Sun and Moon Yoga Studio, Tokyo, Japan

Saturday December 13, 5pm-9:30pm (4.5hour)
Saturday December 20, 5pm-9:30pm (4.5hour)
Sunday December 21, 5pm-9:30pm (4.5hour)
Tuesay/Holiday December 23, 9am-4:00pm (6.5 hour + 30 min lunch)

Come join us for this popular, comprehensive and life-changing teacher training.

Japanese and/or English training manual provided upon completion. Certificate awarded upon successful completion of course. Payment instructions will be sent upon receipt of your request. Early application is strongly suggested.

Cost: 65,000 yen
Limit: 20 students. Course fills up quickly, so register soon to ensure a spot.

Japanese translation: Haruka Takahashi
(The course is taught in English with the Japanese translation.)

Why Restorative Yoga? Why Now?
Daily life is incredibly stressful, especially in an urban environment. We spend a great deal of energy just trying to survive, often running on adrenaline (the “fight or flight response”) until we burn out. Now more than ever, we need a slower, deeper yoga practice that helps us regain our equilibrium and combat the stresses of modern life. Restorative yoga is one such practice that invites the body’s “relaxation response,” calms the nervous system, and quiets the mind. Restorative Yoga is a deeply relaxing, “passive” practice of Hatha Yoga in which we let go of physical, mental and emotional tension by practicing yoga poses in a fully supported environment, holding the poses for longer durations of time, and focusing on the breath. Supported by a variety of props such as bolsters, blankets, blocks, belts, sandbag weights, and other props, this practice helps us regain the equilibrium of the body/spirit, allowing deep relaxation, surrender and opening. This practice is perfect for those who have injuries, are recovering from illness, those with physical limitations, or those who simply want to relax and regain harmony and balance in their lives.

COURSE CONTENT
In this teacher training, you will learn: What is Restorative Yoga? How does it work physiologically, psycho-spiritually, and emotionally? Proper use of Props: How to set up each pose. How to spot and correct common mistakes in prop usage Restorative sequences for different effects Many original restorative postures developed by Leza Specific poses/practices for specific therapeutic needs (insomnia, chronic fatigue syndrome, etc). Pranayama for Restorative yoga How to design a Restorative yoga class around a specific theme or focus. How to incorporate other forms of yoga therapy into Restorative yoga, such as Thai Yoga Massage, Visualization, Guided Meditation, Yoga Nidra, etc.

This course will also discuss concepts such as” How Yoga Works” using the Inner and Outer methods of thought/intention and Five Layers of Experience (koshas). Meditations and Inner Work sessions will be incorporated into the teachings on Restorative asanas.

COURSE FORMAT Classes will be part lecture, part practice, part demonstration in which students will set each other up in the poses and practice with each other, and part question and answer period/discussion.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Leza Lowitz has been teaching and practicing Hatha and Restorative yoga for over a decade. She was the first teacher to introduce Restorative yoga to Japan in 2003. (When Sun and Moon shipped all the props from America, customs officials held them for months because they had to test every pillow and eye bag for hidden drugs!) She has offered her highly popular Restorative yoga classes at workshops and on retreats internationally. She appeared on “99 Size” teaching Restorative yoga in 2004. She is a writer and certified yoga teacher who has studied many yogic and healing traditions with many illustrious teachers and masters from all over the world. She is the owner of Sun and Moon Yoga and author of the best-selling book Yoga Poems: Lines to Unfold By and Sacred Sanskrit Words: For Yoga, Chant and Meditation (with Reema Datta) in addition to 15 other books.

What to Bring:
The studio has everything you will need for this training. No need to bring bolsters, blankets, weights, yoga mats, eye pillows or anything else. Just bring a notebook and water. You will be given take-home handouts after the end of each session. No recording will be permitted

REQUIREMENT:
- Prior 200hr Yoga Teacher Training Certification is strongly suggested. For those who wish to share the practice privately or with family, exceptions can be made. Please email Sun and Moon directly to inquire.
- Attendants are required to have taken at least 10 restorative yoga classes prior to this training.
- Attendants must take all sessions. No make-ups will be allowed except in the case of emergency.

Nada Yoga WORKSHOP and KIRTAN CONCERT with Daphne
Sunday November 30th at Sun and Moon, Gotanda

Sunday, November 30, 5:00-6:30pm (Doors open at 4:30)
SpiritDance Soulsong: Sounding and Moving the Chakras with Daphne

Join Daphne in this workshop for an exploration of using breath, sounds, song and dance to activate the energy of your chakras. Inspired by music from around the globe, your feet will dance, your bones will shake and your spirit will fly quieting your mind. With all circuits open, we’ll sound and sing from our feet, bellies and hearts leaving our chakras balanced and open to give and receive.

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daphne Sunday, November 30, 7:00pm-8:30pm
Hawaiian inspired mantra and Soulsongs concert with Daphne
Fully booked!!

This concert brings Daphne to Tokyo, fresh from recording her 2nd album on the island of Kaua’i. Daphne is excited to debut songs from her new album. Come ready to sing and dive into the Hawaiian energy of mantra music. Open to all… no musical experience needed! You can come and sing, or just listen and soak up the love.

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Cost: 3,200 yen for each
Or Both events for 5,500 yen
When registering, please specify which event you wish to attend.

With Japanese Translation

About Daphne:
Daphne is a soulful singer/songwriter originally from Texas currently calling the world her home. Since her initial yoga class 15 years ago, she has merged her spiritual practice with her contemporary folk singer/songwriter style. She studied music at UT in Austin, The Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago and kirtan music with Jai Uttal. She has released music on Shiva Rea’s yoga music compilations and has released 2 albums, Mata & Finding Water. www.daphnetse.com

20-Hour Restorative Yoga Teacher Training Certification Course with Leza Lowitz at Sun and Moon Yoga in November, 2014

FULLY BOOKED! WAITING LIST ONLY!

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Friday November 21 5:00-9:30pm (4.5 hours)
Saturday November 22 4:30-9:30pm (5 hours)
Sunday November 23 4:30-9:30pm (5 hours)
Monday/Holiday November 24 9:30am-4:00pm (5.5 hours–1 hour lunch break)

Come join us for this popular, comprehensive and life-changing teacher training.

Cost: 65,000 yen
Limit: 20 students. Course fills up quickly, so register soon to ensure a spot.

The course is taught in English with the Japanese translation.

How to Apply:
If you are interested in attending this training, hit Contact and send in a request with “RTTC November 2014″ in the subject. Include your full NAME, ADDRESS, PHONE NUMBER and PLEASE ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS BRIEFLY AND FROM THE HEART.
1. PLEASE DETAIL YOUR YOGA PRACTICE (HOW MANY YEARS, STYLE, WHERE)
2. PLEASE DETAL YOUR YOGA TEACHING EXPERIENCE (HOW MANY YEARS, STYLE, WHERE, CERTIFICATION: SCHOOL NAME AND DATE OF GRADUATION/CERTIFICATION)
3. WHAT IS YOUR RESTORATIVE YOGA EXPERIENCE AND WHY DO YOU WISH TO TAKE THIS TRAINING?
4. WHAT IS YOUR INTENTION FOR THIS TRAINING? PLEASE BE SPECIFIC.
5. PLEASE LIST ANY INJURIES OR MEDICAL CONDITIONS WE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT. (INCLUDING PREGNANCY)

Payment instructions will be sent upon receipt of your request. Early application is strongly suggested.

Yoga Nidra Workshop “Find Your True Essence” with Haidar Ali

Date: September 15 (Monday, National Holiday)
Place: Sun and Moon Yoga, Gotanda
Time: 13:00~15:00

, Fully booked. Waiting list only.

Fee: 4000yen
(Class card can be used: 1 check + 1500yen on 4-class card, 2 checks + 500yen on 10-class card, 4 checks on 20-class pass. When using class cards, please bring exact additional change when needed to pay.)

Capacity: 18 people
Japanese Translation: Haruka Takahashi

haidar_nidra WHY YOGA NIDRA?
Yoga Nidra is an ancient Sacred yogic process of meditation that can be practiced by anyone.

The benefits of this practice are to:
- Induce profound relaxation in body and mind
- Eliminate stress
- Overcome insomnia
- Solve personal and interpersonal problems
- Resolve trauma
- Overcome anxiety
- Overcome Fear
- Overcome Anger
- Find Relief from Depression
- Heal yourself and others

About the class:
During Yoga Nidra, you will enter a profound state of receptive relaxation while remaining totally aware and alert throughout the process.
Yoga Nidra invites your innate intelligence and intrinsic clarity to rise to the surface of your conscious mind, allowing you to uncover and access the wisdom and resources of your higher levels of consciousness.

Workshop Flow:
The workshop will start with easy breathing techniques, followed by warm-ups for the body to get ready for Yoga Nidra. Then the practice of guided Yoga Nidra will commence, and will last for around 20~30 minutes (while lying down in Savasana). Class will finish with pranayama (Breathing) and a short meditation.

What to bring:
. Comfortable practice wear (loose, natural clothing)
. Eyepillow if you have, or towel
. Smile

This workshop is suitable for anyone of all levels, whether you are completely new to yoga or a seasoned practitioner or long-time teacher.

photo-2 About the instructor
Haidar Ali, Director of Spirit Yoga Studio and Spirit Yoga International School
Haidar began to practice Taekwondo in his early age, and met yoga through his Taekwondo practice. Now he has 20 years of experience as a yoga instructor.
Also being a Thai massage therapist, he noticed the importance of a well-balanced relationship between Power, Love, and Healing through his yoga practice.
【Power】residing in a strong body and a never-give-up spirit
【Love】for yourself which you will find within yourself
【Healing】through Thai yoga therapy, meditation, etc., and through your five senses
With the Power, Love, and Healing energy, his class is full of smiles and a sense of fulfillment. It is not just a moderate practice, nor just a vigorous one, but it focuses on the balance between strength and relaxation with love for yourself, and this is what he thinks is important in our life.
Haidar continues to practice yoga with his students, with the hope that the knowledge and experience we get on the mat will help us off the mat, too, to lead an emotionally and physically fulfilling life.
●Director of Spirit Yoga Studio and Spirit Yoga International School （RYS200/ RYS500)
●E-RYT500 (Yoga Alliance)

20-Hour Yoga Therapy Teacher Training with Leza Lowitz & Em Bettinger
at Sun and Moon Yoga, Tokyo, July 11-14, 2014

Fully Booked! Waiting list only.

Friday July 11 5:30pm-9:30pm 4 hours
Saturday July 12 4:30pm-9:30 5 hours
Sunday July 13 5:00pm - 9:30pm 4.5 hours
Monday July 14 9:00am-4:30pm 6.5hours + 1 hour lunch break)

The Yoga Therapy wave is upon us. Many people understand the incredible healing properties of yoga; however, people with injuries, acute pain or disease often shy away from a group class at a studio in search of a more personal approach. Yoga therapy is a way for an instructor to work in conjunction with western medicine in a small group or private setting to help students heal themselves. This course adds a depth of wisdom to the teacher’s toolbox that will be felt not only in yoga therapy settings but also in group classes where students feel safer and more “seen.”

In this teacher training we will explore the role of yoga therapy, the art of observation, anatomy, alignment, the importance of the breath, many common yoga injuries, the art of trust and how to develop it, the use of props and partners, and many tips, tricks and tools to help you become a master teacher.

In-Depth Areas Covered in this 20 Hour Yoga Therapy TTC are:

1. What is Yoga Therapy?
2. Anatomy for Yoga Therapy
3. Risk Management and Injury Prevention:
a. Injury Prevention-General Guidelines
b. Physical, Mental, and Spiritual Indicators of a Student’s Understanding
c. Healthy Signs for Progressing a Student
d. Explanation of Most Common Injuries and Ways to Avoid them (Poses, Modifications, Adjustments):
   i. knees
   ii. wrists
   iii. hips
   vi. hamstrings
   v. lower back
   vi. shoulders
   vii. neck
4. Suggested practices for ailments such as Depression, Back Pain, Diabetes, etc….
5. Adjustment Theory and Practice for Yoga Therapy (Trust, Touch, & Techniques)
6. Pranayama–Basic Therapeutic Techniques
7. Ayurveda for Yoga Therapy–Making Appropriate Lifestyle choices that Support Healing and Prevention
8. The course includes a case study component where participants analyze a client’s needs and recommend a customized treatment plan.

Cost: 65,000 yen
Cost: 55,000 yen for those who have completed a prior RYTTC with Leza or any Sun and Moon TTC.
Limit: 20 Students
Interpreter: Tomoko Kawahara

About the Instructor:
Leza Lowitz has been teaching and practicing Hatha and Restorative yoga for over a decade. She was the first teacher to introduce Restorative yoga to Japan in 2003. (When Sun and Moon shipped all the props from America, customs officials held them for months because they had to test every pillow and eye bag for hidden drugs!) She has offered her highly popular Restorative yoga classes at workshops and on retreats internationally. She appeared on “99 Size” teaching Restorative yoga in 2004. She is a writer and certified yoga teacher who has studied many yogic and healing traditions with many illustrious teachers and masters from all over the world. She is the owner of Sun and Moon Yoga and author of the best-selling book Yoga Poems: Lines to Unfold By and Sacred Sanskrit Words: For Yoga, Chant and Meditation (with Reema Datta) in addition to 15 other books.

Em Bettinger loves movement and the mechanics of it, and started dancing from an early age, going on to study contemporary dance at 18. Through her dance studies she was introduced to yoga. Em sees yoga as a “dance on the mat” - the breath guiding you and energy radiating from within. She believes you need to be in the movement physically, mentally and emotionally - then as a person you grow, as does your practice. Em teaches Ashtanga Yoga, Yin/Yang Yoga and Vinyasa Flow at Sun and Moon.

20-Hour Restorative Yoga Teacher Training Certification Course with Leza Lowitz at Sun and Moon Yoga in June, 2014
Japanese Translation by Tomoko Kawahara

FULLY BOOKED! WAITING LIST ONLY!

Saturday June 7 4:30-9:30pm (5 hours)
Sunday June 8 4:30-9:30pm (5 hours)
Saturday June 14 4:30-9:30pm (5 hours)
Sunday June 15 4:30-9:30pm (5 hours)

Come join us for this popular, comprehensive and life-changing teacher training.

Course Translation by Tomoko Kawahara.

Cost: 65,000 yen
Limit: 18 students. Course fills up quickly, so register soon to ensure a spot.

Attendants must take all sessions. No make-ups will be allowed except in the case of emergency.

REQUIREMENT: Students are required to have taken at least 10 restorative yoga classes prior to this training.

Attention Revolution: Meditation Workshop Weekend w/ Jarret Levine and Mira Shani at Sun and Moon Yoga, Tokyo
with Japanese Translation by Tomoko Kawahara

Dates and Times:
Workshop One Saturday May 10th, 5:00-8:00pm
Workshop Two Sunday May 11th, 5:00-8:00pm
Drop-in OK! This course is open to all levels of meditators.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
Learn how to meditate or deepen your meditation practice

Look anywhere in the mainstream media these days and you will notice the word “Mindfulness.” It’s almost as common as the word “Yoga” –and for good reason. We’re on the cusp of a new era,where technology allows for moment-to-moment stimulation. There have been countless studies on the effect of this kind of information saturation on the modern mind (some of which we’ll explore in the WS).
Because the mind and its attention are becoming extraordinarily precious “real estate,” the art of cultivating this spacious yet sharpened attention is paramount.

daisies WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:
The gateway to a more focused and pleasurable living experience is our ability to place our mind on an object, whether it be a friend in need, a business meeting, or an object of meditation, and keep it there for as long as we’d like, impervious to the distractions of daily life.

Workshop One
Saturday May 10th, 5:00-8:00pm
CULTIVATING MINDFULNESS

In this workshop, we will:
1. Learn the techniquesof cultivating mindfulness through attentional stability brought on through the balance of deep relaxation and clarity.

2. Explore classic Buddhist Theravada breath meditation and break it open to its core to discover the fundamental techniques of attentional stability.

Workshop Two
Sunday May 11th, 5:00-8:00pm
EXPANDING INTO STILLNESS AND BLISS

In this workshop, we will:
1. Incorporate the Tibetan Buddhist lineage of the Nyingma tradition to build on that stability, creating a kind of expansiveness and stillness leading to glimpses of Rigpa, the immersion into the naturally blissful, luminous, and non-conceptual state of mind.

2. Generate the good heart, or Lojong, to ignite your newly established mindfulness with compassion.

WHO CAN ATTEND THE WORKSHOPS
All levels. Beginners welcome. Because the foundation of higher attention is founded on the ability to cultivate deeper relaxation, this course is open to all levels of meditators.

No matter what stage of the practice you find yourself on, you will experience first-hand the immense benefits of a relaxed mind. Everyone from beginning
students of yoga to experienced teachers are welcome.

You can take one or both workshops. Workshop two will build on workshop one, but if you canon make Workshop one, you can still take workshop two.

Cost:
- 5,000 each workshop.
Class cards can be used. (2 checks on 4-class card, 2 checks on 10-class cards plus 1500 yen, or 5 checks on an Unlimited Card)
- Take both for 9.000yen
- Price Break; 1,000 yen discount for those who have taken Mira/Jarret’s previous TTC, Ted Lafferty’s TTCs or Leza’s RTTC–8,000 for both workshops. 4,500 for one workshop if you have attended a previous TTC

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Mira and Jarrett will be teaching the following classes while in Tokyo
Friday May 9 5:30-7:00pm Vinyasa with Mira with live music with Jarret (Level 1-3, Beginners OK)
This class is taught in English.　
Class cards okay for regular classes or 3000 yen drop in
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smileheadshotedit About Mira Shani & Jarret Levine
Jarret Levine and Mira Shani are a husband and wife teaching team who have been immersed in eastern philosophical studies and practice for over a collective 20 years. They teach on meditation, yoga, philosophy and kirtan around the globe.

They teach meditation in the Shamatha tradition, a method which dates back to the Buddha 2,500 years ago. They study in a long lineage of teachers, which included His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and have been teaching meditation practice for over a decade. Along with their international meditation workshops and seminars, Jarret and Mira guide regular meditation classes in their home of New York City, and lead retreats for meditation students around America. They continue to meet with their personal meditation teachers on a regular basis to ensure that what they are offering their students is of the highest quality. They engage in a regular meditation practice, which includes routine group and solitary meditation retreats.
Together in 2009 Jarret and Mira created Pranahata, a company which is devoted to helping people create spiritual growth through their passions and develop practical methods to maintain a rich and potent, heart-filled life. For more information, please visit www.pranahata.com.

Retreat Yourself in Nagano with Em Bettinger and Leza Lowitz
Three Days and Two Nights of Yoga, Meditation, Hiking, Hot Springs, Vegan Food & Love

May 3, 4, 5, 2014

FULLY BOOKED. WAITING LIST ONLY.

Join Em and Leza in Nagano for a Golden Week yoga rejuvenation retreat at Holistic Space Suirin in tranquil Iizuna highlands. Leave your stress behind as you nourish your spirit and body with yoga, meditation and community in a beautiful mountain setting and nourish your body with organic vegan food.

Yoga: Enjoy six yoga classes in a high-ceilinged, cypress and fir yoga room and outdoors in forest gardens

Meditation: Find inner peace in the specially designed Zen meditation deck.

Food: Fresh home-made vegan meals with food from Suirin’s natural farm. Nagaoka-style enzyme brown rice and locally grown organic vegetables. Togakushi Highlands tap water.

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Accomodations: shared wooden cypress rooms designed for calm and relaxation, Noguchi lighting. All bedding natural and eco-friendly.

Hot Springs: special trip to local onsen

Hiking: free time for hiking and exploring the natural surroundings.

Levels: All levels, beginners welcome. Prior notification for special circumstances (injuries, pregnancy) required.

What to Bring: Yoga mat, props (if you wish), hiking clothes and smiles.

Classes in English with Japanese translation.

Limit: 32

Cost: 50,000yen
Transportation is not included. Please arrange your own transportation to the center. Suirin is 40 minutes from Nagano Station by bus. Approximate time cost of shinkansen from Tokyo is 1.5 hours and 8,000yen. Bus is 760 yen one way.

SPECIAL DISCOUNT–5,000 Yen price break for previous attendees and graduates of any of our past TTCs including RTTC.

Schedule

zen_space Day #1

1:00-3:00pm Arrival & Hotel Check-in
3:00-4:00pm Welcome Circle
4:30-6:00pm Vinyasa Yoga w/ Em
6:15-7:15pm Vegan Buffet Dinner
7:30-9:00pm Yin Yoga/Pranayama w/Leza

Day #2

7:00-8:30am Pranayama & Vinyasa Yoga w/Em
9:00-9:45am Meditation w/Leza
10:00-11:30am Vegan Buffet Breakfast
11:30-3:00pm Free Time (local onsen, hiking, rest)
3:15-5:15pm Turn your world Upside Down - relax your shoulders and invert -Workshop w/Em
6:00-7:00pm Vegan Buffet Dinner
7:30-9:00pm Restorative Yoga & Thai Massage w/Leza

suirin_1 Day #3

7:00-8:30am Pranayama & Vinyasa Yoga w/Em
9:00-9:45 Meditation w/Leza
10:00-11:30 Vegan Buffet Breakfast
12:00 Hotel Checkout
12:00-on Optional Onsen, Hiking, return home

Note: Everything is optional. All yoga classes are mixed levels, suitable for everyone.

To Register: retreat@sunandmoon.jp

Payment details and confirmation will be sent upon registration. Please purchase your transportation tickets well in advance.

To see the retreat center, visit: www.suirin.com

Embrace the pure air, nature, silence and rejuvenate yourself.

Thai Yoga Massage Teacher Training with Haidar Ali (Director Spirit Yoga)

Friday April 4 4:30pm-10:00pm 5.5 hours
Saturday April 5 4:30pm-10:30 6 hours
Sunday April 6 4:30pm-10:30 6 hours
Monday April 7 9:00am-4:30pm 6.5 hours (1 hour lunch break)

Japanese translation by Haruka Takahashi

Manual book: Full colour manual book in English or Japanese will be given.
Fee: 69,000 yen including full color manual book and certificate
Certification: All Participants successfully completing the course will receive a certificate of completion. Yoga Alliance: 30 hrs Yoga Alliance credit (Contact hours: 24hrs Homework: 6hrs)
Teacher: Haidar Ali (Director of Spirit Yoga)
Capacity: 20 people

Target
- Yoga instructors
- Massage therapists
- Partner/lovers
- Parents
- Anyone who is interested in healing or bodywork.

This training is open to everyone. The work is done in comfortable clothing on a mat. You will have a wonderful experience of healing and rejuvenation with hours of healing massage.
No prior yoga or massage experiences is necessary. Just come with open relaxing mind and open heart.

About the course
Thai Massage Yoga is an ancient system of healing with its roots in Yoga and Ayurvedic medicine. This unique and complete system of yoga therapy combines rhythmic massage, gentle twisting, deep stretching and meditation. It releases tension, increases vitality and creates wholeness of mind, body and spirit in both giver and receiver. The movement and adjustments you will learn are a valuable compliment in Yoga teaching as well as massage therapy.

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Course Contents
- History
- Hatha Yoga Stretching exercises
- Breathing & Pranayama
- Meditation
- Thai Yoga Massage
- Tools such as Aroma oil, Music, Sound and Crystal healing
- Injury management
- Adjustments skills to balance and correct yoga poses
- Alignment skills
- Restorative Yoga Poses and props usage
- Teaching Practice
- Teaching Skills

Benefits of Thai Yoga Massage
Body
- Detoxification the body from toxins
- Realase the muscles tension
- Soften the joints
- Improves posture, balance, corrects body alignments
- Increase blood circulation, lower blood pressure
- Help arthritis and back pain

Mind
- Relax and calm the mind
- Improve your outlook towards life; builds an emotional balance
- Help with concentration and creativity/ Mind and body
- Improve breathing
- Help gain mental clarity
- Reduce and relieve stress and anxiety
- Achieve better health, increases health and vitality
- Raise the energy level and stamina

To register
Hit Contact. Email us with the name of the workshop/course in the subject line, including your full name, phone number, email address and mailing address. Also please answer to these questions briefly.
1. Experience with Massage, Yoga or Other Healing Modalities (short answers fine)
2. Injuries past or present.
3. Aim in taking this course.

If you don’t hear from us within a week of registering please email us again. Sometimes mails do get lost!

Consciousness in Waking & Dreaming - an introduction to dream & sleep yoga
A Workshop with Miles Maeda

Saturday March 29th, 5:00-7:30pm

dream Cost: 3500yen
Class cards can be used:
1 check on 4-class card plus 1000 yen, 2 checks on 10-class card or 3 checks on an Unlimited Card plus 500 yen.

Japanese translation by Sawa Takano

The mind is the experiencer of our world. Whether it be inner or outer, real or imaginary, our minds perceive all things. And yoga is about mastery of the mind; we practice so as to develop awareness of ourselves and the world around us. So what about all the hours when we are asleep? What about the experiences we have in our dreams, and do they mean anything?

The teachings of yoga say that ordinary dreams are a result of the karmic mind. We get lost in our dreams; our hopes and fears, fantasies and confusions spin on endlessly. Sometimes we don’t recall our dreams at all, we go totally unconscious. But when our practice is developed, we can experience our non-dual mind and clear awareness in both waking and dream states. So practice helps to clarify our intention, demystify our experiences and further develop our mind toward the goal of yoga.

In this workshop we will explore the simple concepts and practice tools to free ourselves from the karmic bonds we experience in waking, dreaming and deep sleep. We will learn simple exercises which are done during the day, before and after sleeping, and in our dreams. By changing our karmic traces, removing grasping and aversion, and strengthening our intention to practice, we will clarify ourselves and our situations, cultivate more awareness in our sleep, and develop flexibility in our consciousness.
Find out more in this workshop.

20-Hour Restorative Yoga Teacher Training Certification Course with Leza Lowitz at Sun and Moon Yoga in February, 2014
Japanese Translation by Tomoko Kawahara

FULLY BOOKED! WAITING LIST ONLY.

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Friday February 7 4:30pm-9:30pm 5 hours
Saturday February 8 4:30pm-9:30 5 hours
Sunday February 9 6:30pm-9:00 2.5 hours
Tuesday February 11 9:00am-5:00pm 7.5 hours w/lunch break (National holiday)

Come join us for this popular, comprehensive and life-changing teacher training.

Course Translation by Tomoko Kawahara.

Cost: 65,000 yen
Limit: 20 students. Course fills up quickly, so register soon to ensure a spot.

Attendants must take all sessions. No make-ups will be allowed except in the case of emergency.

How to Apply:
If you are interested in attending this training, hit Contact and send in a request with “RTTC FEBRUARY 2014″ in the subject. Include your full NAME, ADDRESS, PHONE NUMBER and PLEASE ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS BRIEFLY AND FROM THE HEART.
1. PLEASE DETAIL YOUR YOGA PRACTICE AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE: (HOW MANY YEARS, STYLE, WHERE?)
2. WHAT IS YOUR RESTORATIVE YOGA EXPERIENCE AND WHY DO YOU WISH TO TAKE THIS TRAINING?
3. WHAT IS YOUR INTENTION FOR THIS TRAINING? PLEASE BE SPECIFIC.
4. PLEASE LIST ANY INJURIES OR MEDICAL CONDITIONS WE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT.

REQUIREMENT: Students are required to have taken at least 10 restorative yoga classes prior to this training.

ANNUAL ABUNDANCE FLOW WORKSHOP
Creating Abundance-Money as Flow
A One-Day CRASH COURSE in Energy Flow and Manifesting with Leza Lowitz at Sun and Moon Yoga

FULLY BOOKED. WAITING LIST ONLY.

Monday/National holiday, January 13, 2014 9:00am-4pm

abundance-circle SET GOALS FOR THE YEAR AND CHART A NEW COURSE FOR YOUR LIFE!!!

Do you feel guilty having plenty? How do you approach giving and receiving?
Do you love what you do?
Does something always seem to stop you from pursuing your dreams?
Money and abundance, like everything else in the universe, are forms of energy. They have certain spiritual laws of flow. What is your attitude towards money and abundance? Where did it come from? Do you give yourself permission to have abundance?
*This workshop is not just about financial flow, but opening up ALL CHANNELS OF FLOW in the universe and manifesting your highest potential to help you serve others.
This workshop will help you understand and transform your relationship to money and flow, ultimately helping you find your life’s work and realize your natural state of abundance and generosity.

In this workshop, we will use:
・ guided meditations
・ journaling
・ manifesting techniques
・ partner work
・ magnetizing techniques and more…

All to help you understand and transform your beliefs about money and abundance, listen to your intuition, and draw opportunity and possibility to you in ways that support you and the universe.

Writer Bonnie Lee La Madeleine attended a prior workshop on Creating Abundance. She said; “The workshop did more to help me see how I hinder my own efforts than anything else. The experience has helped me focus my writing skills and develop a plan to become a full-time self-employed writer. I now have one book in negotiation, and one proposal being seriously considered.”

A participant in a past “Creating Abundance” workshop said:

“I can’t thank you enough for all you taught and offered today. I have not felt this clear about my purpose in life before. So much in today’s workshop spoke to me, and I now have the faith and trust in myself to go forward and put it all into action!!!”
If you have been looking for a way to expand your horizons and potential, this special workshop is for you.

The workshop will be in English with Japanese interpretation by Tomoko Kawahara. You may do the journaling and partnerwork in English or Japanese.

Cost: SPECIAL WINTER SOLSTICE DISCOUNT–15,000yen if registration completed by December 25, 2013.
Cost: 20,000yen
Previous Workshop Attendees who wish to Repeat–10,000yen
Limit: 30 people

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New Year, Quiet Mind
Introduction to Meditation Special Workshop
With Leza Lowitz

Sunday January 5th 12:30pm-2:30pm

FULLY BOOKED!!

Japanese Interpretation by Tomoko Kawahara

Cost: 3,000 yen (New Year Special Price!)
Class cards can be used: 1 check on 4-class card plus 500 yen, 1 checks on 10-class card + 1200 yen, 3 checks on an Unlimited Card.

BEGINNERS WELCOME! No prior meditation experience necessary.

This introduction to meditation and self-inquiry gives you a look at how the stories you tell yourself are not your true identity. Meditation helps you to quiet the mind while self-inquiry assists in questioning and releasing your false self. When the mind is quiet, the mind slows down–then you can inquire into the truth of the stories you tell yourself. Come and take a look at who you are in this special workshop with Leza Lowitz, who has spent over a quarter of a century doing different forms of meditation.

Workshop Content
Lecture on Meditation
Meditation (Instruction)
Question and Answer Period/Discussion

SPECIAL NEW YEAR CLASS
Partner Vinyasa Yoga w/Leza

Friday January 3 with Leza 2:00-3:30pm

Let’s start the new year together with partner vinyasa yoga. Mixed Levels. Beginners welcome. Class cards or drop-in (2,000yen Special).
Bring a friend or come on your own. In English with some Japanese.
No reservation is required.

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Sun & Moon Yoga Studio, Tokyo, Japan