Starting this June, I will be guiding a weekly:
Level III Anusara-Inspired practice
Fridays, from 4-6 pm at evolution yoga studio.

This class is geared toward experienced intermediate and advanced students and teachers, men and women, who can kick to handstand at the wall and perform Urdhva Dhanurasana (full wheel back bend) with straight arms.

Friday Level III class is geared toward experienced intermediate and advanced students and teachers, men and women, who can kick to handstand at the wall and perform Urdhva Dhanurasana (full wheel back bend) with straight arms. This practice is for dedicated practitioners of all ages, who are very committed to their practice, building community, and open to gracefully playing their edge.  The teacher practices alongside the students and gives direction and guidance. Experienced students are always welcome. The 2-hour practice concludes with a half-hour exploration of meditation, yoga nidra, shavasana, and/or restorative poses. This practice is not recommended for beginners.

Come and play with us!
Margaret Dunn-Carver

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Start your Tuesday morning with a level 3 community class at Evolution.
7-9 am
$5-$10 Donation

Join Danny Morris for a practice derived from the Anusara Eye of the Tiger sequence. This class is an opportunity for the Intermediate to Advanced student to take their practice to the next level. The 2 hour practice flows through sun salutations, inversions, standing poses, hip openers, arm balances, headstands, back bends, shoulder stands, forward bends and twists concluding with meditation and savasana. Broken down into four unique sequences each week we explore a different set of advanced poses in each category. The poses are called out a few at a time allowing each student to work at their own pace. In an open friendly and fun workshop environment each student can share what they have learned about the pose and offer each other assists when needed. Sometimes progress is made, sometimes we still laugh at the thought of achieving a pose but its good to start somewhere and attempt what you never thought was possible. After challenging yourself relax into your heart for a deep meditation and savasana leaving you invigorated and empowered to begin your day.

Danielle’s Classes:
Chakra Yoga Series: Mondays, 5:45-7:15 pm ( pre-registration only) | Vinyasa: Sundays: 4:30-6 pm | Danielle teaches Wed. Community Class at 4:30 (Starting June 2010).

1.  EVO: how did you find yoga?
Danielle: I began practicing at 14 or 15 to cross train while dancing with a Junior ballet company in Philadelphia. The director of the company said it would help us gain strength and flexibility and improve our breathing during intense performances. It did and I continued to call on Ujjayi breath during performances and competitions for the length of my performing career.

2.  EVO: how do your dance and yoga backgrounds overlap?
Danielle: During college I became very interested in modern dance. After breaking my left foot while rehearsing Martha Graham’s Night Journey at age 20, I began to focus on yoga alignment and felt a connection to styles and teachers that projected that. After this accident and healing I began to professionally bgirl(radiance) and hip hop dance and choreograph. I realize the alignment that I gained it my practice was a perfect counter balance to my breakin. It also made me stronger for more complex movements and balances (freezes). One dance studio I was teaching for at the time of my injury found out through conversation that I practiced yoga and encouraged me to get certified so I could begin teaching yoga there. That was when I received my first certification and found I really loved to teach.  I also began the female hip hop/ breakin company at this time with a few other Philly dancers.

A year passed and I went for another flow training and then moved to AZ. After my hubby finished school we moved back east and I knew it was time to take it further with yoga. I had been teaching & performing hip hop six days a week in AZ as well as traveling to LA once a month to train. During this crazy time I still taught several yoga classes per week and had a wonderful home practice but I knew I had to take it further. This is when I found Verge and decided to take the 200 hour ytt. Before finishing I was asked to teach at the studio and after completion I became a daily teacher there. This quickly lead to my yoga alliance E-RYT and less dance teaching but still performing with my company B-tru which now was mostly a group of yoginis that preformed hip hop as background dancers for emcees and deejays.

3.  EVO:  how does yoga inspire you as an individual and as a new-mother?
Danielle: It inspires every moment from the food I eat ( I became vegetarian soon after I began practicing and vegan shortly after that), the way I feel and breath the air, the way to sit stand interact and the list goes on! As a mother it helps posture how I hold Garnet but also how we interact together. He is a loving and calm child that always is considerate of others. He is my blessing. I feel his old soul already understands and came to me to teach me ! He is my Guru! Honest and profound my life has new meaning and a new awaking of the present moment.

4. EVO: what is one thing you want your students to know about you they might not already know?
Danielle: I am planning to Begin my 500 hour yoga teacher training once Garnet weens himself. I trained the Villanova and St Joes University sports teams in yoga when I lived outside Philadelphia and had lots of private clients. If you are interested in a private lesson to cater to your own personal needs let me know.
Namaste
In bliss, Danielle

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Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.  ~Pauline R. Kezer

I didn’t know I either wanted or needed change.  That is, until it offered itself.  And, often, it isn’t until we make a change, that we realize how much it was needed.  This is true in many facets of life.  If we sit with poor posture, it often isn’t until we stand up from that position that we realize it may not have been an ideal way to sit.  I do this quite often.  I have a habit of sitting in a chair with one leg tucked underneath me.  It’s quite comfortable.  Until I stand, realize my foot has gone numb, and any weight put through it causing pain to shoot through my leg.  Oops.

When I heard Janet was looking for a physical therapist to join her at evolution my heart jumped.  I ran into the kitchen to share this news with my husband.  “Great!” he said.  He never posed the statement that everyone else did, “I thought you liked your job.”  I did like my job.  But here was an opportunity to change.  To grow.  To stretch and reach new heights.  The continuity of my past 12 years as a physical therapist has given me the roots, the foundation, for my work.  evolution has offered opportunity to teach more yoga classes, to connect with this community, to grow.

I’m looking forward to growing here.  To incorporating yoga even more into my physical therapy practice.  To continuing to teach  “Yoga for a Healthy Back” but also teaching a community class.  To working with yogis and also introducing new people to the practice of yoga.  So whether you have an injury and need a physical therapist who will understand your active lifestyle, you want to learn ways to use yoga to decrease back pain, or you just want to come to an easy to moderately paced yoga class, I’ll see you here, at evolution.

Peace,
Alison

Stop by and say hi to us at the Evolution Table in the Yoga Marketplace,  buy specially priced class-cards, win a class card in the raffle to benefit VT Campaign to End Childhood Hunger and of course…

Catch workshops by our Evolution instructors who are teaching at the conference!

Jane Jarecki Lanza: Conference Coordinator

Patrick McAndrew: Kirtan

Martha Whitney:  Spacious Breath Restorative  (assisted by Carrie Steele and Julie Epstein)

Susan Cline Lucey: Core Vinyasa

Annelies Smith- Embodyoga

Janet Carscadden- Yoga Nidra

Andrea O’Connor- Strong on the Inside, Light on the Outside (Anusara-Inspired)

Danny Morris- Tiger’s Eye Advanced Practice (assisted by Margaret Dunn-Carver) & the Science of Meditation

Jennifer and Matt Harris- Partner Yoga

John McConnell & Steve Ferraris- YogaLIVE!

The Burlington Yoga Conference features a diverse and inviting lineup of  yoga teachers, studios and traditions as well as healing arts, mindful merchants, meditation and more -the Day kicks off at 8:00 a.m., Saturday, May 01.

Teachers from the following studios: Dhatri, Evolution Yoga, YMCA, Yoga Vermont, Copper Crane Yoga, Green Mountain School of Yoga, Yoga Mountain, UVM, Maui, and more!

In the Mindful Marketplace, Burlington Yoga Conference attendees can learn about sustainable and eco-friendly products from companies (like Evolution!) that are leading the way in environmentally friendly products and services throughout Vermont.

For the second year, there will be henna, healing arts treatments available including massage (by Ayurvedic Center of Vermont, Touchstone School of Massage, Jivana Holistic Spa, Bee Well Massage and more), as well as handcrafted creations available for sale.

Vegan lunch and dinner are available, catered with local and organic foods by Drop of Joy, LLC.   Chefs are: Owen Hoppe (A New Ethic), Brian Casey (Shelburne Farms and Starry Night), Joshua Alexander Pfeil (A Drop of Joy).

The Kailash Jungle Band (from Green Mountain School of Yoga in Middlebury), will lead a kirtan that is free and open to the public at 7 pm.  This is followed by an exciting closing workshop: Trance Dance- from 7-9 p.m.

REGISTER NOW FOR BYC!

2. EVO: Who do you think can most benefit from yoga?
MM: I think there are a lot of people that can benefit from yoga. There is a big under-served population in our area that could use some peace and contentment in their lives. Lower income populations, one-parent families, disabled populations the list can go on.I have been a yoga instructor for the Howard Center for a year now and I find that nothing has been more rewarding than giving a disabled class space for movement, laughter, and especially trust. I have seen great advancement in personalities, strength, and joy from experiencing yoga once a week.