YOGA Garden PRESENTS

Yoga Garden is changed forever.
I was wanting and waiting for something like this to happen.

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Sarah Fox, John Colburn and I had been talking about having an event based around the release of their new books of poetry, The First Flag and The Invisible Daughter for months.
We talked and picked a date.  We decided on last Saturday which was perfect.  Easter weekend and right before the day of The Fool (aka April Fool’s Day).  A perfect day to talk about what we talk about so often in class, our words for the year and creating growth from the work we do in winter as we move toward spring.  The seeds, or eggs if you will according to the timing of Easter, we plant begin to grow.  We take a leap forward, like the fool, and start something new.
So, the whole night came together very organically.  I think in a way that reflects this process of growth.  Sarah and John both commented on how their comfort and familiarity with the studio contributed to the event.  They came prepared with music, images, flowers, chocolate bunnies and their courageous and beautiful words that just reflected such a powerful appreciation for life.  
And I can still feel it.  And this is why the studio has changed.  In a good way, like the fool leaping forward but only after he does his work, quietly, humbly in the dark and underground.  
This is what my message is for me and you and I feel is supported by Yoga Garden as it grows and comes together.  A safe, supported, community space that encourages growth through autonomy.
This will be the first of a series of YOGA Garden PRESENTS > > >

Thanks to all who made it, see the rest of you next time around.

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: : Latest Song Obsession/Light : :

You guys have heard me play this in class a million times but I thought I would share the link.
It’s just so pretty and perfect for this time of year.  
L I G H T

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START Something NEW

The Fool is the poetic imagination of life, as inexplicable as the essence of life itself.  
This poetic life, born in all human beings, lives in them while they are children, but is killed in them while they grow up by the abstract mechanization of contemporary society.
The saint, the artist and the poet are all one in the Fool, in him they live, in him the poetic imagination of live lives.
Cecil Collins by way of Sarah Fox

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Shiva represents the cycles of life, creativity.  
He dances creation, sustenance, dissolution, conceal and reveal into existence.
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Happy April Fool’s Day to YOU
Om Namah Shivaya
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0 Happy Easter Spring 0

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I’m so inspired.  We had an event at the studio last night and I feel like it changed Yoga Garden forever.

Sarah Fox and John Colburn read from their recently published books, The First Flag and The Invisible Daughter.  They had visuals projected on the side wall, live music, flowers, chocolate bunnies.  People came out to hear them speak and see what they would do and check out a new space.  I felt lucky to be there.

It was just such a great night.  I want Yoga Garden to be a creative space, where people feel safe to express themselves and are inspired to do so and recognize that in each other and I really think it’s happening.

So I have a really busy day today and will write more on the event this week.  I want to wish you all a Happy Easter Spring.  I look forward to seeing what comes up for all of us as the ground shifts and softens and we head into a new season.

Lucky, L


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Family + Friends and Springtime Love


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LOVE – by Erich Fried

I love you,
Not only for what you are,
But for what I am
When I am with you.
I love you,
Not only for what
You have made of yourself,
But for what
You are making of me.
I love you
For the part of me
That you bring out;
I love you
For putting your hand
Into my heaped-up heart
And passing over
All the foolish, weak things
That you can’t help
Dimly seeing there,
And for drawing out
Into the light
All the beautiful belongings
That no one else had looked
Quite far enough to find.
I love you because you
Are helping me to make
Of the lumber of my life
Not a tavern
But a temple;
Out of the works
Of my every day
Not a reproach
But a song.
I love you
Because you have done
More than any creed
Could have done
To make me good,
And more than any fate
Could have done
To make me happy.
You have done it
Without a touch,
Without a word,
Without a sign.
You have done it
By being yourself.
Perhaps that is what
Being a friend means,
After all.

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+ SPRING Events +

+ It’s SRING and it’s time for something new +
Starting with a party this Saturday!
We’ve got a busy studio over the next few weeks…Here are all the Happs: 
Saturday 3/30 – A CVP InterNarrative Psychomagical Action 730 – 1030
Sarah Fox and John Colburn will be reading from their recently published books of poetry The First Flag and The Invisible Daughter.  There will be live music, wine and beer served.  This is going to be FUN!

                       Sunday 4/21 – Afternoon Open House Sale 1200 – 300

Stop by to chit chat, have a lemonade, check out the studio and shop through dullDiamond‘s cool and colorful jewelry as well as Jennifer Sweeny from Triangulum Jewelry.

               Friday 5/31 – Sunday 6/2 – Live the Light of Yoga w Christina Sell

LIVE THE LIGHT OF YOGA
Asana Weekend with Christina Sell
• “There is a light that shines beyond all things on Earth, beyond us all, beyond the heaven, beyond the highest, the very highest heavens. This is the light that shines in our heart.”-Chandogya Upanishad
Join Christina Sell for a weekend of asana study, practice and good company designed to help you gain clarity, strength and inspiration. Each session will work through an intelligent and progressive sequence of asanas to assist students of all levels in practicing yoga as a way to experience their inner light more fully through postural practice.  Register Here

+ Show Up Everyday +

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))) We Build Our Lives Around Words

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 We build our lives around words.

We aspire to change, thrive, love, hate, relate to the world around us so much by the words we choose to bring into our lives.  We take the shape of what the words we use mean to us.

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Grammar is innate.
In Sanskrit, it means the architecture of your life.
We all live inside a grammar.

– Manorama

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I added a new word to our Your Year In A Word Wall last week.

– MINDFUL –

I love that you guys are participating.  It’s really actually an interesting project, the reverse of what group projects usually look like.  It’s quiet and subtle on the outside and I think pretty noisy for each one of us personally in our own minds and bodies…Hmmm sounds just like the practice of yoga, on and off the mat.

I really love this project and am starting to toy around with a book idea.  I’d love to get everyone to write a little story about their words, past or present, and how their meaning changed throughout a year and what they learned from that narrative.  It would be an inspirational book about how we inspire ourselves and each other with words and how we relate to the world around us and inside of us with the words we choose to focus on.

Thanks to Manorama for the above quote.  She is a Sanskrit scholar who I studied with during my Jivamukti certification in Austria in 2003.  I often play her chanting in class.  She has an absolutely beautiful voice, I highly recommend checking her out if you’re interested in learning more about the beauty of Sanskrit www.sanskritstudies.org.  She teaches a Spring workshop annually w Christina Sell too FYI.

L O V E – LVM

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> The Life Floridian

I’m back from a lovely trip to see my family, swim in the ocean, soak up the sun, experience the Life Floridian.  My dad and stepmom bought this for me for the studio at a little fruit stand we stopped at.  It was old school Americana, on the side of the road leading to Pine Island surrounded by palm trees, selling fruit as well as souvenirs.  They had trays, hats, bags, and little figurines all with ‘FLORIDA’ printed on them usually including a seashell, seahorse or a map of Florida.  I loved it and will happily find a home for this little lady at Yoga Garden.  And of course I love that it has a ship painted on it.
AND it’s officially Spring and it officially feels like it.  Time to move, shift and change as a new season gives us more room to reach into.
See you on the mat tonight for Advanced Vinyasa @ 630

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