August 2010
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In This Issue
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Yoga Tasting
A Star in Our World-- Becca Ross
Shakti Teacher Training Moved to October
Meditation Classes
Woman's Circle
Recipe of the Month
Quotation of the Month
Book of the Month
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Special for New Clients Only
If you would like to practice yoga but can't afford it, contact YBB. We have a great trade program! Volunteering four hours each week for unlimited yoga!
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Raw Food Potluck
Saturday, August 28
at our home:
2736 South 41 Street
Time: 5:00
Come taste delicious raw food and discuss the benefits of eating raw food.
Bring a raw dish for about 10 people and your own plate
and silverware!
Don't know what to bring? Google raw food recipes and you'll see hundreds of options. A plate of fruit is always welcome!
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FREE
Meditation Classes
Join Katherine Brockman for free meditation class on Sundays from 9-10 am!
Experience the symbiotic relationship of yoga and meditation. Meditation will include a few restorative poses. Come deepen your
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____________________ L Magazine Be sure to pick up an issue of the current L Magazine to see the story of yoga in Lincoln and beautiful photographs by John Keller! CD's of his photos are available at the studio. ______________________ Take home the fragrance of yoga Essential Oils try one of Featured Oils for
the Month
Sandalwood: a pure essential oil great for enhancing meditation; also supports pain relief, heart, bone function and relieves anxiety. Invites harmony as it increases oxygen to the body cells.
Spruce: a pure essential oil with anti-infectious properties. Its aromatic influences also help to open and release emotional blocks, bringing about a feeling of balance and peaceful security.
______________________ Tea for Two or More--
Have you tried our delicious tea?
 If you have, you know how good it is! You can purchase some to take home with you or give as a gift! _______________________ |
Recipe of the Month
Watermelon, Māche, and Pecan Salad
from MyRecipes.com
| Ingredients - 3/4 cup chopped pecans
- 5 cups seeded and cubed watermelon
- 1 (6-oz.) package māche, thoroughly washed
- Pepper Jelly Vinaigrette
- 1 cup crumbled Gorgonzola cheese
Preparation
1. Preheat oven to 350°. Arrange pecans in a single layer on a baking sheet, and bake at 350° for 5 to 7 minutes or until lightly toasted and fragrant. Cool on a wire rack 15 minutes or until completely cool.
2. Combine watermelon and māche in a large bowl; add vinaigrette, tossing gently to coat. Transfer watermelon mixture to a serving platter, and sprinkle evenly with pecans and cheese.
Pat Paternostro, Metairie, Louisiana, Southern Living, JULY 2008
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Quotation of the
Month
"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like."
Lao Tzu
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August makes me think in the peak of the summer. We're just finishing our two week vacation in Colorado  where we've witnessed the beautiful Colorado River with all its power and force running down and the rocks and kayaks and gorgeous blue skies.
I've been learning some fascinating material about the Law of Attraction that relates so well with yoga. My very personal interpretation of the teachings is that you have two options in life: you either go with the flow or go against it. When we practice yoga, we are tapping into our natural state of being, into our current, our down stream, and when that happens, life is easy and almost effortless. We use the yoga practice to align ourselves with the universe, with spirit, and from there anything can happen. Truly the sky is the limit! When  we're misaligned, it feels like we are paddling upstream. Life is tough. We work so hard, and still we can't quite get where we want to be. We're exhausted! We get sick. So my question to you is :do you feel your going with the flow or against it? Are you living by default or are you deliberately creating a life you love? I invite you to explore this month (on and off the mat) going with the flow. Ask yourself what you want and why you want those things, so you become clear. And in that clarity -- see your stream, see your current, and let that lead you with ease and grace to that life you've been waiting for!
Namaste,
Tataya
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Yoga Tasting!
(Check our website
to see August schedule.)
The yoga tasting month continues in the month of August as a great opportunity to experience other teachers. Please fill out a survey and share your experience with us to help us create the fall schedule!
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A Star in Our World -- Becca Ross
(entering Hamilton College in NY in the fall)
We love this girl who has been such an amazing babysitter and friend of our family. Don't miss a word of her yoga story. You'll see why we love her!
Tataya
"I began yoga as a timid 16 year old who chewed her nails and looked at
her belly too much in the mirror. On the way to class with my best
friend and her mom, I Becca and her sister Alexa  | couldn't stop asking, "Well, is it common for
people to fart? Because I'm scared I'm going to. Is it okay if I do?
Will people move away, or stare? Just, is it common, does it happen?"
I've been fairly loyal to my yoga practice for about a year and a half
now. I'm 18 and I don't pause in front of mirrors to cringe at my belly
anymore, though when I do, it's more just to marvel. "Man, without you,"
I think, "I wouldn't be able to do crane pose for more than 2 seconds
without falling on my face. Come to think of it, without you I  wouldn't
be able to laugh as deeply when I do indeed fall on my face." That same
belly doesn't remind me of weakness the way it used to, but strength,
energy, happiness even. That same belly, the one I used to poke and prod
and deplore, has become a part of me, I respect it because through yoga
I've learned to respect myself.
Conversely, it seems, women are
continually being advised to objectify themselves, detach their body from their soul to more easily use it as an instrument of  manipulation,
see it as a tool rather than a home or a friend. I think that's what
society encourages. I see the female
(photo courtesy of AlysonEdie )
experience of today as a rich
opportunity to become at peace with ourselves and our bodies, but also
tempted at every turn to use our bodies--covering, tucking,
enlarging--to acquire power, acceptance, attention, etc.
When I
entered my first yoga class I was well on the road to that detachment,
that coveted separation in order to...fit. There are boxes for women, and
the youngest of girls feel the walls of those boxes closing in as much
as anyone, the pressure to fit into them. The Barbie box, the homemaker
box, the businesswoman box, the "should" boxes: this is what you should
be, should act like, should look like. Yoga didn't seem to know boxes,
either that or opted to ignore them, choosing instead to invite you to
just be. Be in all your wholeness, your fullness, absurdness and
liveliness. I learned from yoga things about myself that those boxes
wouldn't have been able to teach me, things those boxes didn't want me
to know. Side plank: I'm stronger than I thought I  was. Headstand: I'm
braver than I thought I was. Down dog: I can be my own home. I'm worthy.
I'm steady. I'm present. I'm gracious. I have reason to be gracious.
I've
always wanted to be a dancer, yearned to be a dancer-- to be completely
honest, to move my body with abandon, at its pulsing energy's accord. I
didn't think I had rhythm though, or grace, or something. I was too
afraid of how I'd look, what other people would think. Yoga taught me to
dance, became my dance. It wasn't about what someone else thought, but
how it made me feel. No longer encased by expectation, I  found what it
meant to respect myself, gathered that the search for validation needn't
go farther than my own breath and encountered a space where gas passes
without judgement, a space where I can dance, and the courage to carry
(photo courtesy of AlysonEdie )
myself as that dancer off the mat."
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Shakti Teacher Training
Moved to October
Join
Certified Yoga Therapist, r.r. Shakti in October for a 100 hour training designed for yoga teachers and practitioners who wish to deepen their practice.
Undercurrents is an event to support Yoga World Reach, a non-profit committed to serving the minorities around the world through yoga. Payment and registration is done through YWR and all benefits go directly to YWR.
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Book of the Month
from Roy Chan Amazon review
 The Astonishing Power of Emotions: Let Your Feelings Be Your Guide by Esther and Jerry Hicks Available at Amazon". . .NOW, in their latest and NEWEST book, The Astonishing Power of Emotions, Abraham lovingly combines all of the Universal laws and shows us how we can gain conscious awareness of our emotions, so we can use our own feelings to deliberately bring into our life only the things we want. Hicks, in other words, believes that we can use the Laws of the Universe to solve all of our challenges and help us "go with the flow" of our natural Well-Being. " |
 Woman's Circle
Sunday, August 22
12-2:00 p.m.
with Lisa Munger
We'll take a look at John O'Donohue's Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom by John O'Donohue.
"The Gaelic title refers to the "soul-friend," a lovingly stern companion to whom you can, in stringent honesty, unburden your heart as you move toward enlightenment." Amazon Booklist
Woman's Circle is free, and even if you've never come before, you're welcome to join us for this discovery discussion.
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To Going With the Flow!
Namaste,
Tataya and Thomas Radtke
Yoga Body and Balance
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