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My first week is done. Exhale. Good. I have thoroughly enjoyed this week of training, and by golly – my cat is happy I’m home.
Here are a few highlights:
Meeting my co-yogis. Another stellar group of people getting together to study the human body and a rich diversity of backgrounds and experience levels. I am looking forward to embracing these new relationships.
Meditation every day, sometimes multiple times a day. Enough said. It will continue with my home practice.
Eating at The Naked Elm for lunches – amazing local, organic spot in Blue Mounds. They even catered lunch for us during the week when they are usually closed. Best coffee. Ever. (and the brownie on the way home wasn’t shabby either)
Studying the chakras and the subtler energy system of the body. I have noticed it helpful already in a conversation I had yesterday and in a lesson this morning. Exciting!
Seeing how Scott puts together the material – anatomy and physiology, energy and the chakras, yoga asana, meditation, teaching methods. He is laid back and approachable, and I can see how he stays true to his goal of making such complex work and deep embodiment available to us all. Especially in some of his teaching methods – keep it simple and send people home with stuff they can do for themselves. Perfect.
Running on Friday afternoon, when class was let out early due to “blizzard like conditions”. Of course, I took advantage of the extra time in my day to do as I pleased and the nearly ghost-town atmosphere in order to run for an hour of hills north of Blue Mounds and back again…I especially enjoyed running down the middle of the road. I never wiped out, although I came close, and continued to focus on my fundamentals, slick snowy roads and all. Full exhale. Palate relaxed. Grounded. When I got back, I went to the quiet studio myself for an hour of Restorative yoga, checked in with my emails, and enjoyed my last night at Joyful Path Meditation Center, two blocks away from where we meet for class.
More to come, as I integrate this material and offer some new programs with you this summer. Thanks for supporting my continued student-self and for coming back for more lessons each week. You allow me to do my work and I appreciate seeing you all practice and embody who you are designed to be.
Namaste,
Cheri
Your spine is asking you to attend this workshop. Register by 9/20 to save and guarantee your enrollment. Attendance will be limited! See you there, namaste
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Your Strong, Fluid Spine: Embodying function and the Figure of Eight
Saturday, October 15 / 11am – 1pm and 2:30pm – 5:30pm
and
Sunday, October 16 / 10:30am – 1pm and 2:30pm – 5:00pm
This Yoga, embodiment, and anatomy workshop will enhance your understanding of spinal structures, spinal pathology, and help you experience their true design through the supporting volume of the inner landscape. Experience your spine as healthy and resilient with playful practices and interactive learning.
Early Registration due in full on or before September 20, 2011. Save 15%!
Friday: Working with Asymmetry only – $25 /// Your Strong, Fluid Spine only – $180
Complete weekend recommended for the richest experience – $205total
Enrollments received after September 20 will be allowed as we have space available.
Friday: Working with Asymmetry only – $30 /// Your Strong, Fluid Spine weekend only – $210
Complete weekend experience, registration received after September 20 – $240 total
Narelle Carter-Quinlan, Australia, has been passionately engaged with Yoga, dance and embodied movement practices for almost 50 years. An anatomist and scientist, her ongoing signature inquiry and that which she ignites in her students is to know the body as felt, known, poetic space; the Embodied Ecology of our interior terrain. Her teaching is infused with rich experiential anatomy. Narelle is formally trained in the Iyengar method of Yoga. Inhabiting a scoliotic landscape, Narelle’s work is oriented towards and offers deep insight into practicing Yoga within scoliosis and backcare issues.
Cheri has educated adults about their bodies since 2000. She completed her Yoga studies with and now assists Donna Farhi during her US tour visits, currently studies the Franklin Method, and plans to complete a 500 hour Yoga Therapy program. She helps students relate to gravity effectively to restore wholeness and presence, breath dancing within each pose.
Please send questions and registrations directly to Cheri Dostal, evolve wellness llc.
All classes take place at the studios of evolve wellness llc & The Yoga Center, 412 ½ Water Street, Eau Claire.
Get your green, orange, and purple plush balls here folks. Franklin method product orders are due to me via email record by Friday morning, September 9.
ORDERS DUE FRIDAY September 9 please. THANK YOU!
If there is something specific you want, please look at the OPTP online catalog and send me the product number and quantity. Items are sold at the studio at a bit of a savings from regular retail + shipping.
Thanks!
Cheri
Something for you all to ponder this week. To get back to the beginning of it all means to be aware. How do we know what we need, what to do in any situation, or how to respond skillfully without first noticing. Each time we come to our mat for Yoga practice we begin by asking – how am I? What is this exact moment telling me as I listen? Your body will speak and guide you through your practice if you allow the process to unfold organically. Sometimes we feel like we are stuck in a rut, a routine that served us years ago but may need some revision to truly bring health and balance now. Sometimes we go through the motions, mechanically checking poses or movements off our list without ever truly uniting body mind spirit in the moment.
I encourage you to pause, check in, and listen more often this week. All change starts with awareness.
NOTICE
Please write comments below and let me know how checking in has helped you this week. Record the AHA moments and share them with others – let’s help awareness and conscious living grow in our community.
Cheers! See you at the studio this week,
Cheri
