What is Kijo (Kee jo)?
KIJO is a spiritual practice masquerading as a fitness
program that incorporates a complete body workout for your mind,
body, spirit and emotion. Kijo is the creation and brainchild of
Shelly Ross; born from her desire to offer a complete and satisfying
holistic program, based on her 20 years as a professional fitness
trainer as well as her apprenticeship as a medicine woman.
All Kijo classes marry the ancient wisdom of the
warrior, shaman/medicine woman with the best practices of modern
day science. Kijo’s simple yet powerful choreography involves
all types of dance movements including open dancing in community,
slow to fast and everything in between… along with affirmations,
weight and resistance training.
With 20 years of experience in teaching and movement
therapy, Shelly Ross is ACE & AFFA Certified and an ongoing
apprentice in the study of shamanism, herbs and ceremony.
Who is Kijo For?
Kijo is for everyone. Because Shelly believes we
walk the path of our lives in different times at different speeds,
she has expanded Kijo into three different modalities: Kijo Fitness,
Kijo Body Meditation and Kijo Ceremony. Kijo welcomes you to participate
whereever you find yourself on the physical and spiritual journey.
What is a Kijo Fitness Class?
Kijo Fitness classes are one hour long with the intention
to train your cardiovascular system, build your bone strength through
light weight lifting, assist you in releasing tensions through guided
instructions, hone your confidence through powerful affirmations
and offer you personal attention from Shelly’s movement background.
For individuals wishing to embark on a complete exercise
program, Kijo Fitness combines weight training and stamina building
with open expression and easy choreography through the guidance
of a modern day pow wow woman using shamanic healing principles
and loving affirmations.
“Shelly incorporates and blends her shamanistic
and medicine woman roots along with rattles, drums, crystal bowls
and affirmations that make these workouts challenging, always different
and unbelievably transformational throughout my whole being! I follow
Shelly and Kijo all over the Bay Area and attend anywhere and everywhere
she teaches.” Randi Shepard, Aromatherapy Practitioner, Martinez,
CA
If you are searching for a community of like minded
individuals that are dedicated to creating health and vitality in
their lives, Kijo Fitness is for YOU. Come dance this path.
What is Kijo Body Meditation?
For participants interested in deep inner work, Kijo
Body Meditation is a revolutionary groundbreaking approach to living
a life of grace and ease. Combining 9 poses on the floor designed
to help with modern day maladies, Kijo Body Meditation settles the
mind and body into a comfortable trance like state, enabling you
to slip effortlessly into a deep alpha meditation.
Each class is one hour long, appropriate for any
age group or physical condition and ends with a meditation that
can be personalized for your individual needs. You do not need any
experience with meditation to begin. Just come as you are and start
where you are.
Kijo Body Meditation’s focus is working on
what Shelly calls the second foundation of your body: the hips.
These 9 movements, all done on the floor, are designed to open,
stimulate and align the hips, spine and head, settle your mind and
guide you into deep relaxation. Body Meditation is helpful with:
Insomnia, Fatigue, Menopause, Anxiety, Digestion, Arthritis and
much more
Anyone can meditate with Kijo Body Meditation and
take this practice outside of the classroom where your life can
become a moving, peaceful meditation. Assisting students to have
mastery over their mind and emotions, Kijo Body Meditation participants
have often commented on their new found gratitude for living.
If you are seeking a way to bring both your body
and mind together in a union of co-operation, Kijo Body Meditation
is for YOU. Please bring an attitude of gratitude and be prepared
to live in a state of grace. Come rest on this path.
What is Kijo Ceremony?
Offering ritual and celebration in public ceremony
at key spiritual times of the year, Kijo Ceremony gathers at various
locations… using callings, blessings, trance dance and meditation
in Shelly’s ritualistic dedication to earth, self and humanity.
Calling upon the power of her animal totems, her intuition, ancestry
and understanding, Shelly is a devoted apprentice on the path of
pow wow woman. Kijo Ceremony utilizes an eclectic, multi-discipline
and multi-dimensional approach to help heal the problems of the
human heart in the modern world. Shelly is in service to all.
Kijo Ceremony is also available privately to individuals
who seek personalized ritual to heal individual issues. In private,
Shelly calls down the particular spirits needed in ceremony, to
offer the participant an opportunity to co create ritual where the
answers to personal issues, directions and healings can be sought.
For individuals seeking a shift in consciousness,
who are interested in ancient ritual, ceremony and are ready to
enter the world of earth keeper, friend of the fire, water and air,
trance dance and journey, Kijo Ceremony is for YOU. Come celebrate
this path.
Who is Kijo?
Kijo is the mystery in all of us. Kijo is the Hungarian
word for snake – mystical creature found in all ancient cultures.
Kijo is Shelly Ross. Two time winner of Diablo Magazines Best, Shelly
has been featured in the New York Times, SF Chronicle, Oakland Tribune,
Channel 5 News and Outside the Box Radio. She is ACE & AFFA
Certified and has 20 years of experience in teaching and movement
therapy. She is an ongoing apprentice in the study of shamanism,
herbs and ceremony.
