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January, 2010

Hello yoga friends! I am very excited to be sending you this information regarding the Yoga Retreat at SwaSwara Retreat Center in Karnataka, India March 1-11, 2011


November 17th, 2009, Anchorage, AK– Essential Nature of Yoga CD Released!

Greetings everyone,

I'm very happy to announce the completion of my first yoga practice CD! It's titled, "The Essential Nature of Yoga:  A guided practice for all levels" (The alternate title was "Going Roga"  but someone stole my thunder on that one.) A CD presentation party is in the works for sometime in early December. Watch the website for details.

The Table of Contents for the CD is included on the announcement poster and an asana photo guide is included with the CD. The wonderful music of Benjy Wertheimer and Michael Mandrell from their CD "Anjali" leads into and out of each track. You can order by downloading the form and mailing it with a check to the address listed on the form.Your order willl be mailed to you or if you choose, ready for pick up at the studio.


On other topics:    There are a few spaces left in each week of Yoga In Paradise in January, 2010 at Kalani Honua Retreat Center on the Big Island. Download the information packet.


Homepage Reflections
October 26th, 2009

Let it come to you

On one of our recent beautiful autumn days, we were walking on the coastal trail and I recognized a man coming our way as a local access channel spiritual teacher. I discovered his program while channel surfing one Thursday evening and spotting a recognizable lineage of Yoga Gurus posted on the wall of his program’s set. The rest of the set is embellished with blinking traffic lights and traffic cones with the words “mind control” in reflective tape.    The shear tackiness of it got my attention and endeared me to this person who so obviously values the message over the image.  And the message is good!

Everything begins in consciousness. Control the wavering mind and you will perceive the Truth behind phenomena. As we spoke to Roger on the coastal trail and commented on the beauty of the day, his response was,  “Yes it is beautiful, but there’s nothing out there for me. I’ve learned to go inside for what I need and then let it come to me. Its so simple and yet people make it so hard.”

This is one of the most joyful truths I know. I no longer doubt this truth, that what we hold in consciousness is what we manifest in the physical world. It is always a delight to have the heart’s desires, the support one needs, the “coincidental” meeting, appear at just the right time and place to fulfill a specific need. And it is just as true that when our outer world is chaotic or fear-filled, individually or collectively, we need look no further than into our own mind state to instigate a change. To steady the wavering mind is to hold it on the highest thought and then allow that thought to infuse our presence, like water permeating the soil rather than running off of a concrete surface.   In this way a reservoir of inner strength, peace, joy and love builds within that we can draw on, not only for our own nourishment but also, to water the seeds of this consciousness in those around us.    

Aum, Peace, Shanti,
Lynne

Yoga Retreat at SwaSwaraRetreat Center in Karnataka, India
March 1-11, 2011.
(NEXT Year)

Information packets available.
Download PDF here.
Yoga in Paradise 2011
Enjoy a relaxing and fun-filled Yoga Vacation on the Big Island of Hawaii at the Kalani Retreat Center!

Mixed Level, All Welcome!

January 8-15, 2011

Information packet will be posted here this spring.
Book II. Sutra 39
"Knowledge of past and future comes to one who is free of grasping for possessions."

From Light on Yoga Sutras
of Patanjali by BKS Iyengar