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/
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