Heartwood

Mindfulness and Focusing
2018-03-01 18:00 - 19:00, 2018-03-02 18:00 - 19:00, 2018-03-03 18:00 - 19:00, 2018-03-04 18:00 - 19:00, 2018-03-05 18:00 - 19:00, 2018-03-06 18:00 - 19:00, 2018-03-07 18:00 - 19:00, 2018-03-08 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) and 13 more dates | Heartwood, 1818 Dempster Street, Evanston, IL, 60202, United States
Discover Mindfulness and Focusing resources for self care and emotional well-being.
Sunday, Sept. 11, 6 to 7 pm.
Fee: $15
RSVP smithhuemer@gmail.com or 847/323-1717
Additional dates: Oct 2 , Nov 6.
Marsha Smith, LCSW, is a psychotherapist and certified Focusing and mindfulness trainer who integrates body-mind practices and other practical approaches to help with a variety of emotional, health and social challenges.
You’ll learn about resources available to support you with your self care and emotional well-being. You’ll be introduced to ways to manage stress, anxiety and frustration with more calm and skills to deepen your awareness so you can move past blocks and find steps of change.
For healing professionals: The class is an introduction to mindfulness and focusing training for work with clients. Ongoing CEU training opportunities are available beginning October. In the training you’ll learn practical step-by-step methods for helping clients work though problems and find relief, insight and new steps of action, using mindfulness and focusing.

What Does Sanity Look Like?
2018-03-02 - 2018-03-04
Join Lopön Helen Berliner on March 2 to 4 for “What Does Sanity Look Like?”
By cutting through the dictates of habitual patterns, the equanimity of our own nature can be discovered. With this clarity and wisdom as our reference point, this precious human life can be fulfilled. —Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche
Image credit: ©2018 Owari no Seraph
Beyond the tried and true descriptors for what it means to be sane, there is the basic, self-existing sanity we are born with. What does that sanity—and a sane world—look like? If truly understood, it manifests as a relaxed, compassionate, and ethical state of being. It is courageous, and it is genuinely creative. This program is an in-depth exploration of the foursquare discipline that supports that innate sanity, thus bringing out the best in human beings.
Meditation is not an exclusive activity that involves forgetting this world and getting into something else. By meditating, we are dealing with the very mind that devised our eyeglasses and put the lenses in the rims. — Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Grounded in the practice of sitting meditation, mindfulness of body, feelings, mind, and environment realigns us with our inherent sanity, with the sanity of the world we live in, and with the nobility of human life, in the truest sense of the word noble: “the best of the best.”
Please join us for a weekend of meditation, contemplative exercises, discussion, and individual instruction. Open to all.
SCHEDULE
Friday evening: 6:30 – 8:00pm:
What Does Sanity Look Like?
An Introduction to the Weekend Program
(Open to all, regardless of whether you will attend the entire program)
Saturday: 9:30am – 5:00pm
Sunday: 9:30am – 3:30pm
TUITION
FULL WEEKEND:
Early Registration Rate Through February 27: $125
After February 27: $140
Friday Introductory Talk Only:
$15
Saturday Only:
Early Registration Rate Through February 27: $65
After February 27: $75
For more information and to register, click HERE.

Tai Chi - Level 2
2018-03-05 17:30 - 18:30, 2018-03-12 17:30 - 18:30, 2018-03-19 17:30 - 18:30
Mondays, 5:30 – 6:30 pm
Instructor: Arlene Faulk

This class is for experienced students of the short Yang style form by Cheng Man-ching.

Flashes of Enlightenment: Yoga for the Perimenopause/Menopause Journey
2018-03-05 19:00 - 21:00, 2018-03-12 19:00 - 21:00, 2018-03-19 19:00 - 21:00
Mondays, 7:00-9:00pm
January 22 – March 19, 2018 (no class on 2/26)
8 week series – $225.00
(If you’d like to pay by check/cash, or need a sliding fee scale – just connect with Corinne at (773) 562-5933 or corinne.peterson@gmail.com. Sorry, no drop-ins)
The journey from perimenopause into menopause is a time of change, challenge and transformation. Though we share commonalities, the experience is unique for each woman – affecting different facets of our lives. During this time our physical bodies begin to change, memory shifts, and emotions fluctuate. Women with children witness them growing older, perhaps just entering school or even going off to college. Parents are also aging and may need more care, or may be at the end-of-life.
Each woman’s journey is unique, fluctuating throughout the course of perimenopause. Often our modern world views this time of life as a set of symptoms to be managed. Insomnia, hot flashes, anxiety, sadness, changing menstrual cycles, joint pain, brain fog, or other symptoms, might be part of the experience. While yoga can help us navigate these symptoms, it can also help us understand them within a larger picture. It is a time for deep introspection and growing into ourselves. Questions arise: Who am I? How do I deal with these changes in my body? How do I feel about my past choices? What do I want for myself and the rest of my life? Even though menses may officially end, this transformation continues into menopause.
Throughout the series will use yoga movement, breath, chanting, and iRest® Yoga Nidra Meditation to support body, mind and spirit. Please join us as we come together to explore this deeply transformative time, in this non-competitive, supportive environment. All women are welcome – experienced students and beginners alike.
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER.

The Secret of Harmony through the Power of Breath
2018-03-15 19:00 - 20:30
These classes are designed for anyone, regardless of your previous breathwork experience. Come and learn about the magic of WhaleBreathing.
Find Your Truth. Tune Your Soul. Connect to Deep Calm.

$30 per class, $125 per series
Classes will be Thursdays, 7:00pm to 8:30pm.
January 18, February 15, March 15, April 19, May 17
Call Mary at (847)226-6541 to learn more.

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Women's Spring Equinox Workshop with Myrna and Corinne
2018-03-18 14:00 - 16:00
Sunday, March 18, 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Please join Corinne Peterson and Myrna Weinman for an afternoon of NIA, Yoga, and Yoga Nidra in preparation for the Spring Equinox! As the days get longer, and the earth quickens, the warm weather gradually returns, beckoning new life. As women, we are connected to the Earth’s rhythms and instinctually begin to embrace the returning light. Something in us awakens, bringing us energy and strength for this life journey, supporting ourselves, our families, our communities and the world. It is more important than ever to come together as women to dance, move, breathe, relax and restore!

All women are welcome – bring your friends, sisters, mothers – all those women you hold dear! No experience necessary. Please bring whatever you need for comfort and support to lie on the floor for yoga nidra (mat, blanket, pillows…). The practices can also be done sitting in a chair. We look forward to seeing you then!
What is Nia? Nia’s philosophy is: “Through Movement We Find Health.” Based on the idea that exercise should feel good inside and out, Nia is a somatic movement practice that incorporates martial arts, dance arts and healing arts. As an ongoing practice, Nia promotes mindfulness, holistic fitness and well-being. Nia empowers people of all shapes and sizes to connect to their body, mind, emotions and spirit by paying attention to sensation. Expect simple repetitive choreography combined with whole body movement that is completely adaptable and can be done from a chair.
What is Yoga Nidra? iRest® Yoga Nidra is a form of guided mindfulness meditation. It is a systematic process for leading the body and mind into receptive states of relaxation and deep presence. Through this process we are able to access inner healing and the pure awareness of being. Yoga Nidra is a powerful tool to help eliminate stress, overcome insomnia, solve problems, resolve trauma, and neutralize anxiety, fear, anger and depression. It is a process we can use to explore our life experiences and enter into a deeper connection with all that is.
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER.
$40 when registered in advance, $45 at the door. If you prefer to pay by check, please contact Corinne at (773) 562-5933 or corinne.peterson@gmail.com
