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San Francisco Bay Area Monthly Meditation Group at YogaWorks Larkspur Landing

Join Senior Teacher Richard Miller for a year of monthly dharma talks, meditations, and spirited discussion on
The Noble Adventure: Living Peace in Every Moment

THURSDAYS in 2012: Mar 15, Apr 19, May 10, June 7, July 19, Aug 23, Sep 13, Oct 18, Nov 8, Dec 6
TIME: 3:00-4:30pm
LOCATION: YogaWorks Larkspur Landing: 2207 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur, CA 94939

TELEPHONE: (415) 925-2440 or click here for online registration information through the YogaWorks website.
PRICE: (No Pre-registration required!)
$8-10 suggested Sliding Scale to Yoga Works
$10 suggested donation to Richard

Each of these 12 monthly meditations is open to new and ongoing participants, and forms an interwoven tapestry of teachings, practices and tools for life from the nondual perspective. Each class will be available as an Mp3 download at www.irest.us.

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Join Richard in living the Noble Adventure, your vow to live an enlightened life, facing life directly, fully awake, alive, authentic and courageous. Living nobly enables you to discover your perfect response to each moment, which empowers you to live in integrity, harmony and peace, within and without.

Living the Noble Adventure does not entail journeying to another abode, or realizing some higher spiritual self. It entails realizing that your belief in being a separate self is not the whole truth. Liberation from separation releases you to live in harmony with your body, mind and heart, fully open and alive.

Meditation supports this realization by 1) fostering concentration, enabling you to realize your innate boundless nature; 2) nourishing proactive mindfulness and your capacity to respond in each moment; and 3) developing self-inquiry, which dissolves separation and awakens your intrinsic capacities for loving kindness, equanimity, joy and insight.

Start your day with love. Spend your day in love. End your day with love. This is the way of love. This is the path of peace, harmony, and love. This is the Noble Adventure.

Richard Miller, PhD is founding president of the Integrative Restoration Institute, and author of Yoga Nidra: A Meditative Practice for Deep Relaxation and Healing. He leads retreats and trainings internationally, engaging people in living the Noble Adventure, alive and awake in each moment. www.irest.us.

Institute for Health and Healing 8-week iRest® class series with Richard Miller

Integrative Restoration (iRest®) is a deeply relaxing meditation practice that offers you “tools for life” that enable you to rise above stress, anxiety, fear, and pain. Through a series of 30-40 minute guided meditations, body sensing, and breath awareness techniques, you’ll learn how to release negative emotions and thought patterns, calm your nervous system, and develop a greater sense of well-being.

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2012 Winter Schedule:
8-week session: Wednesdays from Feb. 29 to April 18, 6:30-8:00 pm

2012 Fall Schedule:
8-week session: Wednesdays from Oct. 3 to Nov. 28, 6:30-8:00 pm
(no class Wed 11/21)

Cost: $195 for an 8-week session (includes workbook and self-practice CD)
$35 additional for 12 CEU credits* (CEUs offered for social workers, marriage and family therapists, psychologists and nurses)
To Register: 415.600.1584 or ihhclasses@sutterhealth.org
Location:
Institute for Health and Healing at the California Pacific Medical Center
2040 Webster Street (at Sacramento)
San Francisco, CA 94115

*The Spiritual Competency Resource Center (SCRC) is approved to sponsor continuing education by the 1) the American Psychological Association (PSY), 2) California Board of Behavioral Sciences LCSW & MFT), and 3) Board of Registered Nursing(RN). SCRC maintains responsibility for the program and content (www.spiritualcompetency.com).

Deep Rejuvenation: iRest® Yoga Nidra Class with Kelly Boys (Larkspur, CA)

If you love yoga and are interested in learning more about how to meditate like the ancient yogis, then this class is for you! iRest (guided savasana meditation) gives the ancient practice of Yoga Nidra a modern upgrade. It incorporates western psychological tools so that you can easily learn how to integrate meditation into your daily life. Come practice iRest ~ be inspired to take your yoga practice to the next level!

Location: YogaWorks Larkspur Landing
2207 Larkspur Landing Circle
Larkspur, CA 94964
(415) 925-2440

Date: Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Hours: 6:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Cost: Before Event $20 / Day of Event $25
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
or call YogaWorks Larkspur Landing (415) 925-2440

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“Radiance, joy, love of truth, and the true Spirit of Yoga are alive and well, shining brightly through Kelly Boys and the teachings she brings forward into the world. I highly recommend you spend time partaking in the inner joy you will uncover within yourself as you experience her classes.” –Richard Miller

iRest:
- allows your body and mind to deeply relax
- helps you get in touch with a sense of calmness and ease
- releases stress and tension
- is a form of meditative inquiry
- is helpful for people with trauma, stress, chronic pain or illness

Kelly Boys is certified hatha yoga and a certified iRest Yoga Nidra teacher, and is currently the Director of Operations for the Integrative Restoration Institute. She has taught iRest Yoga Nidra to US veterans, as well as to women in prisons, cancer survivors, and those with substance abuse addictions. She is currently teaching at the San Bruno jail for violent offenders who are veterans. Kelly began studying with Richard Miller, the founder of iRest, in 2007.

Relax, Restore and Explore! iRest® Yoga Nidra with Loriel Starr (Berkeley, CA)

Dates: Sunday, March 4th & Saturday, April 28th from 3 to 5:30 p.m.

Cost: $35 before 2/27/12 & 4/23/12 ($45 after)
To register please contact either Loriel at: lorax77starr@gmail.com (650)-464-6544
or 4th Street Yoga at www.4thstreetyoga.com 510- 845-YOGA (9642)

Yoga Nidra translates as as “yogic sleep” and iRest Yoga Nidra is a modern adaption of this ancient yogic meditation practice. Research has shown that iRest Yoga Nidra is highly effective in promoting deep relaxation; as well as supporting the healing process of anxiety, depression, insomnia, chronic pain and P.T.S.D. iRest Yoga Nidra is taught as a guided meditation either lying down or seated comfortably.

Loriel Starr is a Level III Certified iRest ® Yoga Nidra teacher. She has taught iRest Yoga Nidra at a variety of locations throughout the Bay Area including; yoga studios, counseling centers, the San Francisco County Jail, the San Francisco VA, St. Vincent De Paul’s Wellness Center and CIIS.

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Richard Miller's Yoga Philosophy Workshops at CIIS (part of the CIIS Certificate Program in Yoga Philosophy), San Francisco, CA.

March 17-18, 2012 is the Living Free and Whole weekend workshop, and September 8-9, 2012 is the Map of Meditation and Self-Recognition weekend workshop. Both weekend workshops are open to the public (as well as to students of the CIIS Yoga Philosophy Certificate Program).

March 17-18, 2012
Living Free and Whole: Integrative Restoration - iRest Yoga Nidra
Workshop Hours: 10 am-5:30 pm each day, with an hour and a half break for lunch.
Cost: $250/$200 Members

13 CEUs (MFT, LCSW, RN)
. This course is also available for one unit of academic credit to CIIS students.
Location:
CELLspace

2050 Bryant St.

San Francisco, CA 94110

(415) 648-7562

To register or for more information please visit the CIIS event webpage or contact Public Programs at CIIS at 415-575-6175.

Experience and learn the principles and practice of Yoga Nidra, the ancient transformative meditative practice that leads to psychological, physical, and spiritual health and wellbeing. Yoga Nidra soothes the nervous system, invites restful sleep, enhances resiliency and self-regulation, and enables you to heal emotional, cognitive and physical issues, while it restores your innate disposition of unconditioned peace and well-being.

Integrative Restoration iRest is a comprehensive, modern-day evidence-based yoga nidra program that has been researched with military populations experiencing PTSD, depression, sleep disorders, and chronic pain. Recognized by the Defense Centers of Excellence as an Integrative Medical Modality (IMM), iRest is being used with soldiers, veterans, the homeless, incarcerated, mentally ill, children and college students, as well as with people experiencing issues with MS, cancer, cancer, chemical dependency, fertility and pre- and post-partum. Integrated discussion and practice.

September 8-9, 2012
The Complete Map of Meditation and Self-Recognition
Workshop Hours: 10 am-5:30 pm each day, with an hour and a half break for lunch.
A link to registration, cost and location information will be available here soon! For more information please visit the CIIS Public Programs Webpage or contact Public Programs at CIIS, 415-575-6175.

This course offers a rich, lively, and experiential exploration of the map of meditation that underlies and informs the comprehensive teachings of Sankhya, Patañjali, Advaita, Kashmir Tantra nondualism, and Buddhism. We’ll walk with Buddha’s as he takes the hero’s journey, traversing the path of yoga and realizing his heart’s deepest longing of awakening beyond the limitations of body, mind and senses.

Whether you’re a student new or old to Yoga, Buddhism, meditation or psychology, this discussion will deepen and inform your life and practice as it unfolds the mystery that underlies your heart’s deepest desire. This seminar unfolds the sublime wisdom that inspires Eastern and Western spiritual teachings alike, and provides you with a solid foundation and simple yet exquisite practices for realizing your true nature in the midst of everyday living. Integrated Discussion and Practice.