Radiance Workshops

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Radiance Yoga Book Club Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson Monday, September 14, 2009  7:30-9:00pm FREE COMMUNITY EVENT

In 1993 a mountaineer named Greg Mortenson drifted into an impoverished Pakistan village in the Karakoram mountains after a failed attempt to climb K2. Moved by the inhabitants' kindness, he promised to return and build a school. Three Cups of Tea is the story of that promise and its extraordinary outcome. Over the next decade Mortenson built not just one but fifty-five schools - especially for girls - in the forbidding terrain that gave birth to the Taliban. His story is at once a riveting adventure and a testament to the power of the humanitarian spirit.

Learn to Completely Surrender Yin Workshop with Jodi Saturday, August 22, 2009  2:30-4:30pm $30

The inner body is hidden & full of complexities. Begin to unlock the energy flow (meridians) or network of interconnecting tissues & organs in the body. Like rivers, meridians flow through all tissues & bones, lubricating the joints and connecting the interior body with the exterior body. When the energy of the body is weak, stagnant or out of harmony precursors to illness can manifest. A yin practice nourishes the joints over time by gently encouraging strength and elasticity of the ligaments. Yin poses are held for several minutes allowing for the steady body to begin to truly surrender. This workshop is appropriate for all levels - not recommended for prenatal students.

Mindful Eating: Cupcake Workshop with Jennifer Saturday, September 12, 2009  2:30-3:30pm $15 early registration by September 10 $25 late registration

Want to learn how to have your cake and eat it, too?

Join Holistic Health Counselor Jennifer Howe (www.HoweToEat.com) for a workshop on Mindful Eating – the art of savoring and truly appreciating your food.  Learning to eat mindfully will avail you more self awareness, fewer binges, more joy and less stress.

Jennifer will teach you how to get in touch with your intuition around food:   recognizing your natural hunger and satiety cues; knowing what your cravings really mean; choosing foods that are both pleasing and nourishing; reclaiming a healthy relationship with all food, all the time.  Doesn’t that sound liberating?

Cupcakes will be provided.

Jennifer Howe is a Certified Holistic Health Counselor and former chef based in Alexandria, VA.  She teaches mindful eating, balanced living and guilt-free self care.  For more information check out her website at: www.HoweToEat.com

Join us for a 13-week workshop on discovering and recovering your creative self.  We will be using Julia Cameron’s, the Artist’s Way, as our weekly guide to realizing our creative potential and reconnecting with our artistic dreams.  This workshop is ideal for artists, aspiring artists, and anyone who wants to experience more creativity and joy in their life.

The Workshop will consist of group discussions and self-awareness exercises from the book.  Together we will create a community to inspire and support one another and experience awareness, commitment, and possibility.

Open to All.  Required materials are a copy of the Artist’s Way and a writing journal.

Masuda has lead the Artist Way Workshop for the past three years.  She's found the Artist Way workshop to be a powerful tool in helping create change and transformation in the lives of many of her students.  Masuda holds a MFA in Creative Writing from George Mason University and she has been published in the Washington Post Magazine.  She also has ten years of experience working with organizations on team building and leadership skills.

Masuda is a warm and inviting teacher who challenges and inspires students to laugh, to be aware and compassionate, and live from the heart. 

"The group experience was powerful.  The accountability built into being part of a group committed to the same outcomes really helped me to stay engaged and on track.  It was a great workshop!"                          Stacy

Hip Flow and Mala Necklace Workshop with Jodi Unlock your hips & Unleash your creativity: Saturday, September 26, 2009 2:30pm-7:00pm (ending time flexible)   $50*

The hips are known as our creative expression house and when blocked can limit our ability to connect, to feel and to embrace change.  Join me for a juicy 90 min vinyasa flow in which we will target the liberation of your hips.  Free your guilt and discover a flow of dynamic energy that is essential for growth, change and transformation.  

We will then take a short stroll down the street to express our newly awakened creativity at The Potomac Bead Company where we will learn how to make mala necklaces.  You will have the opportunity to personalize your necklace by selecting beads and gemstones based upon their healing aspects.  A mala is a string of beads used as an aid for mantra repetition. Depending on the nature of the beads, a mala can also protect the one who wears

it and can help to create peace and tranquility within.  This workshop is appropriate for all levels.

*Since the beads will be individually selected they are not included in the workshop fee and will be purchased at the store for an additional $25 and up.  The $25 allows students to choose anywhere from 25-108 beads.  Jodi will have a list of the types of beads and gemstone and explain the different healing properties of each stone. 

Expand Your Capacity to Lead     with Tom Wootten from Legacy Team Development   October 14-15, 2009   9:00-5:00pm   $1450

Leadership is about awareness and action. Leadership is not about a special kind of person, but rather a special kind of action. In this program, Tom will help participants identify, isolate and examine concrete examples of leadership in action. Participants will practice the key steps to taking effective leadership action: 

1) assess the situation, 2) identify what needs to happen, 3) gather the courage and take action, 4) assess the impact of that action. 

This intensive 2-day program combines methods and learning from the behavioral sciences, organizational development and experiential training. Participants are given opportunities to use their leadership skills in simulations and projects, and to receive structured feedback from peers and the facilitator.  The interactive seminar format brings together small groups (6-12 people) to help leaders achieve a broad and deep perspective on how to capitalize on their strengths while better managing their personal challenges.

In the weeks leading up to the program, participants will be asked to complete a short phone interview and an online Myers Briggs Step I & Step II assessment. 
 
 Objectives:

1. Develop greater awareness
2. Identify and promote leadership in action
3. Practice and improve upon leadership behaviors identified through feedback
4. Cultivate collaborative problem solving skills with peers
5. Identify and practice behaviors of long-term effective leaders
6. Create an individual development plan

Tom Wootten

Before establishing Legacy Team Development (www.legacyteamdevelopment.com) in 1991, Tom Wootten worked as a management consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Chicago, and with Deloitte & Touche in New York.  Since then, Tom has helped Legacy become a leading international training and development organization.  Tom specializes in facilitating leadership development programs incorporating 360-degree feedback, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, experience-based projects, and one-to-one coaching.   Tom is a qualified practictioner with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and an accredited Emotional Intelligence consultant. 

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