10th Annual It's Just Yoga Health & Fitness Festival

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10TH ANNUAL

IT'S JUST YOGA FEST Sunday, March 3, 2024 10am–4pm Lake Eola Park

Donation Based Festival Benefits

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CLASS SCHEDULE

sunday, March 3, 2024 lake eola PARK - orlando

NEW LOCATION: Corner of Rosalind & Robinson (Near Amphitheater)

FAQs, Class descriptions & list of exhibitors can be viewed online at ItsJustYogaFest.com Non-ticketed event. Donations accepted on site.

Benefits New Hope for Kids; Classes are subject to change.

DTO TENT

SWAN STAGE

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10:15 AM – 11:00 AM

SOUND BOWL HEALING

Crosby Wellness Center

10:15 AM – 10:45 AM

MIND BODY MEDITATION

Dr. Brooke Stuart

11:15 AM – 12:15 PM

ENERGY CLEARING Juliana Larochelle Yoga CREATIVE FLOW

11:00 PM – 12:00 PM

CHAIR YOGA

Om Sunshine Yoga

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM

LIVING IN THE LIGHT YOGA

Chopra Yoga– Sarah Platt-Finger

12:15 PM – 1:15 PM

Chopra Mind Body Zone

1:45 PM – 2:45 PM

"ARE YOU READY FOR IT?": TAYLOR SWIFT YOGA FLOW

CHAKRA BALANCING YOGA FLOW

Tribe Yoga Studio

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM

GENTLE FLOW YOGA

SoFlo Hot Yoga

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

CELEBRATING COMMUNITY

Miriam Reh Yoga

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11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

YOGA and PLAY FOR KIDS

Mindful Play Learning

12:00 PM – 3:00 PM

ACRO JAM

Orlando Acro Club

LAKESIDE

SEND OUT SOME YOGI LOVE

The producers of “It’s Just Yoga Fest” would like to send out a special thank you to our sponsors.

Without the support of these companies, we would not be able to host this donation-based festival.

Please stop by their booths and show them some yogi love!

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THINGS TO KNOW About It’s Just Yoga Festival

Celebrating its 10th Anniversary, the It’s Just Yoga Festival is a manifestation of the passion and dedication of Colette Ferrell, a yogi and event organizer. She wanted to create a platform for the Central Florida yoga community to connect and support a local non-profit. The festival has featured diverse classes such as aerial yoga, acro yoga, yoga for kids, yoga in Spanish and chair yoga. It has also promoted hundreds of local businesses and donated thousands of dollars to New Hope for Kids. From a humble gathering, it has evolved into a massive event that draws thousands of attendees every year.

When You Arrive at the Festival

To join the It’s Just Yoga Fest, please visit the purple information tent. Here you can make your donation to New Hope for Kids and sign a release waiver. The suggested donation is $15. (cash, check and credit card accepted). You will receive a participation wristband that allows you to attend classes throughout the day.

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Make a $20 Minimum Donation — Get a Festival Shirt Get yours early — sizes are limited.

Available at the purple information tent.

While supplies last.

celebrating 10 years

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Vipin Mehta’s

Mehta Metaphysical Center

Offers Workshop and Meditation on the Eight Limbs of Yoga According to Hindu mythology Patanjali, founder of the Yoga Sutras more than five thousand years ago, defined Yoga to mean “Union with Divinity.” Yoga Sutras are metaphysical scientific scriptures.

Ashtanga Yoga are the eight limbs of Yoga – the pathway to Divinity.

In modern age, Divinity refers to God/ Goddess/All That Is. Out of the eight limbs four limbs are of the physical body (within space/time dimension).

The other four limbs are metaphysical (beyond space/time dimension). Physical limbs are Self Restraint (Yama), the second Self Discipline (Niyam), the third is Posture (Asana), and the fourth is Regulating Breathing (Pranayama). The four Metaphysical Limbs are: Coming Home (Pratyahara), Beliefs (Dharana), Expanding Consciousness (Dhyana), and Transcendence (Samadhi).

Yoga practice can begin linearly but should evolve to work exponentially, cohesively, and coherently- not one at time but together. The whole is greater than the sum of parts and that creates the resonance. Resonance is creating union with Divinity. You are neither body nor mind, the “I” drops out and the remainder is “Amness.” Finally, Amness and it emerges into Cosmic Consciousness/Divinity/God/Goddess/ All That Is.

Vipin Mehta Founder of Mehta Metaphysical Center

The drop of water travels to the cloud, to the rain, to the stream, to the river, and finally merges with the ocean. The drop of the water is the ocean, and the ocean is the drop of the water.

Ted Skorman

Heidi Bromm

Amy Anthony

Jax Cassidy

Stephanie Ray

Jill Marie Jordan

Biopulsar Vibrational Intuit

Certified Hypnotherapist

Sound Medicine & Energy Guide

Sixth Generation Transformational Intuitive

Tachyon Healing Experience

Sound & Energy Alchemist

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Or as the poet, Rumi so beautiful put it: “You are not a drop in the ocean; you are the entire ocean in a drop.”

Now is the time to move beyond the physical limbs of Yoga to the metaphysical limbs of Yoga.

Join us for the Workshop/Meditation of the Metaphysical Limbs of Yoga on March 25, 2024, at the Mehta Metaphysical Center.

The Center created by Vipin Mehta is a 12,000 sq. ft. metaphysical wonderland.

Why a wonderland? Because guests of the Center literally stand in wonder to all he has created and are fascinated by his wisdom, passion, and understanding.

Workshops are held in the Consciously Creating Creativity Gallery. This beautiful gallery houses the metaphysical masterpieces that Vipin has created based on his latest book of Consciously Creating Creativity, just released last year.

Meditations used to be held in the Crystal Temple of Love. Created in the spirit of Love and for the love of all, this space houses one of the largest Rose Quartz spheres in the United States.

However, due to popular demand we now conduct our meditations in the Crystal Temple of Global Healing that houses a five-foot Rose Quartz Flame - a wonder you must see to believe! Named the Rose Quartz Flame of Love, inspiring us to Rise in Love rather than to fall into it.

Meditations begin with the beautiful melodic sounds from the Crystal Sound Bowls of Amy Anthony. After meditations, the Center is open and guests meander throughout the many rooms at their leisure while others participate in some of the healing modalities available.

Some visit, Ted the highly trained Vibrational Intuit for a Biopulsar Test.

Clients place their hand on the gold prongs of the device which corelate to the acupressure points of the hands which in-turn are related to the physical organs of the body.

Then, on a computer monitor they can see visually where they are energetically. Ted then will consult with them and guide them as to what is revealed. The BioPulsar device enables Ted to reveal the energy coming out of the energy centers of the body (Chakras) by percentage. He is even able to reveal the energy coming out of 49 organs!

March 23rd, 2024

Yoga Workshop + Meditation 10am - 3:30pm (Check-In: 9:30am) Limited Seating - $40 Mehta Metaphysical Center One Purlieu Place Winter Park, Fl 32792 Register at Eventbrite Yoga Workshop + Meditation PLEASE RSVP TO 407.801. 3368 OR EMAIL INFO@VIPINMEHTA.COM

From there, an aha moment might lead a guest to have a conversation with Heidi Bromm, NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming) Practitioner, and Professionally Certified Hypnotherapist. Heidi, can help clients change patterning that they have not been able to consciously change on their own. Beyond Quantum healing, also available through Heidi, can help clients gain understanding of their past and can help them find a new direction, and even equip them for their self-healing journey.

Others visiting the Center may connect with Stephanie Ray. She is the Center’s Tachyon Specialist. Clients can enjoy a comforting experience of sitting in what looks to be the most comfortable recliner, in a room that even has tachyonized paint on the walls.

Clients are covered with a tachyonized banket and with headphones placed over their ears they are able to escape the chaos of their lives for a 20-minute session that is said to raise their frequency to a new baseline and leave them feeling as if they were held in the most beautiful unconditional state of love.

People travel from near and far to for healing frequency attunements and activations with Sound Medicine & Energy Guide, Amy Anthony. Energy work, Sacred Healing Arts in addition to anything having to do with the Divine Feminine including Womb Healing – is Amy’s passion.

Jax Cassidy, can help clients who are looking for a specific answer. Jax is the Center’s Sixth Generational Transformational Intuitive. Clients love Jax for her nofills approach to relaying messages.

Reiki Healing Master, Jill Marie Jordan is referred to as the Sound and Energy Alchemist with Mehta. If you think you are being called into the healing arts, Jill’s Reiki certification program is a great place to begin.

Visiting the Center guests also see a meditation space created in honor of both the Masculine and Feminine Energy, The Crystal Temple of Soul and Spirit, featuring mostly quartz crystals.

Finally, the Mehta Metaphysical Center houses a Spiritual Center and Crystal Healing Center (Boutique) and their relative libraries.

You won’t want to miss meditating and visiting the beautiful Mehta Metaphysical Center.

Vipin Mehta, the author of The Global Healing Trilogy, and his latest release, Consciously Creating Creativity, is available for speaking engagements.

Contact Public Relations Representative Jen Mayer-Garrison at jen@mehtametaphysical.com www.mehtametaphysicalcenter.com Instgram: @mehtametaphysicalcenter Facebook: themehtametaphysicalcenter

MEHTA METAPHYSICAL CENTER

Change. Grow. Evolve.

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CONGRATULATIONS

to the winner of our It’s Just Yoga (IJY) cover contest!

ELLA BOURIAK @ella_bouriak To me, yoga is a way of life. It is a way of connecting deeper to ourselves and discovering our true nature. I was introduced to yoga by my parents at a young age. Seeing how it has positively impacted them, inspired me to pursue this practice. I discovered that regardless of where I went, practicing yoga made me feel at home. I have been teaching yoga for the past 10 years, in New York City, and now in Orlando. It gives me great pleasure to share the joy and healing benefits of yoga with others and to see people transform their lives.

Photo: Di Captures Photography

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE RUNNERS UP! JULIANA LAROCHELLE @juliana.larochelle

Juliana Larochelle is a certified yoga teacher and mentor with 10+ years of experience.

Juliana created the Steal My Flow movement online, encouraging yoga teachers to learn practical tips for easy sequencing, leading to more confidence on and off the mat. Juliana was born and raised in New Jersey, where she received her 200-hour yoga teacher training and became reiki certified as a teenager.

Juliana lived in an ashram in Vrindavan, India in her 20s, where she studied Vedic Psychology and Yoga Philosophy. During this time, she traveled to the darkest parts of herself and was brought back by her own light, truly learning her power as a healer and a teacher.

Juliana now teaches virtual yoga teacher trainings and offers Done-For-You class plans on her website to make teaching yoga easy and accessible to all. She now lives in Central Florida with her husband, where they practice acro yoga together almost every day.

ALSO PICTURED: CATHY MADEO @CathyMadeoYoga Photo: @lookitsirving

ANGELA McCASLIN @angelamccaslinyoga

Angela McCaslin is a Certified Yoga Teacher, Owner of The Yoga Loft yoga studio in Titusville, Florida and Owner of Global Yoga Beats. Angela discovered yoga 18 years ago and it has transformed her life, mind, body and spirit. She enjoys teaching all forms of yoga to everyone of all levels and ages. Angela's mission is to inspire others and spread her love of yoga and meditation to empower people to live a healthier lifestyle at any age.

The positioning of this particular asana reminds me of the quote from Lao Tzu, Each journey begins with a single step.

Photo: Anson Bingham at Playalinda Beach

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