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 April 2011
 Jason Scorpion
Michael Harris, Director
Bikram Yoga
Bend, Oregon
 
 Join Our Amazing Community of Friends who gather here daily to learn, laugh, grow and sweat. Enjoy yourself in a warm comfortable place where your voice is heard, your strugglesunderstood, and your efforts continously celebrated. Here you will find the confidence to recognize accept and trust yourself so you can live your life fearlessly and without reservation. Come in, make your body smile and have a kick ass time! 
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30 Days to Total Health

   

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Special Guest Teacher Amy Pittelkau.

 

> April is the month that we are dedicating to our life and our Bikram Yoga practice. What will 30 days of Bikram Yoga do for You?

  

> It's simple - 30 Days of Bikram Yoga will make Everything Better. Calm your mind, heal your body, lose weight, give you more strength and flexibility and so much more.  If  you have not already made the commitment - Do It Now!  Come into the studio and we will help motivate you to a whole new you.

 

> Amy Pittelkau - Special Guest Teacher.  Be sure to join class on Thursday, April 7th @ 4:30pm and Saturday, April 9th @ 9am.  You don't want to miss these very special classes.  Amy will warm and charm you with her love and enthusiasm for Bikram Yoga.  She is an extrodinary teacher.  There is no extra charge for these classes.  Amy has been teaching Bikram Yoga since 2000.  She has owed several studios including where she lives now - Fresno. 

 

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Snowboarding and Bikram Yoga!

 

 

 

 Anne Jackson Snowboard

 

 

  What do Anne Jackson, snowboarding and  

 

Bikram Yoga have in common?

 

> Bikram Yoga is one of the best underlying training systems that you can do to increase your skills and abilities riding down the mountain.  It will help everything from balance, focus, strength, flexibility and more. 

> Anne Jackson who broke her back snowboarding - then started Bikram Yoga to help heal.  It worked. 

> Anne Jackson, with her husband James own Side Effects Board Shop in Bend.  

> Anne Jackson is now getting ready to go to the next Bikram Yoga Teacher Training.  Anne will now be going from snowboard coaching to teaching Bikram Yoga.

> On Friday April 8th from 6 to 8pm we will have our final silent auction at the studio to help raise the money to send Anne to training. 

> The list of items include the Captia Space Snowboard Anne is holding.  Also including are many items from a range of local merchants and friends.  Items such as an autographed copy of Gerry Lopez's book, "Surf is Where You Find It.", Sun Country Tours - Raft Trip, Salon Envy - Hair Cut, Blacksmith Restaurant - $50 Gift Certificate, Tangerine - Pedicure, Mt. Bachelor - Lift Tickets, Alpine Dental - $450 Teeth Cleaning and Exam, High Cascade Snowboard Camp - Assorted Items, Summers Place - Haircut and Color, Eastside Gardens - Gift Certificate, Tumalo Animal Hospital - $75, Vans Shoes, High Desert Massage - One Hour Massage, Bikram Yoga - OneMonth Unlimited Yoga, Tom Cat Engraving - Water Bottles

 

 

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 More Events!

 

 

> PPP, Pole Pedal, Paddle!   Saturday, May 21st

This year Bikram Yoga will help sponsor teams in the PPP.  To be on a team, this is the deal...

 

You must be a current student of Bikram Yoga - Bend, Oregon. So if you are not a student now - get started today!

 

We want to create at least three teams of six people for each leg. Alpine, Cross Country, Bike, Run, Canoe Kayak and Sprint Leg.

 

 

Once we meet we can pick the team names.  Maybe - The Bikram Yoga Sweat Hogs!

 

The cost to register teams with the PPP is $42 per person.  Each team will be responsible for this fee. 

 

We highly recommend that in April you do the 30 Day Challenge. This training will help you with strength, flexibility, stamina, endurance and focus!

 

We will need ongoing support people to help now and on the race day.  Please let us know how you can help!

 

So with all the fun that this will be, how can we spice it up even more?  Lets have a little internal competition. 

  

The First Place Bikram team will receive One Month of Bikram Yoga to use for themselves or give away.

 

The First Place Bikram team will be reimbursed for their PPP registration.

 

All Participants from all teams will receive a t-shirt with their team name. 

 

So beginning today we will have team sign ups at the front counter.  Once the sign ups begin we will set a date for our first meeting to begin establishing teams and set a training schedule.

 

For More Information on the PPP Check Out Their Website.    

 

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Quote of the Month
 
 "Love is the Only Solution."
 
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April 2011
Student of the Month
Holly OBrien
 Dr. Holly O'Brien
  
Many of you already know Dr. Holly O'Brien - most of us just call her Holly.  She is a veterinarian and owns Banfield Pet Hospital here in Bend, Oregon.  Not only is she a Bikram Yoga student - she is also an amazing vet, motorcycle enthusiast and cat lover. 

 

Some of you may already know what happened recently with Holly.  Let me fill in the story for the rest of you.  About 15 years ago Holly began experiencing a great deal of pain in her neck, right shoulder and right arm.  Some how she had developed a nerve injury.  Perhaps riding dirt bikes when she was younger?  This nerve damage caused two of her fingers on her right hand to permanently become curled and less functional.  She had learned to live with it.  Then one day in early March Holly was in the 9am class.  All of a sudden she realized that her fingers had straightened out.  Almost unbelievable.  When class was over she came out of the room with this huge smile on her face and showing everyone.  Yes Bikram Yoga helped Holly reactivate the nerves which caused the structure of her fingers to return to normal.  This is the picture the day it happened. 

 

Holly OBrien Hand 

Since her fingers returned to normal Holly has completed over 200 surgeries on animals without a problem. 

 

Holly says, "My philosophy in life is that anything that increases your day to day well being should become habit. I cannot say enough about the positive benefits of focus, strength, cleansing through sweating and the mental release Bikram yoga gives."

 

Next time you see Holly be sure to congratulate her on her success in Bikram Yoga and being April 2011 Student of the Month.  And if you want to adopt the beautiful fluffy cat in Holly's arms - Zosha - go see her at Banfield Pet Hospital. 

 





 
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