Thank you

Thank you to all of you who attended and donated to the Bellur fundraising class. I am sending a check for $ 380 to the Bellur Trust thanks to all of you.

Thank you also for an excellent year. I feel honored to have each and every one of your lovely faces in class. I continue to be amazed at how much I learn from teaching. I intend on keeping an open mind and practicing my own svadhyaya so I can improve and evolve as a teacher while you evolve as students.

Every year I make the same New Year's resolution; to practice more yoga. Each year, I practice and study more than I did the previous year. Teaching and practicing have become my life's work. A few years ago, I always had this sort of back burner idea that if teaching fell through, I could work at Starbucks, even though I am not a big coffee lover. Now I know that if the plague swept through our population and the landscape was barren from a science fiction level world war, I would still be practicing and teaching whoever was willing. So, again, thank you to all of you who are interested and willing. I could not do any of it without you.

Holiday Schedule

Dancing Ganesh, originally uploaded by friend_cuttack.

Saturday Dec 19 Stillwater 2pm- Fundraiser for Bellur
Thursday Dec 24- No class
Saturday Dec 26(day after Christmas)- Shambhala 3pm
Thursday Dec 31, New Year's Eve day- class at Shambhala 10:30am

Sri BKS Iyengar

Sri BKS Iyengar, originally uploaded by Dana Hale Yoga.

Thank you to all of you who attended the fundraiser class for the Shambhala Center this past Saturday, your support means alot to me.

This Saturday, Dec. 19, at 2pm at Stillwater Yoga Studio, I am going to hold a class to honor our Guruji, Mr. Iyengar's birthday. His birthday happens to be today, Dec. 14. He is 91 years old.
All of the money raised from the class this coming Saturday will be sent to India for the Bellur Trust. Bellur is the village in India where Mr.Iyengar was born and raised. He has been supporting the village, with the help of his worldwide community of Iyengar yoga students. What was once a small, sewage dump of a village now has a school, a hospital , a Patanjali Temple, and a water tank.
Where would I be right now if Mr.Iyengar had not created this system of yoga? Probably hungover from too much whiskey, asleep in the back of my old pick up truck, which is out of gas because I spent the last of my cash on the whiskey. I could go on to create a few more negative scenarios.
Where would you be? Maybe you would still be where you are, but if yoga has brought even one positive moment, one good breath to your existence, allow yourself to be thankful for that goodness.
The suggested donation is $20. Please come out and show your support.

Fundraiser for Shambhala Center

Please join me this Saturday, December 12, 2009. All the money raised from this class will be donated to the Shambhala Center (1447 Church Street, Decatur, Ga).

All levels are welcome

class begins at 11:30am and will go until 1pm.

Aum

Aum, originally uploaded by John R Kerr.

Thank you to all of you who came to the Sutra class this past Saturday. The next sutra class is Saturday Jan. 9,2010. It will be at 2pm at Stillwater yoga studio. We'll pick up with sutra 2.3 about the afflictions (klesas).