Cheryl Thomas, RYT
www.cherylthomas.com
yoga@cherylthomas.com
415-308-3377
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 The Small View
Has this ever happened to you? You're doing a crossword puzzle and you're
totally stuck. You've been staring at it
for 10 minutes, but that's it--no more.
You get up, shuffle to refill your glass, check email, sit back down and
for some reason, pick it up again.
What? You suddenly see two spots
you had missed. How could you have missed
these? You fill them in a finish the
puzzle.
How about this? A splattering
of Brown Cow Coffee Cream-top yogurt(1) jumps onto your kitchen floor, just under the cabinet lip. It's requiring an on-the-knees clean-up. Your face is about a foot from the bottom
of your cabinet and you suddenly see a catsup streak right at the base (had you not noticed it before?). And, as your sight widens a bit more you
notice the baseboard is filthy. How did you miss
this? Now, you spend the next hour on
all-fours with toothbrush in hand.
So, I start thinking about of these phenomena. If we clean our kitchens
daily/weekly/seasonally but miss the catsup streak, then what else are we missing in life? Instead of taking a wide view, maybe we need
to take the opposite--a narrow view and start
noticing details, nuances. I wonder how
much of our days go by just by rote and we miss the small things not because the small things are not there,
but because we don't see them.
When we experience something new we see nuance as our minds
focuses on the unfamiliar. But when we
go through our daily routines, ostensibly doing the same thing over/over/over
again (same route to work, same local coffee shop, same dusty computer screen),
we see very little. There is nothing novel
or interesting enough to grab our attention.
Or is there? I bet there's a whole host of life that we're
glazing over because it's not loud, bright and in our face. With so much overt
stimulation from billboards, FOX news, traffic and unending emails, we get
habituated to only seeing the obvious or big picture. I bet if we try to improve our ability to notice the not-so-obvious stuff we'd find a lot of surprises. So
let's try to drown out the big stuff and try paying attention to the
small. By the way, have you looked at
your kitchen baseboards lately?
(1)
What's with the foil tops on yogurt instead of
the replaceable plastic top ones?
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Week of May 2, 2010
Sunday
11:00 - 12:30
Yoga on Center, Healdsburg
Slow Flow Level 1-2
Monday
9:00 - 10:15
Yoga on Center, Healdsburg
Gentle Yoga
Tuesday
9:00 - 10:30 ***Donation***
Yoga on Center, Healdsburg
All Levels
6:30 -8:00 p.m. (Private)
UCSF Restorative Yoga for Metabolic Syndrome
San Francisco
Wednesday
9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Yoga on Center, Healdsburg
Slow Flow Level 2
5:30 - 6:55 p.m.
Yoga Studio Ganesha, Sebastopol
Vinyasa Flow + Restorative - All Levels
Thursday
8:30 - 9:30 a.m.
Graton Community Center
Gentle Yoga - All Levels
12:00 - 1:00
Yoga on Center, Healdsburg
Lunchtime Gentle Yoga
6:30 - 9:30 p.m. (Private)
UCSF Restorative Yoga for Metabolic Syndrome
San Francisco
Friday
9:00 - 10:15
Yoga on Center, Healdsburg
Gentle Yoga
Week of May 9, 2010
Tuesday
9:00 - 10:30 ***Donation***
Yoga on Center, Healdsburg
All Levels
6:30 -8:00 p.m. (Private)
UCSF Restorative Yoga for Metabolic Syndrome
San Francisco
Wednesday
5:30 - 6:55 p.m.
Yoga Studio Ganesha, Sebastopol
Vinyasa Flow + Restorative - All Levels
Thursday
8:30 - 9:30 a.m.
Graton Community Center
Gentle Yoga - All Levels
6:30 - 9:30 p.m. (Private)
UCSF Restorative Yoga for Metabolic Syndrome
San Francisco
STUDIO WEBSITES
Yoga on Center: www.yogaoncenter.com
Yoga Studio Ganesha: www.yogastudioganesha.com
Westside Yoga Studio: http://www.westsideyogastudio.net
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Hope to see you soon!
Namaste,
Cheryl
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Bulletin Board
Pay What you Can
Tuesday's donation class at Yoga on Center continues through May at 9:00 a.m. Join us at a price that works for YOU. This will be an all level, easy to moderate flow class. Hope to see you.
Well, not really, but we are going to be filmed. Jeff Sengsack works for Lynda.com and will be filming our Thursday class. He's shooting a training video on how to shoot video and we'd like to help out. You will be asked to sign a release in order to join us. Come and join us--it'll be fun!
Lotta Class at Yoga on Center? If you haven't made it to Yoga on Center, now's a great time to check it out and to do some retail therapy while you're there. I'm teaching 6 classes this week with something for everyone--a donation class, Slow Flow and Gentle Yoga. Hope to see you. .
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