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(we welcome notes from our students…. if you want to share anything insightful, please email me!)
Something Kelli said today really made me go have an Oprah moment-when she said the ‘tipping point” and combined with the class tonight, I definitely have some thoughts on the tipping points throughout everyone’s life. The tipping point that got me on anti depressants and the tipping point that is moving me gently off of them. Best, Caryne
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Suzanna’s newest iPod addition!
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Submitted by Casey Walles
“I’ve been reading the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali a lot lately, and in the VIBHUTI PADA, it talks about attaining super natural powers ie: Telekinesis, telepathy, invisibility, levitation. I have the tendency to believe it’s possible with regular practice and meditation. What do you think?”
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1. Have you MET Jollene yet? She’s one of the most awesome people on the planet.
2. It FEELS good.
3. You will free your body. Especially for yoga practitioners who are so good at control, expansion, freedom and release… this class will be the perfect balance. It’s yoga on a primordial level.
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We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are.
–Talmud
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I read this in meditation class the other day – and posted it on my Facebook. Everyone seems to love it, so here it is again!
The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
~Derek Walcott, Love After Love
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The yogic lifestyle can be a radical shift in mindset. I used to think I was practical, but as I’ve grown I look back with a bit of honesty, I realize that I was really just pessimistic. Yoga very quietly shifted my mindset and gave my thoughts a positive place to grow. After I’d been teaching for about a year, my husband came to class with me and I think he was a bit surprised. He said, “Wow. You really can’t be cynical and do yoga – can you?” I suppose you could be cynical and do yoga, in fact – if you did you’d get a lot of new material to mock! But yoga has a way of bringing out the eternal optimist in me, and helps me face reality with a bit more grace.
One of the ideas that’s changed me is the concept, that everything is happening for my benefit. That I have the opportunity to whine and complain, or to view the universe as a friendly place. To take this one step further – to see every event and every person as my teacher, my guru. That is a radical idea. It’s one thing to say, “This situation sucks, but I guess I’ll learn from it.” and it’s quite another to say, “This horrible situation in front of me is actually my most sacred teacher. That person who grates on my nerves is my ultimate guru.”
I have to admit, I like the radical way of living. It’s much more joyful.
“With unfailing kindness, your life always presents what you need to learn. Whether you stay home or work in an office or whatever, the next teacher is going to pop right up.”
*Charlotte Joko Beck
“In the garden of gentle sanity may you be bombard by coconuts of wakefulness.”
*Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Pigeon- Deeply opening of the hips and heart; challenged and supported; energized and relaxed; accepting of the sensation of the moment and aware it will change.
YogiJamie
