The bees make honey What’s theirs is not mine The trees make sap and wood What’s theirs is not mine The flowers make blooms What’s theirs is not mine The planet has water and minerals The cosmos have planets The natives have rituals and customs What’s theirs is not mine What’s mine are my actions
I love, love, love sharing yoga, meditation and tai chi practices with young people. They always wind up showing me more about being than I could ever show them.
Yoga with young people can be freeing and wondrous. When allowed to set their own guidelines they tend to choose kindness over cruelty, and joy over judgment. Anything become possible, even headstands!
I’m honored to be spinning around in this cosmic confusion with you all. Each beautiful, sassy, silly, brilliant, intelligent, creative, generous, nerdy, queer, unique one of you.
Studio guidelines for Covid safety include: bring your own mat, masks optional, don’t come with any cold/flu symptoms. More…
I know I haven’t spoken with you all in quite a while. Quite frankly I’ve been running hard, then running in place, then sometimes hardly running at all. Since mid-March it feels like we experienced a tectonic shift. The last class at the studio was a Sunday, Chakra Yoga Flow. I had put up posters about hand washing, face masks and apologies for the bleach smell.
But after that life has been a blur.
Yep, we shifted some classes to livestreaming. Nope, haven’t had any classes at the studio since. Yep, we still have the studio space, but I don’t know for how long.
What we’ve been up to since then have offered growth, letting go and new vision.
We welcome Jessica Posz as an yoga program assistant. She will be helping with our video production and our yoga programs. She may be answering some of our Facebook posts and messages. She is in yoga teacher training and we know she will be adding good energy to our community. From Jessica: Namaste. I am
Yoga presents challenges for kids in the best of situations. Attention spans are fleeting. Desire for stimuli and excitement is great. Disappointment at not getting things perfectly the first time prevails.
Virtual yoga via whatever video screen they had available made this summer day camp extra special.
I have decided to cancel further outdoor yoga classes for the foreseeable future. The COVID pandemic is still among us and recent trends locally have me not feeling comfortable with hosting an event which could become an epicenter of outbreak.
This week’s Outside Yoga Around Town will be at the center of the LCC campus downtown. Plenty of bicycle parking. Easy to reach off the River Trail. There’s a Japanese Garden adjacent with giant Koi fish eager for you to feed them.
Outdoor Yoga Around Town, June 18, 7 p.m. Turner Dodge House, 100 E North St, Lansing, MI 48906
We checked in with Caitlin Thompson recently to see how she’s doing during the pandemic. Caitlin is a counselor who serves the disabled population with accessibility issues in the workplace and transportation and more. Since the stay-at-home order she has been working her private practice remotely, but is hardly full of free time. She shared
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