Author: Love Yoga Studios

We have the best gifts ever. Here at Love.

Seriously. (scroll to the bottom for the best one).

So when I say this is the worst gift I ever received… it wasn’t exactly a bad gift. It just wasn’t what I was expecting. (cue attachment to expectations) 🙄

My boyfriend at the time – who is an absolutely lovely person and we are still great friends today – gave me a set of ‘fish wind chimes’….

For Valentines Day. 🤔

Looking back, I’m thinking he knew I was into peaceful sounds… so the chimes were a great idea. But the fish? That was all for him. 100% 🤣

I have never enjoyed ‘frivolous gift giving’.

I’m not into … is it ‘kitchy’ gifts? (is that the word?) LIke knick knacks and such.

Those are for regifting and you know it.

I’ve always tried to give gifts that can be worn, eaten or used to make life more enjoyable. (No I don’t give my family supplements…. at least not as gifts, lol).

Gift Tip: Make it useful so they use it, think of you often and remember you fondly… and what you gave them!  😊

So far this season at Love, we’ve given away: Essential oils, tee shirts, beanies, coffee mugs and tea.

Fan Fave: Sarah’s exclusive signature Chakra scent essential oil was one of our favorites (Ask her if you need some tiny magical gifts).

You can even create your own fabulous gift with our new LoveStrong Boxes and fill them with:

LoveStrong Beanies!

Love Tee Shirts

Bliss Bars

LMNT Electrolyte packets (better stocking stuffers than candy canes 🙄)

Horchata Calming Tea from A.Tellin Tea.

 

And SHRED. (Apparently adding tons of shred to gift boxes makes them seem classier, fuller, and more meaningful). I didn’t even know what ‘shred’ was until earlier this year. (Thanks Vonda)

Anyway, We have lovely, meaningful and useful gifts to help you GIVE well this year. Come see for yourself.

THANKSGIVING DAY FLOW with Yours Truly, (Suzanne) will also be lovely, meaningful and useful. 9:30am. 

Come for the flow, the strength, the humor, the peace, the calm, the connections….. and leave with a lot more LOVE.

…and maybe a little token of our appreciation. 😉

Please sign up below.

Much Love and Always Grateful for every one of you that reads these emails. (Especially you Shelly Avery)

🥰

Suzanne

 

You probably thought I was going to ask you if you believe in Santa Claus? ’tis the season and all.

Nope. (you can tell me below though)

This time of year I am interested in bringing more internal light to this season. Brighter days, Uplifting tunes, Jollier conversations and Cheerier Chakras.

Do you believe in Chakras?
(side note: Chakra loosely translates to ‘wheel’. Do you believe in wheels??)

Before you make your final decision, allow me to share the scoop on the traditional theory of the chakras. (briefly).

In a land, far, far away and a long, long time ago… Our ancestors believed that throughout our bodies and the universe there was an all encompassing field of… ‘something’.

Obviously they didn’t have the words to describe it yet. It wasn’t fire. It wasn’t water. It wasn’t blood. It wasn’t air.

But it was something amidst them, they pontificated, that we are all part of. The World. The Universe. The Cosmic Soup.

We now know today, thanks to Quantum Physics, that this ‘soup’ is called the Higgs Field. And it is made up of tiny particles called fermions and bosons. (As are we).

What does this have to do with the Chakras? Well, the yogis called this field of fermions and bosons, Prana. A Life Force that flows in everything. (Breath, Energy, Qi, Prana).

A force that flows THROUGH our Chakras. These spinning ‘wheels’ of energy. Think Portal style wheel. 🤷‍♀️

Our yogi ancestors believed this field circulated around us… and through us. When that field circulated freely… everything felt great. And when it got stuck in specific places, things got weird. Complicated. Painful. Fearful. Stuck.

Using the Chakras as a guide, we can uncover where and how the energy flows through us. This empowers us to enjoy a smooth flow when it’s happening and encourage better flow when it’s not.  All using a little focused concentration and imagination.

CHAKRA TUNEUP W/SARAH
QUARTERLY dates TBA
Member’s tuneup free;
$25 Non Members.

 

 

ps.. whether you believe in energy, fermions, bosons, chakras… or not… every single time you come to a yoga class… you’re improving the flow of prana for you and everyone around you. You’re aligning your Chakras.
(It’s okay, we won’t tell anyone).  😉😂

The ONE dangerous adjustments inexperienced yoga teachers make … is the one they make without asking.

Many of you have asked us why we don’t do adjustments in most classes anymore… so I’ll tell ya.

THREE reasons.

1. We’re SO good, we can get you there with our insanely wise and accurate verbal cues. Plus the use of props. You don’t need us to physically move you. This practice is about YOU becoming more aware of YOU. (one caveat below)

2. Our insurance doesn’t cover us if we adjust you. For a while there in the 80s and 90s, there were some wreckless adjustments being made. But, Functional movement trainings have since entered the scene and yoga teachers around the globe are much more educated about the body, the bones and the appropriate range of motion.

LOVE Teachers are highly educated, well trained, very experienced and we all take YOUR safety extremely serious.  (It costs a pretty penny to get that level of teaching… hence the cost of a studio membership). 😉😉.

3. We’re back on the Workshop Train and have many opportunities for you to come in and get hands on adjustments, specific alignment assistance and personal guidance on the practice.

STARTING THIS SATURDAY!

(So the one caveat is… you don’t need us to move you… but when you want a little more instruction… the workshops are the place to get more specific and play around with modifications and variations).

Saturday, NOV. 12th @ 10:30am. Alignment Workshop

We’ll do a little 10 minute flow to warm up and then we’ll dive into aligning the 4 basic foundations and then adventure into a few more exciting postures. (Let us know any of your special requests).  Headstand, anyone? Side Crow?

It’s more of hangout than a class… so you’ll be able to ask questions, see demos and watch other people topple out of crow pose without having to stifle your laughter. All in good fun. All in good fun. Just bring a sense of humor, an open mind, and a helmet. jk, helmets will be provided. 🤞🏻

Please sign up ahead of time in Walla. We want you all to get personal attention and instruction … and leave feeling stronger, calmer and well adjusted. (see what I did there? 🤣)

 

Yoga Training You can start Anytime:

 

Step 1: Get the outline, the books and start practicing here and prepping at home.

 

Step 2: Join the next workshop on the 8 limbs, the chakras or Alignment so you can get a feel for how training goes.

 

Step 3: Join the live, in studio, weekend trainings (next session starts Feb 2023).

 

Step 4: Simply enjoy this experience for your own practice, or share it with others by teaching, volunteering or assisting.

 

Ask any of our teachers about their experience, they’re happy to share.

 

Or ask about the VIP special and extended financing options below.

It’s online and ready to roll. There’s never been a better time to regain control and start feeling better.

This course contains FOUR modules of short videos exploring

•  how we perceive anxiety
•  what happens in our physiology
•  the impact our activities have on us and
•  flow states for balancing our energy.
•  Bonus blooper reel coming soon purely for your entertainment. ; )

It also includes guided meditations, a yoga practice if you’re into that and daily tips and techniques to keep these concepts front and center while you create this powerful transformation in your life.

YOGA NOT REQUIRED.

That’s right… the yoga practice itself is not required. You can swap out any other activity., So if yoga’s not your thing… that’s okay. It just happened to work really well for me.

It’s designed to use practical daily concepts to eliminate excessive stress responses that become chronic anxiety over time.  So if you or someone you know could use a little break, a new perspective, some encouragement and some modern science around breathing… this is it.

: )

Suzanne

ps. I hired an amazingly talented team to produce this workshop… so it would be easy to access and pleasant to watch. So for the next 10 days ONLY it will be just $97.

After that it goes up so that we can continue creating more for you! More mini workshops, new classes, monthly encouraging challenges, new planners and other ways to support your practice. I’m already working on the expanded version for those that want to keep going.

 

Well that subject line feels a little arrogant and presumptuous. Maybe you don’t have time or care to hear 10 random things about me? Or do you…? And it’s 11 now because I just can’t stop… maybe 12.

Actually, someone just said to me yesterday… they wanted to get to know me better… someone I’ve known for FOUR years!

And that got me thinking that we have so many new people at Love Yoga this year… who don’t know anything about us… me.

So I’m hoping if I go first… our teachers will do the same... and then some of you will send us your 10 things? Because what’s the point of being here… on earth… if we’re not going to get to know each other?  And also… I want all of you to do this 10 Amazing Things challenge with me! Seriously, see below.

Here goes:

1. At 53, I’m still the middle child (older sister, younger brother)

2. I once had a dog named Mandy, after the Barry Manilow song.

3. I danced with Rod Stewart on the Rose Garden stage in 1996

4. I have one Son – Zack. (No he’s not Rod’s, he was born in 1993) ; )

5. I had a parakeet named Buddy when I was a kid… that my Dad told me died of tuberculosis…? (wtf?). He was probably trying to take my mind off of having the chicken pox.

6. My first car was a bright orange Chevy Monza. (I’ve had 17 cars over the years)

7. My first official job was with Tec Labs selling bee sting extractors.

8. I was a 1st chair trumpet player in junior high.

9. I hiked the Bright Angel trail in the Grand Canyon and a squirrel stole my only banana. I survived. Barely though because my hiking guide did not fall as in love me as I did with him.

10. I wanted a yoga studio for 15 years before I finally mustered the courage and the money to go to teacher training. On the day I got back… my manager blindsided and fired me for going (after completely approving it).

We opened Love Yoga 9 days later and the rest as they say…. is LOVE.

11. I struggled with severe anxiety attacks all through my 20s. I haven’t had an anxiety attack in over 23 years and I’ve distilled all the reason why (and how I’ve evolved into a courageous being that feels sort of okay with using bold subject lines to get you to read her emails) into a 4 hour online course – that comes out next week!  (I might be a little anxious about this course going live… ; ). jk)

So there you have it… what brought Suzanne to this point in life. Key turning points were obviously the parakeet  and the squirrel.

If you’re bold enough, I’d love for you to try this… It’s actually fun to look back at some of the funny and interesting things in my life. I left out the heavy shit like the parents divorce, the grandparents dying and the other boy troubles of my youth because we’re seeing plenty of heavy stuff in the world right now.

Plus, ever since opening Love Yoga… I have truly felt that it’s my gift in life to be uplifting.  Or ‘annoying optimistic’ as my son calls it.

I wouldn’t say that I’m over the top pollyanna but I will never apologize, nor stop searching for silver linings in every situation. And yes, I mean every situation. It’s in my genes… my grandpa actually inquired about a refund on my grandma’s pacemaker because she only ‘slightly’ used it for two weeks before it quit. I’m still not totally sure he was kidding.

So please consider sending in your TTAY (Ten things about you) and then go be extraordinarily Uplifting today! 

The ones who find that annoying probably need it the most. ; )

Much Love,

Suzanne

 

Ages 2, 18, 28 and 46

#12. Instead of closing the studio last fall, I got Charlie. He gave me a whole new perspective on life and business. You can thank him later : )