Find Balance and Serenity Through Yoga and Meditation
Embrace the journey of inner growth and development through workshops, private sessions and retreats
Yoga Classes - April 2024
All Thurs. in April, (except April 18) 10:00-11:30 am
Gentle/Moderate Yoga with Marti
We will emphasize breath work in our asana flow and review the importance of breath awareness and the many benefits of different techniques.
May Tues. 8:30-10:00 am ~ Thurs. 10:00-11:30 am
Heart-based Meditation Training ~ FREE
3-Week ~ It is required that you attend the first of the three sessions. Fridays ~ May 3, May 10 & May 17, 2024 ~ 2:00-3:15pm Mondays ~ July 21, 28 & August 4, 2024, 10:00-11:15 am
Free Meditation Practice with Marti ~ Sundays 9:00am-9:30. This consists of 5 minutes of stretching, 2 minutes of breathwork, 20 silent meditation and 3 minutes of rest lying down. You must have prior Heart-based Meditation Training to participate. You are invited to join us in a nature walk around the 75 acres of Ladaka following the practice. Please call, text or email Marti to confirm.
Wellness Coach/Spiritual Mentoring with Marti Jeffs
Marti’s unique education and experience in Ayurveda, Meditation, Ayurvedic Massage, Yogic Philosophy, and Spiritual Mentoring has trained her to be an insightful and compassionate Wellness Coach. She incorporates these skills in one-on-one as well as group sessions to support clients in a safe and relaxed approach to inner growth and healing.
Call or email to discuss how we might work together to best serve your needs.
231-838-5171 or marti@yogaatladaka.com
Workshops with Marti at Elizabeth Oliver Art Center:
Register with Art Center
132 Coast Guard Rd. ~ Frankfort, MI 49635
(231) 352-4151 ~ info@oliverart.org
Happy Heart Healing ~ Wednesday, June 12, 2024 ~ 1:00-4:00pm ~ $55
Living from the Heart Creates Health & Happiness! Life is great … except what? What is in the way of your health and happiness? Find a path to contentment, joy and ease with heart centering. Learn how we can heal physical, mental and emotional stresses and pain by deep inner listening to the heart’s desire. You will learn how to dissipate negative feelings and old, unwanted patterns. We’ll delve into the heart and learn to shift from worry, sadness and disappointment and discover new possibilities of wonder and awe! With this amazing practice we can grow happiness from where we are! This fun and greatly revealing retreat will change the way you view your life.
Ayurveda Basics ~ August 7, 2024 ~ 1:00-4:00 ~ $55 Ayurveda ~ the Basics. Natural Wellness, Prevention & Remedies
Understand your individual constitution and learn how to bring about balance and health. In this workshop you will discover your individual dosha (natural constitution) and steps you can take to sleep well, digest well, and have energy throughout the day! Ayurveda is about prevention and maintaining good health, and it includes remedies for imbalances, or diminished health. Use Ayurvedic principles to improve wellness and create joy in life! Explore how and why things get out of balance and make gentle changes to shift into your natural balance and create radiate health. From an Ayurvedic perspective: notice how likes and dislikes, current state of state of mind, chronic challenges and life-style habits all influence your state of health. We look for disturbances in all aspect of the life. Too much of a good thing, or not enough, will bring us out of balance. Old Ayurveda adage: With proper life-style, medicine is not needed; with poor life-style medicine is not helpful.
Register at Elizabeth Oliver Art Center ~ (231) 352-4151
Facets of the Heart ~ September 16 - December 2, 2024.
On-line with Marti.
Heal old patterns, habits and issues of the emotional heart and enjoy a new foundation of acceptance, harmony, joy, generosity, presence, gratitude, compassion, & forgiveness. This is a 12-Week Course of inner grow and development. Begin to fill your life with more happiness and contentment through these aspects of the heart. Hold more love for what arises and experience more peace than you have imagined possible!
Ayurvda Doshas ~ Vata - Pitta - Kapha ~
Mondays ~ January 13, 20 & 27, 2025 10:00-11:30am
Learn your predominate mind/body constitution, how it gets out of balance and learn simple, natural strategies to stay healthy and happy with this age-old information. It’s about prevention of illness by being in the natural flow of life. Ayurveda emphasizes radiant health via right lifestyle habits and routines for your individual constitution. Join us in this fascinating study of how nature provides everything we need!
Owner: Marti Jeffs
Marti Jeffs is the owner and yoga teacher at Yoga at Ladaka. She has been teaching yoga since 2000, certified at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health. While a massage therapist for 30 years, Marti studied Ayurveda, Heart-based Meditation and Vedic Psychology at New World School of Ayurveda (2008-2013) and recently completed a Spiritual Mentoring program with Dr. Paul Dugliss, director and academic Dean at New World Ayurveda. Marti offers Yoga, Ayurveda Health consultations, workshops, meditation retreats and Spiritual Mentoring, based on Vedic Psychology. She is passionate about sharing these practices that support inner growth and development. As a Wellness Coach, Marti combines her years of education and experience to guide clients toward vibrant health, happiness and peace of mind. Marti’s yoga classes reflect an emphasis on the meaning of yoga ~ union of self with divine consciousness ~ building inner awareness and upliftment. When she is not teaching or working with clients, Marti enjoys traveling with her husband, Steve, and visiting their son and family in Chapel Hill, NC; she loves to hike in the woods, walk the beaches of Lake Michigan, bike, kayak, ski, rollerblade, swim, chant kirtan and occasionally practices her harmonium. Marti and Steve grew up in Frankfort, enjoyed living in Flint for 30 years and they are now loving the beautiful north country, close to extended family and old friends.
Our History
The property of Ladaka was a dairy farm in the early 1900’s. In 1980, Jackie Thompson purchased the abandoned property, restored the dairy barn for her Arabian horses and built a two-story home attached to the barn. She named the farm “Ladaka,” after the mountain region in the Himalayas bordering India and Tibet, which she learned about from the book, The Lost Horizon, featuring the peaceful Buddhist people of Tibet and their tranquil, harmonious way of life. In 2005, Jackie’s son, Steve and his wife, Marti acquired the 75-acre farm, and in 2008 transformed the horse stalls into a yoga studio and decided to keep the name Ladaka, as it holds the same intention for them: peace, harmony, gratitude and wholeness.