Inner Fire Yoga made a donation of $5,592 to Partners in Health on January 19th, 2010 to benefit the people of Haiti. These funds were donated over the weekend of Jan. 15-16 by our yoga students and patrons, and matched by Inner Fire Yoga. Thank you Inner Fire Yoga community!

 

Friday, February 19th
7-9:30pm HIP HOP CORE YOGA and MEDITATION

Saturday, February 20th
1-4pm DYNAMIC TRANSFORMATIVE YOGA
7-9pm KIRTAN with BLISS DANCE

Sunday, February 21st
9:30-12pm FIVE KEYS to UNLOCKING INNER BLISS

Fees:
$40 for 1 yoga workshop paid by Feb 16th
$45 for 1 yoga workshop paid Feb 17-19th
$105 for 3 yoga workshops paid by Feb 16th
$120 for 3 yoga workshops paid Feb 17-19th
$15 for Sat. evening kirtan performance
 
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Purchase Wade's music CD's and his newly published book, Transformative Yoga, in our retail boutique now.
 
Wade Imre Morissette, has studied yoga for more than seventeen years with many of the world's most influential yoga teachers, including Baba Hari Das, Sri K Pattabhi Jois, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, T.K.V. Desikachar, and the Krishnamacharya Lineage. Wade, a recording artist with Nutone Music, has released several critically acclaimed albums of yoga-inspired indie rock/pop music including Maha Moha-the Great Delusion, Sagram Scales of Music, and Strong as Diamonds.  Wade leads workshops, yoga retreats, and kirtan music evenings in the US and internationally. His retreats and workshops integrate yoga, music and eastern and western personal development techniques. Fun fact: Wade Morissette is the twin brother of famous pop singer Alanis Morissette.

FRIDAY NIGHT
Hip Hop Core Yoga and Meditation
Combining the best of world music grooves and a vigorous vinyasa flow, Wade transforms your yoga practice into the ultimate playground. Be transported to a deep place of release as Wade wraps up the class with live music. Be prepared to sweat, work your physical body and journey to a new place of freedom in mind and spirit. Open to all levels.

SATURDAY AFTERNOON WORKSHOP
Dynamic Transformative Yoga
A dynamic flow class based on Wade's intelligent sequencing principles.  Come explore and learn alignment and the art of sequencing.  Together we'll delve deeper into a variety of asanas (backbends, inversions, and twists).  Throughout the workshop, Wade will offer tips and nuggets to help you transform your physical practice into a true mindful experience. Find peaceful bliss as Wade finishes the class with live music. Come prepared to sweat, and learn.  Open to all levels of students!  Also great for teachers!  Leave feeling empowered and truly alive!

SATURDAY NIGHT
Kirtan with Bliss Dance
In this fun and moving experience, we will create a space for creativity, authenticity and freedom!  We'll begin the session by landing in our bodies through a joyous movement mediation and move into a blissful explosion of mantra call and response. Come move, play, sing, and celebrate!

SUNDAY MORNING
Five Keys to Unlocking Inner Bliss
Combining the power of a vigorous flow practice, mindfulness meditation, and energizing mantra kirtan, Wade transforms your ordinary yoga practice into the extraordinary.  Experience deep connection through a journey of the 5 koshas: physicality (asana), meditation, energy (pranayama), awareness (integration) and profound inner peace (music and sound).   These powerful and potent practices will awaken your inner wisdom, ignite your passion for living, and open your heart to pure bliss.  Open to all levels of students and teachers.  Leave feeling empowered, connected and truly alive!
 
"Wade who is not only a sought-after yoga instructor, but a talented artist who uses his singing and guitar playing to connect to his spirit and allow his sandhana to progress towards the supreme..."
~ 'LA Yoga'

Inner Fire Yoga's Immersion Class
This class is designed for the yoga student who wishes to go beyond today's typical one hour yoga class. In the 2 hour Inner Fire Yoga Immersion class you will not only practice the nuts and bolts of yoga, but also meditation, yoga breathing techniques, yoga wisdom and much more.

Select Sundays, 1:30-3:30 pm.

Feb 14  :  Angie Carlson
March 14  :  Ken Kloes
April 18  :  Joan Bleifernicht and Megan Brown

regular fees apply
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The Yoga Path
Being Present

When people first start practicing yoga, they are often amazed at how physically challenging it is.  Beginners commonly walk out of their first class completely surprised and exhausted by the endurance and strength that yoga demands.  Just as often, people return to yoga intent on conquering the physical demands, and continue to practice with the goal of perfecting the physical postures through hard work and persistence.  

As natural and important as this response to yoga is, it is only the beginning. With time and effort, the yoga practitioner begins to recognize perhaps an even greater challenge: the challenge of "the ego."

What is the ego? According to Eckhardt Tolle, author of The Power of Now and A New Earth, the ego is "...a misperception of who you are, an illusory sense of identity." It is, he says, "the voice in the head", the voice that keeps our minds overly stimulated and in an analytical state where we are desperately searching for something we can't identify. We, therefore, are constantly trying to identify ourselves by the things we own, the things we pursue, and the things in which we surround ourselves. The ego directs us to look outward (towards things) where we find isolation, competitiveness, resentment and anger, and not inward where peace and tranquility can be found.

The good news, Tolle points out, is that we don't have to live ego-driven lives. We don't have to be driven by the noisy "voice in the head," searching to find ourselves in things, or identities, only to "end up losing [ourselves] in them."

How, then, do we avoid being ego-driven? The answer is:  be present.  By being present, we become aware of "the voice in the head" and are able to turn it down or even off.  By doing so, we start becoming conscious of the "illusion of the ego."  Tolle says, "If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves...In the seeing of who you are not, the reality of who you are emerges by itself."  By discovering who you really are-an extension of the divine-you tap into a wellspring of lasting peace and happiness.

And, that's where yoga comes in. Think of yoga as a jumpstart on the journey of taming the ego. Through our yoga practice, we begin to tame the ego by consciously striving to be present, letting go of thoughts, and quieting the mind.

Each time we practice yoga with the intent of focusing on our breath, we practice being present in the here and now. By consciously following the dialogue of the instructor, and not allowing the mind to wander, we become aware of when it does, and then we learn how to steer it back to the present, to the breath.  Each time we become aware of labeling (or judging) ourselves or others around us, we learn to gently let go of those labels (or judgments.)

It is through being present that we become aware of our incessant, habitual thought patterns and, therefore, we begin to understand our minds.  We begin to understand that we are not "the voice," that we actually do have control over it, and that we do have an option to silence it.  This is how yoga helps us to see through the illusion of the demanding ego and become more familiar with our true selves and the genuine peace and happiness within.

Yes, yoga definitely serves to strengthen and heal us physically, but it also serves us on a deeper, more profound level, helping us to shake loose the chains of the ego and to awaken to a new state of joyous consciousness.

Ujjayi Pranayama (Victorious Breath)

 

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