Workshops & Special Events

Yoga with Elaine Wintman, Salem and Marblehead, Mass.

MEDITATION SERIES at Hobbs House

Please join me in exploring meditation on Monday mornings from 9:15am – 10:15am.

June 7, 14, 21, 28

We will do a breath-centered meditation each week, and each week we also will do another form of meditation (such as mantra meditation, walking meditation, candle meditation, guided meditation, depending on the interests of the group).

No drop-ins, please. Pre-register and pre-pay. This series will run if there is sufficient interest. Please let me know If you are interested. If there is interest, I will lead another series, beginning in September.

$60/four sessions before June 1
$75/four sessions at the door

Feel free to pay when you come to class or send a check to me at 11 Warren Street #1, Salem, MA 01970.

Let’s be more present for our lives; let’s grow more focus and intention. Let’s be more relaxed, grounded and centered. and let’s grow some more neurons and neuronal pathways.

Making Backbends Feel REALLY Good

at Green Tea Yoga on Thursday mornings.
Three classes — come to one, two or all
June 10, 17 and 24
9:15 – 10:30am
Regular and unlimited GTY class cards accepted; drop-in for $15.
Core Yoga from a BMC® perspective.

Backbends. We love them. Or we hate them. Or both.

Picture yourself in a supported backbend—bolster or blanket under your shoulderblades. Wouldn’t it be nice to have that comfort and ease in a more challenging backbend?

How many of us have gone past our edges in a backbend — as in “oh, it’s only a little crunchy in the lower back...” Most of us. Nearly all of us. Perhaps all of us. No judgment.

Can we find peace and freedom in the same backbend? Balance doing with receiving?

Let’s explore our edges — the strength of our grounding, the openness of our front bodies.. Let’s find our edges — the places where we are closed — and coax them open a bit more.

We’ll do gentle and challenging postures in each class. We’ll do warm-ups, standing, supine, seated, prone and inverted backbends. There will be choice, as always. We’ll go with our curiosity in a light-hearted, playful way. We’ll let our hearts rest.

Beginners, experienced practitioners and teachers welcome.

PRENATAL YOGA with Sara Brand-New

Saturday, June 26, 5–8 pm

Prepare your students, body and soul, for the blessed time that is pregnancy, labor, and delivery.

Learn to teach a safe prenatal class that covers:

We will also briefly discuss natural childbirth and baby care.

BABY & ME YOGA with Sara Brand-New

Sunday, June 27, 12–3 pm

Give new moms, dads and caregivers a supportive place to get back into shape, breathe more deeply, incorporate an infant or toddler into their yoga practice, and bond with other babies and yogis.

Learn to teach:

* “I was sore for 5 days!” raved a student.

Hobbs House. 66 Clifton Avenue, Marblehead

Pre-registration required.

$45 each session ($90/two sessions)

Early Bird Special: $40 each session ($80/two sessions) before June 1

CEUs provided; please request CEUs when you pre-register.

Send check payable to:

Sara Brand-New (yes, a genuine married hyphenation) has been teaching yoga for 12 years and prenatal/postpartum yoga for 9. She received certifications through Integral Yoga in Mexico, India, and Virginia, to teach Basic, Intermediate and Prenatal/Postpartum yoga, as well as working with BNS Iyengar (yes, BNS, that’s Mysore Astanga) Patricia Walden, Baron Baptiste, and Edward Clark.

Sara has taught in schools, summer camps, hospitals, churches, YMCAs, corporations, private homes, beaches, and from pregnant women to new moms, preschoolers through high school, and all levels from beginners to advanced. After a move to Maine in 2008, she was taught and now can provide “chair yoga” to the more mature client!

Sara favors a class that contains laughter; vigorous yet slow paced enough that a student can breathe and fully experience and luxuriate in each pose, so that the full body is benefitted in each class.

Sara is also a knitter, motorcyclist, cyclist, chef and mother of a two-and-a-half year old, her greatest teacher so far, Emmeline. Of course hubby, Bob, is known for his pearls of wisdom too!

If you’re driving up the coast of Maine, do stop in for a rock-n-roll yoga class in their living room in Belfast.

Sara is a birth doula.

SATURDAYS IN THE SYSTEMS

for teachers, ongoing and registered students of mine at Hobbs
(others who are familiar with this work are very welcome with permission — contact me).

Several of you have asked how you could participate in advanced training without signing up for teacher training. Several alumni have asked how they could revisit the material and each other.

Here’s how:

On the weekends of teacher training, the 8am Saturday class is part of the training program. I am opening up these Saturday morning classes to teachers of any style, registered and ongoing students — as space allows.

The cost is $20 for the general public and on the day of the class (as space allows). The cost is $15–20 for Swallowtail alumni. If you are a registered student, you can count it as a makeup class. If money is an issue, I can offer some work exchange. Let me know beforehand.

ELAINE WINTMAN 781.367.1181