Yoga
Description: Join us Wednesday mornings for yoga at the Garden. Take in the serenity of McKee as you prepare to stretch, strengthen and tone with instructor Alicia Bello in the Richardson Education Building. Yoga is for all ages and body types and can be especially helpful in restoring flexibility and balance to seniors. Learn to ease into postures using breathing techniques, direct the body into proper alignment and increase focus and mental clarity. Bring a pillow, towel or blanket, and bottled water. A yoga mat will be provided. Space is limited; pre-registration required.
Date/Time: Wednesdays, Feb. 1 - Feb. 29, 2012
9 - 10 am
Cost: $55 members, $62 non-members
Series of 5 classes
Instructor: Alicia Bello
About the Instructor: Alicia Bello is ayoga instructor, Reiki master and teacher, meditation guide, and spiritual counselor. She was introduced to yoga by her grandmother before she even entered grade school. By age eight, Alicia and her mother began attending regular yoga classes taught by a California native yoga instructor. At age sixteen, she was initiated into Transcendental Meditation by a local acupuncturist and TM teacher. Alicia has traveled around the country and has had the pleasure of experiencing yoga as a student from teachers of various traditions. She has attended numerous workshops and gatherings with a focus on natural and holistic healing including Reiki, meditation, vibrational healing, chakra analysis and therapy, mantra and much more. She has taught at the Hostel in the Forest, for professors and students of Savannah College of Art and Design, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, and privately for people of many different ages, life experiences and backgrounds. A passionate artiste, office zen developer, sea nymph, writer, and mother, the main goal in her practice is to “inspire deliberate creation and coalescence in body, mind and spirit.”
Woodcarving for Beginners
Description: Man’s dependence on wood goes back centuries. It is the most commonly used substance next to the earth itself.Learn how this versatile medium can be transformed from a simple block to a beautiful three-dimensional work of art utilizing a series of basic wood carving techniques. The workshop will begin with instruction and a demonstration followed by a hands-on project. Participants will learn to make a “comfort bird” that they will take home with them. Space is limited; pre-registration required.
Date/Time: February 18, 2012
9 am - noon
Cost: $35 members, $45 non-members (includes materials)
Instructor: Joe Miller
About the Instructor: Joe Miller is a master wood carver and founder of the Indian River Woodcarver’s Club. He works out of his studio, The ArtBank, located in Fort Pierce, FL where he creates and sells custom made walking sticks, hand carved fish, holiday ornaments and other items. He also makes “quilts” from wooden blocks carved by fellow members of the Wood-carver’s Club that are assembled into framed pieces of art and donated to local charities. Joe enjoys sharing his talent and passion for woodcarving with others, and follows a simple philosophy: “Give me a piece of wood and my carving tools and I’m a happy man, wherever I go.”
Joe’s woodcarving was recently featured in The Press Journal. To read the full article, Click here.
To register for either Yoga or Woodcarving for Beginners, please call 772-794-0601.
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