Ganja Yoga Oakland Launch Party!

Celebrate the expansion of Ganja Yoga at the Oakland Cannabis Community Center on Sunday, 9/24! This is a free event for friends 21+ -- no medical card necessary. Register Here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ganja-yoga-oakland-launch-party-tickets-38045693694 ::::::: SCHEDULE :::::: 3-4pm: Relax, Mingle, Love with DJ NOVA (and cannabis, yummy snacks, visual eye candy, tea service) 4-5:15(ish) pm: Ganja Yoga with Jess Dugan 5:30-6:30: Relax, Mingle, Love with DJ NOVA (and cannabis, yummy snacks, visual eye candy, tea service) 6:30-6:45: Sound Healing by Samsun & Cyrena 6:45-7pm: Farewell Hugs (lots of them) <3 <3 <3 Our ~FREE~ Event Includes: * YOU! and other fabulous friends in our beloved cannabis community. * High quality and consciously cultivated cannabis from our sponsors (Humboldt Legends, Golden Goddess, Eel River Organics and Monkey Puzzle Farms)! In order to receive free gifts from some of our sponsors, you will need to join their collective and have your medical card on hand. Non cardholders will still have access to medicine in a legal fashion thanks to the passing of prop 64, which will be fully implemented in 2018. * 60 minute Ganja Yoga flow taught by Oakland teacher, Jess Dugan. * Visionary Art by Ishka Lha * Music by Nova https://www.mixcloud.com/NOVA69/nova-cacao-mix/ *Yummy snacks by Locovore * Tea Service by Golden Goddess * 15 minute Sound Healing by Cyrena and Samsun << http://SamsunMusic.com >> << http://ConsentAsLove.com >> * Massage Therapy * Sweet intentions & only the best vibes. * There are a few sponsorships available for anyone who'd like to participate in this event. For more information on how to get involved please email Jess @ [email protected]. Beginning 9/26 Oaklanders will now have access to two weekly cannabis-enhanced yoga classes taught by industry leader, Jess Dugan. Launching in partnership with practice founder, Dee Dussault, Jess began teaching for Ganja Yoga while Dee was on tour promoting her first book, Ganja Yoga. Together the two found ease in collaborating and decided to expand the magic of Ganja Yoga from San Francisco to Oakland. Classes will take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7-9pm will be available for purchase online at eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ganja-yoga-oakland-tickets-38043445971 Special thanks to our friends at Puff, Pass & Paint and Oakland Cannabis Creative for their support with our launch! About Jess: Jess Dugan followed her heart from suburban Philadelphia to Oakland, CA as a festival journalist for her then blog, Sparkleberry Lane. She wrote her way across the country's prime transformational festivals interviewing artists like Random Rab, Phutureprimitive and Shpongle along the way. When she arrived to California she landed a once in a lifetime opportunity as the first employee at the first ever cannabis investment firm -- The ArcView Group. Jess stayed lovingly with the firm for nearly three years and was honored as "the heart of the company" upon her departure in 2015. Facing burn out, she left to take time to recover from the relentless stress she had to deal with while building out a new company in a birthing industry -- the fastest growing industry in America at the time. Her departure came in conjunction with her developing passion for the mind/body connection. The deeper she got into her practice, the more she realized that her "dream job" wasn't serving her personal well-being. After taking a full year off of a corporate schedule she found her niche in event production and yoga. Jess is committed to wellness in the workplace and advocates for employee health and well-being in the cannabis space. She is a 200 hr RYT with the Yoga Alliance and a certified coach through Interchange Counseling Institute. She facilitates private retreats for ganjapreneurs that focus on personal growth for professional development and will launch Ganja Yoga Oakland in partnership with founder Dee Dussault this September. She is committed to undoing the impact of marijuana prohibition on the subconscious mind and is currently planning a festival that will leverage cannabis education to the world outside of the sector. About Dee: I help people find their bliss through relaxation, mindfulness, and sensuality. I am the creator of Ganja Yoga, the first teacher to offer public cannabis enhanced classes. I'm a yoga practitioner of twenty-two years, and an international speaker. My classes have been profiled in the New York Times and many other publications. I was the first yoga teacher outside of ancient India to offer public cannabis-enhanced yoga, and one of the first naked yoga instructors in North America. My clients know me for being playful and accepting, deeply-spiritual while solidly down to earth. I've taught thousands of couples and singles all over the world, helping them to connect to their radiant embodied selves. I carry an honors degree in Sexuality Studies, and an additional Sexuality Certificate. I’ve attended relationship counseling trainings with both Harville Hendrix’ Imago System and Interchange Counseling. My yoga training was with Ananda Shakti, of Sananda Yoga in Toronto, in the tantric tradition of Swami Satyananda of Bihar, India. It is a 500-hour Yoga-Alliance certified certificate. I am also trained in workplace wellness, stress-reduction and relaxation for the office. I have several hundreds of hours of attendance at various development workshops, and thousands more on personal exploration and journeying. As a result of this, I now love to take care of people and help them to feel comfortable as they explore and expand, in relaxation, sex energy, cannabis consciousness, touch, or some combination. I love teaching tantra as a body, mind, and spirit practice, with equal emphasis on all three. I think yoga has been overly desexualized, and tantra overly sexualized, both as marketing tactics that do not serve us. I teach a sensual, mindful, relaxation-based yoga, and offer coaching and bodywork experience and instruction from this realm. Whether cannabis-enhanced or sober, talk therapy or somatic, pragmatic aims or spiritual, I love creating customized private experiences and classes for bliss. When not writing and teaching, I spend a lot of time enjoying nature, loving my husband, and practicing what I preach!