Yoga Class

I am feeling really good right now. I just got done taking yoga class taught by my friend, Pascal, who is a fabulous yoga teacher. And, I have managed for the last few weeks to take a yoga class a week. WooHoo! Many of the classes have been taught by my dear friend Melanie, who also rocks out in the yoga teaching arena. I wanted to write this to say, as a yoga teacher, we understand when life gets busy, and it’s hard to get to class.This is probably the first time since January that I have managed a class a week (practicing at home is what saves me). Most likely, at some point, something is going to come up that prevents you from making it to class. My plea is that when whatever happens has cleared up, come back to class. Maybe it is just your schedule has changed? Find another class that fits into your new schedule (which is what I had to do). Don’t get me wrong, I love it if you can make it to a class of mine. However, if you cannot make it to a class of mine, I would rather you find another class rather than not going to class. I have no doubt of the transformative power of yoga. A change in your schedule can be a wonderful opportunity to try new teachers and/or styles. Just, if it’s possible, spend some time on your mat.

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Yoga at Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park

This summer I will be teaching an eight week series of yoga classes at Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park in Hamilton, OH near Miami University’s Hamilton branch.

We will explore ways to align, move, breathe and connect in this lovely outdoor museum which shows how creative, seem-less connections can make great beauty. In this environment it will be a joy to come into a deeper integration of body, mind and spirit.

Wednesdays, 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM, from June 6th to August 1st (taking the Fourth of July off for fireworks!!!).

$64 for all eight sessions, $10 to drop-in

Contact Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park to preregister.

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Guest Blogging

Hi all, I am the guest blogger for YIOM this month. Check out my post there, here: http://yiomsite.com/

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A rough instructional video on preping to Urdhva Dhanurasana

An attempt at a tutorial

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Translating Tantra

Tantra gets a bad rap in the United States, it’s usually thought of in context of esoteric sexual practices. The truth is, Tantra can encompass that. Tantra, in a larger sense, is a systematic approach on how to engage life. So Tantra encompasses everything if you choose it as your lens to see through. For more information on an introduction to Tantra, you can check out the book, Tantra Illuminated, which is coming out in January. (No, I haven’t read it yet, but I have attended discussions that Christopher Wallis has offered, so I am confident that it is going to be great).

For a little taste of how someone uses Tantra to light up one of her joys:

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Electronic Cleaning Day

Since I worked all day yesterday, and went dancing last night, today was a planned stay at home day. I spent a lot of the day cleaning up files on my phone and laptop, they are a bit older; so I sometimes use up all the memory space on both. One of the tasks this entails is going through a lot of pictures on my phone and moving them to my computer. After that, I can delete some files off my overworked 8 GB phone (I maxed it out trying to take pictures last night). Anyway, it was fun looking at pictures over the course of the year. A nice practice to do at year end. Just a reminder of where I’ve been, especially since I have been thinking A LOT about where I’m going.

Here’s a pic:

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Filled up

Any night that manages to combine new and old people I love with belly dance, viol de gamba, zils, Irish step dance, gluten free vegan cake, hurdy gurdy, didgeridoo, drumming and getting up and joining in on tribal belly dance sisterhood. Oh, and did I mention the early Solstice celebration? My kind of night.

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Durga/Kali, Laksmi, Saraswati

Strength, Beauty, and Wisdom as summed up by Sally Kempton (I might have replaced beauty with prosperity for Laksmi, but nice, one word thoughts on this trinity).

A little more from Sally Kempton:

Durga – hard to know, or hard to conquer
Kali – Black One
Laksmi – good fortune
Saraswati – flowing one

Update: 12/15/2011

It was pointed out to me tonight indirectly that this trinity may represent

  • maiden – Saraswati – white
  • mother – Lakshmi – red
  • crone – Durga/Kali – as Kali black, does anyone know Durga’s color?

What do you think?

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The fading of the light

The raising of the dark. The deep. Kali’s space. So I am turning inside and shifting. Excited to see what will manifest.

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New Economy?

I have been quiet over here. Mainly because I have been pondering a lot of questions and have yet to come up with answers. Sometimes, it’s hard to be uncertain. The archetype The Expert is so admired across the world. It is tempting to present yourself, especially in cyberspace, as someone who has a lot figured out. Then I remember one of my yoga teachers often pointing out that you become the expert by making a lot of mistakes. Allowing myself to see myself less seriously.

He and many other people I know also become experts by asking questions, and by studying. My question is this, is there a model of being a yoga teacher who can economically support themselves without burning so much in the way of fossil fuels in a city that is lacking in the mass transit department? I don’t have an answer for this yet, but I do have some ideas. And I am extremely open to suggestions:

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