Wall Work Week!!!

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Greetings Yogis and Yoginis!!!  Happy MLK Day!!! It is a holiday, but YFL is OPEN!!! This week we will be focusing on using the wall as a prop for resistance. This helps with alignment, grounding, sculpting, and strengthening our asanas. This acquired information with the wall will then, hopefully, transfer to our practice in subsequent weeks without the wall. Our Sanskrit focus will be is “Dharma”, literally translated means “that which holds together”. More simply interpreted it means duty, law and order, following one’s path to truth. It secretly conditions all of our activities. Our mudra (hand gesture) focus is the “Skankh” or shell. The gesture for deep-seated intuition. The right hand represents the shell wrapped around the thumb of the left hand, which represents the pearl, or your Higher Self. This mudra may be combined with deep inhalations followed with chanting AUM on long exhalations. This week’s meditation focus is “Strength”, and may be combined with the music of “Zen Pause”…”Close to my World”.  This week’s quotation is “See with your Heart”.

The deadline for our Artistry of Yoga 200-hour Teacher Training program is fast approaching, 1/27. Registration details are available on the website. We have developed a new 16-week, Semester Format. The training begins on 2/8 and ends of 6/3. We will meet every Wednesday from 5:30-9:30 p.m, and each Saturday from Noon- 6:00 p.m.  We will NOT meet on 5/27 or 4/15, Memorial Day Weekend, or Easter Weekend.

As part of the teacher training program we will be including the following special events for our trainees, which will also be open to the public: 3/25: Yogapuncture w/Ansley and Monica, cost $40, 3-5 p.m.,  and space is limited. Sign-up at the studio, fee is $40, and on 4/8: Kirtan Workshop w/Sandi, pre-pay $15, at the door $20, from 1-3 p.m.

Deb and Carol will be hosting their annual Santa Rosa Plateau Yoga-Hike sometime this Spring, so watch for the details, coming soon!!!

Have a fabulous week, and as always, we can’t wait to see you on the mat!!!—Namaste’, Deb