Honeyoga Opens in Orange Massachusetts

Honeyoga has opened a studio in the Orange Innovation Center (OIC), Mary Canning combines her love all things Honey with the sweet and flowing style of Kripalu Yoga. The opening day event was wonderful with an open house, sales of local and imported honey, a Kirtan by The Ouroboros Solution and a round robin yoga class taught by 9 teachers of Mary's graduating class from Kripalu. http://www.honeyoganews.blogspot.com/ for a schedule of events and classess.

Kirtan with Ashara in Topsfield

Upcoming kirtans in Topsfield, 40 Parsonage Lane, from 4-6 PM with a vegetarian potluck community meal following the chant.
Suggested donation: $5-$15
February 8 ******NOTE CHANGE****** This is the SECOND Sunday of the month!!
March 1
April 5
May 3
Please RSVP Ashara@aol.com or 978-887-9708 if you are planning to attend. If you can't call, please come anyway!!

Yoga at The White Elephant Orange MA

Free Yoga Classes every Sunday in February 5:00 PM. AND Yoga Classess starting on February 17thTuesdays & Thursdays 6:30 to 8:00 PM. Drop in fee is $ 10.00. Come twice a week and pay only $ 7.50 a class or $15.00/week.For more info Contact Connie Pike 544-6699 cpike@valinet.com or Visit www.TheWhiteElephantYoga.blogspot.com

Grand Opening for Honeyoga in Orange MA

Come and celebrate the opening of Honeyoga Studio in Orange MA
Saturday January 31 2009

Enjoy Heart opening and Dynamic
Kirtan
with
The Ouroboros Solution

Honeyoga open house starting at 2 pm
Kirtan Starts at 4:30
Free Round Robin Yoga Class starts at 5pm
Honeyoga is in the Orange Innovation Building (the Old Bedroom Factory) Studio #20
131 Main Street in Orange Massachusetts
For more info visit www.honeyoganews.blogspot.com

New Yoga Class In Petersham MA

New Yoga Class

Yoga in Petersham Ma.
Mondays starting February 9, 2009 6:30-7:45pm
At the First Congregational Church Davis Memorial Hall on the Common - West St.
8 week session
1st class free
$8.00 drop in or $50.00 up front for all 8
Gentle beginners class

ongoing classes:

Thursday Athol YMCA 6:30-8pm
Saturday Orange Dance Studio 9-10:30am


Peace
Brandy Lefsyk
OM YOGA
978-413-2000

Yoga Day at The White Elephant

Yoga day at The White Elephant was a huge success in my opinion. I got there at about 9:15 and sat outside the hallway to the upstairs Studio. Listening to the soothing sounds of mantra music and the shuffle of bodies as they shifted from pose to pose I began to meditate and to feel the energy of the building itself.
From what I have heard the building was originally built as a Congregational Church, then became a Masonic Temple, and is now a place for Yoga. So it seems that it has always been a spiritual place. I did not go in for the First Yoga class taught by Brandy Lefsyk and Pat Roix, but from the murmurs of 'great class' as it ended it sounds like it went very well.
The origin of the term white elephant as per a few sources on the web is this - It was a great gift and a great burden to receive a white elephant. The great gift was that you had received a lifelong honor from the monarch if he chose to give you a rare white elephant, the burden was that now you had to feed it! If you google white elephant you will find many sources and stories for this term.
The photo in the upper left shows the break between the first class and the next. The studio is bright and spacious. The next event was chanting. Connie led the chant and was joined by Mary Canning and myself. The chanting was profound and powerful. Then Connie led a silent meditation. During the silent meditation Connie spoke of the light in each of us. As she spoke the sun shined through the room filling it with a gracious luminosity. I lay back in what I call my 'surrender' pose and gave myself up to the moment. Next Mary Canning brought the room through a series of breathing exercises - Pranayama. Then there was a Kripalu Yoga Flow class taught by Mary and assisted by Pat. The class was punctuated by poems as we danced into the poses. It was a glorious day!