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A New Blog for the Shop

Posted on Jan 12th, 2007 by Michele : Courage & Love Michele
Anyage
I set up a new Wordpress Blog for Coastal. I've gone through so many blog softwares and I'm really happy with Wordpress. Decided to grab the free one and host it with them ... this is new for me, I'm a control freak with my apps and code and layout .. Web 2.0 is starting to suck me in. I think I'm just getting tired of doing all the work. Code is really a drag most of the time.


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Yoga for Surfing ... or all watersports

Posted on Jan 24th, 2007 by Michele : Courage & Love Michele
Yoga
Beautiful! Chris is an awesome teacher, great surfer ... very passionate about surfing and the sea. Check out our new class: Yoga for Surfing Class

Improve your surfing, wakeboarding etc or just get the benefit of Yoga made for watersports of all kinds. Our friend and the instructor, Chris Christoff, has been studying Hatha and Jnana yoga for over 5 years. Chris has a B.S. in Kinesiology from Michigan State University and is a NSCA certified personal trainer. When not instructing Yoga or peforming yogic massage Chris’s passions are to ride the waves or skate the streets.

The classes will be held at Coastal Surf & Ski, we’ll be clearing the floor, plenty of room but class sizes will be limited. Any Monday and Saturday from 6:30 pm to approx. 8:00 pm. Pay by the class if you like $15 per person. for 75-90 minutes.

Yoga for Surfers, or all involved in any watersport, is a 75 minute multi-level hatha yoga (purifying body/mind thru asanas or “poses”) class specialized towards surfers needs. The class will include 4 phases systematically designed to give participants a completely balanced workout .

Phase 1: 20 minute heating routine. Challenging standing strength/balance poses desgined to warm-up the entire body and increase participants proprioception (awareness of spacial enviornment.)

Phase 2: 20 minute mat routine. A ground series designed to strengthen and condition the entire “core” including abs, waist , lowback, and a challenging arm balance sequence.

Phase 3: 20 minute gentle hatha routine. Traditional and non-traditional lying/seated poses done without any resistance of bodyweight allowing for optimal breathing and relaxation to occur.

Phase 4: 15 mintue shavasana (corpse pose): Included in this relaxation phase is a Jnana (wisdom) component which includes concious music and/or discourse allowing participants to enter higher states of awareness.

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