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Hi Soul Flow Yogis,
We all have a story. We all have two eyes, two ears, a nose and a mouth and are similar in more ways than we are different - inside and out.
So many times, perceptions, or misperceptions rather, are made in haste when someone walks in the room. It seems to me after reading close to 100 student yoga journals, there is more stress, more unhappiness, more anxiety than there is the opposite of all those. Most surprisingly those comments from the most smiling, most beautiful, most friendly students of the class - which goes to show perceptions are not reality.
If we take away titles/positions or posessions (sister, mother, director, owner, honda, label, etc) who would we be? If we lost everything, family, home, everything but the clothes on our back, what type of person would we describe ourselves as?
When we escape the periphery and come into the core of what it really means to be us, we find our heart, our strength and our struggles. When we find our heart and our true happiness, we are able to meet others at their core, their heart of who they really are, which is not what they wear or where they work or what they belong to. Accepting ourselves at the most basic level is the biggest challenge but the greatest reward.
Namaste
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Prenatal Yoga
Coming in June!
Check back for details.
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Soul Flow's
Community Garden!
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Come by and see the garden! Volunteer: Stop by and water the garden. Just move the ring to the day you watered so we won't duplicate. It's a bit Zen. Turn the rain barrel on and give it time. Come with patience. |
Ask 'Flo' 
Can You Describe the Chakras?
Chakra means spinning wheel and is linked to health and healing via the endocrine glands and their functions.
Each chakra has a certain number of petals which are determined by the interaction of the nadis at that juncture.
Each chakra has a seed sound, which according to Hindu beliefs everything in the universe has a sound. Seed sounds are symbolic of the energy pattern of each chakra: Lam, Vam, Ram, Yam, Ham, Om, None.
Chakras are associated with the colors of the rainbow. Sound raised to a higher vibration is color. When prana is absorbed into the etheric sheath of the body, it gets refracted into seven colors.
One chakra can be stagnant, excessive or deficient. They are influenced by thoughts, emotions, behavior patterns, food quality and amount, exercise and stress.
For the next few months, we'll discuss each chakra in detail.
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Class Schedule
Monday 4:00-5:15pm Gentle
5:45-7:00pm All Levels Tuesday 5:45-7:00pm Beginner 7:15-8:30pm All Levels
Wednesday 5:45-7:00pm Gentle 7:15-8:30pm Hot
Thursday 5:45-7:00pm All Levels 7:15-8:30pm Restorative
Friday 7:00-8:30pm Partner (Once per Month) Saturday 9:30-10:30am Community ($6)
10:45-11:30am Children's
Sunday 6:00-7:00pm Community ($6) |
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Yoga Fest
Tuesday, June 21st
Come out to Barnet Park for free yoga, demonstrations and vendors
More information to come! |
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Pose of the Month
Janu Sirsasana
(Head to Knee Pose)
Step by Step
1) Sit on the floor with your buttocks lifted on a folded blanket and your legs straight in front of you. Inhale, bend your right knee, and draw the heel back toward your perineum. Rest your right foot sole lightly against your inner left thigh, and lay the outer right leg on the floor, with the shin at a right angle to the left leg (if your right knee doesn't rest comfortably on the floor, support it with a
folded blanket).
2) Press your right hand against the inner right groin, where the thigh joins the pelvis, and your left hand on the floor beside the hip. Exhale and turn the torso slightly to the left, lifting the torso as you push down on and ground the inner right thigh. Line up your navel with the middle of the left thigh. You can just stay here, using a strap to help you lengthen the spine evenly, grounding through the sitting bones.
3) Or, when you are ready, you can drop the strap and reach out with your right hand to take the inner left foot, thumb on the sole. Inhale and lift the front torso, pressing the top of the left thigh into the floor and extending actively through the left heel. Use the pressure of the left hand on the floor to increase the twist to the left. Then reach your left hand to the outside of the foot. With the arms fully extended, lengthen the front torso from the pubis to the top of the sternum.
4) Exhale and extend forward from the groins, not the hips. Be sure not to pull yourself forcefully into the forward bend, hunching the back and shortening the front torso. As you descend, bend your elbows out to the sides and lift them away from the floor.
5) Lengthen forward into a comfortable stretch. The lower belly should touch the thighs first, the head last. Stay in the pose anywhere from 1 to 3 minutes. Come up with an inhalation and repeat the instructions with the legs reversed for the same length of time.
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