Yoga Workshop with Michelle Synnestvedt

Glencairn Museum is pleased to host a special three-hour yoga and East Indian spiritual practice workshop on Saturday, October 27, with celebrated instructor Michelle Synnestvedt.

“Myth, Mindful Movement, Music, Mantra and Meditation” offers an immersion into the tapestry of the East Indian practices of yoga. The morning includes storytelling, mindful movement-yoga poses appropriate for any level, devotional chanting (call and response singing), mantra and meditation.

Registration and payment of $45 per person required by October 20. To register or for more details: 267.502.2990 or [email protected]. Doors open at 8:45am; the workshop starts promptly at 9:00 and concludes at noon.

Participants should wear comfortable clothes with ease of movement and bring a yoga mat if they have one. Chairs will be available.

About the instructor
Michelle Synnestvedt is the owner and director of Dhuni Yoga and an E-RYT 500 (experienced registered yoga teacher) with over 20,000 hours of experience and training. She started her formal teacher training in the 1990s in an alignment-based Hatha yoga system and opened her first yoga studio soon after. She went on to train hundreds of teachers in the Philadelphia area over the last two decades.

Michelle loves both the ongoing joy of nurturing long-time students in weekly classes and also enjoys teaching the deeper studies of Philosophy, Intro to Sanskrit, Anatomy, Therapeutic Alignment, Sacred Myth and Principles and Devotional Chanting (Kirtan) to teachers in training in a myriad of studios. Among her many mentors, Synnestvedt has studied with Pema Chödrön and Sally Kempton, two of the most revered teachers on mindfulness and meditation today. For more on Synnestvedt: www.dhuniyoga.com or www.michellesynnestvedt.com.