Hart Yoga in Shelburne Falls, MA

Upcoming Events:
Art at Hart Yoga: Recent Collages by Peter London
Exploring the Inner Landscape
Free Talk: Therapeutic Breath | Free Talk: Connected Birth
Yoga for Your Feet
Breath of the Heart: An Introduction to Therapeutic Breathwork
Yoga for Shoulder Health

Past Events:
Yoga from the Core of Stillness
Turn Your World Upside Down!
Yoga for Gardeners
Yoga for Your Feet
Sun Salutations for Haitians
Drawing Closer to Nature Through Art and Yoga

Check back often to view our schedule of workshops and special events.

Art at Hart Yoga: Recent Collages by Peter London
August 15 - September 6, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 14, 2010 4-6 PM

We are thrilled to host this showing of new works by renowned artist Peter London!

The show comprises a dozen pieces conceived as still life collages, encompassing actual elements from previous works of art by Mr. London. "The act of tearing or cutting some of my work from the past gives it new life," he says. "And it allows me - and you, the viewer - to view fragments of existing work in an entirely new context. Yes, they appear to suggest the forms of cups and bowls and vases, but there is an inner life that expresses so much more. These forms serve as windows into other works of art, other ideas, other eras."

The show will remain on view at Hart Yoga through September 6 during regular studio hours or by appointment.

From the artist:

See these
A series of vases cups and bowls now in paper cut and torn

See these as you would choose your outfit for the date you were going to have later in the day with someone you love and hadn't seen for a long while

See these as you would be pleased to see the food arranged on your plate in an expensive restaurant

See these as knick knacks arranged along the window sill of an old biddy's home

See these as vases cups and bowls

See these as pieces of torn and cut paper pretending to be vases cups and bowls

See these as a curious cat early in the morning walking here and there around the house smelling things in a certain order known only to that cat

See these things as Cezanne saw pears and apples

See these things as a series of moves in a chess game that I made up and constantly change the rules trying to win

See these things as one thing with many parts like you and me; eyes nose liver heart knee toe hair ear spleen and such all somehow connected to make something else, perhaps something more

See these things as an oasis from the tumbling times

See these things

--Peter London

Mr. London is an active studio artist whose work is in many private and public collections. He has taught and lectured in art, art education and art therapy across North America and in Europe for the last forty years, in many universities, museums, and centers for holistic studies such as Omega Institute, Rowe Conference Center, Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, and his own summer institute - Drawing Closer to Nature. Recently, Peter has had his paintings exhibited in Berkeley, Davis and Woodland California; Midland, Michigan, and in Massachusetts. In addition to his numerous academic credits, Mr. London is the author of No More Secondhand Art, Community Based Art Education, Drawing Closer to Nature, and numerous articles. He resides in Shelburne, Massachusetts, and in Davis, California. For more info and images of some of his paintings, visit www.peterlondon.us.

For more information, contact Lindel Hart:
lindel@hartyoga.com - 413.768.9291

Exploring the Inner Landscape through Yoga, Chanting and Meditation:
An Afternoon of Contemplative Practice
Second Sunday of the Month, 3-6 PM

September 12, October 10*, November 14, December 12, 2010

Join Lindel Hart and Rick Roberts for an afternoon of physical, spiritual and mental rejuvenation as we enter into the stillness that promotes self exploration through yoga postures, chanting and meditation. Come together in community with others for this mindful retreat from an overactive world to reconnect with your natural state of balance, harmony and peace.

The afternoon will include an asana practice guided by Lindel Hart and chanting with Rick Roberts and friends, as well as time for silent meditation together. There will be no specific instruction for meditation; we'll simply sit quietly together.

Like the quiet space between the in-breath and the out-breath, the stillness that arises out of yoga and chanting leads one easily and naturally into meditation. No vocal/musical, yoga or meditation experience is necessary to experience the joy of this afternoon of contemplative practice. All are welcome, regardless of the type of yoga, meditation or spiritual practice you may have.

This event is FREE. However, donations are appreciated.

For more information, contact Lindel Hart or Rick Roberts:
lindel@hartyoga.com - 413.768.9291
rick@pioneervalleyyoga.com - 413.367.9777

This program is supported in part by grants from the Buckland, Charlemont-Hawley, Conway and Greenfield Cultural Councils, local agencies which are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.

*Exploring the Inner Landscape on October 10 will be held at Green River Yoga, 158 Main Street, 2nd Floor, Greenfield, MA.

Free Talk: Therapeutic Breath: A Key to Overall Physical, Mental and Emotional Health
with Kaiilama Morris
Sunday, September 19, 2010. 1:30 - 2:30 PM

Join Kaiilama Morris of Breath of the Heart for a FREE introductory talk about Therapeutic Breath Education. What is this tool? How can it help you? And why is correct breathing so vitally important? These are just some of the questions that will be addressed. You will be pleasantly surprised by the simplicity and power of the BREATH!

Free Talk: Connected Birth: An Alternative to Lamaze - Ride the Waves of Labor
with Kaiilama Morris
Sunday, September 19, 2010. 3:00 - 4:15 PM

Kaiilama Morris welcomes all parents-to-be and prospective parents for a FREE introductory talk to introduce you to an amazing series of classes to prepare couples to manage preganancy, labor, birth and parenting effortlessly, gracefully with little pain! Birth is a natural, incredible, opening, joyful experience to be embraced, supported and welcomed. Give your baby and yourself the gift of Conscious Connected Breathing. Discover how this amazing tool benefits you, your baby and your partner/coach.

Read more about the upcoming Connected Breath/Connected Birth Series.

Yoga For Your Feet:
A Workshop with Lindel Hart
Sunday, September 26, 2010
10:00 AM - 12:00 Noon

Re-energize your feet and positively impact your overall health as Lindel Hart leads you through an exploration of yoga poses and other exercises to awaken your whole body from the ground up! Learn how to:

Strengthen and balance your feet
Improve your foundation
Increase foot flexibility
Enhance your yoga practice
Care for your whole body by taking care of your feet!

Our feet are the foundation for our well-being, supporting us as we stand, walk, and engage in our active lives. Don't neglect your feet! Taking care of your feet can help stave off problems in other parts of the body - the hips, knees, lower back, even the neck and jaw. Learn self-care techniques that you can practice every day at home.

Build a better foot through yoga! Beginners welcome!

Cost of the workshop is $25 and includes a handout detailing information and exercises covered in the workshop. Prepayment and pre-registration are required, as space is limited. Pay only $20 if you register and pay for the workshop by Friday, September 17. Click on the PayPal button below:

For more information or to pre-register, contact Lindel Hart: lindel@hartyoga.com or 413.768.9291.

Breath of the Heart: An Introduction to Therapeutic Breathwork
with Kaiilama Morris
Sunday, October 3, 2010
1:00 - 4:00 PM

Are you passionate about your life? Do you want change but do not know how? Are you interested in self-evolution? Do you LOVE feeling connected to yourself and others? Are you ready to really live a life of joy, abundance, service, community and peace? Then join this transformative educator for an informative, life-changing afternoon!

What can I expect to feel from doing it?

Restore emotional harmony

Relief from chronic physical and emotional pain

Relieve migraine headaches, asthma, anxiety, depression, addictions and many more!

Reconnect to natural creativity, relaxation, deep joy and healthier relationships with others and yourself

Renew yourself daily with this very simple and accessible energy

What is therapeutic breathwork?

A do-it-yourself tool to help you connect to your true self

A proven and effective practice to gain freedom from mental, physical and emotional hardship

A fast track to joy, abundance, accomplishment and healthy relationships

A self-facilitated method to continually support a balanced healthy life!

Breath of the Heart is open to all levels. Cost of the workshop is $35, with a special $5 discount if you bring a friend. Call 413.512.0470 to register, and visit Kaiilama Morris's website, www.breathoftheheart.com.

Yoga For Shoulder Health:
A Workshop with Bronwyn Sims
Friday, October 29, 2010
6:00 - 8:00 PM

Join Bronwyn Sims to focus on conditioning and strengthening the shoulders for injury prevention and recuperation. Bronwyn brings her expertise in yoga, acrobatics and aerial circus work - all of which rely on healthy shoulders - to this workshop for yoga practitioners of all levels.

Cost of the workshop is $30. Prepayment and pre-registration are required, as space is limited.

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For more information or to pre-register, contact Lindel Hart: lindel@hartyoga.com or 413.768.9291.

Past Events

Yoga from the Core of Stillness
with Lindel Hart
Kripalu Center for Health and Yoga
Stockbridge, MA
June 20 – 23, 2010 (Sunday - Wednesday)

Course Description:
Return to the source in this restorative retreat, reconnecting to what Lindel Hart calls “the core of stillness.” Slowing down the mind provides space to step back from the surface of your practice to reveal a more profound and satisfying organic foundation. By deconstructing the way you view and embody asanas, Lindel will help you open your mind, body, and heart to the possibilities available in each moment.

The workshop will explore a full range of postures that includes inversions. Focused breathwork and meditation will prepare you for a potent, energizing, and meaningful yoga practice. Time for meditation and reflection will be built into each session, and journaling will be encouraged to record important insights.

The program includes a full restorative yoga session in which the studio becomes a sanctuary of stillness. During this session, all poses will be practiced on the floor, supported by bolsters, blankets, and other props to facilitate a gradual, sustained sense of opening, a heightened sense of awareness, and deeper relaxation.

All levels welcome, with a minimum of 6 months experience with yoga requested.

This course is eligible for CE credits for yoga instructors and fitness trainers.

Cost of Workshop: $225 plus meals and accommodations.

For more information and to register, visit Kripalu’s website. Or call Kripalu toll-free at 800.741.7353.

Click here to view a printable flyer for the course.

Turn Your World Upside Down!
A Workshop with Bronwyn Sims
Sunday, May 16, 2010
1:00 - 3:00 PM

Join yoga teacher, professional actor, acrobat, and aerialist Bronwyn Sims as you
Turn Your World Upside Down! Experience the benefits of safe, healthy inversions.

Bronwyn will lead you through creative and fun exercises to help build upper body strength, flexibility, shoulder health and self confidence. You'll also condition the core abdominal muscles. Then we'll get down to business!

Whether you are a beginner who wants to work on your first handstand at the wall or a more experienced practitioner aiming to move away from the wall, this is the workshop for you! Don't miss this opportunity to work with Bronwyn in a small group setting.

Turn Your World Upside Down! is open to all levels.

Yoga for Gardeners:
A Workshop with Lindel Hart
Saturday, April 24, 2010
9:00 - 11:00 AM

It's spring! And gardening season is here. While it can bring great joy, gardening can also leave you with aching muscles and overtaxed joints. Lindel Hart will work with you on yoga poses and other stretches that can help you prevent and/or alleviate some of the common ailments associated with gardening. You'll learn ways to keep yourself healthy before, during and after gardening.

In this workshop we'll focus on strengthening the core, opening the shoulders and hips, and protecting your knees and back.

Invite body, mind and spirit to blossom with your garden!

Yoga for Gardeners is geared to all gardeners, from backyard hobbyists to professional landscapers.

Cost of the workshop is $20. Prepayment and pre-registration are required, as space is limited. For more information or to pre-register, contact Lindel Hart: lindel@hartyoga.com or 413.768.9291.

Yoga For Your Feet:
A Workshop with Lindel Hart
Saturday, March 20, 2010
9:00 - 11:00 AM

Jump into spring feet first!

Celebrate the Spring Equinox with this special workshop designed to help you re-energize your feet and positively impact your overall health! Instructor Lindel Hart leads you through an exploration of yoga poses and other exercises to awaken your whole body from the ground up!

Learn how to strengthen and balance your feet, improve your foundation, and care for your whole body. Our feet are the foundation for our well-being, supporting us as we stand, walk, and engage in our active lives. Don't neglect your feet! Taking care of your feet can help stave off problems in other parts of the body - the hips, knees, lower back, even the neck and jaw.

Build a better foot through yoga! Beginners welcome!

Cost of the workshop is $20 and includes all materials, including handouts detailing information and exercises covered in the workshop. Prepayment and pre-registration is required, as space is limited. For more information or to pre-register, contact Lindel Hart: lindel@hartyoga.com or 413.768.9291.

Sun Salutations for Haitians:
A Fundraiser for Haiti Earthquake Relief
Saturday, February 6, 2010
9:00 - 11:00 AM

Lindel Hart hosts a 2-hour drop-in yoga session, consisting primarily of ongoing basic Sun Salutations. No experience is necessary to participate in the relief effort, as Hart will guide participants through this basic sequence of poses.

Come to the studio for all or part of the fundraiser. Whether you want to do two Sun Salutations or twenty, the important thing is to show up! Come for five minutes, come for a half hour, or come for the entire event.

We are suggesting a minimum donation of $10, although larger amounts are certainly welcome. You don't even have to do any yoga if you don't want to. Just come by the studio, say hello and make a donation.

Or sponsor someone else to participate: for instance, contribute $10 for a friend to do 10 Sun Salutations. If you don't know anyone to sponsor, we can match up your contribution with someone who comes to the event.

Individuals who are unable to attend are encouraged to send contributions for the relief effort to:

Hart Yoga
1 Ashfield Street, Suite 8
Shelburne Falls, MA 01370

Checks may be made out to "Hart Yoga" or to "The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund".

All contributions will be sent to the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, which was set up by former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush to channel funds "for immediate, high-impact relief and long-term recovery efforts to help those who are most in need of assistance." One hundred percent of donations received will go directly to relief efforts in Haiti.

For more information, contact Lindel Hart:
lindel@hartyoga.com - 413.768.9291

Drawing Closer to Nature through Art and Yoga
Kripalu Center for Health and Yoga
Stockbridge, MA
September 13 – 18, 2009

Course Description:
Art and yoga are complementary practices that can help us recover our lost sense of unity with nature. As we draw closer to nature through these practices, we also draw closer to ourselves, tapping into the creative soul that exists in us all. This brings about a richer, more authentic, and graceful sense of artistic expression and our place in the world.

Artist Peter London employs simple art materials—such as charcoals, oil pastels, and tempera and watercolor paints—and uncomplicated techniques that require no previous training. Lindel Hart offers a hatha yoga practice that is accessible to all. Together they provide an integrated and holistic approach that enriches and extends the powers of art and yoga to explore, portray, and incorporate the endlessly rewarding ways of nature.

In a safe and supportive environment, all participants, regardless of prior experience with art or yoga, have the opportunity to relax and draw closer to their inner nature and to the natural world.

Cost of Workshop: $325 plus meals and accommodations.

For more information, check out Kripalu’s website.