Bring Balance Home

There’s a reason we refer to our yoga as “practice”: It’s an opportunity to practice whatever qualities we want to see more of in our lives. Sometimes we do yoga to cultivate patience, clarity, or bravery. Other times, our list is more tangible. We want a strong upper body, increased energy, or open hips. The reasons we practice inevitably change as we go through career moves, love affairs, pregnancies, and other life transitions.

They also change from day to day. Developing a personal yoga practice allows us to devise a specific program to give ourselves what we really need at any given time. We get on the mat whenever we can, for whatever length of time, in whatever amount of space is available to us. This practical approach is a first step toward integrating yoga into everyday life.

Today, why not try unrolling your mat and practicing a little on your own. Even if it’s just for 15 minutes at a time, the work you do at home will strengthen your practice by making you a more conscious and independent yoga practitioner. Even if you prematurely give up on a pose that makes you feel uncomfortable or forget a sequence you’re working on, each small home practice session will help you build up to a longer, more meaningful home practice.

 

~ Article by Yoga Journal

 

2009 New Years Resolution Challenge!

This is one New Year’s resolution you’re going to want to keep!…

Everyone wants to get fit for the New Year… but THIS New Year we are going to add a little incentive! Sign up for our 12 week “2009 New Years Resolution Challenge,” and you will receive a complete makeover package for $500, valued at over $1,000! Sign up before the program start date of January 19, 2009 and you will receive:

• A comprehensive wellness evaluation by Health Goals Chiropractic
• A nutritional evaluation with NuBalanced Nutrition
• A guided meditation session & discount coupon from Advantage Hypnosis Counseling
• 12-weeks of classes (2 per week) with Pilates Core Center and Dragonfly Yoga
• A discount coupon for Julian Hair and Color Studio
• Three $20 discount coupons for skin care with Donna Radcliffe of Skin Basics
• Three $20 discount coupons for massage with Joan Dighton
• New Years Resolution Challenge Party on Saturday, April 4, 2009

You will be given a punch card with a spot for each class, evaluation and session! Upon successful completion of this 12 week makeover program, you will be eligible for a drawing.

 

First Prize:

• 20 class package from Pilates Core Center and Dragonfly Yoga
• Complete Make-over from Julian Hair and Color Studio
• 3 one hour massages with Joan Dighton
• 3 one hour facials by Donna Radcliffe of Skin Basics + more!

 

Second Prize:

• 10 class package from Pilates Core Center and Dragonfly Yoga
• Hair Cut and Color from Julian Hair and Color Studio
• 2 one hour massages with Joan Dighton
• 2 one hour facials by Donna Radcliffe of Skin Basics + more!

 

Third Prize:

• 5 class package from Pilates Core Center and Dragonfly Yoga
• Hair Cut from Julian Hair and Color Studio
• 1 one hour massage with Joan Dighton
• 1 one hour facial by Donna Radcliffe of Skin Basics + more!

 

All participants:

• 10% off any class package (except 8 class auto pay) at Pilates Core Center and Dragonfly Yoga
• Discount from Julian Hair and Color Studio + more! 

At the end of the program Pilates Core Center and Dragonfly Yoga will host a party complete with deliciously healthy refreshments. A photographer will take the “after” photo of the group, followed by the prize drawing. Contact Diane Grossman of Pilates Core Center and Dragonfly Yoga Healing Arts & Retreat Center to register.

 

*Makes a great gift!*

 

Annual Thanksgiving Food Drive – Free Class

Please join us as we help those in our community who are struggling to feed their families this Thanksgiving.  In years past we have collected non-perishable food items for the local food bank.

Last year, a number of you preferred to donate cash or with a check and we converted that money into Shop-Rite gift cards which allowed the food bank to purchase items they needed - fresh turkeys, fresh vegetables and other perishable items.  They also have a need for disposable diapers, baby food, baby formula.

We will be collecting non-persishable food items and cash/check donations November 17 through November 23 at both studios. 

Everyone contributing to the food drive will earn a
FREE Pilates or Yoga mat class!

Pilates/Yoga for Pink A Huge Success!

Thanks to this year’s P4P coordinator, Jeanette Morenski, the PC2/Dragonfly Yoga staff volunteers (Archana Bhalgat, Nicole Carroll, Melissa Roberts, Melanie Levan, Kim Friedman, Justin Marx, Diane Myles, Nyla White, Luray Tobar, and Nancy Davis) and all who particpated in the event, this year’s fundraiser for The Breast Cancer Research Foundations was not only a financial success, but the most fun we’ve had yet.   We raised $1,967!

Luray Tobar and Melissa Roberts came up with the idea of a Pilates for Pink Plank-Off Challenge and the training began.  What began as a friendly competition between two instructors, soon spread to other instructors as well as clients of all ages… Congratulations to the particpants – you are all winners!  By the way the time to beat next year is 7+ minutes of holding plank!  The word on the street is that the 2009 Plank-Off training will begin in the spring!  Watch for details after the first of the year.

Evolution of the Spirit

Evolution of the Spirit  Evolutionary biologist Elisabet Sahtouris has written that stress is what creates evolution in nature: Plants grow through pruning, and human beings grow the same way. When we’re faced with a situation that we can’t control or change with our current level of understanding and skill, evolutionary stress arises. The stress impels us to question the situation, seek guidance and answers, practice what we’ve learned, and eventually take a leap out of our comfort zone into a higher level of awareness.

For most of us the stress is uncomfortable and disturbing. But in science and in spiritual life, important breakthroughs are often preceded by a period of intense frustration or impasse. The scientist has assembled his data and performed innumerable experiments, but he is unable to crack the problem; the answers aren’t coming. His passionate quest for answers and his frustration about not receiving them build to a white-hot intensity. In this impasse, frequently while he is resting or taking a walk, the answer emerges from his momentarily still mind. Often it takes the form of an insight, like a download from the Source.

– Article by YogaJournal