Shine Yoga Va Beach

“If you really want to see an improvement in your stress and health, check out B.E.S.T. with Jen at Shine Yoga! I was at my wits’ end on many levels. By the grace of God, I was introduced to B.E.S.T. and the synergistic healing it added to my current medical protocol was mind blowing! I tend to be a skeptic but no longer! I’ve had several sessions with Jen and the healing energy I have found from within is overwhelming! I no longer have horrible leg cramps at night! And I sleep so peacefully. Check out B.E.S.T. too and see the synergies in your healing! —Colleen M., 2019

Kundalini Bootcamp
Aug 26-30

KUNDALINI YOGA WITH JAI GOPAL

Aug 26th – Aug 30th

6:30 – 7:45 am

$99.

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You come into the program with your intent— which is at the level of the soul. Your intention combined with prana (life-force energy) is the most powerful way to move the mind in the direction you want it to go. That intent is energized by the regular practice, over the duration of the boot camp, moving you past the blocks and habits in your mind.

The Kundalini Yoga Boot Camp is not for everyone, and that’s cool. However, it’s been proven, solidly, again and again that Kundalini Yoga works, no matter how small the dose. A three minute meditation can change your life forever, if done with commitment and consistency. It really is that powerful a science.

The Kundalini Yoga Boot Camp gives you compounded energy— like compound interest. Your commitment combined with consistent practice over the length of the program, plus the energy of the like-minded group, creates a quantum effect. Your energy and effort, combined with the group’s energy and commitment, creates leverage, which opens a powerful space and benefits all involved.

Doing the practice daily for a period of time, whether it be 7 days, 10 days or 40 days, synchronizes you with the surrounding environmental and universal bio-rhythms. It puts you in sync and creates and experience of flow instead of obstructions and obstacles. It’s going with the current of your spirit instead of against it. The Kundalini Yoga Boot Camp creates a multiplied effect– it’s like those moving sidewalks at the airport. You walk the same as always, but you go faster and get places easier because there’s an added energy moving you and your intent, and it increases your power.

FOR ALL OF LIFE’S COMPLICATIONS, THINGS REALLY ARE SIMPLE.

You have a mind. Your mind, for the most part, operates sub-consciously. The sub-conscious mind is where the bad habits and blockages hang out. 90% of the sub-conscious mind is under the surface, hidden from sight… just like an iceberg. What you’re conscious of is only the tip of the iceberg. Since most of the mind operates automatically, beneath the surface, many problems and habits we wish we could change are also part of this hidden mind. That is why many find it difficult to change.

SO WHAT, WHAT NOW?

We are infinite beings and the mind has the ability to interface between you, the limited body-mind and the infinite soul. Kundalini Yoga and Meditation is a technology which clears the sub-conscious mind. When you clear the sub-conscious mind, you open up a flow of the soul in you.

All the energy that was going toward running the sub-conscious thought programs, i.e., bad habits, now goes toward your intent and what you want to achieve. This gives you greater intuition and frees up more of your life energy. With this new insight, awareness and added energy, you can move through the events in your life with more peace of mind, enjoyment and progress.

WHY THE BOOT CAMP?

The Kundalini Yoga Boot Camp was created as a way for people, whether beginner or advanced, to have an experience of consistent practice over 7, 10 or 40 days. With consistency and self-discipline (i.e. showing up,) practitioners begin to experience their own energy and strength and that pushes them past perceived limits and disabilities. This is a victory which you carry with you, and you feel it, because you experienced it out of your own energy.

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Ashtanga Workshop
Sept. 22nd & Sept. 29th

Would you like to learn the traditional and sacred Vinyasa sequence?

This is the sequence that has given birth to all Vinyasa systems. Come back to the Mother Tree and learn the scientific system of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga.Michelle teaches Ashtanga Yoga to the individual, making it accessible for students of all levels. She believes this system is therapeutic when practiced with compassion, love, and intelligence.

Sundays, September 22nd & 29th | 11 am – 1 PM

Cost: Before Sept. 14th Save $10!

one workshop $35. | both workshops $60.

After Sept. 14th: one workshop $45. | both workshops $90.

Buy Both Workshops

Buy Ashtanga Workshop September 29

Buy Ashtanga Workshop September 22

September 22: Introduction to Ashtanga Yoga – In this class we will discuss yoga philosophy, lineage, and methodology. We will delve into the fundamental postures that make up Sun Salutation and work into a shortened version of the Ashtanga Yoga practice keeping everything in order but making it more digestible.

September 29: Primary Series Workshop Class – In this class you will learn about the Primary Series of Ashtanga Yoga. In Sanskrit it is called Yoga Chikitsa which means Yoga Therapies. Michelle will lead you through the entire sequence with explanation and offer alternative ways to approach postures to meet your specific needs.

Summer Vacation Visitors
All Summer Long!

Take your vacation to the
NEXT LEVEL OF RELAXATION.

Join us for amazing Yoga Classes at our studio, just 8 miles
from Sandbridge!
$45. for an unlimited class pass special for out-of-town visitors

Or treat yourself and family to a private/group beach or deck yoga sessions(s) at your beach rental.

$125 up to 5 people (includes travel cost for instructor)
each additional person is $20./each
*10 % discount for returning visitors
(Beach Yoga use your own mat, or a beach towel.
mats available for poolside or deck yoga $5 / a piece)

Call 757.462.9009 or
Contact Jen To Set Up Your Session

“…to say that Shine has changed my life would be a huge understatement.

As I sit here and reflect on the last three months of my life at Shine Yoga, it is hard to keep my feelings at bay, and I am finding my eyes welling up with tears. This isn’t really anything new though - I would need more than two hands to count the number of times in the last 90 days that I have been overcome with gratitude that has brought me to tears.

When late February of this year rolled around, I found myself in a pretty dark place. I was struggling with a recent spinal diagnosis that was not only causing me a great deal of physical pain, but threatening to bring my love of running to a close. I felt hopeless, like I was never going to be able to find a solution. And I could already feel the effects of my body image (which was never very good in the first place) deteriorating due to lack of ability to exercise.

Although I knew in my heart of hearts that starting a regular yoga practice (at the suggestion of my doctor as a replacement to running) was not financially feasible because of my medical bills, I still felt the urge to start researching local yoga studios. Shine Yoga came highly recommended, and I visited the website and stumbled upon the scholarship program. Asking for help has never come easy to me. I was always taught that if you want something, you and you alone are responsible for working hard to get it - and if you don’t get it, you’re not working hard enough. I don’t know what it was that night that made me step outside of my box, for one of the first times ever, but I did, and I applied for the scholarship, and was accepted.

Fast-forward to today: to say that Shine has changed my life would be a huge understatement. I have found, and am still finding, a great deal of relief of the physical pain within my body. It is getting stronger every day, and I have noticed a lot of improvement in my practice. But I am also finding myself. I am finding peace. I am learning to be gracious and accepting of who I am, and of the body that I was given. That includes not just its growing achievements, but also its limitations - and being okay with them. When I am away from Shine for a period of time, even if only a day or two, I notice it, and I can feel it. It’s like a part of me is missing. And as soon as I step foot through that door again, feelings of peace and knowing that everything truly is going to be alright, wash over me. The atmosphere is calming and gentle. From day one I felt welcomed, accepted, supported, and loved. Never once have I felt that I am not good enough, or flexible enough, or strong enough, or knowledgeable enough.

I don’t know where I would be right now without having been provided this amazing opportunity - honestly, I really don’t like to think about it. It’s as if the “pre-Shine” me has disappeared, and a newer and better version of myself has emerged. As crazy as it sounds, I am glad that I had come to the low point in my life that I did, because if I hadn’t, I don’t know if I would have taken that step to do something for myself and apply for the scholarship. I couldn’t possibly be more grateful for this opportunity I was given, and am so thankful for Shine and all of the amazing souls that are there.

I wanted to end this by sharing a song that has been a favorite of mine for many years now - the lyrics were always powerful to me, but now they have a personal meaning in my life, thanks to Shine Yoga. It is coincidentally titled “Shine On” and was written by May Erlewine. The lyrics are below.

Knocked me off of my feet

But I think it's time for me to start walking again,

Stop running away from things.

Next time you see me,

I will be singing a new song/

I am learning to shine on.

Shine on, shine on,

There'll be time enough for darkness when everything's gone.

Shine on, shine on,

There is work to be done in the dark before dawn.

It's been hard not to give in,

And it ain't easy living in hard times.

I know it's weighing on your mind.

Next time you see me,

I'll be uplifting, yes I will give you hope!

I am learning as I go to shine on.

Shine on, shine on.

There'll be time enough for darkness before everything's gone.

Shine on, shine on,

There is work to be done in the dark before dawn.

I know how dark it seems,

Feel it coming up inside of me,

And I feel it in you too, in everything you do.

Next time you see me,

We'll both be laughing, oh just to be alive!

We are learning to shine, shine on.

Shine on, shine on.

There'll be time enough for darkness when everything's gone

Shine on, shine on.

There is work to be done in the dark before dawn.

There is work to be done,

So you you've got to shine on.