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Blossom into Spring, Blossom into Your Yoga Practice
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“The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.”
“May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.”
“Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything.”
“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
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Dear Friends,
Happy Earth Week! It’s so nice to see daffodils, wild violets, forsythia and other colorful blooms. Spring is really here!
Just a few weeks ago I saw bluebonnets and orange paintbrushes while visiting my family in Texas. I also spent an awesome week with the Integrative Yoga Therapy Mudra YT Training Intensive at Ancient Yoga Center in Austin, TX. Joseph and Lilian have created something amazing in their new book, Mudras for Healing and Transformation. Look forward to more mudras as I incorporate new ones into your yoga classes and workshops. Subtle and powerful.
If you are looking for a greater understanding of yoga philosophy, please join me next Saturday, May 3rd at A Peace of Space in Taftville, CT for a great discussion about the foundation principles of yoga with a focus on the 5 elements and the 7 chakras.
If you're interested in yoga therapy and the 4 Stages of Healing, please join me at One Yoga Center in Foster, RI next Sunday, May 4th for an engaging day of therapeutic yoga in theory and in practice. In particular, we'll learn about the relationship of chronic stress to chronic health conditions and specific yoga practices for each of the 4 Stages of Healing. (hint: One Yoga Center is not far from the Ledyard /Mystic area. It's on Route 6, just over the CT/RI border near Danielson, CT.)
Early bird discounts for both programs extended to May 1st. Don't miss out!
Om shanti, Karen
p.s. photo of the peacock - taken at Ancient Yoga Center of Austin on the last day of training. There were a least a half a dozen peacocks that roosted in the trees outside our window. And they were noisy!
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| Samkhya Philosophy:
Foundation Principles of Yoga
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| Koshas, Chakras, Gunas - What is Samkhya philosophy? This philosophy informed Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras and the 8-Fold Path of Yoga that so many of us practice. Discussion includes:
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the 3 formative energies known as the gunas
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the 5 senses (jnanendriyas) and the 5 instruments of action (karmendriyas)
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the 10 elements (tanmatras and mahabhutas)
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the 5 Koshas
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the 7 Chakras
Through unique combinations of the gunas and elements, we experience the world. As such, we are prone to being in states of imbalance where we experience physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health challenges at different times of our lives. This workshop looks at the big picture of yoga philosophy and yoga tools that meet individual needs based on current levels of wellness and personal development.
This all levels workshop is part discussion and part practice. Open to interested students of yoga and yoga teachers. CEUs for certified yoga teachers. Request in advance.
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Location: A Peace of Space, 22 Hunters Avenue, Taftville, CT 06380
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Time: 1:00 -5:00 p.m.
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Tuition: $79 / early bird $59 by May 1st
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Contact: Neiley Rushford Snide
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Phone: 860.887.COOP (2667)
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Email: neiley@snet.net
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| New Sessions Begin May 5, 2014
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| Mondays, Senior Mat Yoga 9 - 10 a.m.
Mondays, Chair Yoga 11 - 12:15 p.m.
Mondays, Gentle 5 - 6:30 p.m.
Mondays, Meditation 6:45 - 8 p.m.
Tuesdays, Chair Yoga 9:15 - 10:15 a.m.
Tuesdays, Yoga Basics 11 - 12 p.m.
Tuesdays, Gentle 5 - 6:30 p.m.
Click here for class info
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| Yoga and
the 4 Stages of Healing
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| Rest, Restore, Rebuild, RememberTM.
You've lost something. You've lost your vitality. Maybe it slipped away overnight. Or maybe it seeped out of you so slowly that it's hard to remember what feeling good feels like.
At some point in our lives, many of us will experience a serious health event. This may be physical, mental, or spiritual or a combination. Often these events are brought on by stress or eventually cause stress related health challenges including depression, indigestion, inflammation, insomnia, weakened immune system and so on.
Reclaim your radiant well-being with Yoga and the 4 Stages of Healing: Rest, Restore, Rebuild, RememberTM.
This program combines learning with doing so that you take home practical lifestyle tools that move you closer to feeling good again.
This is an all levels event that provides CEUs for certified yoga teachers. Open to students of yoga, yoga teachers, and individuals who want to feel good again.
- Location: One Yoga Center, 142A Danielson Pike, Foster, RI 02825
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Time: 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
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Tuition: $129 / early bird $99 by May 1st
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Contact: Ellen Schaeffer
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Phone: 401.368.YOGA (9642)
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Email: ellen@youphoria.biz
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| Schedule your appointment now!
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| Individual Yoga: Jump start your wellness plan or advance your practice with a personal practice session.
Personal Coaching: Clarify and act on your goals with personal coaching.
Yoga Therapy: Explore what yoga therapy has to offer - for your body, for your mind, for your spirit.
Click here for private lesson info
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Mentoring for Yoga Teachers
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Yoga teachers - if you're interested in the IYT Internship Program, I am now mentoring in this program. Having completed the internship myself, I can only say that it was an invaluable part of my training. So often we come home from a great training experience and jump right back into our busy lives. The internship program is a great way to integrate the learning experience in our own communities. Check it out!
If you're interested in mentoring in a less formal way, let's talk. I'll be happy to work with you.
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Watch the boys at Greenwood School learn and recite the Gettysburg address:
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate – we can not consecrate – we can not hallow – this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion – that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863
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You're never too old to challenge yourself. Click here to see what I mean.
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Karen O'Donnell Clarke
www.yogahealsus.com
860.204.0797
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