Led by Nadine Behaveolos

Workshop | Tuesday, December 3, 2024
6:30-8:30pm
$30, Registration encouraged, walk ins (cash-only) welcome

“Let peace begin with me, let this be the moment now”

A desire for peace runs deep in our DNA. The fabric of our being allows us to meet ourselves and others with loving kindness. This quality of inner balance contributes positively to our health and wellness, encouraging harmony within for optimal physical and functional integrity.

Inner peace allows us to remain calm, centered, and balanced, even amid chaos and uncertainty. Yoga offers tools to cultivate this quiet strength.

Join us as we explore the following
theme:

December 3: “Light up the Night”

Candlelight is the backdrop for this workshop as we celebrate the winter season and learn about the importance of rituals (Charya in Sanskrit) that connect us to the light and one another.

Each session will include a gentle yoga practice suitable for all levels, guided meditation, and time for reflection & journaling.

No prior yoga experience is necessary.

Register for the Workshop

Online Payment $30

1. Click this Cultivating Inner Peace link to register and pay for the class. Registration closes one hour before the class starts.

2. You will receive reminder emails 24 hours and 2 hours before each class.

Yoga and Rasayana are the threads that weave together the fabric of balance and vitality, aligning body, mind, and spirit in a timeless symphony of well-being. Join us for an evening of deep renewal, where we will journey through Yoga Nidra, Restorative Yoga, and guided meditation focused on the root chakra to cultivate grounding and rejuvenation.

Throughout the evening, we’ll explore Ayurvedic insights for the Soma (moon) season, with guidance on supportive herbs, essential oils, and daily routines that nourish and sustain. Leave feeling refreshed, connected, and empowered with the practices to support your well-being throughout the winter season.

Register for the Workshop

Online Payment $40

1. Click this Ayurvedic Path of Rejuvenation link to register and pay for the class. Registration closes one hour before the class starts.

2. You will receive reminder emails 24 hours and 2 hours before each class.

Led by Amy Hallenbeck, RYT200

Workshop | Tuesday, December 3, 2024
6:15-8:30pm
$40 paid online, $45 walk-ins (cash/check only) welcome

Join us for a nurturing and rejuvenating women's wellness workshop focused on self-care, connection, and preparing for the holiday season. With the moon in its waning gibbous phase, this is a powerful time to let go, reflect, and prepare for a fresh start. The waning gibbous moon encourages us to release what no longer serves us and turn our focus inward, making it the perfect backdrop for self-care and inner work.

Our workshop will offer a gentle, accessible yoga practice to help you center and reconnect with yourself, regardless of your experience level. Surrounded by like-minded women, you’ll learn self-care techniques to relieve stress, promote balance, and help you wind down before the holiday rush. Together, we’ll create a supportive space to explore and release, leaving you feeling renewed and ready for the season ahead. Come as you are, and take what you need!

Register for the Workshop

Online Payment $40

1. Click this Women’s Wellness Workshop link to register and pay for the class. Registration closes one hour before the class starts.

2. You will receive reminder emails 24 hours and 2 hours before each class.

Led by Marian Kraus & Gabriela Kraus

Saturday, December 21, 2024
5:30-7p
$40 prepaid online, $45 cash only at the door (if room available)

Embark on a journey to holistic well-being through the transformative power of sound. Presence, the art of embracing the here and now, unfolds as tonal vibrations guide awareness inward during our immersive sound bath event. Release past and future fixations, allowing your consciousness to unfold naturally. Reconnect with your true nature beyond identifications, where insights and creativity blossom. Saturate yourself in the harmonious embrace of ambient sounds from gongs, didgeridoo, flute, hand-pan, singing bowls, and drums…all crafted to rebalance your body-mind-spirit connection.

The event will be geared toward a complete recharge and re-boot of your body-mind-spirit connection and mobilizing and accessing your resources to inner healing and expansion.

Harmonizing Gratitude: A Sonic Journey to Expanded Consciousness

This session will delve into the importance of a gratitude practice, demonstrating how specific tones and rhythms can shift brainwave patterns, promoting a state of receptivity ideal for nurturing thankfulness. Participants will experience how gratitude acts as a catalyst for positive personal transformation, broadening perspectives and building emotional resilience and enhance their overall well-being.

The event is about 90 minutes in duration and includes 3 segments, the first 2 are about 15 - 20 minutes in duration, and the following sound bath fills the remainder:

The sequence is:

• 1st Segment – the introduction - participants receive a general overview of sound therapy and how the upcoming meditation and Sound Bath experience work together to facilitate a personal transformation, evolution, and healing method within the conscious mind, followed by

• 2nd Segment – a carefully chosen guided meditation that primes the subconscious mind to transition into the essential personal transformation experience brought on by the healing sounds in the…

• 3rd Segment – the sound bath where guests flow in a stream of ancestral and otherworldly sounds generated by several large gongs (44” to 28”), one of man’s oldest therapeutic instruments, singing bowls, bells, chimes, tuning forks, ocean drum, rattles, and other sound tools. Our sound space envelopes listeners in a uniquely rhythmic, melodic, and pleasing fashion while the gong’s vibrational and sonic characteristics deeply resonate and harmonize all 50+ trillion cells of the body. The experience energizes and relaxes simultaneously in a most powerful and unique way and invites a natural synchronization of the brain's right and left hemispheres.

Combined, these powerful elements facilitate a change in one’s nature of being and potentially restore an intrinsic state of inner balance, homeostasis. Throughout, you will be introduced to mindfulness techniques of a sonic nature. The only requirement for you to benefit is to bring an open mind, wear comfortable clothing, and come with a mat, pillow, and blanket to cover up (all optional).

You can learn more at their Delamora website

Reserve Your Spot -

Online Payment $40 prepaid (or $45 at the door, cash only)

Click this Sound Bath Meditation link to register and pay for the class. You will receive an email confirmation.

You will also receive reminder emails 24 hours and 2 hours before class with our safety protocols.

Your Facilitators

About Marian

Marian generates a broad spectrum of fascinating rhythms and functional harmonics by exploring the full range of frequencies within his instruments ranging from shimmering explosive highs to deep mysterious lows. His meditative and transformative sound journeys are driven by his innate rhythmic hand drum abilities and keen sense of visual and intuitive perception. The result is that these sonic, vibrational and mystical characteristics energize and quiet the mind & body in a very unique fashion. His gong sound meditations are psychoacoustic gateways to higher states of awareness and consciousness. They provide spaces for inner healing while taking listeners into truly otherworldly realms.

After spending 20 years in the corporate world, he began his career as a professional architectural and fine art photographer in the Chicago area in 1999. By being a long time hand drummer, he expanded his creative repertoire by expressing images also through the sound of gongs. Marian is a member of the Sound Healers Association and refines his advanced interpretation and application of gong sound healing under the guidance of senior instructor, lecturer and teacher Mitch Nur, PhD of

About Gabriela

Growing up in the bustling and colorful surroundings of Mexico City, Gabriela holds masters degrees in art, religions and psychotherapy, and degrees in communication and history. She is certified as a Life Coach and facilitator of Universal Energy. In her earlier career she applied her extensive experience in corporate marketing and communications for the Ford Motor Company and the Interlomas Commercial Center, among others. Following, she moderated several health related programs on national TV in Mexico for nearly two decades in broadcasting corporations such as cultural Channel 11, Televisa, TV Mexiquense, TV Formula, DGTVE, and the art and cultural Channel 22.

Led by Marina Lisjonok, E-RYT 500, MSW, Yolanda Lozano, and Mike McGuigan

Special Workshop
Tue, December 31 | 6–8pm | $65
Please Register early. This event sold out in previous years!

Say goodbye to 2024 by immersing into the magic of a candlelight all-level yoga practice with Marina. The practice will be accompanied by the sweet healing sounds of crystal and Tibetan bowls, skillfully played by Yolanda and handspan with Mike McGuigan.

The event will include the following:

• Opening mantras

• Setting an intention and group sharing

• All-level yoga practice with Marina accompanied by the sound of singing bowls and handpan – 1 hour

• Sound Healing with Yolanda

• Pranayama

• Meditation to a Handpan with Mike

• Silent Meditation

• Metta Meditation

• Loka Samastha Sukhino Bhavantu Chanting

• Reflection and Final Sharing

• Closing Mantras

Reserve Your Spot

Payment $65

Click this New Year’s Eve Yoga with Sound Healing link to register and pay for the class. You will receive a confirmation email. You will also receive reminder emails 24 hours and 2 hours before the workshop.

or

Mail your check of $65, payable to Yoga Among Friends, to 4949 Forest Ave, Downers Grove, IL 60515. YAF only accepts cash and checks at the studio.