| SOL SCROLLS | Yoga
Celebrating the Sweetness of Life |
Our whole lives we have collected poems as our most prized possession...
we read poems aloud to loved ones by candlelight,
we stuff poems scribbled on napkins between pages of a book to be found at precisely the right moment one day some day,
we email a poem as medicine to someone in distress,
we sooth our aches and heal our heart with poetry,
we ignite our imagination with poems,
we meet ourselves in the alchemy of words,
we feel that yoga is poetry, poetry is yoga.
Poetry & Yoga both ask us to pay attention and offer our presence - to the details, to nuance, to each other.
By being a poetic yogi or a yogic poet, which ever designation you prefer, you strengthen your muscles for kindness, you increase your capacity for intricate metaphoric thought, you open to the appreciation of paradox, you exercise your soul. |
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SUMMONING ALL POETIC YOGIS AND YOGIC POETS
Join us for a 7 week celebration of poetry to cultivate the ever-renewable resources of the Heart.
Each week will highlight a different poet.
Each class will be puncuated with poetry.
Week of April 26th - Rumi
Week of May 3rd - Mary Oliver
Week of May 10 - Rainer Maria Rilke
Week of May 24 - Danna Faulds
Week of May 31 - Pablo Neruda
Week of June 7 - Robert Masters Also bring to class your offerings (favourite collected poems or self-crafted masterpieces) to post on our SOL wall of poetry. |
YOGA NIDRA BREAKTHROUGH WEEKEND
MAY 15 & 16
The purpose of yoga nidra is to experience a sustained embodied sense of wholeness and a deepening intimacy with all aspects of Self.
The result is the release of habits and patterns that cause disease & suffering.
The result is happiness.
Join us for a breakthrough to new levels of happiness & wholeness...
-exploring the layers of Being (koshas)
-learning to connect to and nourish your subtle body
-deep integrative meditation
-increased emotional and spiritual awareness
Saturday, May 15 3-5pm and Sunday, May 16 3-5pm
$75 for both sessions
Pre-register by email doris@solyoga.ca |
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SPECIAL SHIATSU TREATMENTS
$30 for 60 minutes during the month of May!!
Shiatsu is a non-invasive physical therapy that stimulates the body's own healing powers. It is based on traditional and time honored healing principles from the East, and modern anatomy and physiology theory.
Shiatsu consists of specific pressure and stretches applied to the body in order to assess and treat various conditions.
Due to their effect on the nervous system, Shiatsu treatments help relieve stress and pain, as well as improve muscle, organ, and joint function. This deep but gentle approach to preventative health care has many long term benefits for people of all ages.
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| Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.
-Mary Oliver |
| LOVE AFTER LOVE
The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door,
in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other's welcome and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread.
Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs,
the desperate notes,
peel your own image
from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
-Derek Walcott |
| Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you, as a fish out of water hears the waves or a hunting falcon hears the drum's come back.
This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.
-Rumi |
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New Yoga Nidra Class!
We heard your requests for more yoga nidra...
we will be adding an
Integral Yoga Nidra class
effective May 5.
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