Saturday, April 30, 2011 7pm, 2 hours

High-energy evening featuring Satya Franche and friends.Drummers, flute players, conch blowers etc. are welcome to join in. Sink into the sweet Mystery on wings of song led by these ecstatic bhaktas. $10 – 15 donation requested, children free. Reservations Recommended. Kirtan follows Yoga with Ann Russell.

Satya Franche leads kirtan in the NY area and beyond, and is the founder of Ma Kirtan. A singer since childhood, a Berklee graduate, she has worked extensively as a session vocalist/jingle singer. The guru guides her new CD, “Love is in the Name”.

Satya Franche; Ma Kirtan is an ensemble that is ever changing in its roster. This makes for a different experience for each gathering of repetition of the name. Ram Ram!!

Not kidding. Read about it here, though there doesn’t seem to be too much written about it. If you live round here (Connecticut) today is a perfect snow day to make a cake with the kids, the neighbors, the dog, your inner child?
If you ask me there is no point in a cake that is not chocolate, so it is all well aligned. Must be in the stars.

And if you eat too much cake today, just come out to Dew Yoga for Vigorous Class tonight at 7pm with Jen and invert any residual cake guilt into downright, I mean, downward dog pleasure.

Oh yes, here’s the video about the holiday:

The Alot is Better Than You at Everything

“It has become almost fun for me to come across people who take the phrase “a lot” and condense it down into one word, because when someone says “alot,” this is what I imagine:”Read the rest from the source.

The birthday surprise weekend was wonderFull of sharing, connecting, learning and knowing. The surprise we planned for 6 weeks in advance was almost a surprise. It feels good to know that even from North Carolina he follows our ‘dewings’ on the website but noticing all my classes subbed out from Friday to Sunday raised some suspicion – which he referred to as Hope.

Workshop led by Rita. Questions will be welcome at the workshop, if you have any in advance, contact Jen

$35.00/person, please pre-register. 2 Karma Recipient spaces available, contact Jen.

“We have the strange idea, unsupported by any evidence, that we are loved and admired only for our superb strength, our far-reaching powers, and our all-knowing competency. Yet in the real world, no matter how many relationships may have been initiated by strength and power, no marriage or friendship has ever been deepened by these qualities. After a short, erotic honeymoon, power and omnipotence expose their shadow underbellies and threaten real intimacy, which is based on mutual vulnerability. After the bows have been made to the brass god of power, we find in the privacy of relationship that same god suddenly immobile and inimitable to conversation. As brass gods ourselves, we wonder why we are no longer loved in the same way we were at our first appearance. Our partners have begun to find our infallibility boring and, after long months or years, to find us false, frightening, and imprisoning.

We have the same strange idea in work as we do in love: that we will engender love, loyalty and admiration in others by exhibiting a great sense of power and competency. We are surprised to find that we garner fear and respect but forgo the other, more intimate magic. Real, undying loyalty in work can never be legislated or coerced; it is based on a courageous vulnerability that invites others by our example to a frontier conversation whose outcome is yet in doubt.

We have an even stranger idea: that we will finally fall in love with ourselves only when we have become the totally efficient organized organism we have always wanted to be and left all of bumbling ineptness behind. Yet in exactly the way we come to find love and intimacy with others through vulnerability, we come to those same qualities in ourselves through living out the awkwardness of not knowing, of not being in charge.

We try to construct a life in which we will be perfect, in which we will eliminate awkwardness, pass by vulnerability, ignore ineptness, only to pass through the gate of our lives and find, strangely, that the gateway is vulnerability itself. The very place we are open to the world whether we like it or not.”

This two hour workshop led by Robert will immerse you in his unique fusion of teaching and yoga influences. Robert’s approach to the art and science of yoga begins with the phrase “We are our own best teachers.” One does not just do yoga, one becomes yoga; it is a lifelong journey that anyone can make.

Learn an approach to yoga that will allow for deeper insights into yourself as a student of your own personal yoga practice, expand your perspective, and relationship with yourself. Offering classes and programs that work with the whole person, from gentle conditioning and beginner classes to more traditional vinyasa and high-energy yoga for strength and endurance. He balances the need for both strength and flexibility, stress reduction (aka surviving modern life) and meditation, along with breath work and inner quiet. $35/person, pre-registration requested. Two karma recipient spaces are available, contact Jen.

What is a CSA & how does it work?

A CSA, Community Supported Agriculture, is a growing agricultural movement that offers farm preservation, and connects you with your farming community. By signing up with a farm, you become a member of the CSA and receive a weekly box of locally grown produce which you pick up weekly during the harvest season. Each share contains whatever is ripe that week.

Red Clover Farms began back in 1915 as a dairy farm operated by Great Grandma & Grandpa Slinka.

J.Slinka & Sons provided the state of CT with fresh milk, beef, pork, poulry, eggs & produce sold at numerous roadside stands.

Red Clover Farms is on its fourth generation of farming. Today, Great Granddaughter Kimberly runs the organic farm operation with the help of her family and also friends who want to lend a hand.

Red Clover Farms is appoximately 40 acres & currently grows organic vegetables, fruits, flowers, herbs, mushrooms, xmas trees and hay.

Please visit their website redcloverblossom.com to find out more information.