Yoga Sukha Shala
2012 July 16
Empowered & Wholehearted
 
Greetings!
 
A new 4-week session begins today at the shala. If you are already a member, we are so glad you are now experiencing the myriad benefits of regular yoga classes. See you soon! Please also share the benefits, thereby experiencing even more benefits yourself, by inviting a friend!

If you are not yet a member, why not make this the week that you join us to develop a fit body, sound mind, intuitive heart, and peaceful spirit

Our members routinely report reduced stress, better sleep than they can remember since childhood, greater muscle tone and strength, improved clarity and inspiration, and many more benefits. Your turn to experience all this! 

Let us introduce you to a yoga fundamentals or empowering yoga class that will best suit you. Call today to schedule your first appointment: 219-465-4040 
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Your Guide To a Wholehearted Life

 

The next selection for our book exploration group at the shala is The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are: Your Guide To a Wholehearted Life, by Bren� Brown.
 
Brown includes effective aids for cultivating courage, compassion, and connection as well as clarity about love, belonging and worthiness. She also includes powerful strategies for moving through the obstacles to living and loving with our whole hearts as she leads us through 10 guideposts - daily practices - for our Wholehearted journey: 
  • Cultivating Authenticity: Letting Go of What People Think
  • Cultivating Self-Compassion: Letting Go of Perfectionism
  • Cultivating a Resilient Spirit: Letting Go of Numbing and Powerlessness
  • Cultivating Gratitude and Joy: Letting Go of Scarcity and Fear of the Dark
  • Cultivating Intuition and Trusting Faith: Letting Go of the Need for Certainty
  • Cultivating Creativity: Letting Go of Comparison
  • Cultivating Play and Rest: Letting Go of Exhaustion as a Status Symbol and Productivity as Self-Worth
  • Cultivating Calm and Stillness: Letting Go of Anxiety as a Lifestyle
  • Cultivating Meaningful Work: Letting Go of Self-Doubt and "Supposed To"
  • Cultivating Laughter, Song, and Dance: Letting Go of Being Cool and "Always in Control" 
As all who have participated in our book exploration groups have experienced, Kassie guides us in both discussion and experience of the material. Even if you don't get to read much, register and come anyway. The value - regardless of how much you do or don't read - is in the experience.

 

Register by July 31 for an early bird discount! Call 219-465-4040 or email [email protected] to register today.

 

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Kassie Meeks
From an interview 
of Kassie

"Diane Booth Gilliam talks with Kassie Meeks, master violinist, extraordinary yogini, yoga teacher and owner of Yoga Sukha Shala"

 

Click here to read the full interview in SF Yoga Examiner.

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Community Fun
Summer Rhapsody
NWISC July 29
 
Many have asked about music events open for attendance. 

Sunday, July 29, beginning at 6:30 pm, NWI Suzuki Conservatory students will be performing in Summer Rhapsody Music Festival in Valparaiso's downtown amphitheatre! 

You're invited to attend! Enjoy wonderful live music and community while outdoors on a beautiful summer evening!
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"Coming at this work with a full understanding [as a shame researcher] of how the shame tapes and gremlins keep us feeling afraid and small allows me to do more than present great ideas; this perspective helps me share real strategies for changing our lives. If we want to know why we're all so afraid to let our true selves be seen and known, we have to understand the power of shame and fear. If we can't stand up to the never good enough and who do you think you are? we can't move forward.

"I only wish that during those desperate and defeated moments of my past, when I was knee-deep in shame research, I could have known what I know now. If I could go back and whisper in my ear, I'd tell myself the same thing that I'll tell you as we begin this journey: 

"Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy - the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.

 

Bren� Brown