Her Style

You’ve never done yoga like this before! It’s impossible not to laugh and smile with   joy as you stretch, shimmy, tone and play – Bollywood style.

Internationally recognized yogini Hemalayaa takes you through a series of familiar yoga postures linked together in an exhilarating, creative way. This dancing diva’s classes incorporate classical Indian dance, hip-hop, belly dancing and Hatha yoga for moves that are sassy, bold, outrageous, out-of-the ordinary and enormously fun.

Bollywood is India’s Hollywood and Bombay is the bustling city where these vibrant films, famous for their storytelling through dance and music, are made. “Bollywood Vinyasa” and “Sacred Dance and Movement” are inspired by the exuberant, erotic and expressive moves seen in Indian films. This heart felt movement unleashes waves of energy and happiness. Here, in this powerful and peaceful space, a healthy mind, a healthy body and a joyous life flow from an open heart.

Her Story

The daughter of Indian parents, Hemalayaa (Hema) is a yoga and Indian dance diva whose love for fitness began at home at a very early age. While learning meditation from her father as a child, she went on to intensively study yoga with leaders such as Jeffrey Armstrong (Philosophy of Yoga); various styles of Indian dance such as bhangra, bollywood and classical (with Sarala Dandekar); and has honed the latest moves from Indian MTV.

This unique combination of influences has culminated in three exciting classes, “Bollywood Vinyasa”, “Sacred Dance and Yoga” and “Kama Sutra Yoga Journey”, under the umbrella of the HEMA Wellness Program. The HEMA Wellness Program establishes a state of balance, health and well being with the HEMA tools of Healing, Empowerment, Movement (Yoga & Dance) and Ayurveda, integrating these practices sustainably into your life for real transformation!

Hema’s special gift is a teaching style that invites students to embark on a journey to their own inner joy. Her spicy and sassy full-body workouts help to get you in the groove while pumping up the cardio and toning your core, hips and thighs. You’ll burn calories, lose weight, sweat away stress and deepen your yoga practice while enjoying great Indian music. Her classes are about fitness in the fullest possible sense.

This dynamic woman has shared her gifts across the globe by teaching at workshops, classes, festivals and retreats in some of the world’s most beautiful settings.

Whether you experience her in-person or through one of her nine fitness DVD’s, The Bollywood Dance Workout, Beautiful Belly, Bollywood Booty, Kama Sutra Dance, Yoga for Everyone, Yoga for Young Bodies, Bollywood Boogie, Bollywood Dance Party, and Bollywood Burn, Hema’s classes integrate mind, body and spirit in a joyful fitness experience.

Her recent media appearances include: LA Yoga, Yogi Times, Fit Yoga, The New York Times, the May 2009 cover of Yoga Journal Magazine, as well as Ellen and The Today Show.

Major teaching appearances scheduled for 2011 include: HEMA Wellness Program, Bhakti Fest, Whistler Yoga Conference, Hollyhock, Iowa City Yoga Festival, and Omega Being New York.

To learn more about this dancing diva, visit www.hemalayaa.com. For more information on bookings and classes in your area, please call 866.436.5621, or email yoga@hemalayaa.com.

Bringing fitness to a whole new level – Fun!
Press Release – 06/19

Join Hemalayaa for a “Sacred Dance Journey”
at the Hollyhock on Cortes Island, British Columbia

Los Angeles, CA – 6/19/11 – Find freedom in self-expression during a “Sacred Dance Journey” with international yogini and dance diva Hemalayaa, Wednesday, July 20 to Sunday, July 24, 2011, at Hollyhock, Canada’s Lifelong Learning Centre, on beautiful Cortes Island, British Columbia (BC).

Located on the sunniest southeastern beach of Cortes Island, BC, Hollyhock’s tranquil setting is a natural fit for this “Sacred Dance Journey” featuring a fusion of playful yoga moves and practices with heart-centered meditations that instill freedom, confidence, joy and poise through steps that are sassy, suggestive, coquettish and fun!

Gesture by gesture, swish-by-swish, Hemalayaa’s easy style and fun approach to self-exploration will help participants of all fitness levels rediscover the Divine Dancer within.

Tuition for the 4-night “Sacred Dance Journey” is $495 Canadian; meals and accommodations extra. Please call 800.933.6339, 250.935.6576 (outside North America), or email registration@hollyhock.ca, for more information and to register.

Hollyhock is a nonprofit centre of learning that exists to inspire, nourish and support people making the world better. It is located on Cortes Island, British Columbia, some 100 miles/160 kilometers north of Vancouver. Situated at the end of Highfield Road, Hollyhock is 11 miles/18 kilometers from the Whaletown ferry terminal and five minutes from the water taxi dock at Manson’s Landing. To learn more about Hollyhock, visit www.hollyhock.ca

Hemalayaa is an internationally recognized yogini and dance diva whose classes incorporate classical Indian dance, hip-hop, belly dancing and Hatha yoga for moves that are sassy, bold, outrageous, out-of-the ordinary and enormously fun. Through her nine fitness DVD’s – The Bollywood Dance Workout, Beautiful Belly, Bollywood Booty, Kama Sutra Dance, Yoga for Everyone, Yoga for Young Bodies, Bollywood Boogie, Bollywood Dance Party, and Bollywood Burn – she helps individuals of all fitness levels integrate mind, body and spirit in a joyful fitness experience. For more information about Hemalayaa, visit www.hemalayaa.com.

Hemalayaa – bringing fitness to a whole new level – FUN!

Press Release – 06/13/11

Relax, Restore & Replenish at Ojai Weekend Retreat with Yogini & Fitness Mentor Hemalayaa

Los Angeles, CA – 6/13/11 – Join international yogini and lifestyle mentor Hemalayaa for a weekend getaway in the secluded setting of Ojai, CA, and “Celebrate Womanhood & Life” during a woman’s retreat taking place from Friday, June 24 through Sunday, June 26, 2011.

Nestled at the foot of the enchanting Topa Topa Mountains, guests will enjoy luxurious shared accommodations, vegetarian meals and the sisterhood of fellow participants while replenishing a passion for life, a sense of womanhood and connection to community during this weekend retreat featuring:
·       Playful Indian dance
·       Gentle yoga
·       Tantric breathing techniques
·       Rituals of reverence, including chants and meditation

Designed for individuals of all fitness levels and experience, the “Celebrate Womanhood & Life Retreat” invites women to explore their beauty, sacredness and femininity while learning to nurture passion, exuberance and a sense of play in an effort to restore their bodies, minds and souls.

The retreat begins at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, June 24th with a movement class and ends on Sunday, June 26th at 1 p.m. with a class and meal.

Fees range from $499 to $899, based on shared accommodations. Prices are per person and include all meals (vegetarian), accommodations and itinerary events. For more information and to register, please call 562.889.5599, or email celebrate@hemalayaa.com

Press Release 04/20/11

Media contact: media@hemalayaa.com

This Mother’s Day, Give the Gift of Balance, Health & Wellbeing – The HEMA Wellness Program

Los Angeles, CA – 4/20/11 – Whisk mom away for a revitalizing 10-day-adventure with international Yogini and fitness mentor Hemalayaa this Mother’s Day and be among the first participants in the innovative HEMA Wellness Program, May 28 – June 6, 2011, at Dancing Shiva Yoga and Ayurveda Center, 7466 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA.

Whether a mother-daughter excursion or a solo retreat, participants will enjoy Hemalayaa’s joyful spirit and commitment to making fitness fun as special guests Felicia Tomasko, Mas Vidal, Eric Shaw, Hilary Kimblin, and others, present an exciting immersive course designed to help establish a state of balance, health and well-being using the HEMA tools of Healing, Empowerment, Movement and Ayurveda.

“We know that mothers and daughters will walk away from this experience with renewed health, a stronger parent-child relationship and the skills to take this new-found joy forward into their daily living experience,” explains Hemalayaa. “What greater gift can a family share than that of personal empowerment and healing?”

As experienced in her nine internationally celebrated yoga and Bollywood Dance videos, participants will enjoy a spiritual journey exploring creative combinations of yoga, dance and sound.

In addition to reconnecting with their true selves/finding bliss, participants will:

• Explore the principles of alignment and sequencing
• Learn three distinct class formats – “Bollywood Vinyasa,” “Sacred Dance & Yoga” and “The Dance of the Kama Sutra”
• Delve into Ayurveda and enjoy a comprehensive Ayurvedic consultation
• Receive certification in yoga and dance (108 hours)
• Take home a program manual and Hemalayaa DVDs

Cost for the 10-day HEMA Wellness Program is $1,499 per person, payment options available (click here for hotel and dinning recommendations). For more information on making a memorable Mother’s Day gift of health and to register, please call 866.436.5621, or email yoga@hemalayaa.com. To learn more about Hemalayaa and the HEMA Wellness Program, please visit www.hemalayaa.com.

HEMA

• Healing – A practical and spiritual model blending techniques and systems to heal the mind-body and soul. Heal and feel your best by learning to connect with your sacred body.
• Empowerment – Empower your life by empowering yourself. Overcome old belief patterns and self-imposed limitations to find your higher purpose of abundance and joy.
• Movement – The art and beauty of sacred Indian dance integrated with therapeutic and mystical yoga. Awaken the life-force within to release your creative potential. Move to the music of your heart and soul.
• Ayurveda – Overcome physical, mental and emotional obstacles through the science of life and routines that bring us into accordance with nature. Let nature’s medicine bring out the divine beauty within you.

HEMA Wellness Programs – bringing fitness to a whole new level – FUN!

Story Ideas:

• Sex/Kama Sutra: Let Hemalayaa, an expert in the sensual arts and knowledge of divine pleasure and play, provide expert tips to help you and your audience spice it up in the bedroom. As Hema explains about one of her most popular classes, “When we connect with our higher selves during The Dance of the Kama Sutra, we free our inner Goddess and are able to share her intimate gifts with our loved one.”
• Women’s Empowerment through Movement: Strip away who you ‘have to be’ to rediscover who you really ‘are.’ As she does in her weekly classes and retreats, allow Hemalayaa to lead your audience along the sensual path to personal power to discover their bold, creative, true selves through vocalization and movement.
• Ayurvedic Nutrition & Beauty Tips: Hemalayaa shares all-natural DIY tips for a body, mind and spirit “Spring Cleaning” that will revitalize and refresh, proving “beauty radiates from the inner self out.”

yoga@hemalayaa.com www.hemalayaa.com

Press Release 04/26

Media contact: media@hemalayaa.com

Discover Your Bold, Creative Self through Yoga & Dance as Hemalayaa Presents the First-Ever HEMA Wellness Program

Los Angeles, CA – 4/26/11 – Delve into yoga, movement and vocalization and discover the bold, creative, true self within during yogini and fitness star Hemalayaa’s new HEMA Wellness Program, May 28 through June 6, 2011, at Dancing Shiva Yoga and Ayurveda Center, 7466 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA.

Participants will leave behind every day stressors, strip away their public personas and come face-to-face with their own ‘dancing diva’ during this 10-day mind-body adventure that fuses yoga, movement and vocalizations in a joyful, safe environment that helps reawaken the soul and reignite a passion for living.

Whether joining this immersive experience as a ‘girls getaway’, a solo retreat, or for certification in yoga and dance, guests will enjoy Hemalayaa’s joyful spirit and sessions with special guests Felicia Tomasko, Mas Vidal, Eric Shaw, Hilary Kimblin and more. Designed to help establish a state of balance, health and wellbeing, the HEMA Wellness Program uses the HEMA tools of Healing, Empowerment, Movement and Ayurveda.*

“So often as adults we forget that to remain creative we need to express ourselves, to play,” explains Hemalayaa. “This program allows us to integrate the public adult with the private child inside us – to find creative expression through movement – to claim our personal power.”

Those joining Hemalayaa for this empowerment-based program will learn to teach three distinct class formats – “Bollywood Vinyasa,” “Sacred Dance & Yoga” and “The Dance of the Kama Sutra”; receive a program manual, Hemalayaa DVDs, a comprehensive Ayurvedic consultation; and certification in yoga and dance (108 hours).

To join this journey of self-discovery, please call 866.436.5621, or email yoga@hemalayaa.com. Cost for the 10-day HEMA Wellness Program is $1,499 per person, payment options available (click here for hotel and dinning recommendations). To learn more about Hemalayaa and the HEMA Wellness Program, please visit www.hemalayaa.com.

*HEMA

• Healing – A practical and spiritual model blending techniques and systems to heal the mind-body and soul. Heal and feel your best by learning to connect with your sacred body.
• Empowerment – Empower your life by empowering yourself. Overcome old belief patterns and self-imposed limitations to find your higher purpose of abundance and joy.
• Movement – The art and beauty of sacred Indian dance integrated with therapeutic and mystical yoga. Awaken the life-force within to release your creative potential. Move to the music of your heart and soul.
• Ayurveda – Overcome physical, mental and emotional obstacles through the science of life and routines that bring us into accordance with nature. Let nature’s medicine bring out the divine beauty within you.

HEMA Wellness Programs – bringing fitness to a whole new level – FUN!

Story Ideas:

• Sex/Kama Sutra: Let Hemalayaa, an expert in the sensual arts and knowledge of divine pleasure and play, provide expert tips to help you and your audience spice it up in the bedroom. As Hema explains about one of her most popular classes, “When we connect with our higher selves during The Dance of the Kama Sutra, we free our inner Goddess and are able to share her intimate gifts with our loved one.”
• Ayurvedic Nutrition & Beauty Tips: Hemalayaa shares all-natural DIY tips for a body, mind and spirit “Spring Cleaning” that will revitalize and refresh, proving “beauty radiates from the inner self out.”

yoga@hemalayaa.com www.hemalayaa.com

Press Release March 14th 2011

International Yogini & Fitness Star Hemalayaa

Launches HEMA Wellness Program in LA

Los Angeles, CA – 3/14/11 – International yogini and fitness star Hemalayaa launches her new HEMA Wellness Program, fusing yoga and dance in a transformative 10-day mind-body adventure, this May 28 through June 6, 2011, at Dancing Shiva Yoga and Ayurveda Center, 7466 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA.

Known for her joyful spirit and commitment to making fitness fun, Hemalayaa and her special guests, Mas Vidal, Eric Shaw & Hilary Kimblin and others, present an exciting immersive course designed to help participants establish a state of balance, health and well-being using the HEMA tools of Healing, Empowerment, Movement and Ayurveda.

“The program’s designed for instructors but is open to everyone who wants to reconnect with their true-selves,” explains Hemalayaa. “I really created the program to help people reconnect with the truth that we are designed to be healthy, balanced, abundant beings and to remind us to enjoy our bodies and our lives.”

As with her nine internationally celebrated yoga and Bollywood Dance videos, participants can expect Hemalayaa to lead them on an enjoyable, spiritual journey exploring creative combinations of yoga and dance.

Additionally, participants will explore Ayurveda and the principles of alignment and sequencing, as well as learn to teach three distinct class formats – “Bollywood Vinyasa,” “Sacred Dance & Yoga” and “The Dance of the Kama Sutra”.

Those joining Hemalayaa for this program receive a program manual, Hemalayaa DVDs, a comprehensive Ayurvedic consultation and certification in yoga and dance (108 hours).

HEMA Wellness Programs – bringing fitness to a whole new level – FUN!

To learn more about Hemalayaa and the HEMA Wellness Program, please visit www.hemalayaa.com. Cost for the 10-day HEMA Wellness Program is $1,499 per person, payment options available (click here for hotel and dinning recommendations). To register, please call 866.436.5621, or email yoga@hemalayaa.com.

HEMA

• Healing – A practical and spiritual model blending techniques and systems to heal the mind-body and soul. Heal and feel your best by learning to connect with your sacred body.
• Empowerment – Empower your life by empowering yourself. Overcome old belief patterns and self-imposed limitations to find your higher purpose of abundance and joy.
• Movement – The art and beauty of sacred Indian dance integrated with therapeutic and mystical yoga. Awaken the life-force within to release your creative potential. Move to the music of your heart and soul.
• Ayurveda – Overcome physical, mental and emotional obstacles through the science of life and routines that bring us into accordance with nature. Let nature’s medicine bring out the divine beauty within you.