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How to find the Shakti Yoga Shala?
From downtown Boulder Creek turn onto Hwy 236. Drive exactly 4 miles bear right onto China Grade, drive 1/2 mile and turn right onto Memory Lane. Drive to the end of the road and continue past the gate to the winery/shala. Please always drive less than 20 mph on Memory Lane.
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Please note that pre-registration is required for all workshops.
Please continue to scroll down to see the complete list of upcoming workshops.
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Time: 10:00am - 4:00pm
Place: Shakti Yoga Shala/Big Basin Vineyards
830 Memory Lane, Boulder Creek, CA 95006 (directions will be given upon registration. Please do not use Google Maps or other GPS systems based on Google Maps.)
Cost and Registration: $75 if paid by March 16th; $90 thereafter. Click here to pay online. Checks made out to Shakti Yoga Shala and mailed to the Shala address.
Samantha Shakti will teach a two hour yoga session in this day long workshop designed to expand the power of your wisdom, sensitivity and joyful curiosity for the love of learning. Local chef Kim Sammet will serve a healthy Ayurvedic lunch. After a walk through the vineyards, Bradley will guide us in taking the heightened awareness gained through yoga practice and applying it to a creative exploration of wines with tantalizing and healthy food pairings.
Samantha Shakti Brown: Yoga to awaken and heighten the senses. Samantha Shakti Brown is the co-founder of the Shakti Yoga Shala and has been teaching yoga for 17 years and is a Certified Anusara Instructor. She is known throughout the Bay Area for her dynamic, precise and inspirational teaching style. www.shaktiyogashala.com
Bradley Brown: Wine appreciation and education. Bradley is the proprietor and winemaker of Big Basin Vineyards and co-founder of the Shakti Yoga Shala. His wines have received high praise from wine lovers and international critics alike. www.bigbasinvineyards.com
Schedule
10am - 12pm Jana Shakti: The Potency and Power of Knowledge
Standing poses, arm balances, inversions and back bends with dynamic transitions. In this broad spectrum, energetic class, you will be called to draw upon your wisdom of the past and your desire to cultivate knowledge in the present to take in new forms of joyful experience. Jana Shakti occurs when objects of creation are intentionally brought together and held together in conscious recognition. Through alignment of body, mind and heart you will refine your awareness to celebrate the gift of human form.
12pm - 2pm Walk through the vineyards followed by a healthy Ayurvedic lunch and presentation by Kim Sammet.
2pm - 4pm Wine Appreciation: Curiosity and the Senses
Bradley will skillfully guide you through a tasting of some incredibly rich and complex wines while providing you with a vocabulary of wine characteristics with which to describe your experiences. You will learn to distinguish the subtle or not so subtle differences and characteristics of wines made from the same vineyard in different vintages and how the same grape variety might express itself differently from vineyard to vineyard. A number of creative and healthy food pairings will be interspersed with the wines to further stimulate your palates and focus your senses.
The spirit of the Tantric tradition is to weave together your own authentic experience so that you can share them in a plausible fashion. Curiosity and interest make for creative interplay as you learn to expand your understanding of wine. You will learn how to take the wine experience inside, contemplate it, and then bring it back out in order to share the experience with others. Bradley and Samantha will lead you on a process of your own awakening, where each experience is distinctly your own.
The Wines:
Flight 1: The Seduction and Subtly of Pinot Noir
2007 Big Basin Vineyards Bald Mountain Pinot Noir, Santa Cruz Mountains
2007 Big Basin Vineyards Alfaro Family Vineyard Pinot Noir, Santa Cruz Mountains
2007 Big Basin Vineyards Branciforte Ridge Pinot Noir, Santa Cruz Mountains
Flight 2: Discerning Varietal Characteristics - Syrah, Grenache and Cabernet Sauvignon
2007 Big Basin Vineyards Mandala Syrah, Santa Cruz Mountains
2007 Big Basin Vineyards Odeon Syrah/Cabernet, Santa Cruz Mountains
2008 Big Basin Vineyards Grenache/Syrah, Santa Cruz Mountains
Time: 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Place: Shakti Yoga Shala
830 Memory Lane, Boulder Creek, CA 95006 (directions will be given upon registration. Please do not use Google Maps or other GPS systems based on Google Maps.)
Cost and Registration: $22 Click here to pay online. Checks made out to Shakti Yoga Shala and mailed to the Shala address. Contact samanthashakti@gmail.com 408-318-2900
Darren is a nationally recognized, certified Anusara Yoga instructor who has been the director of the Yoga Oasis studios in Tucson, Arizona, for the past 11 years. Darren is featured in the Anusara Yoga Syllabus Poster, from Tadasana to Savasana. This class will be a memorable, dynamic, mixed levels class that will take you to a whole new understanding of the practice.
Time: 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Place: Surya Yantra Temple Home, presented by Shakti Yoga Shala on the grounds of Big Basin Vineyards
830 Memory Lane, Boulder Creek, CA 95006 (directions will be given upon registration. Please do not use Google Maps or other GPS systems based on Google Maps.)
Cost and Registration: $25 donation click here to pay online. Checks made out to Shakti Yoga Shala and mailed to the Shala address. Contact samanthashakti@gmail.com 408-318-2900
Award-winning international artists Heather and Benjy Wertheimer as Shantala open hearts around the world with their passionate music. Shantala creates a sublime soundscape of musical harmony between East and West with soul-stirring vocals, sacred lyrics, and exotic instrumentation. Call and response chanting with Shantala is fun, uplifting, and inspiring. Shantala is coming to Surya Yantra/Shakti Yoga Shala as a part of their Unity in Community fundrasing tour. All profits will go to Women's Earth Alliance
Sacred chanting (kirtan) has its roots in the sacred music of ancient India. It is growing rapidly in popularity in the West along with the rise of yoga in American culture. Chanting events involve active audience participation and are open to people of all religious backgrounds. The music carries the audience through a journey of etheric beauty, ecstatic percussion, and singing with the devotion of the heart. It is a celebration of life, love, and the beauty of the human spirit.
About The Artists...
Benjy Wertheimer is an acclaimed multi-instrumentalist (playing tabla, congas, percussion, esraj, guitar, and keyboards) and vocalist specializing in Indian classical music. He has played with a diverse range of musicians, including Carlos Santana, Paul Winter, and Narada Michael Walden. Heather Wertheimer is a nationally award-winning singer-songwriter and guitarist.
As Shantala, Benjy and Heather tour throughout the U.S. and abroad. In addition to sharing the stage and recording studio with sacred music luminaries such as Krishna Das, Deva Premal, and Jai Uttal, they have released a number of critically acclaimed CDs, including their newest, live kirtan release LIVE in love. Other recordings include the popular chanting CD The Love Window and world dance CD Circle of Fire, which reached #1 on the international New Age radio charts in November 2002. Heather's CD Church of Sky was named one of the ten best CDs of 2004 by New Age Retailer Magazine.
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