Rizze and Shine

RIZZE YOGA TEACHER TRAINING IMMERSION

2012-02-01T08:10:00.000-08:00

Now accepting applications for Spring 2012!

Deepen your practice.

Embrace your passion.

The Rizze Yoga Teacher Training Immersion blends traditional yoga asana and philosophy teachings with somatic integration and embodiment. This multi-style training is open to certified teachers, aspiring teachers and students who wish to deepen their practice and explore yoga through the inner wisdom of their bodies.

Learn to teach from a place of authenticity, self-awareness, and attunement. Move into the world with compassion and balance.

Your commitment:

The course runs once a week for eight months.

Fridays: 5:30pm-9:00 pm

Saturday and Sunday: 9:30am-5:30pm.

2012 Training Dates:

April 27-29

May 18-20

June 22-24

July 20-22

August 17-19

September 21-23

October 19-21

November 16-18

Cost: $3200 (+tax)

The Rizze Yoga Immersion Program is a 200-hour Yoga Alliance Certified teacher training.

You will learn:

• Yoga history and philosophy. Explore how ancient yoga texts can inform our understanding of this changing world.

• Anatomy and physiology taught from an experiential perspective.

• How to use somatic tools within the practice of yoga to allow trauma to sequence and release safely through the landscape of the body, opening ourselves to new ways of relating to our lives and the world.

• To connect with the fluidity of our bodies, and the energy that is held in our spines.

• Modifications and other creative techniques to help students’ connect to their bodies, and build a strong and safe yoga practice.

• To work with health and wellness on all levels, including diet, lifestyle choices, and sustainability of a healthy yoga practice as a teacher or a student.

• Teaching techniques that honour the strength and individuality of both teacher and student.

• To embrace the sacred ceremony of our everyday lives, regardless of our faith or spiritual belief system. Draw on the sacred union with all life to support and strengthen us.

• Practical marketing and business skills for yoga teachers.

Draw from the knowledge of seasoned instructors. This course encourages self-actualization, empowerment and joy. Instructors will not only share their yogic teachings, but also their life experiences as activists, environmentalists, community builders, artists, humanists and lovers of life.

Be prepared for your own personal transformation.

The next Rizze Yoga Immersion begins April, 2012.

Limited to 10 students.

Information: Lana Maree 604-564-5914

rizzeyoga@gmail.com

Let Love Rule (Changes Inside and Outside)

2009-09-13T21:39:00.000-07:00

It has been a long time since I made my way to this “Blog”. There have been some technical obstacles, but perhaps the truth of the matter is inside of myself, there has been less of a desire to reveal my inner world, or even the direction my work is taking me.

After a long year of a house fire, many changes in family and housing dynamics, as well as an exploration of relationship with the world, and myself, I feel ready to reemerge, to lean gently towards deeper self-disclosure on all fronts.

First and foremost, my baby sister Camille, 20 years my junior and her partner Jason are living with me. They both finished school in Montreal and decided to return to Vancouver. Needless to say I am delighted to have them, as well as my oldest child, Mysa here with me in Vancouver.

My sense of family and connection has deepened, I am grateful for this change on every level. I also am very appreciative of the “maleness” that Jason brings to our beehive of females. When the women of my family get together, it is a force to be reckoned with, and all things considered, Jason has faired well.

Relating and relationship is my deepest passion. I do not always carry grace in these areas, yet I know I do my best to keep the juice of love alive.

I have had some inner as well as external exploration with personal relationships this year. I have deepened long term friendships and let go of some as well. I reconfirmed my passionate relationship with myself while I was away traveling the Oregon coast this summer. This was both exciting and difficult, because it meant letting go of yet another layer of romantic fantasy and stepping up into the world of true love, which revolves around commitment to the life force inside of myself, and letting other’s map out their own destiny without romantic manipulations, (sounds good, but can feel devastingly frightening, almost like a small death inside of my body).

Work has taken on a vast expansion. Myself, and six other dynamic females are in the middle of creating yoga curriculum for a 200 hour Teacher Training Program. The application was recently sent into to Yoga Alliance for approval. This should be clarified within six to eight weeks.

This program is something that I have “felt” growing inside of me for several years, but until this point was not willing to fully develop. I am ready now, I have no doubt as to the caliber of women I have on board, or the need for this information and training to be collated and presented to those who have a passion for Somatic, body based yogic exploration, training and development.

I have done yoga for about thirty years. I feel such a strong desire to teach from a knowledge base that honors the wisdom of the body, and the individuality of each teacher. I am also very aware of the need to hold a steady container, for these teaching to be learned authentically from a place of personal empowerment and grace.

Rizze Teacher Training will be offered (upon approval from YA), in March 2010.

I will take 20 students.
It will be offered in Deep Cove, at Maa Studio.

It will run twice a month for approximately four months, Friday evening through Sunday. I will be updating information to those of you who email me and are interested. The Blog will also carry updates.

Good Love

2007-11-22T10:45:00.000-08:00

Good Loving

When we were born, we were ready and willing to know love in every cell of our being. We knew nothing of this society; we did not know we were male or female. We felt everything through our cells, our senses. Our bodies responded naturally to our environment. We knew when to sleep, to wake, hunger, thirst; bodily functions moved through us and were expressed effortlessly.

We looked out into the world from our insides. Our instincts lead us, into the world.

As we grew experiences happened that created discrepancies. What we felt inside began to become questionable due to exterior influences. Our ability to fully trust our own Somatic experience and ourselves began to change.

This in-congruency set up what could be labeled low self-esteem, or an inability to trust our own truth. Our life force began to grow smaller; our capacity to respond to life in a natural way began to shift. Major influential forces such as the education system supported this dumbing down of our life force.

Our freedom to move, which was intact in infancy became more and more controlled. Televisions are turned on to tune us out of ourselves; children begin to sit for long periods in classrooms, at computers, in front of various entertainment entrapments. A body in its natural state will without effort discharge sensation, emotion and experience. Watch any young child, watch the expression of their body, how they without shame or intellect wiggle, shake, stomp, jump, twirl, dance, laugh, cry and interact from the inside of themselves with their entire body. Their spines are flowing, moving, they are not depressed, bored or self absorbed. They are within and without; they do not need stimulants to bring them to this state. They are present.

Our systems successfully shut us down so we can become, good, quiet, insatiable consumers, who basically are looking outside of ourselves for something to fill the deep void inside of us. We do not cause much trouble, be are fairly polite, we keep shopping and drinking endless lattes and wondering what the hell happened to us.
Well what happened is your life force had to get small to fit in, and basically you just really miss that life force. You long for it like a lover looking for their beloved. You miss being alive.

You walk around wanting something to bring it back, or feeling this empty place inside of you and not knowing quite sure what it is, why is it there, or if it is even real? Questions like: is there something wrong with me, what do I have to change, what do I need…flutter around like escaped birds, going nowhere. Your life becomes something outside of you; this is basically the law of our society, the law of control which seed is LOW SELF ESTEEM. If we spend our lives hating ourselves on some level we will not have the time or energy to support change, growth and a healthy vibrant planet. Our bodies, which when we were little delighted us, often become our enemy, men and women alike will never match up to the unobtainable ideals of this society. We become fixated with the lives of movie stars because their lives, the way they look, their bodies are what we are meant to strive for. Once more utterly externally focused in a fantasy of delusion and deception.

Seriously! How many of us go there, regardless as to how political, environmental, sensitive or creative we may be. How many of us still come up short somehow in our brutal self inquisition. More is always better.

Our fixation with self-absorption has reached new epic heights. I can be so narcissistic I make myself ill. Where does depression come from? Perhaps if I was wiggling around dancing, singing and sticking out my tongue on the bus I might feel more alive. Perhaps if I was skipping down the street saying hi to everyone regardless as to how nerdy that might seem, perhaps just perhaps I might have more fun, love myself more and realize that life is ridiculous and gorgeous.

I am spoiled; it is that simple, there are a million different lattes to choose from. If I am depressed it is highly likely that I have allowed my life to be so deeply self absorbed that I am caught in my own rabbit hole. If I peek out, and if I take a chance, peek out and smile, this simple act could perhaps create a small tremor in the world.

I am inviting you to take your bodies back from the evil clutches of MASTER SELF HATE, who is roommate with MISTRESS YOU ARE NEVER GOING BE GOODENOUGH SO BUY SOMETHING OR INGEST SOMETHING TO TAKE THE EDGE OFF (IT’S OKAY EVERYONE DOES IT), can’t you hear their sultry enticing voices? Isn’t it sexy? Doesn’t it just make you want some?

TRUE LOVE starts under your skin, in your belly, your breath, your heartbeat. No one, will ever, ever, ever, love you enough to take away the emptiness. Love begins within, firstly by actually feeling what ever it is that is going on for you, not the distortion or distraction, but actually sensitizing yourself to yourself. Going home back to the place you started from. Your little body, from here becoming reacquainted with your sensations, becoming a committed lover to life, your life.

This is the “work” of real love, and honestly it is work, it does not come easily. With this I ask you, why does work have such a bad name? Work is creative; it is the foundation for dreams. No lottery will bring you love. It is about rolling up your sleeves and saying, “YES”, I am in! I going work up some love, build me some of that good stuff. It is getting dirty for love, sweaty, unkempt, and messy, love can be snotty, tearful, and stinky, frightening but ultimately it is there, in each of us. We were born loving, it was easy, now there is just the work of going back home, even if the road is dark and you are scared, there are always little candles along the way if you only smile at them, they will light up.