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10th Season at New Seabury
Friday, March 18th, 2011
I can smell the sweet salty Cape Cod air, as I’m writing this post. Can you? Spring is in the air, and we are so excited to be posting the 2011 schedule, our 10th YEAR at New Seabury!
Don and I have been so very blessed to teach yoga on the beautiful deck at the New Seabury Beach club for 10 years now. It has been a journey of growth, friendships, learning, sharing, hellos and goodbyes. We are looking forward to another season of meeting new friends, and say welcome back to our long time students.
The kick-off will be Memorial Day weekend, May 28-30 with classes on Sat, Sun and Mon at 8 am. For the spring season we will be offering Saturday and Sunday morning classes, as well as the Wednesday night 6:00 pm Yin Yoga class, June 1-19.
June 20 we will kick off the Summer season with classes Monday – Saturday at 8:00 am, and the Wednesday night Yin Yoga class. Look for our Sunday morning Brunch classes on the first Sunday of each month. We will be offering a unique class and then a pot luck brunch, July 3 and Aug 7.
We’ll keep you posted of any schedule changes, as well as the Fall Schedule as soon as we set. See you on Cape Cod in May!
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Samskara
Monday, March 7th, 2011
“If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.”
Gail Sheehy
As a teacher I find it a gift to share concepts and philosophy along the yoga path. Recently I have been inviting students to explore the path of transformation, as they find themselves in Samskara.
Samskara in Sanskrit means acquired subliminal impressions, or habits. I like to call them ruts. The vision for me is that we find our way that works for us in a given moment, and then travel it day after day. In the beginning we do it with some awareness and because it benefits us at that time. Slowly we start to just do it because we have been.
After a time we stop being aware of the reason we initially choose to do it, eventually the rut gets so deep that we can’t even see that there might be another option, or that situations have changed. The ruts become valleys over our awareness. Life becomes dim.
One of the many gifts of yoga is the time we spend reflecting on ourselves. We gift ourselves with this time to simply see ourselves, free of judgment. We notice things and begin to see a pattern, Samskara.
It could be a breathing pattern, a way we react in a given situation that might not always be in our best interest, or something that continually causes us suffering. Moksa! In that moment of awareness we find the crack of light that leads us to Moksa (freedom/liberation).
Liberation begins when we see the Samskara. In the light of that awareness we start to see that there are other possibilities. Maybe we breathe a deeper breath. Or we might try a new direction. Just as we do in our asanas (poses), we attempt something new and discover the joy of flexibility. Don and I often refer to this experience of the “yummy of living.”
Take your yoga practice off the mat this month, and stretch yourself in your life patterns. Go ahead try something new, and see what happens. Lokah!
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