Life with Yoga

WHO AM I?

It was 1969, the year of the Woodstock Music Festival. Swami Satchidananda opened up this historic event with a unifying OM, vocalized by thousands of participants. Although I was not there, this is the spiritual revolution era that influenced my yoga practice. I was a young 15 year old hippie and attended a kundalini yoga class in New York. The depth of relaxation experienced in savasana was the spark igniting my path. I found deep peace during a turbulent time in a teenagers life.

It's been over 40 years since I first stepped onto the yoga mat. There have been numerous luminaries and instructors along the way. Early in my search for some meaning to Life's challenges, I was introduced to Swami Satchidananda's book Integral Yoga Hatha. I still hold this old book in my library as the origin of my yoga path.

In 1976, I attended a retreat with Amrit Desai. His teaching was based on a personal kundalini rising experience. On his mat the postures suddenly revealed them self in sequence without his direction. He had tapped into a higher source. Amrit Desai then taught an approach called Meditation in Motion, trusting the body to move in a smooth sequential order, based on divine guidance. Amrit Desai is founder of Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health in Lenox, MA, named after his guru Swami Kripalu.

It was also during this time that Ram Dass came to the University of Florida. I was an art education student there but seeking as much information as I could on the vegetarian diet and spirituality. Ram Dass had recently returned from India, from his guru Neem Karoli Baba. He shared Hindu chanting with us and the power of OM. I followed Ram Dass on retreat and satsangs while living on the east coast. It was my first encounter with chanting and hearing the names of the Hindu deities.

The student becomes teacher. I am now offering classes for 25 years rooted in traditional Hatha Yoga. It's a meditative asana flow focusing on the mind/body unity, breathing and the subtle anatomy.

Being a previous special events organizer, I hosted the annual Bisbee Yoga Expo in southern Arizona (2005-2010) and served as the President of the Arizona Yoga Association (2007 -2009). Now a new resident of the Big Island for nearly three years, Hatha Yoga classes are currently offered at our hOMe studio in Kalapana Seaview Estates.

Blessed to be the wife of John Galleher for four decades, mother of David, Crystal and Jesse and to be 'Nani' to our sweet, smart, sparkling granddaughter Kiva.

I love to dance, love the Hawaiian ocean and enjoy the importance of being a gardener.

I am an artist and a pisces.

~ OM ~

CLASS SCHEDULE ~ Hatha Yoga

No afternoon classes at this time.

Will resume at a later date. <> 4:30 pm - 5:45 pm

WEDNESDAYS <> Chair Yoga Flow

10:15 am - 11:15 am

THURSDAYS <> Hatha Yoga

8:30 am - 9:45 am

hOMe Yoga Studio in Kalapana Seaview Estates

12-6989 Kamoamoa Street

Donation $8

Open to students of all levels

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" Your ability to verbally describe the various postures, where we might still be holding and how to release more deeply is very specific and helpful. I especially like coming to your studio for the smaller classes. You are providing a wonderful service to our community. We are very fortunate to have you. Mahalo! " Isla

" I took yoga with you about 20 years ago. I would like to get back into yoga and wondered if you had your CD and cassettes. If either are available I would like to purchase one or both of them.

I recently joined the gym and am trying to go there 3 days a week and do yoga 3 days a week. They have yoga classes but so far they just don’t match the practice I had with you! You’re the best! " Dori (February 2019)

ON THE PATH

Marcia Galleher (mar-see-ah) E-RYT 500 is registered with Yoga Alliance, 'grandmothered' in 2006 by documenting 5,000 hours of teaching experience prior to December 31st, 2002.

After many years living and teaching in Bisbee, a small town in southern Arizona, Marcia and her family moved to the Big Island in 2015. She was an instructor at Kalani Honua before it closed in May of this year. Marcia continues to teach classes rooted in Hatha Yoga at her hOMe studio in Kalapana Seaview Estates.

Marcia's intuitive based teaching emphasizes inner awareness, the union of mind/body, conscious breathing and the subtle anatomy offered in a meditative asana flow. Postures (asana) are held still and also practiced in a slow moving sequence. Attention is on the ease and steadiness of mind and body.
Practice on your own 'island' (own mat) in a safe and comfortable environment.

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" You were the best yoga teacher I ever had. I tried several teachers, but none resonated with me like you did." Jan

" I am so grateful for your classes..They are like pure honey to my soul." Zenne

STUDENTS SAY

"What a super class! It was just what I needed! Opened my breathing and my Heart Chakra, oxygenated my brain. " Tao

"Thank you for class today... couldn’t have come up with a sequence nearly that perfect for what I needed today!!!!" Zina

" You will always hold a place in my heart as my first true yoga teacher. You are remarkable! I still, and always will, compare my teachers to you....most don't measure up. " Nancy

"You really are the best. I think of Muhammed Ali saying that he is the greatest, but you my dear are truly "The Greatest"!! Your meditation practice plus telling us exactly what to do in practice is really wonderful. I could keep my eyes closed and focus inward the whole time. Really no one is quite like you." Bill

" You have a masterful ability to keep your students in the present, as you afford each the opportunity to practice each pose consciously and deeply to whatever depth they wish."

"You and your yoga classes have been a great inspiration to me over the past 13 years and I feel your talented teaching and my yoga practice are a huge factor in helping me to grow older gracefully. Thank you so much for your dedication to becoming the wonderful teacher you are." Yvonne

"Thank you for your most excellent instruction. Your devotion is an inspiration. I gain a lot from your teachings that a book can't compare to." Carmen

"You are such a blessing in my life, bringing yoga and peace to me through your teaching and kindness. Yoga has really changed my life and a huge part of that is your philosophy and teaching style. I cannot thank you enough." Cheryl

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SPECIAL EVENTS

Explore your Connection to the Mayan Calendar

EXPLORE your CONNECTION to the MAYAN CALENDAR

FRIDAY

OCTOBER 18th

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

$10 Donation

Marcia Galleher * Blue Resonant Storm

This class is an introduction to the Mayan Calendar. Are you a White Electric Wizard, a Blue Cosmic Eagle, a Yellow Solar Seed? It's based on your birth month/day/year.

Learn about the twenty solar Tribes, the thirteen Tones, the colors, the KIN, the symbols and the affirmations in this 13 month/28-day (lunar) calendar.

It is an intuitive and methodical calendar that reveals the 'galactic' energies of each day, including the day of your Birth. Attune to the rhythms of natural time based on this ancient system from the ancestral Mayan civilization thousands of years ago.

At a private residence in LeiLani Estates. Please email for address.

mobiusmagic@gmail.com

CHAIR YOGA

CHAIR YOGA FLOW

Wellness for Every Body

WEDNESDAYS

10:15 am - 11:15 am

Ongoing

Chair Yoga is an excellent form of yoga for those limited in mobility and find it challenging to practice yoga poses on a mat, also suitable for beginning yoga students. The classes include the movement of postures, breathing techniques and meditation while seated or standing in a chair! Enhance flexibility, strength, and muscle tone, improve breathing, reduce stress and acquire a sense of calm and well being.

Dress comfortably for this one hour class.

Watch a ten-minute video of Marcia teaching Chair Yoga. Click here.

hOMe Studio

12-6989 Kamoamoa Street

Kalapana Seaview Estates

The Foundation of Yoga

The Foundation of Yoga:

The Inner Journey

Begins June 18th - July 11th, 2019 *

Tuesdays and Thursdays

3:30 pm - 5:30 pm

offered by Marcia Galleher

$240 for 4 weeks ($30 class/$60 week)

8 Classes/ 16 Hours

* TO BE OFFERED AGAIN*

The FOUNDATION OF YOGA is for those interested in a more in-depth understanding of Yoga and/or interested in becoming a yoga instructor in the future. The FOUNDATION OF YOGA will offer a basic overview of:

History and Philosophy of Yoga

Styles of Yoga

Paths of Yoga

Asana, Pranayama, Meditation

Subtle Anatomy (mudras, chakras, nadis, vayus, koshas)

Hindu Deity Stories

Chanting

Art Projects

Handouts

Guest Instructors

* Participants will receive a copy of the Bhagavad Gita book as interpreted by Jack Hawley.

hOMe Studio

12-6989 Kamoamoa Street

Kalapana Seaview Estates

CHAIR YOGA

CHAIR YOGA FLOW DVD

with Marcia Galleher

40 minutes. $14 (click to purchase)

Gentle, invigorating movement of postures with awareness to breath and meditation. Find freedom from stress and strain. Increase flexibility, promote ease of breathing, maintain strength and stabilize an attitude of positive well being, all from practicing Yoga in a Chair!

Practice 10 minutes of Chair Yoga with me from

this online YouTube video