Teaching in New York in December

Michelle Jacobi of Yoga du Marais

Yoga class at Hundred Grand

100 Grand St # 2 SOHO

Three Days Only!  She’s here from Paris!  Don’t miss it!

$12 a class

Dec 3-5 12-1:30

Owner and director of the center since its inception in 2001, Michelle has been practicing yoga since 1993. She received her initial through advanced teacher’s training from the Hatha Integral Yoga Institute founded by Sri Swami Satchidananda.

Professionally trained in classical and contemporary dance, Michelle has danced and performed for over 30 years, teaching dance since 1987 and yoga since 2000.

A student of anatomy and kinesiology at UCLA, upon graduation she continued her studies in New York.  Michelle has also studied pre and postnatal child development and is a recent graduate in yoga therapy from l’Institut de Yoga Thérapie which is headed by Doctor Lionel Coudron.

She teaches and travels abroad leading yoga retreats to beautiful locations. Influenced by her Vipassana meditation practice, Michelle’s Hatha yoga classes accentuate fluidity in movement and breath traversing traditional and dynamic styles of Hatha. All classes include work with breath, bandha, mudra, meditation and mantra.

www.yogamarais.com

www.yogainparis.blogspot.com

Yoga Retreat Sintra, Portugal May 17-24, 2015

Yoga on Holiday

Retreat in Portugal

The Beautiful Beaches of Sintra

The Lodge

Found:  Another beautiful destination to practice yoga on retreat
May 17-24, 2015

From the airport in Lisbon, the staff at The Lodge will pick you up and in 30 minutes you are in Praia Grande, the big beach, on golden sands, looking up at dazzling cliffs and watching the sun dance on the waves of the Sintra coastline.  

The Lodge is beautifully situated up on the cliffs and about a 10-minute walk down to the beach.

In the grounds of The Lodge we find a landscaped oasis inside freshly painted terra cotta walls, outside a rugged natural paradise.  Palms and flowering plants, large green spaces that just ask you to practice yoga under the sun and shade.  A pool, sauna, and jacuzzi for relaxing or relieving aching muscles after a myriad of sports activities available by the staff, or which can be arranged for you by the staff:  surfing, climbing, mountain biking. More

Details for our retreat!

The rates below include a fabulous breakfast each morning with many home-made specialities.

The Lodge encourages participants who are taking advantage of the sports activities also to make a sandwich/lunch from the breakfast table so you can have a meal on the road in your activity.  Dinner is on our own.

For the yoga week, my rate is lower as my expenses are lower- getting myself to Lisbon (as opposed to the work I do on Milos), so I can offer the yoga week at 200 euros, if you book early, by Feb 1, 2015. On top of the rates you see below.  If you book after Feb 1, the yoga week is 250 euros.

There will be a 90 minute class each am before breakfast and an evening time to be determined on the request of the group vis-a-vis any sport activities you are choosing.  The rate os fixed for the week.

We found very reasonable  flights on Vueling last year:  http://www.vueling.com/es

If you are unfamiliar with the Sintra area, it's indeed worth a Google search to see all there is to offer there.  It's a wild natural place with it's own ecosystem and many cultural UNESCO heritage sites, as well.  We are not far from Cabo de Roca.   

The price includes breakfast, lunchpack, and use of the facilities like pool, 2x jacuzzi, 2x sauna, archery range etc., fresh fruit and tea all day, use of communal kitchen and bbq area.

Rates in May for lodging and breakfast:  Add 200€ for yoga, Early Bird before Feb 1.  Add 250€ for yoga after Feb 1.

55,- € per night and person in double room w/ private bathroom (385,- € per week and person).

75,- € per night and person in single room/ with private bathroom (525,- € per week and person).

Airport transfers (one-way) cost 50,- € for 1-3 persons and 75,- € for 4-7 persons.
(accordingly 125,- € for 8-10 people, 150,- € for up to 14 people).

Dinner calculations are up to you, an average price in a normal Portuguese restaurant is 12-15 euros.

 http://www.sintraportugal.net/things-to-do/beach-sintra-portugal  

The Centre de Yoga du Marais links to Integral Yoga Europe

European Union of Integral Yoga Teachers
May 27-31, 2015

Details:  http://www.integralyogaeurope.com/#!european-reunion/cuwz

Michelle's Integral Yoga Classes are held
Mondays 18h30-20h00  Gentle
Tuesdays 19h45-21h15  Hatha II
Wednes   19h30-21h00  Hatha II/III
Thurs       19h30021h00  Hatha I
Fridays    12h00-13h30   Hatha II/III
Satur        19h00-11h30   Hatha I  

Our Give Back  Community Class is each Sunday
11h30-13h00 to benefit Families for Children in
India and Bangladesh

http://familiesforchildren.ca/


www.integralyogaeurope.com
www.sisproject.org
www.globalgarland.com

For Vickie,
You will always be the light that shines in Chérif's eyes.
Sleep peacefully, find Lucy and know that you were oh, so loved.

Taking care of Vata dosha in autumn

Sharing a link:
http://www.jitkarobinson.com/4-essential-ways-to-stay-balanced-and-healthy-during-autumn-season/

Portes Ouvertes Oct 18/19 Open House

Portes Ouvertes Centre de Yoga du Marais
10h00-15h30 samedi, 18 octobre
10h00-13h30 dimanche 19 octobre

Michelle et toute l'équipe vous accueillent au 72 rue du Vertbois.

Ca sera une magnifique occasion pour ceux qui souhaitent essayer des cours de hatha yoga:  
10h00-11h30 avec Michelle, samedi
12h00-13h30 avec Emma, samedi
10h00-11h00 avec Caroline, dimanche
11h30-13h00 avec Caroline, dimanche

tous les cours par don.

Michelle propose une atelier de dimanche 13h30-16h30: nous peaufinerons l'alignement des postures plus challengeantes, comme les inversions, entre autres. Une exploration ludique de la pratique, dans la sécurité et la joie !  45 euros.  Vous recevrez un bon pour un cours avec Michelle dans son planning.

Méditation guidée d'une heure, gratuit, dimanche 18h00-19h00.

Une occasion pour rejoindre les groupes et poser des questions à propos de l'Inde, du yoga, de l'Himalaya et du voyage et de partager un bon moment sur une tisane, des biscuits

et des fruits frais de saison.

Yoga&Vedas et le Centre de Yoga du Marais ont le plaisir de vous inviter à l'exposition photographique "Yoga dans l'Himalaya" le samedi 18 octobre à 13h30-15h30  
entre les cours de Emma et l'atelier yoga nidra avec Christiane.

Yoga&Vedas présentera également ses séjours "Yoga dans l'Himalaya" prévus pour : 

17 avril - 2 mai 2015
16 - 31 octobre 2015 

Merci d'avance a' tous ceux qui m'aideront a' faire circuler l'info. Cela me fait toujours plaisir de rencontrer vos copains et cette Open House en est une pour vous aussi!

Thank you to all my regulars who help me spread the word.  I always look forward to meeting your

friends you bring to the Centre and this Open House is for you, too!

Happy Beautiful October Days!

Namaste,

Michelle

Centre de Yoga du Marais
72, rue du Vertbois
75003 Paris
0033 (0)1 42 74 24 92
0033 (0)6 31 91 92 12
www.yogamarais.com
yogamarais@sfr.fr
yogainparis.blogspot.com

Practicing Yoga for Pain Relief

Practicing Yoga for Pain Relief

The benefits of yoga have always been known to those people who practice it on a regular basis. Medical science has caught up in the last couple of decades, with studies that show it can help people in a variety of ways, in addition to the direct health benefits. Taking part in regular yoga sessions can improve mental health, body image, and lift the mood, and provide relief from some types of pain.

How Exercise Provides Pain Relief

Exercise is often difficult for people who are in pain, whether it’s as the result of an injury or short-term illness, or long term, due to chronic illness or injury. Even though the physical and mental health benefits of regular exercise are well-known to most people, it’s hard to work up the motivation to exercise when even gentle movement can cause pain. The problem is, although those first few exercise sessions might be hard to get through, over time, regular exercise can help reduce pain—which means people living with injury and illness can benefit from less pain and stress, better mobility and quality of life, and sometimes, a reduced need for habit forming pain medications. Exercise has this effect for a couple of reasons. One is that it causes the body to release endorphins and dopamine—hormones that improve the mood and dampen the body’s response to pain. The second is that regular exercise strengthens muscles, which reduces pressure on joints, and improves overall fitness, making everyday tasks easier and less strenuous.

Additional Benefits of Yoga for Relieving Pain

Most forms of exercise—including yoga—provide these benefits, but yoga actually has several additional benefits that make it a very useful form of exercise for people who are affected by chronic pain and long-term injury, as well as temporary pain.

The most obvious benefit is simply that the physical poses that yoga practitioners perform stretch and strengthen muscles, helping to improve flexibility, range of motion and mobility as well as muscle strength. Yoga is, in fact, one of the few forms of exercise that can improve all-over muscle strength and flexibility, as most forms of exercise target one or two specific muscle groups. In particular, these benefits can help reduce pain for people with arthritis. As well as this, yoga provides stress relief, can help relieve insomnia, reduce muscle tension, improve posture, and improve patterns of movement that might be contributing to pain levels. For example, stress and tension can cause headaches, as well as pain in the neck, shoulders, and back, and poor posture and body alignment while working can lead to the development of carpal tunnel syndrome and other forms of overuse injury.

A form of yogic breathwork called pranayama, along with meditation, can also help reduce chronic pain. Pranayamic technique can be as simple as consciously slowing down breathing, in particular the rate of exhalation, and then pausing briefly before each inhalation. This simple but powerful technique helps to quieten feelings of distress by relaxing the nervous system, and it’s an effective coping mechanism not only for pain, but also for anxiety and panic attacks. One major advantage of this type of breathwork is that it can be performed anywhere, any time, without drawing attention, which means it’s a very useful technique to use at work or in social situations, for example, where other techniques might be inappropriate.

Learning breathwork techniques is also considered a good way to prepare for meditation, which can be even more powerful in terms of its pain-relieving effects. Meditation can also help people benefit from reduced suffering, as well as reduced pain—meaning that when they do feel pain, they are better able to cope. People affected by chronic pain are often more likely to experience negative thinking, but practicing yoga and related techniques provides physical and mental benefits that help to break the cycle, reduce pain, and make it easier to live with. 

Resources and citations

American Psychological Association. “The Exercise Effect.” Accessed July 17, 2014. Exercise and mental health.

Healing Well. “Get Moving with Chronic Illness.” Accessed July 17, 2014. Exercising with chronic illness.

Health and Yoga. “Yoga, Fitness, and Self-Improvement.” Accessed July 17, 2014. How yoga is different form other exercise forms.

Nandini Vallath. “Perspectives on Yoga Inputs in the Management of Chronic Pain.” Accessed July 17, 2014. In Indian Journal of Palliative Care. 2010. Jan-Apr; 16(1): 1-7.

Self. “7 Life-Improving Benefits of Yoga.” Accessed July 17, 2014. Positive effects of yoga.

Timothy McCall. “Yoga for Chronic Pain.” Accessed July 17, 2014. In Yoga Journal.

Yoga Props. “Yoga Equipment Specialists.” Accessed July 17, 2014. Equipment for practicing yoga.

Contributing writer:  Jenni Stevens