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This unique workshop uses acupuncture to release the energy meridians of the body and get you deeper into your poses. Experience greater range of motion and less pain!

After this class you will be able to integrate all 3 levels of Reiki into your practice and you will be considered a Reiki Master. 

Get your Reiki journey started. Learn how to use Reiki on yourself, your loved ones, and even your pets!  Reiki Master David Kaley makes this energy healing technique accessible to everyone.  

Learn the original method of saluting the sun. Learn both the postures and the mantras that go with each pose and how they correspond with each chakra. 

Join intuitive ghost buster Bobby Sullivan for this workshop that explores some spooky stuff!  

Create your work of art that you can use in your yoga practice. Or make an awesome gift!  

    

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Walk and touch peace every moment. 

O friend, understand.

The body is like the ocean, rich with hidden treasures.

Open your innermost chamber and light its lamp.

Within the body are gardens,

Rare flowers, peacocks; the inner music;

Within the body a lake of bliss,

On it, the white soul-swans take their joy.

 

Life brings to us each day such infinite beauty and possibility. If we live each moment and each breath, then our awareness seeks both - even when troubled times come. My daugther, Gina, takes after my mother. She wakes up with an inside light that sometimes surpasses even the brightest of sunrises and creates a glow on even the gloomiest dawns. She and Mom feel an intimacy with the natural world that helps to sustain them.

 

On September 12, Gina sent, via text, this photo of a caterpillar she spotted on campus that day. Fearing for its safety, she promptly adopted it and moved it to her bedroom, nestled in its own mattress of leaves, twigs, and grass. Because she adopted a chrysalis many years at the Minnesota State Fair - and because she is a biology major - the care and feeding of a caterpillar were not new to her. Being a mother who understands that her daughter's heart can break, back in Lakeville I worried that the little creature would survive. I braced for a sad call.

 

The next day this photo arrived. In a little more than 24 hours, the fuzzy roommate spun itself into a coccoon, taking on the   form of a well-protected, glowing green chrysalis. The polka dots you see in the background belong to, of course, Gina's bedsheet or pillow - because you never can keep your caterpillar/chrysalis too close, not ever. (Perhaps it will not surprise you, having seen this photo, to read that as our children grew up a menagerie visited our home - Dakota, the fish; Fizzy, the white rat; Carlos, the corn snake; Sam, Jasmine, and Martha, the cats; Sarah and Cookie, the dogs, and Mohican, the horse. Not all at the same time but in orderly succession!).

 

  Meet Hernandez, Gina's "latest pet and your first grandchild, Mom," as she wrote to me by text on September 24. I am not sure exactly how the gender became known, but then, again, I

am not a biology major. Isn't he gorgeous? Gina and Hernandez spent several hours together as his wings dried, and then, like the good parent she is, she set him free (and worried for several hours as he clung to her screen, also like any good parent.)

 

Life is beautiful, even when it's difficult. Creatures change and evolve - sometimes quickly and sometimes more slowly. I do. You do. We all do. Hernandez did, and this is what he teaches us, and this is what binds us.

 

See you soon at the centers!

 

Marcia (writing), MB, Candy, and Christie 

   

Noted lecturer, author, and clinical psychologist James Finley is leading a three-day retreat for Green Lotus. A former Trappist monk, noted lecturer and author, James wrote Merton's Palace to Nowhere and The Contemplative Heart. He has studied the contemplative practices and mystics from many traditions. On his visit to the Twin Cities, he will explore the grounding and serenity of enlightened ones from Moses to Buddha to Shiva to Jesus to Rumi.  He will speak about transforming trauma, compassion, community, enlightenment, mysticism, and developing a spiritual practice that works for you. James is available for only a limited number of engagements each year, so save you spot now!  Click here for more information.   

By Maureen Farley, Yoga Teacher & Gluten-Free Foodie  

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