Yoga for Lovers of Chocolate, Wine, and Music

Are miracles possible? This past summer I stumbled upon a book (true story) from the early 1900’s about a Nobel Prize winning medical doctor named Alexis Karrel, a scientist and skeptic who had heard countless stories of spontaneous healings at the healing waters of Lourdes in France.

Dr. Karrel went to investigate and see what these crazies were babbling about. In front of his very eyes, he saw a woman instantly healed from the brink of death. And he was forever transformed into a believer. This is the subject I’ll weave into my upcoming weekend workshops at Yoga Center of Minneapolis.

Do you, like me, have a hard time loosening your grip on life? Do you work too hard, email too much, and not leave enough time in the day for magic, belief, optimism? I’ll share with you many mindbending stories including miracles from the healing waters of Lourdes, France, examples of strange indigenous people who have discovered the secrets to staying young deep into their 90’s, and a crazy chef who's figured out how to pack incredible flavor into the tiniest bite. Mixed with exotic Vosges chocolate, fine wine, naughty humor, great tunes and flowing yoga, this will be a weekend which will remind you, “Miracles happen to those who believe in them!”

This weekend is open to anyone with yoga experience, comfortable with vinyasa flow.

Date	TIme	Workshop
Fri Aug 27	7:00- 9:00pm	Yoga + Miracles
Sat Aug 28	10:00- 12:00pm	Yoga + Eternal Youth
Sat Aug 28	3:00- 5:00pm	Yoga + Chocolate (V 3.0)
Sun Aug 29	10:00- 12:00pm	Yoga + Chocolate: Stretch, Salva, Savor
Cost for whole weekend: $185 Register Online Cost per workshop: $50

Yoga + Miracles: With Wine, Anything is Possible
Friday, Aug 27 | 7:00pm - 9:00pm | $50
Where: Downtown Minneapolis Studio
"Miracles happen to those who believe in them." Bernard Berenson
In 1912, a Swiss doctor won the Nobel Prize in Medicine. A few years earlier at the healing waters of Lourdes, France this doctor witnessed something that forever changed his view on life, science, and religion. David Romanelli's 2 hour vinyasa flow workshop will stretch, lift, twist, and open your tightest muscle of all...the brain. Little shifts in the mind can do wonders on the body. Rockin tunes, a splash of wine, a little inspiration, and the magic of optimism. Note: Wine tasting is after class, not before. Price of admission is for the yoga workshop only. The after-class wine tasting is free of charge. Wine-tasting is only open to people 21 years and older.
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Yoga + Eternal Youth: Chocolate, Tunes, and Moves to Enhance Vitality and Virility Forever!
Saturday, Aug 28 | 10am-12pm | $50
Where: Downtown Minneapolis Studio
"Youth is NOT a quality of the body or a condition of the skin. It is the vitality of your spirit!" -Anonymous
In the world's remote corners, mountains, and islands, there exist indigenous people who defy the test of time. They exhibit miraculous strength, instinct, and immunity to aging...What is their secret? This 2 hour vinyasa flow yoga workshop will blend music, yoga, exotic Vosges Chocolate, and indigenous tradition to ignite your body's innate power to conquer disease and live fully from youth to the golden years.
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Yoga + Chocolate (V 3.0)
Saturday, Aug 28 | 3pm-5pm | $50
Where: Downtown Minneapolis Studio
In the West, we associate love with the quality of our relationship. The yogis believe love moves naturally through the universe. If you are open, love moves through you. If you're closed, it doesn't. Rumi said, "Don't seek for love. Seek to find and remove the barriers you've built against love." In this 2-hour vinyasa flow class set to inspiring music from the Grateful Dead to Erykah Badu, David Romanelli will cover issues related to love including the broken heart, the pain chamber, the obsessive tendencies of the newly in-love, and much more. If you're wondering why the heck would you listen to David Romanelli about such issues, consider reading the chapter in his book where his soon-to-be ex girlfriend receives an adjustment in the happy baby pose and loves it. His days in the pain chamber are long and hard. Maybe you too would like to celebrate love for all its pain and glory.
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Yoga + Chocolate: Stretch, Salivate, Savor
Sunday, Aug 29 | 10am-12pm | $50
Where: Downtown Minneapolis Studio
Would you rather 100 bland bites of an orange or one deliciously amazing bite? Would you rather live for 80 years of so-so happiness or 57 years of ecstatic joy? Would you exchange 50 less than average yoga classes for 1 yoga class you’d remember forever? All too often we waste energy worrying, fearing, avoiding and in the process numbing ourselves to the joys of living in the moment. In this Deep Stretch yoga class, you will get some juicy tips, stories, and stretches all serving as a reminder of a powerful Chinese proverb: "Enjoy yourself...it's later than you think."
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ABOUT DAVE ROMANELLI
Yahoo's Mind-Body Expert, David Romanelli is also co-founder of At One Yoga which consists of multiple state-of-the art yoga studios in Arizona. A pioneering effort in the national yoga scene, At One Yoga fuses Western culture's fashion, music and technology with Eastern culture's sacred rituals and ancient tradition. Yeah Dave Yoga is David's innovative combination of exercise, inspiring spirituality, and great music ranging from Frank Sinatra to Diddy. He now tours the world presenting the Yoga + Chocolate experience which he created with Vosges Haut-Chocolat founder Katrina Markoff. Yoga + Chocolate demonstrates the enhanced power, beauty, and sensory awareness experienced in The Moment. To further quench the huge appetite for Yoga + Chocolate, David teamed up with wine connoisseur Angela Gargano to create Yoga + Wine which teaches that a human being can model the aging process after one of the few things that ages well, a bottle of wine. David's varied ideas, journeys, tastes and tunes will all fold under one umbrella with his upcoming book Yeah Dave's Guide to Livin' the Moment (Broadway Books/Random House). The book documents stories and messages from the irreverent path to an age-old destination: inner peace. David teaches daily yoga classes at Exhale in Santa Monica, California. You can visit Dave's website at www.yeahdaveyoga.com

"You don't age until your regrets outnumber your dreams." -John Barrymore