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MGY Issue 09    |   April 2011 

Higher Practices  

"Beer Training for Yoga" 

(Traducción al Español


If you went to University or College, you very likely indulged in the art of drinking. And I'm not talking about fruit smoothies. Unless you consider strawberry daiquiris :) I'm talking about alcohol. Of all the forms of alcohol students consume, the most popular among the university culture is beer.
At least when I went to school, it was.

 

It was amazing how much fun we had creating a sport around the art of drinking. You see, when you are in University, you don't drink beer because it goes nice with your pizza or your sandwich. You drink it because it is fun. Fun to observe how it affects your body, your mind and your balance. And it is fun finding new sporty ways of doing it.  This was my favorite, most fun part about drinking in University. Which is probably a good thing, because most fun and games of youth, we typically outgrow. And I outgrew drinking.  But in my day, I played all the drinking games!

 

"1,2,3, Go!", "The Beer Bong" or any other game where the one who can drink the most the fastest wins (I never did). Being a small guy, I didn't do well in the drinking sports based on pure excess. I excelled more at the drinking games of skill. The ones that depended on MY ability to control my own body or mind (as in Yoga).

 

Any game that had to do with darts, coins, cards, dice or memory, I was the master!  My strongest drinking game was quarters. I could bounce the coin off the table into the glass from anywhere. And Icould do it from the flat side of the coin or the edge of the coin. I could even roll the coin down the bridge of my nose, bouncing it off the table into the glass.


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Party on, Yogis!  

And be Excellent to each other!

  

  Shanti Out,

michael
 

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  --  April 8-10, 2011
"Opening Elements"
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Back for the sixth time in Querétaro, the "Yoga Dealer" returns to share once again his energy and knowledge.  Michael has designed four special sessions where you will be able to explore your full potential.
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Friday the 8th, 7 pm

Saturday the 9th, 10 am & 3 pm

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The GAVY system of teaching yoga is based on the proven yoga traditions from India. The way that Michael learned it from 10 years of visits to India, training with his Gurus. BUT, we take it an important step further, making these practices palatable for the western mind. And it is through this system that GAVY has graduated over 200 teachers from 30 countries to teach yoga.


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2nd Annual Ashtanga and Vinyasa Retreat
 

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October 2-8, 2011
 

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Local students can pay a low individual daily rate of only US$ 108 for just the 3 Yoga sessions.

 

You may combine this week long retreat with Gannon's GAVY Teacher Apprenticeship from September 5-27, in Playa del Carmen. It is only 45 minutes from Tulum.  So, you can schedule yourself for a full month Yogic Beach Buzz Overdose with The Yoga Dealer!


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In This Issue
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GAVY Teacher Apprenticeships
Beach Retreats

2011 tour schedule

 

PAST EVENTS
 
TORREON, MEXICO
 RockSport Fitness Club Find us on Facebook

March 18-20, 2011

 
NEXT EVENTS
 
QUERETARO, MEXICO
 Arati Yoga Find us on Facebook
 

April 8-10, 2011

 
LEESBURG, VIRGINA, USA
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May 11-12
 
RIVIERA MAYA, MEXICO

GAVY Teachers
Apprenticeship

RYT 200
 
June 17-26 (part 1, Cancun)
Sept. 5-27 (part 2, Playa del Carmen)

MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
Mukta Yoga 
July 2
 
Amala Yoga Studio 
July 3 

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND
Jo Lockhart Yoga 
October 22-23

COBHAM, ENGLAND
Camilla Campbell Yoga 
October 25
 
LONDON, ENGLAND
The Yoga Show
October 28-30

 

 

MEXICO CITY, MEXICO 
8th Encuentro
Nacional de Yoga
November 11-13 
 
GUADALAJARA, MEXICO
Punto Yoga
November 18-20
 

 

 

Full year updated schedule

  

 

 

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