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Children's Yoga Workshop & Holiday Program

Wednesday 8^th July at 11am ~ Cost $12 per child

The workshop will include gentle yoga postures, combined with stories, music, imagination & visualisation. Our playful approach develops co-ordination, concentration & self esteem.

Our new yoga teacher Niki will be leading the workshop. It's fun, creative and most importantly a positive learning experience for everyone who is involved.

Intuitive Astrology & Living in the Now Age

Saturday 11^th July at 2pm ~ Cost $30

Are you feeling challenged, frustrated, confused, even excited with the massive changes happening now? Looking for direction?

Your personal and business astrology will give you the insight and clarity you need to move to the next level of success in your career and personal life. Your astrological charts are an accurate blueprint of you and your business and what the two of you are creating together.

Understanding your unique growth cycles and how they fit within the big picture of the global energy changes gives you the insight and clarity you need to move forward with confidence.

Explore your True Self

Sunday 12^th July at 2pm ~ Cost $30

This workshop explores the most fascinating person you know, YOU! Learn how to be your own teacher and answer your own questions. Understand colour, sound and the archetypes, and how to use them to develop inner sight and Oversoul communication. Learn to use visualisations, affirmations, and mental exercises to change your life - helping you with issues including relationships, finances, career and personal development.

Cool, Calm and Collected

Sunday 12^th & 26^th July at 10:00am ~ $50

Discover the person you want to be; create the world you seek to live in and shape the path you wish to take through the practice of yoga. Choose vitality, focus, freedom of movement, expansive thinking, enhanced confidence and most importantly peace of mind.

Empower yourself to realize and fulfill your greatest potential and be more in control of your energy and direction. Cool, Calm and Collected is a workshop that offers relaxation, meditation and yoga designed to help you release stress and to embrace total harmony.

Chakra Workshop

Sunday 19^th July ~ Cost $80

Come and explore your chakras. This experience based workshop, suitable for all levels, will show you how to use the chakra system to bring your dreams to fruition. You will begin to understand the different qualities of each of your chakras, learning how to use them to manifest and create your goals. Everyone has blocks when they create – the difference is knowing how to handle the blocks. This workshop shows you how.

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A couple of late cancellations from this weekend's Anatomy and Physiology Lectures by Luke Vandepeer, the first of his series of five.

What the lecture course covers

• Bones & Joints, Muscle Physiology and Nervous System
• Major Muscles Lower Body
• Major Muscles Upper Body
• The Inner Unit, its relationship to the Spine and Pelvis
• Myofascial Meridians/Load to Explode

Ring us if you want to join in and get a good grounding in how your body works

I would like to introduce a couple of our wonderful people at the Gem, starting with Dr Karuna Jaiswal. Karuna is our Ayurvedic specialist. I had a consult with her a few weeks ago and was amazed at how correct a diagnosis she made. Karuna is now helping me with my health issues and although the herbal medicines are not the greatest taste, all she has prescribed is working. Karuna looks at our body constitution to help diagnose underlying health issues not just the present symptom, so I'd say she has the opposite of the “band-aid” approach. This way she is able to actually help her clients gain a better understanding of their health and how they can maintain wellness. Not only is Karuna an amazing practitioner but she is welcoming, caring and has a beautiful sense of humour. Karuna consults on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 11:30am and her last appointment is at 5pm. The Gem now also stocks a number of Ayurvedic teas, soaps and tonics.

A couple of weeks ago Rajendra Pandey came to work as a Yoga Teacher at The Gem. He is rapidly gaining a following of loyal students as his style of teaching is very different from what we normally see. Raj is from India and has studied with many of the masters there. Several of his students think I should advertise him as “An Authentic Indian Yoga Teacher” as they are gaining so much more from him than previous teachers they have learned from. His classes include all the usual things; asana, pranayama, meditation, mudra and relaxation but also include anecdotes of his life as a yoga student, herbs and foods we should eat along with a commentary of the benefits of what he is teaching. Raj teaches on Monday's and Wednesday's at 6pm.

Raj taught his first Hatha Yoga class tonight and he's starting next week with regular Monday's and Wednesday' at 6 o'clock

Kate, Antoinette and Mick all attended the class along with another 10 people and agree that he's going to fit in well and hope that lots of you will come and benefit from his experience.

He has been practising yoga for over 14 years having trained with some of the Masters including at the Iyengar Ashram in Pune, India.

Our first Reiki I workshop was held on the weekend. Reiki is an effective and simple touch-activated energy for natural health, relaxation and self-empowerment. There were seven of us at the workshop which was led by Nick Vlassis, our Reiki Master. It was a wonderful, intimate and nurturing experience for all. We learned about the practice of Reiki, the history and the energy.

Reiki is not taught in the way other healing modalities are taught. It is transferred to the student by the Reiki Master during an attunement process. This process opens the crown, heart, and palm chakras and creates a special link between the student and the Reiki source. Nick gave each participant two attunements and it was wonderful to see the energy integrated with each of them. We swapped Reiki treatments with one another which was a beautiful way to share. Thanks to everyone who attended and a big thanks to Nick for all his input and for “infecting” us all with love.

If anyone is interested in attending our next Reiki I course please contact me at the Gem.

Kathy

Congratulations to the Wacky Warehouse who are the Gold Winners of the Messenger Local Business Awards.

We were thrilled to be finalists in our Recreation and Leisure category and had a good night at the Hilton for the Gala Dinner.