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15/02/09
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Hi Everyone, I hope you've found a way
to turn the Bushfire experience into a positive.
Every day we all experience Drama - to some degree.
Sometimes it is incredibly intense, sometimes not.
How we struggle with experience
and the meanings we give experience
determine our selves, health, and happiness.
Understanding this can be useful.
Both Freedom and Wisdom are always available.
On that note, if anyone's got a heap of lemons,
please bring some in, because there is a drought
on Lemons at the Land of Yoga!
(Which can of course be useful)
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HEALTH REPORT
from Doctor Qu'ac
THE WEAK WRIST SYNDROME
Many people - in fact, usually women -
complain of weak wrists...it's the sort of thing
that quickly gets exposed in Yoga stretching...
Most often a weak wrist is in fact a TIGHT wrist.
Most people are psychologically tight,
hence their body's muscles are the same.
This is the Law of Psycho-Somatics.
The nature of most humans is to CONTROL
and the type of human who becomes obsessive
about this will invariably have tight wrists.
A sore wrist, however, comes about
when a tight wrist pressures the whole arm.
The first slightly vulnerable spot will have to 'give'
to this pressure. Our elbows use leverage,
so it's more likely the wrist that is this first place.
The simple way to fix a sore wrist,
is to relax it, often, mindfully.
Not just the wrist, but the hand, and the forearm.
Yoga poses expose inconsistencies.
Yoga will always find the problems.
So One can use the Yoga poses to discover what is tight.
Most obsessive control-freaks can't help themsleves.
Pain is a useful way for them to notice.
Any Questions for Doctor Qu'ac?
Please write in to Toby, Click Here.
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FREE YOGA DAY
Next March 14 is Free Yoga Day again
(which has now become an International event).
Land of Yoga will be opening its doors
to the community, offering Free Yoga on this day.
You are all welcome.
There will be 4 classes:
8.30am - 10.00 (Beginners);
10.30am - 12.oo (Beginners);
3 - 3.40 Kids 3-8yrs (with Yoga Bear!);
4.30pm - 6.00 (Any Level).
The idea of this day is to generate good-will
and to promote Health and Yoga in the community.
If there is anyone you think might benefit
from trying Yoga on this day, please let them know. Thanks.
To see more about this world-wide event
- that I created a couple years ago -
Click here for the Website.
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UPCOMING WORKSHOP
KUNDALINI YOGA
SUNDAY MARCH 22ND 1-3.30PM
This is quite an amazing session
with advanced Yogic and Tantric techniques.
A deep focus on the Chakras,
and their specific and related practices.
Energy-Work and Breath-Work.
Try not to eat 2Hrs previous to starting.
COST: $25
No Bookings Required.
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Discussion of the Month:
CHANGE
Most people have heard some Buddhist spiel
on the Impermanence of life and everything in it.
While it does seem to me that many westerners TRY
to live their lives by politically correct Eastern ideals
- even though this goes against their instincts -
it is certainly undeniable that Change is a natural part
of everyday life - and how we relate to it
is the area that seems most important to me.
Yoga is different to Buddhism,
and is believed to pre-date it by approx 2500 yrs.
(Buddha is considered to have been born in Eastern India;
if this were true then young Buddha may have caught some tips
from the local Yogis, who knew all about the Breath).
How does this relate to Change? - well both
Yoga and Buddhism specialise in the study of human nature.
And the nature of most humans is to RESIST change.
In fact, people try to avoid change before it even arrives,
by controlling things - or at least trying.
Scientists confirm that everything in matter and the universe
is made up of molecules, atoms...that change their forms
and rates of vibration - just like our thoughts.
People like believing they can 'Change the world'...
others feel they have changed over time...
while some believe that things never change
(an old dog never changes his spots).
Regardless of how change occurs,
it is how we deal with it that determines happiness.
Opportunity lies within every breakdown,
failure, loss...and new futures open up.
The bushfire dramas in Victoria, the floods
not only in NthAustralia, but also Europe...
the globe is dynamic internally and on its periphery,
and so we go on co-existing.
Those who struggle with change remain trapped inside their pasts.
We all choose our reality, either powerfully, or as victims.
Your thoughts?
Write to Toby, Click Here.
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Wonderful Kids Art Classes:
JUST IMAGINE...
Expression and play through the creative arts
with Sonia Tomasiello
For children aged 3-10 years
This workshop offers children the opportunity to
explore their world through creative expression and play.
The intention is to guide children to explore possibilities,
to encourage them to imagine, to develop their own ideas
and talents and be creative in their own way.
Children will use a range of modes from the visual arts, collage, clay
work, puppetry, visualisation, story telling, music and dance.
explore their world through creative expression and play.
The intention is to guide children to explore possibilities,
to encourage them to imagine, to develop their own ideas
and talents and be creative in their own way.
Children will use a range of modes from the visual arts, collage, clay
work, puppetry, visualisation, story telling, music and dance.
Every Wednesday 10.30-11.30 from Feb 4th - March 25th 2009
Every Saturday 10.30-11.30 from Feb 14th - April 4th 2009
$20 per class or $120 for all 8 classes.
Location: CERES Community Environment Park
Phone for bookings: 9387 2609 or 0412 204 136
Contact Sonia on soniatomasiello@yahoo.com.au
Contact Sonia on soniatomasiello@yahoo.com.au
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NEW INSOMNIA + ANXIETY CD
OUT NOW at Land of Yoga!
I have just made a new Guided CD
that is designed specifically for those who suffer from
Anxiety, Insomnia, and/or Stress.
This CD is a simple relaxation technique
repeated again and again, talking through
a specific breath exercise,
- and similar to a counting sheep technique -
which will slowly train the body and the mind to settle.
Lasts 60 mins. Cost $20 from Land of Yoga
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Thanks everyone, hope to see you
at the Land of Yoga.
Don't forget Free Yoga Day,
March 14!
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