Earthrise Yoga & Music Fusion
with Derek Beres & Richard ‘medicineman’ Martin
Saturday, September 27 at College Street

Derek Beres is the creator of EarthRise Yoga™, a Vinyasa-based practice with an emphasis on the physical aspect of asanas, as well as jnana and bhakti yogas. He currently teaches fourteen weekly classes in New York City, and travels internationally as an instructor and lecturer on yoga, as well as his work in international music as a journalist and DJ.

Derek will be teaching a two-hour EarthRise Yoga workshop during the day, before leading a 90-minute EarthRise class while his good friend Richard "medicineman" Martin of CIUT 89.5 FM.

Join us for one of the most elevated loft parties in the city, as Derek shifts gears to team up with Richard for a night of world funk and hypnotic rhythms. Dance, groove, chat, chill, as we devote ourselves to the ritual of the beat. All spirits welcome and spirits will be served.* (*Cash Bar - This is a licensed event and is not BYOB.)

Pay for each workshop individually or just $55 plus GST for the ENTIRE workshop!

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"Evolving Spirit" 250 Hour Teacher Training
with Cynthia Funk, Karusia Wroblewski & Special Guest Teacher, Cora Wen
Starts Friday, September 19 at College Street

This 250 hour yoga teacher training course covers the details and adjustments of each posture in the Primary Series of Ashtanga yoga and the use of these postures as the basis for a flowing Hatha class.

The successful completion of this 250-hour course qualifies you to find an entry-level position as a Certified Yoga Teacher and gives you all the foundations of learning to guide and instruct others.

A Certificate is granted upon satisfactory completion of the course.

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Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa at College Street
Open Your Heart to the Subtle Voice Within:
Through Kundalini Yoga & Meditation pesented by Yoga Spirit
Friday, September 12 to Sunday, September 14, 2008
$300 Earlybird before August 20th for Full Weekend Workshop
Individual Sessions Available

Gurmukh is an internationally known teacher and author. For over three decades, students around the world have sought her classes in Kundalini yoga, meditation, pre and post-natal training and Kundalini teacher trainings.

We are born to fulfill our destiny. When we realign with the subtle voice within, we realign our destiny. Through Kundalini Yoga and meditation we open all channels of divinity. Your body becomes a divination tool that is intrinsically receptive to hearing the Well of Divine Consciousness within. Through asana, chanting, dancing and meditation, along with the sound of the sacred Gong, we will celebrate the fulfillment of our divine connection to Truth, Spirit and Destiny. All levels welcome.

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Experience Your Own Freedom of Choice

Write down all the shoulds in your life. All the things you feel guilty about and feel that you should be doing. Now examine each should and ask yourself:

Why have I not done this?
Do I really want to do it?

Stay with each one until you get a satisfactory and honest answer. Feeling guilty about something we don't want to do but feel we should do is giving away our own personal power. Who is trying to manipulate you through guilt? Your answers will enable you to release these old patterns or to realize what areas you really need to work on.

Turn every should in your life to a could, both for yourself and for others. Drop the word should from your vocabulary. Drop the concept of should from your mind. Replace both the word and the concept with could. Should is limiting, could is choice.

I Should…
I Could…if I wanted to

All the shoulds and the should-nots in your life are just trying to live up to someone else's idea of acceptable behavior. Let your own Power of Freedom decide what you want to do and what would be best for you not to do. Free yourself from the tyranny of shoulds. Come from Freedom of Choice.

Affirm today: I stand tall and free. I am strong and confident in all that I do.

~ Louise Hay