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

Happy May!! :) And Happy belated Mother's day to all you Mom's out there! We're welcoming Memorial weekend in just a few days and a long weekend for most of us. A welcome weekend. The weather here has been up and down. Classic New England weather. It will be nice to see the sun more very soon. I know how naturally happy the Solar energy assists us in being. Plus I do so love my nature walks especially when the sun is shining!

This month and especially the past week has given many people a reason to pause. Sometimes it's a somewhat traumatic experience and other times just a little nudge to keep us awake, alert and seeing the divine miracles that are always around us. The animals have been acting funky too! A deer in broad day light cut me off on a main road. Luckily, my car stopped short just in time! The next day a turkey did the SAME thing in the SAME location! Isn't that cause for pause. Then I ended up injuring my left ankle and/or calf. I am not able to flex my foot fully right now without much pain. I can point it and turn it left and right but not flex it.

I looked up ankles in "You Can Heal Your Life" by Louise Hay. She states that if a problem occurs here it is that I am not fully enjoying life or allowing myself to have fun anymore. That resonated. I knew I was allowing others energies to affect mine negatively rather than rising above and still shining my light. I also realized the metaphor for my injury. I need to remember to be more flexible and allow more room for growth. So my lessons are there for me. I am doing my best to be totally truthfully honest and totally conscious in where I am so that I can grow rather than dive back into unconsciousness-land. And I hope that by sharing this, it gives you, the reader, strength and inspiration to take a look at what's going on in your life and where you can become more conscious.

This month's article is all about how and where we put our focus. So let's bring our focus into the here and now. It's all we have anyway. :) I wish you all a happy rest of May and beautiful sun-shiney June!

UPCOMING CLASSES

"Your Soul Loves the Truth"
28-day Soul Coaching® Program, 7-8:30p.m.
Location: My Sacred Yoga Space in Cumberland, RI
As your Certified Soul Coach® I create a safe space within which you can listen to the inner messages from your soul. Through Soul Coaching® you will discover your authentic self, and begin to realize the meaning of your life. This class will get to the route of your old past patterns and zap them for transmutation. Click here to learn more. Begins Sunday, June 17th $175

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
Chair Pose
Sanskrit: Utkatasana
Photo courtesy of abc-of-yoga.com

Chair is a fantastic post to heat up our internal fire. It works wonders on our rear end and thighs, legs and arms. It also stimulates the digestive system and heart. In its full version the arms are by the ears. I do also love to do the Revolve twisting variation of Chairs and loving the hip opener variation too, where one leg crosses over like in recline pigeon. But I'm getting ahead of myself. :) Let me explain how to come into this pose while you view the visual to the right.

Directions on how to come into the pose:
Standing in Tadasana/Mountain pose, feet can be hip distance apart or close together. Better balance may be felt with feel hip distance apart. Inhale arms all the way up by your ears. Be mindful of good posture throughout.

Elongate the spine as you inhale. Exhale and begin to bend your knees pulling your tooshy behind you as if you are about to sit in a chair. Allowing your body to come into a 45 degree angle. Be sure that you can still see your toes. Never dump the weight in the low back. If you feel a tug in the low back, straighten your back as you tuck your pelvic under to alleviate any pressure. From here, your arms can be straight out in front of you or straight up beside your ears. Fingers can be close or wide stretching out strong.

Feel the opening in the heart and the lungs. Here be sure the weight is in the heels not the ball of the feet. This way you aren't falling forward. Here we can lift our toes up off the mat to really feel the weight where it should be.

Hold for 30 seconds to a minute. To come out, inhale as you straighten your knees. Exhale releasing your arms to your sides back into Mountain pose.

When not to do this pose or to modify/Contraindications:
If you have a headache, low blood pressure or insomnia. Also, listen to your body. If your knees are hurting due to injury modify here and don't come as deep into the pose or at all if it's too much. Your body is wise and is always speaking to you. Honor the wisdom of your body.

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Inspire You Article
Focus

I find it truly symbolic for me that just last year I purchased a new vehicle, a Ford Focus. The names of our vehicles usually give us a vibrational match to what we are needing to learn or continue working with. So I have been seeing "Focus" as a message for me to truly zero in on my goals and intentions and add *my* energy to these endeavors. To me, the idea of focus brings with it the idea of living totally awake and truly honing in on the most potent of energies for a desired result. It makes me want to beam light powerfully at my goals. (Which I do on occasion, don't you?) :)

You may have heard the saying, where attention goes, energy flows. This is a universal truth! We affect the energy around us all the time. Just by our focus. We focus and light builds on the area of focus. This can be a body part or an intention of an experience. We can assist the experience with our focus; our energy; our light! Or not. It's our free will choice.

Yes, we do answer to a higher power. The ultimate Source of All That Is. It is there that things occur or not occur and at what level. It is the wise highest energy that knows all and knows what path we are to take to lead to our individual destiny. Our individual plan we set up prior to coming here.

But it is our own desires and what brings us the most joy and happiness that is where we are meant to *focus* our energies. When we do this with our energetic effort we add so much more to the project or intention than if we just went through the motions and took a lazy complacent stance about it happening or not happening. We must put our own energy totally INTO IT. There is an element of allowing "what will be to be", as a mode of surrender to the Divine. But there is our light that manifests the goal or intention. So let go of the end result happening, but allow it to grow and blossom before you by sending it love and light and beautiful joy-filled energy. The more you love it the better it will manifest and the more potent and powerful the experience will be!

It is helpful to not split our focus either. This splits our energy. When we have so many things we want to accomplish and have sent energy in too many directions, we are scattered and spreading our energies too thin. So take some time to focus only on one goal at a time.

Focus like a laser beam on your goal or intention! For example, if you have an ache or pain (or even if you don't) focus your beam of light (your attention) on that body part. Fill it with beautiful light. Imagine it. Our imagination is where our creative lies and where our connection to our highest potential can flow in. So send light. Focus on that body part feeling better and/or looking better. You can do this for weight loss as well. That's what I did to shed over 90 pounds. (This along with eating less and listening to my body by exercising.) You may feel tingles, cold spots or most common is feeling heat energy. You are a natural born healer. :) You can do this to an experience or relationship that you would like to have a positive outcome for the highest and best good of all, too. Think light, think light, think light. Think love. Focus love and light. :)

You can also choose to aim your focus negatively. We do it all the time. Someone makes us mad at work or at home or cuts us off while we are driving, etc. The list goes on. We aim our beam of "madness" at the person, as if that's going to make it all better! Instead we can fume, let it out positively and aim laser beams of light at whomever it was that upset us. We can choose to be in a place of forgiveness, not necessarily for them to begin with, but mostly for US. For our well-being. And once in this new place of forgiveness we can move from here. Our laser beam focus can be used for good once again! :) We already know that what we send out comes back to us three-fold, so why not make it uplifting and loving as much as possible. We can let out our tension in positive ways, like exercise, running, walking and even screaming at the top of our lungs in our car (when no one is around) and even breathing nice and deep. Whatever works right! :)

So remember, it is still our free will choice to get there and we must take action and be in the "game" of living LIGHTLY. Focus light. Share light where we can. And harm none. Love, Live, Laugh always.

May your Journey into Self always be blessed.

Blessings to you on your path,
~Spiritual Cheerleader

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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!

www.ABC-of-Yoga.com
Check it out! Here you can check out 47 different yoga poses and watch a cute character animated into each pose. So you see how you come into the pose from start to finish. Love it! So cute too! :)

The Good Witch
I recommend this for a great feel-good movie with feelings of connecting to something greater. What is felt by the star, Catherine Bell, of this movie is keeping the mystery alive while tapping into something innate and yet, widely unknown by many. I loved it!

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
Empowering you through Yoga, Healing & Workshops
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