Workshops and Events
To register for workshops, please call or write Kat:
206-650-7449, or kat@fouraims.com
If you are in financial need, please request a sliding scale, rather than not attend.
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Winter 2010
New Class! Yoga and Mindfulness
with Kat Allen
Fridays, January 15- March 26
8:30-10:00 am
Experience
more silence and inner stillness within the format of a yoga-asana
class. Though we'll go at a slower, gentler pace, don't assume this
class will be "easy." Mindful movement practice can be a strong mental
challenge: the perfect antidote to aging bodies and minds! Weaving
short mindfulness meditations within sections of guided yoga
instruction, we'll focus on being present to nuances of the breath,
sensations of the body, witnessing our thoughts and feelings. For
those who have wanted to start meditating, or those who have always
found strict sitting practices daunting, this may prove to be the best
path into stillness!
Restorative Yoga Class with Milo Minnis, M.Ed.
Friday, March 5 6:00-7:15 pm
Begin
your weekend by stretching and opening your body! Spend 55 minutes
with active, gentle asana, and culminate the class with restorative
poses. While relieving the stress of the week you will learn ways to
heal your body through stillness, in supportive postures. All levels
of experience are welcome. Cost: By donation.
About Milo
Minnis: I have been a teacher for over 30 years, practicing yoga for 25
years, and completed the Yoga Alliance Teacher 200-hour certification
in 2002. My goal is to help yoga students gain more mental and
physical energy to cope with their busy lives. I have trained
extensively with Judith Lasater and am certified as an Advanced
Restorative Instructor through her teacher-training program. I have
also trained with other leading Iyengar teachers, such as Rodney Yee,
Felicity Green and Gail Malizia, and received my Expert-rating Global
Yoga Certification in 2009.
Yo-lates for Everyone is now "The Perfect Blend"
Combining simple dance-inspired moves with Pilates exercises and yoga stretches, you'll have a great workout and have fun doing it! Larger movements (like "plies") get the whole body moving, the precision and alignment of Pilates gets you focused and deeply works your core, and your yoga practice gets strengthened by infusing your asanas with the energy and integrated awareness. New sequences each session. All levels welcome, especially beginners.
Dates: Saturday, March 13, April 10, May 8
Time: 8:30-10:15 am
Cost: $20
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| Spring Equinox Practice
with Kat Allen
Bringing in the the Light Saturday, March 20 9-11:30 am
Bring your body, mind and spirit to an experience of luminosity: the aim of yoga and other healing practices! This fun, energizing all-levels yoga class will focus on slowly developing heat in the body and awakening a "lightening" of the psycho-spiritual self. Asana, breath, mudra and vedic chanting will be followed by a guided visualization on the Inner Light. Yoga Nidra (the deepest relaxation) will balance and complete the sequence. Cost $25
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Special Workshop:
Daring to Dream: Wishing-in the New Year
A 3-part inspirational series with Kat Allen and Bonnie Tracey
A New Year, rife with possibilities Another chance to make a shift, the opportunity to creat something new, or experience a life change...
Bring anything up for you? Each year at this time we all have the option (and are constantly reminded!) to examine our lives, our wants, our dreams, and make new choices, or find the resolve to shift things that need shifting. Yet many of us face this time with discomfort, cynicism, even dread: "What if I don't believe in resolutions? What if I don't really need anything to change, just would like it to? What if I don't deserve for anything to be different?
Clarifying our attitudes and moving toward our wishes with care, even those who have "never dared to dream" will find this series in Intentional Wishing inspiring. Prompted by Noelle Oxenhandler's book, The Wishing Year, depicting her own journey into wishing, we will create a nourishing environment in which to explore our wants as well as our resistances to wishing, and open to the field of both conscious and sub-conscious desires through dreams, journaling, symbols and stories. We will also look at which steps are needed to achieve those dreams.
In utilizing The Wishing Year as one source for topics of inquiry (required reading for the series), the following passage about the Hawaiian healing tradition is helpful in framing our approach:
"Since ancient times, the spiriitul masters known as healing kahunas have taught that there is indeed great power in the act of wishing. It's a power that must be used with utmost care to ensure that one's wish is in harmony with the aina (land), the ohana (family) and the ke Akua (the transcendent, divine power)."
With the power of group dynamics to help us explore the energy and impact of wishing, we'll use movement, expressive writing, creative projects, ritual, homework assignments and the sharing of self and story to unlock the gates of wishing! How else will we make our dreams come true? Please join us!
Dates for this 3-part series: Saturday, February 6, February 20, and March 6
Time: 1-5 pm
Cost: $125
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"At first a yogi feels his mind is turbulent, tumbling like a waterfall;
In mid-course, like the Ganges, it flows on slow and gentle;
In the end, it is a great vast ocean,
Where the lights of Child and Mother merge in one."
- Tilopa
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Gift Cards for any occasion Consider giving the gift of health and healing! Possible gift ideas:
a yoga series: 5 class cards from $80-85
a body-psychotherapy session: 1.25 hours with Kat for $100.
various workshops: from $35-85
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Returning to the Four Aims this summer:
Special Workshops with Vedic Priest and Master Healer
Amaranandu Bhairavan - "Nandu"
to be announced July 2010
Experience the
extraordinary healing power of Amarananda Bhairavan, internationally renowned
vedic priest, master healer, teacher of ancient tantra, and author of visionary books, Kali's Odiyya--A
shamans true story of Initiation, and Medicine of Light--A Shamans
Journey through Mystic Space-time. Immerse yourself in teachings excerpted
from Deep Soul Healing Seminars. These seminars pack powerful, ancient
techniques from the goddess centered matrifocal cultures of pre-vedic India,
for wellness and abundance. For more information about Nandu and his seminars,
visit http://www.mystictantra.com.
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Descriptions of Nandu's Past Events:
Puja to Lakshmi
for Abundance and Prosperity
A puja is a worship of the divine as well as a method of
connecting with the divine. It is an invocation of blessing and grace. During
the long history of humankind, we have discovered many facets of the divine and
that these facets can be accessed through appropriate chants, mystic gestures
and energized offerings. Lakshmi is the aspect of the divine feminine that is
worshiped as the goddess of wealth, prosperity, good fortune, love, fertility
and divine radiance.
Please bring flowers and, if you have your own,
icons/pictures/statues of Lakshmi and /or Ganesha for blessings.
Healing With Mantras
This workshop focuses on teaching simple yet potent mantras
and chants to enhance health and wellness, both physical and emotional. Through
the proper use of these mantras and chants that can resonate their vibrations on
specific energy centers and channels, you will also be able to unleash caches of
hidden energy.
During this 4 hour workshop, we will:
- Discuss the subtle energy system
of the light body within
- Learn fundamentals of the
chakras
- Understand the marmas or power
centers associated with these charkas
- Learn the elements and their
specific mantras
- Practice pronouncing and chanting
specific mantras to affect the elements
- Practice mudras and chants to
energize these power centers
There will also be ample time for questions and
answers
Chants for Abundance
This workshop teaches a specific ritual to invoke abundance
in your life. By learning to invoke the goddess Lakshmi, we are learning to
invoke the energy of wealth, prosperity, good fortune, love, fertility and
divine radiance in our lives.
During this 4 hour workshop we will:
- Learn simple and easy to chants/mantras to awaken the Center
of Abundance within us
- Learn specific mudras to activate channels that can empower
us
- Perform a group ritual for abundance
- Learn the historic and cosmological origins of goddess
Lakshmi
- Take home a short powerful practice to transform and unleash
abundance
There will also be ample time for questions and
answers.
NOTE: Each four hour workshop is $108. If you register for both, the
total cost is $180, a discount of $36.
Individual Rice Readings
Divination of Energy Body & Ritual Rectification
50 minute personal sessions
scheduled between 9:00 am -
1:00 pm
$108
Bhairavan uses a method of divination called Oti Nottam
(developed by the odiyyas) to see the astral body, karmic sheath and its
marma-chakra systems, the mystic shield and layers of mental realms. During this
process he invokes and then becomes a vessel for his tutelary spirits that guide
the session. Blemishes, prana flow impairments and other harmful abnormalities
are detected and rituals are done as needed to remedy and eliminate any that are
found.
Registration: As space is limited you will want to pre-pay for
your
workshops and individual rice readings at your earliest convenience by
going to:
and clicking on the banner across the top "Seattle Workshops and Rice
Reading."
This will take you to Pay Pal. Please indicate on your Pay Pal payment
page what program you are registering for.
Who is Amaranada Bhairavan?
Amarananda Bhairavan, affectionately known as Nandu, is an
internationally renowned Vedic Priest and Master Healer. During his joyous
childhood amongst an extended family on the west coast of India, Amarananda
trained in Oti vidya, a tantra unique to Odiyyathis or tribal
medicine women of Kerala. Initiated at the age of nine by his aunt, Amarananda
Bhairavan remains a direct descendant of this six thousand year old tradition of
goddess worship. His mystical education and initiations in the ancient Oti
vidya tantric practices are the subject of his two visionary books: Kalis
Odiyya: A Shamans True Story of Initiation and Medicine of Light: A
Shamans Journey through Mystic Space-Time.
A
Vedic scholar, mystic, artist and author, Amarananda Bhairavan holds a Masters
Degree in Sanskrit from the University of Bangalore, Bangalore, India. His
sacred yantra paintings hang in homes and temples throughout the United States
and India. Amarananda regularly travels the world giving lectures and workshops,
performing pujas and fire ceremonies, and conducting private consultations and
healing rituals.
Embodying a rare combination of wisdom, compassion, humility and
transformative power, Amarananda uses ancient Oti vidya rituals to purify
consciousness and remedy distress. Amarananda also teaches classes on the
painting of sacred yantras as a spiritual ritual for empowerment and
devotion.
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