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Join us for a day devoted to the art of face and neck massage. We'll cover marma point therapy, Ayurvedic face oils, facial cupping, Gua Sha, lymphatic drainage, and the lifting techniques that bring brightness and radiance to the face. This work is deeply stress-reducing for the whole body — it's become one of my favorite ways to help people unwind.

Face-Lifting Massage is a series of specialized techniques designed to rejuvenate the skin, stimulate collagen production, improve circulation, and restore a more youthful, radiant appearance. The treatment begins with gentle lymphatic drainage to reduce puffiness and inflammation, then moves into therapeutic tools — facial cupping, Gua Sha, and the Kansa wand — paired with expert hands-on massage using the fingers, forearms, and heels of the hands to release tension and lift and sculpt the lower, middle, and upper face.

We carry stress and emotion in our facial muscles, often reflecting what we experience in daily life. When that tension is released through skillful, nurturing touch, the benefits extend well beyond the face — encouraging relaxation and balance throughout the entire body. Face-Lifting Massage suits people of all ages and skin types, whether your goal is healthy aging, a more natural glow, or simply deep relaxation. It offers the perfect blend of therapeutic care and luxurious pampering.

In this weekend workshop, you'll learn to give a complete one-hour face-lifting treatment.

Cost: $150
Time: 10 am - 5 pm
Place: (We will have parking passes for you)
Daniel Orlansky
271 Pearl St.
Cambridge, MA
02139
617-510-3562

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Ariela Grodner is the founder, lead instructor, and practitioner at the Bodhi Sangha School of Thai Massage. She has developed over 300 hours of curriculum, published nine books on the subject, and travels nationally and internationally, sharing her love of this art.

Her teaching path began in 1992 in southern India, where she taught prisoners and tribal villagers the practice and benefits of Sivananda Yoga. She went on to spend many years cultivating the Buddhist meditation technique of Vipassana, and later, following her own Tao, discovered the joys of improvisational contact dance.

After graduating from the Florida School of Massage, she found in Thai Massage a perfect fusion of these disciplines. She is a certified Lotus Palm Practitioner (as taught by Kam Thye Chow) and has taught Thai Massage at the Florida School of Massage since 2004.

Part of the Yoga of Energy Flow 300-Hour Teacher Training, this session is open to the public and offers yoga teachers and interested students a chance to explore the power of the breath, balancing experiential practice with an exploration of breath and breathwork's role in the health of body, mind, and spirit.

Awaken the inner body of light, the pranamayakosha, and expand your life force through breathing exercises and inner energy practices. Drawing mostly from Kundalini Yoga, but from classical pranayama sequences as well, this practice bathes your cells and brain in fresh oxygen while opening the body's energetic pathways.

You'll learn to enhance, extend, and harness the power of the breath through pranayama, then channel this heightened pranic energy using bandhas (inner locks) and mudras (ways to enhance mental focus, including hand gestures). If your yoga practice so far has been mostly about stretching, this workshop will deepen your relationship with the radiant body — the subtle body connected to your breath. The power of the breath will support your life as nothing else can.

Beginners and advanced students alike will come away with practical tips for a home practice, along with handouts and resources to ground the experience in daily life. When the inner fire is ignited, self-healing and self-realization follow naturally.

We will explore:
• The anatomy of respiration, physically, energetically, and spiritually.
• The major classical pranayama exercises; breaths that heat, balance, cool, and illuminate.
• The role and effects of internal and external breath retentions (Kumbakas)
• How to free the breath with stretches for the lung and large intestine meridians
• Kundalini Yoga Kriyas, which combine a strong pranayama practice with movements,
asanas, deep relaxation and chanting meditations
• Chanting meditation in the tradition of Kundalini Yoga
• Celestial Communication, where mantras are combined with movements and mudras in a seated creative dance, bringing relaxation to the entire nervous system.

You will learn these powerful breath practices and meditations and more:
• Circle of Fire, a pranayama sequence that improves the flow of energy in the lower chakras, improves digestive fire, and brings light to ones being.
• Sodarshan Chakra Kriya, believed by some to be the most powerful pranayama practice and highest kriya across the many schools and styles of yoga.
• Sat Kriya, one of the most powerful and complete postures/kriyas in Kundalini Yoga. It has been called an "entire Yoga class in one posture".  

Detailed handouts and resources will be provided, so these practices can continue to support you long after the workshop ends.

For yoga teachers, this immersion is available for CEUs and will provide new materials and insights to bring into yoga classes. 

Cost: $150 or $75 for the morning session only.
Morning Session: 9:00 am -12:30 pm

Each session blends experiential practice with theoretical grounding and includes suggestions for home practice.

Registration Options

Full Day $150.00 Morning Session Only $75.00

Presented by the Yoga Teachers Association of the Hudson Valley, this workshop is open to the general public and will take place at Club Fit, 584 N State Rd, Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510.

Join this unique workshop blending the strength and flexibility of yoga with the flowing grace of Qigong. Through breathwork, movement, and meditation, you'll cultivate a unified practice rooted in awareness and vitality.

Two great traditions, one transformative practice. 
Yoga and Qigong are sacred paths up the same mountain, leading to the radiant summit of higher consciousness. Practiced together, they create a powerful alchemy, balancing yin and yang, heaven and earth, sun and moon, strength and surrender.

Wu Wei, Effortless Action
You'll also explore the Taoist principle of wu wei, "effortless action," infusing every movement with fluidity and ease, on the mat and in daily life, while cultivating deep energetic awareness.

You will learn:
• Breathing techniques to enhance and direct life force (prana/qi)
• Golden Lotus, Swimming Dragon, and other Qigong forms to open the meridians
• Meditative Vinyasa sequences grounded in mindful awareness
• Meridian tapping to awaken the 14 channels, six energy gates, and three energy centers
• Concentration practices to support mental clarity and inner stillness

Enjoy graceful, gentle movements in both forms and embrace the powerful effects of qigong and yoga as you detoxify your body and increase your strength, flexibility, and peace of mind.

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When the body flows like running water, it is always renewed, always fresh. This is true freedom.

Experience the Taoist principle of “effortless flow” through an integrated synthesis of Qigong and Yoga of Energy Flow. In this workshop, breath and movement merge into a meditative dance that awakens life energy, opens the meridians, and harmonizes body and mind. Through practices that cultivate vitality, balance, and clarity, we explore how the flowing grace of Qigong and the dynamic stillness of yoga become one seamless expression of inner awareness. Handouts and resources will be provided to support your continued practice

This workshop focuses on Qigong practices to open the meridians, meditative flow in yoga sequences, breathing exercises to enhance life energy, and concentration techniques for mental clarity.

You will learn:
• Breathing exercises to enhance life energy
• The Eight Brocades, Swimming Dragon, and other Qigong practices to open the meridians
• Meditative flow in yoga asana
• Concentration techniques for mental clarity
• Suggestions for a simple and productive home practice.

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How can we become still? By moving with the stream.
And how can we become strong?
By entering the flow.
 ~  Tao Te Ching ~

Yoga of Energy Flow is a unique, transformative practice that integrates strength and flexibility, energy cultivation, and open awareness.

Drawing from the powerful breathwork of Kundalini Yoga, the quiet strength of slow-flow yoga, the moving meditation of Qigong, and the wisdom of the Chinese meridian system, we’ll explore simple yet powerful practices to increase and balance the flow of pranic energy through body, mind, and spirit.

Through pranayama, vinyasa, asana, and chanting meditation, tension melts away, and mind-body blocks begin to dissolve. As we open and awaken, the heart begins to sing—we “flow,” and the life force of Prana flows through us, connecting us with heaven and earth, sun and moon, and the rhythms of nature.
 
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Join this unique workshop blending the strength and flexibility of yoga with the flowing grace of Qigong. Through breathwork, movement, and meditation, you'll cultivate a unified practice rooted in awareness and vitality.

Two great traditions, one transformative practice. 
Yoga and Qigong are sacred paths up the same mountain, leading to the radiant summit of higher consciousness. Practiced together, they create a powerful alchemy, balancing yin and yang, heaven and earth, sun and moon, strength and surrender.

Wu Wei, Effortless Action
You'll also explore the Taoist principle of wu wei, "effortless action," infusing every movement with fluidity and ease, on the mat and in daily life, while cultivating deep energetic awareness.

You will learn:
• Breathing techniques to enhance and direct life force (prana/qi)
• Golden Lotus, Swimming Dragon, and other Qigong forms to open the meridians
• Meditative Vinyasa sequences grounded in mindful awareness
• Meridian tapping to awaken the 14 channels, six energy gates, and three energy centers
• Concentration practices to support mental clarity and inner stillness

Enjoy graceful, gentle movements in both forms, and embrace the powerful effects of qigong and yoga as you detoxify your body and build strength, flexibility, and peace of mind.
 
Register