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Yoga for the New Millennium Newsletter
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JANUARY 2012
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Greetings!
Welcome to 2012!
I would like to start this year with just three words.
Live, Love, Laugh.
Live your best life in 2012. Love from a place of "Gratitude". Laugh often.
Read the right sidebar for upcoming special yoga events, community yoga classes, a yoga eco-tour to Costa Rica, books, videos, interesting quotes, YNM newsletter archives and our featured natural health and wellness magazine.
Also, don't forget to join me at two upcoming yoga conferences. One is a virtual (on-line) conference and the other is the Northwest Yoga Conference in Lynnwood, WA. Both are of these exciting events are coming in February!
I'm excited to be teaching Health+Wealth=Happiness at YogaHub's annual Virtual Yoga and Meditation conference. But you don't have to wait long to join in the fun...
YogaHub is offering 3 special complimentary sessions where you can meet some of the teachers, try out the virtual format, and learn new yoga and meditation tips.
Best of all, this pre-conference event won't cost you a dime!
Check it out here:
http://www.yogahub.com/ref/debwilli6357/7ccb8f61.html
Look for more to come on the big virtual conference coming up in February 2012. For now, get a head start and take advantage of this sneak peek!
Everyone benefits from staying active at all ages. It is my wish that you find a place for yoga in your existing fitness program. Or that you learn to use yoga as the anchor to kick-start your stretching and flexibility program if you are starting a new one.
Thank you, to the fans of this newsletter, the yoga students who attend the classes and practice to the best of their abilities. And to the teachers who continue the yoga tradition. I hope you will share your thoughts with me about anything I can do to make the newsletter more interesting.
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Perspectives on Yoga 
By
Deborah "Dee" Williams, RYT
Instructor and Author
The Eight Limbs of Yoga
"The art of yoga begins with a code of behavior in order to build up moral conduct, physical conduct, mental conduct and spiritual conduct." - B.K.S. Iyengar
As you know by now yoga is an ancient practice, over 3000 years old, with roots in the Indus Valley of India. It consists of both a way of life and philosophy. There are many branches and systems of yoga practiced by people from all walks of life in every corner of the world. What brings someone to yoga as a regular wellness practice? For many people it is primarily the asana (postures) that have proven to have signifigant health benefits. Others study the mind/body concepts of yoga at a deeper level to gain a well rounded understanding of the practice.
An ancient yogi named Patangali described the eight limbs of yoga. Following is a brief description;
1. Yama, reflection of or true nature
2. Niyama, evolution towards harmony
3. Asana, confort in being - posture
4. Pranayama, enhancement and guidance of universal prana
5. Pratyahara, encouraging the senses to draw within
6. Dharana, gathering and focusing the conciouseness within
7. Dhyana, continuous inward flow of consciousness
8. Samadhi, union with your true nature
Featured books and publications
Check out our new segment, books of the month, (on the right sidebar) for more ideas and tips on living through times of challenge and change. |
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Non-Profit Spotlight
The purpose for the not for profit spotlight is to provide
a focus on some of the non-profit organizations that are serving humanity through their contributions, outreach, activism and engagement with people of all backgrounds.
Featured Organization
Rainier Health and Fitness
Mission
"Rainier Health & Fitness is a non-profit health organization making a meaningful difference in the South Seattle community by making exercise fun, accessible and affordable. Our mission is to encourage healthy lifestyles, strong bodies, and authentic community through an accessible, high quality fitness center. Our vision is to be a model of the healthiest neighbor-hood, a place where reconciliation is facilitated as barriers between people are diminished through exercise." -RHF
Annual "Healthiest Looser" Fitness Challenge starts in January http://www.rainierhealth.com/ |
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Closing Words
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. May you enjoy peace, happiness and the best of health
throughout 2012.
Namaste, D
Deborah "Dee" Williams
Founder, Yoga for the New Millennium |
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Special Events
- YOGAWoman:Movie/Art Event
- Northwest Yoga Conference
- Virtual World Yoga Conference
- Community Yoga
- Yoga eco-Retreat Winter 2012 |
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Kanjin Yoga
presents
Yoga Woman Movie,
Art and Book Signing Event
We are screening the movie "Yoga Woman" and welcoming an exciting exhibit by local clay artist "Phi Nguyen". And featuring a book signing by Dee Williams
SEWARD PARK
5004 Genessee
Sunday, January 29
4 PM-5:30 PM
$5 Donation
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2012
February 18 - 19
Lynnwood Convention Center in Lynnwood, Washington.
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YOGA AT RAINIER COMMUNITY CENTER
This is a not for profit community yoga program. Your support is appreciated.
Gentle Yoga Class Schedule
Tues/Thurs 10AM-11AM
Friday 8-9 AM (50+)
Sat 4-5 PM
Call for Registration and Information and
Registration: 206-386-1919
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COSTA RICA
Winter 2012
YOGA RETREAT
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ECO-TOUR
A combination mind/body and eco-tour, meditation, massage, yoga and much more. Allow the opportunity to discover something new or deeper about yourself. Explore, challenge, pamper and nurture your mind, body and spirit.
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New Publications We Like
Natural Awakenings Seattle Magazine
(Click link to read the January Issue) | |
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Monthly Videos |
"The ultimate measure of a person is not where they stand in moments of comfort and convenience, but where they stand in times of challenge and controversy."
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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"Yoga is a method for restraining the natural turbulance of thoughts, which otherwise impartially prevents all men, of all lands, from glimpsing their true nature of spirit. So long as man possesses a mind with its restless thoughts so long will there be a univeral need for yoga."
- Paramahansa Yogananda |
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