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Two Foot Take Off   Making Yoga WORK for You April 30, 2012 In This Issue: Blog of the Week from Beth – Making Yoga Work for You The 12 Week Spring Yoga Challenge/Moon Yoga is On! Coming Events Yoga Tip of the Week What’s Beth Up To? Beth Recommends Blog of the Week from Beth Making Yoga WORK – First Quarter Moon Building Energy If you’ve got work to do (like who doesn’t?), then now is the time to get down to it.  And don’t expect it to all be easy either!! When I learned about this time right now, where the planets and the moon are aligned to facilitate productivity, it gave me anxiety…[read more] and it still does.  And frankly, it should!   Why should we feel anxiety – that isn’t the long-term, chronic anxiety garden-variety style – but the kind that gives us an acute shot in the butt?  Because this is nature’s way of kicking our butts and letting us know that “now is the time,” and not later, to fulfill our life purpose.  The bus is leaving now, get on it, for God’s sake.   How often have you ruminated about something so long that by the time you decided (How to Decide is the topic of next week’s blog!) about doing something, the opportunity was gone for one reason or another.  Hopefully this never happens to you, but I’ve seen it a lot over the years.   You must have noticed me doing time-limited offers on various programs.  This is not to pressure you into working with me, taking a class or doing something good for yourself (like a liver cleanse!).  This is so you can see that life is always now.   And at times like now, the forces that be gather themselves up and get behind our intentions, give birth to that for which we have been planning and injection-fuel our creations into the world where they belong.   What would we rather do at this time?  Anything else!  Anything at all.  This is when we clean our kitchens, do the laundry, go shopping, read magazines, anything but that for which we came to earth in the first place.  Why do we pathologically turn away from our purpose and the perfect time to act upon it?  Because it’s easier.   Sadly, that “ease” registers as anything but to our nervous system and underlying soul.  Despite hardships, there is no greater pleasure for the soul than following through with it’s deepest desires and the work for which it is meant.   So, blessings to you as you carry forth with your projects this week.  Take hold of the reigns and let those horses gallop for a few weeks while the moon becomes full and its energy more and more available.   BUT pace yourself, build in healthy (yoga!) breaks and don’t forget to check in with the silent partner that lies beneath every breath and action you take.   What is This Week’s First Quarter Moon About? It’s time to run with your projects, to take action and go for it. Moon Yoga Online explores how you can use lunar energies to guide your life and yoga practice, so you can live a yoga life that works with the forces that be.  And find out that you are the forces that be!!!   12 Week Spring Yoga Challenge! Mondays 10 AM until the end of June – Cloud 284 – Calling all stay-at-home moms!   Tuesdays 8:00 PM until the end of June – Lindenwoods Community Centre    Moon Yoga Online – Live in the Flow of Natural Cycles! Fridays 2:00 PM a new HD Moon Yoga video goes out to subscribers until the end of June.   For women and yogis who need to make the most of their time, so they can get their best stuff done at the time when nature most favours it AND in time to catch a break!   If you got this email, your investment is 25% off: $147 – for 12 Weeks of Video Downloads, You Get to Keep Forever!!! Coming Events Summary Manitoba Goddess Festival Fundraiser   Mother’s Day May 13th from 7 – 10 pm at the fabulous Gas Station Theatre for the “Crone’s Cabaret.” Tickets are a mere ten dollars   Manitoba Goddess Festival  – August 31 – September 3   Moon Yoga Online – special offer to sign up at 25% off!   12 Week Yoga Challenge through the end of June, drop-ins welcome!   Brandon Folk Music & Art Festival – July 19 – 22   Kirtan and Moon Yoga Workshop – Saturday afternoon, TBA Yoga Tip of the Week Can’t focus your mind so you can get to work on the stuff that’s really important to you? Do this standing pose from the Warrior sequence: Virabhadraasan 2!   What’s Beth Up To? ~Planting fenugreek sprouts and enjoying the delicious sprouts!!      I Recommend Watching my video Two Foot Take Off: “…roots deep in the soil, eye on the Life.”   ~Beth Martens Sending you warm wishes for the week, until we meet again. Kind cheers and namaste, Beth     yoga@bethmartens.comIf you’d like to remove your email address from this list, you can click here to unsubscribe.

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Yoga Isn’t For Everyone   You Heard Me April 23, 2012 In This Issue: Blog of the Week from Beth – The Pros and Cons of Yoga The 12 Week Spring Yoga Challenge/Moon Yoga is On! Coming Events Yoga Tip of the Week What’s Beth Up To? Beth Recommends Blog of the Week from Beth Clear Visions – New Moon Beginning to Wax Butterfly Meditation Is yoga really on your path to enlightenment, fulfillment and the overall sense that life is worth living?   These days, given its popularity, yoga is often put out as a one-size fits all, cure all, be all and end all.  You often see the phrase, “Yoga is for Everybody!”   I’m tempted to agree of course, because I teach yoga for a living, because I’ve devoted my adult life to it and because I have seen a yoga practice completely transform myself, and many others.   However, my interest in yoga coaching has begun to shift my approach.  I prefer to stay connected to those who are already getting the benefit of what I do, who have been in my zone and know that means engaging at a deep and committed level.   I was recently challenged by Warren Wojnowski, the fellow who has created my websites for me, to write an article about the pros and cons of yoga, because as it turns out, people need to hear the truth about who can really benefit, and for whom it will drop away like other fitness fads that have come and gone.   1.  Pros: Flexibile schedule and hips. After a few trips to India where I studied yoga at its source, at the banks of the sacred River Vyaas that feeds the River Ganges from the peaks of the Himalaya, I learned how to take the practice into my own daily life, no matter where I geographically put my body.  Personally, that is one of my favourite thing about yoga is that it offers me a fully flexible schedule.  It has also conditioned my health, to where I feel more flexible and stronger than I ever was in my teens and early 20′s.   I was taught, luckily, that the point of studying with teachers, was so I could practice on my own – and this was considered equally important as following guides.  So thanks to a nine-month immersion experience, (my first trip to India), I was ready to do a daily practice that included meditation, yoga poses, breath and contemplations.   Since then I have my yoga any time, any where.  I am utterly independent in my practice.  There are no scheduling conflicts, missed practices or regrets about having made a commitment to myself that was unfulfilled.   I was taught, again at the source, that a daily practice is more important than a rigidly scheduled one.  That means that better to set your goal on doing yoga every day, rather than doing it at xx time and place every day.  That way the perceived failure goes way down.  And the sense of having a flexible life, as well as body, goes way up!   Has enormous scope.     Personally, I’ve always been attracted to big subjects and railed against the increasing specialization of our world (thought there’s nothing inherently wrong with it!).   I landed in an honours anthropology program in university, because I discovered that unlike any other subject that was available, it had the largest scope of any.  Why?  Because human beings decided that any study of humans could be related to nearly anything – geography, climate, science, art, culture and on.  Great, I’m in!   In my last year of an undergrad program, I completed a directed study on The Transformation of Consciousness through Shamanic Initiation – again the biggest subject I could find.  And it led me directly to yoga, because even the biggest subject to anthropology was severely limited as it tried incessantly, annoyingly to remove the observer, the subject.   When I got to yoga, it is revealed over and over that the subject – ourselves – is in fact where we have to begin.  Any study that doesn’t include the observer is not telling the whole story, and while anthropology would struggle with this subject, yoga put the subject out as the entire point.  And because the subject is the door to any object, then yoga’s ability to approach any subject as higher than anything I’ve come across.Makes your heart sing even if just like a jail bird.   Without fail, the practice of yoga gives me joy.  Not the fast food version (see below), but the long, slow burn of growing awareness, self discovery and the feeling that we can live right from the heart of our purpose.   At times when I felt everything was lost to me, I turned to these practices. They returned to me a staggering wealth of inspiration to keep going, to put one foot in front of the other, and even under the worst circumstances, to still feel the subtle bliss of life itself.   2. Cons Requires commitment to have pleasure with it.   Whomever seeks the quick fix for their ills, or the blue pill for their blues, or simple answers to simple questions, will not be happy doing yoga.   Instead, they will quickly be frustrated with the fact that it can take years to open the hips that have been tightened by a life time of sitting in chairs, and more years to lengthen hamstrings that have been compacted by lifestyles that don’t require us to touch our toes.   Not to mention how long you may have to regularly meditate to sense that there are spaces between your thoughts.   Or the what-seems-like eons before your exhale relaxes, or your teeth remember not to grind themselves at night while sleeping.  Or for your shoulders to realize they are not in fact part of your ears.   Back to the pleasure part, the true pleasures of life are revealed and made exponentially more available through a yoga practice.  I will no doubt be blogging more on this in the future, as it is one of my favourite subjects.   Despite the prescribed austerities in some yogic traditions, it is my experience that yoga can unblock all the path ways that would from your labour of love, give way to flow and the experience of deep human pleasure.   Yoga self-enforces a slow food lifestyle – more on that to come in the future.   Will make you painfully aware.   Likely the worst of what should stop someone from blindly going into their yoga practice without a clue of the pros and cons, was illustrated beautifully in an account of a discussion with the Dalai Lama.   Upon the death of someone with whom he was close with, he was asked why he, an enlightened master who had faced many hardships including exile from his own country and the torture of his people to this day, would he experience grief?   His answer was a staggering affirmation of what i had already discovered about my yoga practice – that it made me more sensitive by the day.   I was no longer able to watch violent movies or much of the news when on the same subject.   I was no longer able to turn away from a child begging in India.   I was no longer able to turn away from my own body in its time of crisis and soul reclamation.   I was no longer able to go into a bar and avoid the inevitable shrinking of my spirit as the alcohol dissolved consciousness right down the drain.   I did actually believe that my yoga practice would give me better endurance, make me more resilient and more able to take on the BS of the world. Actually it’s made it harder to integrate and feel normal about the habitual trouble in which the world finds itself.  If I went back to cons, however, I’d have to share that it has allowed me to create new normals, new standards for consciousness and new ways of being that are life supportive, loving and fully alive.   What are This Week’s New & Waxing Moon About? Time to create a big-picture vision about how you want your life to look and feel. Moon Yoga Online will explore the ways you can use lunar energies to guide life and practice, so you can live a yoga life that works with the forces that be.   12 Week Spring Yoga Challenge! click here to book now Mondays 10 AM until the end of June – Cloud 284 Tuesdays 8:00 PM until the end of June – Lindenwoods Community Centre Moon Yoga Online – Live in the Flow of Natural Cycles! Fridays 2:00 PM a new HD Moon Yoga video goes out to subscribers until the end of June. For women and yogis who need to make the most of their time, so they can get their best stuff done at the time when nature most favours it! If you’re on my email zone, your investment is $147 – for 12 Weeks of Video Downloads, You Get to Keep Forever!!! Coming Events Summary Manitoba Goddess Festival Fundraiser Mother’s Day May 13th from 7 – 10 pm at the fabulous Gas Station Theatre for the “Crone’s Cabaret.” Tickets are a mere ten dollars   Manitoba Goddess Festival  – August 31 – Sepetember 3   Moon Yoga Online – special offer to sign up at 25% off!   12 Week Yoga Challenge through the end of June, drop-ins welcome!   Yoga Tip of the Week Which pose to do when you’re exhausted from being on your feet: Legs up the wall! What’s Beth Up To? ~Preparing to play with my Kirtan Calling band at the Manitoba Goddess Festival fundraiser.    I Recommend Reading The Glance: Songs of Soul-Meeting by Coleman Barks (1999): “…a truth not lived is not a truth.” Sending you warm wishes for the week, until we meet again. Kind cheers and namaste, Beth

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Feels Like Chaos:  How to Stress Less?   Stay the Course! April 2, 2012 In This Issue: Blog of the Week from Beth – Feels Like Chaos? The 12 Week Spring Yoga Challenge & Moon Yoga Online – Early Bird is On! Coming Events Yoga Tip of the Week What’s Beth Up To? Beth Recommends Blog of the Week from Beth Feels Like Chaos? How to Navigate in a First Quarter and Waxing Moon! Stay the Course Sitting in the studio right now mixing tracks from The Yoga Lullabies 2 that I will release some time this summer… Whatever it is we intended for this next moon cycle, if you took advantage of the new moon energy, you might be feeling a little grumpy about moving forward.  Obstacles may be presenting themselves and making you feel like giving up. Now is the time to be conservative, to pull back in the areas where we are putting energy out unnecessarily.  This time is a call for making our lives manageable, so we can continue on for the long haul building community and galvanizing the values we hold. What does it mean for your yoga practice, and the way you move forward in your life? In general, we can slip stream on the natural flow of the seasons.  This is because, despite how we seem capable of living and acting in a business-as-usual mode, every turn of time brings us an invitation to adapt. And for right now, it means cooperating with the waxing moon, and the building energy that is behind us as we try and move forward.  It’s inviting us to dig in, blow past the barriers that hold us back and especially when we want to buckle under and pretend we don’t really want the things we dream of every day. Moon Yoga Online – Still Wondering What That Is? Only one more week to catch a live stream yoga class, Moon Yoga Online, for FREE – This Friday the 6th (even though it’s Good Friday) About:  Moon Yoga Online explores the ways you can use lunar energies to guide life and practice, so you can live a yoga life that works with the forces that be. Sign up is complementary only until April 15, so invite your friends and share this experience, no matter where in the world you are now! Click to sign them up now or post this link: http://www.yogacourses.ca/learn-yoga-online/ 12 Week Spring Yoga Challenge  Book a Live in Person Class and Get Moon Yoga Online Classes for 50% Off. Get 12 weeks of live-time classes on Cloud 284 and LWCC, and complete the challenge to get a free herbal consultation with Carrie Forsythe, creator of the Ambrosia Healing Centre and Apothecary! Wondering if you can do 12 weeks the same every time?  You can mix and match the two sessions so you can get them all in! Wondering what the class levels will be?  Moderate vinyaasa flow combined with meditation and live music..these are not beginner classes, but are appropriate if you know how to self-regulate your practice Can’t find a class that meets your time or level, but really want to learn yoga – and how to live a yoga life – with me?  Consider one of the options, personal yoga coaching. Moon Yoga Online – Thank you for your kind spirit of experimentation Your patience is super appreciated right now if you have been unable to access videos from my access page. I’m working with a video partner making them into downloads so you can get them on You Tube  – if you are signed up for the Complementary round of Moon Yoga Online. You (or anyone, anywhere in the world) can sign up for these right up until April 15! I posted the latest Moon Yoga Online 3 to my Facebook page, so if you’re not a friend (and if you are!) click here. Look for a the highlighted “Check out this video! Testing moon yoga Technologies.” Moon Yoga Online is for you if: You sign up for classes and then don’t get there. You don’t have any time for racing around in your car to get to the best part of your day. You like doing yoga in your pj’s (or even naked – God bless your neighbors). And you care about getting some important stuff done and need to be in good shape for that, and not just physically. You can’t find a Beth Martens’ yoga class that works for your schedule because she is simplifying her life! Moon Yoga Online – Finally, A Beth Martens Yoga Class You Actually Can’t Miss! Book Ahead Now at 50% Off Your investment is $97 – for 12 Weeks!!! – is only available until midnight, Friday, April 6 There are more than 170 signed up so far, Complimentary Moon Yoga series of 4 sessions. Thank you everyone for continuing to spread the word out..there, so much appreciated. SHARE THIS LINK TO FREE CLASSES until April 15: Sign up for Complimentary TRIAL Moon Yoga Online         http://www.yogacourses.ca/learn-yoga-online/  These Classes are available for streaming through April 15 only!   A BIG NOTE to anyone who SIGNS UPfor the 12 Week Yoga Challenge the Moon Yoga Online edition, you will get DOWNLOAD access, so you get the keep the 12 Challenge videos (forever).    SIGN UP NOW  From April 16 for 12 Weeks – Here’s the Spring Schedule Winnipeg: 12 Week Spring Yoga Challenge: Mondays starting April 16, 10 – 11 AM C284 Tuesdays starting April 17, 7:00 – 8:00 PM LWCC Limited spots available And Beyond: 12 Week Spring Yoga Challenge Moon Yoga Online Fridays starting April 20, 2:00- 3:00 PM Central Standard Time – STREAMING VIDEO CLASS Catch the early bird, which is only $97 this week*, 50% off the regular investment of $197 (includes downloads so you get to own 12 classes and play them at your leisure into nearly infinity!). *Offer expires April 6 at midnight ***Attend Each Class in the Challenge and Get a Healing Consult with Ambrosia Goddess Carrie Forsythe!! Ambrosia Healing Centre and Apothecary. Coming Events Summary Moon Yoga Online – 4 Complimentary Sessions before April 16 only, 12 Week Spring Yoga Challenge – Moon Yoga Online edition begins April 20.   Last two live stream class dates:  March 30 and April 6   ALL THE PREVIOUS CLASSES CAN BE STREAMED/VIEWED UNTIL APRIL 15 ONLY   Body, Mind Spirit Show – Group Next Step – Intro to Personal Yoga Coaching April 15 12 Week Spring Yoga Challenge – Winnipeg Edition Begins April 16 & 17! Yoga Tip of the Week Got headaches?  How (not) to use yoga: Don’t do yoga while you have a head ache – it most certainly makes them worse because it changes the blood pressure over and over again.  If there’s blockage enough to feel pain, that is your time to rest. When your head ache is gone, that’s the time to do yoga.  The only pose you would do during a head ache is savaasan in a dark room.  With the feet slightly elevated. What’s Beth Up To? Mixing Shree Raadhay and Own Power for The Yoga Lullabies 2 with Keith Dyck~ Making DVD packages for Yoga for People Who Can’t Sleep~ I Recommend ~Eat a generous amount of healthy fats everyday. Especially if you struggle with your weight.  Learn more as a coaching client by signing up for a Next Step consultation. ~Make an Order for Half Moon yoga props Due April 30 (for delivery shortly thereafter) Sending you warm wishes for the week, until we meet again. Kind cheers and namaste, Beth

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Moon Cycles in Tune With the Breath

Once We Recognize Cycles, We Have the Makings of Less Chaos Around Creating the Yoga Life We Want

I have always wondered since being a child, how people could endeavour to live the same way every day.  Especially in the northern climate in which I was raised, I was always in awe of how, despite nature’s subtle and not-so-subtle signs of change, our lifestyle pretty much stays the same.

Some forced adaptations you can’t get around, like shovelling the snow, or protecting yourself from the elements, but actual honouring and accommodating that we live under what can be fundamentally different circumstances from season to season, moon to moon, that isn’t happening, yet.

And it’s part of what drives me to be a self-employed Mompreneur, because I have the ultimate (if not yet fully realized) freedom of planning everything in accordance with the natural realities that pervade.

Many of nature’s signs are subtle, and the moon’s phase is something that I find we have to deliberately reconnect with in order to truly engage in moon surfing.

With the help of energy from the full moon, I’m in the new moon stages of creating my first-ever online yoga experience, in which you are invited to participate, to get deep into something may have been more accidental than on purpose, if you’re anything like me.

The number of times I’ve found myself doing (stumbling through and wrestling with) all the wrong stuff in the moons is surprising.

And also, when I’ve naturally engaged and even planned for the stuff that could flow nicely during specific moon phases, I’ve been delighted at the synchronicities, and the ease of flow that can take place in one’s life.

Paradigms of Fixity & Fluidity

We often feel ourselves to be solid, and due to lifestyle limitations, our experience is often within this paradigm of fixity, solidity and ultimately what will be “stuckness” that keeps us from moving in the ways that would be the most healthy for us.  Moon Yoga will allow us to get deep inside the element of fluidity.

Like all things of a watery nature (human beings are about 70% water), we are affected by the phases of the moon. The phases of the moon are determined by the moon’s relative position to the sun. Full moons occur when they are in opposition and new moons when they are in conjunction. Both sun and moon exert a gravitational pull on the earth. Their relative positions create different energetic experiences that can be compared to the breath cycle. The full moon energy corresponds to the end of inhalation when the force of prana is greatest. This is an expansive, upward moving force that makes us feel energetic and emotional, but not well grounded. The Upanishads state that the main prana lives in the head. During the full moon we tend to be more headstrong.

The new moon energy corresponds to the end of exhalation when the force of apana is greatest. Apana is a contracting, downward moving force that makes us feel calm and grounded, but dense and disinclined towards physical exertion.

The Farmers Almanac recommends planting seeds at the new moon when the rooting force is strongest and transplanting at the full moon when the flowering force is strongest. Practicing Ashtanga Yoga over time makes us more attuned to natural cycles. Observing moon days is one way to recognize and honor the rhythms of nature so we can live in greater harmony with it.

From http://www.ashtangayogacenter.com/moon.html:

On Ashtanga tradition around the moons:

http://ashtangayogaunlimited.blogspot.com/2011/10/moon-days.html

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12 Week Yoga Challenge Starts Next Week! We Always Think We Can Do It Later Live from the Death Bed – No Matter How Far Away Check out this article by a Palliative Care nurse who listened to many people discuss their regrets while they were on their death bed: http://www.empowernetwork.com/Caroline/blog/nurse-reveals-the-top-5-regrets-people-make-on-their-deathbed/ In light of helping you not have regrets about working too much, not connecting with friends and like-minded beings, and about not finding out who you truly are inside and living from that place, I’m making a special offer to sign up for the 12 Week Yoga Challenge, and putting the remaining spots on sale, for the next 48 hours only. If you register by midnight on Friday the 13th (!) then you can get the 12 Week training for only $147!  And if you complete the Challenge, you will receive an additional $89 self-care treatment value with acupressure expert, Carson Hill. At the end of my life, I want to know that I didn’t collapse in my efforts to help people make good choices and to bring the most important things to the forefront – those things that really matter to us, but for which we always feel there will be some other day to come. The 12 Week Yoga Challenge Begins January 16, 17 & 19, and you can sign up for each class by going to my online store: http://www.bethmartens.com/beth-martens-online-store/ The Three Secrets of Keeping Self-Care Promises to Yourself AND to share with your friends who would like to have a risk-free opportunity to get to know me and some valuable insights about using yoga to stay on track with innermost desires, I’m offering this guidance, starting with a FreeTeleseminar Yoga Training. Sign Up for the Free Tele-Seminar January 29 So you can Take a Stand that Sticks; Worry Less and Adapt More;  Shift to a Self-Spa Lifestyle Health Plan that includes improving the quality of your sleep, as one of five strategies to come over the year as free online training that can be downloaded for 30 days post events, or attended LIVE TIME on January 29 & April 1 to start. Life has very often asked me for less than relaxing opportunities to adapt.  And at some point I learned to stop “falling,” and began to experience more buoyancy, more weightlessness & fluidity- like nothing could actually take me down. Every time “I” rise to the surface it becomes easier to remember that that is happening, even if in slow motion. In my best moments I realize the play of this.  And it opens me to the vulnerability about and gratitude for all that it is to be alive and human for each one of us.  This makes me hug closely with love the yoga that always makes its way into my daily living ritual. And I wish that for you as well. Here’s some dates you’ll want to put on your calendar for the new year: January 16 – First week of the 12 Week Yoga Challenge January 29 – FREE New Year Online Yoga Training:  Three Secrets for Keeping Resolution Promises to Yourself   February 5 - Yoga for People Who Can’t Sleep Workshop February 26 – Live Introduction to the Next Step on Feeling Good About Being Your Self April 1 – FREE Spring Online Yoga Training: Learn How to Recover From Spring Break & Detox from Stress and Comfort Food with Yoga Cream Pie Community (More info to follow!) Sending with a wish for simple ease in your new year, Beth Sign Up for a Free Tele-Seminar January 29 *This tele-seminar will be free to download for anyone who signs up with their email to get the special URL where it will be posted for 30 days! What’s New?  Sneak Preview of Yoga and Kirtan Parties!  And Sacred Ceremony Music.. I’ve given birth to three new ways I offer love back to my community, in honour of what it has given to me. Are you tired of getting together with really great people and having no clear focus despite HUGE potential?  Are you planning events by rote and need something fresh and new to bring a group truly together? Imagine doing sacred yoga gatherings with your own best friends and family instead of a bunch of strangers? Do you and five of your best friends want to get a fully loaded Yoga Cream Pie Party experience delivered to your own house?* The host of the event who gathers and organizes gets to participate for free and will get extra free goodie bag bonuses.  More details to follow. And for you and 15 of your tribe you can get your own private Kirtan Mantra & Live Music Party!!* The host of the event who gathers and organizes gets to participate for free and will get extra free goodie bag bonuses.  More details to follow. *Email me with inquires marked, SACRED PARTIES FOR FRIENDS AND FAMILY. Do you want to mark the occasion with something a little deeper than a DJ? Want your guests to dance, but not to something that means nothing to you?  Are you making a huge transition and would like to have it equalled in beauty?   *Email me with inquires marked, SACRED PARTIES FOR FRIENDS AND FAMILY.  Can include officiant services as well. Sending with kind namaste, Beth

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Happy New Year  Three Secrets for Keeping Resolution Promises to Yourself FREE Yoga Training Adaptation Resolutions Have you begun to already feel like you’re back-sliding away from the things you know you need to do for your self for 2012?  Do you already know what you need to do: So you can feel good this year; so you can give more to those who depend upon you; so you can bend and not break when the wind blows? So why isn’t it magically happening all by itself? This time of year we have a collective and heightened awareness about our innate ability to adapt to the circumstances in and around us.  But this doesn’t happen by itself. Successful adaptation requires particular circumstances, conscious choices and decisions, but because life wants nothing more than to adapt, rather than suffer needlessly, it is very natural to do, and with guidance easily turns into a lifestyle habit. I’m offering this guidance, starting with a Free Teleseminar Yoga Training called: The Three Secrets of Keeping Self-Care Promises to Yourself Sign Up for the Free Tele-Seminar January 29 So you can Take a Stand that Sticks; Worry Less and Adapt More;  Shift to a Self-Spa Lifestyle Health Plan that includes improving the quality of your sleep, as one of five strategies to come over the year as free online training that can be downloaded for 30 days post events, or attended LIVE TIME on January 29 & April 1 to start. Life has very often asked me for less than relaxing opportunities to adapt.  And at some point I learned to stop “falling,” and began to experience more buoyancy, more weightlessness & fluidity- like nothing could actually take me down. Every time “I” rise to the surface it becomes easier to remember that that is happening, even if in slow motion. In my best moments I realize the play of this.  And it opens me to the vulnerability about and gratitude for all that it is to be alive and human for each one of us.  This makes me hug closely with love the yoga that always makes its way into my daily living ritual. And I wish that for you as well. Here’s some dates you’ll want to put on your calendar for the new year: January 16 – First week of the 12 Week Yoga Challenge January 29 – FREE New Year Online Yoga Training:  Three Secrets for Keeping Resolution Promises to Yourself   February 5 - Yoga for People Who Can’t Sleep Workshop February 26 – Live Introduction to the Next Step on Feeling Good About Being Your Self April 1 – FREE Spring Online Yoga Training: Learn How to Recover From Spring Break & Detox from Stress and Comfort Food with Yoga Cream Pie Community (More info to follow!) Sending with wish for simple ease in your new year, Beth Sign Up for a Free Tele-Seminar January 29 *This tele-seminar will be free to download for anyone who signs up with their email to get the special URL where it will be posted for 30 days! What’s New?  Sneak Preview of Yoga and Kirtan Parties!  And Sacred Ceremony Music.. I’ve given birth to three new ways I offer love back to my community, in honour of what it has given to me. Are you tired of getting together with really great people and having no clear focus despite HUGE potential?  Are you planning events by rote and need something fresh and new to bring a group truly together? Imagine doing sacred yoga gatherings with your own best friends and family instead of a bunch of strangers? Do you and five of your best friends want to get a fully loaded Yoga Cream Pie Party experience delivered to your own house?* The host of the event who gathers and organizes gets to participate for free and will get extra free goodie bag bonuses.  More details to follow. And for you and 15 of your tribe you can get your own private Kirtan Mantra & Live Music Party!!* The host of the event who gathers and organizes gets to participate for free and will get extra free goodie bag bonuses.  More details to follow. *Email me with inquires marked, SACRED PARTIES FOR FRIENDS AND FAMILY. Do you want to mark to occasion with something a little deeper than a DJ? Want your guests to dance, but not to something that means nothing to you?  Are you making a huge transition and would like to have it equalled in beauty?   *Email me with inquires marked, SACRED PARTIES FOR FRIENDS AND FAMILY.  Can include officiant services as well. Sending with a kind namaste, Beth

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Yoga Courses with Beth Martens

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Yoga Courses with Beth Martens

Title: Yoga Cream Pie Retreat – Kirtan Kickoff
Location: Cloud 284
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Description: Weekend retreat experience with outdoor access, special guest international kirtan touring band, Swaha, restorative yoga, massage with Tracy McBride and bread-making with Sherry Rothwell.
Start Date: 2011-08-12
Start Time: 19:00
End Date: 2011-08-14

Yoga Courses with Beth Martens

Title: Kirtan
Location: Cloud 284
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Description: Outdoors access, weather permitting!
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2011-06-29

Yoga Courses with Beth Martens