Events


Ayureka! Family Health: Keeping Everyone Healthy
Sat. Sept. 11
with Elizabeth Stites, Certified Ayurvedic Practitioner

Saturday, Sept. 11th
12:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
$30 in advance / $35 at the door
Attendance at “What the Heck is Ayurveda?” is recommended prior to this workshop.


September is a transition month. It has been a long, hot summer. The seasonal change brings everyone’s attention back inside as cooler days set in. Our schedules ramp up, creating additional levels of stress. It is easy to feel depleted as we transition into Autumn.

For families, it is even more of a challenge. Heading back to school often means a rash of sickness for the little ones. No matter how hard we try, keeping our children healthy is a tough challenge with a schoolyard full of germs.

Family Health focuses on helping all of us stay healthy, especially during those challenging seasonal transitions. This 3-hour workshop overviews Ayurvedic wellness concepts and explains how they can be easily applied to better our lives. Ayurveda provides tried-and-true principles for simple, daily lifestyle decisions. Participants—whether a single person or parent of several children—will leave this Ayureka! session with practical ideas and “action items” to keep their lives—and their children’s lives—healthy and in balance.



About Liz

Throughout her career, Elizabeth Stites has based her professional success on bringing new, and sometimes overlooked, practices to traditional challenges. Her strong interest in individual wellbeing led her from business to the practice of Ayurveda. A graduate of the Kripalu School of Ayurveda in Massachusetts, Elizabeth studied under some of the world’s leading Ayurvedic teachers and practitioners. From this, she incorporates techniques that have been accepted for thousands of years in the East, with a practical approach for today’s Western living.








Yoga and Your Moody Brain: A Love Story
with Becky Krebs, eRYT200
Sun. Sept. 12

Sunday, Sept. 12
1 - 3:30 pm
$35 in adv. / $40 at the door

Join Becky Krebs for a fascinating look at the link between yoga and neuroplasticity, the brain’s ability to change itself! Learn how yoga stimulates the anatomic structures of the brain, transforms brain chemistry, and helps you balance and clarify thought, mood and emotions. Complete with a practice to embody the teachings, understand your complicated mind…and simply fall in love with yoga all over again.

Cost includes an Indian Head Wrap for use during the practice (Wait until you try it, you are gonna love it!) CECs available for Yoga Alliance RYT200.

About Becky

Becky Krebs holds an ERYT200 and works with students and teachers of all levels. She currently teaches yoga classes in the Yellow Springs, Dayton, and Columbus communities. Becky has lived in several parts of the US, is an avid outdoor enthusiast, and shares strength and humor from her life experiences. She has studied with a number of inspirational teachers in the past several years; she considers the work of Angela Farmer, Doug Keller, Lisa Clark, and and Erich Schiffman as influential in allowing her “a true experience of a familiar, ancient resonance within myself, a merging with yoga that I hoped was possible, and then was thrilled to find teachers who encouraged me to make it so!". Becky’s enthusiasm for spiritual seeking and for her work as a mental health therapist weaves a sense of hope, healing, and insightful understanding of personal struggle into her Yoga teaching.








New Beginner Clinic with Karen
Sat. Sept. 18










Saturday, Sept. 18
12:OO p.m. – 2:15 p.m.
$25 in adv. / $3O at the door

Never done a single yoga pose? Perfect. Not sure your right from your left? Excellent. This clinic will give you everything you need to rid yourself of that “deer-in-the-headlights” look and replace it with a knowing smile when you go to your first official yoga class.

This clinic will take you through the staple postures of a yoga practice and teach you how to do them in proper alignment for where your body is right now. You’ll learn some yoga terminology and find out why and how yoga can offer so much more to you than just physical benefits. And who knew… it’s just plain fun!

Wear comfortable clothing, don’t worry about whether your shoes match (you’ll take them off anyway), and bring your sense of humor and adventure with you. If you don’t have a yoga mat, we can provide one for you.

Karen Johns, RYT has taught New Beginner classes here at Shine for years and loves to help brand new students discover how yoga can open up new worlds for them. She has been practicing yoga for more than a decade and teaching for 7 years.







An Evening of Classical Indian Music
with Hans Utter, sitar & Jim Feist, tabla
Sat. Sept. 25

Saturday, Sept. 25
7:30pm
$15 at the door
To see and hear Hans and Jim, please click
here.

The heart of the Indian Classical Music tradition is the knowledge passed down from generation to generation in the vessel of the gharana. Hans Utter has studied intensively in India for the past 9 years in the tradition of the Imdad Khan gharana, passed down for 7 generations, under the tutelage of Ustad Sujaat Khan, son of Ustad Viliyat Khan, the world renowned sitarist. To learn more about Hans and his music, visit www.hansutter.com


Jim Feist has been performing and teaching the tabla for the last 20 years. He has traveled to India for extended stays to learn tabla from the late, legendary Ustad Allah Rakha, and Vibhav Nageshkar. For the past decade Jim has been under the tutelage of Ustad Allah Rakha's celebrated disciple, Pandit Yogesh Samsi. To learn more about Jim and his music, visit www.classicaltabla.com


Melt into autumn... Restorative Yoga & Live Music
with Bev & Karen
Sunday, Sept. 26



Sun. Sept. 26
4:30 - 6:00pm
Use your class pass, or drop in for $15

Transitions. The change of seasons. They go hand-in hand. Please join Karen and Bev for this beautiful practice where effort gets left outside the door and grace is at play with the body to open and support you. Allow yourself the time to melt into an easy, natural flow so that stresses can begin to melt away. All they need is a little encouragement, and a little time. While your body begins to let go, Karen will chant some ancient mantras that invoke vibrations for healing, peace and connection to Self. The physical letting-go combined with the vibratory aural experience of live devotional chanting is a combination that will invite you into a new realm of peace and calm.

About Bev...
Bev has transformed the Restorative program at Shine from something a handful of people do on occasion, to something a growing crowd of people find absolutely essential at the start of a new week. Bev's creative abilities as a writer, lover of literature and teacher come together as she infuses her classes with skill and a thoughtful distribution of readings that her audience comes back for again and again. She taps into an intrinsic need we all have to take much-needed time to nurture ourselves and savor the moments we have to be here.

About Karen...
Karen finds ancient mantras and writes and arranges music as the vehicle to deliver them. Her voice resonates with her harmonium creating simple melodies with a backdrop of rich contemporary chords. She chants at home in preparation for meditation at Shine in her classes. Her cd Saprema is available at Shine, and if you'd like to sample it, go to www.cdbaby.com.