WELLNESS SESSIONS

Breathwalk Breathwalk is the science of combining specific patterns of breathing synchronized with your walking steps and enhanced with the art of directed, meditative attention. Combining these elements makes the impact greater, the results even more effective. Breathwalk is easy to learn, and offers an immediate path to physical and mental fitness giving you exercise, personal growth, stress mastery and a clear mind. Appropriate walking shoes are recommended.

Chakra Meditation This guided meditation balances the body's seven centers of energy, known as chakras. The chakras correspond to the body's neural and hormonal systems. As you recline on a cushioned mat, feel how this relaxing session creates a sense of balance so your life energy can flow freely. Carl Jung describes these centers as ‘gateways to consciousness.’

Core Strength Enhance your core/abdominal strength and increase postural alignment. Integrate core conditioning into your yoga practice or exercise regimen. This invigorating session ends with stretching and energy restoring relaxation. No previous experience is necessary.

Meditation: Enter the Quiet of the Mind Liberate yourself. Go beyond the surface of everyday mental clutter to the natural state of the mind. Experience the power of a simple meditation practice to heighten awareness and access your inner Self, as you sit comfortably in a chair. Receive an overview of the technique and practice. Beginners are welcome.

Nature Walk (complimentary) The grounds of Caneel reflect the diversity of the tropical world with over 1000 species of native and introduced plants. Join Oriel Smith as he guides you on a fascinating interactive walking tour around the grounds of Turtle Bay and discover the plant life that surrounds you. Find out about the medicinal properties of native plants.

Core Strength Enhance your core/abdominal strength and increase postural alignment. Integrate core conditioning into your yoga practice or exercise regimen. This invigorating session ends with stretching and energy restoring relaxation. Previous experience is not necessary.

Qi Gong: Movement for Health Pronounced "chi-kung," this holistic practice infuses a series of slow progressive movements to open and clear the body's energy channels, or meridians. Improve strength and balance. Stimulate the flow of chi, or life force, restore vitality, and center the mind. Qi Gong can improve health and promote longevity.

Star Gazing: Stories in the Stars (complimentary) Enjoy the tropical night sky with a blend of astronomy and myth. Kelley Hunter will help you identify stars and constellations, some not seen in the northern sky, and share their stories from various cultures. You will receive a guide map of the sky.

Self Centre Sampler Indulge yourself and journey into a state of inner calm. Combining aspects of six sessions into one unique experience, this session begins with a series of stretches and breathing practices to release tension, mental clutter and stress. As you recline on a cushioned mat with a soothing eye pillow, you will be guided through a blend of relaxation techniques that further ease the body and invite peace of mind.

The Chi of Relationships for Couples Play lovingly with your life partner. Add a new dimension to your relationship. Using gentle Tai Chi and Qi Gong movements, learn to cultivate and align the chi, the life force, between you and your partner. Nurture and be nurtured as you empower your creative sensuality. No experience in Qi Gong needed.

The Rhythm of Relationships for Couples Be more in tune with your partner. Through playful practices and awakening the senses, discover how you can relate on a deeper level that increases sensitivity, intimacy and compassion. Experience the art of communicating and listening to the body's language to bring about a heartfelt sense of awareness and connection.

Total Body Relaxation As you recline on a cushioned mat, learn how to let go of unnecessary tension in the physical, mental and emotional bodies. Invite yourself to experience the benefits of a systematic relaxation technique to re-awaken and feel the body. Use the power of your imagination to replenish and conserve energy through guided imagery. Reconnect to a sense of wholeness.

Vinyasa Flow Yoga This session is for experienced yoga practitioners. Based on the principles of Hatha yoga, this dynamic session will focus you mentally and physically as you build strength, endurance and flexibility. Yoga poses are linked together by sequences to provide an energizing, physically challenging experience.

Yin Yoga Designed to release tension in the joints, this challenging session works on a deeper level into the connective tissue. Using all floor poses, you will be guided to hold each posture to increase the affect and allow the mind to expand. A seated mindfulness meditation brings this session to a close. Previous experience in any body awareness activity suggested.

Yoga for Relaxation Through simple stretches and poses based on Hatha yoga, you will use the body's natural range of movement to bring attention to the body, connect with the breath and center the mind. Beginners are welcome.

HOLISTIC TREATMENTS

All treatments are 75 minutes. Loose comfortable clothing is recommended.

Blissful Body This passive experience, using restorative yoga positions, is designed for anyone feeling tired, tense or desiring deep relaxation. Prior experience or knowledge of yoga is not necessary. Receive and relax as your body is guided into specific comfortable poses supported by yoga blankets and props. The focus is on releasing tension, increasing circulation and restoring energy. This session is also offered as a couples' treatment.

Inner Body Fusion Connect with your body's intelligence through a flowing combination of Thai Yoga, acupressure, Ayurvedic principles and energy release. This hands-on passive healing modality blends therapeutic stretching, assisted yoga, rhythmic rocking, acupressure and energy balancing into a unique healing experience. Stimulate the flow of energies within the body for health and wellness of being.

Ki Ko Sho Therapy The easing of energy blocks that have come to rest within our bodies is the essence of Ki Ko Sho. This personalized energy therapy helps release physical or stress, or offers deep releasing relaxation. Experience a greater peace and calm that can produce a renewed spark for and of life while supporting or rekindling your life's path. This therapy is not massage and does not manipulate the physical body.

Tuning the Body: Sound and Color Vibrational Healing This personalized non-invasive therapy uses the soothing vibrations of music tuning forks, and color light therapy on acupuncture points along the spine to balance and harmonize the mind-body, and to awaken your inner spirit. Excellent for releasing back or neck tension or pain, chronic stress, fatigue and anxiety. Feel vibrant and alive while creating deep inner peace. The vibrations of sound and color nourish the human energy system and aid the body in the recovery of its own balance in health bringing about a transformational experience.

Sound Lift: Tuning for the Face The face is a direct mirror of our mind-body-spirit and reflects imbalances. This gentle tuning treatment uses smaller tuning forks and color lights on specific points on the face to release tension and revitalize from within. A deeper process of rejuvenation, this tailored therapy also replenishes the energetic functioning of the body's organs while elevating your energy.

PRIVATE CONSULTATIONS

Astrology Consultations Astrology is a tool for self-knowledge, revealing the larger meaning of our personal experience. Beyond simplistic Sun signs, your birth chart gives an expanded map of the planetary patterns under which you were born, like a blueprint for life. Prediction is not the main purpose; rather we seek insight and perspective on your life situation. Birth date, time and place are needed, yet even without a precise time, much information is gained from the planetary pattern of the day. All sessions are recorded for continuing insights.

Personal Astrology A full introduction to your chart discusses basic life patterns, strengths, challenges and current cycles. 60 minutes

Couples' Astrology This session illuminates relationship dynamics between two individuals: factors of attraction; emotional needs; underlying expectations; communication; lessons to be learned alone and together; and the potential for shared growth over time. 90 minutes

Family Astrology This family session is geared towards to helping parents, children and teens understand each other more clearly as individuals in their own right for increased communication, family harmony and mutual appreciation. Allow 90 minutes for a family of three; two hours for four.

Astro-Teens Designed for teenagers 13-18 years old, this private consultation furthers self-knowledge during these years of transition to adulthood, discussing personal planets, social life, and talents and potentials. 60 minutes

Business Astrology Informed application of geo-cosmic cycles promotes professional success.

Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultation Ayurveda means the science of life. The traditional medicine of India, this ancient holistic healing system of preventive healthcare believes everything you interact with and experience in life plays an important role in your well being. Restoring and maintaining a level of balance is the key to maximizing and managing your health. We will discuss the principles behind Ayurveda and explore the physical characteristics, mental qualities and emotional tendencies that determine your unique body type. You’ll receive personalized suggestions based on your body type exploring daily practices to restore balance, reduce stress, increase vitality and maintain health through lifestyle choices. Individual, 75 minutes; couples, 90 minutes

Primordial Sound Meditation Program In four sessions, learn Deepak Chopra's mantra meditation program and receive your personal birth mantra. This meditation practice includes an introduction to the basic principles, individual instruction in your personal mantra, practical aspects of meditation and exploring the seven states of consciousness. The fee includes your detailed workbook and charge for the Chopra Center to determine your mantra.

FOUNDER & DIRECTOR

Jan Kinder, RN, CMT, is the founding director of The Self Centre at Caneel and The Self Centre International, LLC. She is a licensed registered nurse with a BA in psychology; certified music therapist; credential mind body medicine/Ayurveda consultant and primordial sound meditation instructor who has closely with Deepak Chopra, MD and David Simon, MD, since 1995; Breathwalk instructor certified by Guruchuran Khalsa, PhD. She's a master-level clinician in the musical development/therapeutic philosophy of Dr. Carl Orff, classical pianist, composer and vocalist. She continues to broaden her work in vibrational medicine with Fabien Maman as a certified practitioner for Tama-Do: The Academy of Sound, Color and Movement.

Jan's journey began in childhood when she started experimenting with music, meditation and yoga. Her studies and practice in Eastern philosophies continue to be her lifelong passion. Since 1977, she has guided adults and children through the experience of meditation and principles of yoga, guided imagery, music in medicine, music and sound therapy, expressive therapies and stress management. Her extensive background includes administration, consultation, and program development and implementation.

After four years of nursing, Jan elected to explore an avenue for combining medicine, music and spirituality. During the 1980s, she created and established comprehensive healing arts programs serving over 300 families at Turtle Bay Music School in New York, and founded the music therapy/music in medicine program at Rusk Institute for Rehabilitation Medicine, NYU Medical Center. In 1989, she was invited to develop and conduct similar curriculums, including mind body practices for St. John School of the Arts, USVI. In 1996, she founded the Mind Body Health Institute in New Jersey, providing seminars and workshops in mind body medicine/Ayurveda, meditation and sound healing. In 2000, in collaboration with Caneel Bay, Jan established the Self Centre at Caneel.

As a seminar presenter, lecturer and professional speaker, she has served various populations in hospital/medical settings; corporations; universities; yoga, meditation and wellness centers; and the private sector. Mind-body-spirit interrelatedness and quality of life remain the themes of Jan's work.

"Jan Kinder has dedicated herself to heal, to love, to transform and to serve others. She is an inspiration to those around her." Deepak Chopra, Author, How To Know God

STAFF BIOGRAPHIES

Irene Levin Donnelly, founder of the Sol Yoga Center in St. John, USVI, has been teaching yoga since 1984 and is a member of the Yoga Teachers Alliance. Well versed in Hatha, Iyengar, Astanga and Anusura, she has trained with masters Patricia Walden, Shiva Rea, Baron Baptiste and Angela Farmer. She is a certified Thai Yoga Practitioner by Jonas Westring. As a guest teacher, she has shared her expertise with various yoga centers in California, Hawaii and New York.

Elizabeth Escardo is a certified Kripalu Yoga instructor, Reiki Master and is accomplished in Advanced IREST/Yoga Nidra and Restorative Yoga. A practitioner of yoga and the healing arts since 1995, her teaching draws from training from masters Rodney Yee, Shiva Rea and Rod Stryker. She maintains a private practice and continues her studies in the Professional Integrative Yoga Therapist Program with Joseph LePage.

Ronni Ford, BSN is a certified Yoga instructor, Thai Yoga Therapist, and a practitioner of yoga since 1989. As a health educator/nurse, she was founding director of Solid Ground Fitness and managing director of a corporate fitness and health company in Connecticut. She maintains a private practice and has conducted Thai Massage teacher workshops at Yoga Works in New York City.

Lori Doherty Francis is an Usui Reiki Master and a Certified Karuna Reiki Master trained through The International Center for Reiki Training. Practicing since 1995, Lori blends her 20 years as a visual artist and gifted intuitive into her Ki Ko Sho Therapy. She continues to offer Reiki certification seminars while maintaining a private practice.

M. Kelley Hunter, Ph.D. is Certified Astrology Professional and mythologist, who teaches in the U.S. and abroad. Following degrees in drama and depth psychology, she completed doctoral studies in philosophy, cosmology and myth. Author of Black Moon Lilith, she writes for "The International Astrologer" and other professional journals, and has served on the Board of the International Society for Astrological Research.

Oriel Smith, Caneel's director of landscape and grounds, has devoted his life to the study of plants, specializing in tropical and subtropical vegetation. For the past 30 years, he has been continuing a long family tradition in landscaping.

Emily Sorensen is a Tai Chi/Qi Gong practitioner since 1994, and yoga practitioner since 1996 receiving her yoga certification from Paul Grilley and Sarah Powers in 2005. A teacher of Qi Gong and Yoga since 2002, she maintains studies in Taoist, Pa Kua and Chinese Meridian Theory. She is presently studying sound vibration therapy with Jan Kinder through Tama-Do, The Academy of Sound, Color and Movement.

RESERVATIONS

Reserve with the Concierge at least three hours in advance.
Mature teens may reserve with parental consent.

Wellness Sessions Our group sessions offer an array of mind body approaches to well-being. A minimum of two guests is needed to conduct sessions with a maximum of six or eight participants to ensure more personalized instruction. Inquire with the Concierge for any unforeseen changes in the schedule. Pregnant women may attend yoga if currently practicing prenatal yoga. Please arrive five minutes early. Sessions may also be arranged as private or semi-private.

Holistic Treatments Our treatments offer approaches for deep relaxation and healing. We recognize the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual needs of each individual.

Consultations Pre-consultation information needed. Please inquire with the Concierge.

Location The Self Centre, with its spectacular views, is located before Honeymoon Beach. It is a 10-minute walk from the lobby, or the Concierge will arrange transportion upon request. A few sessions (indicated on the schedule) are conducted at different locations at the resort.

Attire Loose, comfortable clothing appropriate for movement or reclining is recommended.

Cancellation Policy Please give 24-hour notice of cancellation to avoid a 50% cancellation charge. Cancellations within two hours or failure to cancel will result in full charges.

2008 RATES

2008 SCHEDULE

Subject to change. Please reserve with the Concierge.

* Yoga experience is highly recommended.

Sessions are conducted at The Self Centre unless otherwise indicated.
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Please see the Concierge to arrange private wellness sesssions.