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Evolution Yoga — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:34:54 +0000

Join evolution Physical Therapy & Yoga teachers at the monthly teachers meeting this July.

July’s theme of the month is chanting. What is your favorite chant so far?

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Anusara Moment: Does it get any better?

workingwellvt — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:36:25 +0000

Does it get any better than this?

When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt back your head
and laugh at the sky.Buddha

Bill and I have been reading the “Chet and Bernie” mysteries. Chet, a mixed breed dog who failed police training, narrates his life with Bernie, the hapless and occasionally brilliant detective. While Bernie bumbles through relationships and jobs, Chet savors every moment, finding intense pleasure in anything. From riding shotgun in the car, to finding a french fry under the dining room table, to leaping through the air and tackling a perpetrator. His favorite expression is, “Does it get any better than this?

Taking a cue from Chet, Bill and I look for as many uses of that expression a day as possible.Does it get any better than fresh local blueberries for breakfast? A crescent summer moon in the west? A heart opening back bend? A chore accomplished?

I think that’s what enlightenment is – experiencing the best in any circumstances. Because every moment holds the incredible power, momentum and goodness of the pulsing Universal.

Is it that simple? Chet would think so!

Email Andrea

1000 Times a Day: Anusara Moment

workingwellvt — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:03:45 +0000

Our hearts transport blood around our bodies, a thousand times in a day. As well as a physical pumping station, the heart is the hub of the fourth chakra or energy center of the body that corresponds with love and compassion.

It’s fun to draw parallels between the physical and the energetic heart. One is transporting the oxygen-poor and oxygen-rich blood for filling and dispensing. Could the other equally be drawing in all manner of separateness and pain and transforming them with love?

I like to think so. 1000 times a day.

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Yoga with Jane Yoga and DJ HyFi

jane jarecki — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:32:00 +0000

I'm please to welcome DJ HyFI to Burlington from his trips around the country, spreading music, yoga and love.

Join us on Saturday, July 24th from 6-8 pm on a journey across a sonic landscape of groovin' beats and lush atmospherics. The journey starts with an hour and a half of asana to live DJ mixing and flows into a 30 min sonic meditation/savasana.

In the yoga portion of the workshop, I will lead you to new depth and in the meditative portion of the workshop, DJ HyFi will be layering and mixing ambient sounds to create a smooth sound scape that will transport you to another dimension.
-Jane Jarecki Lanza

Just relax and let the river carry you along...
$25
6-8 pm
Register: Pre-registration required

Yoga-teacher turned DJ who spends his time touring the country spinning live in-studio at Yoga workshops and events nationwide… DJ HyFi brings it to the next level! To download DJ HyFi’s June 2010 mix for free :: click here ::

Special Angels: Anusara Moment

workingwellvt — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:11:53 +0000

I’ve been told by several people that I have special angels who hang onto the car roof when I’m driving.

I speed regularly, take corners quickly, and strategically maneuver from lane to lane like a chess board advance. My hubcaps and bumpers are dinged from close encounters with curbs. But I’ve never had an accident, other than being rear-ended while waiting at a stop sign, and only one speeding ticket as an adult.

Bill, my husband, was following me one day as I sped off and screeched around a corner. He swears the angels got dumped off and had to fly really fast to catch me again!

I do believe the perfection and protection of Grace follows us closely in all we do. The presence of the Perfect Self consistently offers guardianship as well as the opportunity for kind and joyous thought and action.

As we slow down, Grace easily overtakes us. (If you would only do that in driving, Bill says.)

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Low Back Pain Research at evolution

Janet Carscadden — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 01:35:08 +0000

For the past five years I have had the pleasure treating patients in low back pain studies run by Dr. Sharon Henry at the University of Vermont. If you have been at the studio, you may have noticed the study recruitment posters on the walls. This spring we started recruiting and treating clients in a study that compares two different types of treatment for low back pain. If you have low back pain, please consider being a participant in the study. Not only do you help contribute to the body of science that hopes to better understand and improve outcomes for people with low back pain, but you get six free physical therapy sessions and are compensated $100 for your time. Your treatment can be provided at Evolution PT and Yoga or one of the other treatment sites. I’ve attached the contact information below regarding the study recruitment information. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or wish to be considered for treatment.

Sincerely,

Janet Carscadden PT

janet@evolutionvt.com

Department of Rehabilitation and Movement Science

Dr. Sharon M. Henry R01 “Mechanisms of Specific Trunk Exercises in Low Back Pain”

Are you between 21-55 years old and suffer from chronic, low back pain?

You may be eligible to participate in a research study, conducted by the University of Vermont, that includes the following benefits:

- Pre and post-treatment testing sessions at the UVM Human Motion Analysis Lab (includes a free physical therapy evaluation)

- 6 physical therapy treatment sessions with a physical therapist at no charge to you or your health insurance

- $100 total compensation upon completion of study

The purpose of this study is to examine whether or not matching treatment to your specific symptoms is better at decreasing your pain and increasing your function than a non-specific strengthening/conditioning program.

This study is being conducted by Dr. Sharon M. Henry, Professor and Associate Dean of Research at the University of Vermont, College of Nursing and Health Sciences.

For more information or to sign-up, please call 802-656-1478, or e mail HLBPS@uvm.edu

Anusara Moment: Walkin’ feet

workingwellvt — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:18:33 +0000

Sometimes I can get stuck in my perceptions or ideas, as if I’m rooted in front of a bank of big screen TVs in Best Buy and won’t move. My feet are stuck in place.

Let’s say the program on each TV is an aspect of what’s happening in life. One might describe a work day that feels overwhelming; another screen shows a family relationship that looks “bad”.

Another might be a wonderful show. I could be looking at my flower gardens and the yellow finches flitting around the bird feeders. Maybe I think I can’t live without this scene in my life.

A part of our mind gathers information; another projects it on a screen, and the ego decides whether we like what we see. Or don’t like it. The whole ball of wax is our reality.

What I’ve been practicing this week is picking up my feet and walking, literally or figuratively, to a different place in all this. Instead of being frozen in front of the various screens, I take these walkin’ feet and move the body and mind. Get out of Best Buy! Take off for the lake or someplace beautiful!

It’s a new show from the top of Camel’s Hump or while swimming off Red Rocks. I’m less attached to it. Same screens: different reality.

Neat!
Email Andrea

Get rid of the rose: An Anusara Moment

workingwellvt — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:19:25 +0000

A fragrant white rose in my garden was never in the right place to catch enough sun for optimum health. For two years, I’ve watched her bloom tentatively and then be ravaged by bugs.

I’ve tried hosing them off, spraying them with organic pesticides (and then worrying about the birds and squirrels) and handpicking dozens of pests off the shrub twice a day.

This year I removed the infested beauty before the surrounding plants were affected.

It’s tough sometimes to eliminate something in life that SEEMS like it should be OK. Or we WISH it was OK. Or we don’t understand why we can’t MAKE it OK. It could be a habit, belief, possession or even a livelihood that ultimately isn’t serving us.

Rumi, the 13th C. Sufi mystic and poet writes-

…. if you wait and just let it happen, you’d bite your hand and say “I didn’t do as I knew I should have…Quick! Take the pickaxe and pry the foundation.

Get rid of the rose so the rest of the garden may flourish.

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Marathon: An Anusara-Moment

workingwellvt — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:23:42 +0000

Written June 2, 2010
At the 15 mile mark after three hours of running last weekend, the Burlington marathoners were tired in the body but their heart and mind’s intention were propelling them forward.I biked down to the finish line, and after 26 miles, these runners were looking strong in the body. And, with their intention about to be realized, they glowed with the powerful triumphant energy.As I watched these runners at various stages, I was so inspired by their palpable desire to complete the race. And I knew it was an intention born many months ago, followed by hundreds of hours of often grueling training.

Intention can sustain us through so much, whether it be reaching a long cherished goal or just a bad day. It can keep us on course in life where there are many distractions and impediments to realizing one’s true desires.

Hold and nurture your intention gently and it will give you much joy. And if your not sure what that intention is right now, doing some yoga or quiet sitting in nature are good ways to get some clarity.

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Margaret offers Level III Anusara-Inspired

Evolution Yoga — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:21:38 +0000

Hello friends,

Starting this June, I will be guiding a weekly:
Level III Anusara-Inspired practice
Fridays, from 4-6 pm at evolution yoga studio.

This class is geared toward experienced intermediate and advanced students and teachers, men and women, who can kick to handstand at the wall and perform Urdhva Dhanurasana (full wheel back bend) with straight arms.

Friday Level III class is geared toward experienced intermediate and advanced students and teachers, men and women, who can kick to handstand at the wall and perform Urdhva Dhanurasana (full wheel back bend) with straight arms. This practice is for dedicated practitioners of all ages, who are very committed to their practice, building community, and open to gracefully playing their edge. The teacher practices alongside the students and gives direction and guidance. Experienced students are always welcome. The 2-hour practice concludes with a half-hour exploration of meditation, yoga nidra, shavasana, and/or restorative poses. This practice is not recommended for beginners.

Come and play with us!
Margaret Dunn-Carver

Watch a video with Margaret now!