Good morning Yogi Friends and Family,
Top  of the crescent moon. First just some fun and goofy tips for you Good Ideas and Tips, like

Newspaper Weeds-Away Start putting in your plants, work the nutrients in your soil. Wet newspapers, put layers around the plants overlapping as you go,cover with mulch and forget about weeds. Weeds will get through some gardening plastic, they will not get through wet newspapers.

And then maybe you all knew this already, but I’ve lived in this Great State of Enchantment for almost two decades and didn’t know the meaning of the ubiquitous Zia symbol. A friend forwarded this to me. Zia symbol has four lines in each direction meaning:

• The compass (north, south, east, and west)
• The seasons of the year (spring, summer, autumn and winter)
• The periods of each day (morning, noon, evening and night
• The stages of life (childhood, youth, middle years and elderhood
• The sacred aspects one must develop (a strong body, a clear mind, a pure spirit, and a devotion to the well-being of others)

GREAT GONG NEWS! Two Gong Events coming up, in February Sat Guru will be presenting Kundalini Yoga and Gong Journey, Feb 23, here’s the info.

And then in March, to Gong Out the studio, Richard Rudis brings us his  GONG BATH, March 26. Gonging All Around, Vibrations Abound.

Our friend Shira Greenberg of Keshet Dance calls April the beginning of the Bedouin phase of YogaNow (the Bedouin are nomadic people who inhabit the middle east and north Africia, bedouin means desert dweller).  I will teach the Sunday 10 am class and Tue/Thurs 930 am classes at Keshet Dance, just 3 blocks from the current studio, and with abundant and free parking. Wednesday 545 pm classes will be at The Healing Gate in Nob Hill. Updates for classes are here.

The next phase of the YogaNow Teacher Training & Personal Enrichment will be a Retreat mode at Ghost Ranch in Northern New Mexico. We will host two ten day sessions, the first in October 2012, the second March 2013. Ghost Ranch with its stunning beauty in land, sky and surrounding environs (like Ojo Caliente Hot Springs) is the perfect place for yoga transformational teachings. Watch for details.

And now Vital Yoga: A Sourcebook for Students and Teachers, will be available at Whole Foods!

I hope you are all enjoying every phase of the  moon and your phases of life, every direction of the zia symbol and mostly, diving into your own luscious heart with yoga. Join me tonight on the mat for the 545 pm class, let’s vibrate together.

namaste and love,

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