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Integrative Relaxation
Yoga Nidra
Yogic Sleep
this easy to practice guided relaxation technique
effortlessly creates a state of profound physical, mental and emotional relaxation.
 Students sitting briefly before lying down for Yoga Nidra The only requirements for participation are an ability to breathe and to lie down. |
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Kirtan, Chai & Sacred Shoppping
 KIRTANFriday, February 12, 7:00 pm
BREAK INTO A SPRING MODE, TRY SOMETHING NEW
BRING YOUR DRUMS, YOUR VOICE, YOUR HEART
Celebrating Shivaratri--"Shiva's Night"
Come sing, dance and be Blissful!
ecstatic chanting from the Indian Bhakti Tradition accompanied by guitar, harmonium, and drums.
sacred mantras are sung together in Sanskrit and English; The vibration tunes and heals our bodies and expands our energy fields. a perfect augmentation to any yoga or heart-opening practice, as it cultivates love, devotion (bhakti) and deep peace (shanti).
Audience participation is encouraged!! Kids welcome. Bring rattles, tambourines, finger cymbals or drums.
According to Hindu mythology, Shivaratri or 'Shiva's Great Night' symbolizes the wedding day of Lord Shiva and Parvati. Siva represents the male principle in Indian cosmology and Parvati the feminine or Shakti energy. So Shivaratri encompasses the merging of the male and female in each of us. Many however, believe, Shivaratri is the night when Lord Shiva performed the Tandava Nritya - the dance of primordial creation, preservation and destruction. Siva, lord of the dance, where each footfall destroys reality as we have known it and opens to new reality......just as each breath we take does this.
Authentic Hot Chai TeA$10 at the door or your best donation
Bonus happening: Indian market of things recently collected in Gujarati State, a tribal and agricultural state south of Rajasthan, home to Siva worship and Kayavarohan, the temple built by Swami Kripalu.
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Greetings!
SPECIAL EVENTS AT THE YOGA PLACE IN FEBRUARY
ENTER THE NO STRESS ZONE
Saturday morning, Feb. 6th, 10:30AM-1230PM.
Yoga Nidra or Integrative Relaxation workshop. It will be 2 hours and cost $35. Yoga Nidra or Yogic Sleep will change your life. And it will definitely reduce your stress level. Read more in the box below.
ENTER THE JOY ZONE
Friday Evening Feb 12th, 7PM Kirtan.
Donations accepted ($10 suggested donation).
Tracey Forest and Spirit Hollow will be leading a Kirtan, chanting, drumming, harmonium and general divine delight. We will serve Chai (masala tea) and have an Indian market to satisfy your sacred shopping needs. See more below.
Come to these events to further your yoga practice, to share in the yoga community in this area and to have an unusually sweet time.
Call 447-0393 for more information
Namaste
Jane
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Integrative Relaxation - How does it work?
 Integrative Relaxation or Yoga Nidra works through a sequential series of simple induction techniques using the body, breath and awareness to enter a profound state of silent relaxation. In this deeply receptive state of relaxation, the root causes of stress can be dissolved and resolved through the use of "self-directed intention." This simple practice can be done lying on the floor, in bed or sitting comfortably in a chair. The most difficult aspect of this practice is not to fall asleep.
What will it do for me?
Yoga Nidra ( literal translation: Yoga meaning union and Nidra meaning sleep - uniting all aspects of your being) will enable you, spontaneously and effortlessly, to shape and create the quality of life changes you have always wanted to make.
What is "self-directed intention?" YOU identify what you want to dissolve, resolve, shape or create. Bring this to the workshop (it can be kept private) and Yoga Nidra will help you take a big step in the direction you wish to head.
Curious? Call me to register 447-0393 or for more information.
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Refining Your Intention - for those attending Yoga Nidra
Intention is a mental organizing device. Your intention in any given situation or in your life, brings an energetic alignment between what you think, what you say and what you do. For instance, if your intention is to reduce your stress level, just holding this intention will point you more in that direction. You will begin to at least question some of your activities that create stress and, eventually, some changes may occur which enhance relaxation.
A clear intention can become a constant mental point of reference orienting the direction of your life's expression. Energy follows attention. This simple realization alone can change your life. Think about it. If you have no clear intention for your day, you may fritter away hours of time and energy (and that is so fine, if that is your intention).
As Einstein once said, "The mind that created the problem will not be the mind that solves the problem." Intention will draw you into the mind where solutions can occur.
So, I invite those of you attending to begin to craft an intention which asks yourself to be willing to release the mental perceptions about ____________(here you can fill in whatever concern you may have, finances, health, love, children, job - you name it - that create stress, worry and fear.
We will work more with this in the workshop and later in a 6 week class I hope to present.
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Thanks to all of you for your ongoing support. We are trying to develop programs which will support the reasons you began to take yoga in the first place!
Attend! Tell your friends! Bring your loved ones!
and
Know that you are loved.
Namaste
Jane and YP teachers
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