Fascia Release Workshop Sunday Jan 19

I am so excited to announce one of the first yoga workshop/cooking demo combos for 2014. Sunday, January 19 at 12:45PM I will be at Balanced Yoga offering "Facial Release workshop" as I share tips to release tension from the body using foam rollers, small therapy balls, and other simple props. Each participant receives two small therapy balls and tools to use them. You can then stay as I become the Duchess during The Duke of Fork's 3pm workshop "From Yoga Mat to Placemat: Cook Well, Eat Well, Be Well" featuring a live cooking demo and samples of health supportive, plant-based foods. Healthy eating and movement will definitely help with New Year's resolutions and help you to feel great all year long. Sign up for either workshop, or register for both and you receive a discount! Click the link below for full details.
http://www.balancedyogastudios.com/?q=fascia-release-loretta-zedella

Happy new year!

Thank you from the Duchess

Big hearty thanks to all of you who have attended a cooking class/food demo with The Duke of Fork. We just concluded our fourth cooking demo in five days! What a fun week we've had sharing the goodness of plant-based cuisine.

Thanks for joining us at Stratford Ecological Center on Saturday for a special class dedicated to fresh foods for Thanksgiving. It was extra special to prepare a butternut squash soup prepered with a squash grown onsite.


Chef Mark cuts the home grown butternut squash


Monday's sold out cooking demo at Powell Village Winery  was a fun way to learn tips on Healthy Holiday Favorites. We savored a few samples as we enjoyed two glasses of wine from the winery's great selection.



The great crowded Powell Village Winery. It's always fun and sometimes rowdy here!

Loretta demonstrates the delicious raw cacao dessert at Wyandotte Winery 

 



At Ohio Wesleyan University, Chef Mark's delicious skillet meal was shown on the big screen for a whole crowd to view! After the cooking class about 80 members and guests of the PHAT, Peer Health Advocacy Team ate a meal prepared by Chartwells using chef Mark's recipes.  

Fall news

Thank you to all who invited me to share yoga at summer events and camps.

From Girl Scout troops to college family weekends, yoga was enjoyed
by many people who invited me to share playful yoga classes with
people of all ages. I love teaching yoga to groups like this. I was
honored to teach yoga to three different week long camper groups
at OWjL Camp. These middle school age people  are curious,active and animated.Thanks for joining me at :
outdoor yoga classes at Mockingbird Meadows . The "Girls Day out" events are always
restorative.  It was also my joy to teach two private groups; one book club and a wedding
shower under the pear tree of this beautiful honey and herb farm.

Indoor classes continue throughout the city. Join me at Balanced Yoga  each Monday at
noon. Drop in any week or get a pass. I'm marking a  decade of work at Ohio Wesleyan University.
You are welcome to join the noon FIT OWU class. Classes are ongoing on Monday and Thursday
evenings at Dublin Recreation Center each week and with private classes.  Details at http://lorettayoga.com/schedule.htm 
This January offering foam roller and small therapy ball workshops at Balanced Yoga and Nurture Yoga.

I am buoyed by my recent workshop with Erich Schiffmann. I've taken his long weekend workshop
bi-annually for eight years now. I am also very inspired by my travels with Mark and the incredible
locations I've been fortunate enough to practice yoga. This past May we spent nearly three weeks
traversing the country, some of it along the old Route 66 route. Arches and Canyonlands National
Parks are solid proof that we are lucky being on an incredible planet. Thank you for making my life
richer. If that sounds too corny and sentimental, please color it with language that resonates with
you. So happy we are part of one big cool team!
Thank you.
Namaste.

Teaching outdoors this Sunday!

Please join me this Sunday, Sept 8 from 1 to 4:30 at Mockingbird Meadows for Girls Day Out. :) Please click that link for more info about this idyllic location for a leisurely afternoon filled with outdoor yoga, facials, hennas, and a stroll around the biodynamic farm!

Assisting The Duke of Fork

Recently I've been assisting my husband, The Duke of Fork. While I assist him I am known as the Duchess of Fork. I have come to love this moniker. On the day this photo was taken I assisted The Duke at a Nationwide Insurance work group meeting at Highbanks Metropark. We've met so many great people while working together. Big thanks to all who have joined us in spreading the joy of plant-based cuisine!

Vacation

Did you take a summer vacation? My husband, The Duke of Fork, and I drove all the way from  Ohio to Colorado and Utah for vacation. We visited  three national parks: Canyonlands is pictured here.

Summer yoga: OWjL camp for middle schoolers

How is your summer? Does it seem to be flying past? Mine does!

During June I taught three sections of teen yoga at OWjL Camp at Ohio Wesleyan University.

Cyndi Lee teaches at OWU

Huge thanks to Cyndi Lee for teaching at Ohio Wesleyan University on the last day of the 2012-2013 school year. It was an honor to host Cyndi Lee as some other semesters we have listened to her audio CD. Staff and student yoga friends whom I normally teach were grateful to experience this internationally respected yoga author, teacher, and lecturer. — at Ohio Wesleyan University.

Cyndi Lee teaching at OWU Thursday, May 2 Benes Room A

A fabulous yoga teacher whom I have admired for years has accepted my invitation to teach at Ohio Wesleyan University on our last scheduled day of class of the school year.

Cyndi Lee is teaching at OWU this Thursday at noon and at 1:10 and you are invited. To help defray the cost of her visit, the public is invited to take a class. The noon class is for OWU staff and community members. The 1:10pm, 90 minute class is normally a student for-credit class. Come and decompress with one of the most respected teachers today. With a $10 or more donation you can take the class of your choice. This class is in Benes room A in the Hamilton Williams Student Center.

Thank you Central Ohio Yoga Community!

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Thank you for helping us fill this room with a whole lot of FEEL GOOD! We reach out doing yoga and helping others all before noon on a Sunday at Yoga Outreach Columbus at Ohio Wesleyan University.

 

From the Yoga Outreach blog:  "THANK YOU to everyone who made today's yoga class and gathering so great. Thank you to each person who came to practice yoga and celebrate community. Your presence means so much to so many. Thanks to the sponsoring independent yoga studios listed on this thank you poster: Center for Wholeness, Nurture Yoga, Balanced Yoga, Yoga on High, PAI Yoga & Fitness, Village Yoga, Grow Yoga, GoYoga, On the Square Yoga and ShivaShakti Synthesis. Thanks also to our small buiness partners It was so generous of them to sponsor our charitable gathering: The Duke of Fork Personal Chef Service. Studio79 Photography, Thewolfenet.com web hosting, Mary Faeth DDS & Lisa Mitchell DDS  And big thanks to our host, Ohio Wesleyan University. Special shout out to Loretta Zedella and the yoga community on campus who donated food and drink so we could relax and enjoy ourselves before and after the practice. More pics coming soon...Namaste."

I'm so grateful to each of you who came from many different parts of town for this one big yoga celebration! Thank you to the yoga teachers who joined me for this one big charity class. Here are the six yoga class instructors making their final preparations before class begins.— with Mary Coleman, Elizabeth Miller, Michael Murphy, Abby Dorn, Loretta Zedella and Constance Caldwell Piwtorak at Ohio Wesleyan University.

The Duchess of Fork

I'm so grateful for my new title, "The Duchess of Fork." I earned this moniker by assiting my husband, Chef Mark, The Duke of Fork. We come to yor kitchen to provide a fun cooking workshop that ends with a  delicious meal. The author of the article below details one of these in-home cooking parties.

Join us for cooking classes at Stratford Ecological Center called: Farm to Fork:
Cooking with Seasonal Ingredients.  March 23, June 22, September 21, and November 16
1pm - 3pm, 30/class (limit 24)  The first class sold out!
*Please click on the graphic to read the entire article.* 

This great article about food, cooking demos, and the classes, was in the Delaware Gazette.

Girl scout yoga

Thank you to the six different Girl Scout leaders who invited me to teach their scouts this season. What fun we had with animal yoga, active poses, breathing sequences, partner poses and relaxation yoga. It has been my honor to guide these great young ladies. Looking forward to more scout groups in the future!

Yoga Outreach Columbus

For the third year I am very hapy to be teaching with six other local yoga instructors at the area's happiest celebration of yoga!   Yoga Outreach Columbus.

Please join us on Sudnay April 28, 2013 at 10am at Ohio Wesleyan University.

Tickets are available at Village Yoga, Center for Wholeness, Nurture Yoga, Balanced Yoga, Yoga on High,  Grow Yoga, On the Square Yoga, 
GoYoga, ShivaShakti Synthesis, and PAI Yoga & Fitness.

Or purchase with a credit card by by clinking on this here:

http://yogaoutreach.thewolfenet.com/paypal.asp

Restorative Yoga

Would you welcome two hours to do nothing but decompress? Join me this Sunday, Mar 2, noon to 2pm at Nurture Yoga for Restorative Yoga.

Tension Relese Body Alignment workshop

Join Loretta Zedella for this two hour class Sunday Feb 3 2013 at Nurture Yoga.
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 Sunday afternoon, Feb 3 from 1 to 3 pm. Preregistration and prepayment required. Cost is $30 before Feb 1 & $35 after. Please register online www.nurture-yoga.com or email me at YogawithLoretta(at symbol)hotmail.com. Thank you