Stress-free Fridays • January 7, 14, 21 & 28 • February 4 & 11 • March 4
11:30–1:00 pm
Stress and Our Call to Respond

Ayurveda and Yoga Nidra are Nature-based stress reduction techniques that relieve the harmful effects of the stress cycle that lead to common aches and pains, and disease and suffering.

A stressor is anything that throws our body out of balance, not living according to our true nature, in accordance with our constitution, age, and condition. Things that cause stress are misuse and abuse of energy, injury, illness, extreme heat or cold, emotions stemming from perceptions, beliefs and conditioning, wrong lifestyle including insufficient sleep, exercise and food. These stressors are blocking the free flow of our breath, or our bioenergetic life force from flowing into every cell, tissue and organ, causing stagnation of prana or chi which have negative effects on the body and mind. The blocked prana cuts us off from ourselves and the world around us and from the Yogic perspective, stress is the body’s reaction to living as if we are separate. Physical and mental disharmony develop from fragmentation, and disconnection from the unity consciousness we innately are, and Yoga and Ayurveda offer us the insights to make better choices leading us to wholeness, and a life of ease and well being

Based on the time tested wisdom of Ayurveda and Yoga, Chaya will lead you through 8 elements and 18 marma points, and yoga nidra or yogic sleep, that play an important role in breaking the stress cycle to unlocking your hidden stress patterns, change your energy, and create the space for you to balance your body, mind and spirit to connect to your true nature. Learn and practice these natural time tested tools for stress reduction that work on the level of transformation and awaken to life!!

All are welcome. CEUs are available for Yoga Instructors.

FEE: $25 per session or $100 for all five sessions
LOCATION: Prana Body • 7400 N. Federal Highway • East at Hidden Valley Blvd. in the Colony Shoppes • Boca Raton

January 7
Your Surrounding as Spiritual Food
How well does your environment support your health?

January 14
How to Use a Journal to Improve Your Communications

January 21
Steps to Clearer Communication With Others

March 4
How to Stop Worrying in 10 Easy Steps

Saturday, February 20 • 4:00–6:00 pm
Kirtan: Yoga of Chant, Songs of the Heart
A devotional and musical experience

Kirtan is a tradition of call and response of ancient spiritual songs with primordial sounds and devotional chants. The science of sound, called Nad, and knowledge of divine Mantra, which means divine energy,  or thought, has the power to significantly raise your vibration above the conscious mind,  purifying ,  and nourishing our senses, gaining the powers to see more clearly into our true nature. This can offer us the ability to attain the 4 pursuits of life; clear purpose, wealth, happiness and liberation, bringing harmony and balance, and health to the body, and mind, allowing us to align with the soul and discover our faith and ultimate freedom.

Swami Kripalu said that when Mantra Chanting and Devotion are used together, they unlock the power inherent in the Mantra, and at the root of every miracle in the world, Mantra is the one tremendous power house of energy, and the best of all tools of the yoga of devotion. When practicing kirtan with others and with live music, our hearts open and we tend to feel more energized, clear, and compassionate, drawing more grace and ease into our daily lives.

The kirtan will be lead by Chaya~Sharon Heller on harmonium and vocals, accompanied by Richard Brookens on tabla, udu, flutes and more and Arvid Smith on sitar, delruba and guitar.

FEE: $15 — Includes refreshments (Prasad)
LOCATION: Prana Body • 7400 N. Federal Highway • East at Hidden Valley Blvd. in the Colony Shoppes • Boca Raton, FL

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Chaya~Sharon Heller is a Sr. Kripalu Teacher and program presenter and former Director of The Chaya for Life Center, now Ayurveda Delray, bringing to South Florida over 25 years of experience as a Holistic Health Educator, Performing Artist and Spiritual Teacher, specializing in Yoga and Ayurvedic principles and Massage. Chaya shares the healing and spiritual power of Yoga,  Ayurveda  and Chanting as the trinity of life through, body, mind and speech, handed down by the sages who trail blazed the way to living well.

Author of Yoga of Action, featured in Kripalu Yoga, and Yoga International magazine, and teaching at prominent venues and teacher trainings throughout the country, including Kripalu Center, Omega Institute, and Integrative Yoga Therapy, Chaya transmits the essence and message of unity, peace, and love through Kirtan.

Rich Brookens and Arvid Smith have both played for many years in a variety of venues and styles of music, bringing a high level of musicianship to each kirtan.

"It was a wonderful Kirtan. There was a beautiful invocation, call and responses were clear, there was a moving sanskrit prayer, and a unifying closing. The drumming was hypnotically attuned to the background of the harmonium and singing. The vibrations were nothing less than transformational." ~Russ Bova

Saturday, March 5 • 5:30–7:30 pm
Kirtan: Yoga of Chant, Songs of the Heart
A devotional and musical experience

Chaya~Sharon Heller on harmonium and vocals, and David Cronin on Percussion.

David Cronin is the owner of Changing Times and teaches and practices meditation. His devotional and melodic rhythms and sense of presence and peace are a gift to kirtan.

People have been raving about Chaya and David's Kirtans. Together they share and deliver  a devotional and musical experience from the soul of Kirtan, opening the heart and kindling the spirit.

FEE: Love Donation
LOCATION: Changing Times • 911 Village Blvd. #806, West Palm Beach
561.640.0496

Sunday, March 20 • 7:00–8:30 pm
Celebration of the Spring Equinox
A devotional and musical experience

A return to the light and the balance of the two points in time of equal light and dark and the unmasking of the soul and the infusion of that divine energy into the power of the mantra.

Chaya~Sharon Heller on harmonium and vocals, Arvid Smith on sitar, delruba and guitar and Joseph Buglar on tablas.

FEE: $15–$20 suggested donation
LOCATION: Kula Yoga Shala • Toney Penna Drive, Jupiter • 561.216.5852

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Chaya~Sharon Heller is a Sr. Kripalu Teacher and program presenter and former Director of The Chaya for Life Center, now Ayurveda Delray, bringing to South Florida over 25 years of experience as a Holistic Health Educator, Performing Artist and Spiritual Teacher, specializing in Yoga and Ayurvedic principles and Massage. Chaya shares the healing and spiritual power of Yoga,  Ayurveda  and Chanting as the trinity of life through, body, mind and speech, handed down by the sages who trail blazed the way to living well.

Author of Yoga of Action, featured in Kripalu Yoga, and Yoga International magazine, and teaching at prominent venues and teacher trainings throughout the country, including Kripalu Center, Omega Institute, and Integrative Yoga Therapy, Chaya transmits the essence and message of unity, peace, and love through Kirtan.

For thirty years in Jacksonville, Arvid Smith has impacted the musical environment of North Florida in varied musical congregations, from experimental works performed in planetariums to main stage sets at Bluegrass festivals. He is also a founding member of the nationally touring folk/roots group Tammerlin with a few esoteric turns as well. Though a guitarist touching on the areas that made that instrument welcome in all genres of music it was the siren song of the sitar that proved life changing. Combining the possibilities of yoga practice with ambient sitar based on the traditional Hindi raags has become anew dream goal and part of the natural flow of an ever unfolding musical journey.

Tabla player Joseph Buglar has been studying North Indian Classical Music on the Tabla and Santoor as a disciple of Santoor exponent Nandkishor Muley of Baroda, India for over 10 years and also performs as a World Percussionist; playing Djembe, Doumbek and Congas. 

Saturday, April 2 • 5:30–7:30 pm
Kirtan: Yoga of Chant, Songs of the Heart
A devotional and musical experience

Chaya~Sharon Heller on harmonium and vocals, and David Cronin on Percussion.

David Cronin is the owner of Changing Times and teaches and practices meditation. His devotional and melodic rhythms and sense of presence and peace are a gift to kirtan.

People have been raving about Chaya and David's Kirtans. Together they share and deliver  a devotional and musical experience from the soul of Kirtan, opening the heart and kindling the spirit.

FEE: Love Donation
LOCATION: Changing Times • 911 Village Blvd. #806, West Palm Beach
561.640.0496

Sunday, April 10 • 4:00–6:00 pm
Kirtan: Yoga of Chant, Songs of the Heart
A devotional and musical experience

Kirtan is a tradition of call and response of ancient spiritual songs with primordial sounds and devotional chants. It has the power to significantly raise your vibration above the conscious mind and more clearly into your true nature. This can offer us the ability to purify and nourish our senses, which brings balance and health to the body, and mind, allowing us to experience the vibration and intonation that purifies our minds and hearts in order to align them with the soul and discover our true nature.

When practicing kirtan with others and with live music, our hearts open and we tend to feel more energized, clear, and compassionate, drawing more grace and ease into our daily lives.

FEE: $15–$20 suggested donation • Includes light refreshments (Prasad)
LOCATION: Prana Body • 7400 N. Fedeal Highway • East at Hidden Valley Blvd. in the Colony Shoppes • Boca Raton, FL

Saturday, May 7 • 5:30–7:30 pm
Kirtan: Yoga of Chant, Songs of the Heart
A devotional and musical experience

Chaya~Sharon Heller on harmonium and vocals.

Swami Kripalu said that when Mantra Chanting and Devotion are used together, they unlock the power inherent in the Mantra, and at the root of every miracle in the world, Mantra is the one tremendous power house of energy, and the best of all tools of the yoga of devotion. When practicing kirtan with others and with live music, our hearts open and we tend to feel more energized, clear, and compassionate, drawing more grace and ease into our daily lives.
 
Kirtanis a tradition of call and response of ancient spiritual songs with primordial sounds and devotional chants. The science of sound, called Nad , and knowledge of divine Mantra, which means divine energy,  or thought, has the power to significantly raise your vibration above the conscious mind,  purifying ,  and nourishing our senses, gaining the powers to see more clearly into our true nature. This can offer us the ability to attain the 4 pursuits of life; clear purpose, wealth, happiness and liberation, bringing harmony and balance, and health to the body, and mind, allowing us to align with the soul and discover our faith and ultimate freedom.

FEE: Love Donation
LOCATION: Changing Times • 911 Village Blvd. #806, West Palm Beach
561.640.0496

Call for more information... 561.330.2929
Holistic Nutrition

On behalf of the National League of Cities (NLC), and First Lady, Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move Cities and Town’s Initiative”, a nationwide campaign to reverse our nation’s childhood obesity epidemic within a generation, Chaya~Sharon Heller has been invited to participate by providing a Holistic Nutrition Program at Veteran’s Park in Delray Beach.

Chaya has teamed up teamed up with the City’s Park and Recreation Department to join this initiative and offer simple steps to promote physical activity and healthy eating in the form of education and experiencial learning that assists in spreading awareness and supporting people in their efforts to live a healthy lifestyle that includes how to be your natural weight and to understand and care for your body, mind and spirit. The goal of this program is to learn tools and techniques about appropriate nutrition and digestion, exercise, stress reduction and awakening to limitless possibilities for reaching one’s needs and goals in a short period of time.

Recognizing the NLC’s leadership on this issue, the White House has enlisted our help in mobilizing local support for this effort in cooperation with state municipal leagues and the US Department of Human Services.

The goal of this program is to learn through educational tools and techniques how to be your natural weight. Understand and care for your body, mind and spirit.

Sessions include:

• how to cook
• eliminate cravings
• modify life styles
• diet and stress reduction

Unlock your healthy potential and MAKE FUN, FRIENDS AND FOOD!

For dates, fees and other information contact Chaya at 561-330-2929.

LOCATION: Veteran's Park, 802 NE 1st Street • Delray Beach

February 8–12, 2011
Yoga Hub Virtual World Yoga & Meditation Conference
"Yoga, Meditation and the Philosopher's Stone"

Join Chaya~Sharon Heller and a host of other renowned speakers for the 2nd Annual Virtual World Yoga and Meditation Conference. Learn at your own pace, in the comfort of your own home, and for less than what it costs to travel to most live events. Choose from over 75 Workshops Taught by More Than 60 Teachers Spanning 5 Days Without Ever Boarding a Plane or Booking a Hotel Room…

What if there was a way to transmute life’s difficulties, challenges and tragedies into peace, happiness, and well-being?

Mind-body practices like yoga and meditation can be an immensely powerful and positive force in our lives. Our own inner practice can be a magical touchstone – just like the Philosopher’s Stone.

The 2nd annual Virtual World Yoga and Meditation Conference is dedicated to your inner practice – bringing you top-notch teachers from around the world who will share their wisdom, tools and techniques to transmute difficulties into doorways, bliss, and serenity.

Additional information including Chaya's programs will be forthcoming.

Click here to register for the conference
Use Coupon Code CHY219 to receive a valuable program discount!

For more information contact Chaya at 561.330.2929

Wednesday, March 16, 2011 • 10:00 am–Noon
Ayurvedic Medical Screening
For Healing through Healthy Eating Practices and Using Food as Medicine

Dr. Delia Weiss, MD Internal Medicine & Chaya~Sharon Heller, Ayurvedic Consultant an Nutritionist

Learn about and participate in:

• the preventive healing benefits of eating according to your nature and condition
• improving health and longevity
• maintaining your healthy weight
• the elimination of toxins from your body
• alleviating conditions of the body and mind
• easy and practical steps to achieve your desired goals and needs
• a personalized screening
  

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Dr. Delia Weiss, M.D. is an Internal Medicine Physician, Diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners, with 15 years of clinical experience. Dr. Weiss obtained her undergraduate degree at Cornell University, Medical Doctor degree at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, and Internal Medicine residency training at Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation in New Orleans. She practiced acute and preventive medicine, medical nutrition and weight management and served on the State Obesity Prevention Council, New Orleans and experienced in alternative medicine modalities, including yoga, meditation, holistic nutrition, and risk stratification for medical wellness. Founder of Adult General Medical Care & Alternative Medicine in Delray Beach, where she offers acute medical care and also works closely with individuals to help them focus on longevity and health risk reduction, using therapeutic lifestyle instruction, medication and nutrient evaluation, local medical specialists and holistic practitioners. Dr. Weiss is a member of the Palm Beach County Action preventive health task force, and is active in local community cancer risk reduction efforts, deliaweissMD@gmail.com, 561-243-8783.

Chaya~Sharon Heller, BA, AYC, LMT, E-RYT500, is the former Director of The Chaya for Life Center, now Ayurveda Delray, with over 25 years of experience as a Holistic Health Educator, Performing Artist and Spiritual Teacher, specializing in Yoga and Ayurvedic principles, Nutrition and Massage. Chaya shares the healing power of Yoga, Ayurveda  and Cooking as the trinity of life and the way to living well. She is a Sr. Kripalu Educator with advanced certifications in Yoga Therapy, Ayurveda, Holistic Education, and is a Licensed Massage Therapist with a BA in Food and Nutrition from Queen’s College, and former dietician at St. Vincent’s Hospital in NYC. Author of Yoga of Action, featured in Kripalu Yoga, and Yoga International Magazine, and teaching at prominent venues and teacher trainings throughout the country, including Kripalu Center, Omega Institute, and Integrative Yoga Therapy, Chaya transmits the essence and message of unity, peace, and love through her teaching.

FEE: $30 Includes two lectures and personal evaluation
LOCATION: The office of Dr. Delia Weiss • 1 SE 4th Avenue, Delray Beach
REGISTER: chaya@ayurvedadelray.com or 561.330.2929

Wednesday • April 6 • 6:15–8:30 pm
The Yoga of Food
Chaya's Ayurvedic Educational Cooking & Tasting Party

Learn Ayurveda’s Intelligence of Nutrition and Digestion • Improve Health and Longevity • Prepare and Enjoy Simple, Healthy and Delicious Foods

We are over loaded and drowning in nutritional information and advice, and need help understanding how to digest it. Swami Yogananda said that “food should taste good, that enjoyment of what one eats aids the digestion.” He went on to say, “You may imagine that what you are all eating is healthful, but there is no virtue in creating meals that are unpalatable, and many new age dietary dogmas border on ego and fanaticism.” Ayurveda, is a 5,000 year old science and time tested wisdom that shows the interrelationship of all living things and how to eat and live a life of balance and the way to health and healing with enlightenment through appropriate yoga, lifestyle and food.

Register no later than April 2.

FEE: $36 includes light dinner, tea, tips and recipes
REGISTRATION: Email chaya@ayurvedadelray.com or call 561.330.2929
LOCATION: Prana Body • 7400 N. Federal Highway • East at Hidden Valley Blvd. in the Colony Shoppes • Boca Raton

Wednesdays • April 13 & 27 • 6:15–8:15 pm
Nature Based Stress Reduction
Stress and Our Call to Respond with Ayurveda, Pranayama & Yoga Nidra

Learn and practice natural time tested tools for stress reduction. Transform and awaken to life!!

Ayurveda, Pranayama and Yoga Nidra are Nature Based Stress Reduction that work by an integration process that awakens you to your own wholeness, relieving harmful effects of the stress cycle that lead to common aches and pains, and disease and suffering, and support healing from the practice of stillness and deep relaxation, and the resulting accessibility of energy, clarity, and confidence this integration brings.

Taught in an experiencial and satsang style of lecture and sharing, and integrated with Pranayama and Yoga Nidra; breathing, guided imagery and mediation. Learn and experience Yogic Breathing and Yoga Nidra, also known as “yogic sleep”, takes us into the alpha state, where deep healing and transformation happens, offering authentic relaxation and awareness of your deepest connections to yourself or soul.

Becoming aware of how we interact with ourselves, others and our environment can help break the stress cycle. These programs will transform stress at the level of its origins.

All are welcome. CEUs are available for Yoga Instructors.

FEE: $25 per session or $40 for both sessions • Inquire about partial scholarships for people with Multiple Sclerosis
REGISTRATION: Email chaya@ayurvedadelray.com or call 561.330.2929
LOCATION: Prana Body • 7400 N. Federal Highway • East at Hidden Valley Blvd. in the Colony Shoppes • Boca Raton

Thursday, May 26, 2011 • 7:30–9:30 pm
Natural Healing with Ayurveda
Learn about the oldest, most natural, holistic and comprehensive medical system still in use today!

Ayurveda means the Science of Life and Wisdom of Daily Living and has been practiced for over 5,000 years. The “Sister Science” to Yoga and the most recognized and widely practiced discipline of alternative medicine in the West, it imparts wisdom on how to live in balance with one's self, others, and the environment and a profound philosophy that conjoins “Mind, Body, Spirit” as a framework for Holistic Health and Wellness.

Learn

• The ABC’s of Ayurveda as an art and science of life
• Tools for healing· Your Dosha or Constitutional Type
• Preventive healing benefits of eating according to your nature and condition
• Ways of improving health and longevity
• Detox, maintaining your healthy weight
  
• Alleviating conditions of the body and mind
• Easy and practical steps to achieve your desired goals and needs
• Simple practices based on ancient and sound principles that have lasted the test of time

This workshop is an invaluable tool for understanding life’s journey and what it means to live holistically, maintaining a life of balance, grace and ease.

FEE: $20 in advance / $25 at the door
LOCATION: Changing Times • 911 Village Blvd. #808 • West Palm Beach

July 4–8, 2011
Tap Dancing for Your Soul
Kripalu Center, Stockbridge, Massachusetts www.kripalu.org • 800.741.7353

For beginners and advanced beginners; no yoga or tap experience necessary.
 
You are invited to the ultimate and unique yoga and tap dance experience. Come explore, enjoy, and entertain the body, mind, and soul connection as you use the synchronicity of music, rhythm and dance as a doorway to the sacred flow of your life.

In this retreat you will develop:
• basic tap dance skills with technique and theory
• coordination, motor memory, and fine and gross motor skills
• alignment, placement and weight shifts
• movement vocabulary using correct tap terminology
• rhythmic awareness, clarity and sensitivity to tempos
• basic improvisational skills which enhance creative thinking and risk taking
• strength and stamina and kinesthetic perception
• a kinesthetic perception
• enhanced concentration and focus
• an awareness of style

In addition, you will learn tap dances such as the shim sham shimmy and/or other combinations/dances choreographed by Chaya. Come dance your heart with a variety of styles and music from Broadway to funky, jazz, swing and blues.
 
Note: Tap shoes are strongly recommended.

FEE: TBD

Chaya~Sharon Heller is a Sr. Kripalu Teacher and former Director of The Chaya for Life Center, now Ayurveda Delray, with over 25 years of experience as a Holistic Health Educator, Performing Artist and Spiritual Teacher, specializing in Yoga and Ayurvedic principles and Dance. Chaya shares the healing power of Yoga, Ayurveda and Tap Dance as the trinity of life through, body, mind and speech, handed down by the sages who trail blazed the way to living well. Chaya’s professional dance career includes recognition in the Gregory Hines Tap Dance Hall of Fame, teaching at New York University’s musical theater department, creator of the video Funky Rhythm Tap, and featured in popular shows and ensembles throughout the world.

Author of Yoga of Action, featured in Kripalu Yoga, and Yoga International Magazine, and teaching at prominent venues and teacher trainings throughout the country, including Kripalu Center, Omega Institute, and Integrative Yoga Therapy, Chaya transmits the essence and message of unity, peace, and love through her teaching.