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  ANUSARA YOGA TEACHER TRAINING w/Elizabeth Rainey, Jan - Nov 2012 
Join Rainey and a community of dedicated yogins in a learning experience that will transform your teaching and your life.

ANUSARA YOGA IMMERSION

w/Denise Benitez, Feb - Nov 2012
An opportunity to dedicate a year to deepening your knowledge of yoga in general and Anusara yoga in particular.

 
HEARTS ON FIRE LED PRACTICE

with Rainey, Dec. 17; 2-5 pm 

Laugh, sweat and renew yourself!  Full spectrum practice for all Deepening and Advanced students.

 

CURTAINLIGHT RESTORATIVE YOGA

with Jane, Dec. 30; 7:15-9 pm

This extended restorative yoga practice invites you to rest deeply, renew and welcome the return of the light. 

 

ANNUAL NEW YEAR'S DAY PRACTICE

with Rainey, Jan. 1; 10 am-12 pm

Enjoy the blessings of community and practice on the auspicious first day of the year.   

 

NEW YOGA FOR ANXIETY & DEPRESSION SERIES BEGINS 

w/Bianca Raffety; Weds, Jan 4 - Feb 22 

This series has sold out every time we've offered it.  Participants say it makes a remarkable difference in their lives.

Sign up early!  

 

NEW INTRO TO YOGA SERIES BEGINS

w/Bianca Raffety, Weds, Jan 4 - Feb 22

This series will provide you with the tools to become stronger and more flexible in a variety of ways as you become a budding expert in the science of yoga.  

 

SACRED ANATOMY - THE PSOAS 

w/Bianca Raffety, Jan 6; 5:30-7:30 pm 

 Open up your understanding of the
material and subtle realms of embodied movement and breath, to allow for a deepening experience of the spiritual body.

 

INTRO TO MANTRA MEDITATION

w/Denise Benitez, Sun, Jan 7-Feb 18 

Through this stable and beautiful practice, you will gain greater access to ease of being, insight, intuition, well-being, and your own deep well of compassionate heart.

 

NEW YEAR DETOX

w/Erin Goldman, Jan 8; 1-3 pm

 Join Erin for this specialized yoga practice utilizing twisting poses and gentle compressions to safely support digestion, elimination and detoxification. Meditation and breathing practices included.   

 

ANUSARA 101

w/Jane Hitti, Sat Jan 28, 2:30-4:30 pm;

$30 fee includes one week of free classes!

Dive fully into the basic language and practice of Anusara's Universal Principles of Alignment.   For those new to yoga, new to Anusara, or for ongoing students who want to learn more.

 

2012 RETREATS

WITH DENISE BENITEZ

July 27-29 -  Sleeping Lady, Leavenworth  

April 22-28, 2012 - Molokai, Hawaii at Hui Ho'olana.  Register before Feb 1 - 10% discount.

 

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SAVE THE DATES IN 2012!

Feb 3-5 - Martin Kirk Anatomy & Asana

Mar 31 - Apr 3 - Paul Muller-Ortega

June 16-17 - John Friend in Seattle 

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Healing





 

A wise friend said "Practicing yoga

Is like insurance.  You do it to gain

Equanimity, courage, and strength,

Hoping you'll never need it in

An extreme challenge."  

 

This has been a season of people
Needing their yoga.
I thought I had slipped through the net,
Until severe abdominal pain sent me
Into the arms of the hospital.

Appendix, they said, and it has to come out today!
Today?!?  I don't even have my toothbrush!

Soon I am robed and IV'ed, swabbed and prepped,
The anesthesiologist is making funny yoga poses at me.
"You're going to feel sleepy," he says,
And the next thing I know
I am waking from a place deader than dead.

The lights are too bright, something
Is in my throat - help! - I am
Delicately reassembling into who I am.
Is this the right universe,
I am painfully solidifying into?

Someone says "Take deep breaths,"
And this I can understand,
This takes me somewhere that feels like home,
This connects me to a lifetime of getting to know
Breathing, of trusting it,
And following it, of receiving its nectar.

Even before I wake up, my body
In its wisdom, has begun the secretive
And intelligent knitting together
Of what has been rent apart.

I can't will my body to heal; it simply
Knows how to do this.
It is an evolutionary ballet which
Includes dance steps such as:
Inflammation, vasodilation, cleanup of nonviable tissue,
Laying down of collagen fibers, new capillary loops,
Wound contraction, increase of tensile strength, scar.

To contemplate the brilliant force that propels
This healing into being,
Within every creature on the planet, is to
Touch into a great force of aliveness, one that is
A welcome and necessary visitor in a
Tender post-surgical body.

To the great space ballet that led from cosmic dust
To wound healing with such elegance and beauty,
I stand in awe.
As I rest, weary of reading and crosswords,
The great force
Of the Goddess re-weaves me,
Whole, changed, perfect.



(Poem: Denise Benitez , Photo: Unknown)

*Elizabeth Rainey

 

We are dedicated to your radiant health.

With love from your teachers,

Denise, Rainey, Bianca, Meg, Beth, Jane, Grace, Rebecca, Jorge, Erin, Ellen, Laura