onlYoga eNewsletter

Vol. 33 • October • 2009

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The Autumn Schedule Goes Into Effect Thursday October 1, 2009
Please Note: Evening Classes Now Begin at 5, 6, & 7:30pm
Quarterly Special eVents Are Listed On The Activities Page
The onlYoga Studio Schedule Contains The Most Up To Date Schedule Information

© John Merideth • onlYoga, llc 2009
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John Merideth

The Big Questions
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Autumn Only
50 Classes
$499
 (Save $7/class)

12 Classes
$149
(Save $12 or $5/class)

15% OFF
12 Month Unlimited
$1094
 (Reg. $1288 - Save $194)

15% OFF
 Manduka Mats $81, $59
 (Reg. $95, $69)
Save $14, $10)

20% OFF
 All Books
Prices Vary

10% OFF
 Matt Towels
 $36, $54
(Reg. $40, $60
 Save $4, $6)

A_crapseyCrapsey (9 September 1878 – 8 October 1914) was an American poet. In the years before her death, she wrote much of the verse on which her reputation rests. Her interest in rhythm and meter led her to create a variation on the cinquain (or quintain), a 5-line form of 22 syllables influenced by the Japanese haiku and tanka.
Dates To Remember
POEM
November Night
BY ADELAIDE CRAPSEY

Listen.
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees
And fall.
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Zucchini Orzo Soup
This soup is a real treat and an old favorite of mine! It is light but filling. The baslamic vinegar and asiago cheese are a very rich flavor combination. Try it with some crusty whole grain bread.


Ingredients:
• 2 T olive oil
• 2 galic cloves, minced
• 1/4 c fresh basil leaves, chopped
• 4 medium zucchini, cut in half lengthwise, sliced into 1/4" crescents
• 1 small onion, diced
• 1 (28 oz) can diced organic tomatoes with juice
• 1/2 t kosher salt
• 1/2 t ground black pepper
• T baslamic vinegar
• 8 oz uncooked orzo pasta
• 1/2 c grated asiage cheese

Directions:
Place the olive oil in stockpot over medium-high heat.  Saute the garlic and basil until the garlic turns golden.  Add the zucchini and onion and cook until onion is translucent. Stir the tomatoes into the zucchini and add the veggie stock - bring to a boil.  Add the salt, pepper, and balsamic vinegar, reduce heat to a simmer and cook for 20 minutes. While soup is simmering, cook orzo according to package directions - rinse and drain.  When soup is finished cooking, add prepared orzo.  Place in bowls and top with asiago and a lef of basil.

A Light Autumn Favorite - Zucchin Orzo Soup

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NEW & NOTABLE AUTUMN CLASSES

Aerial Yoga M, TU, TH 5pm • John
These small classes utilize a soft, fabric, yoga inversion swing that is used to relieve compressed joints and to bring greater alignment to the spine. Every class will explore a series of postures meant to elicit a sense of weighlessness while forming new relationships with gravity. Classes are small and pre-registration is required. Only 4 students per class. Please contact John Merideth for additional information. Cost is $15/class, $10 Unlimited.

OY Hip Opening Series Tuesday 6pm • John

Ashtanga Basics Tuesday 7:30pm • Robynne

Hip and Chest Opening Series Wednesday 6pm • Anika

Intro Second Series Wednesday 7:30pm • Rexx

Restorative Yoga Sunday 3pm • Robynne

When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space.
-Pema Chodron

subliminal
message...

PRACTICE

YOGA

OFTEN

AT

ONLYOGA

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Monday
5pm - Aerial Yoga - John (limit 4)
6pm - Ashtanga Blend - John
7:30pm - Beginners Basics Hip Opening - Rexx

Tuesday
5pm - Aerial Yoga - John (limit 4)
6pm - OY Hip Opening Series - John
7:30pm - Ashtanga Basics - Robynne

Wednesday
6pm - Hip and Chest Series - Anika
7:30pm - Intro. 2nd Series - Rexx

Thursday
5pm - Aerial Yoga - John (limit 4)
6pm - Primary Series Level 2 - John
7:30pm - Yoga Basics and Practice Fundamentals - Anika

Friday
9:30am - Ashtanga Blend - John

Saturday
9am - Primary Series Level 3 - John
11am - Yoga Basics and Practice Fundamentals - John

Sunday
10am - OY Hip Opening - John
3pm - Restorative Yoga - Robynne
There was a time, early on in my spiritual development, when I thought there might be answers to the big questions presented by the serendipity of a conscious mind. As an adolescent the BIG questions, for me, perpetually centered around my own mortality. It wasn’t necessarily the death of my physical body that disturbed me so much as it was the existential crisis presented by the emptiness seemingly inherent in ceasing to be conscious. I just couldn’t wrap my mind around why/how we humans were blessed and cursed with the awareness of our own mortality.
Looking back, I can see how my unusual childhood tuned me to this sometimes dark fascination which was further amplified by an inherently artistic temperament. By my late teens and early twenties, I was primed to spend a large portion of my energy as an adult seeking answers, looking for truths and generally being earnest. I explored the problem from a variety of angles, imbibing various substances in an attempt to dissolve the self imposed barriers between me and everything else. I resolved to fight a pitched battle to unlock my chest and hips through hours of asana practices. I meditated alone and in groups, for hours and sometimes days, staring into the eyes of another human. I repeated my mantra and chanted or sang with passion. I read the sacred texts, the histories and philosophies, the self help books and the reflections of great minds. In short I searched in earnest.
More than two decades later, I haven’t found The Answer and more than once I have cast about in confusion, wondering what it is I am searching for. After all this time, with no apparent goal in sight, I can’t help but wonder from time to time at the futility of my efforts. This isn’t to say that there haven’t been great benefits to all this effort. There certainly have been, but most of them are as transitory as the seasons. Most profoundly and possibly importantly, I no longer feel the existential angst as deeply.

So the questions remain but so to do the lessons. The most lasting lesson has been the realization that all the striving and searching we do as humans to have the answers, to garner ownership over this fleeting experience we call a life, is just another form of grasping and attaching. Although the searching we do is perhaps somewhat more ephemeral than our attachment to external things, the end result or the net effect on us energetically is the same - tangible or intangible, in the end we must release it all.

My searching will continue, not because I believe I will ever find the answer, rather because I see now that being blessed with consciousness means being entangled in living. We are forever grasping and releasing, grasping and releasing. Living is poignantly beautiful and distressing all in one breath. There is no answer to this predicament. Regardless of chaos or the promise of a bright future, life looms before us and demands to be lived. I don’t know about you but I will likely continue to cling and become attached. I will also continue to celebrate the practices like yoga and meditation, running, swimming, walking, loving, nature, dogs, etc. that cultivate a lasting sense of peace within me.

OM SHANTI,

John Merideth
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A selection of songs from one of John's Autumn 09 Class Mixes.

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