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Hi everyone. I just read this week's Modern Love column in The New York Times and I was so moved I wanted to share it with you. I thought of you because one of the characters in the column is a young woman with a strong yoga practice.

I hope you like it. Enjoy!

--Sarah

SHARING THOUGHTS

I would love it if each one of you might be willing, at this time, to record some of your observations about yourself since you began a regular Yoga practice. Just to begin to observe your own thoughts is a spiritual practice in and of itself. Sharing your thoughts with your fellow students will help them and you. It will also give me an idea about what is going on with you, so I can be a better teacher.

I welcome suggestions and comments.
If you do not feel comfortable doing this, I encourage you to take care of yourself.
Some people are very private about their process, and I completely honor this.

Just remember, the one you are seeking is the one who is doing the seeking.

Possible trip to Shoshoni

Namaste,
Along the lines of brainstorming here, we have the possibility of planning a trip to Shoshoni for part of your teacher training. We could do it in early November, or more like April or May, rather than the dead of winter.

We could arrive on Friday, and leave Sunday afternoon. The cost would be $153 for the program and then the costs for lodging (the choices are on the Shoshoni website.) They would count that as 13 hours of training, and we could then skip 2 Saturdays on our schedule here.

Or we could plan to arrive Thursday, and leave Sunday or Monday.

I realize that it might be difficult to coordinate the date with all of you. I had the idea to take one of the November teacher training Saturdays, and just go during that time.
Let me know what your thoughts are.

Yoga Study

Hello everyone,

The Wichita Clinical Community Oncology Program at Via Christi, where I work, has started recruiting people to participate in a research study on yoga sponsored by the University of Rochester Cancer Center.

Its title is: Yoga for Persistent Sleep Disturbance in Cancer Survivors.

About 20 people will participate in 4 weeks of restorative yoga classes (2 classes per week for a total of 8 classes) taught by a 200 hr RYT at the Cancer Center of Kansas. Subjects will be randomly placed in one of two groups. The first group will start the class at the end of October while the second group acts as a control. After the first group is done, the control group gets to take the next session, so everyone gets to benefit from the practice. We had a group of patients do this study last year with great success.

Here are some of the criteria for participation:

• Has a confirmed diagnosis of cancer (but not metastatic cancer)
• Has undergone standard treatment (e.g., surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy)
• Has completed all scheduled treatment (see above) between 2 and 24 months prior to enrollment in the study.
• Has trouble sleeping.
• Has not regularly participated in a yoga class or maintained a personal practice within the last 3 months.

If you know anyone who might qualify for this study, please have them contact me at 268-5424 (work) or 765-4706 (cell) or email bradley_smith@via-christi.org

We're working on an official flyer for this, and I'll bring some copies to the studio as soon as they are ready.

Namaste,

Brad

Anatomy for Yoga DVD

The place to get the anatomy DVD is www.pranamaya.com
Anatomy for Yoga, by Paul Grilley.

Sri Shambhavananda's blog

I have permission to give you my teacher's blogspot. He regularly gives us insight in his own wonderful way. I thought you all might like to read it, so you can see how the tools you are learning actually helps you so much in your day to day problems.

http://shambhavananda.blogspot.com/

Welcome!

Today with Sarah's help I think I got you all invited to be authors, so we can all post and we can all comment. Let's just try it and see if it is a help.

GETTING STARTED

Ok, let's see how this works. I think you can add posts to this page, and you and I can dialogue.