Yogi Tea

Sat Nam,

For those of you who'd like to make the tea that we have after class. X

10oz (315ml) Water

2 Slices of fresh ginger (optional)

3 Cloves

4 Green cardamon pods cracked

4 Black peppercorns

1/2 Stick of cinnamon

1/4 Teaspoon black tea (or teabag)

Yogi tea is excellent to drink alone but extra milk or honey can be added to make another taste.

Bring water to the boil and add the spices, remove from heat, add black tea, let it steep for 1-2 mins, remove tea and add honey or milk if you wish.

After a hard session of Yoga this tea helps the nervous system.

Manipura Chakra Workshop..Honour Thyself

Manipura (Navel) Chakra Workshop

05-06-11

Honour Thyself

Where as the first chakra relates to tribe and the second relates to our one2one relationships this chakra relates to our relationship with the self.

The self meaning the whole self :- ego, body, spirit, minds, emotions & the nervous system. Although the nervous system is in the body it also has awareness outside of the body and responds independently to emotions which begin in one of the minds, they then feed and fuel reactions within our body. So if we throw in the complicated mess of the ego and the needs of the soul/spirit together with the needs of the physical body and the fleeting whispers of your intuitive guidance system we understand that there is a lot at stake here. The maturity that we seek is in truly knowing and accepting who we are, or doing the personal work neccessary to be exactly who you want to be and accept only that.
This chakra is ruled by fire, the challenge relates to transformation, the gift is that of self esteem- to enable another to believe in themselves is a gift from this chakra.

Honour Oneself- What are your values?

What do you stand for? What do you want to embody? Can you think alone?.

Here is where we break away from the tribe and unplug from what people tell us that we should be thinking. It is here that we are given the opportunity to start the process of mastering the Minds. The navel is linked to the sixth intuitional chakra, your gut feeling or instinct lives here and links you to your intuition. The will and the intellect also live here- this is the storehouse for energy, our finish what we start energy and it first develops between 21-28

Yoga wise Navel (Manipura) kriya's are generally challenging due to the enormous amount of energy needed to balance all these elements.

So onto the workshop:- As hinted above the Kriya for this centre was amazing, high energy and a lovely challenge. Everyone responded to this challenge with enthusiastic gusto ,I was very honoured to be a part of it- we had at 2 people new to Kundalini Yoga and 1 new to Yoga, a couple of Yoga teachers and some seriously brave warriors and together we rocked the 3rd chakra!

After Yoga we were served with some AMAZING food cooked by my partner and our friend and Yoga teacher Chris (on the sacral chakra re-run we will have bread baked by his wife Helen and some lovely choc balls)
Chris cooked kitcheree and a lovely homemade sultana dip and neil cooked spicy masala mashed potato and a yoghurt and cucumber dip with a tomato based really spicy dip together with popadoms and banana bread to take home. Awesome!!

Thank you to the people who made up the day:- May your esteem be high and your values be honoured- Sat Nam X .

Tsuboki - Japanese Face Massage

Sat Nam,
On Monday I learnt an exciting new therapy :-) Tsuboki is a fantastic facial that has a subtle facelift effect.
What attracted me to was that it works with the meridans around the face as well as the muscles and lymphatic system so I figured that it would be beneficial to the overall health rather than a regular face rub.
After the training I actually felt uplifted and couldn't wait to get practicing and so on Tuesday when my friend came round I had a practice on her and she loved it- said she felt subtle energy movement under her face and around her neck and shoulders.
I'm happy and excited to offer it as a treatment from the Yoga room and at Pampered Studio from June 2011.

The lady that trained me is called Anne Parry and there is a link below to one of the pages on her website I highly recommend this training and believe she is taking the training out of the UK to Poland at present so who knows where it could go!

http://www.tsuboki.com/www/benefits.php

Sacral Chakra Workshop- Honour one Another

Sat Nam,

Yesterday we did the workshop for the 2nd chakra which deals with relationships, emotion, duality, polarity, creativity and sexuality amongst other things. It was a really lovely day with good company and some great Yoga. We worked with the Dolphin energy for the whole day, after the kriya we did a pathwalking meditation which worked really well and then we sat down for food and questions at the end.

At the end of the day when people went home I reviewed the workshop as a success!

I feel that we all had an experience of the 2nd chakra energy and more understand the part that this centre plays in our interaction with other people and ourselves.

We've booked the Navel Chakra in for the 5th June starting at 5pm I'm looking forward to working with the energy of Fire.

Blessings and Love on this beautiful day

Chakra Workshops Starting March 27th

Sat Nam,

Blessings on this beautiful day.

We have some workshops about to begin- details are listed below.

A Journey Through the Chakras

The Chakras are energy centers that run up through the length of the spine. We work with them in Yoga and in Healing to reach balance and acheive optimum health physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.



Do you want to know more?

There will be a series of workshops running March through to July aimed at giving you a full experience of each Chakra in it's turn.

• We will do Yoga dedicated to the energy centre


• Eat food relating to the element involved


• Discuss the influence the centre has on our overall health
  
• Explore crystals and colour


• Get creative


• Meditate and connect

Details for the workshops are:

Base Chakra- Sunday 27th March 12-4pm

Sacral Chakra-Sunday 10th April 12-4pm

Navel Chakra- Sunday 24th April 12-4pm

Heart Chakra- Sunday 22nd May 12-4pm

3rd Eye Chakra-Sunday 5th June 6-10pm

Crown Chakra-Saturday 2nd July 12-4pm

The workshops are designed to work together or stand alone and are open to all. If you know which Chakra you want to work on please do contact me and we can arrange for you to attend on that day.

Cost for each Workshop is £20

Yoga News

Sat Nam,

The lastest news at YogaLove is that we have moved the Monday & Wednesday evening sessions to Rushdale Rd at Meersbrook.

Our monthly Yood (Yoga and Food) sessions are also at Rushdale Rd in our last session we had Thai food cooked expertly by Neil and did a Kriya for relaxation and releasing fear. Wonderful.

There is a workshop "Can You Feel Your Love" on Feb 19th 2011 at Rushdale Rd.

The sessions are going really well with plenty of focus from the class, we seem to be creating a lovely circle and it's always a shame when we have to finish it at the end of the night.

I am starting a block of 10 sessions on Sat 5th of March 2011 (10:30 untill 11:30) at Pampered Studio at an introductory price of £40.

Blessings and Love

Shaura

Class at Butterfly Studio

Sat Nam

Our new Monday eve class has started at Butterfly Studio in Meersbrook where we have much more room to move about.
We did a singing meditation and found that the acoustics promise to generate a beautiful sound should we fill it with our enthusiasm.
The music system is also a real bonus, we played some Gong music in relaxation and it was really effective.
Anyone wanting to join these sessions needs to let me know beforehand as I have to let you in.

Blessings and Love Shaura