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Inner Radiance Qi Gong: Living Life Lighter and Brighter

What is Qi Gong?
Qi Gong is an ancient Chinese exercise and healing technique that involves meditation, controlled breathing, and movement techniques.
Immune Strengthening
The body is more resilient when given a chance to relax.  This practice is designed to calm the nervous system enabling a rejuvenation of body, mind and spirit.
Grounding and Centering
Learn to help yourself through difficult situations by accessing a state of presence and self-awareness that brings you back to your Center, your true nature.  Consistent practice can actually help you to build your innate joy and happiness!
Inner Radiance Qi Gong is a specialized form developed for self-healing and sending healing energy to others. By cultivating our Innate Virtues and Lighting up our Highest Qualities as Human Beings we then, from this state of balance and deep gratitude, are able to share it with loved ones and those who need it.

Saturday & Sunday, September 30 & October 1
10:30am
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
venmo: @Janice-Gagnon-2

Janice Gagnon is the founder of Spirit Winds School of Thai Massage located in Nevada City, CA.  She has been studying throughout all regions of Thailand since 1997. Janice is recognized as an Advanced Instructor and Therapist.  Janice is known for being the foremost Western teacher and lineage holder for Jap Sen Herbal style and carries on this matriarchal lineage.  She is a Certified Yoga Instructor and  Qi Gong Instructor and has been leading sessions and trainings for over 25 years.
Prior to teaching Thai Massage Janice worked as a counselor and group facilitator teaching skill-based empowerment programs for women.  She also worked with families in crisis, developing strategies for conflict resolution and communication skills.  This experience adds depth to her teaching and her ability to hold space for groups in their healing and transformative process.

Janice Gagnon
530-263-3181
www.spiritwinds.net
IG: @spiritwinds.school
FB: Spirit Winds School of Thai Massage

Let’s get Altared with Vesta Bushnell

This class focuses on aligning breath with movement as a means of expanding awareness of the body and the self. By tuning in to the internal rhythms, knowledge, and sensations within each of us, we can find deep truth and connection. With a contemplative approach, this class moves through a series of asanas (of varying degrees of muscular work and pace) and culminates in a seated meditation. This class is appropriate for all levels all are warmly welcomed.

Saturday, September 30
4pm
Sunday, October 1
12pm
Meet at the Main Pool Area
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted

Process will be led by Amanda Vesta Bushnell, (goes by Vesta) She is a Medicine Maker, Matriarchal Wisdom keeper, Healer, Writer, and all over Earth Based Enthusiast.

Hatha/Slow Flow Class with Sunny K

This class focuses on aligning breath with movement as a means of expanding awareness of the body and the self. By tuning in to the internal rhythms, knowledge, and sensations within each of us, we can find deep truth and connection. With a contemplative approach, this class moves through a series of asanas (of varying degrees of muscular work and pace) and culminates in a seated meditation. This class is appropriate for all levels all are warmly welcomed.

Saturday & Sunday, October 7 & 8
10:30am
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
venmo: @sunnykoh

Sunny has been a long-time student and teacher. Her classes aim to create a nurturing and fun environment for her students to support inward focus and exploration. She views yoga as a practice, lifestyle, meditation, therapy, and movement medicine.  Her classes include an emphasis on dynamic movements, breath work and balancing them with juicy yin/restorative holds. She has most recently studied Yin, Seasonal Vinyasa and Ayurveda under Melina Meza, and is pursuing her Master of Science in Occupational Therapy as part of the 2024 cohort.

Connect with Sunny: 
https://www.sunnyrites.com/ or www.instagram.com/sunnyrites

Open Mic Show and Tell

All shenanigans welcome! Singing, poetry, dancing, storytelling, jokes, your favorite rock… Please join us!

The first Saturday of the month
6-8 pm in the Green Room

2023 Dates:
October 7, November 4, December 2

Hatha Yoga with Dr. Karin Sommer

Hatha Yoga is gentle and deeply relaxing for both beginners and advanced practitioners.
With supported postures, the body can open in deeper ways than ever before, as the mind quiets and the breath revitalizes your vital energy.  Come and experience it!

Saturday, October 14
10:30 am
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to guests – Gratuities Graciously Accepted

Dr. Karin Sommer has been teaching yoga since 1996 in both the Hatha and Kundalini yoga styles. She is a Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, a Doctor of Divinity for interfaith ministry, and is currently finishing a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology.

Walking Meditation with Dr. Karin Sommer

We will meet at the lodge after Morning Hatha yoga and embark on a yoga meditation walk out to the Meditation Pool lawn. There we will continue this Kundalini Yoga practice, where we use a mantra Sa Ta Na Ma (which means life, birth, death, rebirth) as you touch the pointer finger to the thumb, then the middle finger, and then the ring finger as you repeat those syllables.

You can also add four sips of breath in and four puffs of breath out as you repeat the syllables. Or do long, deep breaths. This develops mind and body awareness and calms anxiety as you do this meditative practice.

Join us for one or both class offerings.

Saturday, October 14
11:45 am
Meet at the Lodge
Free to guests – Gratuities Graciously Accepted

Dr. Karin Sommer has been teaching yoga since 1996 in both the Hatha and Kundalini yoga styles. She is a Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, a Doctor of Divinity for interfaith ministry, and is currently finishing a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology.

Nature Mandala Making and Meditation
1.5-hour workshop with Natalie Pyrooz

Take a walk to explore the beautiful Sierra Hot Springs property, to observe and learn about the different trees, shrubs, and flowers that dominate the landscape.

Explore connecting even deeper with nature through creating a nature mandala. Learn about the meaning behind mandalas and the value of creating ritual and sacred space in nature, and ethically collect small pieces (leaves, twigs, stones) that call out to us, to create a beautiful, personal mandala at a sweet special spot.

After your mandala is created, enjoy a guided meditation using your mandala accompanied by sound healing instruments. We’ll photograph our finished pieces at the end so you can carry it with you.

Saturday, October 14
5 – 6:30pm
Meet at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously Accepted

Natalie has a background in botany, and is a certified yoga instructor, Ayurvedic coach, and sound practitioner based in Lassen County.
Website: www.nataliepyrooz.com
Contact: natalie.pyrooz@gmail.com / 970-759-4769
IG: wild.heart_quiet.mind
Venmo: @natalie-pyrooz

New Moon Drum Circles

The Saturday closest to the New Moon
8pm to Midnight.
Bring drums, noisemakers and yourselves…
Free to registered guests.

2023 Dates
October 14
December 31

Revitalizing Yoga Flow with Natalie Pyrooz

Join Natalie for an awakening slow flow to bring focus and peace to the mind and revitalize your body, head to toe. Draw your attention inward and to the present moment, open your heart, and explore your physical body.

Our class will bring together elements from breathwork, mudra, mantra, and a gentle flow designed for all bodies and abilities.

Sunday, October 15
10:30am
At the Cottonwood Glade
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously Accepted
Venmo: @natalie-pyrooz

Natalie has a background in botany, and is a certified yoga instructor, Ayurvedic coach, and sound practitioner based in Lassen County.
Website: www.nataliepyrooz.com
Contact: natalie.pyrooz@gmail.com / 970-759-4769
IG: wild.heart_quiet.mind
Venmo: @natalie-pyrooz

Sound Healing with Jen Haddix

Saturday Evening: This restorative sound healing offers a container for deep rejuvenation, energetic alignment and a place to release that which is no longer serving you. It will begin with pulling cards and intention setting, followed by relaxing into the healing vibrations of the sound bath. Jen and Mike will use a full 432 hz crystal singing bowl set, drums, chimes, vocals and a variety of other instruments to facilitate this healing session.

Sunday Morning: Start your morning with a musical meditation. We’ll do about 20 minutes of kirtan chanting, followed by a healing sound bath. In short, kirtan is devotional chanting. It is a musical conversation between you and whatever you believe in. This will be a very safe space, and all levels are welcome. It doesn’t matter if you can sing or not! Just bring your beautiful self and be open to the experience and you will get exactly what you need from it.

Saturday, October 21
8pm
Sunday, October 22
10:30am
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
Venmo: @intuitivejen

Jen Haddix is a certified sound healer, certified yoga teacher, singer, and spiritual business coach. She is excited to bring her healing offerings to Sierra Hot Springs! In her free time you can find her in a hot yoga class, hanging out with her wiener dogs, or reading a good book. Mike is her partner and sound healing assistant, and he is grateful to offer his energy to these healing containers.
https://www.intuitivejen.com/

Beginners Kundalini Yoga and Ecstatic Breathwork
with Charlotte

Conscious breathing has been used in cultures around the world, for thousands of years, for healing and attaining higher states of consciousness. In this class we will explore Kundalini Yoga and Ecstatic breathwork: two modalities that have a lot in common. Both of them are active meditations that involve the conscious alteration of natural breathing patterns in order to seek clarity, ecstasy and greater peace. 

Please be on time. Late arrivals will not be able to participate in the class.

Thursday, Saturday & Sunday
October 26, 28, 29
November 2, 4, 5
November 9, 11, 12
10:30am
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted

Charlotte Kubiak is devoted to exploring somatic practices. She is a massage therapist at Sierra Hot Springs, a yoga teacher, and a Breathwork facilitator who is trained in Kundalini Yoga, Rebirthing
and Clarity Breathwork, and several of Osho’s active meditations.

Qigong: Tools for Self-healing 1-1/4 hour class With Beth Freewomon

Qigong (A.K.A. Chi Gong) is a moving meditation technique that not only improves physical fitness, but also assists us in achieving a deeper sense of calm, relieves tension and stress, and helps us recover from injury and illness. It is part of the ancient systems of Taoism and Chinese medicine that value the interconnectedness and inherent wholeness of all of our Self and our body’s seeming parts. Qigong supports our bodies’ natural capacity for self-healing. Qigong allows us to relax, get out of “fight or flight” and our parasympathetic nervous system to take over so healing can happen. Our practice includes conscious breathing, stretching, activation of chi, flowing movements and more.

Friday, January 5
5pm
Saturday, January 6
10:30am
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted