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Sober October Daily inspirational emails and meditation videos in October  October is a great month, football games, OctoberFests, outdoor fall events, Halloween parties. And drinking at football games, drinking at OctoberFests, drinking at fall events, drinking at Halloween parties. Have you heard of Sober October? It is a thing. We think it’s a GOOD thing! Guess what else we think is good? This is a toughie…… meditation (a little sarcasm there).
We all need more space. Space to breathe, space to think, space to connect with our true self, space to be alone. Alcohol (and other substances) take up space. And drinking takes time. Sometimes, taking a break from it can show us how much space we can create when we don’t do it. That is why we developed a month-long Sober October Meditation Series. As motivation to not drink for a month, do a little meditating, and see what happens. We also encourage you to find a friend to do it with you. If you are at a party, its easier to order the sparkling water if your companion is doing it too. And you learn different things about people, have different conversations, when alcohol isn’t involved. I know this to be true. Without alcohol and noisy bars, we learn different things about people, in a more human, connected way. Drinks with friends is a totally legit way to socialize but it's not the only way. So, lets Sober October together. It is $33 and you will get a daily email with motivation from Blaine. And a daily link to a meditation video. About 10 minutes meditation every day (at whatever time works for you). We will also be able to online chat with each other to ask questions and share experience.
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Malas and Mocktails (a make-your-own-mala workshop) Sunday, October 20th 6:30-8:30pm $50 (kit and workshop)  Candlelit Aerial Yin Yoga Friday, October 18, 7:00-8:30 $25 by October 17 $30 on October 18  Join Hannah for a restorative evening of Yin Yoga accessible to all levels. Silks will be suspended closer to the ground, allowing for ultimate relaxation and surrender in longer, slower holds using additional props, essential oils and breathwork. The evening will close with an extended savasana in the silks.
Upside Down with Friends Friday, October 11, 6:30-8:30 $25 by October 10 $30 on October 11  Join Laura Zeigler for this yoga workshop. Inversions are great for so many reasons - they lower blood pressure, support immunity, increase proprioception and most importantly, they are FUN! In this 2 hour workshop we will cover basic floor inversions like headstand and hand stand with attention to alignment and spotting as well as learn a few partner inversions from the AcroYoga practice.
Laura is both a Yoga and AcroYoga teacher, but when it comes to inversions, she teaches from the school of acrobatics focusing on alignment, hand balance, and safe spotting. If you are a complete beginner or inversion junkie, this workshop show you how you can train progressions for your best year yet of upside down time! No partner or experience required, we will work in community. Yoga for Anxiety is BACK! This is a special class focused on anti-anxiety. It uses essential oils, breathwork, meditation and Energy Medicine Yoga to stabilize the nervous system, reduce panic attacks, and manage feelings of overwhelm. AND, it is only $10.   Saturday, September 28th
4:00-6:00pm Ages 7-12 WELCOME! Got Tweens? Would you like some time to get to know each other again? Do you need to find the fun in your relationship?? Yoga Malas & Love is open to all children between the ages of 7 and 12 and the "parents" in their lives. We will spend about 60 minutes doing yoga (individual and partner poses) and other activities that will encourage communication, healthy movement, and lots of laughter. Then, we will spend the next 60 minutes having some light refreshments, picking out beads, and creating mala bracelets. Each participant will walk away with a sacred mala bracelet.  PLEASE, have your child bring their favorite book to share with the group.
Saturday, September 7th 5:00 - 8:00pm @ Yoga Hive Colorado 917 Front St., Suite 160 Louisville, Colorado 80027 Children ages 3-10 are welcome *~We provide equality of services and care to everyone, regardless of people’s age, disability, gender, gender identity, race, religion or belief or sexual orientation.~* This kids yoga party allows for KIDS to have a fun night out while YOU enjoy a 3 hour date night! Think 'Mindful Meetup for Minis' where your kids get to have just as much fun as YOU ARE! What is Beyond Babysitting? ~* Beyond Babysitting is a meetup for kids to gather and enjoy an evening of fun & mindful activities. ~*We sing, dance, play mindful games, create a conscious craft, and learn tools to help manage emotions. ~* We set up little 'stations' for the kids to enjoy throughout the event. This allows for them to help create the curriculum and have the freedom to express themselves. ~* Each month we have a special conscious craft related to our topic of the month! ~* We have an intro circle and closing circle to allow children the opportunity to experience a mini mindful meetup. ~* We teach your child breathing techniques that can be used to reduce stress and anxiety. ~* We talk about what yoga is and how to incorporate it into their daily lives ~* We practice partner yoga to allow conscious connections between children ~* We DRESS UP, we PLAY, we CREATE MUSIC, we TALK ABOUT LIFE, we EAT MINDFULLY, we MAKE NEW FRIENDS, and we CREATE MAGIC! *OUR EVENTS ARE ALWAYS 100% SCREEN FREE* (if your child has a phone, we ask that it stays in their cubby) $45 for one child $60 for two siblings $90 for 3 siblings (Scholarship opportunities are available for low income families. Please send Lauren Moon a private message if you would like more information on our scholarships!) *~*~The last four event were completely SOLD OUT! ~*~* Please sign up in advance to secure your spot. We limit this event to 20 kids and 3 adults. One of my favorite mantras: Begin Again. So simple. So non-judgmental. Start something then stop? Begin again. No need to over think anything. Just begin again.
I have some athletic accomplishments in my history. But its been a while, like 2-3 years. And here is the thing with me, I am not a naturally fast runner or cyclist. I can become fast with hard work and consistency but I am not no-training-hop-off-the-couch-and-go fast. I truly have to work hard, and it’s painful. Painful in a good way when I am done with a hard workout, but it takes serious motivation to work that hard. I bring this up because I have been feeling the call to physically work that hard again. To put myself through the ups and downs and resistance-surmounting required to achieve athletic goals. But, here is the thing, I have to start at the beginning. I have significant ground to cover and I am not any younger this time around. Yesterday, I did my first speed workout (running) in a couple of years. I was so scared before I started that I was shaking. Which is RIDICULOUS, by the way. And I thought to myself, begin again. It is time. Begin again. And that is the magic. It works for everything. Did you stop your mediation practice? Begin again. In the middle of meditation did you hop on a train of distracting thoughts and catch yourself? Let the thoughts go and begin again. Were you eating healthfully and lose track? Begin again. Has a relationship fallen away that you would like back in your life? Begin again. I think that is a sentence used in sobriety circles and it resonates with me. In Yoga, the self-study part of Yoga I mean. (Not the putting your body into shapes part, although there is a good amount of self-study when you put your body in shapes.) In Yoga, I see how much I am carrying around that doesn’t serve me. Thoughts that are a complete and repetitive waste of time, fear of things that will never happen, attachments. So many attachments. My endless micro-management of time. How much do I gain if I stop with all the mental and emotional nonsense? Truly, if I used my boundless energy on creations and things I love instead of all that, how much more joyful would I be? The self-observation part of Yoga is a fundamental requirement for awakening. And it has a spontaneous corrective power. I see the road getting narrower, so I have to let go. Just to keep going.
As we let go, that is where expansion comes. In Yoga, we spend some of our time in relaxed attention and some of our time in stressful attention. This gives us opportunity to weed out our programming, programming from our families, programming from sales and advertising we are exposed to, programming from deeply grooved habit patterns we have formed for ourselves. We do it very forcefully in Kundalini Kriyas. In one series of Kriyas, we can trigger our programming to reveal itself, observe it, experience it, learn from it, and walk away from class able to have a vaster experience in life because we transcend the programming and don’t carry it around with us. Energy Medicine Yoga uses the Ancient Chinese Medicine 5 Element Theory as foundation. The 5 elements are a cycle, or wheel. The last element is Metal which is the element of letting go. It is a powerful, juicy element. I feel lighter and more expansive by just saying the two words. LET GO  Learn to use and re-train specific energy systems to break negative patterns and habits. Our energy gets caught in patterns and not all of them are helpful. And sometimes, energy in a negative pattern will pull energy away from other systems leading to immune disorders, stress, chronic fatigue and many other uncomfortable emotions/actions. Put simply, a negative pattern can create other negative patterns. And when all your energy is working on sustaining a system that is not optimal, there is none left to manifest that new thing you really want to bring into your life.Work with Blaine, a certified EMYoga teacher, to use time-honored techniques to balance and align your energy field, both within a yoga practice and outside of one, to reprogram sub-optimal patterns and habits and create new ones for healing, transformation, and peace.
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BlaineBlaine Wilkes is the owner of Yoga Hive Colorado, and writes inspirational musings for our newsletter, which we post here, along with upcoming trainings and workshops. To filter, navigate using the links above to see the category you're interested in. If you have questions, or wish to get in touch with Blaine, drop in to a class, or connect online: Archives
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