A Gentle Way Yoga in San Diego | La Mesa | Tierrasanta for beginners, plus sizes, teacher training, hatha yoga and pilates.

A Gentle Way®
Yoga & Joyful Movement Center
Stress Management Experts, Yoga Therapy, Gentle Yoga, Traditional Hatha Yoga &
Meditation In Movement Style ® Hatha Yoga with Lanita Varshell & other great teachers.
Student & Teacher Training Center
We will be closed Monday, Labor Day, September 1st















	Baby Classes & Prenatal Yoga
	Belly Dance with Katherine

START HERE: Newcomers Workshops
September 21st
2008 Student Form
(requires Acrobat Reader)

Have FUN
staying fit:
FREE
Chair Yoga
Classes
taught by Lanita
Lakeside Community Center
Tuesdays: 10:30am
September 2 & 16
&
Santee Library with Evelyn
Each Fridays in September: 10:30am
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Laughter Yoga
Saturday
September 6th
RESERVATONS REQUIRED
6:00pm
Laughter Yoga
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Discover an amazing technology - Amethyst Crystal Bio Mat

A GENTLE WAY YOGA & JOYFUL MOVEMENT CENTER
Just 20 minutes from the ocean in
sunny San Diego
5316 Baltimore Drive. La Mesa, CA. 91942

619-698-1170 agentleway@sbcglobal.net

from the desk of Lanita Varshell...

WHY WE TAKE OUR SHOES OFF and WASH OUR FEET

There are many different styles of yoga, and many different types of Yoga Centers. A Gentle Way is a “health and healing place.” For 7 years we have walked into these doors, taken our shoes off, and got on our yoga mats or down to soft blankets on the floor to begin this marvelous health and healing practice. We have created a sacred space. Many people can sense of the energy of the moment they walk in. We are here to let go, relax, renew, restore, release, and re-build. We are here to strengthen, and to soften. We are here at our yoga home to balance tightness and flexibility; and to balance body, mind, breath, and spirit.

A few years ago I added the washing of your feet before you step into our yoga room. This was done for several reasons. I saw students rushing into the Studio, many times late; so frantic they would sometimes even forget to take off their shoes or turn their cells phones off; bringing a trail of chaos with them into our healing space, and bringing un-cleanliness into our sacred healing room. Now, by knowing that they will need to slow down and wash their feet before setting up for class, most of our long time students arrive early, not rushing - even taking time to get to know each other before class, creating a wonderful yoga community of friends that look forward to seeing each other each week.

Washing someone’s feet is a sign of respect and reverence to that person; so when a student takes the time to wash their OWN feet, it is allowing them to give to THEMSELVES the type of honor and respect they would like from others.

This practice took some students a little while to get used to, but almost everyone loves it now. It keeps our Center and its props much cleaner, and it is much more fun in Gentle Yoga Classes to massage CLEAN feet! We even have a dear student that gifts us with more foot wipes each time to goes to Costco!

If slowing down is an ADVANCED practice for you, then keep practicing! I promise it will get easier and easier, and you will soon begin to understand the many physical, emotional, and spiritual benefits that slowing down your life and yoga practice can provide.

Many blessings!

Lanita Varshell
Owner and Founder

If you are new to yoga, or slowing down, then call us to find out what the best way to get started would be for you. If you are a SERIOUS STUDENT of yoga, or a YOGA TEACHER; consider taking Lanita’s purple Meditation in Movement Style Classes, or a special February 2009 training with world re-known writer and teacher Judith Hansen-Lasater. JHLRestorative Flyer