Open Your Heart for Haiti

Open your hear this Valentine’s Day weekend with a series of Second Saturday offerings from Wake Up Yoga. After the earthquake in Haiti, I told you about a fundraising event that the studio would offer and promised more details to follow. Well, here they are!

“A Profound Act of Love,” will take place at all three Wake Up Yoga studios. 100% of the proceeds for the donations-based classes being offered at all three of the studios this Sat., Feb. 13 will go to the Partner’s in Health Haiti Fund. (For each studio’s full class schedule, visit http://www.wakeupyoga.com/haitifundraiser.htm)

Raffle tickets will be sold over the weekend as well as before and after classes for $10/ticket. The current list of prizes is as follows.

GRAND PRIZE: Lunch with Mayor Nutter!

Bodywork, Holistic Treatments

• (2) Prizes of a 30-minute Health & Lifestyle Phone Consultation with Erin Owen
• 30-minute Reiki Treatment with Erin Owen
• A One-Hour Massage with Alison Dinsmore of Poplar Massage
• A 1-hour intuitive energy healing with a combination of Reiki, Shamballah, and
• Sokaisi, by Emily Wishnick
• A 90-Minute Thai Massage with Debbie Philpotts
• A Facial Treatment at Honeydew Beauty Lounge
• One-Hour Hot Stone Massage with Judy Moon
• One Lifeline Technique Session with Judy Moon
• One-Hour Thai Massage with Gabrielle
• (2) Prizes of a Nutritional Consultation with Jennifer Fanega
• One Community Reiki Treatment by at The Philadelphia Reiki School
• One Acupuncture Treatment with AcuGoddess Kara Szymski
• A One-Hour Massage offered by Isa Goldfarb
• (2) Prizes of an Acupuncture Treatment at Stillwaters Holistic Health Therapies
• (3) Acupuncture Treatments at Roxborough Community Acupuncture

Yoga Prizes

• Wake Up Yoga 5-Class Card, Jagarata Tank, CD with Corina
• 1-Month Unlimited Yoga at Wake Up Yoga
• A 60 minute Private Yoga session with Mirabai
• Yoga Starter Kit from Lululemon, courtesy of Keri Smotrich
• Yoga Party for you and up to 11 friends at Jai! Yoga, taught by Julie Pogachefsky, accompanied by live music by Stephen Groff

Jewelry & Hand-Made Items

• Hand-Made Gift Cards from Carole Sweeney (Corina’s Mom!)
• Handbag created from a tire tube from Hondorus (really cool!)
• Handmade bowls and crafts from Haiti
• (2) Handmade Malas by Jennifer Kates
• Handmade Hub Cap Prayer Wheel by Jennifer Kates
• One-of-a-Kind Handmade Piece of Jewelry by RetroRelix
• A Pair of Fair Trade Earrings from Ooh La Jena
• A Pair of Handmade Silver Earrings by Joy Cutler
• Handmade Necklace & Earrings by BirdQueen Designs
• A pair of recycled glass earrings and matching barrette, by Bonnie Hauck
• Handmade FlyPiece necklace, by Lunden Abelson

Dining, Theatre & Entertainment

• 4 -Tickets to any play at People’s Light & Theatre Company
• 2-Tickets to see Francis Dunnery at World Café Live
• A $50 Gift Certificate to Figs Restaurant
• Two Tickets to Enchantment Theatre Company’s holiday production in December 2010
• 2 Tickets to East Passyunk Avenue Restaurant Week donated by Renee at East Passyunk Business Improvement District
• $50 gift certificate to Bishops Collar
• $50 gift certificate to Lucky 7
• 2 tickets to the Pennsylvania Ballet’s production of The Four Temperaments, courtesy of Jack Hayman
• 2-Tickets to see I Am My Own Wife at the Amaryllis Theatre
• $20 Gift Certificate to Angelino’s

Classes & Services

• 2 Hours of Free Service from A-Team Movers Moving Company
• One Relationship or Individual Therapuetic Consultation with W. Paul Wilkinson, MFT
• $50 gift certificate from Zipcar
• (5) Prizes of One-Hour Sessions of Movement Acrobatic Training in NYC with Aidan O’Shea
• Six Improvisation Piano Lessons (value $108)–age 3 or older at The Philadelphia Suzuki Piano Academy
• A choice of Fitness/Wellness Services from Fusion
• Infant Baby Massage lesson with Kelli Page
• 2 Singing Lessons offered by Holly Phares
• 90 Minute Yoga Slackline Instruction for you and 3 friends, offered by Jennifer Nehila
• 1 Free Haircut at Sulimay’s Hair Design

Other Cool Stuff

• A hand-dyed and framed vintage doily from Mira Elwell
• 3 Separate Dog Gift Packs from Central Bark Doggy Day Care
• Gift Basket from Bija
• A Godiva Valentine’s Gift Basket with lots of chocolate goodies, offered by Campbell’s Soup courtesy of Jen McGown Yummalish
• Vegan Treats Box for Chocolate and Peanut Butter Lovers, including: Two dozen chocolate chip cookies; Two dozen peanut butter cookies; One pound chocolate fudge; One pound peanut butter fudge, baked by Kim Paschen
• (2) Prizes of Hand-Made Tibetan Prayer Flag by Kate Duncan
• A copy of the book “Mountains Beyond Mountains” by Tracy Kidder, a book about the Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World, donated by Paul Stamm & Amy Kaplan
• A small collection of screenprints/drawings/etchings offered by Elizabeth Thamm
• Collection of Books & CDs from CityPaper

If you would like to contribute a prize, please email alane@wakeupyoga.com.

As a bonus, the South studio will offer a tasting of Nolia Chocolates as part of Second Saturdays, a monthly event that takes place on East Passyunk Ave. Nolia will provide handmade, artisan chocolates and Vegan fruit and nut squares from 5:30-8:30pm.

Namaste,

SPF

Tags: A Profound Act of Love, Nolia Chocolates, south philly for haiti, Wake Up Yoga, yoga fund raiser

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