Start Fresh at Love Yoga with all the following opportunities!

Sugar Shakedown:  Join our Facebook group to connect with us as we kick the sugar for the first 10 days of 2018.  No obligation, no huge commitment plus you get a free class this Thursday to help with the process!  More information on the FB Group.

Bingo Challenge:  Pick up a Yoga Bingo card at the studio and fill out as many squares as possible in the next 8 weeks.  Entries go into a drawing for a New Jade Mat, A Massage or a Month Membership! 3 big winners and a lot of little benefits!

LOVE Jars 2018:  The 1st 20 people to sign up for the Jan. 1st Flow class will receive a LOVE Jar.  Throughout 2018, place your intentions or good things that happen along the way.  Then, on New Year’s Eve 2018 you’ll be able to look back at all the good that happens through the year!  (If you miss out on the class, you can bring your own jar and we can add the LOVE). ; )

Two Classes on Jan. 1st:

10:30am
All levels Flow

12:00pm
Tai Chi & Acupressure

January Highlights:

January 6th 10:30am
Intro to Yoga:  One hour demo and Q&A

January 12th 7pm $10 (limit 10 people)
Albany Art Studio
Scatter Paint project – join Love Yoga to create a splatter painting for the studio.

January 12, 19, 26, Feb. 2nd 6:45pm-7:30pm:
4 part Yoga 101 series.
Breaking down the class into sessions with time for demos and Q&A.

January 20th  10:30am
Yoga Alignment:  Fine tune and adjust postures, flow and sequencing options.

January 20th 12 Noon
Kids Yoga

Coming in February:  Yoga Nidra, Yoga for Back Pain and

**UPDATE: The link in the newsletter for the book giveaway does not work.
To enter to win one of the 3 copies of the book… click here: http://bit.ly/2zgq8k3

If you’re not already receiving our weekly Love Notes click HERE if you’d like to see the full version and you can subscribe there also.
We’ve recently been coping them into posts here, but it doesn’t always work completely.

This week’s Love Note includes a giveaway of 3 copies of John Green‘s book Turtles All the Way Down!
It also includes free classes for Veteran’s all month long and yes, another great Love song from the 80s. Enjoy!

SO CLICK HERE FOR FULL VERSION:   http://mailchi.mp/loveyogastudios/mentalmagnificence

Also, here’s another version of our monthly schedule… just trying out something different.  : )

UNGRINCHING:  How & Why?

We’re reaching way back to 1959 for this week’s video and it whimsically indicates that we may have collectively needed some ‘UnGrinching’, all along. Every year we hear complaints about the commercialism of THIS season.  What’s surprising is that the ‘commercialism of the season’ doesn’t seem to be as concerning for the other 3. You know, Valentine’s season, Easter bunnies and the 4th of July.

Not surprising, however is how this video ties in with our Holiday ‘UnGrinching’ project which starts today!  The idea is that with some yoga related activities, maybe we can find more joy and connections all through the holidays.

It’s easy to see where we might have veered off track with sock sales, stocking stuffers and snickerdoodles. We need a bit more creativity to recapture the essence of connection and celebration to see if we can change our minds about the current state of the season? Can we embrace holiday parties with slightly less indulgence? Can we create a new approach to gift exchanges? Can we include more people and less things into our holiday activities?  Can we change our minds first?  Let’s see. 

We’re offering as many opportunities as possible to find more joy and connection than usual over the next few months…. and we have more coming.  (list below).  We’re going hiking more often, rain or shine. We’re offering Yoga Nidra for pure, guided relaxation.  We have some hot classes, some candlelit classes, more free book club gatherings and some playful workshops like: Fun with Props. Our Yoga for Anxiety class on Dec. 2nd will be FREE, so if you haven’t had a chance to check it out or want an updated refresher, feel free to drop in.  We have our Thanksgiving Day flow with Juice & Truffles and our Winter Solstice Celebration coming in December!

The practice of yoga encourages us to observe our minds. Not change them. Unless you want to. Notice your breath, notice your energy, notice what you think and how you feel in this moment. Then try to choose… if you want a longer breath, a better feeling thought, a different kind of energy.

Sounds too simple, I know… and too hard.  The thing is… the choosing IS simple… it’s the practice and focus that’s complicated.

I’m choosing to change my mind about the holidays…and since I’ve just started, I still have to practice doing that every single day. I figured if I could do it with chair pose, I could do it for Christmas. But I’m starting with Halloween! (special post coming Tuesday!)

Holiday Happenings!

https://youtu.be/YiDRu8WLvfM

The World needs you . . .

I’ll go out on a limb here (get it?)… and say that the energy you put out into the world…matters. Challenging and heart wrenching events happen all the time. Usually somewhere else… to someone else, right?  When these events happen closer to home, you might feel more afraid or disheartened. But for Tom’s sake, and ours… we’ll keep this world from draggin’ us down cause ‘we won’t back down’  or  ‘Breakdown‘.  We won’t ‘Free Fall out into nothin’.  We’ll keep uplifting each other, creating space for good vibes and sharing the Love.

In The Untethered Soul, (this month’s book club book*). Relaxation is the key to staying open and optimistic in times like these.  Hunkering down and avoiding painful energy closes our minds, our hearts and our capacity for Love.  So do the opposite. Don’t close. Lift your heart (Reverse Warrior), open your arms (Tree Pose), Sing all the Tom Petty songs you love… and breathe slow.  Relaxation is the key.

When YOU practice.  YOU feel better… and that shows. You create a good vibe within and around yourself. Other people notice. It inspires them to feel better and create a good vibe for themselves… and THAT shows. Other people notice. You inspire them, they inspire others… and so on and so on. It’s your positive contribution to the world. The World needs you . . .

So click the video above and Let your Love Flow ; )  (I didn’t use a Tom Petty video above because the only song he had with Love in the title… wasn’t a very uplifting one.  But the links above are to some of the COOLEST videos of Tom.  Enjoy).

*Book Club book:  The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer. (Live Book review, Sunday, October 29th, 7:15pm)

This week in Teacher Training we study the Niyamas:  The 2nd of the 8 limbs explores personal behaviors that strengthen the inner qualities so beneficial to our growth. Including but not limited to purity, contentment, practice, self inquiry and surrender.  Self Inquiry happens all the way through the training so we got that one down!

Any Pregnant Yogi’s out there??  If you or someone you know is pregnant,sign up now for Prenatal Yoga!
October 14th @ 3pm w/ Amy Perkins!  All attendees receive a Love Yoga Onesie!
These two are already members of the Little Love Yogi Club!

Don’t Miss Next Week:

10/14  10:30am Meditation Made Simple w/ Suzanne
10/14   3:00pm  Prenatal Yoga w/ Amy Perkins
10/14  6:00pm  Saturday Night Hot Yoga Flow by Candlelight

Mantras That Matter:  
Here’s one that’s useful for inspiring others by first inspiring yourself

It starts with a single breath, inhaling through the nose
head to floor, hips to heels; letting go in child’s pose.