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Successful Moon Day Yoga Flow – Thank you Debbie and The Practice Yoga Studio

shaynacl — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:05:22 +0000

We want to sincerely thank everyone that showed up yesterday to participate and support Shayna Liebbe Rocktanga Memorial Fund. We raised enough money for half a scholarship and had a truly amazing moon day yoga flow! Thank you Debbie Berardi Christensen , The Practice Yoga Studio and Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon!

We are going to make this a monthly event, on each new moon, and will be looking for teachers to donate their time and expertise. Please contact Melodee Liebbe or Heather Clements if your are interested.

Namaste~

MOON DAY FLOW YOGA!

shaynacl — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:50:22 +0000

This Sunday, January 22, 2012, at 9:30am until 11:00am, please join us at The Practice Yoga Studio for a special donation based flow class taught by Debbie Berardi to benefit Rocktanga. Come flow to the Dark Side of the Moon!

The Practice Yoga Studio, 111 W Avenida Palizada ~12, San Clemente, CA 92672

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Shayna’s Birthday dinner to benefit the Rocktanga Scholarship fund

shaynacl — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 04:25:18 +0000

Yogis, friends…you are invited to a Birthday Party for Shayna, to help us make her scholarship fund a success.

When: Thursday, December 9, 2010 at 6:30P.M.
Where: Antunucci’s in M.V.
Cost: $30 donation
Menu: pizza & salad & of course cake!

We hope everyone will try to come. We all miss her, so let’s celebrate her special day!

Proceeds from Shayna’s birthday celebration will benefit the Rocktanga Scholarship Fund, funding yoga teachers in their education.

Namaste~

Just One Day – September 18 2010

shaynacl — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:18:25 +0000

Calling all Yogis and Yoga Studios…

September 18th 2010 marks the one-year anniversary of daughter, sister, friend and yogini Shayna Liebbe’s death. In an effort to continue Shayna’s passion for yoga her family has set up a scholarship fund to help budding yoga teachers fund their training. We are seeking donations from yoga teachers and studios for JUST ONE DAY, encouraging individual teachers and/or their studios to donate a percentage of their yoga class profits on 9/18/2010 to the Rocktanga Yoga Scholarship Fund in Shayna’s honor. 100% of all donations collected will be distributed to scholarship applicants to assist with their teacher training.

Ready to get involved? Contact Sasha Rusk at 714-289-2728 or Melodee Liebbe at 949-677-6676.
Please make checks payable to “Melodee Liebbe” with “Rocktanga Scholarship” in the memo line.
You can send donations to:

Melodee Liebbe
24782 Rittenhouse Circle
Laguna Hills, CA 92653

Just One Day Events:

Pacific Ashtanga’s Shayna Night
Friday September 17 · 6 pm
Pacific Ashtanga
24901 Dana Point Harbor Drive
Dana Point, CA 92629
All proceeds to benefit the Rocktanga Scholarship

108 Sun Salutes
Saturday September 18 · 10 AM
The North Deck
412 Jasmine (at PCH)
Laguna Beach, CA 92651
(949) 742-0996
$12 – All proceeds to benefit the Rocktanga Scholarship

Rocktanga Workshop/Fundraiser with Samantha Gallo
September 18 · 2:00pm – 3:30pm
The Pilates and Yoga Room
505 S. Villa Real Drive
Anaheim Hills, CA
Donation: $25 – all proceeds to benefit the Rocktanga Scholarship

Please email Sasha if you are hosting a Just One Day Event and we will post it here!

Namaste~

I am Surrendering to Gravity and the Unknown..

shaynacl — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:22:32 +0000

Project Rocktanga is thrilled to announce our participation in Erika Burkhalter and Paul DaSilva’s Partner Workshop at Costa Mesa Yoga Works this Saturday September 12th!!! Ed Chang and I will be doing a partner yoga demonstration with Erika and Paul for your entertainment and {hopefully!} inspiration, then we will be on hand to partner with you and play! Please call CMYW 949-642-7400 to sign up today!!!

Little surfer girl….

shaynacl — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:48:55 +0000

August 18-20 I had the immense pleasure and honor of teaching some girls to surf down at San Onofre. One of the best things I did this summer…and mind you I went to Shasta with Tim Miller on yoga retreat, and saw NIN, Depeche Mode, and TOOL live! All the girls stood up on their first day out. I am proud to be part of the next generation of shredding surfer girls! Here are some pics…

Graduating Class Summer of '09!!

Open your shoulders!

Bow to the mighty Ocean!!

Hit the deck, chicks!

Showtime Shayna..; )!

Here they come...

Sometimes this is my favorite part...hanging with the girls!

Om namah Nataraja…

shaynacl — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:30:39 +0000

This Thursday August 6th 2009, Ed Chang and I will be doing a Rocktanga Demonstration in honor of the grand opening of the new location of the Whitney Gallery. Please come and enjoy the gallery’s opening for Art Walk this month with some amazing yogic demonstration! Call 949-497-4322 or 949-533-2023 for information. The yoga demo will start around 7pm.

There’s someone in my head, but it’s not me…

shaynacl — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:33:32 +0000

I know we have all felt this way, the mind monkeys, the inner critic, the saboteur, the ego struggling to keep you reactive and stuck in your story, lost in the drama. And when we begin to challenge this, man do they start flinging…poo! {so to speak} But when we are able to pull back on the camera lens and see the twists of conciousness, the citta vritti, for what they are…veils, covers, chains…we feel the space of awareness. This is intrinsically what our yoga practice is designed to do. To focus you on the present by watching the breath. To clean the vessel, so we aren’t so comfortably numb or toxic. To hone our skills to respond rather than to react, to detach, to move with the universal flow…

Found my new favorite Rumi in class this morning, ” God blows on the world-reed, each note of longing, passion, to be felt through us! BE YOUR NOTE… Remember the source of this wind-breath.”

If you want to see me toot my horn, I’ll be doing a demo for Yoga Works at the US Surf Open in Huntington Beach this Saturday @ 4pm in the athletes tent.

She moves in mysterious ways…

shaynacl — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:56:25 +0000

In some groups, I am known as “Showtime” or “DQ” {drama queen}…There is a performers heart wedged into this yogini’s body, and that is why “Rocktanga” exists. I’ll be the guest on the Duke Fightmaster Show this Friday July 10th, the yoga episode. I’ll be sharing the wealth of knowledge I thank my teachers for, I’ll be showing off the crazy tricks in this fool’s bag, I’ll not be taking myself too seriously. Mysterious, not serious…

And for public heckling…. I’m just gonna throw down my mat, throw on some Doors, and rock it out at Main Beach in Laguna this Saturday 7/11 @ 3pm. Come by and I’ll take requests until I get asked to leave!

Come as you are…

shaynacl — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:51:27 +0000

On July 3rd of 2002, I subbed my first ever yoga class. I had been a lurker for a few classes over the years, but I started a serious practice in October of 2001. By July I had only completed half of the Teacher Training 200hr. program led by Karin O’Bannon at the present Yoga Works in OC. Never one to hesitate at flirting with humiliation and disaster, when my teacher Diana recruited me to teach for Yoga Place at the time, I jumped at the first sub opportunity they called me for. I knew it was the studio owners habit to let a new teacher sub a class and attend to “audition” them out before getting any actual classes. That morning I only had one student for that class in Laguna, and it was Randi Beck, boss lady and mother hen of Yoga Place. My first class was a ninety minute private with my potential boss. My heart goes right to the throat when I reminisce… Randi was very kind, and I must not have sucked because I was given a few classes at Mission Viejo right away, for Ashtanga. That’s my story…

But thank you will never quite cover the limitless gratitude I have for getting to play with you. Getting to show you how to live more comfortably inside your bodies, showing you how to discover all those hidden tricks and gifts we carry. Reading you poetry and playing you amazing music, and sharing moments of transformation, break throughs, break downs, injuries, illnesses and conditions to explore and learn from. I really love this. I really love you guys. I really do.

Please come and share my 7 year cycle, my 7th anniversary…I don’t know why this is so poignant..this is the most fulfilling relationship I’ve ever known. Here’s to us!
July 3rd:
6:30am Vinyasa 2 Mission Viejo Yoga Works
9am Vinyasa 2/3 Costa Mesa Yoga Works
12pm Vinyasa 2 MVYW
5pm Vinyasa 1/2 MVYW
6:30pm Ashtanga Prep MVYW

“In your light I learn how to love, In your beauty, how to make poetry. You dance inside my chest where no one sees you, but sometimes, I do. And that sight creates this art.” RUMI