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“Finding the Warm Inside” — A Restorative Yoga Workshop, Feb 25th (Web Version of E-Newsletter)
Dear Friends,
It is a time for me of great emotional expansion and challenge. In such times, both more active, energizing yoga and sweetly, deeply meditative still yoga is a continuing gift to give myself and to share.
Please join me and like-minded yogis together creating a shared stillness on Saturday, February 25th for a nurturing, healing, and generally delightful afternoon of restorative yoga:
Finding the Warmth Inside: Relax Into Optimal Alignment with Anusara Restoratives, Saturday, February 25 2012, 2:30 PM – 5:00 PM, Willow Street Yoga, Takoma Park Studio, $35.00, click to Register Online or download a paper form
to bring to Willow Street in person. After a little gentle stretching and self-massage to bring awareness to the breath and body, we will enjoy the exquisite application of Anusara’s Universal Principles of Alignment to restful and supported restorative postures to release old patterns and invite in the new to find greater ease of body and mind. A great workshop and practice for all levels.For a treat of free yoga–do bring or send a friend, I’ll be teaching the Friday Yoga Happy Hour at Willow Street Yoga, Silver Spring, next Friday, February 17th. All levels are welcome.
I hope to see many of you. As always, feel free to email me with any questions you might have. There is always a new photo or idea on the blog. Take a look at what’s new–there’s still more to come on my trip to India as I find it relating to things going on at the moment.
Peace and light,
Elizabeth
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Windows That Open
When I first got to my room on the fourth floor of the hotel, the airconditioner was straining noisily, and the room was very stuffy. To My great delight — the windows not only open, but have screen and look out onto an unveveloped tract of land with trees higher than my window. I immediately opened the windows and let in the smell of fresh air and the sounds of the forest. There is occasional car noise, but it is muffled by the sounds of wind and rain in the trees.
I thought this morning how often I end up in an office building or hotel where the windows do not open. That cutting off access to the realities of nature, of what is greater than our little world, in order to have a controlled climate seems like much of modern life.
Many I know do not even notice that the windows do not open. Others of us, see the windows and want to know what is outside and to be with the greater energies. We seek to oprn the windows and know. Those who are able and so moved and who are able — rare beings — leave behind the buildings and go entirely on the renunciate path. The rest of us who live the life of householders, seek to have windows that open and spend time each day breathing in the sweetness of what is greater.




