EVENTS
Yoga For Beginners with Anna Dioguardi - Mondays July 7th, 14th and 21st
Fruit at Every Meal, Sunday July 13th 2008
Moon Yoga Feast, Thursday July 17th 2008
Health Food Store and Green Market Tour, Saturday August 9th, 2008
Glorious Greens!, August 10th, 2008
Valentine's Massage for Couples, Saturday, February 14, 2009
Costa Rica Retreat, March 8 - 15, 2009
Yoga For Beginners with Anna Dioguardi
Dates: July 7th, 14th and 21s
Time: 6:45 PM - 8:00 PM
Cost: $149
Mondays at 6:45 pm - 8:00 July 7th, 14th and 21st This workshop includes One Personalized Private Session at the time and day of your choice! Cost: $149 For first time yogis only! Come and learn the basics of yoga with Anna and see that you can do it too! Start experiencing the benefits of yoga including reducing stress, calming the mind, getting the body more flexible and increasing strength. Limited to only 6 people! Reserve your spot now. These limited spaces will go fast!! Click Here to register or contact Jena at 212-260-6064 or frontdesk@]jenawellness.com
Click Here to register or contact Jena at 212-260-6064 or frontdesk[at]jenawellness.com
Fruit at Every Meal
Date: Sunday, July 13th 2008. 10:30 am to 1:00 pm
Cost: $50 for Early Registration, $60 for Day-of Registration
How do you plan to get your daily dose of fruit? With fruits, as well as with vegetables, it’s a good idea to have an idea of how you enjoy eating them, at every meal. Dried, fresh, local, imported, in season, and out-of-season are all things to consider when you make a nutritional strategy. In the height of summer we have a number of great choices.
About the Menu:
Breakfast: For a light, but protein-rich breakfast, combine melon with cottage cheese and blueberries.
Lunch: Strawberries will just be going out of season, cabbage and corn just coming in. Catch them as th
ey pass one another with this salad topped with a raspberry vinaigrette.
Dinner: Perhaps the farmers still have some yams from last year, and the new carrots are coming in. Combine them with some dried fruit—prunes—and stew them together for a wonderful side dish, or perhaps a main course, if you like.
Dessert: Poached peaches or nectarines. Lightly cooking these sweet fruits with spices and liquids is a satisfying approach to dessert any time of year, using seasonal fruit.
Fruits:
- Mango
- Kiwi
- Coconut
- Dates
- Figs
- Papaya
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Moon Yoga Feast
Yoga Class + Healthy Cooking Class
Date: Thursday, July 17th 2008. 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Cost: $250 for all six sessions (includes yoga and cooking)
A Monthly Series at Jena Wellness
Moon Yoga Feast is about consciously participating in the cycles of nature and in the cycles of our own lives. Even if we live in a city, nature continues to affect us, like the moon’s subtle but powerful influence upon the earth. This series aims to bring us more in tune with the cycles of nature as well as our body’s own natural wisdom. We will do this through the practice of Lunar Yoga (an alternative to conventional sun salutations, Lunar Yoga is gentle and easy for beginners to learn, yet still provides a challenge) as well as other grounded movement and dance.
After our yoga practice we’ll cook a light meal together, learning to prepare the season’s fresh, local ingredients for a seasonal feast.
Moon Yoga Feast meets monthly on the Thursday evening closest to the full moon, beginning in June.
Dates:
June 19th
July 17th
August 14th
September 11th
October 16th
November 13th
Time: 6:30pm-9:30pm
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Health Food Store and Green Market Tour
Join us for a comprehensive tour of Integral Foods, an adjunct to the renowned Integral Yoga Center, and the vibrant outdoor Farmer’s Market of Union Square.
Learn the ins and outs of the one of Manhattan’s premier health-markets and how to navigate the aisles. Tips on healthy eating and cooking will be offered along with information about how to use food to heal your body.
Immediately following the tour of Integral Foods, our convoy will to proceed to the Farmer’s Market where we will investigate and taste the fresh produce available, and speak directly to the producers to learn their fascinating secrets that explain why their food tastes better. Meet of crew from Hawthorne Valley, and the unforgettable charismatic characters of the Gorzynski Beyond Organic Ornery Farm and other Green Market personalities.
Experience more than a tour through the maze of vegetables, labels, products, and prices, by learning how your customary grocery shopping trip can be an adventure unto itself.
Don’t miss this exciting healing journey.
Date: Saturday, August 9th. 9.30 am - 11.30am
Note: the reason we are going to early is so that we can have the run of the store unencumbered by crowds!
The class begins at:
Integral Foods
13th St, Between 7th and 8th Avenues
New York, NY
Tuition: $15
"Being introduced to the world of Health Food stores and organic markets throughout the city was beneficial for me. I always had the fear that the cost of this type of food would be outrageously expensive. This was not the case, the produce, bread etc is well worth the money." - Patrick Mollin, Property Manager.
"I thoroughly enjoyed, and found very informative, the health food store and green market tour two weekends ago. I attended as a guest have now signed up for a health counseling program, so, surely, that must be some kind of testament. I particularly enjoyed the on-the-spot "interviews" conducted with stall owners at the Farmer's Market. One question elicited a prolonged and very enlightening discourse from one of the proprietors on the corporate co-opting of the word "organic" and how to find the real deal (talk to your growers). Highly recommended." - Michael Wells, writer, actor, musician
Glorious Greens!
Date: Sunday, August 10th 2008. 10:30 am to 1:00 pm
Cost: $50 for Early Registration, $60 for Day-of Registration
Once you start eating more dark, leafy greens, before you know it you will be craving them, longing for more varieties, and ways to prepare them. This class is a survey of a few different kinds of green, with recipes ranging from exceedingly simple to very simple. At the end of class we will feast on greens and you will depart dreaming of eating - you guessed it - more greens!
Steamed kale: This is the exceedingly easy recipe; yet, you might be among those who have never even held a kale stem, much less cooked it. This will be instructive.
Shredded Beets and Greens with Orange Slices: You didn’t realize that you can eat the tops too, did you? They are very nutritious and all these years you’ve been throwing them away. Learn how to consume them instead.
Bok Choy with Celery and Ginger: Ha! We sneaked in some celery here too, as if the bok choy we’re heavenly enough on their own.
Broccoli Rabe with Toasted Pecans and Currants: The sweet of the currants and the fat in the pecans offset the lovely bitter flavor of the rabe. A happy combination indeed: they also make more of the rabe’s nutrients available for your body to digest.
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Valentine's Massage for Couples
Saturday, February 14, 2009
2 - 6pm, $250 for 2 with pre-registration
"A lovely afternoon of adventure in taste, sight, sound, scent and touch with my partner of 20 years. I was delighted to discover something new about both of us. Absolutely heaven and so much fun!!" Dre Dretzin
In this hands-on workshop couples learn how to give and receive massage. Step by step you are taken through various techniques you can use to give each other a loving and therapeutic massage. Learn some basic anatomy to help guide your healing hands and develop a clear understanding of what kinds of touch and pressure feel good and how to communicate that to your mate. Discover my secrets that my clients rave about.
As the repertoire of touch deepens you are guided to make a shift to greater intimacy with your partner. You sense of touch being heightened from the massage work, you get a chance to explore, observe, listen to, and revel in the other senses as well.
Delicious sensuous food is provided as part of the experience.
"Imagine four hours of giving and receiving touch with your partner, set in a warm, nurturing environment with soothing music, soothing scents and experienced instruction in massage and intimacy." Micheal Frisbie
Workshops will take place at Jena Wellness Center, 1133 Broadway suite 1107, New York, @ 26th st.
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This workshop will be taught by Gillian Gorman and Jena la Flamme
Gillian is a Licensed Massage Therapist and a graduate of the Finger Lakes School of Massage, she complements the yogic journey of body & breath with massage therapy. She is dedicated to massage as a mode of bringing more freedom and bliss to the body.
Jena is a practitioner of Ayurvedic massage and bodywork. She takes great joy in empowering couples with the confidence to heal each other and create intimacy through loving therapeutic touch.
Costa Rica Retreat
Adventure, Wellness and Coaching Innovacation:
A Vacation with an Innovation
March 8 - 15, 2009
Program:
Day 1 - 5: Upon landing in San Jose we depart directly to the heart of the luscious sub-tropical forest, to our retreat center located at the top of Diamante Verde, the largest waterfall in Costa Rica. After getting grounded and connecting with ourselves and each other, we relax into our new environment and begin to generate the freedom and energy to feed our unfolding personal transformations.
In the oasis of green we explore nature: great food, waterfalls, perma-culture gardening, breath-taking hikes and more. We also our experience our very own nature with wellness activities such as massage, yoga and nutrition.
Day 6 - 8: We relocate to the exotic beaches of Dominicale. We celebrate with beach activities such surfing, dancing and yoga and we conclude the Coaching process and explore how to integrate our discoveries and insights into daily life.
Date and Cost:
March 8 - 15, 2009
7 days, $990 seminar fee
plus $700 for food and accommodation to be paid upon arrival in Costa
Rica
JFK to San Jose Non stop Return Flight - currently $329 with Lasca
Departs JFK 6:20am, arrive San Jose 9:40am
Returns San Jose 6:20pm, arrive JFK 1:10am
Suggested Travel Agent - Veronica Jimenez
VJimenez@Tzell.com
212 944-2121 x2233
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Read about Jena's own adventures on retreat in Costa Rica
Frequently Asked Questions
What is this retreat all about?
This retreat, a collaboration between Jena Wellness and the brilliant life-coach, Annie Lalla, is about getting people out of the city and their daily routines into an environment of inspiration, health and adventure, in order to see their life from a different perspective in. It's a life-changing and life-deepening experience.
What happens during the week?
The program is full of variety. We have healthy eating, yoga, massage and bodywork and adventure activities like hiking, gardening, horse-riding and surfing. Everyone has control over what they want to participate in. However importantly, beyond these activities that could be enjoyed on any vacation, we guide the participants through a personal transformation with coaching, both individually and in the group.
Can you explain the coaching and personal transformation?
The intention of the vacation is to bring you to a new level in your life by bringing you to a deeper understanding of your true longings and needs. The coaching process will give you clarity around this and allow you to take decisive action when you return.
These longings may be in the area of relationships, career, health, life purpose, creativity, travel etc. This could be something you really want to have or experience.
What do you mean by the coaching process?
The coaching process is a method that assists you in creating a conscious life, where you experience yourself as the originator and creator of whatever you desire to experience. It's about taking your life in your own hands on a deeper level.
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