October Update - Dem Bones
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Online Yoga continues
- Weekly Classes Sat and Wed ams 9/30-10/31
- Online workshop 10/28-29 - SamhainIn Person Yoga:
Nest Yoga, Oakland:
10/21 Bone of Contention - with Richard Rosen - Sign up soon!
11/11 Yoga with Veterans!….Richard, Patricia Sullivan and MP
11/12 Gazelle Yoga - Hips and Shoulders - Ukiah
12/17 Celebrating Winter Solstice - Boonville2024:
Yoga Salon Online Program in 2024 - First Sundays 6.45am-9.30am Jan - JulyRetreats 2024
Gray Bear Retreat 4/25-5/2, 2024
Summer Solstice at Bell Valley, CA 6/17 - 21, 2024
- Special discount for early Solstice 2024 registrations - ends soon!
See below for Free Sea Pranayama from the Costa Brava, Interesting piece on Invasive Species plus a poem and meditation re refuge and refugees!
Online Yoga continues 9/30 - 10/31…
4 Saturday mornings: 9-10.15; September 30, October 14, 21 and 28 (No class 10/7)
3 Wednesday mornings: Meditation 7.00, Vinyasa 7.30, 8.30 Basics: October 4, 18 and 25 (No class 10/11)
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Photo: Eric Prouzet
Our Online Yoga Theme this month is Dem Bones! - I am in Spain right now and will be teaching my classes along the way. We have been using imagery of shells recently and the image of the bones above struck me as being shell-like and similar to my current Costa Brava beach-scapes! This month we move towards Halloween and skeleton imagery. There is a special workshop (in person and streamable) with Richard Rosen at Nest on the Bone of Contention. So, it seems like an excellent time as the leaves drop away from the trees and we glide into Autumn, to focus on the underneath substructures of being….Hope you can join me.
Spring at Gray Bear, TN
Breath Breathing Itself
- Advanced Intensive 4/24-27
- Presence in Yoga 4/27-5/2
Time to book your spot on the retreat/s at this unique sanctuary of yoga among the woods, waterfalls and welcoming homesteads of Gray Bear. Info
From the Costa Brava - Free Recordings
Sea Pranayama - 10mins
Refuge and Refugees - Meditation - 26mins
Sunrise at Platja Fonda
STOP PRESS - Local Yoga - In Person
Ukiah - Gazelle Yoga - Ease and Grace in our Hips and Shoulders! 11/12, 10 -12.30pm workshop
In Person in Ukiah - More info soon.
Boonville - Celebrating Winter Solstice
12/17, 12-4pm at Bell Valley Retreat Center
Samhain - Celtic Halloween 10/28 and 10/29
Online weekend workshop to honor transitions into the dark time, grief and letting be
Early Bird ends 10/1
“……….there is a seam stitching darkness like a name……”
Home, by Warsan Shire (British-Somali poet)
no one leaves home unless
home is the mouth of a shark.
you only run for the border
when you see the whole city
running as well.
your neighbours running faster
than you, the boy you went to school with
who kissed you dizzy behind
the old tin factory is
holding a gun bigger than his body,
you only leave home
when home won't let you stay.
no one would leave home unless home
chased you, fire under feet,
hot blood in your belly.
it's not something you ever thought about
doing, and so when you did -
you carried the anthem under your breath,
waiting until the airport toilet
to tear up the passport and swallow,
each mouthful of paper making it clear that
you would not be going back.
you have to understand,
no one puts their children in a boat
unless the water is safer than the land.
who would choose to spend days
and nights in the stomach of a truck
unless the miles travelled
meant something more than journey
See more Refugee poems at https://www.freedomfromtorture.org/real-voices/six-refugee-poems-a-unique-insight-into-the-life-of-refugees-and-asylum-seekers
Photo: Ludovic Charlet
Join us for an online Boney October! Celebrate joints, marrow, bones, and our deeper substructures, and if you are interested in a workshop where Richard Rosen and yours truly discuss our different (and similar) perspectives on the tailbone, see you in person or online at Nest.
All details at www.maryyoga.com
Remember that Online Yoga starts this Saturday 9/30
Hugs to all
M
