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| | | | | | 4 Close Vinyasa Yin (Yang-Yin) Yoga
Friday, May 4 
Half Moon Bay
Vinyasa Yin (Yang-Yin) YogaHealth & Wellness
8:30am - 9:30am
$10.00 Strength, Balance, Yin, Restore This practice starts with stretching and builds to a standing flow of postures that become the Yang (or heated male energy) to build strength, mobility, and heat during the first half of class. Mid class, incorporates balance poses to build balance strength and posture. The last half of class, we will sink into Yin (or cooling female poses) that stretch the ligaments and connective tissue to increase flexibility and joint mobility. Yin poses are held longer using body weight at a feel a good stretch or edge which makes Yin much more effective at improving flexibility and joint health. The final pose or two will be restorative. Restorative poses provide time for the body to relax and the mind to meditate while feeling a nice stretch,improving flexibility, spinal alignment, unwinding, and finding inner peace. Sign Up For Event
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| | | | 10 CloseBike to Work!
Thursday, May 10
Westside Santa Cruz
Bike to Work!Community & Culture
6:30am - 9:30am
 Bike over to our Westside store for the annual Spring Bike to Work breakfast! A free, hot breakfast for cyclists includes our housemade tofu scramble, scrambled eggs, and roasted potatoes, yogurt, fruit, baked goods, coffee, tea, and kombucha. There will be also be free bike maintenance courtesy of Another Bike Shop and Blix Bikes! Plus enjoy complimentary massages from Cypress Health Institute. Sign Up For Event
| 11 CloseVinyasa Yin (Yang-Yin) Yoga
Friday, May 11
Half Moon Bay
Vinyasa Yin (Yang-Yin) YogaHealth & Wellness
8:30am - 9:30am
$10.00Strength, Balance, Yin, Restore This practice starts with stretching and builds to a standing flow of postures that become the Yang (or heated male energy) to build strength, mobility, and heat during the first half of class. Mid class, incorporates balance poses to build balance strength and posture. The last half of class, we will sink into Yin (or cooling female poses) that stretch the ligaments and connective tissue to increase flexibility and joint mobility. Yin poses are held longer using body weight at a feel a good stretch or edge which makes Yin much more effective at improving flexibility and joint health. The final pose or two will be restorative. Restorative poses provide time for the body to relax and the mind to meditate while feeling a nice stretch,improving flexibility, spinal alignment, unwinding, and finding inner peace. Sign Up For Event
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| | | | | 18 CloseVinyasa Yin (Yang-Yin) Yoga
Friday, May 18
Half Moon Bay
Vinyasa Yin (Yang-Yin) YogaHealth & Wellness
8:30am - 9:30am
$10.00Strength, Balance, Yin, Restore This practice starts with stretching and builds to a standing flow of postures that become the Yang (or heated male energy) to build strength, mobility, and heat during the first half of class. Mid class, incorporates balance poses to build balance strength and posture. The last half of class, we will sink into Yin (or cooling female poses) that stretch the ligaments and connective tissue to increase flexibility and joint mobility. Yin poses are held longer using body weight at a feel a good stretch or edge which makes Yin much more effective at improving flexibility and joint health. The final pose or two will be restorative. Restorative poses provide time for the body to relax and the mind to meditate while feeling a nice stretch,improving flexibility, spinal alignment, unwinding, and finding inner peace. Sign Up For Event
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| | 22 CloseHow to Improve Gut Health Naturally
Tuesday, May 22
Westside Santa Cruz
How to Improve Gut Health NaturallyHealth & Wellness
6:00pm - 7:00pm
 A Consumer-Based Lecture with Health Coach Joanie Blaxter
This class delves deeper than probiotic foods and conventional probiotics to talk about something up and coming: commensal spore bacteria. Because humans are designed to be naturally consuming gut commensal spore bacteria through our food every day, our entire immune and digestive systems evolved around the critical presence of these specific bacteria.
Did you know that 99.99% of the bacteria in fermented foods and conventional probiotics do NOT survive or colonize in our intestines? Gut commensal spores, however, found naturally in our environment, WILL kill harmful microbes in our microbiome... if you can get exposure to them.
Unfortunately, we have so destroyed soil health and natural food production that we no longer consume these strains. Natural childbirth and breastfeeding as well as weaning practices have been interrupted in a way that contributes to an epidemic of autoimmune problems. We can reverse this epidemic by healing gut dysbiosis, Leaky Gut and the immune dysfunction that accompanies this extremely common condition. Come to this one hour lecture to learn more about why supplementing with commensal spore bacteria is essential to good health.
About the Instructor:
Through her professional connections in the natural products industry, Joanie Blaxter has had extensive training over the last two years with Kiran Krishnan, a research microbiologist who lectures nationally and internationally, largely at medical conferences, as an expert on the microbiome and gut commensal spore bacteria. As a health coach and columnist for a national food and nutrition blogger, Joanie specializes in probiotic myth busting by explaining the newest microbiological science and how we can reverse the current epidemic of immune dysfunction by re-establishing gut health with gut commensal spore bacteria. Sign Up For Event
| 23 CloseHow to Improve Gut Health Naturally
Wednesday, May 23
Half Moon Bay
How to Improve Gut Health NaturallyHealth & Wellness
6:00pm - 7:00pm
 A Consumer-Based Lecture with Health Coach Joanie Blaxter
This class delves deeper than probiotic foods and conventional probiotics to talk about something up and coming: commensal spore bacteria. Because humans are designed to be naturally consuming gut commensal spore bacteria through our food every day, our entire immune and digestive systems evolved around the critical presence of these specific bacteria.
Did you know that 99.99% of the bacteria in fermented foods and conventional probiotics do NOT survive or colonize in our intestines? Gut commensal spores, however, found naturally in our environment, WILL kill harmful microbes in our microbiome... if you can get exposure to them.
Unfortunately, we have so destroyed soil health and natural food production that we no longer consume these strains. Natural childbirth and breastfeeding as well as weaning practices have been interrupted in a way that contributes to an epidemic of autoimmune problems. We can reverse this epidemic by healing gut dysbiosis, Leaky Gut and the immune dysfunction that accompanies this extremely common condition. Come to this one hour lecture to learn more about why supplementing with commensal spore bacteria is essential to good health.
About the Instructor:
Through her professional connections in the natural products industry, Joanie Blaxter has had extensive training over the last two years with Kiran Krishnan, a research microbiologist who lectures nationally and internationally, largely at medical conferences, as an expert on the microbiome and gut commensal spore bacteria. As a health coach and columnist for a national food and nutrition blogger, Joanie specializes in probiotic myth busting by explaining the newest microbiological science and how we can reverse the current epidemic of immune dysfunction by re-establishing gut health with gut commensal spore bacteria. Sign Up For Event
| | 25 CloseVinyasa Yin (Yang-Yin) Yoga
Friday, May 25
Half Moon Bay
Vinyasa Yin (Yang-Yin) YogaHealth & Wellness
8:30am - 9:30am
$10.00Strength, Balance, Yin, Restore This practice starts with stretching and builds to a standing flow of postures that become the Yang (or heated male energy) to build strength, mobility, and heat during the first half of class. Mid class, incorporates balance poses to build balance strength and posture. The last half of class, we will sink into Yin (or cooling female poses) that stretch the ligaments and connective tissue to increase flexibility and joint mobility. Yin poses are held longer using body weight at a feel a good stretch or edge which makes Yin much more effective at improving flexibility and joint health. The final pose or two will be restorative. Restorative poses provide time for the body to relax and the mind to meditate while feeling a nice stretch,improving flexibility, spinal alignment, unwinding, and finding inner peace. Sign Up For Event
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| | | | 31 CloseCooking with Wild Seaweeds
Thursday, May 31
Westside Santa Cruz
Cooking with Wild SeaweedsFood & Drink
6:00pm - 8:00pm
$35.00 Cooking Demo with Ian O'Hollaren, founder of Seaquoia Wild Seaweeds & Nutrition Consultant Madia Jamgochian
Did you know that sea vegetables, also known as seaweeds, are a nutritional powerhouse packed with protein, vitamins and minerals? Rich in iodine, sea vegetables can play an important role in providing thyroid support. Seaweeds are also high in calcium, folic acid and magnesium, as well as iron, potassium, and pantothenic acid.
Of the brown variety, arame, hijiki, kelp, kombu and wakame are the most popular. Nori, a red seaweed, is perhaps the most well known variety being a main ingredient in sushi rolls.
Studies have shown that sea vegetables have been consumed since at least 8000 B.C.E. by cultures in the Japanese region. Today, however, most people have strayed away from including sea vegetables in their every day diet. This class aims to change that by showing you how to utilize fresh sea vegetables harvested just up the coast from Santa Cruz. Madia and Ian will show you how to whip up 4-5 different recipes using fresh sea vegetables. Come hungry!
About the Instructors:
Ian O’Hollaren combined his knowledge and passion of the ocean and turned it into a business and lifestyle. For almost 2 years, Seaquoia Wild Seaweeds has been harvesting seaweeds from California’s unique and bio-diverse coastal ecosystem. Ian strives to connect people to the source of their food while promoting environmental awareness, which has been his business philosophy from the start!
Madia graduated from Bauman College of Holistic Nutrition in 2013 after completing her BA in Environmental Studies and Exercise Sports Science at UCSB. Shortly after, she started her personal nutrition consulting business My Healing Habits. She enjoys educating on how to heal inflammatory and autoimmune conditions, and believes in the food-as-medicine approach.
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