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Oct 29th BREATH
OF THE HEART
Kaiilama Morris
www.breathoftheheart.com
NOV 19 &
DEC 17 PURE YOGA/
DIVINE YOGA
Peter Rizzo
NOV 26
YOGA OF GIVING THANKS Tracey Forest www.spirithollow.org
DEC 3 PILATES EXERCISES FOR OSTEOPOROSIS
Donna Menneto 945-1045AM
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WORKSHOPS
YOGA
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GIVING THANKS
Tracey Forest
October 26
1000AM - 100PM
This special Flow Yoga class focuses on being in gratitude for our bodies, our lives, and all the many blessings that surround us.
Take time to open your heart, tune into the Prana (life force), and be truly grateful with every breath, every pose.
Accompanied by beautiful music and poetry of thanks-giving, this class is for experienced beginners and intermediate practitioners.
Invest in Gratitude $30
or by donation
Pilates for Osteoporosis Donna Menneto December 3 945-1045AM Pilates can be a potential skeleton saving workout. Not only can these core-strengthening exercises strengthen bones and help prevent future injury, they may also help melt belly fat, which may further help protect against osteoporosis. This workshop will demonstrate which pilates exercises are safe to build bone density and which to avoid. After the workshop, participants will be ale to continue these moves at home. Investment in bone health $15.
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are you
we bow to you in thanks
for
allowing us to give
that which we have
received.
namaste.
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The Yoga Place has made a commitment to local teens in various ways:
We are supporting the CDC cosmetology class in taking yoga once a week. The Bennington School brings one class a week to the studio. We have made or are making donations to the Vermont Arts Exchange for summer camp participants and most recently to Greater Bennington Interfaith Community Services which supports The Food and Fuel Fund, Bennington Free Clinic and The Kitchen Cupboard.
You may be surprised to know that:
Over 800 families in Bennington are enrolled in the Kitchen Cupboard.
Over 500 people used the Free Clinic last year.
Each year the Food and Fuel Fund (est. 1974 by Bennington clergy) provides $50,000 in direct support to families and individuals in need of food, rent, and other support including utilities and emergency housing. Contributions are gratefully accepted by them, and go directly back into our community.
They are a 501c3 not for profit outfit so all your contributions are tax- deductible.
We offer FREE meditation every Monday evening at 615PM
Please join us.
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thank all of you for practicing yoga
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deepest thanks to those who help us keep our house in order
Cindy Sprague who keeps the studio sparkling
Karin Lubeck who faithfully makes sure that we have adequate water
ed messer at CRAE who gets our schedules ready in record time
donna menneto who made sure the ceiling is fresh and clean
nancy woltman, our landlord, who keeps the bathrooms and halls refreshed
every single yogi who takes that extra minute to neaten the tumbling piles of props and other yoga helpers
THANK YOU!
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Greetings!
Coming into the holiday season, the colder, damper, darker days can be a challenge as well as a joy. We invite you to join us at the Yoga Place for the warmth and friendliness of our classes which will warm you from the inside out.........and help you to remember..............who you truly are, your own basic goodness.
"When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky" The Buddha over 2500 years ago
May we all find our minds quieted and our hearts uplifted with joy and delight every day.
Yeah. In this newsletter you will find some interesting articles, a list of upcoming and ongoing events and the November/December Schedule.
Also read to the end and find a useful coupon for your holiday gift giving.
As always we bow to you.
Jane Schaeffer, Donna Menneto, Donna Myers, Carol Steinmetz, Ali Wassick, Ari Gradus and Tracey Forest
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YOGA/PILATES SCHEDULE
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 yoga brings us home to our true self
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2011 SCHEDULE
MONDAY
830AM PILATES with donna menneto
1030AM YOGA Kripalu mixed level with jane
12NOON YOGA LUNCH with ali wassick 500PM VERY BEGINNER YOGA with jane
615PM COMMUNITY MEDITATION -FREE
TUESDAY
545 PM YOGA. Mixed level with ali wassick
WEDNESDAY
830AM PILATES
1030AM YOGA Kripalu mixed level with jane
12NOON CHAIR YOGA with jane 545PM YOGA. Vinyasa Flow with donna myers
THURSDAY
600PM YOGA. Mixed Level with ali wassick
FRIDAY
830AM PILATES
1030AM YOGA Mixed level Anusara style with carol steinmetz
SATURDAY
830AM PILATES
SUNDAY
900AM YOGA FOR MEN with Ari Gradus
1030AM YOGA Prana Vinyasa Flow with tracey forest
SATURDAY WORKSHOPS NOV 12. 1030AM OPENING THE WISDOM GATES cont. NOV 19. 1030 AM PURE YOGA/DIVINE YOGA - RIZZO
NOV 26. 10AM-1PM THE YOGA OF GIVING THANKS - FOREST
DEC 3. 945-1045AM PILATES FOR OSTEOPOROSIS-MENNETO
DEC 10. 1030AM OPENING THE WISDOM GATES cont. DEC 17. 1030AM PUREYOGA/DIVINEYOGA - RIZZO
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LOWER YOUR BMI by starting yoga today
|  YOGA research shows that "increased Hatha yoga experience predicts lower body mass index and reduced medication use in women over 45 years" Nina Moliver, et al. School of Behavioral Sciences, NorthCentral University, Prescott Valley, AZ and Dept of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background: Yoga has been shown to have many short-term health benefits, but little is known about the extent to which these benefits accrue over a long time frame or with frequent practice.
Aims: Purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which body mass index (BMI) and medication use in a sample of female yoga practitioners over 45 years varied according to the length and frequency of yoga practice. Materials and Methods: Administered online surveys to 211 female yoga practitioners aged 45-80 years. Used regression analyses to evaluate the relationship of extent of yoga experience to both BMI and medication use after accounting for age and lifestyle factors. We also conducted comparisons with 182 matched controls.
Results: Participants had practiced yoga for as long as 50 years and for up to 28 hours per week. There were significant inverse relationships between yoga experience and both BMI and medication load. These significant relationships remained after accounting for age and lifestyle factors. When we computed yoga experience in terms of total calendar years, without accounting for hours of practice, significant relationships did not remain. However, there was no obesity in the 49 participants with more than 25 years of yoga practice. Yoga practitioners were less likely than non-practitioners to use medication for metabolic syndrome, mood disorders, inflammation, and pain.
Conclusions: A long-term yoga practice was associated with little or no obesity in a non-probability sample of women over 45 years. Relationships showed a dose-response effect, with increased yoga experience predicting lower BMI and reduced medication use.
My conclusions: START PRACTICING YOGA TODAY, KEEP PRACTICING. TRY TO TAKE MORE THAN ONE CLASS PER WEEK FOR INSPIRATION AND FOR EFFECTIVENESS. You won't accrue 25 years of yoga practice by waiting until next week. No matter what your age or sex, begin practicing yoga. You will feel the benefits very quickly. |
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GRATITUDE
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Gratitude is at the heart of yoga. When a mind is clear, the body relaxes. When the body relaxes, the mind clears.
Of course often our thoughts seem to have a vise grip on us, our worries, our anxieties about the future, the past.
Yet, yoga teaches us to loosen the grip. But how? Patanjali offers only 3 sutras (teachings) about physical yoga (asana) and they are: stira suca asanam. Sanskrit words meaning "be steady, be comfortable and relaxed" in the pose. Let the breath be steady, comfortable and relaxed in the pose.
Until you take your practice off the mat and into the world, yoga will remain simply an entertainment, albeit a healthy one. Holding a yoga pose becomes simple and easy when you begin to consider some of the postures we are invited to hold in living our lives off the mat. It can happen that we may find ourselves caught in a posture of great discomfort with seemingly no recourse. It is here that yoga practice can be most lifegiving, instructing us to "relax, feel, observe and allow," to be where our feet are rather than pushing against the river of our life.
I invite you to consider the practice of gratitude as an entry into relaxation, comfort, ease. At the most mundane level, we have so much to be grateful for in this country. Those young Burmese monks above live in a closed dictatorship. Their daily practice is to move through the city with their begging bowls hoping to receive food. And the practice of the householders is to supply food to the monks who practice meditation and pray for the wellbeing of all beings.
As you know I often end my classes with the prayer: May all beings through out all space and all time in all the directions know happiness and the causes of happiness, may no one amongst us or anywhere at all suffer needlessly, may we all know peace. All beings includes humans, animals, plants, minerals, the planet herself.
Rather than the long list of have tos and ought tos and shoulds (not to mention cants and its not fairs and why mes), why not enter into this holiday season with an attitude of gratitude. Why not make daily lists of all the gifts and blessings in your particular divine life. Why not let that list dominate your days? As my friend Tom says, we are right now living in the midst of the miraculous, if only we would look up and know it.
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Thank you all so much for supporting all of us and our yoga practice by participating in our classes and events. We have, together, created a strong community with an intention towards health and serenity for ourselves. When we are healthy and serene that spreads out from us to others. The Sanskrit word, "yoga" means "to yoke", to join together, the merging, the yoking together of body mind and spirit, bringing us toward a unity with our greater self, with the divine. This may possibly benefit you but it will surely benefit those around you and through them, others.
Let us all bow to each other and even more deeply to our teachers:
Donna Menneto, Donna Myers, Tracey Forest, Carol Steinmetz, Ali Wassick, Ari Gradus and once a month, Peter Rizzo and occasionally kirtan joy with Devi.
Sincerely,
Jane Schaeffer
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