Yoga Tonight

Well, it's 11:19 pm and I just finished a nice little asana practice, courtesy of Sarah Kline at YogaToday. Sometimes, as a teacher, you just want to have someone else lead a class. And sometimes, whether you teach or no, the time one has available for practice just doesn't jive with being able to get to a class. I've been practicing on and off with the lovely ladies at Yoga Today since a friend told me about the website back in...2005? They offer a free, hour long class weekly, plus short "lunch break" type sessions, on their website. In addition, one can purchase classes by the each and download them to watch over and over again, or sign up for a year pass. The latter costs less than a month's pass at any studio I know of.

I just think this is one of the great yoga resources out there, and spread the word whenever I think of it. They don't know me and I'm not getting compensated, but you know me, and you might enjoy this as much as I do! :)

Here comes midnight. Time for me to go to bed. Buenas noches!

Mendocino Coast Yoga Calendar

I'm working on a new site for the yoga calendar project, and hope to share it soon!

JUST STOP! written by Jan Spiller

Behind the timeless striving

Of man to reach his goals…

Behind the search for knowledge

So the answer can be known

Behind the endless looking for

That something to make us full

The object of the searching

Has been there all the while.

If you can stop…and listen

Just stop, and you will know -

The mind was only a diversion

And all the time you were whole!

Apart from the appearance

Of what in life is real

Apart from the mirage of things

That seem to have some value

Apart from personality

With all its different needs

Lies the source of all . . . . .

To live content with small means

to seek elegance rather than luxury and refinement rather than fashion

to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich

to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly

to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart

to bear all cheerfully

do all bravely

await occasions

hurry never-

in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconcious

grow up through the common.

This is to be my symphony.

-William Ellery Channing

Intention from Hot Yoga class on Friday

This from the work of Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks.
"I am willing to transform myself in whatever ways are necessary to serve my highest evolution and have the highest quality relationships with others."

Also-
"One of our biggest issues as humans is acknowledging our innate loveableness."

Why Meditate?

"Why sit in meditation? I don't know, except that a part of us has to. We don't sit because it is holy, or because it is good for us, or to impress people. We sit because we love it and hate it and because we must. We have to for our sanity, our deep sanity. We sit because this is when we discover how things really are, who we really are. Meditation is a source of vitality for our essence; it gives us ground and source, and opens us to the light.

Sit like an old frog by the river, softly quiet and immobile, hunkered down on the smooth surface. Do not force immobility. Sit just to be sitting, to be still for a while, to catch your breath. And when you need to flash your tongue to catch a fly, do so. Action will come from that space of alert deep stillness that does not preclude action, but rather prepares you for effective action. Meditation is a natural human ability, similar to imagination, concentration, and creativity - not so much something that has to be learned as something that can be remembered..."

this is from Hugh Milne's book The Heart of Listening: A Visionary Approach to Craniosacral Work.

from 0 to 60 in two months-new classes!

Five classes of my own/a week, starting tomorrow!
Sundays: Serene Vinyasa at the Fort Bragg Yoga Studio, 430-6 pm.
Mondays & Tuesdays: Yoga at the CV Starr Rec Center, 7-815 am.
Wednesdays: Hot Yoga Flow at Hot Yoga Mendocino, 9-1030 am.
Serene Vinyasa at the Fort Bragg Yoga Studio, 530-630 pm

(this last one is likely, but not confirmed yet, it will start in April).