Time: Wednesday, July 2, 6:30-8:30 pm

Instructor: Guest Teacher, Hala Khouri, M.A.

Levels: All levels of experience welcome!

Learn more about Hala and her work as featured in Yogitimes!

Description:


Join Hala for a ritual class to call in Deep Healing.  We will use ritual to create context and a sacred container for transformation; purifying asana to melt away layers of defense and stuckness; and community as a mirror for our deepest truth. 

Emotions are “energy In motion.”  Unexpressed or unprocessed emotions, however, become blocks in our energetic and physical structure.  These blocks can manifest as  physical symptoms such as tight muscles and joints, lack of energy, over-activity, and even illnesses such at fibromyalgia, chronc fatigue, anxiety disorders, digestive disorders, headaches, and depression.

 
In this workshop we will explore how to work with unexpressed emotion in our yoga practice. We will learn specific techniques the process incomplete emotions attached to our past and how to find more emotional balance in our day to day life so that emotions move through us rather than getting us caught in old patterns that keep us stuck.

 Healing is embracing what is most feared;
Healing is opening up what has been closed,
Softening what has hardened into obstruction;
Healing is learning how to trust life.

This workshop will invite you to take your practice to the next level.  Come prepared to sweat, dance, laugh, cry, share, release and celebrate.


 $35 early registration (before 6/30)/$40 (after 6/30)
Enroll Online by Clicking here!

About Hala Khouri:

Hala Khouri, M.A., has been teaching the movement arts for sixteen years. Her roots are in Ashtanga, Iyengar and Anusara yoga, dance, Capoeira, CORE energetics, and the juicy mystery of Life itself. Creative movement and honest self-exploration has always been a source of tremendous healing for Hala, and her calling to pass this on to others has been clear to her since she began teaching at the age of 16.

Hala earned her B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Religion from Columbia University and has a Master's degree Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She wrote her thesis on using yoga and other complementary disciplines such as eco-psychology and somatics for self-empowerment to inspire a global shift towards peaceful and sustainable living. She is currently working toward a Doctorate in Somatic Psychology at Santa Barbara Graduate institute.

She is also a graduate of the IM School of Healing Arts in New York City where she studied with Levent Bulokbasi the subtle art of energetic healing. She trained to teach yoga at YogaWorks in Santa Monica, CA.

Hala has taught yoga and the movement arts to a wide variety of people ranging from schizophrenics and at-risk youth to mommies and rock stars. Teaching is her absolute favorite thing to do! She currently lives in Santa Monica, California. You can check her out at  www.halakhouri.com