What else are Nick and Lela doing?

Arlyn School

This fall, Nick and Lela began teaching yoga once a week for the Arlyn School, a small private school for children in need of a therapeutic educational setting. The kids seems to really like breathing and relaxation.

Food From the Heart

Lela helped start a collaborative effort between the Heartwood Center and the Wild Tree Cafe of Evanston to provide organic groceries to low-income women with cancer. The Heartwood Center in Evanston receives an annual grant that allows low-income women to recieve holistic health services such as bodywork, acupuncture and therapeutic yoga, free of charge. Jaqi Boyer of the Wild Tree Cafe and Lela have connected with this group of women and provided bags of organic produce and foodstuffs, paid for by public donations. You can send in a donation payable to:

The Wild Tree Cafe
Attn: Food From the Heart
1100 Davis Street
Evanston, IL 60201.

Visit www.wildtreecafe.com or www.heartwoodcenter.com for more information.

Corporate Yoga

Nick is the weekly yoga instructor for the lovely folks at the Kraft Research and Development Center in Glenview. He tries not to be too cheesy. Lela teaches yoga classes once a week at the Crate & Barrel corporate headquarters in Northbrook.

Yoga for Girls

Lela has ended her weekly Yoga for Young Women class and now offers occasional workshops for up-and-coming yoginis. She is available for small group privates, birthday parties and other playful events.

 

Girl Scout Yoga

Lela also teaches yoga to Girl Scouts and their parents. She offers reasonable per-student rates.

Web Design

Nick supplements his yoga income with small-time website design and maintenance. He focuses on simple, elegant site design using XHTML and CSS. Clients include the Lillstreet Art Center, White Iris Yoga, The Wild Tree Café, the Chicago School of Violin Making and Jeb Consult. Please contact Nick for more information or a project estimate.

Northwestern Wildcats Camp

Once again this year we taught 150 Wildcats Sports campers how to balance on one foot, do sun salutations, and most importantly, RELAX. The kids were 7 to 12, divided by age into three groups. The older kids seemed to really like the postures. The youngest group had a shorter attention span, so we mostly played games like Red Light, Green Light with yoga poses. We just did it once a session this year, and the kids seemed much more accepting and enthusiastic. The counselors especially liked the relaxation at the end!

 

Yoga Prenatal En Español

Family Network, a drop-in center for parents and children, has invited Lela to teach several classes of prenatal yoga... in Spanish. Despite limited anatomical vocabulary, she smiles and mimes her way through. She hopes to continue using her Spanish skills in future yogic undertakings.