Get Ready for the NEW YEAR!!!

Hi Yoga Friends!!
I hope you all had a wonderful holiday.
We, at Renaissance Healing Center are now getting ready for our healing workshop series. We are very excited to offer such wonderful ways to renew your body, mind ans Spirit.
Starting with: Healing Qigong I on Saturday Jan 3rd at 1:00pm with Debbie Young. Learn the basics so you can start the the new year off right.
On Sunday January 4th- the Renaissance Healthy and Fit Group meets at 1:00pm to create their Goal board for setting their health goals for 2009. You can join this group at any time and best of all..it's free! Just bring your inspirational or health magazines and journal, you'll be ready to go.
Then on Jan. 10th Join us at the Neptune beach Library for the Beaches Holistic Alliance for the Health Fair.
Next, on Saturday - January 17th we have our New Years Celebration at Renaissance. Pick and choose your interests with 2 mini sevices and 2 workshops for only $55. We will also have our regularly scheduled yoga class that morning at 10am... the celebration starts at 1:00 creating your Vision Board for 2009. For more info on the day and registration please call 249-0200.
On Sunday - January 18th we have an awsome workshop on Self Nuturing with the ladies from Soul Collage and a Yogaromatherpy Class (gentle yoga) with Heather. This will be the 1st of a series of workshops to create your deck of cards for daily renewal.
Hope you can join us!!!
Namaste'
Heather Hixon, LMT, CYT
(904)521-4845

Upcomming Community Event

Hi Friends,
Here is a list of our upcomming events:

Our Great Gift Certificate Sale and Holiday Party
December 19th -Friday ( all Day with refreshments and musicfrom 5:00pm to 9pm)
Huge Savings on our Gift Certificates and Pure Boutique Items.

December 21st - (Sunday) from 3pm to 6pm
Winter Solstice - A FREE event
Celebrate with Nina and the Renaissance Crew-
Fun for the Whole Family!
Warm Apple Cider
Candle Ceremony
Drumming
and more...

January 3rd (Saturday) from 1pm to 5pm
Healing Qigong I
Call Debbie: (904) 501-1632

January 10th (Saturday) Noon to 5pm
Beaches Holistic Alliance - Health Fair
To be held at Beaches Regional Library
600 3rd Street - Neptune Beach
A Free Event
www.beachesha.blogspot.com

January 17th (Saturday) Renaissance New Years Celebration
1pm to 5pm
Book your interests of services or workshops
Pay a la carte
or pay for the day for only $55
Yoga
Qigong
Chair Massage
Reiki
Aromatherapy
Magi Cards
Vision Boards
Healthy Foods
Waxing
Skin Consults
Sale at the Pure Boutique
and a New Years Ceremony lead by Nina
PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED!
(904)249-0200

Yoga and Soul Collage

The Gift of Self-Nurturing
Through the Process of SoulCollageÒ and Yoga

January 18th, 1-4PM

Workshop Description:

It's time to look inward, find stillness and ground ourselves with introspection, study, and nourishment. This is a wonderful time to learn the art of self nurturing. This workshop will begin with the practice of yoga combined with aromatherapy, and use the process of SoulCollageÒ to help us manifest the self-nurturing we all require and deserve. $35 includes all materials and snacks. Offered by Soul Intuition and Renaissance Healing Center. Contact Sherry 904-220-2954 or
Kate 301-639-5167.

Renaissance Healing Center Instructors go to Yoga Journal Confrence

That's right!!!
It's that time agin, my yearly confrence..you know where I go for a weekend and come back with juicy information from the celebrity yoga peeps!
I love going to confences, it just proves how huge yoga is around our counrty. My hope is that one day every house hold will have at least one yogi in it. Yoga can change the world one pose and one meditation at a time.
Dena of our Pure Boutique will be joining me this year. She has been taking many classes with the famous Shiva Rea ( one of my very fav's)
We will see Shiva Rea along with one of my other favorites - Seane Corn and Patricia Walden.
So- Laura will teach on Saturday, classes will be as scheduled we don't leave until Friday afternoon Nov. 14th.
Can't wait to share the new stuff with you all.
If you are interested in going to the confrence here is a link to the
Yoga Confrence Website.
Namaste'
Heather
P.S.
Take Time To Unwind Today

Yoga & Pilates Classes Special Pricing for the Holidays

Mondays at 6:30pm - Vinyasa Flow Yoga (Starts Nov. 10th)
with Dena Freeman - Pure Boutique
Dena's Holiday Special: (Love Offering Donations for Nov./Dec.)

Wednesdays 7:00pm (70 minutes)
Pilates for Beginners with Lacy
Bring a friend - buy 1 class get 1 free


Thursdays at 11:00 am - (70 min.) Yoga/ Pilates with Marci
Living With Intention Yoga
Special for December: Bring a friend -
buy 1 class get 1 free
*New students only please.

Thursdays at 6:00pm
Intro to Yoga with Heather
Special for December:
Bring a friend -
Buy 1 class get 1 free
*New students only please.
New Series Starts 12/4
Time To Unwind Yoga

Wednesdays at 10:00am
Kripalu Yoga with Heather
Holiday Special:
1 month pass for this class only
($30 for 5 weeks!!)
Time To Unwind Yoga Website

Tuesday 6 pm Yoga Class- Name Change

Marci's Yoga Class on Tuesdays at 6:00 pm is now called Kripalu Yoga, previously known as "Funky Yoga"
Marci took Discovery Yoga's 200 Hour Teacher Training Program which is a Kripalu Yoga Method of Teaching.
She has such a professional yet light hearted way of teaching yoga and truly shows her knowledge and passion in her classes.
For a more information about Marci and her classes please visit Marci's blog site:

Eat, Love & Pray is such a great book!!!

I am reading this book for the 2nd time, well, actually, I don't really have time to read, so i download books from itunes, that way I can walk on the beach in the mornings and listen to books to make the time pass. Anyway, I am enjoying it so much, if you have not read it yet, please do. Elizabeth Gilbert is such an awsome writer. She really puts life as a thirty or forty something woman in perspective. I almost feel like I am living the adveture of traveling to Italy, India and Indonisia through her. I have a dream of traveling, and someday I will. It will be on my next trasure map for sure. Speaking of India- this is a yoga site, so a few words about my own personal yoga practice. I find that when I am not doing Yoga I have to remind myself to breathe!!! Of course I breathe to live, but to REALLY Breathe feels so good. I am often reminding my classes to breathe during class, and throughout our practice, and, so I will be my own teacher today and repeat my own mantra
"breathe girl...breathe!!!"
Until next time.....
Just Breathe.
Namaste'
Heather

Heather's Kripalu Yoga Class Descriptions

I teach Kripalu Yoga: A free flowing form of yoga postures that is as much of a meditation as it is a series of yoga movements and asanas. This style of yoga supports relaxation, peace, and healing. Each of my yoga classes last approximately 70 minutes.

Tuesday & Wednesdays at 10:00 AM – Kripalu Yoga
This is my most common class which is also scheduled on Wednesday & Saturday Mornings at 10AM. This class can be gentle enough for beginners, and at times challenging enough for someone who enjoys a gentle yoga practice. I gauge all classes according to who shows. I learned years ago the importance of being mindful of new yoga students. There are always the modifications of the postures for those who need it. My wish is for each student to listen closely to their body and never go past the “edge”.

Thursday 6 PM – Introduction to Kripalu Yoga

This is a great class for brand new students OR for those returning to yoga after an extended period of time OR for students who a recovering from an injury or illness that would like to find modifications for the basic yoga postures. This is usually an 8 week series that is on going. We take time to practice Sun-Salutations and basic postures in between each series. Students can join in at any time .

Friday 10 AM – YogAromatherapy
This I am proud to say in my own creation. I recently took a certification for Aromatherapy. I offer Aromatherapy Consultations along with Aromatherapy Massage…as you can tell I love the scents of essential oils and the benefits they offer us for healing. The class is one of my most gentle Yoga classes with a focus on the 7 chakras, which are energy centers located along the spine in our body. This class has a great energy, very calm, meditative and fun too!

Saturdays at 10:00 am
I teach a Multi Level Kripalu Yoga Class every other week, on the off weeks there is either Marci or Laura. Both teachers are great!
Feel free to visit my website or call with questions or concerns.
Class Fee is $10 each or 10 classes for $80 Heather Hixon, LMT, CYT (904) 521-4845 Located at the Renaissance Healing Center, 228 3rd Ave. N., Jacksonville Beach

Gratitude

Each time I guide a Yoga Class we take a moment to be grateful...for having a body to work with, for the ability to breathe, to move freely & for the opportunity to practice Yoga. To me, each day that I get to come to Renaissance and teach classes, to visit with you, my clients, students, my friends, I am grateful. This is a gift.
I thank you for supporting us.

I have been visualizing my perfect, ideal clients and students for years, in my mind, someone once told me to do this...It works!...It really does!

Namaste'
Heather

Please visit our Renaissance Healing center Blog to find out about Our
Upcoming Events

Yoga and Aromatherapy

This week I am excited about a new aromatherapy blend I made for my clients. It is for anti-anxiety. The scent is AMAzing! Lavender, Patchuli and Sweet Orange. It is very uplifting yet at the same time relaxing enough to use towards the end of our yoga classes for Sivasana. The Patchuli promotes a sense of peace and well-being.
Did you know that you can book an aromatherapy consultation with me, blend a few essential oils to make your very own blend and take it with you for your home yoga practice, a salt bath, an inhaler stick, a pillow spray or a lotion just to name a few...It only costs $30. Just call me to book your appointment!
Try my YogAromatherapy class on Friday mornings at 10am ...(Gentle Yoga)
Check out our website for all of my class descriptions:

Until next time...
...don't forget to
take Time To Unwind,
Namaste'
Heather

Yoga Mala Event at our Renaissance Healing Center

Thank you to those who participated in our event! We got through 108 Sun- Salutations with grace and fun too! It felt really good to raise money for such an amazing organization such as The Nature Conservancy. To find out about how you can help support this cause please go to www.nature.org
Yoga has really made such a difference in my life and I have watched over the years, the changes happen for my students as well. Someone last night said that her heart felt so open after our practice, our closing meditation was about the light surrounding the heart and radiating out...this is what yoga does for me every day. I only wish for more people to find the path to yoga or something like it...just find a path to open your heart.
Until next time,
Take time to unwind,
Namaste'
Heather

Yoga Journal - pose of the day

I love Yoga Journal. i have used it so many times throughout the years. i subscribe to the magazine, and i visit the website on a regular basis. I even have it as a link on my i phone. www.yogajournal.com

Jax Beach Yoga

The Renaissance Healing Center in Jacksonville Beach offers a wide variety of Yoga Classes for multi levels of practice.
From Intro to Yoga to Intermediate Yoga
Yoga/Pilates
Gentle Yoga combined with Aromatherapy
and general posture flow following the Kripalu Yoga Tradition of breathe with intential movements with awareness of alignment while honoring the body.

please visit http://www.renaissancehealingcenter.com/ for schedule information.
or
http://www.timetounwind.com/

Events:
SUNDAY, September 21st is Global Yoga Mala at 5:30pm to 7:30pm
at the Renaissance studio:
A Group Collection of 108 Sun Salutations Guided by Heather & Marci.
Jump in do a few rounds jump out, take a rest, jump back in do a few more.
228 3rd Ave N. Jacksonville Beach
ABOUT
The Global Mala Project: Uniting Yoga, Seva and Collective Consciousness
The purpose of the Global Mala is to unite the global yoga community from every continent, school or approach to form a "mala around the earth" through collective practices based upon the sacred cycle of 108 on Sept. 21st and 22nd, Fall Equinox as the yoga world's offering to further the UN International Peace Day. Each center offers their form of a Yoga Mala according to their yoga tradition and inspiration: