Michelle not only teaches 'yoga', she embodies it fully with her heart and soul. I had the opportunity to join her group on Sunday for a hike and mindful meditation at Franklin Canyon Park. About 30 people showed up, and we all had a blast! |
December 2020
Tools for Clarity Workshop Series
Thursdays, December 3, 10 & 17
6-7pm PDT on Zoom Live-Stream
Sliding Scale $15-25/single session or $40-55 pre-paid for all 3 sessions
Attending all 3 sessions is highly recommended to benefit from their cumulative practices and to build genuine depth of conversation with your cohort.
(Zoom link sent after registration is completed)
Have the challenges of 2020 called for a re-evaluation of what's important to you and how you align with that in how you spend your energy--time, thoughts, money or other resources? Are you sometimes overwhelmed by fear, anxiety and self-criticism that project into thoughts and behaviors that inhibit the best expression of you? Could you benefit from strategies on how to be kinder to yourself and share what you love with others?
Tools for Clarity workshop series offers practical tools to build self-awareness and make conscious choices from a clear perspective of how you want to show up in this world.
Tools for Clarity workshop series offers practical tools to build self-awareness and make conscious choices from a clear perspective of how you want to show up in this world.
Workshop Series Objective: To gain mental clarity and inspired alignment to personal values in daily living through understanding yoga philosophy, practicing meditation, exploring focusing techniques and engaging in mindful conversation and writing
Description: Each live online gathering includes approximately 15 minutes yoga physical practice (asana) and breath work (pranayama), 10 minutes guided meditation and 30 minutes self-inquiry, writing and group or partner conversation.
The sessions progress through the following themes:
12/3 Root in Clarity & Alignment - Practically evaluate your daily expenditure of your personal energy--thoughts, time, money, etc. Renew your commitment to what you love, using various modalities to put your focus on what you truly desire to expand in your life. The physical yoga practice is meant to ground and center you by activating the root energy center, or muladhara chakra.
12/10 Empathy Empowers Peace - We explore the power of empathy to create peace from within and onto our world. We practice mindfulness techniques, like Loving Kindness/Metta meditation, offering ourselves authentic love and understanding and sharing this capacity with others. The physical yoga practice focuses on balancing the heart energy center, or anahata chakra.
12/17 Transform Obstacles into Opportunity - We dive into the Yoga Sutras wisdom of root causes of human suffering to develop self-awareness, enabling conscious choice to empower our ability to transcend our obstacles that are mainly within the mind. In the yogic practice of truth-seeking (satya), we unveil the beliefs behind our self-limiting thoughts to plant new seeds that serve our spiritual evolution. The physical practice evokes the third eye center, or ajna chakra, to cultivate connection to your inner guidance.
Weekly gatherings integrate The Yoga Sutras' philosophical teachings, Abraham-Hicks' (Law of Attraction) process and inspiration from Marshall Rosenberg (Nonviolent Communication) and explore multiple modalities for insightful interaction and contemplation. Tools for Clarity Workshop Series spreads out our one-day virtual retreat, Ground into Clarity, into three 1-hour weekly gatherings on Thursday evenings, to provide accessibility and convenience for those who cannot commit to a full-day time investment.
Materials Needed to Participate:
Workshop Facilitator, Michelle Chua, has been teaching yoga for over 10 years and has studied with teachers in the fields of Yoga Lifestyle and Awareness, Mindful Leadership, Self-Liberation through Meditation and Self-Study, Rebalancing Energy Centers (Chakras) and follows the teachings of mindfulness experts Thich Nhat Hahn, Pema Chodron, Eckhart Tolle and Tara Brach and Positive Mindset experts Wayne Dyer, Louise Hayes and Abraham-Hicks. She's an avid lifelong learner and integrates her passion and training as a former school teacher to address the diverse ways humans learn in facilitating engaging personally meaningful retreats, classes and workshops.
Description: Each live online gathering includes approximately 15 minutes yoga physical practice (asana) and breath work (pranayama), 10 minutes guided meditation and 30 minutes self-inquiry, writing and group or partner conversation.
The sessions progress through the following themes:
12/3 Root in Clarity & Alignment - Practically evaluate your daily expenditure of your personal energy--thoughts, time, money, etc. Renew your commitment to what you love, using various modalities to put your focus on what you truly desire to expand in your life. The physical yoga practice is meant to ground and center you by activating the root energy center, or muladhara chakra.
12/10 Empathy Empowers Peace - We explore the power of empathy to create peace from within and onto our world. We practice mindfulness techniques, like Loving Kindness/Metta meditation, offering ourselves authentic love and understanding and sharing this capacity with others. The physical yoga practice focuses on balancing the heart energy center, or anahata chakra.
12/17 Transform Obstacles into Opportunity - We dive into the Yoga Sutras wisdom of root causes of human suffering to develop self-awareness, enabling conscious choice to empower our ability to transcend our obstacles that are mainly within the mind. In the yogic practice of truth-seeking (satya), we unveil the beliefs behind our self-limiting thoughts to plant new seeds that serve our spiritual evolution. The physical practice evokes the third eye center, or ajna chakra, to cultivate connection to your inner guidance.
Weekly gatherings integrate The Yoga Sutras' philosophical teachings, Abraham-Hicks' (Law of Attraction) process and inspiration from Marshall Rosenberg (Nonviolent Communication) and explore multiple modalities for insightful interaction and contemplation. Tools for Clarity Workshop Series spreads out our one-day virtual retreat, Ground into Clarity, into three 1-hour weekly gatherings on Thursday evenings, to provide accessibility and convenience for those who cannot commit to a full-day time investment.
Materials Needed to Participate:
- Strong internet for live-streaming
- Zoom app on your laptop, iPad or computer
- Functional camera and mic on your live-stream device to be seen and heard during our conversations
- 2 color of pens/pencils
- A journal
- Optional: Printout of workshop worksheets emailed to you
- Some sessions will require your yoga mat and 2 yoga blocks
- Optional: Meditation cushion or folded blanket
Workshop Facilitator, Michelle Chua, has been teaching yoga for over 10 years and has studied with teachers in the fields of Yoga Lifestyle and Awareness, Mindful Leadership, Self-Liberation through Meditation and Self-Study, Rebalancing Energy Centers (Chakras) and follows the teachings of mindfulness experts Thich Nhat Hahn, Pema Chodron, Eckhart Tolle and Tara Brach and Positive Mindset experts Wayne Dyer, Louise Hayes and Abraham-Hicks. She's an avid lifelong learner and integrates her passion and training as a former school teacher to address the diverse ways humans learn in facilitating engaging personally meaningful retreats, classes and workshops.
Yoga in Nature by Donation
Sundays, December 13 & 27 @10-11:05am
By Confirmed Reservation Only*
Studio City, CA
In response to community requests to resume outdoor community yoga classes, Yoga in Nature will be offered with detailed precautions for everyone's health and safety. Class is one hour of postures and breath work ending in an optional 5 minutes of silent sitting meditation. RSVP below for the specific date(s) you'd like to attend. You'll receive exact meeting details and confirmation at least a week prior to class. Please adhere to the following guidelines, in consideration of each others' (and your family and friends') well being:
1. Only a maximum of ten people may attend.
2. Distance your mats physically at least ten feet apart, one mat behind each orange cone, which will be set up for you in a circle.
3. Wear a mouth and nose covering when you are less than ten feet apart, upon arriving and leaving.
4. Only confirmed participants may attend to keep guest count accurate for distancing. (Only 1 person per RSVP)
5. If you have any cold or flu symptoms, please do not attend.
6. If you need to cancel your attendance, kindly text Michelle at (818) 235-9067 at least 24 hours prior to class to allow another guest to participate, since spots are limited.
7. Class donation, suggested $10-20, is appreciated via any of the following methods: Venmo to @root2riseyoga, Zelle to Root2RiseYoga@gmail.com or PayPal to Root2RiseYoga@gmail.com.
8. Please bring your own yoga mat and any props you may need for your physical practice.
1. Only a maximum of ten people may attend.
2. Distance your mats physically at least ten feet apart, one mat behind each orange cone, which will be set up for you in a circle.
3. Wear a mouth and nose covering when you are less than ten feet apart, upon arriving and leaving.
4. Only confirmed participants may attend to keep guest count accurate for distancing. (Only 1 person per RSVP)
5. If you have any cold or flu symptoms, please do not attend.
6. If you need to cancel your attendance, kindly text Michelle at (818) 235-9067 at least 24 hours prior to class to allow another guest to participate, since spots are limited.
7. Class donation, suggested $10-20, is appreciated via any of the following methods: Venmo to @root2riseyoga, Zelle to Root2RiseYoga@gmail.com or PayPal to Root2RiseYoga@gmail.com.
8. Please bring your own yoga mat and any props you may need for your physical practice.
To request a reservation and receive exact location, please complete the form for the date(s) you would like to attend below. To ensure receipt of your confirmation email, please add Root2RiseYoga@gmail.com to your email contacts list; Otherwise, emails may be lost in your spam folder and never seen.
January 2021
New Year Workshop Series
Saturdays 1-2pm PST on Zoom Live-Stream
Sliding Scale $15-25/single session or $60-100 pre-paid for all 4 sessions
Attending all 4 sessions is highly recommended to benefit from their cumulative practices and to build genuine depth of conversation with your cohort.
(Zoom link sent after registration is completed)
Each day of the workshop series includes 15 minutes of all-levels yoga asana (physical practice) and pranayama (breath work), 10 minutes of Guided Meditation and 30 minutes of journaling and group or partner conversation, diving into the day's theme:
1/9 - Purpose & Creating from Love - Clarify your new year intentions, driven my your passions and purpose.
1/16 - Authentic & Lasting Change - Identify and strengthen your personal qualities for making constructive positive change.
1/23 - Grace & Resilience - Strategize ways to allow grace and build resilience in your daily life.
1/30 - Seeing as Soul - Commit to your alignment with your highest self. Develop ways to choose the perspective of your inner wisdom, enhancing your ability to see beyond circumstance and venture through 2021 with inspired action.
1/16 - Authentic & Lasting Change - Identify and strengthen your personal qualities for making constructive positive change.
1/23 - Grace & Resilience - Strategize ways to allow grace and build resilience in your daily life.
1/30 - Seeing as Soul - Commit to your alignment with your highest self. Develop ways to choose the perspective of your inner wisdom, enhancing your ability to see beyond circumstance and venture through 2021 with inspired action.
Materials You'll Need:
- A journal and pen
- Yoga mat, 2 blocks, strap and beach towel or blanket
- Strong reliable internet
- A free Zoom account and the app downloaded on your laptop or computer
- Camera and audio on your laptop or computer for live-stream conversations
Photo from Saturday morning yoga on Zoom
Root 2 Rise Yoga Community celebrates 10 years in 2020!
You gave us (my partner and me) such a positively unforgettable experience at the Root 2 Rise Yoga Fall Gathering (2013). |
Michelle is the best! ...She is so creative and inspirational. Plus her yoga events and classes around town and in the park are wildly fun. |