Dear Friends and Family,
I'm writing today because I wanted to ask personally for your support for Living Yoga. We are collecting donations to help raise funds for a local nonprofit that provides free yoga classes to youth and adults in correctional facilities, drug and alcohol recovery centers, domestic violence shelters, and for those accessing other transitional services.
If you currently do not have a charity that you support, or are looking to have a big impact in many people's lives - I highly recommend that you donate to Living Yoga! In the last year, they have provided more than 10,000 student hours of free yoga to teens and adults who are working to transform their lives. By offering yoga, they are sharing the benefits of a more than 3,000 year old practice that provides tools for stress management, self-awareness, impulse control, mindfulness, and distress tolerance.
By providing the necessary life skills developed through the practice of yoga, many are better able to contribute both to the communities in which they now live and to the community to which they will return to or re-enter. Past offenders can adopt new behaviors and patterns from which to make safer decisions, teens can learn to make choices about their bodies and their actions from more grounded places, victims of abuse can re-connect within themselves and take steps towards empowerment and trauma healing, and addicts can overcome craving and desire as well as unhealthy and harmful behavior. These changes within individuals not only affect them personally - but everyone they come into contact with- their children, family, neighbors, employers, customers - and most importantly, their community.
I hope you will support us in supporting someone else's yoga practice. If you have time and extra money, even a couple of dollars, please make a donation. Your support would mean the world to us. This year Living Yoga is hoping to raise $20,000 for their annual campaign. It is a tough and tight economy - and to be able to keep underwriting their free programs, they need financial support. Please spread the word and help keep bringing yoga to those who need it most!
Love and Peace
Yoga Shala of Portland
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Thursday, April 1, 2010
It's been awhile!
Hi all,
Our blog has been a quiet place for the last year.
Seems appropriate to start again with the return of Sonia Nelson. Sonia is presenting three different workshops when she visits us at the end of April. Sonia is an amazing teacher, and has been a student of TKV Desikachar for over 30 years. Her knowledge is vast and we are honored to have her back at the yoga shala!
CHANTING PATNAJALI’S YOGASUTRA with Sonia Nelson
Friday, April 30, 2:00 - 4:00pm
$40 Early Bird before April 16, $50 thereafter
$245 for all three workshops
Through the traditional method of listening and repeating learn to chant selected sutras from the four books of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra. Step by step instruction will provide skills in basic chanting techniques, Sanskrit pronunciation, and the reading of standard transliteration. The sutras selected for study will be those most relevant to the practice and teaching of yoga in contemporary western culture.
Teacher Training Elective Course • 2 hours. Open to all students and levels. Continuing CEU Credits available.
North Williams + Teacher Training
TRANSFORMATIVE CHANTING – Creating Change Through Sound with Sonia Nelson
Friday, Saturday & Sunday
April 30, May 1 & 2
Friday, 6:30 - 8:30pm
Saturday & Sunday 2:30 - 4:30pm
$120 Early Bird before April 16,
$150 thereafter
$245 for all three workshops
Chanting is a powerful tool for discovering, expressing and influencing all dimensions of the human system. As a practice and study on its own chanting can help us to improve our focus, memory and mental discipline build self confidence and awareness bring balance to our energy reduce mental and emotional agitation find and refine our own voice improve listening and communication skills increase our usual breathing and digestive functioning strengthen the link to our own spiritual connections support an overall sense of well being
Combined with yoga practice, we can discover and forge new pathways between body, mind, and breath, infusing our relationship to yoga with new vitality. Taught step-by-step through listening and response, pure sound and simple chants from the Vedic and other traditions will be taught and then applied to asana, pranayama, and meditation. This integrated practice will encourage a new depth of experience helping to sustain our direction toward yoga as a process of transformation.
Teacher Training Required Course • 6 hours. Open to all students and Levels. Continuing CEU Credits available.
North Williams + Teacher Training
YOGA OF DHARMA with Sonia Nelson
Saturday & Sunday, May 1 & 2
Saturday 9:00am - 12:00pm, Sunday 9:00am - 12:00pm
$120 Early Bird before April 16, $150 thereafter
$245 for all three workshops
Mental clarity is a term often associated with the benefits of yoga practice. In our culture of change and choice, being clear about the relationship between our responsibilities and our desire for freedom can be challenging. Conceptual models and practices from the Vedic and yoga traditions provide the guidance and focus needed to meet this challenge as we act in the direction of our highest aspirations. The format of the workshop will be presentation, group discussion and practice that includes asana, pranayama, and a variety of meditative tools to support our exploration of this timely subject.
Teacher Training Required Course • 6 hours. Open to all students and levels. Continuing CEU Credits available.
About Sonia Nelson:
A student of T.K.V. Desikachar since 1975, Sonia Nelson has been a teacher of Yoga and Vedic Chant for over thirty years. She established the Vedic Chant Center in Santa Fe in 2000 and gives nationwide seminars and workshops on Yoga and Vedic Chant. Sonia has released a number of CDs including tutorials for Vedic Chant and the chanting of the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali. Currently in New Mexico, through individual instruction, Sonia focuses her teaching on mentoring, continuing education and personal practice development for yoga teachers. Sonia is a KHYF Certified Teacher Trainer.
www.vedicchantcenter.org/
Our blog has been a quiet place for the last year.
Seems appropriate to start again with the return of Sonia Nelson. Sonia is presenting three different workshops when she visits us at the end of April. Sonia is an amazing teacher, and has been a student of TKV Desikachar for over 30 years. Her knowledge is vast and we are honored to have her back at the yoga shala!
CHANTING PATNAJALI’S YOGASUTRA with Sonia Nelson
Friday, April 30, 2:00 - 4:00pm
$40 Early Bird before April 16, $50 thereafter
$245 for all three workshops
Through the traditional method of listening and repeating learn to chant selected sutras from the four books of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra. Step by step instruction will provide skills in basic chanting techniques, Sanskrit pronunciation, and the reading of standard transliteration. The sutras selected for study will be those most relevant to the practice and teaching of yoga in contemporary western culture.
Teacher Training Elective Course • 2 hours. Open to all students and levels. Continuing CEU Credits available.
North Williams + Teacher Training
TRANSFORMATIVE CHANTING – Creating Change Through Sound with Sonia Nelson
Friday, Saturday & Sunday
April 30, May 1 & 2
Friday, 6:30 - 8:30pm
Saturday & Sunday 2:30 - 4:30pm
$120 Early Bird before April 16,
$150 thereafter
$245 for all three workshops
Chanting is a powerful tool for discovering, expressing and influencing all dimensions of the human system. As a practice and study on its own chanting can help us to improve our focus, memory and mental discipline build self confidence and awareness bring balance to our energy reduce mental and emotional agitation find and refine our own voice improve listening and communication skills increase our usual breathing and digestive functioning strengthen the link to our own spiritual connections support an overall sense of well being
Combined with yoga practice, we can discover and forge new pathways between body, mind, and breath, infusing our relationship to yoga with new vitality. Taught step-by-step through listening and response, pure sound and simple chants from the Vedic and other traditions will be taught and then applied to asana, pranayama, and meditation. This integrated practice will encourage a new depth of experience helping to sustain our direction toward yoga as a process of transformation.
Teacher Training Required Course • 6 hours. Open to all students and Levels. Continuing CEU Credits available.
North Williams + Teacher Training
YOGA OF DHARMA with Sonia Nelson
Saturday & Sunday, May 1 & 2
Saturday 9:00am - 12:00pm, Sunday 9:00am - 12:00pm
$120 Early Bird before April 16, $150 thereafter
$245 for all three workshops
Mental clarity is a term often associated with the benefits of yoga practice. In our culture of change and choice, being clear about the relationship between our responsibilities and our desire for freedom can be challenging. Conceptual models and practices from the Vedic and yoga traditions provide the guidance and focus needed to meet this challenge as we act in the direction of our highest aspirations. The format of the workshop will be presentation, group discussion and practice that includes asana, pranayama, and a variety of meditative tools to support our exploration of this timely subject.
Teacher Training Required Course • 6 hours. Open to all students and levels. Continuing CEU Credits available.
About Sonia Nelson:
A student of T.K.V. Desikachar since 1975, Sonia Nelson has been a teacher of Yoga and Vedic Chant for over thirty years. She established the Vedic Chant Center in Santa Fe in 2000 and gives nationwide seminars and workshops on Yoga and Vedic Chant. Sonia has released a number of CDs including tutorials for Vedic Chant and the chanting of the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali. Currently in New Mexico, through individual instruction, Sonia focuses her teaching on mentoring, continuing education and personal practice development for yoga teachers. Sonia is a KHYF Certified Teacher Trainer.
www.vedicchantcenter.org/
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Honoring Gayatri - Meditation In Praise of the Sun with Sonia Nelson
Honoring Gayatri - Meditation In Praise of the Sun with Sonia Nelson
Friday, April 3 - Sunday, April 5
Friday 6:00 - 8:00pm, Saturday & Sunday 1:30 - 6:30pm
Early bird rate: $190 - full 12 hour workshop $210 on day of workshop
Friday only $30, Saturday and Sunday only $100 each day.
Gayatri Mantra is one of the oldest and most highly regarded mantras found in the Vedic Texts. Using Vedic Chant, Mantra Recitation, Gesture, Mudra, Pranayama, and Visualization this workshop will guide you through simple, yet traditional, meditation procedures which will enable you to continue practicing on your own.
About Vedic Chanting: It is said that hearing the sound of Vedic Chant imparts healing qualities to those who are listening. The act of chanting unites body, breath, mind and speech encouraging deep healing at all levels of the human system. The experience of listening and chanting is one of communication, sharing and coming together in sacred sound.
Sonia Nelson, Director of the Vedic Chant Center, has been a student and teacher of Yoga and Vedic Chant for over twenty five years. As a student of T.K.V. Desikachar since 1975, Sonia is a Certified Teacher Trainer in association with the Krishnamacharya Healing and Yoga Foundation (KHYF).
In addition to integrating the use of chant into yoga practice, Sonia has developed a unique approach for teaching Vedic Chant to Western students and gives seminars and workshops nationwide and at the center in Santa Fe. She has released a number of CDs including tutorials for learning Vedic Chant and the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
SANSKRIT FOR YOGA PRACTITIONERS, PART II: Important Terminology in the Yogasutras with Kate & Nandini
Saturday, February 21, 2:00 - 5:00pm • $35
Learn the words and discuss the meanings of important Yoga Sutras, and the terminology of concepts presented in the text. The ashtangas, abhyasam and vairagyam, the klesas, vrttis, antarayas, yamas and niyamas, and a brief look at the sutras relating to techniques of meditation.
This lecture based workshop will help you become comfortable with the terminology so that we can use the sanskrit words with understanding rather than approximate English substitution in a yoga class. This is a required course for the shala's Advanced Studies Program. Everyone who wants to understand the concepts of the Sutras is welcome, and Teachers are encouraged to attend!
Learn the words and discuss the meanings of important Yoga Sutras, and the terminology of concepts presented in the text. The ashtangas, abhyasam and vairagyam, the klesas, vrttis, antarayas, yamas and niyamas, and a brief look at the sutras relating to techniques of meditation.
This lecture based workshop will help you become comfortable with the terminology so that we can use the sanskrit words with understanding rather than approximate English substitution in a yoga class. This is a required course for the shala's Advanced Studies Program. Everyone who wants to understand the concepts of the Sutras is welcome, and Teachers are encouraged to attend!
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Happy V Day
This Valentines the Shala is holding a raffle! Come in and sign up for any of our class packages or make a purchase and be entered to win one of our V Day gift baskets - they include a box of Vosges Chocolates, Kol bath salts, and a free class! This is an $80+ value!
We're also having a red-tag sale. All items with a red dot are 40% for the month of February, so hurry in and save. New merchandise is arriving soon for Spring! Yea!
Monday, February 9, 2009
Yogis Seeking Inspired Economy
Our changing economy is presenting us with so many opportunities to re-value what matters and how to put that first.
In the spirit of change, possibilities, and inspiration, I want to invite you all to come to a community gathering...
What?
My friend Perry will give a brief presentation about his inspiring dream for the transformation of our economy. Perry is a very successful businessman who recently left Intel to dedicate his career to the realization of a more sustainable beneficial economy in the U.S. Check out his website http://perrygruber.com Go to his blog, then click on New Economy For a New America to learn more about this humanitarian economic system.
When?
Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 7:30pm-9pm
7:30pm-8:15pm Presentation, 8:15pm-9pm Q&A
Where?
Yoga Shala North
3808 N Williams
Cost?
FEE
Why?
As I understand it, Perry is starting a grass roots movement to help a new economic model come to life.
What does that mean? He wants to tell people about this new model, and he wants them to tell other people. The model is completely unlike anything I've ever heard of before. But I think its basis is inspiring enough that I'm hosting a presentation in the hopes that others may be, in some way, inspired and uplifted by these ideas as well.
I believe that this economic model is unique in its principles and practical theories of how to value goods, maintain distribution of power, and fertilize the best in human nature. I left my first meeting with Perry with my imagination spreading in every direction, fed by the pictures he painted. I don't know how this model will grow, but I have experienced its power to energize and awake possibilities.
Please come, and consider these possibilities with us. Bring your community!
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Ropes!
Hi all,
I know many of you have been asking for Anne to hold a rope workshop, and here's your chance! Tomorrow! Sunday!
IYENGAR ROPE WORKSHOP with Anne
Sunday, February 8, 2:00-5:00pm $30, limit of 6
Join Anne and literally learn the ropes! Experience the rope walls and learn the proper way to use these valuable tools developed by BKS Iyengar. A great workshop for teachers and students of all levels of experience.
Call the Shala to register and check availability at 503 963-9642.
I know many of you have been asking for Anne to hold a rope workshop, and here's your chance! Tomorrow! Sunday!
IYENGAR ROPE WORKSHOP with Anne
Sunday, February 8, 2:00-5:00pm $30, limit of 6
Join Anne and literally learn the ropes! Experience the rope walls and learn the proper way to use these valuable tools developed by BKS Iyengar. A great workshop for teachers and students of all levels of experience.
Call the Shala to register and check availability at 503 963-9642.
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