Bring your drum and join an ecstatic adventure in rhythm and sound. Let your creativity flow through musical meditation and listen deeply to your heart and the heart of the drums. All drumming traditions are welcome in the spirit of finding sweetness and power in balance and harmony.

Participation is free. Donations to the YogaKids Bridge of Diamonds Foundation will be greatly appreciated and help empower at risk children through yoga.

Drummers will meet the third Friday of the month June-September
June 15
July 20
August 17
September 21

If you summer in Harbor Country your kids will love to play and learn with Parents Choice Award winner Marsha Wenig, founder of YogaKids. Her team of local artists and special guests will inspire and delight your kids of all ages with yoga, earth-care, art, buddy building, Reading Comes Alive with Yoga, relaxation techniques, healthy snacks, nutrition and more.
Four sessions, Mon-Wed-Fri, 3-5 pm edst,
July 9-13 (ages 3-6), 16-20 (ages 7-9), 23-27(ages 10-13), 30-8/3 (all ages)

Register by Phone or at the studio for the best deal.
$155 tuition per session . $135 per session if registered before June 30.

Anyone can meditate. It’s simple. In fact you have meditative type experiences all of the time. The truth is you already know how to meditate. All you need is your body and your breath. The most worrisome, over active, non-stop mind can turn into a calm, quiet reservoir of peace and equanimity!

Together we’ll explore several techniques to guide you into the present moment. You will even be introduced to the age-old secret for true happiness.

Ease into the purest of states, your truest essence, the soft divine; a deep, gentle, intimate relationship…with you. If you are ready to let go of your mind for just a few moments meditation allows you to experience your inner radiance and the power of now.

Saturday, May 26 1:15 – 3:15 pm est. $30 on-line in advance, $35 at the door

How a Simple Breathing Practice Will Enrich Your Life Forever

“We might have super-smart phones, age-defying beauty treatments and a plethora of pills to deal with the chaos of our modern lives, but what we really need is something more potent…sex, love and intimacy.”

The Promise of Love, Sex, and Intimacy is a simple yet profound solution to the cause of all human discontent: the lack of intimacy, especially sexual intimacy. Even amidst the plethora of techniques now available for so-called enlightenment—from meditation and visualization to intensive prayer retreats and drill-sergeant yoga regimens—the need for intimacy has been left unsatisfied.

Requiring just seven minutes a day, the practice taught in this workshop answers that need by opening the body and psyche to gratifying levels of personal and sexual intimacy. Mark Whitwell teaches students how to carve a space in their lives that allows for greater intimacy with others, specifically a stronger sexual connection with their partner.

This naturally leads to more profound connections with the outside world, and in general, a more profound understanding of oneself. This workshop will explain how a physical practice—participating in your breath with body movement—derived from ancient spiritual insight can change your life.

Anybody can do it! No yoga experience is necessary.

Monday June 18,  3:00 pm – 7:00 pm edst  $75 on-line prepay $80 at the door  4YA CEUs

This is Mark’s only Chicago area workshop in 2012. Space is truly limited so make your reservations on line asap.

The Promise: Advanced Yoga for Everyone (no experience required!) Yoga is not a linear process. It is direct intimacy with life in the moment, and it is available to everyone.

Mark Whitwell offers yoga’s advanced practices in a way that you are able to integrate and make your own, whether you are just beginning to practice or have years of experience. This workshop involves an interwoven promise: You promise to practice yoga, and in return you receive the promise of yoga’s gifts, including improved health, intimacy, well-being, and joy. To experience these benefits, your yoga practice must be adapted to you, not you to yoga.

With Whitwell’s skillful and heartfelt guidance, you will discover how yoga transforms life into an intimate celebration, experience a nurturing principle as a constant in your life, and return home with understanding and the embodied sense of your own joyful practice No yoga experience is necessary.

Tuesday June 19,  6:00 – 9:00 pm edst   $55 on-line prepay, $60 at the door   3 YA CEUs

This is Mark’s only Chicago area workshop in 2012. Space is truly limited so make your on-line reservations asap.

Qigong develops your natural life energy, chi, for healing, fitness and health, uncovering your fullest potential through movement, breath and mental focus.

Learn Qi Gong movement and meditation for health, longevity, creativity and mental clarity. Kristine Kysell integrates Falun Gong learned while studying in China with Chi-Lel Qigong from her work with Qigong masters Frank and Luke Chan. Great for beginners.