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                                    "There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart."
                                                                                        
                                                                                               ~  Celia Thaxter

 In This Issue

Belly Dancing Returns

From the Heart of Tataya

Quotation of the Month

What's Happening in August

Recipe of the Month

Health Tip

Book of the Month

Up and Coming

Community Service Opportunity


Invitation To Win!

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Check Out Our Sister Studio
One Tree Yoga
 in Omaha


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bellydancingreturns Belly Dancing
Returns to YBB!


belly dancing

every third Saturday from 3-5
Aug 15, 2009
Sep 19, 2009
Oct 17, 2009
Nov 21, 2009
Early Bird Registration --7 days before class -- $15
Regular registration -- $20 per class
For more information and to pay online.
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quotationofthemonth
 Quotation of
the Month
"Fake it until you make it!"  
                               ~Anonymous
I wanted to share this quotation in particular because during  the training  I was wanting to figure out so many things,  and this one I used a lot! If you're struggling with an issue, or with how you or who you want to be, and you can't find the way through, just play around with it --  play "pretend" like my daughter Oliva until you make it ! It works! Just have a clear intention, and let it happen. Be "flexible" about achieving your deepest desire.
 I bow to you!   ~ Tataya

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recipeofthemonth Recipe of the Month:
(Summertime, hot and muggy afternoons, fireflys, and a nice cool glass of cucumber lemonade while sitting on the porch swing.)
Cucumber Lemonade
80 10 10
 2 cucumbers to every
 4 lemons
peel the cucumbers --
cut in half
scoop out the seeds --
put the remainder in blender or Vitamix.
Squeeze in the lemons (use a strainer to keep out those pesky seeds)--
add water/ice
add sweetener (agave, honey, or good old fashion organic fair trade, low processed, unrefined brown evaporated cane juice  (aka sugar)

Blend.

The exact ratio will be to your own tasting/preference.

(If you are feeling a bit adventurous, you could add some lime or some
ginger or even some
 rose water!)


from Melanie Kluever Druery


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bookofthemonth Book of the Month
I Have Become Alive

I have become alive


by Swami Muktananda. This was one of the books required to read for the teacher training, and it's full of insights and answers about yoga and the practice and how to incorporate it into your daily living. It's an easy, enjoyable and practical guide to meditation and other yoga practices!


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Last week was the completion of six weeks of intensive teacher training here at YBB with Shakti of World Outhreach Yoga. It has been an amazing and challenging task -- a ride full of self-healing, transformation, discoveries,  and tools of empowerment. Naturally, we also gained knowledge of how to bring all of those to others. Inner Power Yoga and the Blissipline is all about tapping into your inner power...finding an experience of your true nature and knowing how to invite that in others who come your way. Of all the training Shakti heartI've done in yoga and self-growth, this has been one of  the most powerful ones! If you had the chance to take one or more of Shakti's classes, I'm sure you enjoyed  her,  and I welcome you to continue to experience the richness of her yoga teachings that have  become an essential part of Yoga Body and Balance. We will now have even more emphasis on alignment and on  connecting the practice back to the heart...your heart..your inner power!

I look forward to see you in class.

With love and gratitude,
Tataya           

Fromtheheartoftataya 
From the Heart of Tataya                               

One of the most amazing things we did during the teacher training was to acknowledge and recreate our own Chakra story to understand who and where we are, and what we need to work on to get where we want to be. We looked at the psychology of the Chakras using in part Erik Erikson's model. (I'm learning to take life less seriously and to laugh!)

Tataya newbornRead more about my stories: I was supposed to be Daniel Francisco!






Tataya little girlMy development into an independent, self-reliant little girl with a heart that shut itself off.

whatshappeninginaugust
What's Happening in August

Free Yoga Workshops
August 8 and 9
 Celebrating Lincoln's
newest Yoga Teachers!
Do something great for your Self.
                    
                      balanced rocks

Equanimity
Saturday, 8/8, 1-3 P.M.
Balance
Sunday, 8/9, 1-3 P.M.

Be sure to register online to
reserve a spot.

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Yoga Rocks Mountain Fest '09

Yoga rocksThomas and the African drums will be playing and dancing at the festival! So please join us at this amazing music and yoga festival! Read more about it.


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healthtip Health Tip
vitamin B6Wow, a double whammy.  I just found two bits of information that will enlighten your world. The first, a fairly well documented article on the shortcoming of the Food and Drug Administration, FDA.  Apparently the FDA has corporate interests in mind more than you.  Biostratum, a pharma company, has gone way out of its way to develop a drug with the active ingredient of pyridoxamine. What's the big deal?  Pyridoxamine is simply B6, and it has been sold a  comparatively low cost for decades. What this means to us now is that Biostratum  is supported by the FDA in that the FDA has banned all products with the use of pyridoxamine because --"To allow such an article to be marketed as a dietary supplement would not be fair to the pharmaceutical company that brought, or intends to bring the drug to market."  I don't know about you, but now I have really lost faith in the FDA.  Here is the link, read the whole article, including the comments below from Dr. Mercola.  You'll be amazed at how we assume our health is being handled and our interests are at first hand.   

bananas
FYI --Two bananas a day will more than cover your B6 needs. Where did I find this?  At this fun website.   My favorite part is that this is not a "rawfood" website of any kind, simply a site on fruit. 

You can't go to bed tonight without going a little bananas.  If you ever wondered if good old fashion food will actually supply the nutrition you need, let this be the first stop down that path. With great factoids, this website will give you information and  inspiration about the #1 vitamin rich food in the world and the #2 mineral rich food in the world.  So if you get depressed, have high blood pressure or PMS, get hangovers, or need brain power, GO BANANAS.


Upandcoming
Up and Coming!

Yoga Therapy TrainingAnthony Bogart

 with Anthony Bogart
September 25-27
November 6-7
Excellent not only for professionals and yoga teachers but also for serious practitioners who wish to take their practice to the next level. Is an excellent complement for yoga teacher trainings!
More information and to register and pay online.
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Next  Teacher Training  at YBB with Shakti and
the  Blissipline of Inner Power Yoga:
  Starting next fall 2010, one weekend per month. For more information check
our website.


Communityserviceopportunity
Community Service Opportunity

If you are interested in offering community service and don't know how, please contact us. We are in the process of setting up a program to share and offer nourishment to the elderly through yoga and any other form of art.

 If you are part of an organization that requires help, assistance, volunteering please contact us too so we can establish way to support you too!


Namaste,

Tataya and Thomas Radtke
Yoga Body and Balance
invitationtowin Invitation to Win!
Coloring contest
Win a free 1 hour yoga private with Shakti, a free 5 yoga pass! 
Pick up a coloring sheet in the studio, and make sure to bring it in by August 5th! All members or friends of YBB are invited to participate! This idea came to us during  teacher training. All of the trainees had to interpret in some way one of the ancient texts of the yoga tradition, and our coloring sheet was one of the interpretations. Ask us about its significance!