Flamenco and Yoga Classes with Eve Costarelli Update:

Flamenco and Yoga Classes Update:

Saturday October 13, 2012 @ Framingham Main Library, 49 Lexington St., Framingham, MA 01702 · 508-532-5570

Family Yoga (Costin Room, All yogis ages 5 and up welcome)                                                         Bring your whole family to yoga and practice together! Family Yoga includes postures, breathing techniques and meditation for the whole family, including age-appropriate variations to accommodate all of the students in the class. Bring anyone you love and have fun! This is a free event

Looking ahead to the week 10/15/2012-10/21/2012

Monday 10/15/2012 @ Open Spirit at Edwards Church, 39 Edwards Street, Framingham, MA:

·       Family Yoga 3:30-4:30PM

·       Yoga for the Young Athlete and All Ambitious Kids 4:30-5:30PM

·       Veterans Yoga 6:00-7:30PM

Wednesday 10/17/2012 @ the Dance Complex, 536 Mass Ave., Cambridge, MA

·       Youth Flamenco (Beginner) Ages 6-9 4:00-5:00PM

·       Youth Flamenco (Intermediate) Ages 9-16 5:00-6:00PM

Friday 10/19/2012 @ Open Spirit at Edwards Church, 39 Edwards Street, Framingham, MA:

·       Adult/Teen Flamenco Ages 12+ 10:00-11:15AM*

(October Special for this class: 1^st time 8- class card buyers receive an extra 10% off the already discounted price: $20/ Drop-in; 8-Class card/$128. With October discount: $115.20)

Saturday 10/20/2012 @ National Heritage Museum, Maxwell Auditorium, Lexington, MA

·       World on Stage Presents: A Palo Seco Flamenco

http://worldonstage.com/a-palo-seco/

9PM

National Heritage Museum

33 Marrett Road, Lexington, MA

781-861-6559

Tickets $25.

SmARTalkWorkshop

SmARTalkWorkshop

Thursday, October 11, 2012 
9:30 A.M. – 11:30 P.M. 
Needham Public Library 
1139 Highland Avenue, 
Needham, MA 02494

How to Provide Successful Arts Programming
in Your School

Young Audiences of Massachusetts offers workshops to guide arts in education coordinators, PTO members, teachers, and administrators toward providing successful arts enrichment programming in their school.

Workshop includes guidance in:

• Creating goals for arts programming
• Establishing a school arts committee
• Selecting, evaluating, and scheduling programs
• Establishing programming recordkeeping systems
• Advocating for arts in your school
• Seeking program funding
• Locating and establishing opportunities for networking

Presenter: Gail Zarren is Project Director of Young Audiences of Massachusetts' Healing Arts for Kids hospital initiative. She has over 25 years of experience bringing arts enrichment to schools and communities, is a former President of the West Suburban Creative Arts Council, and is a longtime member of Young Audiences of Massachusetts' Program Committee.

Workshops are FREE!

Pre-Registration is Required
(Limited Enrollment)

                                                      For questions, please contact: 
                                                                     Gail Zarren 
                                                               gzarren@yamass.org
                                                              (617) 629-9262 x304

Yoga for the Young Athlete...and All Ambitious Kids!

                           Yoga for the Young Athlete...and All Ambitious Kids! 

This is a new yoga class that I am running for grades 5-12. It is held at Open Spirit at Edwards Church, 39 Edwards Street, Framingham, MA from 4:30-5:30PM Mondays (except on school holidays). Open Spirit is a new multi-faith center for the wider community, a place to celebrate and strengthen our connectedness, to promote healing and wholeness, and to experience spiritual nourishment.

I have been teaching my veterans yoga class at this same location for about a year now and the center has expanded its focus to include more community based classes in yoga, Tai Chi, spirituality and flamenco!  I am offering a Family Yoga class (Monday 3:30-4:30), Yoga for the Young Athlete...and All Ambitious Kids (grades 5-12; Monday 4:30-5:30); I teach in rotation a free Veteran's Yoga class (along with Lynn Stoller and Michael Thomas; Monday 6:00-7:30PM); Family Flamenco (Thursday 4:30-5:30) and Adult/Teen Flamenco (Friday 10:00-11:15AM). 

The first meeting of Athlete Yoga we spent our time exploring how yoga can be a great companion for all the other things we do in our life: sports, schoolwork, musical instruments/singing, busy time, free time, happy time, sad time, angry time....We gathered a list of activities we like to do: Basketball, Bicycling, Hiking, Piano, Saxophone, Sing, Ski/Snowboard, Surf, Swim and Tennis. Over the weeks, we will explore each session focusing on one of the activities  Classes will include breath-work (Pranyama), poses (Asana) and Meditation. We will also listen to stories and music, color, talk about healthy living choices and how to bring our yoga off the mat and into the world.

Swimming was chosen as our first "activity", as it is something that all the students enjoy. None of these kids are on a swim team but they all enjoy swimming just the same (minus the competitive edge). A yoga practice can complement even an amateur's swim routine by introducing strength building and flexibility. Asanas (postures) utilize body weight as a powerful source of resistance: Outside of the water, gravity helps to build strength and muscle. In addition, postures take the body through a full range of motion, encouraging flexible, supple muscles that are less prone to injury.

We started today's class outside at the church's labyrinth. The kids naturally took to completing the spiral in and then out, sensing the need to follow the path in and out, noticing that somehow it seemed necessary to do this. Feeling the evenness in their bodies and their minds upon completion. The entered and exited repeatedly, sometimes walking slowly, sometimes following each other and at other times running around each curve. In the end, they ended up in the center, smiling and sitting with each other.

Swimmer-asanas:

* Bean bag on belly breath

* Explaining how to and the use of Ujjayi breath (taught as Ocean breath for kids). 

*Gomulkasana Arms in Easy Pose-relieves tightness in shoulders and upper back

*A series (for Utkatasana and Low Utkatasana: diving, even bent knee table top-diving prep; Uttnasana-fall forward into water)
*Dog in Prayer 2

*Malasana

*Bakasana

*Forearm Plank-helps build and maintain core strength 

*Pointer Dog-increases core strength and balances asymmetries

*Locust-also with arms stretched out front

*½ Bow-stretches upper back
*Dancer's Pose

*Trikonasana- maintains good range of motion in shoulder and hip joints

*½ Eagle-arms first then add legs for balance

*Supported Bridge-helps release tension in neck and upper back-

* Supine Twist-stretches both hips and spine

*Savasana

We also talked about being mindful, staying in the present moment both in yoga and in life. I read them the story "The Three Questions" adapted from a book by Leo Tolstoy. Jon J. Muth recasts a short story by Tolstoy into picture-book format, substituting a boy and his animal friends for the czar and his human companions. Yearning to be a good person, Nikolai asks, "When is the best time to do things? Who is the most important one? What is the right thing to do?" Sonya the heron, Gogol the monkey and Pushkin the dog offer their opinions, but their answers do not satisfy Nikolai. He visits Leo, an old turtle who lives in the mountains. While there, he helps Leo with his garden and rescues an injured panda and her cub, and in so doing, finds the answers he seeks. As Leo explains, "There is only one important time, and that time is now. The most important one is always the one you are with. And the most important thing is to do good for the one who is standing at your side." Moral without being moralistic, the tale sends a simple and direct message unfreighted by pomp or pedantry. Muth's art is as carefully distilled as his prose. A series of misty, evocative watercolors in muted tones suggests the figures and their changing relationships to the landscape. Judicious flashes of color quicken the compositions, as in the red of Nikolai's kite (the kite, released at the end, takes on symbolic value). An afterword describes Tolstoy and his work. 

We ended class in the playground.

Ole! Namaste!
Eve

Young Audiences of Massachusetts Showcase September 20, 2012 Arts for Learning

                    

Young Audiences of Massachusetts                                                                                                                        Arts for Learning 

Showcase 2012

Thursday, September 20

9:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.

Charles River School

6 Old Meadow Road, Dover, MA

Guarantee your school selects the best in Arts For Learning!

     

This year's Fall Showcase features selections from over 30 ensembles including six new

artists!  Join audiences of PTO representatives, teachers, school administrators and K-8 students in seeing, first-hand, 20-minute versions of performances and abbreviated workshops. This event is held only once a semester. 

Adults are invited to join us for this FREE, ‘don’t miss’ event.

Please visit our website www.yamass.org

to register and for more information, including schedule and directions.

Celebrating 50 years of Arts For Learning!

Young Audiences is a non-profit organization.

89 South Street, Suite 601, Boston, Massachusetts 02111

Tel: (617) 629-9262 / Fax: (617) 249-1862 / www.yamass.org

2012-2013 Flamenco and Yoga Classes with Eve Costarelli

2012-2013

Flamenco and Yoga Classes with Eve Costarelli 

AdamAnt_Eve@hotmail.com/

617-216-1643/www.AlwaysBDancing.blogspot.com

Mondays @ Open Spirit/Edwards Church, 39 Edwards St. Framingham, MA

·         3:30-4:40 Family Yoga (all kids up to grade 4)*

·         4:30-5:30 Yoga for the Young Athlete…and All Ambitious Kids (grades 5-12)*

·      6:00-7:30 Veteran’s Yoga (free for all veterans, family members, and care providers)

*These classes are community classes-suggested drop in rate is $12-$15/per class

Wednesdays @ the Dance Complex, 536 Mass Ave., Cambridge, MA

·         4:00-5:00 Youth Flamenco Beginner (ages 6-12)

·         5:00-6:00 Youth Flamenco Int. (ages 7-12; One year flamenco experience required)

Thursdays @ Open Spirit/Edwards Church, 39 Edwards St. Framingham, MA

·        3:30-4:30 Youth Flamenco Beginner (ages 6-12)

·        4:30-6:00 Youth Flamenco Intermediate (ages 11-16)

    

    Fridays @ Open Spirit/Edwards Church, 39 Edwards St. Framingham, MA

·         Adult/Teen Flamenco Beginner/Advanced Beginner (ages 12+)

            

Private lessons available/Daytime classes can be formed