“When you walk out of this Hot Yoga room you feel 20 years Younger”

What makes BikYasa the best Hot Flow Yoga class in the world? “All I can say is that at 49 I have never felt as good – it has the perfect balance between silence and music,” says a student turned Yoga Teacher.

1. “After my first BikYasa class I felt like I was 20 years old again,” reports the Editor In-chief of NORDIC WELLNESS. Hot Yoga removes toxins from the body – naturally.

2. BikYasa is a Hot Flow Yoga class has been implemented in studios throughout Orange County, Brazil, Finland and Germany. It has been approved by thousands of students.

3. BikYasa is designed as healing class. The sequence is scientifically designed to to improve your joints and internal organs.

4. This Hot Flow class balances silence and modern music. It is for beginners and all levels. It is for all ages and all sizes. No experience needed.

5. The class was tested in Germany and Finland, where there was not Hot Flow Yoga being fine-tuned. It is inspired from the principles of Hot 26 and Flow Yoga. For example, we have Half Moon pose to remove strain from your spine, and breath connected flow to move between poses.

6. Try BikYasa for two weeks. With our online classes, posture clinics and a variety of studios around the world, keeping up with your practice is no problem.

7. BikYasa sequence stays constant though the music selection is different from class to class. It recognizes the power of modern music to inspire and motivate.

8. The sequence focuses on better breathing, stabilizing the legs, before we focus on your spine, which is your true lifeline.

9. By practicing with silence in the room you develop mental concentration, which enhances all other activities in your life.

10. A second room with harbor access allows for a variety of other styles and yoga experiences in the studio. SUP boards and Hot Yoga Wear are also available.

11. You can get personal attention in our private classes, our posture clinics, our extensive schedule of workshops, and we encourage you to join our Teacher Training program so you can share your passion with others.

12. There are two main doors to the Hot room, a modern heating system with a revolving fan that flushes fresh oxygen to the room, and a humidifier set to 40%. We open doors at key points in the class. The Hot room is very safe room – and also very bright room. It maintains heat throughout the 60 minutes of class. Top heat does not exceed 105.

13. BikYasa is a modern style of Yoga. VinYasa and YinYasa Yoga are also modern styles of Yoga. Except for the heat, they provide the same benefits. People who don’t like Hot Yoga can practice VinYasa.

PRICE. The BikYasa program illustrated in this advertisement – f.o.b. principal ports of entry – costs $20 for two weeks.

If you would like the rewarding experience of practicing BikYasa or VinYasa in Huntington Beach, CA visit our website or join our email list at WWW.GLOWHOTOYGA.COM
For all other studios locations around the world that offer BikYasa visit ‘h3 yoga‘

108 Sun Saluations

 

Celebrate the SUN with 108 Saluations!!! Join Gabriel Azoulay from Hollywood Market Yoga, for a complimentary yoga class at Camels Back Park, Sunday, August 18th at 9 am. Donations welcome and will benefit the “Back to School” Foundation. Bring your sunscreen, mat and your beautiful smile.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

108 T-shirts will be available in the studio to purchase for $20 this Friday and Saturday. Wear to the Sun Salutation event this Sunday in Camel’s Back Park. Whatever we have left , we will bring to the park. They are so cute!

 

 

 

Ignite your life, enhance your lifestyle

I came back from my Europe teaching tour on July 17.

It was an eventful summer, teaching incredible students, enjoying the Finnish summer with my girlfriend and her family, retreating in Chania, Crete, visiting my family in Israel, and teaching Thai Massage in Germany.
With travel comes the exciting features of enjoying meals with friends, family and new faces. Between pastries, morning coffee, home cooked salad, fish and potatoes, to my favorite addiction, swiss chess on toasted Finnish rye bread, I felt I came home round like a balloon.

Sometimes it is just a good idea to dive into the indulgence of eating.

To balance this indulgence, I entered a master cleanse on July 18 for 10 days.

If you are not familiar with the master cleanse, it is a simple experience where for 10 days you drink water, mint tea (from real mint leaves), Senna tea (from senna leaves) and primarily a concoction of:
Pure lemon juice, water, pure maple syrup and cayenne pepper.
You drink as much of this concoction a day, while drinking the other liquids as you see fit.
This is not my first master cleanse, in fact I have been doing a master cleanse once a year for the last 12 years, though this experience was profoundly unique in that I realized long held patterns, behaviors and attitude which I was able to face head on and use NLP practice to shed away.

Things like arrogance, insecurity in love relationship, self protection behavior that reflected in holding back information, as well as coming to terms with certain addictive behaviors.

We all have some of these issues, but most of us are willing to not look at them, and our friends and lovers accept them, so long as they do not cross over too much into their lives.
Cleanse, where you restrict your eating behavior, and slow down through meditation, is one of the most profound ways to be honest to yourself, and to take charge of your life.

On day 11 I entered a three day Watermelon cleanse, drinking only watermelon juice and water with lemon. This cleanse flushes out the colon, and it proved to be an interesting challenge.
Where the master cleanse I felt energetic and alert, the three day Watermelon felt like I was hit with lethargy.
I still continued doing my daily ashtanga, swim and walk, but it required every ounce of my will power to do them.

To follow the protocol of coming off the master cleanse, I then completed a 3 day orange juice experience, which felt like it brought back my energy.

Xango amazing health and wellness products

Today, I woke up feeling super alert and excited, and not just because I could have juice, which I will continue for the next 21 days, but simply because my body felt recharged and alive.

When I arrived home, my friend George Kennedy of Xango International sent me some samples of Xango’s new health and lifestyle products.
Before a Hot BikYAsa Class, I mixed my first Xango Ignite packet.

The sweet berry (from the mangosteen fruit) flavor was reviving, and the experience throughout the class was remarkable. I felt energized, awake and alive.
It was so thrilling, that I came home and mixed a packet of Xango Relaod. The coconuat flavor was so refreshing after the hot class, and my body was jumping in excitement at the absorption of those nutrients.
I followed this experience with a green juice, composed of 2 pears, 3 celery stalks, 2 carrots, a bunch of kale and a large cucumber. It made a total of 24 oz juice, which I consumed within 10 minutes.

I ran 3 miles, swan 600meters, and biked around the neighborhood enjoying the beautiful hot summer day.

I highly recommend you check this website and order Xango Ignite to help boost your energy, your health and recharge your lifestyle.

For many going on a juice cleanse, a master cleanse, or a watermelon cleanse might feel like the hardest challenge you face, but mixing these Xango products is as easy as 1-2-3, and the results are instantaneous.

If you would like to follow a cleanse, or need support completing one, be sure to contact me.
As a holistic health coach I help individuals achieve their personal health and lifestyle goals.

I look forward to supporting you – email me at gabe@h3yoga.com

To your health and happiness, click here for Xango products

Thai Yoga Workshop in Seattle

I am very fortune to share my expertise in Thai Yoga on March 7-9, 2014 at Northwest Yoga Conference, Seattle, WA.

I have been traveling around the globe sharing my insights with the aim of building universal communities and empowering others.

Join me for a Thai Yoga workshop designed to teach you about your body by moving the body of another.

Students will learn how energy moved in the body and how to observe it in themselves and others.

Looking forward to see you! 🙂

For more info visit: http://nwyogaconference.com/

Chaga Challenge – Day 3

The days continue, the mix is mixing and the days are getting warmer.

With daily yoga, good nutrition, and now a killer daily mix, I am feeling on top of the world.

Won’t you join me?

http://www.foursigmafoods.com

Chaga Challenge – Day 2

It’s so late in the day, probably chaga giving me power to stay awake all day.

It was a little challenging getting my instant mixes today, and the weather changes made me actually super tired, but had a fabulous bike ride and sunset picture experience, and i am enjoying watching the world through the eyes of Four Sigma Foods products.

Chaga Challenge – Day 1

Ever hear of Four Sigma Foods?
If you have, then you are familiar with their groundbreaking approach to wellness, if you have not, well, be sure to click here, or on their name.

 

When I heard about their 30 day Instant product challenge, I was inspired and asked the company if I could participate.
They were excited as well, and sent me a care package with 4 boxes of Instant Chaga mix, what I will consume 3 times a day for the next 30 days.

I started my day with a makeshift Chaga tea, basically the instant packet with hot water. I took it with me to my yoga class, which I had to teach and though I drank half on the way there, I finished the mug sporadically while teaching. I taught a hot BikYasa class, and between active savasana when I opened the door, I snuck some sips.
The earth warm taste had a musky sweet taste to it, and left me feeling rather nourished.

After my second class of the day, the noon flow class, I came home and decided to make a juice. I blended greens, carrots, apple, pear and ginger, mix a small portion of chaga with hot ater for a quick dissolve and poured it in the juice mix. The result was a scrumptious liquid lunch. It was so good that I decided to make it my dinner as well, this time only mixing carrot, apple and ginger with my chaga addition.

At the end of day one I feel rather amazed, lucid, clear and elated. Managed to teach 3 classes, two meetings, clean the house and enjoy the day.

Looking forward to what the day will bring tomorrow!

5 Reasons Never Teach from the Back of the Room

Yoga’s popularity and growth knows no bound. With new studios constantly opening and yoga teacher training filling Fabebook ads.
One of the fastest growing markets of yoga is Hot Yoga classes. These classes showcase teachers who use their voice alone to guide the class. Compare this with other yoga classes where the teacher sets up their yoga mat at the front of the class and while some will teach by example the entire class, other will move from demonstrating to walking and talking, and return back the front where their mat is.

There are pros and cons to both style of teaching, however, many hot yoga teachers seem to stand at the back of the room, behind the students screaming their instructions.

Here are 5 reasons why this teaching style is not only disrespectful but also devoid of building connections with students:

1 – When someone goes to the back of the room it indicates that they are hesitant, timid, shy and insecure. Is that the feeling you wish to leave your students with?
Face your own fears and stand at the front of the room.

2 – Yoga teaching is interpersonal communication. Do you communicate with your friends by sanding behind them and talking to them? How would you feel if someone was talking to you from behind?
Standing behind someone denotes a sense of superiority and dominance. Do you wish to subconsciously communicate to your students that they are inferior to you?
By standing in front of someone you are presenting a sense of connection, interaction, and respect.

3 – teaching yoga allows both student and instructor to discover that there is something larger than their individual sense of separation. When you stand behind you only reinforce the sense of separation.  Be part of the experience of discovering that place of peace, light, love and joy and stand in front of someone facing your desire to run away.

4 – Be the mirror for your students rather than to rely their reflection in the mirror.
When you stand in front of students you are able to be a reflection for them as to their unconscious habits.

5 – What exactly are you looking at? – let’s take the downward facing dog pose for example. Standing behind someone gives you direct view of student’s ass. Compare this with standing in front of them where you have a direct viw of their shoulders. Considering that DFD pose tends to put undue strain in students shoulders, you want to quickly identify this part of the body, rather than day dreaming about something else.

This last point I find most shocking, especially since the majority of practitioners are women who wear very short clothing. I have noticed in more than one occasion that male teachers standing in the back of the room are gazing at the groin of their students in poses where the leg is raised to the sky. Considering that there are more women teaching yoga, these suggestions might never have crossed your mind, but as a male yoga teacher trainer I find that once you seat students down and show them what it looks like from an observation perspective it becomes immediately obvious to the serious disrespect that can follow with such behavior. Whether male or female you communicate more confidence, with greater respect and ability to verbally correct body positions when you stand in front of students.

Remember, you just finished yoga training, allow yourself the confidence and create a space for trust between you and your students.

Gabe Yoga is the founder of H3 Yoga, an international yoga teacher training school that empowers teachers with tools and information that inspire and build universal communities. His training method and Hot Flow (BikYasa) program have been implemented in studios all around the world, from Thailand to Europe and the USA. http://www.gabeyoga.com

Yin Yoga Training for Teachers, Students and Enthusiasts

 

 

Akasha Yoga Vacaville

presents

Yin Yoga Training

What: Yin Yoga Training for Teachers, Students and Enthusiasts

Where: Akasha Yoga Vacaville
373 Merchant St.

When: May 17-19, May 24-26 Time: Fri 4-9pm, Sat & Sun 10-7pm

Topics: Yin Yoga history, philosophy, anatomy, insights, story telling and more…

Cost:
$500—before April 1st, $600 After April 1st
$150 Individual Sat or Sun, $75 Individual Friday

Course Includes:

YinYasa E-Book, Yin Yoga Video Class, Yin Yoga Audio Class, YinYasa Flash Cards, YinYasa Poster, Osho jokes, Zen Koana, Meridian Theory & Organ function

H3 Yoga Alliance CE Certificate for YA Reg. teachers

YinYasa Yoga

The word ‘nYasa’ means:

to place together
Gabriel fused the words to
highlight how Yin Yoga poses go
together to achieve deeper
health, joint function and stability

For over 15 years, Gabriel Azoulay, an International Yoga developer, has lead trainings and workshops. His company H3 Yoga provides VinYasa, YinYasa, BikYasa teacher trainings around the world. His teachings are filled with humor, simplicity and depth from years of daily practice and enthusiastic studies. While Gabriel credits Pichet Boonthume as his major Thai Yoga influence, he credits, Tim Miller, Anthony ‘Prem’ Carlisi, Lisa Schrempp, David Deida, Vincenzo ‘Enzo’ Coribello for influencing his yoga practice, teaching and approaches to the mat. Read Gabriel’s full bio on his website http://www.gabrielazoulay.com/.

http://www.akashayogastudio.com/
http://www.yinyasayoga.com/

13 Primary Organs and their Meridians

Organ	Gross Function	Subtle Function
Kidneys	They control the growth and development of bones and nourish the marrow.	The body’s most important reservoir of essential energy.They are the seat of courage and willpower.
Pericardium	Not Recognized in the west.It is the heart’s protective sack	Protects the heart from damage and disruption by excessive emotional energies generated by the other organs, such as anger from the liver, fear from the kidneys, and grief from the lungs
Triple burner – Not a single self–‐contained organ, but rather a functional energy system involved in regulating the activities of other organs.	Not recognized by the West. The Upper Burner controls intake. The Middle Burner controls transformation. The Lower Burner controls elimination.	Regulates our consciousness. As consciousness becomes stable our mind intent rests on being benevolent and kindhearted.
Gall bladder	It secretes the pure and potent bile fluids required to digest and metabolize fats and oils.It provides muscular strength and vitality.	‘The gall bladder is daring, the heart is careful’Is responsible for making decisions and judgments, as well as providing courage and initiative.
Liver	Responsible for filtering, detoxifying, nourishing, replenishing, and storing blood.Synthesizes the various forms of protein required for growth and repair of bodily tissues.	Responsible for planning and creativity, as well as instantaneous solutions or sudden insights.
Lungs It is said that the Lungs are “the priest” or The Minister of Heaven and are responsible for establishing the foundation of Qi for the entire body.	The lungs are massive vessel-like organs in the chest cavity. They are the largest and most essential part of the respiration system	The Lungs psycho‐emotional attributes positive are righteousness, dignity, integrity, and high self-esteem; negative attributes are disappointment, sadness, grief, despair, anxiety, shame, and sorrow. The Lungs house the body’s are responsible for self-protection and self-preservation.
Large Intestine	It controls the transformation of digestive wastes from liquid to solid state and transports the solids onwards and outwards for elimination through the rectum.It plays a major role in the balance and purity of bodily fluids and assists the Lungs in controlling the skin’s pores and perspiration.	The Large Intestine relationship to the Lungs makes it equally affected by the emotions of sadness, grief, and worry.
Stomach	Your stomach is a stretchy bag of muscle that is very important in digesting foodResponsible for extracting and balancing all Five Elemental Energies (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water) from foods and fluids ingested.	The Stomach influences the mental state; an excess condition can agitate the mind and cause mental symptoms such as: mania or hypomania, confusion, severe anxiety, and hyperactivity.
Spleen	Controls quantity and quality of blood in circulation and coordinate with the Kidneys to control fluid balance throughout the system.Directly influences and is reflected by the tone and condition of muscle tissue.	Houses the body’s thoughts and intentions.Responsible for directing memories to the Kidneys for short‐term memory storage. The Kidneys will later transfer these memories to the Heart for long‐term memory storage.
Stomach	Your stomach is a stretchy bag of muscle that is very important in digesting foodResponsible for extracting and balancing all Five Elemental Energies (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water) from foods and fluids ingested.	The Stomach influences the mental state; an excess condition can agitate the mind and cause mental symptoms such as: mania or hypomania, confusion, severe anxiety, and hyperactivity.
Heart – Houses the spirit, and controls the emotions.’	Commands all of the organs and viscera (the organs in the cavities of the body, especially those in the abdominal cavity)Dominates sleep; if the Heart is strong the practitioner will fall asleep easily and sleep soundly.	Psycho-emotional attributes are love, joy, peace, contentment, propriety, insight, wisdom, orderliness, forgiveness, and courtesy. • Its negative attributes are hate, guilt, shock, nervousness, excitement, longing, and craving.
Small Intestine	Receives partially digested food from the stomach and further refines it, separating ‘the pure from the impure.’Influences the function of the pituitary gland, the ‘master gland’ whose secretions regulate growth, metabolism, immunity, sexuality, and the entire endocrine system.	The ability to distinguish relevant issues with clarity before making a decision is attributed to the Small Intestine
Urinary Bladder	Is responsible for storing and eliminating the urinary waste fluids passed down from the kidneys.	As energy system the bladder is intimately related to the functions and balance of the autonomous nervous system.