My apologies for last week! We are back on track this week! Our class will focus on the hamstrings and all they do for us!
Please join us for our Monday nite yoga practice on 5/20 from 6:30-8pm at the UU Church of Fresno on Alluvial.
Quite some time ago, I found this picture. I knew that it wouldn’t be long before it’s beauty would take on even greater meaning to me. On Friday afternoon, my beautiful mother walked this path, and found her peace. I am grateful to her and for her. And to all who have supported us as we finally let go.
Please join me in a a practice of release (focused on our hamstrings) this Monday evening, 5/13 at the UU Church of Fresno from 6:30-8 pm.
Within every experience, there is a gift. Staying open to receiving that gift is our challenge. Our practice can help us stay in the place where we can keep those hands open and receptive.
This week, I hope you all can stay flexible about our class. My mom is actively dying as I write this. I am not sure when her time will be to leave her body, but I want to remain available to be there if possible. I am planning on our Monday evening class this week, but may, at the very last moment, need to cancel. So if there is a sign on the church door, this is why. If not, I plan a yin practice as is our first Monday custom.I hope to be there with you from 6:30-8pm !
I am having one of those times in my life that we all have. So many things are happening to me or to people that I care about, that I am feeling overwhelmed. I am sure each of you have been there. We might say, ” Oh yeah, 2000 (whatever) was the year from hell for me”. In retrospect, with distance, when we look at that hell year, it taught us alot. The challenges presented helped to mold us into who we are today. And, I hope, when I look back at those times, I can feel I handled them with grace. For me, yoga has helped me find the grace to move through times like these. Back 20 or 30 years ago, I didn’t have this yoga tool to fall back on during trying times. Keeping the attitude of gratitude certainly helps.
I hope others find our weekly yoga class a time to cultivate healing attitudes, and de-stress our bodies. Come join us on April 29 from 6:30-8pm at the UU Church of Fresno on Alluvial. I cannot express what my yoga community means to me in good times and in challenging times!
Our trip to Boston was intended to see my youngest son run the marathon, then, revel in a beautiful old city. We got far more than we bargained. My son ran his PR in the marathon(3:00:17). Jubilation! Moments later, horror. I felt so insync with the peoples of the world were bombings are a daily occurrence. To feel the emotions that are part of being in a area where you feel so unsure of your safety, is tiring. When we returned home, the drama continues to play out. We were shocked to hear that the suspects responsible for this terror were in the same neighborhood we stayed in.
I cannot express how humble and grateful I feel. How sad I am that the folks we shared the jubilation of the marathon, are suffering.
This Monday, April 22 from 6:30-8pm, our weekly practice will be in honor of the people of Boston. Come and bring your intentions to send them energy and peace thru our yoga practice.
There are many styles of yoga available to today’s practitioner. Each of us has to find the style or styles that work for us. The challenge is not not feel that the style we chose is not as authentic or vigorous or precise as another style. The style of yoga hopefully fits our body at this time in our life. This week, I offer a mixed Yin and Yang practice. We’ll begin on our feet moving and end up with more yin like poses to finish our time together. Know that starting with Yin and ending with Yang is equally valuable. It’s all yoga!
Join us this Monday, April 8, 2013 at the UU Church of Fresno for our weekly time together! We meet from 6:30-8pm and our practice is donation based.
On Monday, April 15, join us for a special practice with our guest teacher! It’s always fun to work with a new teacher!
We often think about savasana as the time to quite the mind during our practice. While it is, our entire practice presents us the opportunity to begin this practice. The eight limb path of yoga calls this pratyahara and dharna. These two limbs help us withdraw our senses and then focus our concentration. Our tool for these two limbs is pranayama, our breath. Once again, we come back to the breath and how important it is in connecting the mind and body together.
On Monday nite, April 1, our yoga class will be a Yin yoga practice. This style of practice will provide the opportunity to practice pranayama, pratyahara and dharna. Please join us at the UU Church of Fresno On Alluvial from 6:30-8pm. If Yin is new to you, scan the right side bar and click on the information on yin.
Spring, 2013
I was very surprised to find this solitary daffodil assertively blooming within a rosemary plant! How the daffodil got there is beyond me! I was struck by the beauty of both plants, by their sharing of a confined space within which each is thriving. They are both so different in species, yet, there doesn’t seem to be a diminishment of one for the other. A model for us as we walk the path of ahimsa (non-harming)?
A yoga practice can help each of us, daffodil or rosemary, blossom and thrive together. Come join us celebrate Spring will our Monday nite yoga practice on March 25, Monday at 6:30pm at the UU Church of Fresno on Alluvial.
Well, maybe you don’t grow alot of your own food, but I bet you grow something! Gardening provides us with beauty, nourishment and a connection to the seasons. It’s about the time the weather warms up that may of us find ourselves outside weeding, hoeing planting. bending, lifting. And does the back ever let you know it the next day! Even those of us who regularly do yoga need a way to help our Spring backs as we begin to use them in different ways.
Our back class to the rescue! Seventeen easy poses that help those aches while they stretch and strengthen our backs and core. We meet Monday, March 18 from 6:30-8 pm at the UU Church of Fresno on Alluvial. Bring a friend who has been complaining of back pain!
I believe that we all have inner peace within our reach. That is not to say, “I am happy all time”. But it is to say that during those times when life isn’t so good, within us is a peace that trandsends. A joyous mind and heart. Happiness, I think, is measured through the external world we find ourself in, with it’s times of having things go right and having things go wrong. The inner peace I am referring to is that set point inside to which we can purposefully reset, our true selves, allowing us to move gracefully thru life.
Coming into this inner peace is what yoga is about. It doesn’t happen without effort. Come and join others on this path to inner peace and peaceful movement this Monday, March 11 from 6:30-8 pm at the UU church of Fresno.