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January Events
Introduction to Ayurveda with Shree Vinayak Kaurwar Sunday, January 16th, 7:30-9:30pm Flow Yoga Center 240 West 14th (between 7th & 8th), New York, NY Price:$30. pre-registration required. Please call 212.255.7588 or email Melissa@flowyoganyc.com Arm Balance Workshop with Melissa and Nikita Sunday, January 23rd, 7:30-9:00pm. Flow Yoga Center Price: $20. Pre-registration required. Please call 212.255.7588 or email Melissa@flowyoganyc.com Are you afraid of arm balances? Don’t understand how to get into them? Let’s break down the poses and explore our balance together. Class open to all levels. 
Member’s Discounts and Freebies Dr. Fred is waiving his fee for January sessions. For those of you who have heard the buzz about our chiropractor, Dr. Fred, now is your chance to experience the Bodywave Approach for yourself. Tuesday January 11th, 18th and 25th from 4:00-6:30pm at Life in Motion Yoga Center (2744 Broadway @ 105th). Attend one, two or all three sessions with a friend or family member and donate whatever you feel is fair. Spontaneous waves of prana ripple up the spine! Contact Dr. Fred to schedule 908.864.0058 or dr.fred@patmedia.net. Tracey Gary, holistic health and nutrition counselor, offering free 1 hr. consultations. Tracey will be giving a workshop on New Food for the New Year at Namaste Yoga and Healing Center on Sunday, January 23rd, 1:00-3:00pm. Members who attend can also schedule a free consultation with Tracey. Contact her directly at 646.408.0485 or wholebody@lycos.com. Half Price One Hour Yoga Therapy or Healing Session or a free workshop with Elizabeth Andes-Bell. Anyone who joined the newsletter is eligible for a half price private session or a free workshop. This offer expired Dec.31st but is being extended through the end of January. |
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The Winter Practice
Winter is a time of contemplation and meditation. The winter practice of forward bends lends itself to releasing deeply ingrained patterns and creating new structures that support your unfolding. Think of your asana practice in two stages. The first stage is active. We become aware of old patterns. Your body, your history and your distortions are unique. We align the body, cultivate the breath and develop open attention. This is the personal phase. It leads to relaxation, restoration of health and enhanced vitality. The second stage is passive and transpersonal. You surrender, allow yourself to be moved and integrate with a larger will. This stage leads to freedom from the swing of opposites. There is an ecstatic experience of merging with the Divine. It transforms the life of the soul.
Everyone, from gurus to geniuses, possesses a soul life that is like a battlefield between opposing forces. The drama of that battle reveals the content and destiny of that individual soul. The soul is not able to progress in homogeneous agreement. We need enough friction to stimulate us to, not to shatter, but to release old patterns and move toward a higher and more comprehensive level of organization. The practice of yoga provides us with a time-tested technology for the development of soul life and the vehicle that contains it. Yoga can teach you how to make contact with a larger field of awareness, the field that sees all life as sacred and interconnected. You become the one who simultaneously knows and experiences that field. While staying in contact with this field of sacred awareness, you build on your capacities for sensing, presencing and crystallizing your intent, not while on an idyllic retreat but while engaged and in action . All the while, you are responsive to feedback, staying open and experiencing the guidance of a profound intelligence moving through you. This is how the soul moves out of the drama of the battle of the personal to fulfill a higher calling. This is how you become a vehicle through which a larger field of consciousness manifests. This is why yoga is fundamentally an evolutionary practice. This is the gift of the season. Om Shanti, Elizabeth Winter Practice Workshop with Elizabeth Andes-BellWhen we tie our practice to the rhythms of nature, we provide a ground for a renewed appreciation of our own rhythms, our body’s ability to heal itself and our potential for transformation. During winter, the Yin cycle predominates in the climate and in our bodies. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) associates winter with water, the kidney (storehouse of chi), the bladder (storehouse of emotions) and the sexual organs. These organs govern the first and second chakras and deal with issues of embodiment, physical needs, sexuality and creativity. The goal of a winter practice is to replenish the strength, stamina and vitality of the body. It is a time of drawing inward, listening deeply and being receptive. In this workshop, we will focus on deepening the asana practice to access these dense organs and ingrained emotional and physical patterns. You will learn: 1. Forward bends which stretch the bladder meridian 2. Twists and stable backbends for the kidneys 3. How to set up poses to eliminate dysfunction and charge the system 4. How to sequence a class or practice to build to more advanced poses and greater elimination of chronic patterns 5. How to identify the spectrum of water imbalances by their manifestation in the physical and energetic bodies 6. Energetic techniques to remove blockages 7. A 30-minute restorative practice. Create a strong physical body, supported by radiant vitality, and the will to act with clarity and compassion. Use this time of inner focus to prepare for the expansion that comes with spring. |
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Inspiration for getting in shape from The Woman’s Book of Strength, by Karen Andes The Sensuality of Strength "What is it like to dwell in a strong woman’s body? How does it feel to have muscle coursing down our limbs, like tresses of hair tumbling down our backs? What’s it like to house a marriage of opposite forces within one body-the soft and hard, active and yielding? It is running through a forest, like Diana, goddess of the hunt, with a slim-hipped powerful engine rolling the hips and lifting nimble feet over rocks. It is the independence of carrying two suitcases down an airport corridor-finding competence in the sheer weight of them, with no “poor little me” in sight. It is the intersection of a hard pectoral meeting the soft handful of a breast, the gristly sinew of leg muscle entwined with the putty of a thigh. It’s knowing how to pull up in the head, neck and chest, and down into the pelvis- to be able to fly in one moment, and in the next, sink legs down like roots of a tree. Our power grows from the earth, feeds on iron, air, heat, food, love and water and travels through a lifetime. We cannot trace its source back to a true beginning or see where it will end. We are in fact the vessels of new souls-and we carry them into life. But we also carry others with us as well, chosen partners and ourselves on other loving journeys. We are at home in dream time-and can bring our dreams to reality. Every one of us has special powers. We are dancers on the edge of infinity.” |
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