Thursday, June 25th ~ 6:00-7:00 pm  Admission was $10 with $1 from each ticket sold donated to the Women’s Resource Society of the Fraser Valley www.wrsfv.ca

“It’s time to take control of your health; Learn practical ways to reduce the risks of cancers.” Anne Arsenault from www.healthbrights.com presented this one hour, practical workshop. We had door prizes, tea and snacks!

June 15th – Aug. 15th

We challenged our students to come to as many classes as possible between June 15th & August 15th. The goal was at least once or twice a week, every week, all summer long! Michelle came to the most classes (27) and she won a 10 Class Pass! The runner up was Isabel (26) and she won a 5 Class Pass!  Thank-you to everyone who participated – you are one committed group of yogis!

Wasn’t May 3rd extraordinary?!

Our Yogathon fundraiser for www.shantiuganda.org raised almost $2000! Do you know how far that goes in Uganda? Thank-you to everyone who came out to support Shanti Uganda and to promote yoga and community in Mission. Our teachers (Natalie, Jaromey, Andrea and Padma) were truly inspiring, and the energy we created as a group was beautiful.

We had some great community involvement and would like to thank FRASER VALLEY BUILDING SUPPLIES for donating an outdoor clock which went to Nicole for bringing in the highest donation of over $200! Special thanks also go to our door prize sponsors: NATURAL REFLEXTIONS donated a $25 Spa Gift Certificate. The MISSION SPRINGS donated a $25 Gift Card. And STARBUCKS donated a huge tea basket. Thank-you! Please be sure to support these inspiring local businesses!

Saturday, March 28th, Wendy Weymann led participants through techniques to reduce stress and enjoy life! During the workshop they practiced 3 different kinds of meditation techniques and talked about ways to start and maintain a regular meditation practice.

March is allmost over (can you believe it?). We focused on meditation this month with articles at the studio, a Spring Equinox Meditation and we still have the upcoming Meditation for Stress Management workshop on March 28th. Have you thought about how meditation may fit into your life? Have you learned something about meditation you never knew before? My intention is to “plant the seed” whether or not you choose to water, nurture and grow that “seed” is up to you.

I’ve been perusing the web for some interesting articles on meditation and thought I’d share the links, rather than print them off.

http://www.healthandyoga.com/html/mediinfo.html There are quite a few articles here, and it looks like the rest of the site has lots of info.

http://www.ananda.org/meditation/support/articles.html This site is pretty interesting. You can sign up for their free monthly newsletter on meditation. Just a heads up, there is a lot of reference to God, which I know can be a sensitive, personal issue. Read it, keep what speaks to you and toss the rest.

These are just a couple of sites I found. The information is endless. If you google “meditation articles” you’ll find lots of neat stuff.

As Wendy likes to say, “Don’t wait-Meditate!”

Blessings, Tracy