Moon Haven Studio is North Georgia's first Holistic Center just for Women offering a sacred space for the performing and healing arts. We specialize in helping women through each phase of their lives with an emphasis on the Wise Woman Way of Healing. We offer classes, workshops and services in:
• restorative yoga
• prenatal and postpartum yoga
• power yoga
• menstrual health
• menopausal health
• the childbearing year
• belly dance
• massage therapy
• reiki therapy
• herbs
• nutrition
• holistic consultations
• natural health consultations
• doula services
• homebirth midwifery services
• childbirth education
Announcements and Upcoming Events
NEW LOCATION Our new location is at 9 Legion St. in the Cleburne Building (in the Shop Rite/Fred's parking lot, next to The Factory Connection, upstairs above the bike shop. Just come on in the door to the right of the bike shop and come up the stairs. We are at the top of the stairs, in an elegant loft studio. If you would like to add to your Karma Yoga (serving others, to join with the highest self) and Moon Haven, bring a candle or plant to welcome life and warmth to our "Haven".
Namaste.
MEDITATION WORKSHOP July, 20, 6:00-7:30pm, $15
Our Meditation Workshop will focus on devotional chanting, chakras, and, well, meditation. Proceeds go toward our local Catoosa County Children's Fund. Come and Meditate for a Cause.
RED TENT GATHERING / HERBAL HEALING WOMENS WORKSHOP July, 27, 6:30-8:30pm, $22
Our Red Tent Gathering will focus on reproductive health and preventing reproductive cancers. We will also learn more about how to feel better in our bodies through the wise-woman ways of making herbal infusions and focusing on the 4 categories of herbs. We will smudge with sage, sing, pass the talking stick around, and support each other as we gain new ways of thinking and caring for ourselves.
NEW KI YOGA CLASS We would like to welcome our newest Yoga Instructor, Connie Chang!!! Connie will be teaching Ki Yoga on Thursdays at 5:30pm. Click here to read more about Ki Yoga and Connie.
COUPLES YOGA The next Couples Yoga class will meet Friday, July 25, from 6:30-7:45pm and is only $20 per couple. Registration is required one week in advance. Now that we have our new studio we have room for 2 more couples so if you know you want to attend this month, please pre-register to reserve your spot. Just drop us a note and let us know you are planning on attending.
YOGA DVDs FOR SALE! We now have 2 yoga DVDs for sale that are created by Moon Haven Studio's own Lori Bilbrey and the Ringgold Telephone Company. They are $13 each and part of the proceeds go toward helping women in need. We accept paypal, check, or cash. We hope you enjoy.
Restorative Yoga This video helps you to unwind, restore, let go, and open your heart to a more relaxed sense of well being. Included are instructions on the use of props, breathing, centering, gentle yoga, and deep relaxation. "Lori is not only teaching technique, she is changing people's lives."
Power Flow Yoga This video leads you through basic flow breathing, movement, a classic sun salutation, a "yummy hip opener", strengthening, balancing, and inversion so that you become more empowered. You will get your heart rate up a little as you combine exercise with yoga, and then slow down and restore during deep relaxation.
LA LECHE LEAGUE MEETINGS The Ringgold chapter of La Leche League (mother-to-mother sharing and breast feeding support) meets the first Thursday of every month. Contact Katie Williams at 706-891-KIDS for more info.
THAI MASSAGE We have 2 massage therapists:
Tiffany Nation - Thai Massage, $55 423-447-2918
Andrea Carter - Thai Massage, $55 423-385-9007
NEW TEACHERS DESIRED We are currently looking for teachers of yoga, dance, or any form of healing or performing art that empowers women. Workshops, new classes, and even substitutes for classes already ongoing are desired. If you are interested or have an idea to propose, please contact Lori Bilbrey at 706-965-6650. Thanks.
MOON HAVEN NATURAL PRODUCTS FOR SALE !!! Premium & organic herbs, teas, tinctures, aromatherapy, candles, natural personal care, soaps, massage oils, body butter, and more. These items are so yummy and natural that not only could you eat them, you are helping our only Mother Earth, and that feels nice. We can order just about anything you are looking for, just let us know.
SCHOLARSHIPS Moon Haven offers one scholarship each session to a woman in need. Please submit the person's name (it can even be you), address, phone, situation and a private, unannounced to anyone else, decision will be made. Please, if you know someone or you are going through a tough time, don't hesitate to apply for the Karma Yoga Scholarship or the Gypsy Dance Scholarship. We are now offering Work Scholarships too.
Tip of the Month
Tip of the Month
How to Deal With Soreness
In the classical eightfold path of yoga, it is no accident that ahimsa (nonviolence) is the first yama (restraint) to observe—ahimsa is the heart and essence of yoga. When we sustain an injury, we have distanced ourselves from this concept. However, an injury offers a chance to return to the place of compassion, sweetness, and patience that ahimsa encourages.
It is crucial to avoid reinjuring yourself. This does not mean you must stop practicing, but you should modify your practice. Try to assess the origin of your injury—maybe your hamstrings are weak and your quadriceps are not working to support them. Or maybe your knees hyperextend or you've been lifting and spreading the sitting bones too much.
Hamstring pulls respond well to strengthening work, so you might want to work with bent-leg standing poses, like Utkatasana (Chair Pose) and Virabhadrasana I and II (Warrior Pose I and II); increase the amount of time you normally hold them for. Also do backbending poses, like Salabhasana (Locust Pose) and Dhanurasana (Bow Pose), which more specifically teach you how to contract and lift the hamstrings
If your knees hyperextend (or to find out if they do), come into Uttanasana (Standing Forward Bend) with your heels and the backs of your legs against a wall. Press down through the four corners of the feet evenly and lift the inner and outer ankles. Work to lift and engage both the fronts and the backs of your legs. If your calves touch the wall first, learn to move the tops of the thighs to the wall faster then the calves. This will teach you to correctly stack the upper and lower legs.
If the pain is close to where the hamstring attaches to the sitting bone, you may be lifting or spreading your sitting bones too far apart. Tie a belt around the injured area. In Uttanasana, keep the hips directly over your heels and firm the sides of your thighs toward the centerline of your body. Avoid overextending the muscle by drawing the fronts and backs of the thighs up evenly.
In seated asanas, place a folded sticky mat under your knee. This will alleviate the pain and prevent reinjury. Spread your calves to widen the backs of the knees and learn to ground your femurs.
And remember: Injuries are best healed under the guidance of a qualified teacher.
Prenatal Tip of the Month
Prenatal Yoga Benefits
Prenatal Yoga focuses a lot on opening the hips, creating more space for baby, releasing and stretching the lower back, relaxation skills, and pranayama (breath). By using and stretching the muscles you'll be needing during birth, you will essentially be making labor easier. And I have had many women tell me after birth that pre-natal yoga was the number one best thing they did during pregnancy to prepare for birth.
Prenatal Yoga also benefits your unborn baby - when you experience peace and relaxation, so will your babe.
While pregnant your body produces a hormone called relaxin which is intended to soften your inflexible bones and ligaments to make room for your growing baby and to prepare for birth. Avoid stretching further than you normally do, you don't want to pull a muscle.
Come to Prenatal Yoga class so you'll be able to get your questions answered. It's also a great way to meet new moms - to share with women who know exactly what you're going through.
Serving North Georgia and Chattanooga. From I-75 take the Ringgold/LaFayette Exit #348 and head North onto Highway 151 (turn right from I-75 north, left from I-75 south). Go 1 mile to highway 41 and turn right. Go through 3 more lights into downtown Ringgold. Turn right and go to the Cleburne building which has a purple JAZ sign. Park in the large Shop-Rite / Fred's parking lot near the road. Moon Haven Studio is on the second floor of the Cleburne building, above the bike shop. Enter in from the doors to the right of the bike shop and go up the stairs to the first space.
Moon Haven Studio
9 Legion St.,
Ringgold, GA 30736
phone: 706-965-6650
website: www.moonhavenstudio.com
email: lori@moonhavenstudio.com
