Yoga on the Beach

                         A View from the Beach

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Thoughts on Love
Web of Connection
 
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Yoga on the Beach offers yoga classes on a scholarship basis for anyone who needs some financial support.  If you  would like to join us for classes on the beach contact Nancy or Don. 
 
 
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2008 SEMINAR SERIES

Ocean Key Resort, KW
Key West, FL
 
MEDITATION AND PRANAYAMA: 
Mar 8-9 (18 hrs)  
8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
 
For Yoga Instructors, Massage Therapists, and Bodyworkers looking to expand or renew their knowledge base while earning CEUs. 
 
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BREAKFAST in the PARK
 
Commune with us
 after class on
the 3rd Saturday of each month.
 
Bring something to share, enjoy class
and then lets gather,
eat, and share in conversation.
 
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Issue: # 11 FEB 2008

 

Greetings! 

On the eve of Valentine's Day I type this prologue to you with such a deep sense of Love in my heart.  I am so blessed to get to share yoga with all of you, embraced by the beauty of nature.  Some of you I have only meet for one class, or it has been a long time since we shared a class and for others it is a weekly or daily connection.  What strikes me in each class is the powerful strength of the connection we make as we share yoga on the beach.
 
I am a student of this powerful connection, as each of you share it in different ways.  What I have come to know deeply is the richness of the connection because it is rooted in Love. 
 
Today I thank you all for your ability to hold the connection so purely, free of "attachments" as you come and go with your time with us.  I know that the connection holds even if time and space expands.  Months may go by, miles may separate us but the connection is strong. 

I look forward to the next time we breath in together no matter what the distance between us is.
 
Just a reminder that the next Breakfast in the Park will be this Saturday after class. 
 
Light and Love and Deep Appreciation,
Nancy and Don
THOUGHTS ON LOVE
by Nancy J Curran

Love  is one of the most powerful emotions we experience.  It inspires us to express through poetry, songs, paintings, books and stories while feeding our imaginations and romantic visions.  At the same time it can be a concept that bewilders us with great confusion for we hear it used in so many different ways.  What is this thing called Love?

 

When we speak of Love we are often speaking of how we feel about something else.  "I love you."  "I love my home."  "I love chocolate."  All of these statements share that you love something.  Some people refer to this type of Love as conditional love.  While they view unconditional Love as simply loving something no matter what it does, says, acts, or is, in any given moment.  I'd like to offer you another perspective. 

 

What if we have the capacity to love on 2 different levels, one being physical and the other spiritual?  One love needs something else to be present, it is object oriented while the other is just a state of being.  In HEARTMATH SOLUTIONS they refer to love as coming from the lower heart and the upper heart.  The lower heart is the one that has conditions, needs something else to be present and represents the love that exists on the physical realm.  Upper heart love is love on the spiritual level, nothing else has to be present to feel this love.  You simple feel it.

 

BOTH have great value and enrich our lives however the lower heart can often lead us astray and cause us great emotional trauma for often it is packaged up with tremendous "booby" traps.  Each condition that is attached to this love holds expectations that can unravel on us at times.  This creates that uncomfortable ride on the "roller coaster of emotions." In one moment you can go from "I Love" to "I hate" if the expectations are not met.  Not so pleasant or fun.

 

When we begin to strengthen love as a spiritual energy within us, something that exists free of conditions and enriched by appreciation and compassion, we discover the pure delight of loving.  We feel this energy no matter what is being said, done, or given.  We love the diversity of life as we see the value in all things.  Like a strong perfume the essence of this love "reeks" of acceptance, forgiveness, compassion and care, while supported by a sense of liberation.  SWEETNESS.

 

Are you ready to live a life rooted in LOVE, rather than love?  ...CONTINUE
 
In Appreciation,
 

Nancy Curran
Yoga on the Beach