Barefoot's 6 Week Introduction to Yoga Course starts THIS Sunday, January 10 at 2pm! A great way to learn yoga AND to start off the New Year! (great refresher course, too!) Its $75, and upon completion you'll receive a FREE Beginner Yoga Class of your choice.
Check out the website for more information and hope to see you there!
www.BarefootStudio.com
Email the website or call 501.661.8005 to Register
Love & Hugs,
Breezy
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Stress Reduction
A HUGE Thank You to Today's THV for inviting me on their Morning Show today! I had a great time, and Tom Brannon even did a little yoga :) Check out the link below!
Alyson talks with Breezy Osborne of Barefoot Yoga Studio in Little Rock about yoga can reduce stress in the new year.
There are many great tools for stress reduction and yoga can be a simple, easy way to manage your stress. Breezy talks about the benefits of yoga and how you can implement yoga into your daily life.
Yoga may not be for everyone, but there are some tips Breezy says are good to follow in order to reduce stress. Take time for yourself and focus on breathing or compose a gratitude journal to help reduce stress. Or you can try some neck rolls or a simple yoga pose - like the legs up the wall pose.
For more information on yoga with Breezy, visit the Barefoot Studio website or call (501) 661-8005.
Link to Today's THV
Love & Hugs,
Breezy
Alyson talks with Breezy Osborne of Barefoot Yoga Studio in Little Rock about yoga can reduce stress in the new year.
There are many great tools for stress reduction and yoga can be a simple, easy way to manage your stress. Breezy talks about the benefits of yoga and how you can implement yoga into your daily life.
Yoga may not be for everyone, but there are some tips Breezy says are good to follow in order to reduce stress. Take time for yourself and focus on breathing or compose a gratitude journal to help reduce stress. Or you can try some neck rolls or a simple yoga pose - like the legs up the wall pose.
For more information on yoga with Breezy, visit the Barefoot Studio website or call (501) 661-8005.
Link to Today's THV
Love & Hugs,
Breezy
Monday, December 7, 2009
Hatha Yoga: Sacredness in Action Workshop~January 2010
HATHA YOGA: SACREDNESS IN ACTION
Asana, Pranayama, and Meditation practice with Matthew and Holly Krepps
January 15th - 17th, 2010
This workshop is designed to clarify the relationship between the five traditional techniques and the five senses, which are the basis of our ways of learning, knowing, remembering and relating. When, through sensitive practice of the techniques, the senses and their tendency to function mechanically is clearly seen, we gain a unique understanding, grounded in experience, of how sight, sound, touch, taste, smell and their by product - - emotion - - can help to transform our actions and relationships into a sacred way of moving in the world and everyday life.
January l5th-l7th
Full Weekend: $l70
Friday evening: Creating the Sacred Space. Since the beginning of civilizations, humanity has consistently expressed an urge to create altars and sacred spaces in an attempt to relate to divinity, and understand our connection to it. Hatha Yoga is an expression of that same tendency. In the ancient traditions, the altar was a special structure demarcating the central point of importance in the ritualized space. The Hatha yoga tradition also identifies and creates an altar, onto which a sacred offering is placed. However, its uniqueness lies in it being a “way of action”, rather than an external structure. This session will include discussion, and a focused asana practice as a way of action we will call “Self Remembering”.
2 hours
Asana, Pranayama, and Meditation practice with Matthew and Holly Krepps
January 15th - 17th, 2010
This workshop is designed to clarify the relationship between the five traditional techniques and the five senses, which are the basis of our ways of learning, knowing, remembering and relating. When, through sensitive practice of the techniques, the senses and their tendency to function mechanically is clearly seen, we gain a unique understanding, grounded in experience, of how sight, sound, touch, taste, smell and their by product - - emotion - - can help to transform our actions and relationships into a sacred way of moving in the world and everyday life.
January l5th-l7th
Full Weekend: $l70
Friday evening: Creating the Sacred Space. Since the beginning of civilizations, humanity has consistently expressed an urge to create altars and sacred spaces in an attempt to relate to divinity, and understand our connection to it. Hatha Yoga is an expression of that same tendency. In the ancient traditions, the altar was a special structure demarcating the central point of importance in the ritualized space. The Hatha yoga tradition also identifies and creates an altar, onto which a sacred offering is placed. However, its uniqueness lies in it being a “way of action”, rather than an external structure. This session will include discussion, and a focused asana practice as a way of action we will call “Self Remembering”.
2 hours
Saturday morning: Emotion and the Scope of Authentic Devotion. The essence of yoga is love. Authentic practice involves awakening and understanding the full breadth of our emotional potential. Even the simplest postures and techniques can bring about intense feeling that can dominate our posture and send us back into mechanical functioning. However, when understood through “right practice”, a deep emotional experience can be the offering up of the essence of who we are into the light of full consciousness or full awareness. This session will include backbends, balance postures, and visualization.
3 hours
3 hours
Saturday afternoon: The Mid-Life Crisis (at any age), Memory, Stress and the Possibility of Experiencing the New.
All the spiritual traditions suggest freedom from suffering by suggesting we: Stay in the Moment, or Be Here Now, or that we cultivate Present Centered Awareness. How do we do this in boredom, anger and all of the emotional upheavals that circumstances invite on a constant basis? Is practice the avoidance of these emotions, or is it a full and open invitation to experience them in a new way, that is the key to authentic growth? This session includes twists, and an in-depth pranayama practice related to memory function.
2 l/2 hours
All the spiritual traditions suggest freedom from suffering by suggesting we: Stay in the Moment, or Be Here Now, or that we cultivate Present Centered Awareness. How do we do this in boredom, anger and all of the emotional upheavals that circumstances invite on a constant basis? Is practice the avoidance of these emotions, or is it a full and open invitation to experience them in a new way, that is the key to authentic growth? This session includes twists, and an in-depth pranayama practice related to memory function.
2 l/2 hours
Sunday morning: Spiritual Maturity. The Awakening of Conscience. The ability to experience all thought, sensation, and emotion in relation to a given circumstance without taking a “position”, and without judgment, is conscience. In another way, to be conscientious is to simply see and recognize what is actually happening, as opposed to “thinking about” it. This session will tie together the significance of emotion, memory, and the five senses in a simple, experiential sequence of practices designed to give rise to the opportunity for experiencing the awakening of conscience.
3 hours
3 hours
Friday evening: Creating the Sacred Space
6:00p-8:00p
$40
6:00p-8:00p
$40
Saturday morning: Emotion and the Scope of Authentic Devotion
9:30a- 12:30p
$50
9:30a- 12:30p
$50
Saturday afternoon: The Mid-Life Crisis (at any age), Memory, Stress and the Possibility of Experiencing the New
2:30-5:00p
$45
2:30-5:00p
$45
Sunday morning: Spiritual Maturity – The Awakening of Conscience
10:00a- 1:00p
$50
10:00a- 1:00p
$50
Matthew and Holly Krepps are co-owners of Circle Yoga Shala and former owners of Barefoot Studio. Matthew is ERYT 500 with the National Yoga Alliance and has provided teacher training’s at the 200 hour level in accordance with the alliance for the past decade. Matthew and Holly travel teaching workshops and teacher trainings in the US and in Mexico. For more info about their teaching visit: www.circleyogashala.com.
TO REGISTER, call 501-661-8005 or come by Barefoot Studio, 3515 Old Cantrell Road, Little Rock AR 72202. Workshops are also listed at www.BarefootStudio.com
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Holiday Specials!
The holidays are sentimental for me, and remind us how grateful & thankful where we are in life, and awareness to just simply be. These times can also be stressful, and its important that yoga continues to be apart of our lives, possibly before the holiday stress begins.
Anytime during the month December you can purchase 30 Days Unlimited Yoga Classes for $50. No matter if its today or Dec 31, get 30 Days of as many yoga classes as you like to attend! This price includes all current monthly members, too!
6 Week Introduction to Yoga Course is back! Ring in the New Year starting Sunday, January 10, 2010 at 2pm each consecutive Sunday. Price is $75 and upon completion you'll receive a FREE Beginner Yoga Class.
Gift Certificates are available for both options!
Also 20% off ALL retail! Stop by the studio sometime :)
Check out the website for more information www.BarefootStudio.com
Have a Happy Holiday Season!
Love & Hugs,
Breezy
Anytime during the month December you can purchase 30 Days Unlimited Yoga Classes for $50. No matter if its today or Dec 31, get 30 Days of as many yoga classes as you like to attend! This price includes all current monthly members, too!
6 Week Introduction to Yoga Course is back! Ring in the New Year starting Sunday, January 10, 2010 at 2pm each consecutive Sunday. Price is $75 and upon completion you'll receive a FREE Beginner Yoga Class.
Gift Certificates are available for both options!
Also 20% off ALL retail! Stop by the studio sometime :)
Check out the website for more information www.BarefootStudio.com
Have a Happy Holiday Season!
Love & Hugs,
Breezy
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Making Memories: A Celebration of the Life of Anne Pressly
Barefoot Studio is proud to carry Making Memories: A Celebration of the Life of Anne Pressly. All proceeds from this book will benefit a scholarship foundation in her name to reward outstanding future broadcast journalists. Thank you to KATV & Anne's family for allowing Barefoot to share the memories of a sweet angel!
Anne holds a special place in all of our hearts. My family and I had the pleasure of meeting her and starting an amazing friendship in 2006 when she interviewed us for cooking BBQ at Gillette, Arkansas's Coon Supper. We all cross paths with people for certain reasons, and sometimes we never take the time to realize those reasons. We are truly blessed to have had Anne in our lives, and now our sweet angel is watching out for us, every day. Faith, love, hope & strength continues to flow to her family, friends, and colleagues.
Additional information can be found at http://www.annepresslybook.org/
Love & Hugs,
Breezy
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Doug Keller Workshop Weekend
It makes yoga fun, such as my King Dancer standing in a 30lbs pumpkin~
Sorry to get off track! ;)......
I'd like to thank everyone that attended & helped with the workshop~it was great to meet so many new faces, and see so many familiar ones!
Again, I continue to be blessed beyond amazement with these opportunities, and am thrilled so share them with the yoga community!
Love & Hugs,
Breezy
Monday, October 26, 2009
Bryant's Varsity Dance Team
Today I met up with Bryant High School's Varsity Dance Team to teach yoga and breathing techniques. One of my favorite times to teach is to ages 14-18 (I also taught this age group while being in Las Vegas for a year). I remember at that age everything being so fast paced, and realizing that things would only speed up. So when I get the opportunity to share with high school-ers, I love it!
Something we all take for granted is breathing. Its something our body does constantly, and once we turn our awareness to our breath, we begin to realize where we hold tension in our bodies. We forget that there's even a second part to our breath...the exhale. Its just as important as the inhale, and at times our exhale can remind us to soften & relax a bit.
I invite you take 5 minutes to yourself today~whether its sitting or laying in a comfortable position. Without manipulating or forcing the breath, start at your toes & ankles, and make your way up the spine to the finger tips & crown of the head~each time you exhale sink a little deeper into relaxation and let go of any tension~even in the jaw, mouth, eyes & forehead. Its amazing how our breath can lead us to see where we hold tension.
Thanks, Bryant Varsity Dance Team, for letting me visit ya'll today!
Love & Hugs,
Breezy
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