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Sunday, June 16, 2013
Sandra Carden is still waiting for you to join Twitter...
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Headstand Perspective 1-5
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| One: Know where the top of your head is. |
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| Two: Exhale, walk your feet in and lift them no more than an inch from the floor. |
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| Three: Inhale, bring your heels to the backs of your thighs and lift your knees. |
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| Four: Exhale, and adjust your weight onto your arms and off your head. |
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| Five: Inhale your legs straight. UNION/YOGA 500 hour teacher certification begins in September. Click the tab to the left to find out everything you need to know to give yourself a Better Perspective. I hope to see you on the mat, soon. Namaste, sandra |
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
LAST DATE for FREE CLASSES - GRADUATION 5/18!
This Saturday is the last date for FREE public classes offered by the new teachers of UNION/YOGA. Please join us May 18 at 8:30 AM, 10:30 AM and 1:00 PM at Solace Institute at Boyne Mountain Resort. Our teachers are Pattie Coffaro, Phyllis Crozier, Loretta Cwalinski, Jessica Ryan, Amy Vipond and Paul Kellogg. Classes were well attended last week, so please call Solace to make your reservation, at 231-549-7946.
It is our pleasure to serve you! Namaste.
Friday, May 10, 2013
FREE UNION/YOGA CLASSES
The Spring UNION/YOGA 200 Hour Classic Teacher Certification is nearing completion! Only one week left, and these talented, kind and compassionate teachers will be offering classes near you. This is an amazingly accomplished group of individuals, who care for and support one another with humor and grace. Come and meet Pattie, Jessica, Loretta, Amy, Phyllis, Kimberly and Paul. It is our honor to serve you.
Please come to our FREE CLASSES at Solace Institute at Boyne Mountain Resort,
Boyne Falls, MI on any or all of the following 6 classes:
Saturdays: May 11th at 8:30-10:00 AM, 10:30-12:00 noon and 1:30-3:00 PM
and May 18th at 8:30-10:00 AM, 10:30-12:00 noon and 1:00-2:30 PM
Place come, enjoy a well constructed, stimulating and safe practice in the caring and capable hands of our new UNION/YOGA teachers.
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
UNION/YOGA 200 Hour Classic Teacher Certification
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| Amy and Jessica practice Jathara Parivrttanasana |
This is an amazingly accomplished group of individuals are as committed to one another,
as they are to the practice and tradition of yoga.
Please come to our FREE CLASSES at Solace Institute at Boyne Mountain Resort,
Boyne Falls, MI on any or all of the three following Saturdays:
May 4th at 8:30-10:00 AM, 10:30-12:00 noon and 1:30-3:00 PM
May 11th at 8:30-10:00 AM, 10:30-12:00 noon and 1:30-3:00 PM
May 18th at 8:30-10:00 AM, 10:30-12:00 noon and 1:00-2:30 PM
Place come, enjoy a well constructed, stimulating and safe practice in the caring and capable hands of our new UNION/YOGA teachers.
Friday, March 8, 2013
PERUVIAN DREAMIN'
2521 S Maple Valley 49682. 231-256-2100.
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Monday, February 25, 2013
A LITTLE YIN YOGA
Birgit Adamofsky kindly participated in a little YIN practice with me. Just click on the Yin Yoga words above and it will zap you over to my YouTube channel. I hope you all enjoy it. Thank you so much, Birgit! Namasté all.
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Yoga Impervious to Precarious Times
Did you know that growth in the yoga industry seems immune to bad times? Yoga continues to soar as both a healthy career choice and engagement for new practitioners. There are now 15 million Americans practicing yoga on a regular basis. Regionally, the Midwest has the highest number of practitioners! We have contributed to an 87% increase in yoga practitioners in the past 5 years, with a 20% average increase of number of practitioners each year. See more at http://www.statisticbrain.com/yoga-statistics/
Friday, February 15, 2013
PARTNER YOGA RETREAT
PARTNER YOGA WEEKEND RETREAT
Solace Institute
THE INN at BAY HARBOR
with Sandra Carden ERYT 500
(10 Yoga Alliance CEUs)
3/01/13 to 3/03/13
Friday Evening through Sunday Morning
Offer support
Accept surrender
Together find abundance, balance and strength
Greater than one.
Partnering requires both acceptance and nurturing, surrender
and support. It is a powerful way to build trust in a relationship while you
tap into your own inner reliance, resilience and reverence.
When we allow ourselves to be supported, in some small, yet
profound way, we are more free. We are safe to explore, to relax more, to open
up, and to surrender to a deeper, more present, satisfying and alive
experience. When we give support, we ourselves are empowered.
In a safe, nonsexual and respectful atmosphere, we will
encourage one another and find communion through synchronistic breath, movement
and mutual meditation. This retreat is perfect for couples, friends, or any two
people looking for a mutually enhancing partner experience.
Sandra Carden and Field Carden, her husband and partner of
43 years, have always enjoyed partner yoga and what it can teach us, together
and individually. This experience is a great way to build trust in your own
empowerment and to receive a little help in letting go. Join Sandra Carden,
ERYT 500, Director UNION/YOGA LLC, for a mutually uplifting, empowering and fun
weekend of Partnered Yoga. Bring someone you care about.
Partner Yoga Retreat Schedule
Friday, March 1, 2013
4pm: Hotel Check-In / Arrival
6-8pm: 30 minute introduction and syllabus, 90 minute
PARTNERED YOGA practice.
(Dinner on your own)
Saturday, March 2, 2013
7am: Nature
Walk (Optional) | Please bring clothing suitable for
winter conditions.
9am-12pm: 3 hour PARTNERED YOGA practice
12-1pm: group LUNCH provided
1-4pm: free time.
Consider experiencing a spa service at The Spa at The Inn.
4-7pm: 3 hour PARTNERED YOGA practice
7:30pm: group
Dinner provided
Sunday, March 3, 2013
7am: Silent
walk and Meditation (Optional)
| Please bring clothing
suitable for winter conditions.
8:30-10:30am: 1.5 hour PARTNERED YOGA practice, 30 minute
closure
11am: Check-out
Tuition
$675 / couple* - This workshop is most suitable for those
with at least some yoga experience. Includes one delicious lunch and dinner on
Saturday, snacks during the practice sessions, $50 spa gift card / person, and
Partnered Yoga instruction with
Sandra Carden, ERYT500 and Field Carden, CYT 200
(*Please note: Tuition does not include lodging).
Additional $10 / person - for YOGA ALLIANCE teachers
requesting 10 hrs CEUs
Register today for the Partnered Yoga Retreat at The
Spa at The Inn at Bay Harbor by contacting Solace Institute at
231-549-7212. Space is
limited to 5 couples.
Upgrade your experience and add lodging conveniently located
at The Inn at Bay Harbor by contacting 800-462-6963. Please mention that you
are looking for the GROUP RATE with the Partnered Yoga Retreat.
Lodging
Deluxe Quarry View = Hotel room with two queen beds, wet bar
with refrigerator, one bathroom and shared balcony = $135/night*
Deluxe Lake View = Hotel room with two queen beds, wet bar
with refrigerator, one bathroom and shared balcony = $149/night*
Master Suite Quarry View = One bedroom suite with king bed
in bedroom, one queen murphy bed and sofa in living area, gas fireplace,
kitchenette, one bathroom and private balcony = $170/night*
Master Suite Lake View = One bedroom suite with king bed in
bedroom, one queen murphy bed and sofa in living area, gas fireplace,
kitchenette, one bathroom and private balcony = $184/night*
*rooms are based on availability. Taxes and resort fee are additional.
Sunday, January 27, 2013
A Time to Die
Nature tells every living thing when it’s time to die. And that length of time, science now notes, is predetermined to a specific formula that crosses all species, from mayflies to giant sequoias.
“It tells animals for example, that there's a universal limit to life, that though they come in different sizes, they have roughly a billion and a half heart beats; elephant hearts beat slowly, hummingbird hearts beat fast, but when your count is up, you are over,” notes NPR science writer, Robert Krulwich. Yoga has, for millennia, espoused the same wisdom. Yoga says yes; we all have a predetermined limitation on our lifespans. This predetermined length of life, according to yoga, is a reflection of each individual’s dharma and karma. Your dharma is your truth- why you are here. Your karma is the fruit of your actions, both from past lives and what you are accruing now. Yoga says we are each given a certain number of breaths or “pulses” to live out our dharma, or soul’s purpose, and to clean up our karmic bank accounts, so we are free. When your breaths (roughly one and a half billion) are “used up,” your life is over, whether you have liberated your soul or not.
However, yoga gives us a brilliant silver lining to the rule of death’s timing: Unlike the mayfly or the redwood, we can self-determine our respiration patterning. We have the ability to slow our breaths down or speed them up, at will. We are the only creature that can take the allotted number of breaths that we were assigned at birth, and slow them down, giving us “more time” in which to complete our dharmic purpose.
I invite you now to sit quietly, slow your breathing simply by allowing, watching it impassively for a few minutes. Take a sweet moment to savor deeply this moment. This one moment is the gift of life. Through the stillness see more clearly your gift to the world, pulsing out on the rhythm of your own oceanic breath.
See the beautiful online article and photos from Robert Krulwich at When its Time to Die.
Namaste, sandra
Thursday, January 17, 2013
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