Svasti Yoga Center for Healing and Transformation, serving the greater Powderhorn community of Minneapolis, is now open for classes at 3751 Bloomington Ave. S. Svasti Yoga is a relaxed inspiring atmosphere to learn yoga or deepen your practice. The new yoga center is committed to providing quality yoga instruction and yoga therapy to anyone who wants to learn, including people who, due to practical concerns of limited time, physical, or financial ability, might otherwise lack access.

Svasti is Sanskrit for a state of health, happiness and wholeness. Yoga is Sanskrit for union or to unite. The ancient practice of yoga works to align the body with the mind and spirit, uniting us with peace of mind, good health, spiritual well being, and the divine. Yoga is growing in popularity and many people are exploring the benefits of yoga – using it for fitness, to improve mental and physical health and to increase awareness.

Svasti Yoga offers a variety of yoga, breathing, and meditation classes for beginners and experienced practitioners. There is something here for everyone, from Hatha and Vinyasa to Bollywood Dance and Qigong Moving Meditations. Yoga therapy private consultations and group classes for common concerns are available, as well as therapeutic body treatments like massage, Asian bodywork, hot wraps, mud packs and energy healing.

Class prices range from $10 to $12 for drop-ins, and new students receive one week of free classes. Yoga Therapy memberships include one monthly private yoga therapy consultation and unlimited therapeutic yoga classes. For more information, visit www.svastiyoga.com or call 651.756.9391.

Bellaluna Boutique, located in Minnetonka, MN, recently was nominated for the Best Boutique in the Metro area… The local business, at 11300 Minnetonka Mills Rd., will celebrate its new expansion with a Grand Re-opening event from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, May 21.

Guests will experience the new Crystal Room, The Singing Bowl Room, The Fireplace/ Reading room
and Self Healing Room. Dancers will entertain and free coffee will be served, as well as introductory sessions with Intuitive Readers, Reiki Healers, Massage Therapists and much more.

Bellaluna now offers an expanded array of products and services, including gifts for your heart…healing for your body, love for your spirit and soul, metaphysical books, singing bowls, crystals, jewelry, candles, incense, salt lamps, fountains and much more.

Regular appointments can be made at Bellaluna with New Moon Hypnosis with Gail (612.280.6408) or drop in or get an appointment with Spirit of Love and Light Healing Arts Intuitive Readings with Satail (612.703.9154 or 952.460.3650. For more information on Bellaluna Boutique, visit www.giftsforspirit.com or call 952.930.0800.

Rachel Miejan, who offers Reiki healing sessions and Reiki instruction, recently relocated her Woodbury, MN-based healing services to Madison, WI. She will return to the Twin Cities quarterly for classes and sessions, and is still available for absentee Reiki requests, which allow individuals to have Reiki energy healing sent to individuals and situations without being present.

Rachel, a Twin Cities native, began learning Reiki to heal others in 1985, and later apprenticed for one year to become a teacher of the healing modality.

“I am grateful and proud to have been part of the Reiki lineage of so many of you,” she said, “expanding life’s experience for all!”

Contact her about healing sessions, Reiki classes or Reiki Master apprenticeships at 651.735.2863, email rachel.miejan@gmail.com or visit www.ReikibyMiejan.com.

Omar, a longtime healer based in Madison, WI, who is familiar to the holistic community of the Twin Cities, will be in Minneapolis on September 18 and December 4 to mentor two groups of 15 people in the practice of hands-on healing. Omar is a master healer with more than 60,000 practice hours over the span of 32 years.

His workshops are from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. each day at Lake Harriet Spiritual Community, 4401 Upton Ave. S., Minneapolis. Register at 608.658.6718 two weeks before before each respective workshop. The cost is $69 each or $59 when two or more register together. Add $20 for late registration. Attendees may enjoy discounted optimal private sessions.

Each workshop will include “Power Play!” in which each person in a group of five will receive healing. Omar will demonstrate time-tested techniques to melt energy blocks, heal mind and body while boosting consciousness, energy level, joy, love, freedom, intuition and enthusiasm. Four people play with each team member, using 50 synthesized energetic Body-Mind-Spirit modalities. Advanced Energy Healing raises vibratory energy of people, and opens and heals chakras, glands, joints, meridians, muscles and organs. For more information, visit www.omarstouch.com.

Stacy Davenport – a certified consultant and teacher of the Akashic Records, a dynamic feng shui practitioner, life coach, mentor, educator and motivator – will speak on “The Energy Factor,” an advanced Feng Shui process, from 7-8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 28, on the first floor of France Place, 3601 Minnesota Dr., in Bloomington. The event is free and open to the public. While working with more than 3,000 individuals and their spaces through Feng Shui and space/energy clearings, Stacy discovered an important missing link she calls “The Energy Factor,” a process that neutralizes detrimental energy pockets and their influences in personal and professional environments.

In addition, learning how to access the Akashic Records will be presented in two levels in October by Davenport and Boni Oian, a certified consultant and teacher of the Akashic Records, and a Shamanic, Access and Trance Dance practitioner, a personal coach, Reiki Master and director of All Encompassing Retreats. Akashic Records are the individual records of a soul from the instant it leaves its point of origin until the end of time. Learning to access the Akashic Records is a life-transforming experience.

The class is offered in two levels in October. Level I meets from 4:30-9:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 1, and from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 2. Level II meets from 4-9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 2, and from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 3. Both classes meet the Art of Healing, 10901 Red Circle Dr., Suite 110, Minnetonka. The fee for each class is $250. Contact Stacy Davenport at 512.836.4036, or email stacy@stacydavenport.com to register.