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Greetings!
We frequently get asked about the origins of our name "Sol Yoga" so I thought it would be worthwhile to tell the story...
As many of you know, four years ago I went through a great do-over in my life, re-arranging everything to commit to the path of yoga (even though I had barely even done any yoga yet!). This was a dark, raw, tumultous time and I had a few great friends who pulled me through. I had the nickname of "Sunshine" then, even though I didn't feel all that radiant. I was shattered but as Leonard Cohen astutely observed "it is the cracks that let the light in". And everyday of yoga since then has meant more sunshine and lightness and lightheartedness for Mom and I.
Mom's past life as a Spanish Gypsy morphed Sunshine Yoga into Sol Yoga (and also explains how a german girl got the spanish name of Marita!). When it became SOL Yoga it also came to symbolize our vision...a yoga centre that celebrates the Sweetness Of Life.
There are of course other acronyms for SOL as well:
Summer Of Love (Summer '09 here we come!!)
Speed Of Light (at which time and space dissolve and anything is possible)
Sooner Or Later (the ever patient yogi's credo)
Sanctity Of Life (life IS sacred)
Sh** Out Of Luck (when we were ourselves sh** out of luck we surrendered to the sweetness of life. With heart's full of gratitude and love, our luck changed. This is also an appropriate time to explain another Sol yoga mystery...my Ace of Hearts tattoo. It is a symbol that lady luck is yours when you choose LOVE. All-ways.)
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An Evening Concert with
Diane Bardwell Masters
at Sol Yoga Centre
Healing Chants &
Songs for Awakening and Transformation
Saturday, March 28 7-9pm Tickets $20
One of our favourite Sweetnesses of Life is music so we are so thrilled to be hosting Diane!
Perhaps more than ever before, there is a great need for the healing capacity and qualities of music in our world. Diane's mission is to provide healing lyrics and music that helps to counteract the despair, disconnection, and apathy that is so prevalent today. These songs/chants repeat declarations of the Divine nature of reality & are set to music composed to help the words sink into a deeper levels of consciousness. The evening will also include songs from her stunning cd "O BREATHE US DEEP' (available at Sol Yoga) featuring genre-transcending music that reveals, explores and celebrates our deepest dimensions with passion and grace, based on poetry by critically acclaimed author Robert Augustus Masters. Some songs are devotional, some are raw, some soar, some sing and bleed; but all are presented in the spirit of awakening to who and what we really are. Please join us for this beautiful experience!!!
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NEW BOOK BY ROBERT AUGUSTUS MASTERS AVAILABLE AT SOL YOGA!!!
MEETING THE DRAGON:
ENDING OUR SUFFERING BY ENTERING OUR PAIN
Pain and suffering are not synonymous. Pain is inevitable, suffering optional. Where pain is consciously felt hurt, suffering is the dramatization of that hurt, casting us the role of the hurt one, stranding us from the raw reality of our pain. Turning toward and entering our pain - our contractedness, our fear, our distress, our numbness, our unhappiness - helps put us on the road to authentic happiness. Turning toward our pain reduces our suffering. Entering our pain further reduces our suffering. Moving through our pain ends or at least radically reduces our suffering, even if our pain remains. The more intimate we are with our pain, the less we suffer.
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*please join us Friday, March 6 for our monthly free Gathering for Peace in support of an Alliance for a New Humanity.
Saturday March 14 & 21 7-8pm
*The next collection of Maha Devi Clothing arrives Monday, March 9. Sustainable, locally made, sweat shop free funky yoga clothes. Come check it out! | |
connections
partner yoga
Partner yoga teaches us how to dissolve barriers to feeling connected and in tune with others.
******************************** Drop-in Partner Yoga
Saturday, March 7
7-8:30pm
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Deeper Connections:
A Workshop on the Play*full
Path of Partner Yoga
with Marita & Chris
Saturday, April 4
3-6pm
$30 per person
Explore 7 levels of relationship mindfulness through partner yoga, breathwork, thai massage and meditation.
Trust
Passion
Commitment
Love
Communication
Vision
Union
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| Our Yoga Family:
Rowan in Baddha Konasasa
Butterfly Pose |
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RARE OPPORTUNITY!!
UNROOTING IMPRESSIONS:
YOGA NIDRA WORKSHOP
WITH
SWAMI
MUKTIDHARMA
Thursday, May 14 6-9pm
Only 7 more spots available!!
$55 if you register before May 7th
$70 after May 7th
The mind is the most perfect super computer and it has an inbox where it stores all the information received through the senses. The inbox is overloaded with all kinds of impressions. The science of Yoga Nidra is a systematic, deep relaxation which allows the practitioner to unravel at the cellular level and release tension and impressions stored in the layers of the body and mind. Yoga Nidra has a deep impact on the mind, and thus isbeing used successfully in the treatment of psychosomatic diseases. | |
