Class Schedule Changes in April

Hello dear community, we wanted to let you know about some upcoming class changes and cancellations.

Wednesday evening yin with Anna has been cancelled. Anna will continue teaching yin both Monday and Friday mornings at 7 am. It’s a lovely way to start the day. We hope you’ll join her.

Starting in May Wednesday morning flow with McKenna will transform to Wednesday morning Sunrise Yoga with Amber from 6:30-7:30 am. Big thanks to McKenna for holding beautiful meditative flow classes on Wednesdays. McKenna looks forward to connecting with our community with workshops and specialty classes from time to time.

We also are cancelling the noon classes on Mondays and Wednesdays with Amelia. We will get to practice with Amelia through the end of April, so please book a class with her while you can. We do hope to stay in touch and hope to see her in the studio and in the neighborhood.

Thank you to our wonderful teachers – it has been an absolute treasure learning with and from you!!

Poems to welcome Spring

These are only a few poems that remind us of Spring. Please feel free to add your own. Happy Spring everyone!

Near Spring Equinox by Jeanetta Calhoun Mish –

A ruby crocus near the porch sends up

hope—winter of sorrow is waning

the dire moon of almost-spring rises

full with promise of renewal,

shaming twinkling city lights in its splendor. 

I search for my faith, wonder where

I lost it, find it in deep cinnamon

mud smushing up between my toes.

Across a spent field, a lake in shadow

serenades curvature of earth.

As if on cue, a comet streaks

across somber roiling river of sky.

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Spring by Mary Oliver –

Somewhere
a black bear
has just risen from sleep
and is staring

down the mountain.
All night
in the brisk and shallow restlessness
of early spring

I think of her,
her four black fists
flicking the gravel,
her tongue

like a red fire
touching the grass,
the cold water.
There is only one question:

how to love this world.
I think of her
rising
like a black and leafy ledge

to sharpen her claws against
the silence
of the trees.
Whatever else

my life is
with its poems
and its music
and its glass cities,

it is also this dazzling darkness
coming
down the mountain,
breathing and tasting;

all day I think of her -—
her white teeth,
her wordlessness,
her perfect love.

Welcome by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg –

You come through the gate,

and your life on earth begins:

green wavering into the hue

of early spring, the growing

heat pouring leaf into form

just as you did, are doing,

will do with lack, rain, rivers,

kisses, wind, and horizons

that come each turning.

You stand up in your dream,

lean on the fence, look wide

toward the lights spilled

across the black expanse

that carries the world.

The next destination pours

toward you as you walk.

A thunderhead powers upward,

spends itself over the past,

behind you to your left.

You turn and look one direction,

then another until you’re back

where you started: welcome

as rain in the tall reach of the weather

of your body, of this life

that breathes in time, breathes out light.

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Revery by Fenton Johnson –

1. 

I was the starlight 

I was the moonlight 

I was the sunset, 

Before the dawning 

          Of my life; 

I was the river

Forever winding 

To purple dreaming, 

I was the glowing 

Of youthful Springtime, 

I was the singing 

Of golden songbirds,—

        I was love.

            2. 

I was the sunlight,

I was the twilight,  

I was the humming

Of winged creatures

    Ere my birth; 

I was the blushing 

Of lily maiden, 

I was the vision 

Of youthful striving, 

I was the summer, 

I was the autumn, 

I was the All-time—

      I was love



Words of inspiration... in no particular order

You who want knowledge, see the Oneness within.

There you will find the clear mirror already waiting. – Hadewijch II

We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains. – Li Po

The time has come. Your time. To live. To Celebrate. And to see the goodness that you are. – Bapuji, Swami Sri Kripalvananda

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough and more.” – John O’Donohue

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. – Carl Yung

I breathe in All That Is – Awareness expanding to take everything in, as if my heart beats the world into being. – Danna Faulds

May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder. – John O’Donohue

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." – Lao Tzu

You are the Soul of the Soul of the Universe. And your name is Love

Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self. – Bhavaghad Gita

Love doesn’t sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new. – Og Mandino

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars. – Og Mandino

“To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, every cubic inch of space is a miracle.” – Walt Whitman

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein

“A candle is a small thing. But one candle can light another. And see how its own light increases, as a candle gives its flame to the other. You are such a light.” – Moshe Davis

“May we all be blessed with miracles wherever we need them.” – Micaela Ezra

“Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.” – Anne Frank

“In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.” – Mother Teresa

The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. – Thich Nhat Hanh

“Yoga is not about self-improvement, it’s about self-acceptance.” – Gurmukh kaur khalsa

“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” – Maya Angelou

Treat yourself kindly. And with love 

“When the breath wanders the mind also is unsteady. But when the breath is calmed the mind too will be still,
and the yogi achieves long life.“ – Hatha Yoga Pradipika

“Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.” – B.K.S. Iyengar

“Don’t try to get out of the World, get into it.” – Bhagavan Das

“To find out what is truth there must be great
love and a deep awareness of one’s
relationship to all things.”
 – J. Krishnamurti

What if love was the centre of our being?” – Ganga Whit

“Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.” – Tara Brach

"May I love and accept myself just as I am.”

“On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.” – Tara Brach

“Yoga does not just change the way we see things, it transforms the person who sees.” – B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Life

“It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.” – B.K.S. Iyengar

“True compassion… comes from realizing our kinship with all beings.” – Pema Chodron

“True yoga is not about the shape of your body, but the shape of your life. Yoga is not to be performed; yoga is to be lived. Yoga doesn’t care about what you have been; yoga cares about the person you are becoming. Yoga is designed for a vast and profound purpose, and for it to be truly called yoga, its essence must be embodied.” – Aadil Palkhivala

”The body benefits from movement, and the mind benefits from stillness.” – Sakyong Mipham

”It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.” –  B.K.S. Iyengar

“I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.” – Rumi

“Yoga is a light which once lit will never dim, the better your practice the brighter your flame.” – B.K.S. Iyengar

“Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence.” – Patanjali

“You are the sky, everything else is just the weather.” – Pema Chodron

Early morning class changes in Dec-January

Hello early birds,

we want to let you know about some TEMPORARY class shifts that are happening late December and January.

The early morning classes will be canceled from Dec. 22-29th

From January 2nd - 23rd the schedule will be:

Mondays + Fridays Sunrise Yin Yoga with Anna, 7-8 am

Tuesdays and Thursdays Sunrise Yoga with Amber, 6:30-7:30 am and Wednesdays 7-8 am

McKenna will be back late January and the schedule will return to normal.

Let us know if you have any questions!