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Earth Yoga hosts grand opening in Felton today - San Jose Mercury News

FELTON - At 26, Amanda Hamilton has turned her dream of opening a yoga studio into reality.

She will host grand opening for Earth Yoga, at 6245A Highway 9, from 5-7 p.m. today.

She is borrowing the business model of a studio in Santa Monica where she took classes, asking people to donate $10 to $15 per class but opening her doors to anyone regardless of what they give.

"I feel strongly that this is what the universe is calling me to do," she said. "The need for a safe space to gather and re-center is greater now especially due to the hard economic times that we are in."

Hamilton's dream has brought her full circle back to Santa Cruz County.

Originally from North Monterey County, she attended UC Santa Cruz for two years before transferring to the University of Illinois at Chicago. After graduating with a degree in history, she moved back to California.

She found yoga and took her first teacher training in the Vinyasa Flow style in Monterey. Next she moved to the Los Angeles area where she taught yoga.

In Santa Monica, she discovered kirtan, the chanting practice that led her to participate in a teacher training at Bhakti Yoga Shala, a donation-based yoga studio led by a husband and wife, Govindas and Radha.

That training, she said, taught her to trust herself.

When she visited a friend in the Santa Cruz Mountains, she discovered the empty shop in downtown Felton next to Chopstix restaurant.

It's small,

with room for at most a dozen yoga mats, but with "the beautiful redwood tree and the totem of a bear" outside, she felt it was the right place.

"The space found me," she said. "I called my teacher and asked 'Am I ready?' He asked, 'Do you think you are ready?'"

Her answer was yes.

After crunching the numbers, she signed a two-year lease and called on friends and family members to help make over what used to be Scoob's DVD. They redid the floor, removed lots of staples and painted the walls cream.

"It's nice and intimate," said Hamilton, who dressed up the ceiling with colorful fabric. "Some people are intimidated by larger places."

There are five instructors, some "well-seasoned" and others "fresh out of training," she said.

"I loved what she was doing this with the donation-based thing," said Roxy, an instructor who trained with Mark Stephens last year and saw Hamilton's ad on Craigslist.

Down the street is a long-established yoga practice, the Center for Healing, which offers classes at drop-in fees of $12 to $14, with discounts for students and senior citizens.

"We welcome any new business in town," said Claire Campbell, who owns Outback Trading Company on Highway 9 and practices yoga at home when she's not exercising her horse. "I wish her a lot of luck."

IF YOU GO

Grand opening of Earth Yoga

WHERE: 6245 A Highway 9 Felton CA, 95018

WHEN: Introductory classes 5-7 p.m. today; vegetarian food at 7 p.m. and live kirtan music at 8 p.m.

COST: Free

INFORMATION: www.earth-yoga.net or 206-5856


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Yoga class honors Peace Day - Wilkes Barre Times-Leader

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Posted: October 10
Updated: Today at 1:00 AM

On September 21, yoga participants at the Greater Pittston YMCA held a special class in honor of World Peace Day.

In accordance with the event, Colleen Walsh and Rita Skechus, yoga instructors at the Greater Pittston YMCA, held a string of classes that were dedicated to the special day.

World Peace Day is an annual day of global ceasefire and non-violence. Across the globe to honor the event, trees were planted, candlelight vigils and prayer ceremonies were held, and even festivals were organized.

The Greater Pittston YMCA yoga class began their World Peace Day celebration on Saturday, September 19. The class performed 27 sun salutations.

“The sun salutation warms up the body and prepares it for the poses to come,” said Walsh. “108 sun salutations are performed globally amongst the yoga community to honor World Peace Day. We only performed 27, which is a quarter of what is done globally.”

Their homage to the event continued throughout the week through September 21, the actual World Peace Day. Twenty-seven sun salutations were once again performed.

“I wanted to make sure everyone that comes to yoga was able to participant in the event. Some people come Saturdays that don’t come during the week or vice versa. Everyone that comes to yoga should get to celebrate,” explained Walsh.

Special intentions for peace were set during each class, and drums and chanting were used to enhance the atmosphere. The main focus of each class was to live happily; that happiness is inherent in everybody and everything.

Yoga classes are offered at The Y, Monday-Wednesday from 7-8 p.m. and Saturday from 10:30-11:30 a.m. Contact Kelly McCabe at 655-2255 for more info.

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