Namasté and welcome to those of you receiving this for the first time! 

Hope everyone had a summer filled with love & yoga!

As I reflect on my summer vacation and gradually start to welcome the fall season, it hits me, change, what a funny thing. I am forever grateful for change, although it’s not always a pleasant experience. Sometimes we want it, look forward to it, and even pray for it.  But other times we dread it, fear it, or run from it. One thing is certain, change is constant. Every aspect of life is subject to change.  Summer becomes fall, relationships transform, one life ends and another begins. Change usually comes hand in hand with uncertainty and most of us find the unknown uncomfortable.  How do we deal with change without letting our negative thoughts get the best of us?

I have found that my yoga practice helps cultivate the skill to deal with feelings of discomfort with more ease and grace. I try focusing on staying present, being in the moment, just breathing. This has helped turn my attention inward to what I am feeling physically and emotionally. Staying present and finding gratitude is helpful in riding the waves of life’s many changes and I believe remembering this is the key.

 Be reassured that change is right around the corner, and with it comes growth and a time when some soul searching will lead to better-days ahead and great opportunity! 

Love & Light,

Mariex

Here are some of the fall’s highlights…..

Fall Schedule

The season is soon to begin, week 34.  Have a look at this fall's schedule and find a class/course that works for you.

Simon Low Weekend Workshop "Way of the Warrior"

September 24 - 26, 2010

Exploring the way of the warrior in yoga, Indian mythology, & eastern & western traditions, while we see how we can apply these teachings in our life on & off the yoga mat.

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Venue:  Yoga Body & Soul Studio

Changing the way we eat Workshop - Introduction to healthy eating with Organic and Raw Food

Friday, October 29, 2010

Healthy eating promotes consciousness awakening. 
Increase your vibration and awareness through the foods you choose.

Join us in this evening culinary workshop where Johan Fuglår from Helios Health Food Store & Tollboden Mathus in Tønsberg, will introduce us to healthy eating through organic food with focus on raw food "living food". 

Venue: Yoga Body & Soul Studio

Sangha (Community) Månedens Yogi

Sangha - Sanskrit ordet for "fellesskap”. Sangha genererer kollektiv energi som støtter ens praksis eller mål. Hver måned velger vi en person som ”Månedens Yogi", for å generere litt mer Sangha og samtidig lærer vi litt mer om mennesket på nabo-matten. Følg med på hvem som blir neste måneds Yogi. Om Shanti!

Personen som blir valgt ut som månedens Yogi er noen som innehar gode egenskaper som engasjement og medfølelse, samt er inkluderende.

Words of Wisdom

Empowered Forgiveness
Apologies

We say "It’s okay," when somebody has wronged us which energetically is allowing for the behavior to happen again.

In life there will always be times when we are affected by the actions of another person. When this happens, we often receive an apology. More often than not we say, "It’s alright," or " It’s okay," and by saying this we are allowing, accepting, and giving permission for the behavior to happen again. When we say "thank you," or "I accept your apology," we are forced to sit in our feelings rather than ignore them.

There are many of us who feel that it is easier to brush off how we really feel than to express our discomfort with something that has happened to us. While this may initially seem like the best thing to do, what it really does is put us into an unending pattern of behavior; since we are not honest with another person, we continue the cycle of letting them overstep our emotional limits time and time again. By doing this we place ourselves in the position of victim. We can put an end to this karmic chain by first acknowledging to the other person that we accept their request for forgiveness; often a simple “thank you” is enough. To truly create a greater sense of harmony in our relationship, however, we need to gently, and with compassion, express our innermost concerns about what has transpired. By taking a deep breath and calling upon the deepest parts of our spirit, we can usually find the right words to say and verbalize them in a way that lets the other person recognize the consequences of what they have done.

If we can remember that our response to others is important, we can begin to realize that trust and forgiveness go hand in hand. And when we react in a way that engenders a greater amount of honesty and candor, we will establish a more positive and empowering way of being and interacting others.