Food is Medicine...Eating is Ritual Workshops Starts July 2, 2016

Food is Medicine...Eating is Ritual 

Workshops

Many have asked when we will be doing these workshops again either for the first time or as a review for those who have attended in the past.  Here it is!  These workshops are pivotal to understanding what underlies the exponential health problems in this country.  We go right to the heart of the problem: the alarming toxicity and poisons that have infiltrated our food supply since industrialization and the affects it has on our gut and body systems.  

Through these workshops you will learn how to combat this growing problem through food is medicine health theory & ayurveda (science of healing and eating according to the wisdom of nature herself).  There are 6 key workshops:

 1) Purifying the Diet 

 2) Cleansing and Strengthening the Liver 

 3) Healing the Gut  

4) Balancing Hormones
5) Restoring and Building Our Immunity 

  6) Maximizing Nutrition w/ Superfoods

 These workshops are sequenced  to constitute a full system cleanse and rejuvenation to help heal health conditions and build a foundation for optimal well-ness!  The dates are spread out so that after each step, you have a minimum of 2 weeks to implement the changes and begin truly transforming the quality of your health from the inside out!

The dates are:

July 2

July 16

July 30

Sept 3

Sept 17
Oct 1

It will be a small group taking a life-changing nutritional journey that is also the basis of some short videos that we will be producing for yoga camp preparations. The cost is $240 ($40 per class) and includes the food we will share.  

50% deposit required to register

30% non-refundable
full payment required by July 2, 2016

Payments accepted:  

Pay Pal, Square (Credit Card), Check, Cash

Please let me know if you would like a spot reserved for you.

Trish Pascual 'PREMA'

E-500RYT, M.A

808-269-2638

trishteaches@gmail.com

Group Meditation: The Great Leap from the Ego Centered Self to the Heart Centered Soul (the living tree of our nerve plexus centers)

Group Meditation & Workshop: 

the great leap from the ego centered self

to the heart centered soul

Friday 

April 29th, 2016

6-8pm

$10

tea & lentil soup

Will you be joining us as we review the inner and outer work of activating, balancing, and aligning our nerve plexus centers (chakras)?  The real path of yoga was bestowed upon us so that we could attain our full development and potentiality as spiritual beings experiencing physical form.  The work or path which involves tending to the quality of thoughts in our mind through the practice of ethics (1-yamas & 2-niyamas), taking care of the body and posturing it for proper life force circulation and movement (3-asanas),  breath work to control how energy flows (4-pranayama), cultivating perception beyond the five senses (5-pratyahara), focusing and concentrating the mind (6-dharana), bathing the brain in meditative flows from beta to alpha to theta and beyond (7-dhyana), and dissolving attachment to individual identity to establish in the eternal self 
(8-samadhi)...are the essential eight limbs of the tree.  The deepened practice of all eight limbs provides the likelihood of genuine & profound experiences, unique to each person, of higher and higher states of present awareness and eternal truths.  They likewise directly tune up the living tree within, that of the seven nerve plexus centers along the spine. Our regular practice of the full path allows for the fruit of the tree, the fruit of our life to blossom.  Some of the sweetest fruits develop from the harmony and alignment of this living tree within like unconditional presence and love, good-will, and deep compassion to name a few...

In this Fridays meditation workshop, we will talk further about the struggle most find themselves, going from instability to stability to instability of basic needs at the root plexus or chakra, the imbalance between the masculine & feminine expression in the sacral plexus, and the overfeeding of the ego at the solar plexus.  Such has been the prevalent struggle of humankind...the oscillating and often reckless or haphazard approach to living often throwing these centers so off course that thriving self-development is halted.  This oscillating and haphazard approach is often the cause for the 'stuckness' or disempowerment most feel when they can't seem to get a hold of their lives or live deeply fulfilling lives.  Such is the state of affairs for many including the world at large with its inequalities between rich a poor, dominating patriarchal systems, and image driven marketing for example.  

So it is a great leap we face to move from the ego self to the heart soul not just for the individual but for our communities and world.  Each plexus is the foundation for the next essentially and like a tree that needs solid ground to safely extend its roots, we need those roots for our healthy expression into the duality of life.  From that expression we are able to find our identity, the trunk of our tree at our navel.  These three stages are critical to whether we open at the heart and branch upward.  Because of the constant struggle at these first three, the leap to real opening of the heart is a great one.    

This Friday, we will spend the majority of our time however, on the heart plexus which is the strongest electromagnetic resonance of all the centers. How important it is therefore, to cultivate pure intention here.  Also on the throat center and how vital it is to utilize words and our voice to carefully craft our reality.  The third eye center as well and the importance on diet  & visualization via meditation to keep our blissful hormones flowing. Last, the crown center...the seat of the Atman...our highest self, and what it takes to operate from here more often.  To the atman, the place where we have an expanded and overarching perception beyond the physical form and can develop therefore, an empowered and aligned way of being not so vulnerable to the extreme highs and lows of the other centers. 

Our guided meditation will help to refine our yoga practice because of our focus on the real inner and outer work with these nerve plexus centers of the spine.  These centers are responsible for our individual tendencies and unique psychological profile.  What an art it is to understand, balance, & align them so as to arrive at a more refined self.  To living and tuning up the living tree of yoga within.  

...Om Mani Padme Hum...
I like to call it, the polishing of the diamond gem within.  Without the inner and outer work, it simply doesn't shine in radiance or come into its highest potential.  

To the governance of the heart and the plexus centers functioning in vertical, beautiful harmony...

register for your spot & for directions to
Hataraj Yoga Center

trish 'prema'

E-500RYT, M.A

808-269-2638

trishteaches@gmail.com

Group Meditation & Workshop activate, balance, & align our unique psychology

Group Meditation & Workshop

activate, balance, & align our unique psychology

The axiom 'as above so below' is a cosmic law that governs the very nature of things including our inner workings of our mind and how it interplays with the spectrum of our emotions.  Like our universe of spinning galaxies with vortexes of energy, so too do we have the universe of spinning energies within our very body.  It is our energetic anatomy, our energy biology from which our unique psychological tendencies came through.  These imprints and expressions of our soul and our responsibility to activate & align and balance & ground them is the path of the stars.

There are seven primary nerve plexus or psychology centers.  The first is where the nerves come to a vortex at the base of our spinal chord, the tree of life.  Here, we experience some of the most primal emotions responsible for our survival in this physical form.  Above our pubic bone another vortex of nerves that allow us to experience emotions or energy in motion that are in contrast, our masculinity and femininity.  Moving up to the navel plexus of nerves the energy concentrates on emotions of individual expression in the world and identity of who and what we are.  Forth, to the most powerful, electromagnetic frequencies of the heart. What a dire leap it is to psychologically transform the thought waves and hardwiring of our minds to move from an ego centered self to a heart centered soul!  For the heart, the point at which our vertical and horizontal planes meet, the point where the heavens touch down and kiss the earth, is the sacred cross of our evolution.  With emotions of love, compassion, and divine community expressed here, OR of hate, intolerance, and the hell of separation or disconnectedness, the activation, balancing, & aligning of our unique psychology from the roots of our tree UP, becomes all too pertinent.  For what quality of sweetness is our fruit, what quality of spirit have we to show for ourselves.  

In this group meditation & workshop, we will focus on the first three plexus centers of energy, of e-motion and navigate through their activation, balancing, & aligning of their expressions through breathwork, posturing, & meditation.  

You are invited to join us and share in what makes our human experience so profound...the inner work of refining how we each individually function and feel and how the ancient path of yoga enables us to feel empowered by the spectrum of emotions.  The energy that runs through our systems are a celebration of this human form for us to evolve and refine the diamond gem within...and like a diamond it takes pressure, cutting, refining, & polishing to shine!

Tea & Minestrone Soup Served 

Will you be joining us?

 reserve your spot
$10
6-8pm
April 15th, 2016

 Trish 'Prema Devii'  

E-500RYT, M.A

808-269-2638

trishteaches@gmail.com

For Love of Earth: Kirtan & Meditation Experience

For Love of Earth: 

Kirtan & Meditation Experience

April 23rd, 2016 

1:30pm-4:30pm

$25

Through the path of Bhakti Yoga, we open our voices & hearts singing & chanting together... Allowing the tuning into & tuning up of our cells, our DNA, to the primordial energy of the earth... Goddus Gaia... 'papa' in Hawaii ! With meditation, shavasana, & sound healing, we ground the ancient frequency! Experienced as resonance, it will be a powerful shift and day for us all.... Celebrating w/ a hula dance in honor of papa and creating a community prayer, special leis & cacao, superfood decadence will be gifted...To live in better alignment w/ our divine self, each other, & the planet... Gaia... Goddus papa... Join us to ignite a call to action from this day on...for earth day... To the land before time...activated by sound, we travel and remember Le Mu, the greatness of our living potential, & what we are HERE to bring forth !!!

Contact for Tickets:

 Trish Pascual (Prema) 

 808-269-2638

trishteaches@gmail.com

Living Yoga & Food is Medicine Retreat

Living Yoga & Food is Medicine Retreat

April 15th, 16th, 17th

WILDWOOD Retreat Center

Guernville, CA
http://www.wildwoodretreat.com/

Spring is the time to activate your potential!  In health, fitness, and conscious development, we retreat to rejuvenate our life force.  Our two night & 3 day retreat gives a worthwhile opportunity to delve right in!  You are invited to join us on this journey to the gorgeous surroundings of N.California in Guernville.  Here, the rolling hills to the Sonoma Coastline feed us with much needed prana...fresh ocean and forest energy.  At Wildwood Retreat Center, our group will have exclusive use of the grounds which include pools & hot tub, campfire circle, yoga yurt studio, workshop and meditation hall and more...   

Sunrise & Sunset group meditations, deep breathing techniques, & yoga posturing will allow us to release the old, establish our sacred space within, and center in the clear perception and expansive knowing of our highest self.  In essence we are on retreat to REBIRTH OURSELVES!!!! 

Change your relationship to food and eating...
FOOD IS MEDICINE...EATING IS RITUAL
With all vegetarian meals provided for, we will talk about the importance of more plant and whole foods based diets in Food is Medicine...Eating is Ritual.  This is an intensive overview workshop of Trish's 6 steps: 1) Purifying our bodies of toxic overload  2) Clearing & Strengthening the Liver 3) Healing the Digestive System 4) Balancing Hormones  

5) Building Immunity  and 6) Deep Nourishment & Mineralization through Superfoods...Furthermore, Trish is passionate about certain key topics and establishes them as foundations for true well-ness: 
Vitality of Health!  Inner Radiance! Joyful longevity!  
These three themes are how she weaves everything together!

Private Yoga Therapy Sessions 

Based in Ayurveda, you will receive instruction on yoga postures & therapy movements specifically for your dosha and condition, unique meditation tools (mantras, visualizations, breath work etc.) that match your disposition and character, dietary recommendations,  and effective ways to implement a successful routine/lifestyle based on what is discussed ...

supplemental charge:

 $54 for 30min 
 *held during personal afternoon times
*schedule a.s.a.p to insure your session 

Retreat Costs Per Person:

$432  4 ppl in a room with 2 queen beds
 w/ shared bath
*$972 for one of these as your private room w/ shared bath

$540  2 ppl in a room with 2  twin beds
 w/private bath

*$756 for one of these as your private room w/ private bath 

*full amount due at time of registration as spaces are limited and retreat time is right around the corner

Lots of hiking/walking trails abound!!!

Retreat Grounds & Itinerary 

*times may change 

April 15th:

 4:00 pm Arrive & Settle In

4:45 pm Opening Ceremony (yoga yurt)

5:15 pm Yoga Asana Class: 

"cultivating body awareness and love of self (ends w/ self-massage)"

6:30 pm Group Meditation 

"taming the inner critic"

7:15 pm Dinner

8:30 pm community building/sharing 

"my soul journey & seeding my intention"

April 16th

6:45 am Group Meditation 

"healing medicine for the mind"

7:30 am Yoga Asana Class:

"purifying the body of excess weight, toxins, & dead cellular debris

 (ends w/ lymph massage)"

8:45 am Breakfast 

10:00 am Food is Medicine Workshop

12:00 pm Lunch

1:00 pm Personal Time or Private Sessions

4:30 pm Yoga Asana Class: 

"structural yoga therapy based" (ends w/ lymph massage)

5:45 pm Group Meditation: 

"activating and balancing our consciousness centers, 

our nerve plexii of the spinal cord...our tree of life"

6:45 pm Food is Medicine Workshop 

7:45 pm Dinner

8:45 pm community building/sharing 

"creating a sustainable lifestyle & how to meaningfully incorporate yoga & food practices"

April 16th

6:45 am Group Meditation "steady mind...steady practice"

7:30 am Yoga Asana Class: "Ayurvedic yoga therapy based" 

(ends w/ lymph massage)

8:45 am Light Breakfast & 

 Food is Medicine Workshop

9:45 pm Closing Ceremony

10:00 pm Brunch

12:00 pm Check Out

12:00 -3:00 pm Free time at pool 

Restoring our relationship to ourselves through Living Yoga & Food is Medicine!

Trish Pascual 'Prema' (E-500RYT, M.A Education) is an experienced yoga therapist with a loyal clientele in Sonoma County for over 8 years and empowerment educator for over 15 years! Specializing in structural yoga therapy, thai yoga healing, and Food is Medicine, she offers a well-rounded and thorough approach that makes sense to her clients, is applicable to their lives, and sustains their motivation for reaching higher and higher levels of empowered, vitalized, radiant living.  To long life, inspiration, and genuine love of self for the betterment of all!!!

~*~

trish pascual 

(prema devii) 

808-269-2638

Earth Day Event: April 23rd, 2016

For the Love Earth: Kirtan & Meditation Experience

Join us in yoga communion as we sing the praises of Mother Earth in the presence of her depth, beauty, and wisdom...

Gaya Shelton-Ostadi, Casey Dugan, Trish Pascual (Prema), 
& Jacques Pinchon

Gathering in circle under a big, oak tree, Gaya, Casey, and Trish will be leading this Earth Centered Kirtan & Meditation to open our voices and deepen in connection with nature...activating a call to action to align with her once again and bring balance to our lives.  Our thechnological and modern tendency to manipulate her laws and stray away from her teachings has brought disharmony...CLEARLY!  So, we gather, we sing, we create intention to return to our original, natural state of mind, body, and spirit as wisdom keepers of her living library!  Kirtan is a bhakti yoga (call and response) practice of singing mantra/chants/song to open our hearts back UP to the divine.  Our (2) 10 minute meditations will spiral the vibrational sound healing right to that sacred temple space within each of us.  We humans, in such dire need to return again and again to this wellspring of life, shall return to a more sanctified relationship with the earth...such is the intention of our gathering this day.  Please join us in remembering how special it is to be living on this earth at this time!

*With each Kirtan leader bringing their unique touch...Gaya's love of classical call and response, Casey's songwriting talent, and the bridging to the Pacific Islands through Hawaiian chant, song, and a special HULA DANCE & LEIS by Trish, our celebration of Earth day after Earth Day will usher in, if just a little bit, a more conscious way of living in mindfulness of our planet...the living earth!!!

$25 tickets must be purchased in advance by:

Gaya 707-239-3650, Trish 808-269-2638, or Casey

*Details will be sent via email as to exact park location

~*~

trish

 E-500RYT, M.A 

prema devii yoga

trishteaches@gmail.com

                          

Group Meditations 2016

Group Meditations

6:00pm-8:00pm

tea & soup served

$10

Fridays:

March 18th,  April 15th & 29th, 
May 13th & 27th

Learn to turn off the beta brain wave state of day to day active mind and bathe your nervous system with the much needed alpha, theta, delta, & turiya brain waves.  Your ability to synchronize your brain to these successive brain wave states is your ability to reach higher levels of consciousness!  In the alpha state there is real relaxation, visualization, & creativity. In theta, there is intuition, memory, & meditation.  In delta, there is presence without attachment, deep rest and healing.  In turiya, there is blissful absorption into pure consciousness beyond ego identity...supreme indeed... ~*~ 

All the tools and techniques of yoga have been bestowed upon us precisely as navigation tools for each of our unique journeys through this life. The better we utilize our life force energy and direct it in this way, the better we get at unraveling habits and negative patterns that don't serve us, the better we get at releasing tendencies and reactions that block and limit our potential in all areas of our lives.  

However, the mind with all the unconscious programming we have allowed in, must be trained and like any training, there must be a system.  Each persons system will ultimately take shape according to their unique personality and needs but to begin, there have been many sages or rishis in our earths history who have successfully charted the way...sages and rishis who have been able to hold chosen brain wave states at will for extended periods of time.

In our day and age of growing impatience due to the fast paced lifestyle of our modern, technological age of instant this and that, it becomes more and more challenging to train the mind in this way.  To counterbalance the desire for immediate gratification with a steady slowing down of everything can be a hell of a fight.  

So to gather as one mind with the sole intention of training ourselves to quiet down and really listen and observe ourselves in the laboratory of meditation, is truly an art of refinement and self-mastery.  To be a brave soul and face your self and your inner workings with all the light and  shadows of our individual soul spectrum, in this day and age, is an act to be commended.  

If you have ever wondered how to begin to chart your way to greater states of awareness and change, come join us in group meditation.  The intention and focus of the group can be very helpful in launching and supporting your journey and inspire your discovery toward a more true witnessing of yourself and your life...

Group Meditations

6:00pm-8:00pm

tea & soup served

$10

Fridays:

March 18th,  April 15th & 29th, 
May 13th & 27th


Register:
~*~
Trish Pascual (Prema)
E-500RYT, M.A
808-269-2638
trishteaches@gmail.com