Classes Schedule

Rise 'n Shine Yoga
10:30-11:45a
Saturday's at
Breathe Joy Yoga
Sharon, MA
(781) 784-4848

Vinyasa Flow Yoga
9:45-10:45a
Bi-Weekly Sunday's
YMCA
N. Attleboro, MA


Reiki I
January 2012
12p $150
(4-5 hours)
Breathe Joy Yoga
Sharon, MA



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What's New

Colored leaves coming soon! I saw my very first bunch of crunchy red leaves on a path I walk often near my work just this morning! I couldn't believe it. It's still August right? :) Spring and Fall are my favorite seasons, then Summer and magical Winter. So I'm happy to have less humid air in these parts I live in the Northeast and still be able to walk around without a jacket. :)

Mercury goes direct today! Yay! With almost a month of Mercury in retrograde there was plenty of "re's" going on: releasing, reintegrating, redoing, removing, etc. And if you are one of the lucky few who had a few of the side effect of the retrograde you may be happy to have less issues with electrical appliances, computers and car issues! All of these, of course, came up to assist us in knowing there were things to release. So take it in stride and flow with the waves of life!

If you have a request for a new subject for my newsletter or a question, please shoot me an email and I will do my best to accommodate! You can also check out the awesome question this month under the Dear Maggie column regarding synchronicities and how much do we listen to them and how much of these "coincidences" do we create! A good read! :)

My son starts school the last day of August! We had so many snow days last year, I'm sure that's one major reason. It's time to buckle down and get back into the swing of things for the school year and heading into the new season. With it brings goals of getting "back on track" and feeling in the flow. Perhaps one of my services or classes listed below may intrigue you to do just that. I hope you all enjoy the rest of the Summer season we are still in by living in the present and breathing in the enjoyment of this very moment, while we plan for the next season to come. :)

UPCOMING CLASSES

Become a Healer
Reiki Level I Attunement and Certification
Location: My Sacred Yoga Space in Cumberland, RI
(Requirements: Come As You Are)
Receive your Usui Reiki Level I attunement . Included in the class is your attunement to the Reiki I level, Reiki I manual, meditations, and instructions for hands on healing. After this class you will be able to heal yourself as well as others (friends, family & pets too). Class is approximately 4-8 hours depending upon the number of students. Click here to learn more . Contact me if you'd like to register for this class via email (maggieanderson7@yahoo.com) or phone (508) 369-9967.
Saturday, September 10th 10a.m. $150

"Your Soul Loves the Truth"
ONLINE 28-day Soul Coaching ® Program
Location: Teleconference
As your Certified Soul Coach® I create a safe space within which you can listen to the inner messages from your soul. Discover Your Authentic Self. Anyone can do it! In the 28-day Soul Coaching Program. We will meet once per week for 6 weeks, while you go through the daily program. You will receive daily emails with recorded meditations, guidance and more! Click here to learn more . Contact me if you'd like to register for this class via email (maggieanderson7@yahoo.com) or phone (508) 369-9967.
BEGINS Saturday, September 17th 10a.m.-11a.m. $175

We still a couple of good warm weekends ahead! Want to make it to the Beach by 9a.m. and still get a good yoga practice in?
Come join me every Saturday morning at 7a.m.
RISE 'n SHINE YOGA, 7-8:15a.m.
Location: Breathe Joy Yoga in Sharon, MA
Get up and go in the morning! This class will incorporate Sun Salutations and a flow practice to help you energize in the auspicious early morning hours. All levels are welcome. Come join us!

If you are looking for any of the classes I offer and don't see it on the schedule, shoot me an email and I'll get it up there or we can work on doing it one-on-one.


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Yoga Pose of the Month
Warrior III
Sanskrit: Virabhadrasana III
Photo of Maggie Anderson taken by Morayo Sayles

This article is all about being challenged and facing those challenges in your body as well as in life. Then taking it (the pose) as far as you can within your body. So maybe you don't get totally into that balancing stick pose just yet. Maybe you still have your leg on the mat but you are attempting to lift off while lowering the upper body down in graceful balance.

As long as you are holding your center, remaining balanced and not wavering (in faith) then you are holding the pose just right for you today. Perhaps next time you can take it a little farther. And with this pose as in life, you can face those challenges and know that you receive only that which you are able to handle for right now. You are stronger than you think you are! So bring your awareness to the strongest version of you in this pose and in life!

Warrior III can show us so much about ourselves. How much balance we have in life. How focused we can become. We are called upon to tap into our deepest level of focus and concentration as well as having a little faith that we can hold this pose in its proper form while we await the queue from our instructor to slowly and gracefully come out of the pose. Likewise, we can slowly and gracefully enter into and out of life's challenges if we so choose. :)

Directions on how to come into the pose:
Standing in Mountain Pose inhale as your bring your hands out and up, palms together. Exhale, clasp your hands together and take index finger out and press them together for Temple Mudra. Bring your right foot slightly behind you about six inches. Then inhale. On your exhale, begin to lower your upper body at the same time you are lifting your right straight leg off the mat behind you, so remaining in a straight line from your hands all the way down to your pointed toes. The stopping point it where you reach your edge today. Perhaps only a few inches off the ground or if you are able lift your leg up and upper body down to meet at hip level. Hold wherever your edge is today and breathe. The leg and knee your are balancing on is straight not locked and also not hyper extended. Pull the navel in towards the spine. Keep hips parallel to the mat, so you're not opening the hips and stacking them but rather keeping them side by side. Gaze is down to keep your head in alignment with your spine. You are working your gluts - the buttocks - and hamstrings as well as your core here. You are strengthening your shoulders and muscles of your back while improving posture.

You may try working with Ouija breath here. Breathing deeply while constricting the throat to make a sort of ocean sound in the back of the throat. The focus on the breath keeps you breathing and oxygenating the body, as well as fueling yourself to hold the pose. Remove thoughts here. Only be. Hold for a 30 seconds to a minute or longer if you'd like. Then slowly lower back down and shake the legs, especially the leg you were balancing on. Then do the same on the other side...

When not to do this pose or to modify/Contraindications:
High blood pressure

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Inspire You Article
Stronger

There's been a theme that keeps repeating itself to me this week so it must be shared. When life presents challenges to us it's so easy to fall into pity-mode and viewing ourselves as the victim. As is probably a pattern for many and something I fought hard against and feel that I am so close to having surpassed that hurdle. It occasionally still pops up. Sometimes I succeed in realizing I am no longer a victim and will not wallow. Other times my self-empowerment is low and I bring it down even lower when I allow myself a little victim party. So I say enough's enough! We are stronger than we think we are! It's all about how we speak to ourselves and what we believe! Truly!

We are not victim's of our circumstances. In fact, we created them. Each and every one of them. 100%! And more than half of that creation is a co-creation with many others in our lives from those in our lives at present and those who planted seeds throughout our life (from parents, teachers, friends, our culture and society as a whole). So we must take ownership of what is happening to us. We cannot possibly know every minute detail of they "Why's" and the "How's" of what is happening in our life. Sometimes we get the message and other times we are not meant to know, and yet again other times it is simply an experience to assist us to continue to grow stronger and more evolved. Better able to face our challenges and move through live with more ease in our center.

When a challenge comes up we can remain optimistic. We must see the reality for what it is and then begin to tap into the mysterious magical creative beings we are. We could wallow, but enough of that. That's boring. Been there. Done that. Instead it's even been proven scientifically that if you are an optimistic person even in the face of adversity you will make it through the challenge smoother, faster and more uplifted on the other side. Instead if you wallow and stay in that lower vibration muddling through the experience with a negative outlook it will be that much harder to get through the challenging experience and you will FEEL bad. Not only that, you will also be attracting more negativity into your life so you can continue to feel this low. Now who wants that!?

Use the Law of Attraction in your favor and be, see and feel the positive outcome. Solutions present themselves more easily to you when you have an open mind. If you are closed off due to negative monkey mind thinking you won't hear the solution. If you are free, open and clear it will just come to you naturally.

Challenges are a blessing in disguise. Sometimes something not-so-great happens and you realize in the end that it was truly exactly what you needed. It might have been a change in circumstance, that at first seemed awful but instead presented a huge opportunity for growth, maybe a move to a better more uplifting place or job, and maybe a new friend or relationship comes of the experience. You will get through it. We always do. Just know that you are always supported, loved and this too shall pass. So why worry. You will only manifest more experiences that will bring more worry to you. Instead get back to your center and know that whatever is happening: It's not good. It's not bad. It just is.

"Thinking isolates a situation or event and calls it good or bad, as if it had a separate existence. Through excessive reliance on thinking, reality becomes fragmented. This fragmentation is an illusion, but seems very real while you are trapped in it."
~ Eckhart Tolle

There are ways we can get into our center that will truly help us in the long run to rise up through the ashes of challenging experiences and remain in our balanced center. Below are seven beautiful and valuable tools to do just that and more:

1. Meditation is huge!: Just by taking a mere 15-20 minutes a day of quiet time you not only gain better balance and center, you also make it more possible to be more productive throughout the day. Your brain works at a more efficient rate and things get done. You are more in tune with your intuition and working in conjunction with your Soul!

2. Yoga: Need I say more. In yoga, you are also meditating as well as moving the body. Our bodies were made to move. Through yoga you are able to work with your mind, body and soul together, integrating these for a healthy and whole being. The health benefits to yoga are insurmountable and magical. I hear stories every day of folks being cured of asthma, arthritis, spinal and bone injuries and more! Just because they began a dedicated yoga practice a few times a week. You will feel better and more uplifted too!

3. Music: A magical cure for your moods. Music can bring you down or lift you up. So choose wisely the music that makes YOU feel GOOD, uplifted and even singing along. Music resonates at frequencies that can get in deep to our core and move blockages at a faster rate. Music can refresh you and leave you better able to make it through the tougher days.

4. Breathe: The power of our breath is key to everything. If you are getting stressed out, take a breather literally. Stop what you are doing and breathe in deeply, exhale slowly. Do this through your nose a few times. Close your eyes and imagine your breath going into every cell of your body, even as white light. Our breath is our prana life force energy, as we breathe we fuel our mind, bodies and soul's.

5. Use a mantra such as: Ommmm. Another good one is: It's not good. It's not bad. It just is. And breathe deeply!

6. Be the Witness: Try not to get caught up in a challenging experience. Take a step back and just observe what is happening around you. Come at it from a neutral state of mind and let the experience be. Then things will almost magically take care of themselves. Solutions will come, actions will be taken and peace can be felt even amidst the chaos.

7. Visualize: Our imagination is our tool of creativity. Since we are creating everything from our thoughts and emotions, it helps to visualize a positive outcome or at least to conjure a feeling of peace or bliss as the outcome to something that may be challenging in the very moment. Olympians and other athletes utilize this tool often as a way to gain momentum in training and ultimately winning the gold (or whatever the end result goal is in mind). I used this technique to shed over 90 pounds! Our brains do not know when we are actually experiencing something or just reliving it in our minds or, in this case, visualizing something new. Creating a new outcome of wonderful resolution with new solutions abound. The brain will still react and act as if it's happening right now and you will feel the same feelings again and by the Law of Attraction attract that which you are remembering or newly envisioning. Tap into this valuable tool for a more peaceful, enriching and happily loving life!

I do hope you all enjoy the last few weeks of summer!

Blessings to you on your path,
~ Spiritual Cheerleader

Dear Maggie
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Dear Maggie,

Hi there. Greetings from ireland. I came across your website tonight and I was just wondering if I could get your opinion on something. I know you are probably busy but just said I'd write anyway. I'm just confused about the whole signs from the universe thing.

You say that what you put out there comes back to you. For example, seeing the number 111 all over the place. I get that all the time but i dont think it means anything, I just think because it's on my subconcious and I just attract it to myself.

The reason I'm asking is because there is a girl who I really like at the moment and basically she has alot of issues at the moment so to cut a long story short we are just having a bit of space from each other at the moment. She has said she likes me too but I just dont know.

So anyway im seeing her name all over the place. for example Ii walked past flats recently and some woman popped her head out the door and called out the name Sarah. (That's the girls name.) Things like that happen all the time, but again I dont see it as meaning anything, just that I'm attracting it to myself.

But I have been putting it out into the universe that I really want her, but I spose I'm really fearful too that it won't happen. So I'm getting things like this morning for example I turned on the radio station and the guy was saying the words, "It won't happen," or another time I turned over the TV channel and there was a song playing with the lyrics, "You can say what you want, but I wont change my mind, il feel the same about you" and my surname had popped up on the screen as those lyrics were playing! I think I came on a bit strong just before she wanted some space you see. So i'm worried I messed up the chance.

So that type of stuff really freaks me out. Am I being told that no it's not going to happen with this girl or am I just putting out that negative stuff into the universe and its coming back to me?! I just dont know. Do you believe if you are meant to be with someone then it will happen? People say that alot. That everything happens for a reason. I dont know. There are probably many partners out there that we could have. Anyway sorry about this. It's just been getting me down.

Thanks for you time.
Michael

Dear Michael,

Before I begin, there is a movie called "Serendipity" that you should rent or purchase! It's a great movie and one of my favorites. It's also ALL about synchronicities and "coincidences". The star is supposed to get married to someone but keeps thinking about and seeing his prior love's name every where. You guessed it! Her name is "Sarah".

Synchronicities and the Law of Attraction is a tricky thing to diagnose. My very first set of synchronicities that I actually started to notice were of the name "Michael" and the number "13". It wasn't just three times, it happened over and over again for weeks and to this day I still get them. It's been over a decade since those started. I'm sure that these (most of the time) happen because of a friend of mine named "Michael" who died on the 13th of November in 1990. (Quite the coincidence that your name is Michael. Got any 13's to share with me!? :))

He was the beginning to my awakening from living an unconscious life (for the most part). Seeing those synchronicities helped me in ways I can't even begin to comprehend. I know that just by having them occur it helped me question God more closely. The Universe and what it does "to" us and "for" us.

How much of a pull do WE have and does the Universe have? It's a question to ask. I feel much is our creation and since we have angelic helpers and spirit guides that assist us I believe they also have a hand in our creation at times to at least gently GUIDE us on our path. They know better than us what we set out to do in this life for our blueprint in life.

God/Universe knows what we are meant to do better than we can, since we are blocked from this memory ourselves. The memory block is something we can work on. It's our choice as we want to primarily seek out our connection to the Universe again and I feel one of the MANY reasons for these signs is to do just that.

Synchronicities and signs cause us to question and to BE IN THE MYSTERY of the Universe. It tells us there is unlimited potential, power and answers to our question that can be created in an instant. The vastness of the Universe just cannot be comprehended by our minds as they are in this 3D dimension.

The more we meditate and conscious choose to be awake and follow our intuition and guidance the closer we become to our true Divine Connection.

Sign and synchronicities are also a GINORMOUS sign for awakening within. They come up if you are about to or have already had a Kundalini spike that will lead you on a path to new heights. These signs DO come up when we wish them to via the Law of Attraction. What we focus upon expands. Where your attention goes energy flows. And then there are times these signs are coming even without us realizing we are attracting them by our thoughts or even when we are not attracting them. When this happens I ask that if these truly mean something and I am meant to take some sort of action to please send it in three's.

I also know that ALL of the answers are held within us. Answers to everything we could possibly question can be answered by us within us. We just have to focus, research if we are called, listen to our intuition and feel the answers when they come up. Another thing I know is that sometimes when I try to gain an answer to something that I just don't know or have doubts about and am totally blocked, a part of me DOES know the answer. Sometimes it helps to get an outside person to interpret and maybe come up with opinions and ideas and other times it totally clouds my vision and makes my decision more confusing to make.

I then have to wipe the slate clean, remind myself that I always knew the answer (and I mean always) and go forth. If there is ever any confusion I know it is a sign to me that I must not do what I am pondering, but wait. Wait to see if it feels right later. Wait to see if nothing happens and suddenly I would know that I was never meant to do what I was pondering. Or the huge pull from within my gut basically drags me to do what I was putting off, calling it confusion but really it was procrastination.

There's no right answer. Each of us are so totally unique so I could only give my opinion. But the answer, true is, within you. Perhaps you are being called to question this because you are diving further into your spiritual roots and this is leading you there. Perhaps there is still more to learn from this person and relationship. Or perhaps you need to be reminded that Fear is not a basis for any decision. Fear is False Evidence Appearing Real. I've found if the timing is not right with someone else, then it's just not the right time and it may never be but sometimes it's just timing that will work out later. There is a reason you are having doubts. But I can't answer this for you. If the relationship is right it will happen in its own good time. There is no need to rush. Life is happening only for the pure joy of it. We are here for our pure joyful experience. There is no other reason. Only our mind playing tricks on us. So perhaps the reminder is do what feels most joyful, living life in the flow of it and loving when you can.

I do believe that those we are meant to be with will show up. It WILL happen. I have had a few relationships that are more striking than others and I know it was because it was meant to be for my growth, either happily or challenging as it was. I know that there are people who show up that you know you knew them before or you just know you will marry them. I know because I've experienced this with my Husband. A knowing just comes. It's quite amazing actually! And almost matter-of-fact. Funny huh! And I am a FIRM believe that everything happens for a reason. EVERYTHING. Everything that has happened, or will happen or is happening is happening as it should and there is nothing else that would have happened as that was what was meant to be. And a part of this paradox is we are creating it! :)

What do you think? Please let me know how it goes with you and what you end up deciding! I'm fully invested now! :)

Bliss,
Maggie

Favorite Movie, Video's and/or books
In this section I share favorite websites, books, videos or whatever inspires me to share from time to time sometimes in place of books. Enjoy!

GoodVibeBlog.com
Law of Attraction for the Real World
I love the design of this website. Right up my alley with beautiful blue's and florals! The authos, Jeannette Maw, is a great writer and Life Coach! The free artciles posted here are simple and easy to bring into your own life! It's as if she is speaking right to you. :) Love it!

***Pop Pilates: Hot Abs!***
POP Pilates: Cassey Ho (blogilates.com)
I've been getting into Pilates a lot more lately and found this wonderfully inspiring woman and fitness expert online in my search for a few good ab routines. She is upbeat and great to workout along with! Enjoy this one of MANY free videos that targets the abs! :)

Eli Stone
Have you ever seen this series when it was on the air only a few years ago? I hadn't and it popped up in my netflix. I ignored it for a few months as the image didn't tell me much and I didn't want to watch another lawyer show. But then I finally read the description a bit more and watched the first episode. I was hooked after that. It's shared mystical spiritual message in a light hearted lawyerly way. But even if you're not a lawyer you'll get the Universe's message for each of us in each episode. It holds many gems of wisdom. This lawyer receives visions of the future and they get more complex from there when he needs to take some sort of action from these visions. Amazing! And I love his accupunturist too! :)

It is my desire and intention always that you take away from my newsletter feelings of empowerment, aliveness, divine connection and peace. May You Always Know the Peace that Dwells Within.

Bliss,
Maggie CYT, RMT, CSC, CPLC
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