Guided Self-Care Massage

with Alexa Peden, LMT

Friday, 1/15

6:30 pm 

Give yourself the gift of your own care-full attention and healing intention. Use the simple tools, such as massage balls, to traverse the terrain of your body, release adhesions and stuck soft tissue, and re-activate the parasympathetic nervous system for deep restoration.

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1 hour session

Introduction to Ayurveda

with Karla Cain

Saturday, 1/16

9:30 am

Learn more about your unique constitution in this session led by NAMA Board credentialed Ayurveda Practitioner and Behavioral Change Specialist, Karla Cain. You'll come away with a better understanding of your unique design and how you can become more balanced and find healing through specific foods and lifestyle practices that affect not just the body, but the mental, emotional and spiritual states as well.

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2 hour session

The Mind-Thought-Body Connection

with Melanie Murphy, RD

Saturday, 1/16

2:15 pm

There is no separation of our mind and body. Our thoughts and emotions can affect our overall health. Simultaneously, the state of our physical health can impact how happy, positive, and stable we feel. In this session, we will explore the connection between our mind, our thoughts, and our body as it relates to the expression of health and our ability to maintain it throughout our lives. You will learn how each influences the other in an intricate and interwoven web of balance. 

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2 hour session

Increase Your Resilience by Finding Your Calm

with Sharlyn Green

Saturday, 1/16

6:30 pm

Stress is a feeling we all experience at some point in our lives when we are excited, overwhelmed, or when we experience challenges or transitions. However, stress is more than just an emotion. It is a physical response that takes place in the entire body, from the brain to the internal organs - on a large scale to the cellular level. In this session, you will learn to recognize the signs of stress overload, and you will be empowered with mindful practices that will help you build self-awareness & resilience. 

Experience mindful breathing methods to help you beat stress, anxiety, and fear & use your imagination during guided-imagery and Yoga Nidra mindfulness practices. 

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1.5 hour session

Healing through Ayurveda: The 6 Tastes

with Karla Cain

Sunday, 1/17

9:30 am

In this dynamic session, Karla will talk about the basics of Ayurvedic nutrition and how the 6 Tastes of Ayurveda apply to all foods. You will learn how the qualities of each taste cause balance or imbalance. You'll come away with an understanding of how to eat for your unique constitution (dosha) and you'll learn not just what to eat - but when and how to eat for optimal health and healing.

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Come to this session ready to hear how certain foods can function as medicine and witness how the foods you eat may be affecting you at a deeper level.

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2 hour session

Ayurveda Cooking Made Easy!

with Karla Cain

Sunday, 1/17

11:30 am

Gain confidence in preparing "food as medicine" on your own plate as we prepare simple Ayurvedic foods together! In this hands-on session, you will experience the joy of cooking simple food that deeply nourishes your body. See a real-life example of what each of the 6 Tastes looks like on your plate. Come away with a medicinal recipe that will detoxify and boost your metabolism.

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Turn your kitchen into your Farmacy!

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The recipe ingredient list will be sent prior to this session.

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1 hour session

Nutrition for Unconditional Joy

with Melanie Murphy, RD

Sunday, 1/17

2:45 pm

We are souls having a human experience. And as a result, we are uniquely limited by the body we inhabit. This experience can either be our greatest ally or our worst enemy. In this session, Melanie will discuss her philosophies about the human experience as it relates to food and nutrition being the foundational pieces of our ability to be happy and obtain unconditional joy throughout our lives. In this session, Melanie will guide you to explore the spiritual and societal components of your ability to find joy in life.

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Come away with strategies and practices that will help you find more joy - with ease and simplicity.

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2 hour session

Manual Lymphatic Drainage & Facial Massage

with Alexa Peden, LMT

Sunday, 1/17

4:30 pm 

Discover truly delectable massage for the powerful tissues of the head, neck, and face Alexa will teach you how to guide the flow of lymph to manage the accumulation of fluid and support a healthy lymphatic system.

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30 minute session

Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga

with Julia Eda Shemesh

Saturday & Sunday

8:00 am

Vinyasa means the merging of the movement and breath systems of our body. This session will focus on the depth and sound of our breath, while we move through various postures. These sessions are strongly influenced by the Mysore-style Ashtanga yoga practice. All-Levels

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75 minute sessions

Pilates

with Devika Wickremesinghe

Saturday & Sunday

1:30 pm

Stabilize the lumbar spine and mobilize your pelvis as you move with Devika through a Pilates practice that teaches you how to breathe effectively. These practical Pilates sessions will help you find more room to breathe, more movement support, and greater expansion around the heart and solar plexus. Experience deep lower abdominal strengthening, hip flexor lengthening, and greater pelvic support. All-Levels

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60 minute sessions

Creative Movement for Anxiety and Stress Relief

with Rebecca McCarthy

Saturday

4:30 pm

In this movement session, Rebecca we will guide you through powerful movement designed to create inner focus, allowing you to feel what your body is trying to tell you. Experience relief from anxiety and stress as you practice mindful movement.

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30 minutes

KARLA CAIN

NAMA Board-Certified Ayurveda Health Counselor & Body Therapist

E-RYT 200/YACEP

Founder - Sattvic Sage Ayurveda & Yoga

Karla's extensive corporate experience in finance led her to experience disconnection, anxiety, imbalance, and illness. Her personal journey to wellness includes a 100-lb. weight loss and a new life filled with abundant health. In 2015, after years of study & having found a true passion for Ayurveda, she consciously left the corporate world to make holistic healing her primary focus. She has studied Yoga, Ayurveda, Meditation, Ayurvedic Herbs, and Panchakarma Therapies in the USA, Italy, and India. Karla has completed countless courses, workshops, and conferences in these Eastern Healing Arts as well as Western Anatomy, Nutrition, and Herbology. She is also a national ACE-Certified Fitness Instructor & Behavior Change Specialist. Karla is passionate about bringing the healing power of Ayurveda to others.

SHARLYN GREEN

Integrative Nutrition Health Coach

Corrective Exercise Specialist

E-RYT 200/YACEP

Founder - Core Connection Wellness

Sharlyn holds a Master's Degree in Management and specializes in stress management strategies and education. Drawing on her fitness & wellness expertise, along with her personal experience with autoimmune disease, she inspires and motivates her clients to a deeper understanding of food and lifestyle choices that work best for them, improving energy, optimizing health, and finding gratitude & happiness. Her practice goes beyond food and exercise, seeking to bring balance to important elements of life such as finding joy and maintaining healthy relationships, as well as career and money. She carefully guides others to make simple, small changes that can cause true transformation.

REBECCA MCCARTHY

Movement Artist  

Wellness Educator & Consultant

Certified Lagree Trainer

Rebecca is a professional choreographer and dancer based in Los Angeles, California. Rebecca holds a BFA from California Institute of the Arts and is a Lagree certified instructor with experience in Pilates and other core-based modalities. She specializes in movement-based work and anatomy and continues to be fascinated by the body's potential and possibility for change.

ALEXA PEDEN

Licensed Massage Therapist

Certified Manual Lymph Drainage Therapist

Alexa aims to provide a comforting and empowering presence to participate in your ongoing experience of healing. She enjoys working with individuals from all walks of life and specializes in bringing healing to weekend warriors and athletes of all kinds. In her practice, she creates a space for the nervous system to reset and return to moving joyfully and well.

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Alexa also teaches Discoverypoint School of Massage in Seattle and is certified in manual lymphatic drainage. MLD is a gentle and deeply soothing modality used to support healthy lymphatic systems, assist recovery for active bodies, and manage symptoms for those with compromised lymphatic systems.

MELANIE MURPHY

Wholistic and Functional Registered Dietitian Nutritionist  &  

Mindset Coach

Founder - Wholistic Ritual

Melanie is a wholistic and functional Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Mindset Coach based out of Los Angeles. She holds a Master’s in Nutrition, Healthspan, and Longevity from the University of Southern California. Her private practice, Wholistic Ritual, focuses on uncovering her patients' unique equilibrium by using food and nutrition as the primary healing tool. Melanie specializes in nutrition for longevity and the healthspan. She focuses on uncovering her patient’s unique equilibrium by using food and nutrition as the primary healing tool, utilizing a variety of alternative healing modalities including mindfulness, emotional energy clearing, movement,  homeopathic remedies and self-care practices to help her patients achieve unconditional joy. ​

JULIA EDA SHEMESH

E-RYT 500/YACEP

Certified Pilates Instructor

Movement Artist

Founder - Yalla Yoga

Julia has deeply studied Yoga, dance, meditation, movement therapy, and integral anatomy for over twenty years. She has the highest level of yoga teaching certification via Yoga Alliance, a Pilates Certification, a Doula Certification, a BA in Dance, and she returns to India regularly to deepen her yoga practice. Her wish is to uncover and harness the curiosity and compassion within us, so that we may each continue our journey inward and onward with faith, steadiness and ease.

DEVIKA WICKREMESINGHE 

Certified Pilates Instructor

Dance and Movement Artist

Founder - Pilates with Devika

Devika is certified through the Kane School of Core Integration, a program that integrates the Pilates method with sound biomechanical principles and focusing on injury prevention. She has worked with students of all levels and has experience with osteoporosis and degenerative disc disease, scoliosis, chronic neck and back pain, students living with MS, and has certifications in Pre- and Post-Natal Pilates. She believes movement should feel GOOD! Informed by her practice as a dancer and a yogi, Devika aims to give her clients a full-bodied and gratifying movement experience.