MorningMysore

From an email I received from Mark Sierra:

Dear friends,

I hope this email finds you all well. I realize as I go through this list of contacts, I haven’t spoken to some of you in a while so hope you are in great health and happiness!

I would like to take this opportunity to direct your attention to an upcoming event that I truly believe will be quite special. It is the first ever Yoga Therapy Conference in beautiful Tiburon (Marin) and will be held May 12-14. See below link for much more detail.

Everyone I am emailing is a friend of the amazing Bay Area yoga community. We are being blessed with the first ever conference in the United States that is devoted specifically to Yoga Therapy! Through our own personal yoga practices, we already know the amazing benefits of yoga as it enhances our overall well being. This conference is going to gather an amazing collection of internationally reknowned experts who will really focus in on the specific curative and healing powers of yoga in a wide range of areas such as cancer, depression, ayurveda, quantum meditation, grief, sound & healing, insomnia, anxiety, pregnancy, overall strength, back pain - and so much more!

There is definitely a lot of amazing information here for teachers, experienced students, new students or anybody who is just interested in the therapeutic benefits of yoga no matter who they are.

There is also a fantastic kirtan and dance performance Saturday night - the Mantra Lounge - with Suzanne Sterling, Alex Theory and my friend DJ Dragonfly (go Martin!!)

So please check out the below link for more information and I really encourage you to sign up. There are one-day and full conference passes to meet your schedule. Having been to quite a few yoga workshops, I also think you will see this is priced very well.

I also encourage you to forward this to as many people as you know that might be interested.

Finally, for studio owners, please let me know if you are OK with me dropping off some fliers.

For many reasons, I really think the future of yoga will be focusing more and more in the therapeutic benefits (vs. more focus on asana), and you can be there at the forefront of that movement.

Thanks so much and I hope to see you there as this truly will be a historic event.
http://www.yogatherapyconference.com/

Much love,
Mark

Hi all,

Elad and I touched base and we’ve confirmed I will borrow the DVD tomorrow so we can definitely have the screening of the DVD of Guruji teaching 3rd and part of 4th series at my place Sunday after practice. Given practice ends at 9.45, let’s shoot to start the DVD around 10.45. Bring food/drink to share or just bring yourselves. If someone has a coffeemaker to bring, that’d be great. I’ll have fixings for tea and some food.

I’ve been asked to show my film, PUP, during the morning so if folks want to see it, I’d be glad to put that on too. The Guruji vid is 1 hr. 40 min’s so my guess is, if you’ve seen that and want to come just for this, that it’ll likely go on around 12.30 or so.

RSVP wiseorchid at yahoo dot com.

Looking forward to it,
Antonia

Hi all,

So I have to say things are just beginning to sink in.

Last week I had a call from Elena, she’s the lady I am teaching in the place of now in Portland. An old friend Peter Sanson is coming to visit, and we decided to have him teach a tiny workshop.

So since we’ve set it up and a few of the teacher have found out about it, I now have two teachers flying in for the week of practice with him. That tells you a little of who he is.

Basically Peter Sanson went to India in 1985 and has barely ever left. Other than a few months of the year to work on his parent’s farm in New Zealand, and then to teach a few workshops, he’s stayed in India to practice with Guruji. He’s made it his life to study this practice. Him coming out of India is rare, as is the opportunity to practice with him.

So I wasn’t going to say anything, but as people are signing up I am basically realizing that it is really an amazing thing to have happening. So far the workshop is small, and we expect it to stay so.

If you want further details see

www.sattva-yoga.com/workshop.html

And if you want to come and see Portland let me know. Its a really cool town and its a beautiful spring here.

Cheers,

Anne

Hi all,

I just uploaded images from a two week trip to Hawaii and there are a few of the YiY gang that went to practice with Nancy Gilgoff here; as well as a bunch of images of the local area, particularly of peaceofmaui.com, where we shared a great little cottage, and the route from there to the shala here.

Here’s a relevant excerpt from a blog posting I wrote on 4/4 while there:

i am really digging this maui thing. i think L was feeling the same way. she said this morning: this is a healing place. and i’d have to agree.

i just love it!

—

I now know that Nancy has several houses with rooms to rent out and, if you contact her enough in advance, you can arrange to rent a room for a longer period of time, e.g. by month. Quite a few folks practicing in the shala were doing that. There’s also a local car rental company, Word of Mouth, that has been quite helpful to yogi/nis, renting cars at about 150/week.

It was a valuable, if brief, window of time to practice with her, and I’ll look forward to the opportunity to study more with her in future. She mentioned some things I’d never heard before, and pointed out something I’d never noticed before in my practice. She feels really approachable, and it was interesting to listen in on a conversation she had with L about putting students on 2nd series - at least the first few poses - earlier rather than later, among other things.

Best,
Antonia

I recently got a DVD of Guruji counting off the 3rd series and part of the 4th to a group of his students in Encinitas back in 1989. The people Guruji instructs include Richard Freeman, Chuck Miller, Tim Miller and Marty Ezraty and it is amazing to watch them moving in unison through this intense, acrobatic, series under Jois’ guidance. It is really impressive, or, as the old sanskrit idiom puts it “quite badass” (admitedly a loose translation). Amazon link here.

If anyone wants to borrow this feel free to ping me by email or after class (I think Jen is first in line to check it out).

Another option is to set up a group viewing of the DVD after YiY Mysore practice on Sunday the 23rd (i.e. a week and half from now). My apartment unfortunately wouldnt work for this so if someone is willing to volunteer their place we can make it happen… Let me know if there is interest in doing this / an available locale.

Either way, it is pretty amazing to see this practice!