2022-23 Online Yoga Class Schedule and special notes
Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, the Blue Hill Center for Yoga and Wellness is now offering five remote Yoga classes, using the Zoom Conferencing Platform. Zoom offers a highly user-friendly service that anyone with working internet can access and enjoy. Check here for announcements of in-person classes.
David’s Yoga classes weave meditation, mantra, postures, guided relaxation, live bamboo flute, yogic teachings, and attention to alignment and postural adjustment. David’s classes are an invitation to return to your true nature: clear, conscious and loving awareness, while strengthening, loosening, relaxing, and renewing your Bodymind.
In order to participate in these online classes, please email david@bluehillyoga.com
I will then email you a link with password. It is very easy to use Zoom, so be not intimidated!
It is important to set your computer up 15 minutes prior to class, and check in.
Mondays 4-5 pm: A free Yoga Experience for Cancer Patients, Cancer survivors, and their caregivers. A gentle, spiritually oriented class that is sponsored by the Beth Wright Cancer Center of Ellsworth.
Tuesdays from 9 to 10:30 am: An All Welcome Yoga Class for Mental, Physical, and Spiritual Renewal.
Wednesdays 6-7 pm: A gentle flow class with mantra, meditation, healing and renewing guided imagery, and guided relaxation.
Thursdays from 4:30-6 pm: An All Welcome Yoga Class for Mental, Physical, and Spiritual Renewal.
Fridays 8:30-9:30 am: Gentle, spiritually uplifting Yoga, with guided meditation for well-being and guided relaxation.
Again, Please join 10- 15 minutes before class. That way you can sort out glitches before the class begins!
If you miss a class and want a recorded version, please email David@BlueHillYoga.com
Payment: Classes are $120 for 8 or $20 each, or whatever feels affordable for your pocketbook. Feel free to participate with for no fee if you are in need.
David accepts payments through the Venmo App: Venmo name is @David-Walker-523. Simply download the Venmo App on your smartphone or computer. Or mail checks to David Walker, 33 Blackberry Lane, Surry, ME 04684.
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Class Fees: A drop-in class is $20. An 8-class bundle is $120. This is a sliding scale. If you would like to attend classes and finances are preventing you, it is still possible. Please feel free to break up payments.
More Information on working individually with David Walker:
Individual sessions are $80 per hour, with a reduced rate of $70 for six private sessions paid in advance. David has studied extensively with Doug Keller, one of the world’s foremost experts on anatomy and Yoga, author of Yoga As Therapy volumes I and II. David has also studied with Bessell van der Kolk, MD, and David Emerson, experts in Trauma Recovery. David Emerson is author of Overcoming Trauma Through Yoga: Reclaiming Your Body. Van der Kolk is professor of psychiatry at Boston University and the world’s leading expert on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. David is well-versed in Iyengar Restorative and Therapeutics, having studied extensively with Chicago Yoga Circles’ Gabriel Halpern, as well as Patricia Walden, Kofi Busia, and John Schumacher, and other Senior Iyengar Teachers.
Latest Training:
David trained in Ashville, NC, in Spring 2018 with Debbie Ofenbacher and Eddie Marks, two Senior Advanced Iyengar Instructors.
David studied in July 2016 with Senior Iyengar Teacher John Schumacher, one of the most experienced American teachers in the Iyengar tradition. David studied again with Patricia Walden 2015, at the Maine Iyengar Center, and in 2014 with Manouso Manos. In August 2014, David studied with Marcia Monroe, author of Yoga and Scoliosis (with Dr. Loren Schiffman). David completed Yoga For Cancer Survivors training at the Beth Wright Cancer Center in Ellsworth, Maine, September 2014.
- Trauma-Sensitive Yoga: If you are a survivor of trauma, please note that David is trained in a clinically researched form of Yoga that is now the centerpiece used by the Trauma Center of Brookline, Massachusets, and world-renowned expert on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Bessel van der kolk, M.D.
- Therapeutic Yoga for Special Needs, including back pain, anxiety, cancer.
- David offers a six-month Health Coaching/Consultation: Lose weight without dieting. Develop life-changing and enhancing practices around diet and supplementation.
Contact David Walker at david@bluehillyoga.com, or call him at 207 664-4856.