Mountain Flow Yoga

SIGN UP NOW!!!! Starting 5/29 a 3 Day Healeo Cleanse + 30 Day Nutritional Re-Boot + Yoga Booty Boot Camp Challenge

Jaime Scates Schmitz — Thu, 17 May 2012 06:17:38 +0000

With LLF opening and the huge influx of amazing new classes and teachers, I’ve had a lot to be excited about as a studio owner. But I don’t think I’ve ever been as excited about a studio program/offering as I am about this 30 Day Challenge which will begin on May 29th!

The ancients tell us that every decision comes down to Preya (that which pleases us) vs. Shreya (that which serves us). Nowhere in life is this more obvious than with food. Many of us are already on the path to living more mindfully and making decisions that serve us rather than please us. This challenge faces most of us every day starting at the pasty counter at the local coffee shop: do I indulge in my sense pleasures and chow the waffle? Or do I practice a little restraint and head up to Healeo for a green juice? Many of us want to incorporate mindful eating–eating that serves our best selves rather than simply gratifying our sense pleasures–into our lives on a daily basis

When we spend 30 days clearing out the nutritional clutter we build our will power and learn how to make decisions about food from the place of shreya. It’s a powerful reboot to realize how much we take in that we don’t need . . . and that doesn’t serve us. The ancients tell us that making decisions from the place of shreya is a skill we build by practicing it. So we’ll spend 30 days eating mindfully and practicing shreya around food.

On staff we have Kelly Raylinsky, a naturopathic doctor and kick-butt cycle teacher and Chloe Dee, a nutritional coach, amazing yoga and cycle teacher and an educator of clean, organic, raw and vegan eating (though this is not a vegetarian or vegan only program). We’ve partnered with Healeo to help create and support our 30 day challenge to get your mind and body ready for summer. What is it?

1) A 3 Day cleanse provided by Healeo: 4 juices, a protein based smoothie for lunch, a hearty vegan soup for dinner

2) A Month of Unlimited Classes at both LLF + MFY and the challenge to really use it 5-6 days/week for Yoga, Cycling + Strengthening Clasess

3) E-mail access Kelly Raylinksy, N.D. + Chloe Dee Nutritional Coach for personalized nutritional information, coaching

4) A 10% discount on all food and juice from Healeo for the full 30 days as well as 25% off of supplements

5) Weekly Nutritional and Fitness Meetings with Kelly and Chloe

Tuesday, May 29, Mountain Flow Yoga, 6-7 pm :: Welcome to your Fitness + Nutrition Challenge

•Goal Setting

•The Healeo Cleanse: Days 1-3

•Fitness/Movement Challenge Schedule

•What is optimal nutrition :: Food Plan for days 4-7

•Complete Private Weigh-in, % Fat, % Muscle, % Water, and Metabolic Age

Tuesday, June 5: Mountain Flow Yoga, 6:30-7:00 pm

•Goal setting/Check in/tips for success

•Nutritional Topic: Amino Acids/Protein and Complex Carbohydrate. Food combining.

•Eating plan for days 8-15

•Complete Private Weigh-in, % Fat, % Muscle, % Water, and Metabolic Age

Tuesday, June 12: Mountain Flow Yoga, 6:30-7:00 pm

•Goals setting/Check in/tips for success

•Nutritional Topic: Optimize your vegetables, important nutrients include.

•Eating plan for days 16-21

•Complete Private Weigh-in, % Fat, % Muscle, % Water, and Metabolic Age

Tuesday, June 19: Mountain Flow Yoga, 6:30-7:00 pm

•Goal setting/Check in/tips for success

•Nutritional Topic: Electrolytes, Hydration, Antioxidants, Replenishment.

•Eating plan for days 22-29

•Complete Private Weigh-in, % Fat, % Muscle, % Water, and Metabolic Age

June 28: Mountain Flow Yoga 6:30-7:00 pm, Wrap Up

•Goals

•Weigh out

•How to take the cleanse into the rest of your Summer/life

Cost: $350 — the breakdown, meetings and nutritional coaching: $100; unlimited studio classes: $100; cleanse: $50/day. Sign up online now! Have another Yoga package you’re already using? Cost $250.

LLF Partners with Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, Go Run, Come do Yoga!

Jaime Scates Schmitz — Thu, 17 May 2012 02:29:20 +0000

On Sunday, June 3, Jaime will be teaching Yoga from 8:45-9:15 on the main stage at Seattle Center for the Susan G. Komen race for the cure! Go race, come do yoga. It’s just a 5K run and an awesome way to support friends, family and women we know who’ve been impacted and to celbrate the gift of health and life http://www.mountainflowyoga.com/main/wp-admin/post.php?post=547&action=edit&message=6.

The West Coast’s most AMAZING Yoga/Music Summer Festival, Wanderlust, Whistler BC 8/23-8/26.

Jaime Scates Schmitz — Thu, 17 May 2012 02:14:56 +0000

Tess and Madzy are going, who else from LLF :: MFY will hit the road to sample the most amazing Yoga teachers and musicians!

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Some Like it Hot! MFY goes to 105+ degrees on Monday.

Jaime Scates Schmitz — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 08:57:50 +0000

The heat is turning up at MFY! on Monday, 4/16 we’re greatly expanding our Yoga offerings to you by creating a HOT studio where the traditional 26 Poses of Hot Hatha will be taught as well as Hot Power, which a slow and stabalizing vinyasa practice. All fusion classes have moved to LLF! Watch the schedule online to stay up to date! Hot Hatha is an amazing way to expand your Yoga practice and to take the strain out of the wrists and shoulders that some people experience in Vinyasa yoga. It’s an incredible compliment to a vinyasa practice!

MFY Madrona Closing Tuesday Evening 4/3 for Re-Painting! Re-opening Friday 4/6.

Jaime Scates Schmitz — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 04:11:00 +0000

LIVE LOVE FLOW is Cosponsoring Janet Stone’s Visit to Shakti Vinyasa, April 6 & 7

Jaime Scates Schmitz — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 01:00:50 +0000

Durga Flow :: Fierce Compassion, Friday April 6^th, 7:15-9:45 pm
Hipster Flow, Saturday, April 7^th, 11:30 am – 2:30 pm

In Jaime’s words: “This is a teacher not to be missed. Janet Stone is one of the most inspiring, fluid, humorous and amazing teachers of modern vinyasa yoga–a personal favorite. She’ll make you laugh, she’ll make you move, and she’ll make you love the entire experience of her joyful teaching style.”

Janet’s personal yoga journey began in 1996 when she traveled to India, the birthplace of her grandfather, where she met an inspired yogi and became dedicated to a conscious evolution through yoga. She currently teaches in San Francisco, leads a 500 hour teacher training, workshops, and retreats around the world.

REGISTER THROUGH SHAKTI VINYASA, 425-646-9642, tell them you’re from Mountain Flow Yoga :: Live Love Flow to receive 10% off!

Friday April 6 $55 Before March 23, $60 after

Saturday April 7 $60 Before March 24, $70 after

Fri & Sat Early Registration DISCOUNT by March 23 $99, $125 after

Soul Flow :: A Fundraiser with Madzy & Jaime, Saturday, March 24, 3-5:30 pm

Jaime Scates Schmitz — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:59:01 +0000

As many people know, on February 21^st, studio owner Jaime Scates’ 33 year old brother in law died suddenly and unexpectedly of a massive heart attack leaving a stunned wife and three beautiful children, ages 2, 4 and 11, to process the painful loss. A trust has been set up in the children’s name. On Saturday, March, 24^th, Jaime and Madzy will teach a workshop to celebrate his life and raise funds for the trust. Join us for a 90 minute Yin + Flow class from 3-4:30 followed by a short reception offering wine and cheese. Thank you for bringing the suggested donation of $50 with you to the event. Checks can be made out to the Scates/Strange Children’s Trust – B of A.

Where’s the heat?

Jaime Scates Schmitz — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 08:41:42 +0000

First and most importantly, WOW! What an amazing week. What a pleasure to open the doors and enjoy so many amazing classes with familiar faces and new faces! I’m loving teaching at the new space. The Cycle + Fusion class is mind blowing to teach. Students are finding that when they do 35-40 minutes of intense cardio burn and find the huge release of stagnate energy in the cycling studio before Yoga, they’re really able to “let go” in the Yoga studio. A friend said it best when she said, “I burn it off in cycling then I’m not looking for Yoga to do something it may not have ever been intended to do.” I love it.

We’ve apologized repeatedly, but again, please know we’re working on the heat. We and the website promise a 90 degree studio, and as anyone who’s been in there knows, we’re not getting over about 84. It’s warm Yoga, not the 90 degrees we want to feel! Please know HVAC is coming back on Monday to tweak the system and we’re working to add in supplemental heat. We hope to have it a steady and even 90 early next week. In the mean time don’t worry, we’re generating the heat from the inside out!

Namaste!

Jaime

Rockin’ Opening

Jaime Scates Schmitz — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:31:09 +0000

What an amazing weekend! On Friday night Live Love Flow opened the doors to our friends, family and loyal clients for a par-TAY: there was a DJ, wine tasting with Precept Brands, a bar and a rockin’ party. I didn’t leave the dance floor (I never do), the DJ was bumpin’ and it looked and felt more like a night club than a studio. It was an incredible night, lots of flow: Madzy, Alison Barnes, my husband and I ended up at Dick’s late night . . . we danced on the sidewalk to the guitarist stringing for money. FLOW.

Tess and I rose bright and early on Saturday to clean and prep the studio. We were at it all day, but it came together!

Today we hosted 4 free classes. Every class was full! I taught Cycle + Flow at 8:00 a.m., I don’t mean to toot my own horn, but what a GREAT class. We rode very hard for 35 mins, lots of sprints and intense interval work to maximize the short ride, then we moved into the studio for 45 minutes of powerful flow yoga. At 9:45 Jessica packed the house for Pure Cycle and at 10:30 the droves streamed in for Pure Flow. Alice just finished teaching Flow + Restore to another full room.

It was so amazing to see the all the effort, work, dreaming, desiring, creating and manifesting alive and breathing. I’m beyond grateful to everyone who’s helped launch this puppy. Now it’s time to run it . . . We’ll see you in the FLOW.

Namaste,

Jaime

Something For Everyone

Jaime Scates Schmitz — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:12:04 +0000

I love this Yelp post from amy b! Proving there’s something for everyone. I do push hard in class: intentionally so! With the challange we create the turbulance through which to practice the calm abiding mind. “When thy intellect, perplexed by what thou hast heard, shall stand immovable and steady in the Self, then thou shalt attain Self-realisation.” –Bhagavad Gita. Find amy b’s post here: http://www.yelp.com/biz/mountain-flow-yoga-seattle.