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Dear Friends and Yoga Students
With the seasonal changes you may have noticed a change in your own body as it prepares for the lower temperatures, shorter days and long winter nights. Yoga has been known to help your body adjust to all types of changes both physical and physiological (mind/body). When we practice stillness during our yoga class this offers the body the opportunity to restore using the new energy that comes from our active yoga postures and breathing exercises (also called pranayama breathing). I am very happy to share the practice of yoga you. And with this newsletter I will share more information that you can use to help you deepen, or begin to use yoga as one of your sources for renewal. Thanks to the yoga students who have attended the beginner yoga classes with me since January 2010. And welcome to everyone who would like to begin to learn more about yoga. Of course there are no guarantees but we know there are studies that show the many benefits of a sustained yoga practice. I will share more articles and information with you over the coming months. This month there are two articles "10 Reasons to Try Yoga" and check out the featured article about "Yoga and Weight Management". Although the seasons may change one thing that will never change is my appreciation for your support. Thank you. Namaste, D |
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| Perspectives on Yoga: A book excerpt |
This book excerpt is from the soon to be published book about yoga 
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Deborah "Dee" Williams, RYT
Yoga Instructor and Author
What is yoga?
Yoga is the process of learning about you.
Learning the different facets of yoga can be overwhelming for beginning yoga students. Yoga has many branches, systems and offshoots. Over the years some of the yoga practices (such a "hot Yoga" or "Vinyasa/flow Yoga") have been systematize by various yoga teachers, so that it becomes more understood and accepted by the modern society. Most of the basic yoga asana (postures) are generally called Hatha Yoga. Many people just see yoga as primarily a set of exercises to maintain general fitness when routinely practiced.
And for other people Yoga means "Union", the literal meaning of the word YOGA is to "YOLK" or to "LINK" back. Yoga is not a religion; it is more a way of life or discipline for promoting greater fullness and experience of life.
This implication is: to link back to the original source, the original essence, that which transcends all mental and intellectual attempts at comprehension, but which is the essential nature of everything in CREATION. However, I prefer to think of it as a path to liberation of the mind, through overcoming physical limitations and fears.
The practice of the physical postures enables one to think deeply about what it is like to learn where your mental edges exist. I would find my edge in a particular posture and on the other side would be fear. It could be just the fear of falling down, but it would loom large and prevent me from trying to go deeper into the poses. This was always true for my life in general. I would accomplish a goal, and when it was time to push past it, I would find fear waiting around the corner. What I learned through yoga, was how to see the fear for what it is, a mental construct, that can be dismantled with time and commitment. .
"Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, metal, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble."
B.K.S. Iyengar - Yoga Master |
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| Quote of the month
"Every man is where he is by the law of his being; the thoughts which he has built into his character have brought him there, and in the arrangement of his life there is no element of chance, but all is the result of the law which cannot err. This is just as true of those who feel out of harmony with their surroundings as of those who are contented with them. " - James Allen, As a Man Thinketh |
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I hope that you enjoy the very best that life has to offer and that in return you will share your gifts with the world.
Namaste,
D
Deborah "Dee" Williams
Founder, Yoga for the New Millennium
Owner, The Kanjin Yoga Center
http://yogaforthenewmillennium.cfsites.org |
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