Yoga in Mirrormont: Slow down and savor the holidays with yoga!

Yoga in Mirrormont will be offered this week on Monday, December 20, at 7:30 in the clubhouse. Please bring a blanket for savasana and a space heater, if convenient. Take time to recharge your body and relax your mind for the holiday season with yoga.

Give yourself the gift of a quiet mind and a grateful heart!

When you regularly get your heart rate into the aerobic range, you lower your risk of heart attack and can relieve depression. While not all yoga is aerobic, if you do it vigorously or take flow or Ashtanga classes, it can boost your heart rate into the aerobic range. But even yoga exercises that don't get your heart rate up that high can improve cardiovascular conditioning. Studies have found that yoga practice lowers the resting heart rate, increases endurance, and can improve your maximum uptake of oxygen during exercise - all reflections of improved aerobic conditioning. One study found that subjects who were taught only pranayama (deep yogic breathing) could do more exercise with less oxygen. ~Timothy McCall, M.D.

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!