Current Programs
Satya Yoga Studios: Starting Monday March 4th 2024Meditation, Breath work, and yoga to build and unleash your life force within.
This is a contemplative practice that offers the depth of a yoga practice supported by three transformative components; postures (asanas) breathing practices (pranayama), and meditation. These ancient tools offer a pathway to awakening one’s inner core while expanding one’s unique intuition and wisdom of the self. This process helps free up energy within and even creates new energy to support ones life. We Will Study:
"Meditation is not about controlling your thoughts its about your thoughts not controlling you" Meditation28 day Online Meditation Class: Exploring What Resides Within
Meditation is impactful! It can be one of the most significant enhancements to your well-being and is obtainable by every person on this planet. Some of the benefits:
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Corporate Group Classes/Meditation for AllCorporate yoga sessions transform your workplace with a focus on yoga and wellness.
Finishing Well Yoga can work with companies of all sizes to create yoga group classes or private sessions specific to your company/employees’ needs, all designed to enhance wellness and balance in work and life. These corporate yoga programs will help your employees reduce stress while increasing energy and productivity. We help you …the employer… enable your employees to take a proactive approach in their own health. Private SessionsPrivate sessions will take yoga to a level few yoga studio classes can attain.
Private yoga sessions provide you with a personal certified yoga coach who provides you with an objective opinion and then individually shows you what is needed for your practice to flourish. With this support you can then grow and prosper beyond your own individual capabilities. PLUS… your travel time to and from this unique yoga session is measured in minutes or seconds. You can’t reach the level of flourishing or transformation private sessions provide in a group class or on your own. 
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At the core of our programs is our desire to reduce stress and anxiety in the community we live in.
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Mission statement:
Bringing meditation and breath work to local organizations, businesses, churches, schools, and homes. We are dedicated yogis who desire to reduce stress and anxiety in our community by offering :
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ActionPlan:
Our approach uses proven tools to help alleviate the negative impact that stress and anxiety cause:
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Ron's Past Activities and Background
Out in the World (2023)
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Teaching
Meditation & Breath Work for Wellness. . . A 28 day Challenge at Satya Yoga Studios |
Vapasana Silent Meditation retreat, Spirit Rock, California
I was a student for this six day retreat giving students a real opportunity to dive deeper in the practice of Meditation. Teacher William Kabot -Zenn + 3 others. |
Kripalu Yoga Retreat
Assisted Teaching Meditation Retreat Kripalu Yoga and Health Center in Lenox Mass with Larissa Hall Carlson. |
Yoga Off the Mat (2020-2022)
Over the past several years, I have moved my practice away from having weekly classes to taking yoga off the mat and bringing it into my everyday life. I hope to carry the essence of yoga into community involvement, helping build community and working with others. Thus, my schedule is not as detailed on the mat, but it has more depth when I include my full life activities.
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Teacher Shobhan
Started studying under the direction of Richard Faulds in fall of 2021. He's given name is Shobhon and he has 43 years of history with Yoga. Was at the Kriaplu ashram and it's beginning 45 years ago, became the CEO, and has written six books. He is a gifted teacher, writer, and student of all eight limbs of Yoga. Kids' Food Basket
Did you know that there's both a great deal of prosperity and a great deal of poverty all within Allegan County? The organization Kids' Food Basket has built a facility that will allow the community of Allegan County to respond to children impacted by hunger. They have a proven track record in Grand Rapids, Muskegon, and Ottawa County. The new facility will allow their volunteers to store future food, prepare food, pack food for sack suppers, and then deliver sack suppers to schools in the afternoons. This would allow hungry children to have a supper 5 evenings a week during the school year. Our group of community members helped build a volunteer base and raised funds to help and support Kids' Food Basket and their program that is feeding over 9,000 children each day in southwestern Michigan. |
Saugatuck and Douglas Rotary Club
I'm the original founder 14 years ago and recently helped rebrand and rebuild this club to be a catalyst in the community. As chair of membership committee. Helped our team to build awareness of the mission and fill specific job descriptions to give volunteers meaning and purpose as a member. Environment Helping preserve our planet for the next generation. There is a great amount of work to be done to change humanity's direction so that our home - this wonderful hunk of rock called Earth - can sustain us for generations to come. The world is an imperfect place and will remain that way, and I cannot change this. However I can take this as an opportunity to take action locally and make my impact Thus, I follow the Sierra Club and support their direction for sustaining the world we live in. I also have lobbied in Lansing, made donations, sent letters and emails to government leaders, and protested in Washington, DC, with my niece Sarah Shoemaker. I am willing to do what it takes as one living member of this world to make improvements. |
Pandemic (2019)
Classes cancelled due to covid.
The Yoga Expansion (2010-2018)
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Assisted Teaching at Kripalu Yoga and Health Center
I had the privilege of supporting the lead teacher in classes like our Ayurveda and Immune System, meditation and breath work, advanced breath work. One summer I lived on campus for 30 days helping teach and certify 60 new yoga students. Kirpalu Yoga in the Schools
Over a three-year period brought Kripalu Yoga in the Schools to Saugatuck high school. Helped Ms. Austin become a certified yoga teacher so that she now teaches this curriculum every year in the schools. Yoga Teaching
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Personal Yoga Broadening
Diving deeper to develop my personal practice… In my morning sadhana moving away from asana development and deepening meditation, and breath work. Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training 500 hour certification Mod 2 Lenox Mass. Advanced Asana and Pranayama Training. Module 4 Lenox, Massachusetts. Teaching special needs students Sudha was my teacher. 
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Visit the Kripalu website for more activities such as those listed here.
