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New Session :: December 5 - 31
Additional Class Time :: Thursdays, 9:00 a.m. - 10:15 Power Yoga
Saturday, December 31 :: Half-Off Day! Bring a friend to double the joy! Power Yoga 10:30 - 11:45
Gift Certificates
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Donation based yoga classes,
with all proceeds going to a local non-profit service organization - details are in the works, with more information coming soon
Book discussion groups,
with books such as The Four Desires: Creating a Life of Purpose, Happiness, Prosperity, and Freedom, by Rod Stryker
Meditation classes
New blog
New forum
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Join us to develop a fit body, sound mind, intuitive heart, and peaceful spirit
Yoga Sukha Shala
December 2011
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Greetings!
Also, on the morning of New Year's Eve, we are offering a power yoga class for half-off the pick-up class rate. Bring a friend to double the joy!
As you consider your gift list, can you think of any greater gift than experiences of replenishment, joy, and empowerment? We can't either. Consider giving Yoga Sukha Shala gift certificates this year to the people you care about.
As Kassie has written in the article below, "Our yoga mats are our training ground for meeting and being with the full range of qualities within us. When we can meet and be with them on the mat, we can meet and be with them wherever - and in whomever - we encounter them off the mat, in our lives. Join us! As we transform, the whole world transforms."
We look forward to seeing you soon at the shala!
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I am that
Everything that "triggers" me, everything that delights me I am that
We perceive only that which we recognize. Only that which resonates within us is registered by us. It's like with hearing. Since dogs have a different range of hearing than humans do, we do not register or recognize everything in dogs' audible perceptions because it literally does not find resonance within us. It's outside the span of what we embody. Our perception of anything in life is possible only when it is already within the range of our own being. Think of the implications of this. For example: I get upset because I perceive that she's selfish or he's a brat. But wait. These qualities can only upset me to the degree that I "get" what selfishness and brattiness are. How do I even have a clue? Because these traits are within me, too. If selfishness and brattiness were not within my own being, they wouldn't exist for me - just like those sounds that drive dogs crazy do not exist within my experience. Those sounds can be as loud as a heavy metal concert in the room with me, and I won't even notice. Anything outside the range of my own being does not affect me. For me, it might as well not exist. And in terms of my experience - my world - it does not exist. So when I catch myself getting upset or reacting in any way to some characteristic I perceive in someone else, I realize it's because it's in me, too. It impacts me to the degree that it resonates. The strength with which someone else's selfishness bothers me shows me how strongly selfishness is rooted in me.
Anything that "sets me off" is a gift of valuable information - information about me.
My experience of life and other people is a mirror of who I am.
Whatever it is that is "triggering" me - I am that.
That which I see is that which I am.
This is true of the whole range of perceptions. A gorgeous sunset captivates me with its beauty to the degree that it resonates with the beauty within me. "Oh! So beautiful!" Yes. And I am that. Whenever beauty takes your breath away, it is possible only because you are that beauty, too. The vibration of your inner beauty and the beauty of whatever you are beholding strike mutual resonance. Like with two stringed instruments - whenever one's A-string is plucked, the other's A-string vibrates too. They are the same. They pick up on and transmit each other's vibrations. So too with us and all that "strikes a chord" within us. All ugliness and all beauty is never an outside issue. It's all right here. Within. I am all things - both everything delightful and everything horrific.
I am that. Our yoga mats are our training ground for meeting and being with the full range of qualities within us. When we can meet and be with them on the mat, we can meet and be with them wherever - and in whomever - we encounter them off the mat, in our lives. Join us! As we transform, the whole world transforms. |
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