YOGA IN ISLANDIA
NEWSLETTER
JANUARY / FEBRUARY / MARCH
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Ancient Remedy for Modern Stress
(Now More Than Ever!)

New! New! New! -- 12-Step Programmers – this is for you!

Please note that I will be offering YOGA FOR RECOVERY – a six-class course in the application of Yoga practice, Ayurveda (Indian Healing & Health), plus Meditation, starting this Spring, for those who are looking to overcome self-destructive or addictive tendencies. If you wish to live a more balanced, healthy life, you will be able to use ancient techniques that can help you in today’s world. Also helpful to those in Al-Anon.

For more information and to schedule a preliminary interview, please email me at grac...@gracewelch.com, or call 631-348-7199.

Schedule of Yoga Classes:

Mondays: Restorative Yoga – or Yoga Lite – 1:00 to 2:30 pm - for those with chronic conditions such as Fibro-Myalgia, back problems, cardiac patient, post-operative, overweight.
Monday Nights: 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm – Beginner/Open Class
Wednesday Mornings: Early Bird – 8:00 am to 9:30 am – Open
Wednesday Nights: 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm – Beginner/Open
Friday Nights: 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

NOTE: I will be away on Yoga Retreat from Thursday, January 22, 2009 through Tuesday, February 3rd. Regular scheduled classes will resume on Wednesday, February 4th, with the Early Bird Yoga class at 8 am. My regular students, please mark your calendar.

FULL MOON MEDITATIONS – FREE – 8 pm to 10 pm – Bring a friend

HAUPPAUGE ADULT ED YOGA CLASSES START TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24

Beginner class starts at 6:00 pm, Intermediate class starts at 7:30 pm. Students who have studied with me in Beginner class, are qualified and urged to join the Intermediate class at 7:30 pm. Course runs for eight (8) weeks. No class April 7th.

SPECIAL EVENT – YOGA DAY – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21 – FROM 10:00 am to 3:00 pm

Two hours of asanas & meditation – special emphasis by request. Home Cooked Vegetarian Meal/ open and free discussion. Phone: 631-348-7199 –Your $50 check reserves your space.

Because this is the beginning of the New Year 2009 – I reprint here one of my poems suitable for the occasion:

Blank Pages Beckon

Numbered pages of a New Year’s organizer,
stare blank and stark, beckoning to be filled.
Chrysalis of mental energy, separately set in perfect blocks –
meetings, lunches, parties, vacations,
wait for birthing into reality.
Penciled in are doctors’ visits, shopping trips, job interviews
pending transformation into daily drama.
Weddings, baptisms, divorces and custody wars
scribbled amongst work-a-day scenes.
Those chancy twins, sickness and death,
not known for scrupulous planning, will, in time,
serpentine into the record.
The world orders its life on pristine pages,
harnessing time to its dreams.
Resolved to master the randomness of fate,
by cataloging its schemes.

Grace Welch
28 Dec 90

I wish you good health, good times, good friends.

Grace Durga
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