New drop in classes at Nurture Yoga in Dublin

I am happy to announce my affiliation with a new yoga studio, Nurture Yoga. http://www.nurture-yoga.com/
This one year old yoga studio will move over Thanskgiving weekend to:
 6017 Post Road, Dublin, OH 43017.

I will teach a six week series on Monday at 9:30 and offer drop in classes Wednesday morning at 10am. Please come to visit this sweet space. I'll be teaching with three great friends, Mary Coleman, Jennifer Gleichauf, and Joanne Morrissey.

See Nurture's whole schedule here: http://www.nurture-yoga.com/Schedule---Fees.html

New Saturday class at Lifestyle Communities, Dublin

Happy to offer Saturday clases once again in Dublin at Lifestyle Communites OM Fitness Club. http://omfitnessclub.com/ This is a brand new facility. I'll include some photos of the new digs tomorrow after my visit. Yes, you do need to be a resident or know one to attend the class. Live in or near Dublin and looking for a  drop in class? Lucky you! I teach five classes weekly in Dublin. Three of them are at the Dublin Community Rec Center. Register here for those classes: http://dublinohiousa.gov/recreation-services/ See my next post about the NEW DROP in classes in Dublin!

Yoga Journal conference

Important note to my current fabulous yoga students:
I mentioned this in class this week, I'll be away at the Yoga Journal Conference in Estes Park Colorado from October 2 to late on October 8.

I plan to return all charged up and ready to practice and teach yoga. Consider taking time for yourself as the seasons change and we return to shorter days and cooler nights.
*OWU Classes on Thursday, October 4 are cancelled. All other classes will have guest teachers.

I plan to attend the conference with Dawn from Mockingbird Meadows. Thank you, Dawn.

Fall Wellness Celebration

Would you enjoy a long afternoon of renewal including a farm fresh meal, an outdoor yoga class, and a honey and herb farm tour? Join The Duke of Fork Personal Chef Service and me at Mockingbird Meadows, Honey and Herb Farm on October 21. We'll dine outdoors on this beautiful biodynamic farm. Chef Mark will create a delectable fall feast for us to enjoy. Click on this link to reserve your place http://www.mockingbirdmeadows.com/shop/fall-wellness-celebration/.

*Girl's* Day Out Sunday, Sept. 30

Can you use a little get-away? Join me at Mockingbird Meadows, Honey and Herb Farm Sunday for an outdoor yoga class and some herbal remedies. The forecast is 73 degrees on Sunday. How perfect!

Thank you for your support

Thank you so much for joining me at Align and Wine at Powell Village Winery this week.

On behalf of my husband, The Duke of Fork and myself we thank you for practicing yoga, savoring tasty treats, and drinking wine at The Powell Village Winery. It was great celebration of my ten year anniversary of being a  yoga teacher!

Many of you asked how you could attend my classes on a  regular basis. Thank you. One very reasonably priced way to do this is to take a  session through the Dublin Park and Rec. Dept. In fact a session begins tomorrow, Thursday, Sept 13 at 7:30 pm and runs for the next 6 weeks. This Thursday class is held in the Senior room at the Rec. Center. It is NOT a senior class, we've just been granted this great room for the class. If Mondays are better for your schedule, a new session begins this Monday, Sept 17 at 7pm in the small fitness room. So it is the same day and time as our class the other day. Call the Center to register at 614-410-4550. These classes will not be followed by prepared food and onsite wine, but the yoga portion of the evening will be very similar!

Chef Mark and I have an upcoming Yoga Farm to Table dinner planned for October 21 at beautiful Mockingbird Meadows in Marysville.

Details coming soon about this unique way to celebrate autumn by doing yoga outdoors then enjoying a freshly prepared meal with many of our autumn favorite foods. Discover why Mockingbird Meadows http://www.mockingbirdmeadows.com/ is called Central Ohio's Premier Herbal Health Farm.

Please follow me https://www.facebook.com/loretta.zedella

and Chef Mark https://www.facebook.com//The-Duke-of-Fork-Personal-Chef-Service/#!/pages/The-Duke-of-Fork-Personal-Chef-Service/144989938940981 on Facebook.

I look forward to seeing you again soon.

Peace,

Loretta Zedella

www.LorettaYoga.com

www.TheDukeofFork.com

Align and Wine

I am celebrating ten years of being a yoga teacher! Please help me mark this milestone with Align and Wine.

*Click on invitation to view more clearly.*

Join me at the beautiful Powell Village Winery for an hour of yoga, followed by

two glasses of wine AND food prepared by my husband, The Duke of Fork. www.TheDukeofFork.com

You know it will be a fun time. Allow yoga, wine and healthy eats to melt your

stress away and help you to feel fabulous!

Disbursing funds from Yoga Outreach spring event

Thank you yogis!
It was my honor to deliver the checks to our three charities who benefited from Yoga Outreach Columbus spring event. If you were a part of Yoga Outreach, you helped make these donations possible. Please let me know if you'd like to accompany me as I share these checks again next year.

 Yoga Outreach Columbus is very happy to provide assistance to People In Need, Inc. of Delaware County. "Loretta Zedella, founder of Yoga Outreach Columbus, delivers a check to Lula Mae Downerd, Food Pantry Manager at People In Need, Inc. of Delaware County Ohio. This donation will allow PIN to purchase over $2,000 worth of food through the Mid-Ohio Food Bank. It was made possible through the generous support of yoga practitioners who attended Yoga Outreach Columbus event at Ohio Wesleyan University this spring. Thanks to all of the generous Central Ohio yoga volunteers who made made this donation possible."

Representing Yoga Outreach volunteers, I delivered a donation to Andy Murphy of  Mid-Ohio Foodbank.

Did you know that the demand for food has climbed forty-six percent over the past five years--reflecting the effects of high unemployment? Each of us who gathered to practice yoga on April 1 helped others right here in our community.

Finally our international bhnefactor: Yoga Outreach Columbus is happy to provide over $1000 assistance to Off the Mat, Into the World™ through Global Wristband Project. Thus far in 2012, GWP has raised more than $30,000 to help victims of human traffiking and to help prevent traffiking, particualrly in India.

The Duke of Fork at Powell Village Winery

I'll be assisting The Duke of Fork at this event:

This promises to be a very fun event. Tickets are selling quite briskly.

Thank you if you have already bought your ticket. The two of us have several other events in the planning...

Summer Yoga offerings!

FREE OUTDOOR YOGA WITH LORETTA this Saturday June 2! This Saturday is my birthday. Woo-hoo! My gift to you is to celebrate with yoga outdoors at Highbanks Metropark at 9:30AM in Oak Coves Picnic area. Join me in a partially shady area near the first picnic area on your right near restrooms (pictoral directions below). This class kicks off three Saturday classes at Highbabnks Metropark on Saturdays at 9:30. This slow flow yoga class is outdoors so we can truly salute the sun!   

Also beginning next week, Tuesdays at noon in the Norman Vincent Peale chapel on OWU campus. Very happy to continue classes at Kinsale Golf and Country Club on Mondays at 1pm, Dublin Rec. Center on Monday at 7pm and Thursdays at 6:30 and 7:30 and at Verizon Wireless on Wednesdays.

Thank you for your continued support and encouragement. I have some openings for your summer gatherings. What a  fun  activity to add to your family reunion, wedding shower, or party.

I'm also collaborating with The Duke of Fork Personal Chef Service, Royally good vegetarian cuisine made in your home. The Duke and I can add a wonderfully healthy twist to your next gathering. More info here: http://thedukeoffork.com/

Detailed directions to yoga class in Highbanks Metropark on Saturday:

Enter Highbanks, take first left turn to Oak Cove Picnic area:

Drive to the third small parking area. You'll see this restroom and play equipment on your right.

This is the yoga site, Oak Cove Picnic area. It is a nice grassy area that is quite level.

You can choose partial or full shade.

After yoga on my birthday, we'll enjoy a sample of foods created by The Duke of Fork!

(I gave the spot a test run this morning from 9:30 to 10:30. It was fab.)

Please just grab that yoga mat and meet me. Thanks.

College student honest opinions about yoga

This is the end of my ninth year teaching yoga to college students at Ohio Wesleyan University. The classes numbers have ranged in size from eleven to 40 students. The students experience moving yoga starting on day one. They write responses regularly, print and complete two different alignment video guides, share reasons to practice yoga, label yoga pose guides, experience at least three other yoga teachers either live or via audio, video, or skype, and write a final paper exploring two yoga poses in depth. At the end of the final essay each student is asked to offer his or her honest opinion about yoga. Some of those comments are below. College student honest opinons about yoga after practicing twice weekly for eight or sixteen weeks. These keep me motivated and help me to believe that I was meant to teach this.

From Emma B

My honest evaluation of Yoga is that it is priceless, as are its benefits. I enjoy immensely the reward I feel after a class. The stretch and strengthening I feel give my body a sense of rejuvenation I get cannot be found in anything else. It does challenge me, but in a positive and constructive way. I feel very centered and relaxed and entirely less stressed during any time of mental strain. I plan to continue yoga through the rest of college and hopefully after as well. I am excited for the summer to purchase or rent some DVDs and introduce the art of yoga to my boyfriend (e works a labor job and often complains of shoulder, neck, and back pain. When I suggest to him to try yoga, he says he is not able to do yoga. I am excited to show him how wrong he is)! I enjoy seeing the things my body is able to do and enjoy challenging it to do a little more each class. I love surprising myself with how flexible and durable my body is. Lastly, I am able to reflect on my life and myself while realizing what is truly important. Yoga gives me the strength to give myself time to let go of the nonsense and the things in life I can’t help and to thank myself for everything I do.

From Andrew C

When starting yoga I wanted to gain strength in all aspects of life. This included mind and body. This is exactly what is happening since I started. I really am trying my best to listen to the instructor and do what I am told even though sometimes it is very hard for me. I am not the most flexible person in the world and after many years of raining for two sports both football and baseball I have lost a lot of flexibility. I have added some muscle but I would like to be able to move a little better than I do though. Another thing that I need to work on as a yoga student is the fact of stress relief. I am a science major and take a lot of tough classes in the years’ time. I have been looking for a way to relieve stress and keep a level head throughout my time here at OWU. Yoga was something that I thought was just not for guys like me and for more girls than anything. Now I realize that I can do yoga and plan on doing it in the future. Thanks for a great semester.

From Samantha DJ

This being my second module of yoga, I feel that I am up for more of a challenge but I am also finding this module to be more of a challenge even though I am doing the same things. That might be because of external factors though. It’s definitely helping me to relax in my final weeks and days of my senior year so I look forward to going to class to relieve stress. I am also looking at the class as less of a “weight loss” class and obtaining more of a mindset of strengthening and stretching parts of my body and relaxing my mind. As I have said in my previous final essay, I will most definitely pursue yoga classes after I graduate to continue in a relaxed mindset as I move out into “real life.”

From Sarah DJ

Yoga gives me the opportunity to relax and to let my body stretch, strengthen, and be silent. I loved Yoga I and so I decided to take Yoga II. This time I feel that I was less ready for the challenge. I have had a very tough semester academically, personally, and financially. I have been so busy rushing from task to task day to day that I never have a chance to stop. That is how I came into this module and the class is forcing me to take a few minutes and stop. Overall, I think the practice is wonderful and it challenges me and I love it. Thanks for everything!

New Saturday Yoga class!

New year, new Yoga class.

Happy New Year yoga friends!

I am very pleased to announce a new Saturday morning yoga class this winter for any community member.

Join me each Saturday morning at 10am for a 75 minute yoga class in the Peale Chapel on OWU campus.

We in the FIT OWU program have kept the cost low so many can afford to take the time to care for themselves. This class will have a similar format as the noon Tuesday and Thursday FIT OWU yoga class that will continue in the Branch Rickey Gym. We know how busy your workweek can be. During some weeks it is just not possible to get away even for a 50 minute lunchtime yoga class.

Cost just $60 prepaid for all eight weeks during the eight week module.*

You can also drop in for just $10 per session.

*We are encouraging you to make a commitment with the pay in advance option to earn the two free classes!

Bring a friend for a first class free. (Yes, spouses are encouraged to attend first class free.)

All Saturday classes will be in the Peale Chapel except where noted:
Jan. 14
Jan. 21
Jan. 28 Ham Will Room 311
Feb. 4
Feb. 11 Ham Will Benes C
Feb. 18
Feb. 25
Mar. 3

Thank you for your interest. Please pass the word along to anyone who may be interested in this opportunity to move in a way that aids in range of motion and ease of movement.



www.LorettaYoga.com

*The road to feeling healthy does not have to be a torture or something that one resents. Come and experience moving in way that feels good to you! You are most likely subject to some bad humor along the way. Consider yourself warned. :)

**This yoga class may contain large sections of habit forming fun activities.

Roller Derby: Tension Release and Body Alignment Workshop

Join Loretta Zedella for this two hour class Jan. 20 or 22, 2012

Have you ever felt that tightness in hamstrings, shoulders, or IT Band is prohibiting your enjoyment of certain movements on or off of the mat? We'll explore these issues and more as we use foam rollers, tennis balls, bolsters, belts and blankets to release tension from the body.


How might our habits of standing, sitting, and bending lead to this tension in our body? Let’s examine many of the common alignment issues we experience. We’ll explore how sitting in front of computers, in dining chairs, and in the car can cause hips, shoulders, and neck to misalign. Once the bones line up, the muscles tendons and joints as well as vital organs can also realign for optimal efficiency. Once they align, so can our energetic system. We’ll establish our range of motion and what we can do to enhance that.

Return home with handouts and skills to practice these simple and specific realigning techniques that can lead to more ease, a higher sense of well being, and more restful sleep.

Workshops will take place on Friday evening, January 20 & Sunday afternoon, January 22. Preregistration and prepayment required. Cost is $30 before January 18 & $35 after. Please register online www.VillageYogaPowell.com or call Village Yoga: 614.484.1575.