Yoga in Mirrormont: Summertime yoga!

Yoga will be offered this week in Mirrormont on Monday evening, June 7, at 7:30 in the Clubhouse. Bring your ideas for summer class times; I will be available to teach a morning or noon class after June 17.

I am also excited to be offering a workshop on Ayurveda, the sister science of yoga, on June 19 at Terra Yoga in Issaquah.

The goal of Ayurveda is to live in balance with nature and her changing seasons. We will study how to reconnect with nature and her summer bounty and learn pleasant, healing rituals for different times of the day. We will learn how to: wake up refreshed and open to summer's offerings, eliminate cravings, stay cool and energized throughout the day, rest in the heat of the day, wind down slowly, and sleep well.The workshop will include a fun and simple test to determine your body type or dosha. Soothing daily rituals, healing herbs and teas, affirmations and an exercise/yoga/meditation plan to balance your dosha in summer will be studied. Aromatherapy and music therapy will be explored and recipes for Ayurvedic dishes that are balancing, elegant, deeply emotionally satisfying and that exploit the abundant offerings of our delicious Pacific Northwest local produce will be provided. As summer unfolds, with all of its warmth and excitement, our bodies and minds seek a cool oasis.

Bring a sense of quiet joy to your life with a yoga practice specifically designed for summer's gifts and challenges. Learn how to savor summer's harvest as you reawaken your body, mind, and spirit and find harmony with nature. Enhance your yoga practice by embracing the principles of Ayurveda!

Blessings,
Bonnie

Bonnie Dike, Certified Yoga Instructor, E-RYT

Bio: Bonnie (Certified Yoga Instructor, E-RYT) has been practicing yoga for 14 years and teaching for 10. She trained under Catherine Munro at Yoga Tree in Fremont and participated in teacher-training classes with Aadil Palkhivala. She taught at Terra Yoga for many years and regards Carina Terra as her mentor. She has taught yoga to many high school athletes, including the Liberty High School Football Team. The experience of natural homebirths led her to teach Prenatal, Mama/Baby, and Mama/Toddler classes. Bonnie teaches Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin, Nidra, and Restorative styles of yoga. She studies and embraces yoga’s beautiful sister science, Ayurveda, and is pleased to offer seasonal workshops. Grateful for the opportunity to serve as a Board member for Yoga Behind Bars, she has been blessed to bring yoga classes to maximum-security incarcerated teens at Echo Glen Children’s Center. Off the mat, Bonnie enjoys hiking, boating, cruise-biking along old railroad beds, hula and bellydancing, learning jazz cello, and playing chamber music with her husband, 11 children, and grandchildren. She is a professional cellist and recently retired Children’s Director at the Academy of Music Northwest. Over the years she has taught Music, Art History, Shakespeare, Penmanship, Etiquette, and other classical subjects, including yoga, to tots through teens at her children’s supplementary homeschool center. She is certified to teach the Essential Low Back Program, having trained under internationally recognized yoga therapist, Robin Rothenberg. She is honored to assist Robin's yoga for MS and Parkinson's classes. Bonnie’s teaching style is calm and encouraging. She takes joy in sharing the compassion, gratitude, and realization of abundant blessings that yoga engenders.

Bonnie lives with her husband, Bruce, and their large family in beautiful Mirrormont. She is honored to bring yoga classes to the neighborhood as a way of encouraging great health and well-being.

Yoga classes are offered on Monday evenings from 7 - 8 at the Mirrormont Country Club. Please bring a yoga mat and a blanket and arrive 5 minutes early.

Find joy and serenity as you build strength, balance, and flexibility in the body, mind, and spirit with yoga!

1 hour class ~ $10

Married couples ~ $10

Teens and children ~ No charge

Families (regardless of size) ~ $10

Class changes or cancellations will be posted here.

Group lessons are available in the convenience of your own home. Invite your friends! Host a yoga party!

Private lessons are also available in the privacy of your home. Email me at bonniedike@gmail.com for details.

I also teach at Village Green Yoga in Gilman Village in Issaquah. Come and be moved!

Count the ways in which yoga can change your life!

Yoga for High School Athletes!

Yoga Behind Bars!