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Chase Bossart Yoga & Meditation Weekend: the Pathway to Unlimited Joy

Open Your Heart & Clear Your Mind
Chase Bossart returns to Chicago for what promises to be an unique opportunity to experience the profound teaching of traditional yogic meditation. In each class of this 2 1/2 day workshop, Chase will shed light on how the varying approaches to meditation influences our health, healing and spiritual transformation. The real power of yoga lies in the profoundly positive ways it can change our human system on a daily level by refining our mind, clearing negative emotions, creating positive habits/behaviors, improving our relationships and opening our heart. Students will be led step-by-step through meditative practices. All sessions will include asana, pranayama and the three limbs of meditation. KHYF and Yoga Alliance CEU Accredited hours. 

This workshop is sponsored by Yoga Among Friends, a Downers Grove Yoga Studio. It is appropriate for yoga practioners and teachers, medical and healing professionals, those new to yoga and meditation as well as experienced meditators. The beginner will find the materail as accessible as the experienced student will find it rich and transformational. All are welcome to attend the entire weekend or individual sessions.

Event runs Fri-Sun Oct 14-16, 2011
See below for individual session times 

$245 for the entire weekend (a $35 Savings!); or $58 per session 

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Friday Oct 14, 6:00-8:30pm
 Creating the Conditions: Yoga’s Holistic Approach to Meditation

Saturday Oct 15, 9:00am-Noon
Recipe for Transformation: Developing Attention

Saturday Oct 15, 1:30-4:30 PM
Developing Inner Strength: Choosing a Focus

Sunday Oct 16, 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
Developing Inner Strength: Revising the Focus

Sunday Oct 16, 1:30-4:30 PM
The Flowering of Inner Strength: Yoga in Daily Living

To learn more about the individual sessions in this workshop, visit our website: www.yogaamongfriends.com.

Chase Bassart, M.A., E-RYT, is the a long time student of Mr. TKV Desikachar and a Krishnamacharya Healing and Yoga Foundation certified Yoga Teacher Trainer (www.khyf.net). A long time meditator, Chase has an exceptional theoretical understanding and a clear, down-to-earth communication style. He is the Director of Therapy & Education at the non-profit Healing Yoga Foundation (www.HealingYoga.org)in San Francisco.

Workshop is sponsored by Yoga Among Friends and will take place at: 
The Grove Masonic Lodge923
Curtiss Street, Suite 1
Downers Grove, IL 60515

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To register, visit our website at www.yogaamongfriends.com or call 630-960-5488.

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