Save the Date - You are Invited!

Zenana Spa and Wellness Center Open House Celebration
Sunday, February 3
2:00 - 6:00 pm

• complimentary mini spa treatments
• vendors and instructors will be available to talk about classes and products
• the children's room will be open for questions and parent-attended play
• huge sales in our boutique
• $15 off any new service booked that day and valued at $30 or more (need not be new client)
• more details to come

Come Experience the Luxurious Comfort of our Remodeled Pedicure Area!
Our beautiful nail area just got more comfortable! We have elevated our pedicure stations for better ergonomics and a truly relaxing experience!

"It was a gloomy Portland Winter's day, but we

felt miles away from the rain as we sat in the

luxurious new "thrones" at Zenana Spa. We felt

totally pampered, knowing that our kids were

being cared for in the (Children's) room down the

hall and we left feeling calmer, re-centered and

pretty. Thank you!" J.H.

Have you browsed the boutique at Zenana Spa and Wellness Center?

We have gifts and treasures for people of all ages!

Skin, Nail, and Body Care Alima Cosmetics Earth Mama Baby Angel Éminence Mama Rose's Naturals Zoya Ocean Child Eternal Maternal Belly Casting Sudsmuffin Von Natur   Miscellaneous Gifts Betsy Rose Music Mirandazine Greeting Cards by Local Artists Handmade Jewelry by a variety of local artists Beanstalk Candles Doll Slings Xocolatl de David   Diapering and Diaper Free G Diapers Baby Bjorn Potties Skip Hop

Clothing and Accessories Glamourmom Nursing Tanks Hazel-Blue Mama Skirts Bump Style Sasha B. Designs Fuzzbags Mr. Judy Girlband Splendid Wares Firecracker Baby Diaper Bags Sleepy Turtle Swaddle Keeper   Parenting DVDs Unconditional Parenting Hold Onto Your Kids   Baby Wearing Baby Bundler My Bei Bei   Breastfeeding Supplies, Accessories, Bras, and Equipment Blue Canoe Glamourmom Medela Motherlove Herbals My Brest Friend Lactaid

Have you received an incredible service at Zenana Spa and Wellness Center? The greatest compliment you can give your therapist and our business is a kind referral. We have developed this program as a way of extending our gratitude to all of you, our valued clients.

You will receive a $10.00 credit for every friend you refer. Your friend will receive $15 off their first service valued at $30 or more.

Be sure to tell your friend to mention your name when making her/his reservation.

You may refer as many friends as you like and continue to receive a $10 credit each time your friends mention your name at their first service.

Zenana Spa and Wellness Center has an exciting lineup of classes and groups, and more are being added all the time! Read about the latest class additions:

Staying Connected...With Your Teenager

Panel Presentation: Sunday, January 20th 2-4:30PM

$25 per person, $40 per couple.  Sliding scale available.  Fee includes ongoing (every other month) support and discussion group for those who attend the panel presentation.

This class focuses on the primacy of connection in parenting teenagers. Hear from a panel of parent educators and experienced parents of teens about how they stay(ed) connected with their teenagers through these exciting, scary, fragile, powerful years.  You will come away with an understanding of the importance of reserving connection between parent and teen, and ideas and inspiration for how to set limits respectfully, while reserving your teenager's autonomy, without using threats, rewards (bribes), punishments/"consequences", or any other tools of disconnection.  

Incorporates concepts from the work of Patty Wipfler, Dr. Gordon Neufeld, Aletha Solter, and Marshall Rosenberg (NVC), as well as the professional and personal experience of Lyla, Emily, Traci, Heidi, and Deb.  

Limited space available so register soon!  To register call Lyla at (503) 754-2718.  Email with questions at: Lyla@zenana-spa.com.

Due to physical space limitations, quiet babies in arms may attend, but we ask that you make other arrangements for your crawling and older children.

Guided Group Chakra Meditation with 9 Singing Crystal Bowls

Jan. 27, 2008, 12 noon-1pm
$13

You and your partner looking for a bit of blissful relaxation?  No prior experience or knowledge is needed for this guided meditation.  Children who enjoy meditating are welcome as well.

The singing quartz crystal bowls induces one into a deeply relaxing, meditative trance state conducive for healing. You will actually feel the frequency of the healing bowls reverberating around your body. Each singing bowl correlates to one of the 7 seven main chakras.  Chakras are subtle centers of energy, which when awakened helps to establish an inner balance between the body, mind and spirit, the key for good health.  Through guided imagery, we will journey through the chakras to open, cleanse, and activate your energetic field.**

**Side effects may include: a feeling of blissfulness, relaxation, being in the NOW, balance within your energy field, uplifted spirits, personal well-being, peacefulness, rejuvenation, greater connection to your higher self, the universe and to the earth, and a renewed sensed of self.

Pre-registration is recommended.  Contact Nicole to pre-register and/or for more info at 503/914-6581 or trinitihealing@yahoo.com. 

Nicole Asprocolas is a Certified Hypnotherapist specializing in strengthening and harmonizing our body-mind-spirit connection.  In addition to her practice and these meditations, she also facilitates various workshops.  Visit her website at www.trinitihealing.com.

Healthy Moms and Well Babies

Sunday, January 27th 2-4pm
 
Presented By:  Heather Mulcahey Lopez MA OTR/L and Lisa Friedman BS MPT

Learn to connect with your body's innate wisdom, and ability to heal and develop.  Both moms and babies benefit from NeuroFascial Process TM, a hands-on healing technique that helps the body heal and find balance.  You will learn and practice simple self-treatment protocols that focus on mom's physical and emotional needs after childbirth, as well as protocols that mom (or dad) can use for baby's ideal growth and development.  
 
These are all wellness techniques that you can work into your everyday schedule and reap enormous rewards in health and positive development for yourself and your baby.
 
Heather Mulcahey Lopez MA OTR/L  is a holistic occupational therapist with a private practice in Multnomah Village, SW Portland.  She has taught Integrative Manual Therapy nationally and internationally.  She has extensive experience working with women's and children's health and well-being needs.

Mothertree Childbirth Preparation Course

6:00-8:30 pm

Tuesdays, January 8 - 29 OR
February 5 - 26

This session in a personal setting, allows couples to explore the transformative experiences of childbirth and their own unique pain coping styles while considering evidence-based information on normal birth. Please bring pillows.

$200  Minimum of 4, maximum of 6 couples required.
To register please call 503-343-9911 or e-mail  classes@mothertreebirth.com

Taught by Jesse Henderson of Mother Tree Doula Services

Prenatal Breastfeeding Education

3:30-5:30pm
$40 per couple

Choose the Saturday option most convenient for you - preferably more than a month before your due date:

February 2nd

Would you like to know more about:

• How to avoid almost all common breastfeeding problems?
• How partners can help with breastfeeding?
• How to know your baby is getting enough milk?
• How often to feed your baby?
• What to do if you are in pain?
• Where to go with questions?

Classes taught by Adrienne Fuson, Lactation Specialist, Certified Doula, LMT, BA

Adrienne Fuson has worked with pregnant families for over fourteen years.  She is a Lactation Specialist and has worked extensively with breastfeeding issues.  She is a labor doula and teaches the labor doula certification course at the Birthingway School of Midwifery.  She is also a nursing mother.

• Be prepared and confident
• Meet other expectant parents
• Have fun in a relaxed atmosphere
• Bring any and all questions

The Language of Parenting ~ Words Weave Magic

Five week class series
Thursdays, January 17th - February 14th, 1-3 pm
$195 includes manual

A wise man said, "In the beginning, words and magic, were one and the same." By mastering the artful use of language, increasing our understanding of our child's development and learning style, and understanding ourselves as parents more deeply, we can weave magic in the lives of our children.  This dynamic class includes lecture, story, discussion, self-reflection, and practical skills that you can use immediately.  Janet Allison is a Parent Educator, Waldorf Consultant and Family Coach.  And, best of all, a Mom of 22 years.  She believes that language is magic and its effects are long-lasting and powerful. 

Call Janet to register at 503-493-7404 or email janet.familycoach@comcast.net. Limited childcare available on a first-come basis, call 503-238-mama (6262) to reserve a childcare spot.

Stroller Strides - Fitness for Moms, Fun for Babies!

Stroller Fitness Introduction - A FREE "How-To" Seminar
January 12th 1-2 PM

As excited as new moms are about the birth of our babies, we also can't believe the body that's been left behind. Our round, voluptuous body seemed beautiful while pregnant and seems like bread dough after labor. What makes matters worse is that new moms generally don't have time to do traditional exercise and shouldn't be dieting. Our bodies undergo a tremendous amount during pregnancy, so the last thing we should do is deprive it of precious nutrients. But yes, there is hope! Our Stroller Strides program is helping new moms get back their pre pregnancy shape. What's even better is that they get to meet other new moms and spend valuable time with their babies. Classes consist of power walking with intervals of body toning stations using the stroller and the outside environment. Stroller Strides makes it part of their business to support new moms through their parenting experience via playgroups, discussions and a variety of activities for both mom and baby.

Please call Mackenzie for more info: 503.381.0694 or visit www.strollerstrides.com.

Couples Massage Class

February 16th, 1:00-6:00 pm
$125 per couple

Touch is a powerful way to communicate a deep sense of caring for one another. It is an essential ingredient, a private language, so-to-speak, between two people. This touch intelligence can affect the inner workings and rhythm within any relationship.

In the couples massage class you’ll expand your skills and increase your touch intelligence and tailor-make your approach to meet your partner’s needs. Does one partner seem distracted when massaging you, or going into irritating repetitions, or hurting you by not knowing his or her own strength? Perhaps your partner is touching too superficially to be satisfying, not really reaching you, or even worse…the T-word, tickling you?

In this class we’ll explore how touch is influenced by being present. It can take an ordinary rub-a-dub-dub to a more profound level and create a new level of trust between the two of you. Learn to turn a cranky partner back into your loving partner with some simple techniques.

Please avoid wearing makeup, hair products, or perfume. Please wear comfortable clothing and bring a pillow and blanket.

Within this five hour workshop you will be learning how to give your partner a full body Swedish massage. 

Class limited to six couples. CEU’s are available to L.M.T.’s upon request.

Cost: $125 per couple
Call 503-238-6262 to register.

Betsy Berres has been a practicing massage and healing arts therapist for twenty years in Portland, Oregon. She is certified in Neuro-Linguistic Programming and has studied several body-mind modalities. Betsy has taught a variety of massage courses and healing art classes for the last four years in the Continuing Ed Department of Portland Community College and continues with her private practice in Northeast Portland. Occasionally, she finds herself writing a poem, or two.

Elizabeth G. Berres, L.M.T. #2688

Intro to Meditation Workshop

Sunday, January 13th 12-2:30pm
with Jana Labib

This interactive workshop will introduce a simple technique to help focus and quiet the mind… we will practice short sitting meditations as well as other exercises to induce a meditative state.  There will be question and answer sessions between the practices to help refine technique and learn how to apply meditation to everyday life.

Benefits include mental clarity, reduced stress, increased health, vitality and quality of life, and greater connection to yourself and your heart.  Meditation is a profound life skill that can be used anywhere! 

Cost: $30 preregistered, $40 day of event
or $50 per couple preregistered
$70 per couple day of event

To register, please call Zenana Spa  503 238 6262.

For more info on the Workshop, please contact Jana Labib at janalabib@msn.com  or 503 228 2292.

Meditation Drop-in Series

First Sunday of each month starting in February
12-1pm

These classes are open to everyone, including pregnant moms and new moms and dads

Connected Parenting Class

2 part class - held on consecutive Wednesday mornings:

February 6th and 13th.
10 AM - 12:30 PM

This workshop is focused on the primacy of connection in parenting children of all ages and on parenting without punishments or rewards. Look deeply past difficult behaviors to discover the underlying needs of our children (and ourselves), and begin to use concrete tools to respond effectively to parenting challenges. Incorporates concepts from the work of Alfie Kohn, Lawrence J. Cohen, Dr. Gordon Nuefeld, and Mary Sheedy Kurchinka as well as the professional and personal experience of Lyla and Emily.

Cost: $49 per person, $79 per couple for both days combined - SLIDING SCALE AVAILABLE - for sliding scale, contact Lyla@zenana-spa.com.

Registration fee includes the option to participate in an online email group for continued support for connected parenting. Participants also go home with the class syllabus, which includes many valuable articles and resources for continued enrichment (or sharing with partners) at home.

To register: Reserve your space - register now! Call (503) 754-2718 to register or email Lyla@zenana-spa.com with questions.

Limited childcare available, with advance registration: $15 per child per day. Childcare fills quickly, register now to hold your place!

Cancellation policy: 2 weeks for full refund, otherwise registration fees can be applied to subsequent workshop.

Facilitated by:
Lyla Wolfenstein, B.S., IBCLC, RLC
Parent Educator, Lactation Consultant and Mother of 2 and
Emily Troper, ECE
Early Childhood Educator and Mother of 4

"Connected Parenting with Lyla and Emily is phenomenal. We just did that workshop last weekend and while we came away feeling a little concerned about our current parenting, we also got motivated, energized, supported and became far more positive in our approach with our 3 year old. We immediately saw some results.

I would love for them to start an ongoing class like that with new material, that includes some reinforcing of the great info we got at the first one." - Lisa

Baby Sign Language Play Class

6 weeks, $89
Increase the intimacy between you and your child by empowering her to communicate her needs, wants and thoughts with you!

Our baby sign language classes take communication to the next level.  In our engaging classes, you will sign, sing, play and learn about your baby's development!  Learn how to sign easily during your day, increase the intimacy of your interactions, enhance concept development, decrease tantrums and understand how your baby sees & enjoys his world! 

• Series A -best for children 6-24mos
  Thursdays 4/3-5/8 3:15-4:00pm

• Series B - best for children 10-24mos
  Thursdays 4/3-5/8 4:30-5:15pm

Series A description:  Sign for Success
best for children 10-24mos. For families who have completed Series A.

• Learn how many & what types of signs are essential for success
• Use signs to recognize & foster your child's individual interests
• Signs: meal time, fun-time, daily routine, early animals and more
  

Series B description:  Signs for Early Learning
best for children 10-24mos. For families who have completed Series A.

• Use signs to facilitate concept development & encourage/clarify early speech
• Learn strategies for expanding your interactions & increasing intimacy
• Signs: outside, sports, opposites, community and more!

Series C description (dates TBA): 
Advanced/Abstract Concepts
best for children 12-24mos. For families who have completed Series A & B.

• Facilitate comprehension of abstract ideas
• Use signs to enhance 2-way conversations
• Signs: transportation, emotions, colors and more!

Offered by Portland Early Learning Project
For more information and to register online visit us at www.portlandearlylearning.com

Please call or visit our classroom page for more information about any of our classes.