Welcome to Turtle Island Yoga
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New Students! 
One Month of Yoga Classes  - Just $49!!
Attend classes with as many teachers as you like

Print out this card or pick up one at the studio -  /home/turtleisland/%2449%20New%20Student%20Special%200312.pdf $49 New Student Special  
Or purchase through PayPal  $49 New Student Special

SCHEDULE CHANGES IN MAY

  • New Class with Aylin Yaser starts Tuesday, May 15 - 5:00-6:30pm
  • Tony Briggs will not be teaching much of the last 2 weeks of May - please refer to the Schedule of Public Classes for those dates. Please note: Tony WILL teach both classes on Sunday, May 20.

Upcoming Workshops - Register online through PayPal or send your check to Turtle Island Yoga, PO Box 216, Woodacre, CA 94973

  • Elise Miller offers Scoliosis Workshop at Turtle Island - Saturday, June 9 - pre-registration strongly suggested.
  • Summer Weekend Retreat with Tony Briggs - Friday, June 29 - Sunday, July 1 at Spirit House Retreat, Woodacre, California - register early - limited space  - $495 or $450 before June 15
  • Yoga X 3, History, Philosophy, Practice with Eric Shaw - Saturday, August 18 - see workshops page for details and to register.

Where To Find Tony in the North Bay tony_72dpi_for_web_0028_Edit.jpg
Tony resumes Monday and Wednesday morning classes in Petaluma at Wellness by Design (formerly Yoga One) starting April 2 - New class time - 9-10:30am - Levels 2-4. Details...

Scoliosis Workshop with Elise Miller


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Saturday, June 9, 1:00-5:00pm
$75 by May 26; $90 at the door – pre-registration advised


Elise presents her internationally acclaimed workshop on working with scoliosis. This 4-hour class is designed to present information and experience in the ways Iyengar Yoga can be used to meet the challenges of scoliosis. We will include anatomical background on scoliosis, identify each participant’s scoliosis, and discuss cause and effect as well as psychological consequences of scoliosis. 
This workshop is appropriate for anyone with scoliosis whether he/she is currently a yoga student or not. Teachers are urged to attend in order to be more skillful when assisting their students with scoliosis...more


Summer Weekend Retreat with Tony Briggs

Spirit House Retreat, Woodacre

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Friday, June 29 - Sunday, July 1
$495 or $450 by June 15

Join us for three days of yoga, good company and good food at Spirit House. Located atop a sunny ridge above Woodacre in the San Geronimo Valley, Spirit House offers access to virtually unlimited hiking trails along ridge-tops and the rolling hills of west Marin, expansive vistas, a hot-tub and garden, and healthful, delicious meals. It’s a quiet place for contemplation and to deepen your yoga practice. Leave feeling refreshed and revived...more

Yoga X 3, History, Philosophy, Practice with Eric Shaw

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Saturday, August 18, 1:30-4:30pm
$35 pre-registered by August 8; $45 thereafter

 

       Yoga isn’t just physical.  It’s a full-on practice with skillsets developed over thousands of years.  This is barely hinted at in regular classes, but in Yoga x 3, we’ll focus broadly, explaining the tradition's history, philosophy and practice . . . all in a 3-hour sweep. 

       In this training, we’ll re-engineer mind and body with new postures, breathing practices, and health secrets, while learning the philosophy and history behind yoga's abundant, time-tested system.

       Students who finish this workshop will learn how yoga evolved, understand its worldview, and learn new ways to align breath, body, and mind.

 

Eric Shaw maintains a lively national and international yoga ...more


...recently posted on Facebook by a student of Tony's...

 "Yoga isn't easy. If it were, it wouldn't be yoga. It would be 'sitting on a couch.' Never accept the body's, or the mind's, first answer. Stay with discomfort. Ask more. You don't need to give up. When I say 'get up,' I mean stop thinking up reasons and GET UP. Go softly to your first edge. Go with the breath. Don't force it. Stop and wait if you need to. Wait for the edge to move. Now, GET UP. You do yourself no favors by letting yourself escape." - Tony Briggs, on backbends.