Dear friends,

Here’s our teaching schedule for the next month:

Movement for Peace at Cobalt Moon:

• When: Sundays at 10:00am, August 1^st, 8^th, 15^th, and 29^th (M Body Yoga is teaching Sunday, August 22^nd)
• Where: Cobalt Moon - Water Studio at 214 Orange Street in Neptune Beach
• Details: A class for all levels and a great way to start your week. This is a donation based class - recommended $5 per person and proceeds go to charities.

Yin Yang Yoga at the Resonance Center in Jacksonville Beach

• When: Every Monday from 6:00pm – 7:15pm
• Where: the Resonance Center, 496 Osceola Ave. in Jacksonville Beach - www.resonancecenterjax.com.
• Directions: Follow 3rd Street in Jax Beach to Osceola Ave. (Starbucks and the Gate gas station are on the corner). Turn west and go to the first street and turn left into the professional park.
  Take the 2nd right and the Resonance Center will be on the left - #496. There is plenty of parking.
• Details: An all level class which includes standing postures to warm up the body (yang) and meditative floor postures held for longer periods of time (yin). This unique practice focuses on energy balance. $10 drop-in rate.

Chakra Balancing and Tuning Workshop at Ocean Yoga

·        When: Saturday, August 28^th, from 2:00 – 3:30pm

·        Where: Ocean Yoga, 51 Pine Street, Atlantic Beach, FL

·        Details: A meditative yoga practice to facilitate healing by combining crystal bowl harmonic tones played by Dr. Keith Holden with selective postures for each chakra center led by Dennis followed by a guided relaxation. You will float out the door!! $25 at the door; $20 with advance reservations. Please contact Dennis at 571-3154 to reserve your spot ordennis.lang@prudentialnetworkrealty.com.
See attached flyer for more information.

We hope to see you in a class soon!

Namaste,

Kathy and Dennis

Kathy and Dennis Lang, GRI, REALTORS®

Prudential Network Realty

375 Atlantic Blvd, Suite 1

Atlantic Beach, FL 32233

Cell: 904.608.4017

Fax: 904.242.2443

www.dennisandkathylang.com

Our Next Jaya Meeting will be Sunday - March7, 2010 at 4pm

Kate Cordel will co-host this next meeting at her studio in Atlantic Beach (Ocean Yoga)
You can RSVP to yogaheather@hotmail.com
This gathering is open to all yoga teachers and/or studio owners in the Jacksonville Area.
There is no fee to be a member of this networking group. We always welcome new teachers!
Jaya Jax about creating unity and sharing our community workshop information with eachother, so we can continue to grow as a yoga community.
Please simply email me your upcoming workshops in email format (text) so I can cut and paste it into our blog posts. Once you have attended at least 3 meetings, you can continue to promote your workshops and classes on the blog. Again here is my email address: yogaheather@hotmail.com
See you soon!
Namaste'
Heather Hixon
http://www.timetounwind.com/
PS
Check out our new Yoga Network!!
http://www.jacksonvilleyoga.ning.com/

Next JAYA meeting - Dec. 6th

We all have such a good time at lululemon, they've offered to throw us a holiday party!  Holiday Party and Meeting from 6:30 - 8:30pm at Lululemon Athletica on Sunday Dec. 6th You may contact sroberts@lululemon.com for more info

Namaste
Heather Hixon

Day 1 - of the 30 Day Yoga Journey

Dear Yoga Friends and Jaya Jax Memebers,

I received this email from Pam Davis...Thanks Pam!!

And Thank you Deborah for creating this!

I am doing this journey myself as well and wanted to share it with the group. Follow the link at the very bottoe of the post to sign up.

Welcome and Day 1: Commit to your self-care

Welcome and thank you for beginning the 30-Day Yoga Journey!
Prepare to be inspired, challenged,validated, frustrated and perhaps even enlightened.
Each day for the next 30 days you will receive a new tool for beginning or enhancing your yoga practice -meditations, mantras, hatha yoga practices, communication tools and more.
This journey is appropriate for new comers to yoga and long-term practitioners so feel free to share it with your students, teachers and friends.
Your first day begins right now!

Day1 is below...ready? Let's begin together. Ommmmmmm.
Fondly,
Deborah Bernstein, Creator of the30-day Yoga Journey
Let's Begin now....
Call it what you will, "a fat-off", "re-commitment to the path of yoga", or simply "living well"....I'm beginning a journey. I invite you to join me. You may have very different reasons from me, but the reason is not what is important, it is the process and the community support. Two years of an erratic schedule (and several other equally great excuses) has insidiously added a whopping 20 pounds to my 5 foot tall body. Eeeek. Just putting this in writing is unpleasant for me...equally unpleasant was remembering that nine years ago Patriot's Day (a holiday here in Boston...AKA"Marathon Monday") I ran the Boston Marathon, and today, I would have difficulty completing a 10k. So yesterday, while prepping our house for sale (oh, another good excuse for gaining weight...moving), Scott, Chris (our realtor and friend)and I started what Scott coined a "fat off". Here are the rules of our fat-off: Whomever looses 10% of our body weight first, "wins". If I win...the guys treat me to a spa day...if one of the guys wins, the two non-winners treat to Red Sox tickets.
The fat-off is the catalyst for my journey. Winning it is not the goal.
I have a daily meditation practice and a daily yoga practice. My yoga practice has been mostly restorative for the past 6 months and erratic in the time of day and duration of my practice. My cardiovascular and muscle conditioning routine has been sporadic, at best and non-existent for stretches of up to two weeks sometimes. My energy level is generally moderate, and I find I need more sleep than "usual". I share this information with you as a framework for my starting point. And in the spirit of vinyasa krama, or "starting where you are", this is where my journey begins (at least on the surface). I've sketched out a process of physical, spiritual, intellectual, and emotionally nourishing practices to live over the next 30-days. They are practices that have worked for me in the past in enhancing my well-being and they are practices that I have researched and learned about from others. If you want to join me on this journey, I will offer suggestions each day for the next 30 days. Some of the suggestions may be practices you are familiar with, others may be new to you. Some will resonate, others will not. But join me and let's see where we go together. Let's enjoy the process....ready?
Day 1: Commit to your self-care
For today, write an affirmation that is a contract with yourself.

Commit to 30-days of wellness, perhaps note a goal, or perhaps keep it open-ended to see what outcomes arise naturally. Here is my affirmation, feel free to use it too. But be sure to put it in writing (even if it is typing it into the comment field of this article)

I, _______________, understand that I am undertaking an exciting, creative,and intense journey to enable physical, intellectual and spiritual self-nurturing. I understand that there will be days that this will be challenging; I will remain committed to my journey throughout those difficult days because I have support and because I care about my well-being. 30 days to feeling more energized...it will not necessarily be linear. I will remember this on the days that feel like I am regressing.

I look forward to the journey together.

NAMASTE. Deborah Bernstein

To sign up for the 30 day journey go to: http://florianyoga.blogspot.com/2009/06/join-30-day-yoga-journey.html

Namaste'

Heather Hixon www.TimeToUnwind.com

ATTENTION ALL YOGA TEACHERS: J.A.Y.A Meeting

Our 3rd - J.A.Y.A Meeting
Date: Sun., 9/13/09
Time: 4:00PM – 5:30PM
Cost: FREE
J.A.Y.A = Jacksonville Area Yoga Association. Membership is free! Come in unity of our yoga community. Great time to meet other yoga teachers, promote your classes or events and connect if you are a sub looking for classes!
This quarterly meeting will be held at
YOGA ANANDA: A CENTER FOR YOGA AND WELLNESS:
4150 Herschel Street, Jacksonville, FL 32210,
Call 904-680-7344 for directions.
Find our blog: www.jayajax.blogspot.com
Our website is in the works! Check it out!
www.jayajax.com

A Recap of our Summer '09 Meeting at Renaissance

Greetings Jacksonville Yoga Teachers!
Thank you so much for your support at our last meeting. I am so grateful to be on a forward track towards unity among the yoga teachers of Jacksonville. We are a fabulous group of spiritual and well trained Yogis. Here is a recap of our meeting in case you wanted to review, or if you were unable to attend.

• Heather Hixon shared her story and vision for Jaya Jax and gave a brief "context" of what the meeting would entail.
• We then went around to introduce ourselves, announce workshops and offer community outreach information.
• Lisa Long then gave her story and vision of Jaya Jax.
• We opened up the floor for discussion about "Jaya Jax Area Volunteers" to help spread the word about our group to other yoga teachers & studios in Jacksonville. As of right now we have the following members in place for volunteer purposes.
• Heather Hixon & Lisa Long (Jax Beaches)
• Melissa for (Avendale, San Marco). (please correct me if I'm wrong)
• Terry for (Southside). (please correct me if I'm wrong)
• Kate Cordel has offered to take our minutes at our meetings in the future.
• Dennis & Kathy Lang have offered to promote to the community and help out when needed.
• Melissa has offered to host and create our website. Which will be for the community to find out about our studios, classes and workshops.
• Lisa is contacting MAYA and SATYA to find out about the "how to's" for future visions.
• Heather Hixon will continue to host the Jaya Jax blog site. This will be our teachers forum/ information about upcoming meetings and workshops, contact info and meeting minutes board. (Not designed for the community ...but more for us as teachers)
• Make sure you sign up to "follow" the blog. It's easy.
• Heather put in a call to Freddie at Natural Awakenings. (FYI.)
• Marci Cervone is putting together ideas for the fundraising event for the animal shelters. We will make sure all legalities are researched.
• Melissa also created a facebook page so be sure to link up with JAYA JAX.

Our next meeting will be on September 13, 2009 at 4:00pm at Yoga Ananda, hosted by Melissa.

Please RSVP Melissa at mel@yogaanandastudio.com

or Call her at (904) 680-7344