (not to mention emotionally exhausting and extremely challenging in ways we cannot even comprehend), so please join us in a fundraising yoga workshop so her parents can relax and breathe a little bit too. On November 17, 2012 from 1-3:30 pm, at Your Yoga (27 E. Main, Alley Entrance) we’ll practice a gentle Kundalini Yoga Kriya and a Healing Meditation and dedicate our practice to Stella Blue. Minimum donation of $25. We will raffle off a couple of monthly passes to the studio and some other goodies as well. Big thanks to Crystal of Your Yoga for donating raffle prizes and use of the studio space. 100% of the proceeds go to the “Stella Blue Woods Family Benefit Donation Fund.” If you can’t come to the workshop and would still like to donate, you may make a donation to that account at Wells Fargo.  The last thing they should have to worry about right now is whether or not they can pay their bills.  Check out the event page on Facebook and please spread the word.

Cindy Crawford Speaks About Prenatal Yoga and Birth

I love this interview with Cindy Crawford about her pregnancy and birth experiences.  Cindy attended Prenatal Yoga with Gurmukh at Golden Bridge (with my teacher whom I received my prenatal yoga teacher training from) and wrote the forward to Gurmukh’s book “Bountiful, Beautiful, Blissful.”

Enjoy!

 

Chant the Ether Tattva Meditation at Sweet Pea Festival’s Inter-Faith Celebration!

I’m honored to have been invited to lead the Ether Tattva Meditation at this year’s Sweet Pea Inter-Faith Celebration at Lindley Park! Wahe Guru! Please join us Sunday, August 5, 9:30 am, at the Hollow Stage for a community church service lead by the Gallatin Interfaith Society. This year’s celebration is titled “Being One”. Many different faiths will be represented during this interactive service and include readings, dance, music and song. Everyone is invited!