workshops & events

Mindful Eating Through the Holidays
NOVEMBER 30th 
​Saturday  2-4pm 

It’s begun…from Halloween through New Year’s Eve there are seemingly endless opportunities to savor foods only offered at this time of year. This workshop isn’t about telling you not to enjoy them! However, during these times, food, often times sugar, ends up in the driver’s seat, rather than you, and you’re left feeling out of balance and riding the highs and lows of cravings. Add in stress, and your hunger may feel like it’s fueled even further. Learn how to reclaim your place in the driver’s seat, so that you can choose how and when you nourish yourself with cherished foods. This workshop will offer you the chance to explore what drives your hunger for specific foods and strategies to shift out of old food patterns so that you can feel more grounded in your food choices through the holidays. ​


$40 in advance (before 11/30)
$45 at the door
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​For the past 10 years Amy Hillman-Siracusa, MA, e-RYT, NBC-HWC
has been empowering individuals to feel better about the food they
eat and the body they live in by guiding them to uncover food
​sensitivities, practice mindful eating, and get creative in the kitchen.

Email Amy with any questions :
amy@ladleandlotus.com
Yoga Nidra Healing Workshop Series
with Novi
​NOVEMBER 17th
DECEMBER 15th
JANUARY 5th
Sundays : 2:00-4:00pm

​You don’t need any yoga experience to participate. Yoga Nidra - known as yogic sleep- is a conscious meditation practice that is intended to immerse the body in total physical, mental and emotional relaxation. Benefits of Yoga Nidra include: decreases anxiety and insomnia, alleviates stress, reduces PTSD and chronic pain, heightens awareness and concentration, transforms our negative thinking and behavioral patterns, has the potential to heal psychological wounds, and creates a profound sense of joy, peace and well-being.
Meditation and Yoga Nidra can help your cells repair and regenerate. Integrating this as practice in your life will improve the functioning of your nervous system and endocrine system which can positively affect hormone balance. It is a practice to help alleviate stress, pain, depression & anxiety by restoring the body at cellular level through activation of the parasympathetic nervous system.
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Each class in the Workshop Series will focus on breath-work, gentle movements and healing rituals to replenish your energetic & physical body with comfort and ease. Absolutely no yoga experience is necessary. 
​$95 For All 3 
$35 Early Registration (before 11/17)
$40 At the Door 
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​Novi Rotteveel
Novi’s dynamic yoga practice and teaching drastically shifted after healing from cancer, two stemcell transplants & living with auto-immune diseases. Integrating daily meditation, subtle intentional movements, and yoga nidra has been the portal to experience peace in her body after years of physical and emotional pain, trauma and the struggle to cope with huge life transitions. “There is powerful knowledge I have gained that solidifies the belief that light enters where pain is, thus we become liberated from the inside out when we allow our deepest wounds to be felt and surrender to what is, at all times.” ​

No Yoga Experience Necessary.
Everyone is Welcome.


We have added another date!
November 23 (full)  & December 14th
Saturdays : 1:00pm - 3:00pm
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Join foam rolling enthusiast and anatomy geek Rebekah Nagy (E-RYT 500) for a luscious session of sweet myofascial release!  Whether you’re an avid roller or a newbie, you’ll leave this workshop feeling relaxed, refreshed, and rejuvenated, with new release and self-massage techniques for mobility and ease in your yoga practice and beyond.  Foam rolling promotes flexibility, lessens soreness and stiffness, and stimulates blood flow.  In this mellow-paced workshop, we’ll spend an hour nourishing our connective tissue in a flowing exploration of foam rolling techniques from head to toe, then sink into supported yin and restorative poses, integrating the powerful potential for a healthy range of motion that foam rolling can offer.  Students will leave with a better understanding of their connective tissue, including fascia and its role in the musculoskeletal system, and strategies for keeping it nourished,  comfortable, and supple.  Rollers and balls will be provided for the duration of class.  Come roll deep with Rebekah!  

​Early online registration: $40
At the door: $45
Advance Registration highly recommended. 

*Due to the materials provided, there is a cap of 15 students in this workshop. 
REBEKAH NAGY
​Rebekah Nagy (E-RYT 500) began practicing yoga in 2001 as an outgrowth of her studies in dance, and has been teaching yoga and leading workshops since 2010.  She has taught in teacher trainings in New York City, Brooklyn, and Northern California.  Her ongoing studies in somatics, anatomy, and kinesiology unite philosophy and embodiment, and include a Body-Mind Centering® approach.

Ease into autumn and honor the transition from summer
December 21st
Saturday 6:30-9:00pm
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Honor the winter solstice with restorative yoga + a healing sound bath.  Be still, move inward to reflect and renew.  As we celebrate the returning of the light and longer days of the sun, this retreat will encourage an inward focus to reflect on the year just passed and what the light of the new year might hold.  Inner reflection will be enhanced with restorative yoga poses, available for people of all levels, and a soothing sound bath with Tibetan and crystal bowls.  Join Lisa Fischer, RYT and Brenda Mohr, CMT as we journey together into winter 2019.  

Early online registration: $40
At the door: $45 


Lisa Fischer is a certified Life and Leadership Coach with over 20 years of experience and a Yoga Instructor (RYT) at Kaya Yoga practicing vinyasa, yin and restorative yoga.

​Brenda Mohr is a certified massage therapist in Davis since 2000, a Reiki Master Practitioner and is trained in Sound Healing.
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LISA FISCHER
BRENDA MOHR

KUNDALINI MEDITATION SERIES 

With Milind Dhond
A Series of Saturdays
Time:
11 am - 12 pm

Dates (All Saturdays):
August 24
September 7 & 21
October 19 & 26
November 2 & 16
December 7 & 14

Cost:
No charge. 
​No signup necessary. You can come to one or all of these events. 

A guided meditation class following traditional Indian teachings of Kundalini Yoga and in particular the Siddha Yoga tradition.  

more information
In these hourlong Saturday Kundalini Meditation Classes, we will learn and practice Kundalini Yoga. The class consists of didactic teaching from Hindu and Yogic texts such as Vijnana Bhairava, the Upanishads etc that allow the student to understand the nature of Self, breath, chakras, mudras and the nature of Truth, in hopes of experiencing higher states of awareness. The class is free of religious dogma but terms are used in Sanskrit and follow Indian teaching. No prior experience with meditation is required; Everyone is welcome. 
ABOUT The Teacher
Milind Dhond, M.D.  is a cardiologist practicing in Northern California. He has practiced Kundalini Yoga under the direction of Swami Radhikananda for the last fifteen years. He currently resides in Davis, California, with his three children. Dhond is a Professor at UC Davis, and the Sensei of Green Valley Kodenkan in Cordelia, California, where he teaches Jujitsu and Kundalini Yoga. 

Another Kirtan! 

With Tim Jordan 

Date tbd

Everyone is invited! 

Suggested donation: $10

The practice of kirtan, call and response chanting, is a participatory music experience that originated in India about 500 years ago. It is a devotional practice known as Bhakti Yoga. 
 
Like other forms of yoga, Bhakti Yoga, is about connection. Connection to divinity, connection to our true selves, connection to others.
 
Kirtan uses the repetition of Sanskrit mantras, mystical vibrations encased in a sound structure, to help us to tap into sacred energies that serve to quiet our mind and open our heart.
About tim
My journey with Kirtan began during a Yoga Teacher Training in South India in 2009.  There was something about chanting the names of the Divine on a daily basis that stirred something deep inside me. Having grown up in a strongly religious environment in the South, I was very familiar with devotional practices.  However, nothing had ever touched me the way that Kirtan did. I witnessed its power to open the heart and to transcend both culture and religion.  In India I sat with Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Christians, and people with no religious affiliation, all singing these sacred Sanskrit mantras with such joy and devotion.