Montana Lotus Yoga Newsletter

September Newlsetter and Schedule

Montana Lotus Yoga — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:40:30 +0000

I am the taste in the water,

the light in the sun and the moon…

I am the fragrance in the earth…

the life in the living…

I am the ritual and the worship…

I am the beginning and the end,

origin and dissolution, refuge, home, true lover…

I am the heat of the sun, I hold back the rain and release it;

I am death, and the deathless, and all that is and is not…

(excerpts from Krishna’s words to Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita)

Dear Students and Friends,

As always, we are so grateful to share the teachings and path of yoga with you. Together we grow and shift into becoming more of who we already are in our true essence. Our practice is a field upon which we meet ourselves and each other, aspiring to choose the highest in our lives. As Stephen Mitchell writes in the introduction to his translation of the Bhagavad Gita,

“The Gita is a love song to Reality, a hymn in praise for everything excellent, beautiful and brave. It is a love song to both the darkness and the light, to our own true Self in the depths of being.”

May we live our lives as such a song.

Light, Love and Life,

Anna and Susie

MONTHLY SPECIAL

New Students! take 5 classes within 2 weeks for $20

also: 2 for 1 yoga class

bring a friend for the price of a drop in class

Look for the coupon in this month’s Smart Shopper offering 2 for 1 yoga class. Bring a friend for the price of one drop-in. For those of you who have punchcards, feel free to invite a friend on your pass, and if you have an unlimited monthly pass, bring a friend for 5$.

RESTORATIVE YOGA

with Alice Robison

Sept. 8th -Oct. 27th 8 week series

5:30-7:00pm

restorative/yin yoga and meditation 5:15-6:45 p.m
Sept 8-Oct 27 8 week series $$72 $10 drop-in fee
Contact Alice at inspiredfromwithin@yahoo.com or 570-2899 class size limited

PRENATAL YOGA

with Sandy Knapp

Tuesdays 4-5:15. Please call Sandy if you are interested 586-3754.

TEEN YOGA CLASS

with Debby Greene

TEEN YOGA

Breathe and Move — EVERYONE IS WELCOME

MONDAYS from 4-5:15 pm $5

“Your work is discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.” - Buddha

What if everything you were seeking was inside yourself? Well it is. We all hold the ability to make our passage through this world — and the life as a teenager — easier. We don’t have to go looking for it at a mall or by being popular — we all hold the key within. The challenge is unlocking your inner heart and quieting the noise of the outside world to hear our hearts tell us what is truly right for us. Yoga and breath help to unlock that. Plus its a lot of fun moving your body, chanting funny OM sounds and going upside down in things like handstand and headstand. Come try yoga and guaranteed you will leave feeling awesome.

FEEL AWESOME

KUNDALINI YOGA

with Ravi Inder Kaur (Gloria Overcash)

WEDNESDAYS 7:15-8:30p.m beginning September 1, 2010

“Kundalini Yoga is the fastest way to establish an aligned
relationship between the body, mind, and the soul.”
~ Yogi Bhajan, PhD, Master of Kundalini Yoga ~

“Ravi Inder teaches with easy grace and confidence that is both instructive and uplifting. Her
natural kindness and warmth shine through as she expertly encourages the class, guiding us
into and out of the postures and inspiring us to do our very best. Ravi Inder’s nurturing
teaching style creates a safe space to deeply relax and heal through this practice so we can live
the fullest expression of our lives. She is a natural.” ~ Kundalini Yogi Gurbani Kaur ~

Ravi Inder Kaur (Gloria Overcash) (406) 595-2547
blissfulfamilyyoga.wordpress.com
Beginners and seasoned yogis alike will benefit from the transformation this yoga brings.
Purchase 4 classes for $50, Drop in for $15, or ask about Sliding Scale for Low Income

NIA

with Ashley Martin

Wednesdays 4-5pm beginning Sept 8th

$8/class

WHAT IS NIA? We say it’s like chocolate - you just have to taste it. But, if you must… Mix together equal parts dance, yoga, and martial arts, add spice, great music, and lots of smiles, and you get Nia. This multidimensional practice is designed to inspire and connect you with your body, mind, and heart through Nia’s foundational principle: The Joy of Movement. All levels always welcome. Taught by certified Nia Instructor Ashley Martens. Read more at www.truenatureed.com.

During this Nia session, we will focus on the Art of Nia and the 8 stages of FreeDance for creative self-expression and Joy!

Bring a friend: two for the price of one for your first class.

SATURDAY COMMUNITY and CHARITY YOGA CLASSES

SATURDAYS 9-10:30 $8 Taught by Susie, Anna or guest teachers. TBA Please check the schedule online at www.montanalotusyoga.com.

“the PRACTICE”

Friday Sept. 17 5:00-7:00pm A 2 hour led yoga practice. This practice is geared to move through asanas with little instruction and includes some more advanced variations. Led by Anna or Susie $15

UPCOMING WORKSHOPS

DESIREE RUMBAUGH Yoga Workshop November 19, 20, 21st, 2010

For more info about Des, visi her website: www.desireerumbugh.com

Classes and times:

Friday Nov. 19th 6-8:30pm Intermediate class: Raising your Vibration

Saturday Nov. 20th 9am-11:30 Backbends: The Courage to Open Up

Saturday Nov. 20th 12:30-3:00pm Yoga to the Rescue: Healing Yoga for Back, Neck, Shoulders, Wrists, Hips, Knees and Feet

Saturday Nov. 20th 4:00-6:30pm Forward Bends: Grounded in Grace

Sunday Nov. 21st 9:00-11:30am Hip Openers and Arm Balances: Finding the Extraordinary

Rates :

$45 per class or early bird special: pay $200 for all 5 sessions by October 31st

Kirtan/Devotional Chanting with Benjy and Heather Wertheimer of Shantala Friday November 12th, 2010

Visit Heather and Benjy on their website www.shantalamusic.com

ALCHEMY EVENTS

Friday nights at Alchemy:

Friday, Sept. 3rd Sacred Circle Gathering will be held in the Paradise Valley 7-9pm

Friday Sept. 10th Thai Massage for Couples 6-8pm Preregistration required . To register call 406.599.6145 or email info@tamarafaust.com

Friday Sept. 17th “The Practice” 2 hour led yoga practice. This practice has less instruction and is geared to move through asanas with little instruction. 5-7pm.

Essential Oils Therapy

We welcome your participation in our mission to share the life-enhancing benefits of therapeutic-grade essential oils with the world. Your path to a new philosophy of wellness begins by opening a bottle.
Come learn how simple and satisfying using essential oils can be.
For more information please contact: Susie Walby 579-2533 or go to http://www.doterra.myvoffice.com/lotus/

MONTHLY SACRED CIRCLE GATHERING

with Dayna Kopple SEPTEMBER 3rd, 7pm

Sacred Circle Gathering

Come join us for a sacred circle gathering in Paradise Valley, 3 and a half miles south of Emigrant on the Yellowstone River. This meditation will be experienced inside what is possibly the largest representation of the Flower of Life on the planet. The emphasis of the meditation is on appreciation and healing of Mother Earth in the shadow of Emigrant Peak. Native American drumming and chanting will be a part of this celebration of life on the banks of the Yellowstone. There will also be a tour of the AquaBliss Institute led by Dr. Victor Francs, Naturopath and Massage Therapist. Please bring a meditation pillow if you have one.

The time is 7:00 to 9:00 P.M. Friday evening, Sept. 3rd at 2724 U.S. Hwy. 89 South between mile marker 28 and 27

on the left going south. Electric lines cross the highway at the driveway which is about a half mile long. The

Flower of Life is behind the garage.

Please Contact: If you have a sacred craft you would like to share with the community, you’re invited to join us in leading a Sacred Circle Gathering. For more Information, please contact me, Dayna Kopple at 220-0831.

BOZEMAN THAI BODYWORK

with Tamara Faust

THAI MASSAGE FOR COUPLES…..DATE NIGHT! Offered once a month, beginning August 13th, 2010. 6-8 p.m. Bring your spouse, partner or friend to learn basic Thai Massage techniques. In this workshop, you will learn to give an effective, deeply relaxing one-hour Thai Bodywork session to your partner. Midway through our class, we willswitch so your partner can learn the techniques and you can receive. We will learn Thai techniques for foot and leg work, release of shoulder and back tension, increased range of motion and more. Class is open to general public. All levels welcome. No prior yoga or massage experience needed or required. Space is limited. Pre-registration required. $60 for two people. To register call 406.599.6145 or email info@tamarafaust.com

2010 Thai Couples class dates: August 13, September 10, October 15, November 12, December 10.

LUK PRA KOB ~ Steamed Herbal Massage

A steamed poultice filled with Thai herbs including lemongrass, ginger, cinnamon and eucalyptus. The blend is highly effective at reducing pain, inflammation and tension - all while improving skin quality, breathing and vision.

MONDAY NIGHT ECSTATIC DANCE

with Shelly Heilweil Sept 5th and 12th

Ecstatic dance is an easy, fun way to integrate all of the good work you do into your own cohesive whole. Let your body and mind, your heart and your spirit communicate freely while you effortlessly move to the sounds of world music. Stretch, energize, invigorate, release, enlarge, meditate, explore, evolve.$5

I started dancing in Portland, OR in 1995 while a graduate student in clinical psychology, initially as exercise. It quickly became clear that free dance, or ecstatic dance, or intentional movement—whatever one calls this form—was the most direct road into achieving my best personal balance while navigating the emotional stresses and physical strains of being a student and a practitioner. Dance is the best way I’ve found to process and to integrate daily experience into a cohesive whole. Emotional events, mental activity, and physical effort can all combine for deeper experience and greater personal understanding. Ecstatic dance is a moving meditation, a dynamic exploration, and spiritual celebration. My teachers in this form have been Vin Marti (Soul Motion & 5 Rhythms), Paula Byrne of Soma Studio, & Jen Warnock, Meshi Chavez & Winky Wheeler of the Momentum Conscious Movement Studio, and all the dancers in my fine old collective, Portland Dance Journeys. My goal is to create a vibrant Bozeman ecstatic dance community, where we all inspire one another in the dance.

Contact Shelly: 522-3881 shellyheilweil@gmail.com

Location: Montana Lotus Yoga studio

ALCHEMY CENTER PRACTITIONERS AND LINKS:

DAYNA KOPPLE Conscious Healing, Massage and Bodywork www.dkhealingarts.com

ELAINE DOLL Ayurveda www.blissfulbozeman.com

TAMARA FAUST Thai Massage and bodywork www.tamarafaust.com

MARLISA PAPP, CHHC, LAC Mindful Healing Counseling. www.mindfulhealingcounseling.com

MONTI KENNEDY

If you are interested in using our space to host a gathering, please feel free to contact us.

Susie Walby (406) 579-2533

Anna Ourusoff (406) 600-7565

www.montanalotusyoga.com

montanalotusyoga@gmail.com

August Newsletter and Schedule

Montana Lotus Yoga — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 02:21:31 +0000

Every day you play with the light of the universe. Subtle visitor, you arrive in the flower and the water.

You are more than this white head that I hold tightly as a cluster of fruit, every day, between my hands.

…let me remember you as you were before you existed.

-Pablo Neruda (Every Day You Play)

Dear Students and Friends,

Summer Blessings…We are deep now in the abundant bloom of summer. May we remember that all of us, and all that surrounds us is part of one great pulse…seeking to create itself, express itself fully in existence, and in relationship with everything.

We are so grateful to each one of you for your energy, love and support, and for your unique contribution to our community.

Many of you are joining us in Park City for John Friend’s workshop. We are so excited to share and celebrate this beautiful journey of Anusara Yoga.

If you are interested in reading the recent interview with John in the New York Times magazine, and his response to the community, please visit:

http://www.anusara.com/index.php?option=com_wpmu&p=107&blog_id=2&Itemid=250

Light, Love and Life,

Anna and Susie

MONTHLY SPECIAL

2 for 1 yoga class

bring a friend for the price of a drop in class

Look for the coupon in this month’s Smart Shopper offering 2 for 1 yoga class. Bring a friend for the price of one drop-in. For those of you who have punchcards, feel free to invite a friend on your pass, and if you have an unlimited monthly pass, bring a friend for 5$.

AUGUST CLASS SCHEDULE

Monday

7am-8:30am ALL LEVELS Debby

9am-10:30am BASICS/BEGINNERS Susie or Anna

4:00pm-5:15pm TEENS Debby $5

7:15-8:30 pm Ecstatic Dance $5 Shelly

Tuesday

8:30am-10:00am ALL LEVELS Debby

4-5:15pm PRENATAL (Please call Sandy 586-3754 to attend)

5:30-6:45pm Susie $8 FLOW!

Wednesday

10:30am- Noon ALL LEVELS Anna

Thursday

7-8:30 am ALL LEVELS Anna

9am-10:30am BASICS/BEGINNERS Anna

5:30-6:45pm $8 FLOW! Susie

Friday

8:30-10:00 am ALL LEVELS Susie

*7:00-9:30 8/6 Monthly Sacred Circle Gathering with Dayna Kopple $10-15

*5:00-7:00pm 8/20 ADVANCED PRACTICE Anna or Susie. $15.

Saturday

*9-10:30am $8 Community or Charity Class taught by Susie, Anna or guest teachers.

RESTORATIVE YOGA

with Alice Robison

resumes Sept. 8th 5:30-7:00

class size limited call or email Alice at 522-008 inspiredfromwithin@yahoo.com

PRENATAL YOGA

with Sandy Knapp

Tuesdays 4-5:15. Please call Sandy if you are interested 586-3754.

TEEN YOGA CLASS

with Debby Greene

TEEN YOGA

Breathe and Move — EVERYONE IS WELCOME

MONDAYS from 4-5:15 pm $5

“Your work is discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.” - Buddha

FEEL AWESOME

SATURDAY COMMUNITY and CHARITY YOGA CLASSES

SATURDAYS 9-10:30 $8 Taught by Susie, Anna or guest teachers. TBA Please check the schedule online at www.montanalotusyoga.com.

“the PRACTICE”

Friday August 20th 5:00-7:00pm A 2 hour led yoga practice. This practice is geared to move through asanas with little instruction and includes some more advanced variations. Led by Anna or Susie $15

UPCOMING WORKSHOPS

Desiree Rumbaugh Yoga Workshop November 19, 20, 21st, 2010

Visit Des on her website: www.desireerumbugh.com

Kirtan/Devotional Chanting with Benjy and Heather Wertheimer of Shantala Friday November 12th, 2010

Visit Heather and Benjy on their website www.shantalamusic.com

ALCHEMY EVENTS

Friday nights at Alchemy:

Friday, August 6th Sacred Circle Gathering 7-9pm

Friday August 13th Thai Massage for Couples 6-8pm Preregistration required.

Friday August 20th “The Practice” 2 hour led yoga practice. This practice has less instruction and is geared to move through asanas with little instruction. 5-7pm.

Friday August 27th Thai Massage demo/info session. FREE. 5:30-6:30pm

Summer Meditation Series, last meeting August 4th 7:15-8:30pm

This class is taught by Angela Patnode, a practicing meditator and student of Matthew Flickstein of the Thervadan Buddhist Tradition.

A summer Meditation group sit (sangha). Cushions and blankets are provided. Minimal meditation instruction will be given, with the goal primarily on lessons on the spiritual path - looking at the mind and how it affects us, tools in being present in the now, and letting go of the sense of what we think is “self”.

A minimal donation to Montana Lotus Yoga for the space is $3 per evening sit. All are welcome and encouraged! contact angela for more info: angelapatnode@yahoo.com

Essential Oils Therapy

MONTHLY SACRED CIRCLE GATHERING

with Dayna Kopple and Cyndi Dabney AUGUST 6th, 7pm

Cyndi Fonda Dabney, a Cranio-Sacral practitioner, energy therapist, and spiritual seeker, will be speaking about the consciousness of our genes and DNA. There is a little know phenomenon called epigenetics, which is the study of cell consciousness and beliefs systems in the DNA. Cyndi will talk about epigenetics and help you to understand how dynamic and important our thoughts and beliefs are. Our beliefs control our biology. We are not stuck with our genes and our self -defeating behaviors. We will touch into some of the science, but most importantly the spirituality of our consciousness in the microcosm and the macrocosm.

After a short discussion where she will encourage your participation, questions and discussion, Cyndi will do a demonstration of a facial on 1/2 of a face ( any volunteers?) to show how aging, too, is part of our belief system. Then she will have a biophotonic scanner available to scan anyone (cost-$5) who is interested in finding out what their overall antioxidant score is. Antioxidants are vitally important in preventing disease. This will be helpful to those of you who are on a nutritional support and just want to see if you are absorbing it properly, as well as to learn a bit more about antioxidants and disease prevention. The biophotonic scanner is based on the principle of photon light, so in a sense it measures your photon light spectrum within the tissues of your body.

The presentation begins at 7 p.m. and the demonstrations begin around 8. There will be a $5 donation fee to cover the cost of the facility.

For more info call: Cyndi Dabney - 579-2300

Starts: 7:00 PM

Where: Montana Lotus Yoga studio located in the Alchemy Health & Yoga Center, 1119 N. 7^th Avenue, Bozeman, MT

BOZEMAN THAI BODYWORK

with Tamara Faust

THAI MASSAGE FOR COUPLES…..DATE NIGHT! Offered once a month, beginning August 13th, 2010. 6-8 p.m. Bring your spouse, partner or friend to learn basic Thai Massage techniques. In this workshop, you will learn to give an effective, deeply relaxing one-hour Thai Bodywork session to your partner. Midway through our class, we willswitch so your partner can learn the techniques and you can receive. We will learn Thai techniques for foot and leg work, release of shoulder and back tension, increased range of motion and more. Class is open to general public. All levels welcome. No prior yoga or massage experience needed or required. Space is limited. Pre-registration required. $60 for two people. To register call 406.599.6145 or email info@tamarafaust.com

2010 Thai Couples class dates: August 13, September 10, October 15, November 12, December 10.

FREE Thai massage demo/info session. August 27th. 5:30-6:30 pm. Ongoing, last Friday of each month @ Alchemy Health & Yoga Center in the Thai massage room downstairs. Bring a friend. Learn about and experience Thai massage, while Tamara demonstrates this unique bodywork technique on participants. Wear comfortable clothing.

LUK PRA KOB ~ Steamed Herbal Massage
A steamed poultice filled with Thai herbs including lemongrass, ginger, cinnamon and eucalyptus. The blend is highly effective at reducing pain, inflammation and tension - all while improving skin quality, breathing and vision.

MONDAY NIGHT ECSTATIC DANCE

with Shelly Heilweil

Ecstatic dance is an easy, fun way to integrate all of the good work you do into your own cohesive whole. Let your body and mind, your heart and your spirit communicate freely while you effortlessly move to the sounds of world music. Stretch, energize, invigorate, release, enlarge, meditate, explore, evolve.$5

I started dancing in Portland, OR in 1995 while a graduate student in clinical psychology, initially as exercise. It quickly became clear that free dance, or ecstatic dance, or intentional movement—whatever one calls this form—was the most direct road into achieving my best personal balance while navigating the emotional stresses and physical strains of being a student and a practitioner. Dance is the best way I’ve found to process and to integrate daily experience into a cohesive whole. Emotional events, mental activity, and physical effort can all combine for deeper experience and greater personal understanding. Ecstatic dance is a moving meditation, a dynamic exploration, and spiritual celebration. My teachers in this form have been Vin Marti (Soul Motion & 5 Rhythms), Paula Byrne of Soma Studio, & Jen Warnock, Meshi Chavez & Winky Wheeler of the Momentum Conscious Movement Studio, and all the dancers in my fine old collective, Portland Dance Journeys. My goal is to create a vibrant Bozeman ecstatic dance community, where we all inspire one another in the dance.

Contact Shelly: 522-3881 shellyheilweil@gmail.com

Location: Montana Lotus Yoga studio

WORKSHOP

Prema Birthing Healing System... Transforming Lives…

PRACTITIONER & TEACHER TRAINING & CERTIFICATION

The most loving way to be REBORN into Love.

Prema Birthing is an extraordinarily powerful healing system. Directly from Source above to Source within you, it is a very freeing, loving and joyful experience. Prema Birthing helps you release the old and reconnect with Divinity. It is a birth into a new consciousness. Every time you go through this healing technique, you cancel programs that were running during the time between signing your birth contract and your physical birth process. These programs may still be running your life in limiting ways.

This class will provide you with training and certification as a both a Prema Birthing Practitioner and a Teacher, so that you may offer this class others and bring this healing energy further to humanity.

Rebirth your mind, body and spirit by eradicating dis-ease from every aspect of your life.

The difference this time is that you are aware of the things you want to get rid of in your life before your “rebirthing”. By bringing this consciousness of what you want to let go of into the process, and then letting go of it during the rebirthing, you emerge with the new program running on your HARD DRIVE that says you are whole and well.

“I had been trying so hard to lose weight for many, many years, and no matter what diet, or what cleanse I did, my body didn’t shift. Now that I had healed my birth trauma, suddenly my body was letting go of the weight … at the time of this writing, it’s three months after my last Prema Birthing workshop, and I have now let go of 20 pounds and lost two sizes. I have at least 20 more pounds to lose, and I’m completely confident that it will happen naturally and effortlessly.” - S.L., Oregon

Date & Time: Saturday, August 28th 1-6pm

Location: Alchemy Health and Yoga Center

Exchange: $250

Facilitator: Shawn Gardner ~ 760-902-6105

For Registration contact Dayna Kopple 406-220-0831

myshawnbon@yahoo.com

www.sq-wellness.com

Shawn Gardner is a certified Teacher and Practitioner of the Rising Star™ and Prema Birthing™ Healing Systems, attuned in Reiki, and a Third Level Karnak Initiate in the Great White or Gold Brotherhood, an ancient lineage that has been reawakened on the planet during this time of Ascension. She is a proud member of SQ Wellness, a service organization committed to raising global consciousness through healing and applying practical spiritual tools. Visit www.sq-wellness.com to learn more.

ALCHEMY CENTER PRACTITIONERS AND LINKS:

DAYNA KOPPLE Conscious Healing, Massage and Bodywork www.dkhealingarts.com

ELAINE DOLL Ayurveda www.blissfulbozeman.com

TAMARA FAUST Thai Massage and bodywork www.tamarafaust.com

MARLISA PAPP, CHHC, LAC Mindful Healing Counseling. www.mindfulhealingcounseling.com

If you are interested in using our space to host a gathering, please feel free to contact us.

Susie Walby (406) 579-2533

Anna Ourusoff (406) 600-7565

www.montanalotusyoga.com

montanalotusyoga@gmail.com

July Newsletter and Schedule

Montana Lotus Yoga — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 04:03:48 +0000

Come to me Great Mystery in the sky

Come into me

Come near me Great mystery

-Ojibwe traditional chant

Dear Sweet Community,

July Blossoms spring to Life!

Here are entries we send to you from the journeys we have taken seemingly separately and yet so parallel. We send you so much love, light and Life!

Susie:

What a transformational past week it has been for Anna and I.

Many you know that I sold my painting of Hanuman to a new studio in Boulder, Co. Last week Anna and I were able to deliver the painting to Boulder, Colorado. Many of you know Anna went on to do her vision quest and I had the honor to assist Jeanie Manchester in a level 3 immersion for the week.

The level 3 immersion is one of my favorite immersions and this was my 3rd time doing the level 3. In level 3 you get to study the Bhagavad Gita which is a beautiful epic poem about stepping into your Dharma (your path) of Knowing your purpose in this world and using your gifts to create more beauty and light. When we align with this higher knowing we ultimately step into our individual flow with the Divine, which is the meaning of Anu-sara.

The more we step into this higher place of knowing not only do we become more light but also the dark will be more attracted to the light. We will be tested and it is in these tests that we learn to stand in our light and yet to speak from the heart, to be a warrior of the heart! Our path will shift, relationships will end that do not support this new path, and new relationships will start that are in the same alignment.

I am excited to come back to this sweet community to share more from the heart and to honor all the gifts that each one of you bring into to the heart of Mt lotus. I am looking forward to going to Park City with a bunch of you, I just got word that Anusara will start selling my greeting cards with my art on it and then possibly prints starting in Park City! Many blessings to all of you, may we continue to be warriors of light and love as we step into this flow of life!

Anna:

I am writing parked at the “11 Mile General Store” an hour west of Colorado Springs, in a beautiful landscape that continues to pulsate the wide open space of my heart. 11 seems to comes in to remind me that all is well! An equal sign turned vertical!

Technology is available for connecting me to the world wide web in this parking lot. To the true web of Life, the connection is always available, anywhere, all ways! So I’ve driven here to contemplate and put in words and share with you the experience of these last few days…

I have just read Susie’s entry to this news cast…and am smiling, in the knowing that Life’s Great Mystery is so beautifully simple. I could transcribe her experience onto mine… All paths lead back to the One.

My Vision Quest on the eastern side of the Sangre de Christo mountains of Northern New Mexico gave me a deep experience of seeking the depths of the great Within for 3 days and 3 nights of simply just sitting with myself in the beauty of Nature, with a tarp and a sleeping bag, fasting save for a few sips of tea delivered at dusk by Jorge “Redtail Hawk”, the kind and steady presence of our Lakota ceremonial leader, sundancer and spiritual elder. “This will help you stay awake Anna Montana, so you can watch and listen in that state of not quite sleep”…

The beauty of ceremony before and after those 3 days magnified and anchored the holiness of this Quest, this portal. We had Sweat Lodge, Ceremonial Circle, fire, and again and again, the declaration, with confidence of our experiences, our intentions, our prayers, in the listening presence of one another. We all wanted the same thing!

…to experience our fullness, our true empowered beauty and potential to manifest through the vessel of our embodiment in this life, and to let go of that which kept us from being this warrior of the heart.

Yoga.

In those 3 days we dove deep into befriending ourselves, forgiving our shadow, listening to hear what is our purpose in this life, and into letting go of that which keeps us in the old familiar spaces that offer the security of an old layer, an old shell.

I came to the beautiful, clear and simple deeper understanding that this life is coursing through me wanting to be granted creative expression in the form of making Beauty, whatever form that takes! Art as…voice, hand, painting…asana…relationship…every choice, an expression of that flow, that life force through us.

In those 3 days and 3 nights I was guided to create a medicine wheel out of oak leaves sewn into the earth with pine needles, and stones, and the lichen heart rock that graced my small prayer tie space, my small protected circle that I sat in, laid in, prayed in, humbly.

My fears… and my returning to trust, again and again…to open to Grace and soften around each fear, each pulsing thunder rumble that stirred my heart and the stronger voice within, cutting through with electric lightening clarity…the strong storm winds and hail…followed by the quiet soaking rain, the smell of wet earth and ponderosa pine, the drum beat and chant of a fellow questor, the warmth of sun, butterflies, hummingbirds, ticks and ants, mosquitoes and birdsong…a symphony of perfect pulsing rhythms. The beat of my heart, the hunger, the thirst…and the deep contemplations that reveal the spinning medicine wheel of my 4 chambered heart, the 4 directions…in front, behind, left, right, above and below, leading to the seventh direction, the heart. My lichen heart rock, connected to the one great Heart. Gratitude.

This heart of Creation knows and stirs with remembrance in each of us.

It pulses a constant flow of unfettered Beauty, the art of living in the flow, allowing that creation to come through us, each and everyone of us, the same in our worthiness, our humanness and great spirit, unique in our individual expression.

In Beauty may I walk.

Susie and Anna

ALCHEMY EVENTS

Please note Schedule changes!

Changes are in effect starting Tuesday July 6th. Among changes are: added 7am class on Thursday, Tuesday and Friday morning class time change to 8:30-10 am. Cancellations: July 4th weekend: No Saturday morning class, and no Monday July 5th classes.

Circus Yoga Workshop Tuesday July 6th 5:30-7:30pm

with Rachel Sattinger from Santa Cruz, Ca. Circus Yoga blends the consciousness of yoga with the communal celebration of circus activities, fostering connection, play, and communication.

$35 adults/ $15 teens and children. Family discounts available. For more info about Circus Yoga check out www.circusyoga.com

Intro to Breath Work: HEALING Wednesday July 7th 7:30 pm

A workshop to explore your healing potential taught by San Franciso healer Corrie Borris

Exchange: $20 (no one turned away for lack of funds)

This evening class will introduce you to Breath Work, a 2-stage active meditation in the Pranayama tradition. This ancient breath will grant you access to your spirit and the tremendous energy flow waiting to be received. The result? A felt connection to your spiritual energy and the increased capacity for you to heal you. Breath Work is a simple technique to deepen the connection to spirit and is an incredible tool to add to your spiritual practice. And the amazing bonus? It’s easy and it’s FUN. (Promise.)

What to bring: a yoga mat or blanket, water bottle and comfy clothes. (A sense of humor is great, too.) For more information visit www.intuitivebreath.com or call Corrie at 925-989-2798.

About Corrie Borris

San Francisco based writer, teacher and intuitive healer Corrie Borris answered the call of her Spirit and left corporate America in early 2009 to pursue a healing path. She has worked extensively along side internationally renown author and healer David Elliott, and is one of four people in the US certified to train others with the 2-stage Breath Work he teaches.

She has devoted her energy to spread the message of Love and Well-Being through lifestyle choices. She learned this the hard way via a Rheumatoid Arthritis diagnosis in 2005. She finds life to be much easier now that she can breathe her way through the illusion of stress and fear.

Summer Meditation Series Wednesdays July 21, 28, August 4 7:15-8:30

This class is taught by Angela Patnode, a practicing meditator and student of Matthew Flickstein of the Thervadan Buddhist Tradition.

A minimal donation to Montana Lotus Yoga for the space is $3 per evening sit. All are welcome and encouraged! contact angela for more info: angelapatnode@yahoo.com

Yin yoga and meditation with Alice Robeson July 7,14, 21 5:30-7:00 p.m.

Essential Oils Therapy

Prenatal Yoga with Sandy Knapp

Please call Sandy if you are interested 586-3754. This class is forming on Tuesdays 4-5:15

Mark your Calendars for Desiree Rumbaugh 5 month countdown! November 19, 20 21st, 2010!

Visit Des on her website: www.desireerumbugh.com

Mark your Calendars for Benjy and Heather Wertheimer of Shantala Friday Novemeber 12th, 2010

Visit Heather and Benjy on their website www.shantalamusic.com

MONTHLY SACRED CIRCLE GATHERING

with Dayna Kopple JULY 1st

Sacred Circle Gathering and Humanity In Unity Meditation Group

Welcomes Dean Williamson, Shamanic Visionary/Mentor and Co-owner of Three Hearts Farm, as our guest speaker this month. Dean will be sharing his craft in Dream Analysis, teaching us how to interpret our dreams. Please bring a specific dream with you which stands out, so you can discover what it’s trying to convey.

Dreams and the Growth of an Empowered Self (7-8:30 PM)

Our dreams are the desires of our souls, and they provide us with teachings about our growth and spiritual development. Rather than dismiss dreams as being in the realm of fantasy or imagination, indigenous healers know dreams are direct speech and information that can help us overcome challenges, lend insight to our growth, and lead us to more fulfilled waking lives. Learn how to explore your dreams’ symbols of individual power, and discover their messages.

Mini kirtan and Diksha Blessings(8:45-10 PM)
We will then follow with a mini Kirtan led by Vance Thurston and Diksha (Pure Light Blessings) offerings given by everyone who has been trained in giving Diksha. Diksha ( the physical transference of Divine Energy/Light, directly into the brain, which initiates the process of Enlightenment. This transmission of energy or Light of Consciousness restructures the brain and brings it into its original state of illumination. Diksha cleanses the mind, heart, emotions and personality of impurities and desires that no longer serve your journey.

When: Thursday, July 1st

Starts: 7:00 PM

Ends: 10:00 PM

Where: Alchemy Health & Yoga Center, 1119 N. 7^th Avenue, Bozeman, MT

(in the yoga room)

Participation Fee: $15-$20 (sliding scale at your own discretion)

Please Contact: If you have a sacred craft you would like to share with the community, you’re invited to join us in leading a Sacred Circle

Gathering. For more Information, please contact me, Dayna Kopple at 220-0831.

MONDAY NIGHT ECSTATIC DANCE

with Shelly Heilweil

Ecstatic dance is an easy, fun way to integrate all of the good work you do into your own cohesive whole. Let your body and mind, your heart and your spirit communicate freely while you effortlessly move to the sounds of world music. Stretch, energize, invigorate, release, enlarge, meditate, explore, evolve.$5

I started dancing in Portland, OR in 1995 while a graduate student in clinical psychology, initially as exercise. It quickly became clear that free dance, or ecstatic dance, or intentional movement—whatever one calls this form—was the most direct road into achieving my best personal balance while navigating the emotional stresses and physical strains of being a student and a practitioner. Dance is the best way I’ve found to process and to integrate daily experience into a cohesive whole. Emotional events, mental activity, and physical effort can all combine for deeper experience and greater personal understanding. Ecstatic dance is a moving meditation, a dynamic exploration, and spiritual celebration. My teachers in this form have been Vin Marti (Soul Motion & 5 Rhythms), Paula Byrne of Soma Studio, & Jen Warnock, Meshi Chavez & Winky Wheeler of the Momentum Conscious Movement Studio, and all the dancers in my fine old collective, Portland Dance Journeys. My goal is to create a vibrant Bozeman ecstatic dance community, where we all inspire one another in the dance.

Contact Shelly: 522-3881 shellyheilweil@gmail.com

YIN YOGA

with Alice Robison

July 7, 14, 21 5:30-7pm

Yin Yoga: holding postures for time, on the floor, stretching and regenerating connective tissue, nurturing the meridians and thus the internal organs. meditation to follow practice

class size limited

call or email Alice at 522-0082

inspiredfromwithin@yahoo.com

TEEN CLASS

with Debby Greene

FEEL AWESOME

MONDAYS from 4-5:15 pm $5

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest human battle ever and to never stop fighting.”

- E.E. Cummings, American Poet (1894-1962)

Wow, E.E. Cummings sure had it figured out all those years ago and still today teens are facing lots and lots of STRESS! So many things tug at you as you charter your way through the often turbulent waters of growing up. It’s such an important job – this growing up and maturing into young adults. By offering teen yoga, I want to offer a place where you can leave your everyday stress and worries behind and feel safe and supported to just have fun and be in the moment for a small part of your week. The poses will be funny and challenging and we’ll focus on breath and leaving the world at the door. No competition – no one is better than anyone else – in yoga we are all perfect beings. What a joy and revelation! As 18 year old yogi Charlie Kelly says in this month’s issue of Yoga Journal,

“Yoga has made the world of SATs, final exams and college applications seem conquerable, and it has improved my performance as a competitive rock climber. More important, though, the practice has made me confident that, regardless of how I perform in those departments, I am still going to feel awesome, and feeling awesome is something every teen could use a little more of.”

Come to teen yoga on Mondays and Wednesday and prepare to feel AWESOME.

SATURDAY COMMUNITY and CHARITY CLASSES

SATURDAYS 9-10:30 Taught by Susie, Anna or guest teachers. TBA Please check the schedule online at www.montanalotusyoga.com.

ADVANCED PRACTICE

Friday July 23rd led by Anna or Susie 5:00-7:00pm $15

ALCHEMY CENTER PRACTITIONERS AND LINKS:

DAYNA KOPPLE Conscious Healing, Massage and Bodywork www.dkhealingarts.com

ELAINE DOLL Ayurveda www.blissfulbozeman.com

TAMARA FAUST Thai Massage and bodywork www.tamarafaust.com

MARLISA PAPP, CHHC, LAC Mindful Healing Counseling. Encouraging a whole person approach to

Body, Mind & Spirit Healing www.mindfulhealingcounseling.com

JULY CLASS SCHEDULE

Monday

7am-8:30am ALL LEVELS Debby

9am-10:30am BASICS/BEGINNERS Susie or Anna

4:00pm-5:15pm TEENS Debby $5

7:15-8:30 pm Ecstatic Dance $5 Shelly

Tuesday

8:30am-10:00am ALL LEVELS Debby

4-5:15pm PRENATAL (Please call Sandy 586-3754 to attend)

5:30-6:45pm Susie $8 FLOW!

Wednesday

10:30am- Noon ALL LEVELS Anna

5:30-6:45pm Yin/meditation July 7, 14, 21 Alice (class size limited. Call Alice 522-0082)

Thursday

7-8:30 am ALL LEVELS Anna

9am-10:30am BASICS/BEGINNERS Anna

5:30-6:45pm $8 FLOW! Susie

Friday

8:30-10:00 am ALL LEVELS Susie

*7:00-9:30 7/1 Monthly Sacred Circle Gathering with Dayna Kopple $10-15

*5:00-7:00pm 7/23 ADVANCED PRACTICE Anna or Susie. $15.

Saturday

*9-10:30am $8 Community or Charity Class taught by Susie, Anna or guest teachers.

If you are interested in using our space to host a gathering, please feel free to contact us.

Susie Walby (406) 579-2533

Anna Ourusoff Holder (406) 600-7565

www.montanalotusyoga.com

montanalotusyoga@gmail.com

June Newsletter and Schedule

Montana Lotus Yoga — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 03:31:40 +0000

I Know deep inside
it is possible.
I believe that I can touch the sky, puncture through the glass ceiling
and stand between heaven and earth,
make earthly, incarnate, the Divine in me

the pulse in every cell of this body, the throb of Life bursting forth, unfettered unrestrained unquestioned
this heartbeat flowing through the conduit instrument rejoices in its realization of the Gift of embodiment.

Re cognizing…seeing again
Re membering…connecting all as one beat
merged into the knowing of love as Essence, the Will to live.

-anna-

JUNE BLESSINGS,

Come and join us as we welcome summer lakes, rivers, mountain, blossoms, and yoga, and see below for offerings this month. Please send us your insights and inspirations. We welcome creative expressions, photos, writing. If you are interested in joining us in Park City at the end of August for a weekend workshop with John Friend, please know that you must apply on the anusara website by June 12th at www.anusara.com, and go to John’s Events.

Love and Light,

All Ways,

Susie and Anna

ALCHEMY EVENTS

Private Therapeutic Sessions offered

Anusara is known for the quality and integrity of its method to use biomechanical principles in therapeutic healing. If you have any physical limitations or issues that you would like to address in a one on one setting, please contact Susie or Anna to arrange a time. We are offering to you this opportunity to work affordable towards a deeper understanding and participation in your own healing. $40 for a one hour session.

Essential Oils Therapy

Essential oils are used for a very wide range of emotional and physical wellness applications. They are naturally safe, intuitively simple and highly satisfying. dōTERRA® (meaning “Gift of the Earth”) essential oils represent the safest, purest essential oils available in the world today. They are 100% pure aromatic extracts and contain no artificial ingredients and are tested to be free of contaminants such as pesticides or other chemical residues.
We welcome your participation in our mission to share the life-enhancing benefits of therapeutic-grade essential oils with the world. Your path to a new philosophy of wellness begins by opening a bottle.
Come learn how simple and satisfying using essential oils can be.
For more information please contact: Susie Walby 579-2533 or go to http://www.doterra.myvoffice.com/lotus/

Parent Yoga Coop is forming

Bring your children to play downstairs while parents take a class upstairs. Parents rotate supervision. Please contact Ashley Martens for details and registration information: ashmartens@yahoo.com (208)883-4998

Prenatal Yoga with Sandy Knapp

Please call Sandy if you are interested 586-3754. This class is forming on Tuesdays 4-5:15

Mindful Eating 8 week series with Marlisa Papp, CHHC, LAC

Free yourself from the destructive patterns and daily obsessions with food and embark on the journey of mindful healing.
Begins Tuesday, May 18, from 7-9 PM
Alchemy Health and Yoga Center, 1119 N. 7th Avenue, Bozeman $200.00
This 8-week series will give you the opportunity to explore healthy lifestyle changes, develop self-acceptance and improve body esteem. Using the group process, you will learn non-judgmental awareness, compassion for self and others and how to live in the present
moment of your life. This class is appropriate for anyone who struggles with food and eating and is now ready to take control of their relationship with food.
To Register, go to MindfulHealingCounseling.com
Or call Marlisa at 406-579-1359 Limited seating, fee due upon registration.

Application deadline JUNE 12th for John Friend Weekend Workshop August 28th and 29th, Park City, Utah

Apply online at www.anusara.com. Application is free. Apply even if you aren’t sure if you can go. Once accepted you can opt to pay and attend. We will be carpooling and find ing accomodations. Anyone who knows anyone in Park City, let us know!

Mark your Calendars for Desiree Rumbaugh 5 month countdown! November 19, 20 21st, 2010!

Visit Des on her website: www.desireerumbugh.com

Mark your Calendars for Benjy and Heather Wertheimer of Shantala Thursday Novemeber 11th, 2010

Visit Heather and Benjy on their website www.shantalamusic.com

MONTHLY SACRED CIRCLE GATHERING

with Dayna Kopple

Sacred Circle Gathering & Humanity In Unity Meditation Group:

Welcomes Josh Overcash, certified BodyTalk Practitioner, as he joins us to share about a new approach to wellness. The BodyTalk System is a form of energy medicine that involves the energetics of acupunture, osteopathy, chiropractic, applied kinesiology and quantum physics. The system works with the body, mind and spirit to allow our self healing mechanism work more optimally. Come learn about the BodyTalk System, a simple technique for life’s challenges/stress, and participate in a BodyTalk Matrix session supporting our community in our collective shift in consciousness!

Dayna Kopple, Certified Massage Therapist and Transformational Lightworker, will then guide us in group discussion, meditation and Diksha (Pure Light Blessings). We will explore the topic of Transformation, what it is and how it relates to us and this planetary shift we are all experiencing. Dayna will then guide us through a meditation specifically working with light, taking us deeper into our own selves, discovering how to be our own conductors of the light and how by using it daily, we personally transform ourselves, our lives, community and all of humanity.

Please join us!

When: This Friday June, 4^th from 7:00-9:30 P.M.

Where: Alchemy Health & Yoga Center, 1119 N. 7^th Avenue, Bozeman, MT

(in the yoga room)

Please Contact: If you have a sacred craft you would like to share with the community, you’re invited to join us in leading a Sacred Circle Gathering. For more information, please contact Dayna Kopple at 220-0831.

Participation fee: $12 minimum

MONDAY NIGHT ECSTATIC DANCE

with Shelly Heilweil

Ecstatic dance is an easy, fun way to integrate all of the good work you do into your own cohesive whole. Let your body and mind, your heart and your spirit communicate freely while you effortlessly move to the sounds of world music. Stretch, energize, invigorate, release, enlarge, meditate, explore, evolve.$5

I started dancing in Portland, OR in 1995 while a graduate student in clinical psychology, initially as exercise. It quickly became clear that free dance, or ecstatic dance, or intentional movement—whatever one calls this form—was the most direct road into achieving my best personal balance while navigating the emotional stresses and physical strains of being a student and a practitioner. Dance is the best way I’ve found to process and to integrate daily experience into a cohesive whole. Emotional events, mental activity, and physical effort can all combine for deeper experience and greater personal understanding. Ecstatic dance is a moving meditation, a dynamic exploration, and spiritual celebration. My teachers in this form have been Vin Marti (Soul Motion & 5 Rhythms), Paula Byrne of Soma Studio, & Jen Warnock, Meshi Chavez & Winky Wheeler of the Momentum Conscious Movement Studio, and all the dancers in my fine old collective, Portland Dance Journeys. My goal is to create a vibrant Bozeman ecstatic dance community, where we all inspire one another in the dance.

Contact Shelly: 522-3881 shellyheilweil@gmail.com

YIN/YANG YOGA

with Alice Robison

morning practice….sun salutations 7:00-8:15 a.m.

yin practice…evening quiet meditation cooling the mind 5:30-6:45p.m.

wednesdays in June starting June 9

$36 for 4 classes or $10 drop-in

morning practice will be yang/active asanas with sun salutations and meditation –there will not be a lot of outside instruction so it is good if you already have a yoga practice. focus will be inward; sharpening your awareness of your own body/spirit with mindfulness

evening practice will be yin yoga. holding postures for time, on the floor, stretching and regenerating connective tissue that wraps the hips, low back and spine. series offered will be for hips, spine, and the infant series. nurtures the meridians and thus the internal organs. meditation to follow practice

class size limited

call or email Alice at 522-0082

inspiredfromwithin@yahoo.com

TEEN CLASS

with Debby Greene

FEEL AWESOME

MONDAYS and FRIDAYS from 4-5:15 pm $5

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest human battle ever and to never stop fighting.”

- E.E. Cummings, American Poet (1894-1962)

Come to teen yoga on Mondays and Wednesday and prepare to feel AWESOME.

SATURDAY COMMUNITY and CHARITY CLASSES

SATURDAYS 9-10:30 Taught by Susie, Anna or guest teachers. TBA Please check the schedule online at www.montanalotusyoga.com.

ADVANCED PRACTICE

Friday June 18th led by Anna or Susie 5:00-7:00pm $15

ALCHEMY CENTER PRACTITIONERS AND LINKS:

DAYNA KOPPLE Conscious Healing, Massage and Bodywork www.dkhealingarts.com

ELAINE DOLL Ayurveda www.blissfulbozeman.com

TAMARA FAUST Thai Massage and bodywork www.tamarafaust.com

MARLISA PAPP, CHHC, LAC Mindful Healing Counseling. Encouraging a whole person approach to

Body, Mind & Spirit Healing www.mindfulhealingcounseling.com

MAY CLASS SCHEDULE

Monday

7am-8:30am ALL LEVELS Susie or Anna

9am-10:30am BASICS/BEGINNERS Susie

4:00pm-5:15pm TEENS Debby $5

7:15-8:30 pm Ecstatic Dance $5 Shelly

Tuesday

9am-10:30am ALL LEVELS Susie

4-5:15pm PRENATAL (Please call Sandy 586-3754 to attend)

5:30-6:45pm Susie $8 FLOW!

Wednesday

7-8:15 Yang practice sun salutations Alice

10:30am- Noon ALL LEVELS Anna

5:30-6:45pm Yin Alice (class size limited. Call Alice 522-0082)

Thursday

9am-10:30am BASICS/BEGINNERS Anna or guest teacher

5:30-6:45pm $8 FLOW! Susie

Friday

9:00-10:30 am ALL LEVELS Susie

4:00pm-5:15pm TEENS Debby $5

*7:00-9:30 6/4 Monthly Sacred Circle Gathering with Dayna Kopple $10-15

*5:00-7:00pm 6/18 ADVANCED PRACTICE Anna. $15.

Saturday

*9-10:30am $8 Community or Charity Class taught by Susie, Anna or guest teachers.

If you are interested in using our space to host a gathering, please feel free to contact us.

Susie Walby (406) 579-2533

Anna Ourusoff Holder (406) 600-7565

www.montanalotusyoga.com

montanalotusyoga@gmail.com

May Newsletter and Schedule

Montana Lotus Yoga — Wed, 05 May 2010 23:41:48 +0000

May Blessings…

We are beaming out to you from the Flathead lake area in Polson, Mt. where we join our sister kula, Yoga Heart Montana, in a yoga therapy training with guest certified Anusara teacher, Ross Rayburn. The teaching today was a beautiful anchoring of what is the beacon for our practice and our life…to open and deepen into our trust in the mystery of Life’s pulse, what we call in Anusara our first principle. Our Yoga practice teaches us that when we stay connected through remembrance to the field of the great mystery, we can move out into the world in the creative individual expression of our lives with grace, purpose, celebration and the ascending journey into our highest selves. May we open to Grace every moment, every time we step out…

Anna and Susie

EVENTS and ADDITIONS for MAY

Spring Cleanse May 15th with Elaine Doll of Blissful Ayurveda

If you are interested in learning more about ayurveda through a supported spring cleanse. Its a perfect time to do a cleanse which will help us rid our body, mind, and consciousness of the build up from winter, as well as prepare for the heat during summer. Call Elaine at 579-3910 for more info or to sign up! There will be one 2 hour meeting to line out the cleanse on Saturday May 15th 11am - 1pm. Stay a bit longer and try some ayurvedic cooking. The cost for the supported cleanse is $25. Blessings!

Private Therapeutic Sessions offered

Special Meditation Evening with guests Victor and Kooch Daniels, Thursday May 20th at 7pm

Victor and Kooch Daniels, co-authors of Matrix Meditations: A 16-week program for Developing the Mind-Heart Connection, will be introducing and leading meditations to inspire personal growth and inner healing on Thursday, May 20th at 7 pm. In this interactive presentation, they will integrate Eastern and Western methods for diving into the vast pool of consciousness of your inner self. Using techniques from their book, you will be taught self-guided methods for healing body, mind, and emotions, and will gain knowledge of how to better listen to messages from your heart for greater personal effectiveness and happiness. Because Victor was the first director of the India Studies program at Sonoma State University in California, he has many gems to share from eastern traditions. For more information on our guests, you can visit: www.matrixmeditations.com Please make a donation to Montana Lotus Yoga for the use of the space.

Essential Oils Therapy presentation Wednesday May 12th 1-2pm

Essential oils are used for a very wide range of emotional and physical wellness applications. They are naturally safe, intuitively simple and highly satisfying. dōTERRA® (meaning “Gift of the Earth”) essential oils represent the safest, purest essential oils available in the world today. They are 100% pure aromatic extracts and contain no artificial ingredients and are tested to be free of contaminants such as pesticides or other chemical residues.
We welcome your participation in our mission to share the life-enhancing benefits of therapeutic-grade essential oils with the world. Your path to a new philosophy of wellness begins by opening a bottle.
Come learn how simple and satisfying using essential oils can be.
For more information please contact: Kacie Shober 539.2421 or http://mydoterra.com/kshober

Parent Yoga Coop is forming

Mindful Eating 8 week series with Marlisa Papp, CHHC, LAC

Mark your Calendars for John Friend Weekend Workshop August 28th and 29th, Park City Utah

Apply online at www.anusara.com. There will be a caravan of us going to Park City. Keep in touch and make sure you apply.

Mark your Calendars for Desiree Rumbaugh 6 month countdown! November 19, 20 21st, 2010!

Visit Des on her website: www.desireerumbugh.com

Mark your Calendars for Benjy and Heather Wertheimer of Shantala Thursday Novemeber 11th, 2010

Visit Heather and Benjy on their website www.shantalamusic.com

MONTHLY SACRED CIRCLE GATHERING

with Dayna Kopple

Now is the time when we are merging into new ways of living. We are experiencing a greater shift, both within ourselves and on this planet collectively as well. Come join us this Friday, May 7th for an evening of Transformational Meditations, Energy Work, Singing and Kris Hill from Hill Botanical, guiding and teaching us new ways of supporting ourselves on a cellular level of health and well-being!

HUMANITY IN UNITY MEDITATION GROUP

A meditation group founded from the Master Teachings of Her Holiness Sai Maa Lakshmi Devi. Sai Maa’s mission is to bring Global Enlightenment to humanity. Her teachings are about working with the Light and illuminating the mind and raising our vibrational frequencies into the Light. These gatherings will be held on the first Friday of every month in Alchemy Health & Yoga Center.

This Friday’s gathering we will be doing meditations guided by Sai Maa. These meditations will teach us how to work with Divine Light to transform our bodies on a cellular level as well as raise our consciousness to Divine Consciousness. We’ll also be offering diksha (Divine Light Blessings) sessions to everyone, followed with music to sing and dance to composed by Vance Thurston on guitar. 5:30-7pm

SACRED CIRCLE GATHERING

Kris Hill from Hill Botanical will be with us on Friday May 7 to share her knowledge of plants we can believe in and will present a short lecture on herbal medicine and which plants are most obtainable from your Gallatin Valley Yard. 7:30-9pm

http://hillbotanical.com/about_us.php

Contact Dayna: 406-220-0831 daynakopple@gmail.com

MONDAY NIGHT ECSTATIC DANCE

with Shelly Heilweil

Ecstatic dance is an easy, fun way to integrate all of the good work you do into your own cohesive whole. Let your body and mind, your heart and your spirit communicate freely while you effortlessly move to the sounds of world music. Stretch, energize, invigorate, release, enlarge, meditate, explore, evolve.$5

I started dancing in Portland, OR in 1995 while a graduate student in clinical psychology, initially as exercise. It quickly became clear that free dance, or ecstatic dance, or intentional movement—whatever one calls this form—was the most direct road into achieving my best personal balance while navigating the emotional stresses and physical strains of being a student and a practitioner. Dance is the best way I’ve found to process and to integrate daily experience into a cohesive whole. Emotional events, mental activity, and physical effort can all combine for deeper experience and greater personal understanding. Ecstatic dance is a moving meditation, a dynamic exploration, and spiritual celebration. My teachers in this form have been Vin Marti (Soul Motion & 5 Rhythms), Paula Byrne of Soma Studio, & Jen Warnock, Meshi Chavez & Winky Wheeler of the Momentum Conscious Movement Studio, and all the dancers in my fine old collective, Portland Dance Journeys. My goal is to create a vibrant Bozeman ecstatic dance community, where we all inspire one another in the dance.

Contact Shelly: 522-3881 shellyheilweil@gmail.com

YIN/RESTORATIVE YOGA

with Alice Robison

WEDNESDAYS 5:30-7:00pm April 14, 21, 28 and May 5,12, 19, 26

$63 for series, $10 drop-in

class size limited

call Alice at 522-0082

NEW TEEN CLASS

with Debby Greene

FEEL AWESOME

MONDAYS and WEDNESDAYS from 4-5:15 pm $5

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest human battle ever and to never stop fighting.”

- E.E. Cummings, American Poet (1894-1962)

Come to teen yoga on Mondays and Wednesday and prepare to feel AWESOME.

SATURDAY COMMUNITY and CHARITY CLASSES

SATURDAYS 9-10:30 Taught by Susie, Anna or guest teachers. TBA Please check the schedule online at www.montanalotusyoga.com.

ADVANCED PRACTICE

Friday May 21st led by Anna 5:00-7:00pm $15

COMMUNITY KIRTAN / SATSANG

Friday May 21st 7-9, following the advanced practice. Please check the online calendar for the event this month.

SATSANG ज्ञानकोश The company of the highest knowledge and Truth; the company of a Guru; contact with a person or an assembly of persons who listen to, talk about, and assimilate the Truth. This highest company also takes the form of hearing or reading the words of highest awareness, reflecting on, discussing and assimilating their meaning, meditating on the source of these words, and bringing this awareness into ones daily life. (From Indopedia.org)

KIRTAN ज्ञानकोश (Sanskrit: “to repeat”) is call-and-response chanting performed in India’s devotional traditions. (from Wikepedia.com)

ALCHEMY CENTER PRACTITIONERS AND LINKS:

DAYNA KOPPLE Conscious Healing, Massage and Bodywork www.dkhealingarts.com

DEAN WILLIAMSON Shamanic visionary work and Mentoring www.sunflowercenter.org

ELAINE DOLL Ayurveda www.blissfulbozeman.com

MARLISA PAPP, CHHC, LAC Mindful Healing Counseling- encouraging a whole person approach to Body,

Mind & Spirit Healing www.mindfulhealingcounseling.com

TAMARA FAUST Thai Massage and bodywork www.tamarafaust.com

MAY CLASS SCHEDULE

Monday

7am-8:30am ALL LEVELS Susie or Anna

9am-10:30am BASICS/BEGINNERS Susie

11am-12:15pm PRENATAL (Please call Sandy 586-3754 to attend)

4:00pm-5:15pm TEENS Debby $5

7:15-8:30 pm Ecstatic Dance $5 Shelly

Tuesday

9am-10:30am ALL LEVELS Susie

5:30-6:45pm Susie $8 FLOW!

Wednesday

10:30am- Noon ALL LEVELS Anna

4:00pm-5:15pm TEENS Debby $5

5:30-7:00pm Yin/Restorative Alice (class size limited. Call Alice 522-0082) April 14, 21, 28, May 5, 12, 19, 26

Thursday

9am-10:30am BASICS/BEGINNERS Anna or guest teacher

5:30-6:45pm $8 FLOW! Susie

Friday

9:00-10:30 am ALL LEVELS Susie

*6:30-9:00 5/7 Monthly Sacred Circle Gathering with Dayna Kopple $10-15

*5:00-7:00pm 5/21 ADVANCED PRACTICE Anna. $15.

*7:30-9:00pm 5/21 Community Satsang. facillitator tba

Saturday

*9-10:30am $8 Community or Charity Class taught by Susie, Anna or guest teachers.

If you are interested in using our space to host a gathering, please feel free to contact us.

Susie Walby (406) 579-2533

Anna Ourusoff Holder (406) 600-7565

www.montanalotusyoga.com

montanalotusyoga@gmail.com

April Newsletter and Schedule

Montana Lotus Yoga — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:13:30 +0000

“Look deep inside…for the timeless spark…shining forever…laugh at the dark…

We’re all one…no difference here…Stand tall in your Truth…no place to fear…

Open the curtains, let in the Light…New day dawning…let go the Night…

Open to Grace…All dreams come true…so never stop shining…it’s up to you…”

-John Friend

Happy Spring!

The world of Nature is poised to burst forth in all of its growing splendor after a long dormancy under a heavy blanket of snow. Change is precarious…shaky…dramatic.

Seed pods literally explode in seeming massive self destruction, annihilating all of the limited structures that keep growth and freedom at bay. Love knows where the apocalyptic button is that takes us through the portal into freedom…If we are willing. Birth is traumatic.

So much in life offers us to fall back into an old way, an old pattern or habit (”habit”=French for clothes, cloak) that grants us the illusion of safety, when there is something deeper down inside us that Knows there is something more… something beckoning us…

The longing and even ache that we may feel in our hearts is the gift of life that propels us to act and choose that which affirms life, even if it looks like devastation, like an eggshell cracking…a seedpod bursting…only to reveal a precious and tender Beauty on its way, unquestioning its journey to be a crocus popping through the snow.

This path of Yoga invites us to live with more awareness of what we are not enriched by in our lives, what we’d like to change, how we can change by how we can change ourselves. What an amazing opportunity! How will we be the shift? In Spring we can plant the seeds of intention to step into the highest aspect of our selves. May we be mindful of how we live, how we speak, how we think, and how we fertilize our growth with these choices.

Life will bring us what it will, no matter what…but knowing we have a choice empowers us to begin. Will we heed the call and gently, compassionately override the smaller fearful voice, and step into the Greatness of the flourishing beings we are capable of being?

Life has a way of preventing what we think we want and throws us back into the storm of our own rebirth. Can we be brave and stay with the energy of the storm, the comings and goings of snow and sleet and hail…ride it out because there are things to be learned in particularly difficult situations that cannot be learned otherwise? Often these learnings come from experiences that we do not willingly aim towards…At times, nothing short of revolution in our orientation will allow passage through this phase of our lives…this spring, this rebirth. In this space of openness and vulnerability, we can hear the intimacy of life, feel its pulse, its music. A part of us wants to speed up past that tentative space where we may say…ok…that’s enough of that…I know what to do…go back to what I know…what is familiar…my old cloak…apparent safety…

We may think we know what is best, and decide what experience we should be having, and even within a spiritual direction, we may think we should know what is meant to be happening, and that we should be directing our own unfoldment. Our stories…

In a truer space of intimately opening to the Grace of all things, knowledge of appearances dissolves…we do not know what things will look like. Does a broccoli plant know that it will bud forth broccoli?

…What if there were a dimension as yet uncharted, unknown, sweet with a perfume never smelled, a nectar never tasted, a beauty beyond anything seen, a joy…Spring…a whole new world as yet unimagined opening up?

May the faith be stronger than the uncertainty, the love be stronger than the fear.

There is immense beauty and opportunity that lies beneath our old ways, our old wounds. With forgiveness and compassion for ourselves and for Life, we welcome the Spring of the new world…

May we step into that place of knowing that the Heart of Creation is within us, and all we need is right here.

May we recognize the Preciousness that is the center of our Being…

Where does that live inside of me and you?

May we respond to that intelligence within us and each other…

It’s up to us!

Shine!

Anna and Susie

ADDITIONS and CHANGES for MARCH

Reminder to send in your $ for Adam Ballenger’s workshop to hold your space
Saturday Community Class cancelled on April 10th due to workshop
5$ Community Classes and Flow classes are now a new magical #8$!

Tuesday and Thursday 8$ Flow night 5:30-6:45pm

(Cash only. Montana Lotus punch cards do not apply). Utilize the techniques you’ve learned from the Anusara’s Universal Princiles of Alignment in a fun 75-minute vinyasa flow session. This class is for all levels of yoga practitioners.

Wednesday Yin/Restorative series with Alice resumes April 14th

NEW TEEN CLASS! (see below)
Thursday 7am class canceled this month
Mark your calendars for an Ayurvedic overview and set up for spring Cleanse with Yoga asana May 14th and 15th with Elaine Doll of Blissful Ayurveda and Anna and Susie leading Asana

Parent Yoga Coop is forming

Susie’s newest Portraits of the Divine art showing 6-7pm, Chanting with guest musicians Jenni Fallein and Glen Bergstrom from Dillon 7-9pm Saturday April 10th following Adam’s afternoon class (see below)

Mark your calendars for an Anusara workshop April 9th, 10th, 11th with Certified Anusara Instructor Adam Ballenger

Friday Night Master Class 6pm “What Do you Plug Into”

A fun Friday evening class with Pranayama and Mediation to help finish the work week. Intermediate to Advanced. Even if you don’t bring a smile, you’ll still leave with one.

Saturday 10am-1pm “A Marriage of the Center and its Parts”

Hip-openers, Arm-balances and Backbends. A mixed tempo workshop-style session of connecting to our core with our periphery in optimal fashion.

Saturday 3-5:30pm “Centering or Not, How to measure”

A technical session on alignment and measuring if our alignment is centering us or not. This will help you use great tools even better. (Anusara’s Universal Principles of Alignment)

Sunday 10am-1pm “Centered: A durable Quality of You”

Playing the boundaries of our Asana practice, we’ll exercise our ability to keep moving towards being centered in our hearts, minds and bodies. Getting centered is great, staying there is even better.

Workshop cost is $15/hour or $140 for the whole weekend. Please email us to register: montanalotusyoga@gmail.com and send your payment to Montana Lotus yoga 1601 West Olive #7 Bozeman, Mt 59715. Space is limited as we will hold this at our studio. For more info on Adam, please visit him at www.kulastudio.com. Adam co-owns Kula Yoga Studio in Salt Lake City.

MONTHLY SACRED CIRCLE GATHERING

with Dayna Kopple

In this month’s gathering we will be combining our combining our official first Humanity in Unity Meditation gathering along with hosting Diksha Initiations and Training form 6:30-9:00pm as a part of our Monthly Sacred Circle Gathering.

HUMANITY IN UNITY MEDITATION GROUP

A meditation group founded from the Master Teachings of Her Holiness Sai Maa Lakshmi Devi. Sai Maa’s mission is to bring Global Enlightenment to humanity. Her teachings are about working with the Light and illuminating the mind and raising our vibrational frequencies into the Light. These gatherings will be held on the first Friday of every month in Alchemy Health & Yoga Center.

This month’s gathering will be on brain illumination, as we’ll explore healing ourselves by learning and participating in watching a very special DVD on brain illumination. Come and join us in learning the importance of illuminating our brains, how to do it, how it heals us and why it is recommended to incorporate it into our lives as a daily practice. This month only we’ll be including this gathering as a part of the Sacred Circle Gathering due to the combination of healing techniques taught throughout the evening. Please join us for an amazing event and opportunity to enrich ourselves more deeply in the Light.

DIKSHA INITIATIONS AND TRAINING

This is a very special event! ” Diksha is a powerful technique for illuminating the brain. It is the physical transference of energy or divine Light into the brain that initiates the process of enlightenment.” ~ H.H. Sai Maa. Until now, one could only receive training under certain circumstances. But just recently, Her Holiness Sai Maa Lakshmi Devi has announced this training to be gifted to the world in supporting Global Enlightenment, by allowing everyone to be initiated into giving Diksha! We welcome you to join us for this trascendental and transformational experience! *For allowing the use of the space and for the special tools needed for this event, a minimum of a $10 or $15 is kindly requested. Thank You.

Contact Dayna: 406-220-0831 daynakopple@gmail.com

MONDAY NIGHT ECSTATIC DANCE

with Shelly Heilweil

Ecstatic dance is an easy, fun way to integrate all of the good work you do into your own cohesive whole. Let your body and mind, your heart and your spirit communicate freely while you effortlessly move to the sounds of world music. Stretch, energize, invigorate, release, enlarge, meditate, explore, evolve.$5

I started dancing in Portland, OR in 1995 while a graduate student in clinical psychology, initially as exercise. It quickly became clear that free dance, or ecstatic dance, or intentional movement—whatever one calls this form—was the most direct road into achieving my best personal balance while navigating the emotional stresses and physical strains of being a student and a practitioner. Dance is the best way I’ve found to process and to integrate daily experience into a cohesive whole. Emotional events, mental activity, and physical effort can all combine for deeper experience and greater personal understanding. Ecstatic dance is a moving meditation, a dynamic exploration, and spiritual celebration. My teachers in this form have been Vin Marti (Soul Motion & 5 Rhythms), Paula Byrne of Soma Studio, & Jen Warnock, Meshi Chavez & Winky Wheeler of the Momentum Conscious Movement Studio, and all the dancers in my fine old collective, Portland Dance Journeys. My goal is to create a vibrant Bozeman ecstatic dance community, where we all inspire one another in the dance.

Contact Shelly: 522-3881 shellyheilweil@gmail.com

YIN/RESTORATIVE YOGA

with Alice Robison

WEDNESDAYS 5:30-7:00pm April 14, 21, 28 and May 5,12, 19, 26

$63 for series, $10 drop-in

class size limited

call Alice at 522-0082

NEW TEEN CLASS

with Debby Greene

FEEL AWESOME

MONDAYS and WEDNESDAYS in April From 4-5:15 pm $5

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest human battle ever and to never stop fighting.”

- E.E. Cummings, American Poet (1894-1962)

Come to teen yoga on Mondays and Wednesday and prepare to feel AWESOME.

SATURDAY COMMUNITY and CHARITY CLASSES

SATURDAYS 9-10:30 Taught by Susie, Anna or guest teachers. TBA Please check the schedule online at www.montanalotusyoga.com. No Class on Sat April 10th due to Adam Ballenger’s workshop.

ADVANCED PRACTICE

Friday April 23rd led by Susie or guest teacher 5:00-7:00pm $15 Please check the schedule online at www.montanalotusyoga.com

COMMUNITY KIRTAN / SATSANG

Saturday April 10th 7-9. This month we welcome visiting yogi musicians form Dillon, Mt:

Musicians

Glenn Bergstrom - tablas, harmonium, tamboura

Jenni Fallein – harmonium, guitar, mandolin

Jenni is an Anusara-Inspired Yoga teacher from Dillon, MT

Glenn studies tabla and Ashtanga Yoga in India during MT winters

They have been playing kirtan music together for 25 years.

(This kirtan is free. Donations are welcome.)

KIRTAN ज्ञानकोश (Sanskrit: “to repeat”) is call-and-response chanting performed in India’s devotional traditions. (from Wikepedia.com)

ALCHEMY CENTER PRACTITIONERS AND LINKS:

DAYNA KOPPLE Conscious Healing, Massage and Bodywork www.dkhealingarts.com

DEAN WILLIAMSON Shamanic visionary work and Mentoring www.sunflowercenter.org

ELAINE DOLL Ayurveda www.blissfulbozeman.com

MICHAEL GECI-BLACK, MD Alternative Medicine www.wholehealthandhealing.com

TAMARA FAUST Thai Massage and bodywork www.tamarafaust.com

APRIL CLASS SCHEDULE

Monday

7am-8:30am ALL LEVELS Susie or Anna

9am-10:30am BASICS/BEGINNERS Susie

11am-12:15pm PRENATAL (Please call Sandy 586-3754 to attend)

4:00pm-5:15pm TEENS Debby $5

5:30-7:00pm ALL LEVELS Susie

7:15-8:30 pm Ecstatic Dance $5 Shelly

Tuesday

9am-10:30am ALL LEVELS Susie

5:30-6:45pm Susie $8 FLOW!

Wednesday

10:30am- Noon ALL LEVELS Anna

4:00pm-5:15pm TEENS Debby $5

5:30-7:00pm Yin/Restorative Alice (class size limited. Call Alice 522-0082) April 14, 21, 28, May 5, 12, 19, 26

Thursday

9am-10:30am BASICS/BEGINNERS Anna or guest teacher

5:30-6:45pm $8 FLOW! Susie

Friday

9:00-10:30 am ALL LEVELS Susie

*6:30-9:00 4/2 Monthly Sacred Circle Gathering with Dayna Kopple $10-15

*5:00-7:00pm 4/22 ADVANCED PRACTICE Susie. $15.

Saturday

*9-10:30am $8 Community or Charity Class taught by Susie, Anna or guest teachers.

*7:00-9:00pm 4/10 Community Chant. Live musicians. By donation.

If you are interested in using our space to host a gathering, please feel free to contact us.

Susie Walby (406) 579-2533

Anna Ourusoff Holder (406) 600-7565

WWW.MONTANALTUSYOGA.COM

WWW.MONTANALOYUSYOGA@GMAIL.COM

March Schedule and Newsletter

Montana Lotus Yoga — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:14:11 +0000

“Melt Your Heart, Blow your Mind”

(John Friend 2010 tour title)

March Greetings to all,

After last night’s full moon, the sun shines bright on this bluebird day. With mild temperatures, we have felt a twinge of spring in the air, and the stirrings of the seeds underground. Do seeds question whether to come forth with their unique blueprint of creative manifestation? There is inborn into the Web of Life an intrinsic intelligence that defies the rational. May we access the great intelligence born of balance: instinct (body), intellect (mind), and intuition (heart). This is the art and science of our human life-practice, on and off the mat. Thank you to all of our teachers, everywhere and taking all forms they do, some human, some plant, mineral, animal, and etheric. May we allow our stories to dissolve like the snow, washing away self limitation and birthing the most creative essence that we each embody. By saying yes to the great Balance, when we are in the flow, we intuitively and instinctively Know how to choose and what to go with. Our intellect can serve the former with its great precision and clarity. When we can trust these deep currents within us, our lives unfold as the artistic expressions they are. We can live with purpose and the deep gift of fulfillment from contributing and creating from our Heart.

We are so grateful to have birthed our yoga space within the context of Alchemy Health and Yoga center. We invite ideas and support in all forms. We also offer space for community gatherings and part time/ by the hour office space for private practice. We open our doors to evolution and growth in creative business practices. May we create new paradigms and models beyond the existing forms and structures, and birth a new world, one day at a time.

With Great Love and Appreciation,

Anna and Susie

“As for me, all I know is that I know Nothing” - Socrates

ADDITIONS and CHANGES for MARCH

Added $5 Flow night on Wednesday with Anna 5:30-6:45pm

Tuesdays and Thursdays remain $5 Flow night as well, Tuesdays with Tamara, Thursdays with Susie

***Please note that due to increased expenses we will be offering Flow classes for $8 beginning in April.***

Wednesday Yin/Restorative series with Alice will resume in April (See below)
Thursday 7am class canceled this month

Parent Yoga Coop is forming

Continued Tuesday Meditation Series with Angela Patnode (See below)

Mark you calendars for an Anusara workshop April 9th, 10th, 11th with Certified Anusara Instructor Adam Bellinger

Friday Night Master Class 6pm “What Do you Plug Into”

A fun Friday evening class with Pranayama and Mediation to help finish the work week. Intermediate to Advanced. Even if you don’t bring a smile, you’ll still leave with one.

Saturday 10am-1pm “A Marriage of the Center and its Parts”

Hip-openers, Arm-balances and Backbends. A mixed tempo workshop-style session of connecting to our core with our periphery in optimal fashion.

Saturday 3-5:30pm “Centering or Not, How to measure”

A technical session on alignment and measuring if our alignment is centering us or not. This will help you use great tools even better. (Anusara’s Universal Principles of Alignment)

Sunday 10am-1pm “Centered: A durable Quality of You”

Workshop cost is $15/hour or $140 for the whole weekend. Please email us to register: montanalotusyoga@gmail.com. Space is limited as we will hold this at our studio. For more info on Adam, please visit him at www.kulastudio.com. Adam co-owns Kula Yoga Studio in Salt Lake City.

MONTHLY SACRED CIRCLE GATHERING with Dayna Kopple

A circle gathering honoring sacred traditions and co-creating spiritual community the first Friday of each month from 7:30-9:00 P.M. in Alchemy Health & Yoga Center. This Friday March 5th, we will be learning about the art of transformation from my lineage and exploring how to use Divine Light in our daily lives for transformation.

The intention for these monthly circle gatherings is focused on creating sacred space, feeling totally safe and supported in discovering and being in our authentic nature, raising our awareness and vibration in the highest of Truth, conscious healing, guided meditations, sacred ritual, and guests from the community sharing their sacred crafts. This group is for anyone interested in co-creating spiritual community, supporting us all in our journey and evolution in into enlightenment. A $5 minimum donation is kindly requested.

MONDAY NIGHT ECSTATIC DANCE with Shelly Heilweil

Ecstatic dance is an easy, fun way to integrate all of the good work you do into your own cohesive whole. Let your body and mind, your heart and your spirit communicate freely while you effortlessly move to the sounds of world music. Stretch, energize, invigorate, release, enlarge, meditate, explore, evolve.

I started dancing in Portland, OR in 1995 while a graduate student in clinical psychology, initially as exercise. It quickly became clear that free dance, or ecstatic dance, or intentional movement—whatever one calls this form—was the most direct road into achieving my best personal balance while navigating the emotional stresses and physical strains of being a student and a practitioner. Dance is the best way I’ve found to process and to integrate daily experience into a cohesive whole. Emotional events, mental activity, and physical effort can all combine for deeper experience and greater personal understanding. Ecstatic dance is a moving meditation, a dynamic exploration, and spiritual celebration. My teachers in this form have been Vin Marti (Soul Motion & 5 Rhythms), Paula Byrne of Soma Studio, & Jen Warnock, Meshi Chavez & Winky Wheeler of the Momentum Conscious Movement Studio, and all the dancers in my fine old collective, Portland Dance Journeys. My goal is to create a vibrant Bozeman ecstatic dance community, where we all inspire one another in the dance.

Contact Shelly: 522-3881 shellyheilweil@gmail.com

YIN/RESTORATIVE YOGA with Alice Robison

RESUMING IN APRIL : WEDNESDAYS 5:30-7:00pm April 14, 21, 28 and May 5,12, 19, 26

$63 for series, $10 drop-in

class size limited

call Alice at 522-0082

MEDITATION CLASS with Angela Patnode

6 weeks sessions on Tuesdays, 7-8:30pm Feb.23-March 30th

All are welcome.

Beginning meditation instructions will not be given for the new session, but people can contact Angela if they need instruction and she will meet them at 6:30pm, 1/2 hour before the class. Meditation and dharma teachings.

January session topics include sitting posture, breathing, tools for concentration, insights to the mind and why it takes us or keeps us off track in life, seeing life situations and people for what they are (not our perception), and learning to see ourselves for who we truly are.

The January session classes will start with shorter periods of meditation which will be built upon each week. Techniques for integration in daily life will also be incorporated. Cushions, blankets, and mats are provided if you do not have your own.

Taught by Angela Patnode, a practicing meditator for the past 6 years. She is currently studying in a two year spiritual program with Matthew Flickstein of the Theraveda Tradition, and is passionate in helping others live a happier, more peaceful life!

Cost: by donation to the Alchemy Center/Montana Lotus Yoga for energy use.
Any Dana (donations for the teachings) can be given at class.
No one will be turned away for lack of funds - all are welcome!
Contact Angela at angelapatnode@yahoo.com for further questions, and to find out more about continued classes.

SATURDAY COMMUNITY and CHARITY CLASSES 9-10:30 am

Taught by Susie, Anna or guest teachers. TBA Please check the schedule online at www.montanalotusyoga.com

ADVANCED PRACTICE

Friday March 19th led by Anna or Susie or guest teacher 5:00-7:00pm $15 Please check the schedule online at www.montanalotusyoga.com

COMMUNITY KIRTAN / SATSANG

Friday March 19th. Free

KIRTAN ज्ञानकोश (Sanskrit: “to repeat”) is call-and-response chanting performed in India’s devotional traditions. (from Wikepedia.com)

ALCHEMY CENTER PRACTITIONERS AND LINKS:

DAYNA KOPPLE Conscious Healing, Massage and Bodywork www.dkhealingarts.com

DEAN WILLIAMSON Shamanic visionary work and Mentoring www.sunflowercenter.org

ELAINE DOLL Ayurveda www.blissfulbozeman.com

MICHAEL GECI-BLACK, MD Alternative Medicine www.wholehealthandhealing.com

TAMARA FAUST Thai Massage and bodywork www.tamarafaust.com

MARCH CLASS SCHEDULE

Monday

7am-8:30am ALL LEVELS Susie or Anna

9am-10:30am BASICS/BEGINNERS Susie

11am-12:15pm PRENATAL (Please call Sandy 586-3754 to attend)

5:30-7:00pm ALL LEVELS Susie

7:15-8:30 pm Ecstatic Dance $5 Shelly

Tuesday

9am-10:30am ALL LEVELS Susie

5:30-6:45pm Tamara $5 FLOW!

7:00-8:30 pm Meditation Class with Angela Patnode 6 weeks sessions. January session ends Feb 16th. New session Feb.23-March 30

Wednesday

10:30- Noon ALL LEVELS Anna

5:30-6:45 $5 FLOW Anna

Thursday

9am-10:30am ALL LEVELS Anna or Susie

5:30-6:45pm $5 FLOW! Susie

Friday

9:00-10:30 am ALL LEVELS Susie

*7:30-9:00 Monthly Sacred Circle Gathering with Dayna Kopple March 5 $5

*7:30-9:00pm 3/19 Community Kirtan. Free.

*5:00-7:00pm 3/19 ADVANCED PRACTICE teacher TBA. $15.

Saturday

*9-10:30am $5 Community or Charity Class taught by Susie, Anna or guest teachers.

If you are interested in using our space to host a gathering, please feel free to contact us.

Susie Walby (406) 579-2533

Anna Ourusoff Holder (406) 600-7565

WWW.MONTANALTUSYOGA.COM

WWW.MONTANALOYUSYOGA@GMAIL.COM

Friday Night Advanced Practice date change and Meditation series

Montana Lotus Yoga — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:34:43 +0000

Dear Yoga Kula,

Please note Friday’s advanced Practice 5-7pm Feb 19th is being moved to the following week, Friday Feb. 26th form 5-7pm. Hope you can come and we apologize for any inconvenience.

Also note that Tuesday Meditation class is beginning a new 6 week series with Angela. Please contact her for more info: angelapatnode@yahoo.com Feb.23rd-march 30th 7:00-8:30pm. By donation and open to drop ins. Beginning meditation instruction will not be given in this series however Angela will meet you before class to give you guidelines.

Namaste,

Susie and Anna

February Schedule and Newsletter

Montana Lotus Yoga — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:28:27 +0000

Nataraja dancing against the cosmic syllable Om www.exoticindia.com

The most valuable of yoga postures is to stand unshaken in calm inner serenity

amidst the crash of breaking worlds.

– Paramahansa Yogananda

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Dear Sweet Yoga Community,

February greetings on this second eve after the first full moon of the decade.

After the moon is full, it begins to wane again, and with each day loses part of its brilliance. This movement into darkness is likened to moving into the ’shadow’, which we tend to associate with that which is unseen, unknown, and uncharted. In Jungian psychology, the shadow is an integral part of our psyche- it is the storehouse of all that we are but are afraid to show in our outward persona- not just the forbidden self, but the “gold” or the noblest part of ourselves as well. We celebrate the luminosity of the full moon, but often overlook the richness of the dark side of the moon, or even the velvet darkness of the sky that surrounds its light.

This month, we celebrate Mahashivaratri, the Great Night of Shiva. This celebration falls amidst the darkness of a moonless part of the month. Each month, the fourteenth day of the lunar cycle when the moon is waning is called Shivaratri. But of all of the Shivaratris, the one we celebrate in this month, is said to be the most significant, “Maha” or Great, and with the most heightened spiritual power. It is the night when Shiva is said to have performed the Tandava Nritya or the dance of primordial creation, preservation and destruction. This dancing Nataraj or Shiva, is depicted above as a bronze cast murti, or sculpture.

Shiva represents none other than our Highest self- the self which in its essence exists beyond duality and contradiction, and dwells in the great realm of paradox. The world of opposing ideas: light/dark, good/bad, winning/losing, eating/fasting, action/passivity, possession/poverty, sharp consciousness/ meditative consciousness, belief that more is better/ belief that less is better- keeps us in a split, a state of internal warfare and suffering, in attachment to one of a pair of opposites which gives us the illusion of safety and seeming contentment. There is a part of us that knows the precariousness of living on one side of an equation, for it keeps us in judgment and fear.

Shiva’s state of bliss in his Tandava dance is created by the supreme insight that is inclusive and celebratory of the full spectrum of experience on our human journey, all that we must suffer and endure on our path to maturation.

Yoga literally means union, and like the word “religion” whose root is religere- to bind, link, bridge- is a practice of inclusion and healing, reconciliation and acceptance. This perspective is no less than a tremendous and courageous leap in evolution where opposing forces can teach each other something and produce a depth of understanding and insight into one of the most precious qualities of humankind: a deep knowing in the heart that is born of transcendent wisdom which glimpses a realm beyond duality, one that encompasses multiplicity as the expression of the One.

We honor Shiva on Mahashivaratri with the repetition of the mantra Om Namah Shivaya, which means “I bow to and honor my highest Self.” The blessings of this mantra are said to be magnified a thousand fold on this night, and we honor this ritual as a way to focus our intentions and contemplate our unbounded state of Consciousness known as Shiva, the One Supreme Reality, who has created all the forms of this Universe.

This year, Mahashivaratri falls on February 12th. We will have our monthly Kirtan on this night rather than the second to last Friday of the month as we usually do. We are also delighted to welcome back Sundari for a Valentine’s Weekend of Anusara Yoga, “Stoke the Great Fire of the Heart.” Please look through new additions below, including a weekly Mindful Movement gathering on Monday nights with Shelly, Tuesday meditation series with Angela, Yin and Restorative yoga with Alice, a monthly sacred circle gathering with Dayna, a parent yoga coop with revolving child care during the Thursday 9am class, Tuesday and Thursday night flow with Susie and Tamara, and ongoing classes dedicated to the Anusara method of ‘aligning with the Divine.’

May we all dance in the middle of our transformation.

Love and Light,

Susie and Anna

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. -Carl Jung

Bibliography:

Johnson, Robert A., Owning Your Own Shadow, (Harper San Francisco, 1991)

www.siddhayoga.org

ADDITIONS TO THE WEEKLY / MONTHLY SCHEDULE

Anusara Valentine’s weekend workshop with Sundari , one of Anusara Yoga’s most radiant certified instructors

Feb. 12,13,14

“Gifted in generosity I walk this yoga path warmed and humbled. With a soft inquiry and keen eye, my humor and expertise holds the highest intention
for the student to reveal their inner beauty and true nature.” - Sundari www.itsonlyadance.com

Stoke the Great Fire of the Heart

Join us in this magical Heart-full weekend to awaken the deep wisdom and bliss that lies in the very fabric of your own being.

Friday, 2/12, 5:30-7:30pm Fanning the heart’s flame

With Pranayama, Meditation, Hip-openers and Restorative Poses.

Saturday, 2/13, 10:00am-1:00pm Spark the Flame and Align to Freedom

with Standing Poses and Backbends

Saturday, 2/13, 2:30-4:30pm Re-kindle and Re-pose to Reflect the Inner Glow

Therapeutics for the legs with Inversions and Forward Bends

Sunday, 2/14, 9:30-12:30pm Igniting the Fire to Transform in the Opening of the Heart

with Arm Balances and Backbends

$30 for Fri. and Sat. pm; $45 for Sat. and Sun. am

Monday night Mindful Movement with Shelly Heilweil 7:15-8:30 pm $5 Beginning Monday Feb. 1st

Ecstatic dance is an easy, fun way to integrate all of the good work you do into your own cohesive whole. Let your body and mind, your heart and your spirit communicate freely while you effortlessly move to the sounds of world music. Stretch, energize, invigorate, release, enlarge, meditate, explore, evolve.

I started dancing in Portland, OR in 1995 while a graduate student in clinical psychology, initially as exercise. It quickly became clear that free dance, or ecstatic dance, or intentional movement—whatever one calls this form—was the most direct road into achieving my best personal balance while navigating the emotional stresses and physical strains of being a student and a practitioner. Dance is the best way I’ve found to process and to integrate daily experience into a cohesive whole. Emotional events, mental activity, and physical effort can all combine for deeper experience and greater personal understanding. Ecstatic dance is a moving meditation, a dynamic exploration, and spiritual celebration. My teachers in this form have been Vin Marti (Soul Motion & 5 Rhythms), Paula Byrne of Soma Studio, & Jen Warnock, Meshi Chavez & Winky Wheeler of the Momentum Conscious Movement Studio, and all the dancers in my fine old collective, Portland Dance Journeys. My goal is to create a vibrant Bozeman ecstatic dance community, where we all inspire one another in the dance.

Tuesday and Thursday evenings are $5 Flow night! 5:30-6:45pm with Tamara on Tuesdays and Susie on Thursdays.

Continued Tuesday Meditation Series with Angela Patnode (See below)

Continued Wednesday Yin/Restorative series with Alice (See below)

Thursday Parent Coop Yoga class

beginning Feb. 11th. 9-10:30 am (This class is open to non-coop members, punch card holders, and drop ins and will be a regular all levels class taught by Anna. Class will be held Thursday Feb 4th)

Our first 5-week session begins February 11th and runs through March 11. Parents practice yoga together upstairs while the kids play together downstairs. Two parents will supervise the children during each class. Every parent will take a turn with childcare each session. This is a really sweet way to build community and meet new friends, young and old. Cost is $40 for the 5-week session. Parent drop-ins welcome one time only to see if the co-op is right for you for $12. Commitment to the session required for parents and can be pro-rated. Non-parents are welcome to join too, with the knowledge that this will be a family scene. Please contact Ashley Martens for details and registration information: ashmartens@yahoo.com (208)883-4998

Monthly Sacred Circle Gathering with Dayna Kopple

A circle gathering honoring sacred traditions and co-creating spiritual community the first Friday of each month from 7:30-9:00 PM. On February 5th we will be honoring in our own creative way the Sabbat of Imbolc, a time for purification and dedication.

The intention for these monthly circle gatherings is focused on creating sacred space, feeling totally safe and supported in discovering and being in our authentic nature, raising our awareness and vibration in the highest of Truth, conscious healing, guided meditations, sacred ritual, and guests from the community sharing their sacred crafts. This group is for anyone interested in co-creating spiritual community, supporting us all in our journey and evolution in into enlightenment. A $5 minimum donation is kindly requested. for more info on Dayna: www.dkhealingarts.com

YIN/RESTORATIVE YOGA with Alice Robison

WEDNESDAYS FEBRUARY 3, 10, 17, 24 5:30-7:00 pm. ongoing Session Fee Drop in fee $10 Contact Alice for info and continuing class session dates 522-0082

A Note form Alice:
Winter greetings to All.
The practice continues and I invite you to come and take a closer look at yourself. As I rededicate myself to my yoga and meditation practice, every time I come to a class or practice at home, I see that the most radical act a human being can do is to learn to love and accept themselves just as they are. Who am I? What are my core values? Am I truly happy? That’s what we take a looksee for. Through mindfulness, non-attachment, and letting go we begin to see ourselves, people, relationship, the weather, the suffering of individuals, the environment, politics, war for what it is. Not what our mind thinks it is. Stilling the senses, including the mind, allows a gate to open. All is changing (anicca). It is not concrete. When we accept this natural Truth the realm of possibility is wide and varied. The practice of loving-kindness or metta allows us to recondition the brain towards compassion for ourselves and for all beings. This is the stuff Martin Luther King Jr. and Ghandi based their revolutions on. It is not a path every individual will take up but it is a path that is available to all beings. I welcome you to take a walk while being still. All are welcome. With metta, Alice
Yin practice will concentrate on winter forms.
Yin organ: kidney meridian
Yang organ: urinary bladder meridian
Controls: reproductive organs, lower back health, urinary system, blood purification, energetic vitality
Chakras: muladhara, svadhisthana (first and second)
Season: winter
Color: blue/black
Emotions: fear/wisdom
Nourishes: head hair
Natural cycle: store
Sense organ: ear

MEDITATION CLASS with Angela Patnode

6 weeks sessions on Tuesdays, 7-8:30pm

January session ending Feb. 16

New session beginning Feb.23-March 30th

All are welcome.

SATURDAY COMMUNITY and CHARITY CLASSES 9-10:30 am

2/6/10 Taught by Susie, Anna or guest teachers. TBA Please check the schedule online at www.montanalotusyoga.com

2/13/10 Charity Class with Alice Robison: Come practice yin yoga that opens and regenerates the connective tissue wrapping the hips and low back. Opening to and allowing more awareness into how we sit in meditation leads us to accept our body/mind complex for what it is in the moment not how we think it is in our minds. Any questions please call Alice 522-0082

All levels of experience welcome.

This community class will give the proceeds to the Gallatin Valley Farm to School program. Gallatin Valley Farm to School (GVF2S) was started in February 2007 by a Steering Committee of committed and concerned parents and community members. Today GVF2S is a collaboration between many diverse organizations, such as parent councils of various schools in the area, Bozeman School District Food Service, Montana Outdoor Science School, the Community Food Co-op, Montana State University, and Grow Montanaï¿½s FoodCorps VISTA program. Gallatin Valley Farm to School is currently a project of Hopa Mountain.

2/20/10 Charity Class with Megan Polk

Megan began practicing yoga in 1997 and became certified to teach in 2004. Her primary practice and experience is in Ashtanga yoga, but she has also studied extensively with Gary Kraftsow of Viniyoga. New to Bozeman, she most recently lived in Lenox, MA where she taught at Berkshire Ashtanga and worked in the Healing Arts Department at Kripalu Yoga Center. Her teaching style has an individualized therapeutic approach. She practices Vipassana meditation in conjunction with yoga and is a dedicated rock climber. Megan teaches weekly classes at Down to Earth Yoga Studio in the Emerson. For more information please visit her website at www.yogarocksmt.com.

Proceeds form this class will go to the Red Cross relief for Haiti.

2/27/10 Taught by Susie, Anna or guest teachers. TBA Please check the schedule online at www.montanalotusyoga.com

ADVANCED PRACTICE

Friday Feb.19th led by Anna or Susie or guest teacher 5:00-7:00pm $15 Please check the schedule online at www.montanalotusyoga.com

COMMUNITY KIRTAN / SATSANG

We have moved the date from our regular monthly Friday to honor Maha Shivaratri: Friday Feb. 12, following Sundari’s workshop 1. Free

KIRTAN ज्ञानकोश (Sanskrit: “to repeat”) is call-and-response chanting performed in India’s devotional traditions. (from Wikepedia.com)

ALCHEMY CENTER PRACTITIONERS AND LINKS:

DAYNA KOPPLE Conscious Healing, Massage and Bodywork www.dkhealingarts.com

DEAN WILLIAMSON Shamanic visionary work and Mentoring www.sunflowercenter.org

ELAINE DOLL Ayurveda www.blissfulbozeman.com

MICHAEL GECI-BLACK, MD Alternative Medicine www.wholehealthandhealing.com

TAMARA FAUST Thai Massage and bodywork www.tamarafaust.com

FEBRUARY CLASS SCHEDULE

Monday

7am-8:30am ALL LEVELS Susie

9am-10:30am BASICS/BEGINNERS Susie

11am-12:15pm PRENATAL (Please call Sandy 586-3754 to attend)

5:30-7:00pm ALL LEVELS Susie

7:15-8:30 pm Mindful Movement Shelly

Tuesday

9am-10:30am ALL LEVELS Susie

5:30-6:45pm Tamara $5 FLOW!

7:00-8:30 pm Meditation Class with Angela Patnode 6 weeks sessions. January session ends Feb 16th. New session Feb.23-March 30

Wednesday

10:30- Noon ALL LEVELS Anna

5:30-7:00 Alice *RESTORATIVE/YIN (Series begins Jan. 6, 13, 20, 27, Feb. 3, 10, 17, 24.) Session investment $72. $10 drop-in fee. MTLotus punchcards do not apply. Class size is limited. Please call Alice for registration and space availability 522-0082.

Thursday

7am-8:30am ALL LEVELS Anna

9am-10:30am ALL LEVELS Anna / new series beginning 2/11: PARENT YOGA COOP (Open to all students) Contact Ashley Martens for registration for coop: ashmartens@yahoo.com (208)883-4998

5:30-6:45pm $5 FLOW! Susie

Friday

9:00-10:30 am ALL LEVELS Susie

*2/12 5:30-7:30 pm SPECIAL CLASS with certified Anusara teacher Sundari Lucey $30

*7:30-9:00 Monthly Sacred Circle Gathering with Dayna Kopple this month: honoring the Sabbat of Imbolc $5

*8:00-9:00pm 2/12 Community Chant in honor of Mahashivaratri. Night of honoring Shiva. Free.

*5:00-7:00pm 2/19 ADVANCED PRACTICE teacher TBA. $15.

Saturday

*9-10:30am $5 Community or Charity Class taught by Susie, Anna or guest teachers.

*2/13 All levels Anusara workshop with Sundari 10:00am-1:00pm($45) 2:30-4:30pm($30)

Sunday

*2/14 All levels Anusara workshop with Sundari 9:30am-12:30pm($45)

If you are interested in using our space to host a gathering, please feel free to contact us.

Susie Walby (406) 579-2533

Anna Ourusoff Holder (406) 600-7565

WWW.MONTANALTUSYOGA.COM

WWW.MONTANALOYUSYOGA@GMAIL.COM

Reminder: Honing our Higher abilities workshop and advanced practice

Montana Lotus Yoga — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:46:23 +0000

Dear Yoga Community,

Please join us for an advanced practice tomorrow evening from 5-7pm, Friday January 22, led by Anna, and followed by a meditation circle led by Dayna Kopple who practices conscious healing bodywork in our Alchemy Center space. We are excited to host a special workshop on Saturday Jan 23rd from 11am-6pm “Honing our Higher Abilities: an ESP workshop” presented by Sabrina Hanan and Kristy McFetridge. Please read below for more info on these two speciall guests. We are always grateful to all of you for joining us on this path of becoming conscious and growing together in a community of the heart. It takes courage (”Coeur” in French=Heart) for us to look again and again within, to recognize our weaknesses and strengths, and start anew in each moment with forgiveness and love.

We bow to the Light in all of you.

Namaste,

Anna and Susie

ADVANCED PRACTICE

Friday Jan. 22, led by Anna 5:00-7:00pm $15

COMMUNITY KIRTAN / SATSANG

Friday Jan. 22 Following the advanced paractice 7:30pm. Led by Dayna Kopple of DK Healing ArtsFree

“The intention is focused on creating sacred space, feeling totally safe and supported in discovering and being in our authentic nature, raising our awareness and vibration in the highest of Truth, conscious healing, guided meditations, sacred ritual, and guests from the community sharing their sacred crafts. This group is for anyone interested in co-creating spiritual community, supporting us all in our journey and evolution in into enlightenment.” -Dayna Kopple

The second to last Friday of every month we will gather following the advanced practice for chanting and centering.

KIRTAN ज्ञानकोश (Sanskrit: “to repeat”) is call-and-response chanting performed in India’s devotional traditions. (from Wikepedia.com)

HONING OUR HIGHER ABILITIES: An Extra-Sensory Perception Workshop

FREE INTRODUCTORY LECTURE Jan 14th 7-8:30pm

ONE DAY WORKSHOP Jan 23rd 11:00am-6:00pm (Please ring your lunch)

Cost: $108

Workshop topics will include:

ﮦWhat are the different types of higher abilities;

ﮦLearn how the special construction of our brain produces these special gifts;

ﮦDiscover what might be your special higher abilities;

ﮦHow to increase your higher abilities and use them in different aspects of your life;

ﮦUnderstand the benefits and challenges of using your higher abilities.

Instructors:

Sabrina Hanan, MA ABS is an empath, a communicator and a clairvoyant who has been using her gifts to help animals and people since 1967. She supports her ESP work with a BA in psychology and an MA in Behavioral Science and has received specialized training in the field of ESP as a Behavioral Analyst contracted to Federal Law Enforcement.

Her website is www.allaboutwork.net. She is happy to answer any questions you might have via email prior to the class and her email address is info@allaboutwork.net.

Kristy McFetridge is the Founder and Director of Mountain Sky Nature and Healing. She has taught wilderness survival skills, nature awareness, energy work, healing, and the philosophy of living in balance with the earth to thousands of people. She views the skills she teaches as a doorway to connect people to their highest potential. As a healer Kristy is devoted to working with individuals and groups to create harmony and healing through expanded awareness and the alignment of mind, body, and spirit. She uses a blend of ancient and modern techniques to guide each person in finding their own unique truth and way of living a more sustainable and harmonious existence.

Her website is www.mountainskyhome.com

For registration and more information please contact Kristy at info@mountainskyhome.com or call Sabrina at 406-223-3663.

ALCHEMY CENTER PRACTITIONERS AND LINKS:

DAYNA KOPPLE Conscious Healing, Massage and Bodywork www.dkhealingarts.com

DEAN WILLIAMSON Shamanic visionary work and Mentoring www.sunflowercenter.org

ELAINE DOLL Ayurveda www.blissfulbozeman.com

MICHAEL GECI-BLACK, MD Alternative Medicine www.wholehealthandhealing.com

TAMARA FAUST Thai Massage and bodywork www.tamarafaust.com

Montana Lotus Yoga Newsletter

September Newlsetter and Schedule

MONTHLY SPECIAL

New Students! take 5 classes within 2 weeks for $20

also: 2 for 1 yoga class

bring a friend for the price of a drop in class

Look for the coupon in this month’s Smart Shopper offering 2 for 1 yoga class. Bring a friend for the price of one drop-in. For those of you who have punchcards, feel free to invite a friend on your pass, and if you have an unlimited monthly pass, bring a friend for 5$.

RESTORATIVE YOGA

with Alice Robison

Sept. 8th -Oct. 27th 8 week series

5:30-7:00pm

PRENATAL YOGA

with Sandy Knapp

TEEN YOGA CLASS

with Debby Greene

KUNDALINI YOGA

with Ravi Inder Kaur (Gloria Overcash)

WEDNESDAYS 7:15-8:30p.m beginning September 1, 2010

NIA

with Ashley Martin

Wednesdays 4-5pm beginning Sept 8th

SATURDAY COMMUNITY and CHARITY YOGA CLASSES

SATURDAYS 9-10:30 $8 Taught by Susie, Anna or guest teachers. TBA Please check the schedule online at www.montanalotusyoga.com.

“the PRACTICE”

Friday Sept. 17 5:00-7:00pm A 2 hour led yoga practice. This practice is geared to move through asanas with little instruction and includes some more advanced variations. Led by Anna or Susie $15

UPCOMING WORKSHOPS

DESIREE RUMBAUGH Yoga Workshop November 19, 20, 21st, 2010

For more info about Des, visi her website: www.desireerumbugh.com

Classes and times:

Saturday Nov. 20th 9am-11:30 Backbends: The Courage to Open Up

Saturday Nov. 20th 12:30-3:00pm Yoga to the Rescue: Healing Yoga for Back, Neck, Shoulders, Wrists, Hips, Knees and Feet

Saturday Nov. 20th 4:00-6:30pm Forward Bends: Grounded in Grace

Sunday Nov. 21st 9:00-11:30am Hip Openers and Arm Balances: Finding the Extraordinary

Kirtan/Devotional Chanting with Benjy and Heather Wertheimer of Shantala Friday November 12th, 2010

ALCHEMY EVENTS

Friday nights at Alchemy:

Essential Oils Therapy

MONTHLY SACRED CIRCLE GATHERING

with Dayna Kopple SEPTEMBER 3rd, 7pm

BOZEMAN THAI BODYWORK

with Tamara Faust

2010 Thai Couples class dates: August 13, September 10, October 15, November 12, December 10.

LUK PRA KOB ~ Steamed Herbal Massage

MONDAY NIGHT ECSTATIC DANCE

with Shelly Heilweil Sept 5th and 12th

ALCHEMY CENTER PRACTITIONERS AND LINKS:

If you are interested in using our space to host a gathering, please feel free to contact us.

Susie Walby (406) 579-2533

Anna Ourusoff (406) 600-7565

www.montanalotusyoga.com

montanalotusyoga@gmail.com

August Newsletter and Schedule

MONTHLY SPECIAL

2 for 1 yoga class

bring a friend for the price of a drop in class

Look for the coupon in this month’s Smart Shopper offering 2 for 1 yoga class. Bring a friend for the price of one drop-in. For those of you who have punchcards, feel free to invite a friend on your pass, and if you have an unlimited monthly pass, bring a friend for 5$.

AUGUST CLASS SCHEDULE

Monday

7am-8:30am ALL LEVELS Debby

9am-10:30am BASICS/BEGINNERS Susie or Anna

4:00pm-5:15pm TEENS Debby $5

7:15-8:30 pm Ecstatic Dance $5 Shelly

Tuesday

8:30am-10:00am ALL LEVELS Debby

4-5:15pm PRENATAL (Please call Sandy 586-3754 to attend)

5:30-6:45pm Susie $8 FLOW!

Wednesday

10:30am- Noon ALL LEVELS Anna

Thursday

7-8:30 am ALL LEVELS Anna

9am-10:30am BASICS/BEGINNERS Anna

5:30-6:45pm $8 FLOW! Susie

Friday

8:30-10:00 am ALL LEVELS Susie

*7:00-9:30 8/6 Monthly Sacred Circle Gathering with Dayna Kopple $10-15

Saturday

*9-10:30am $8 Community or Charity Class taught by Susie, Anna or guest teachers.

RESTORATIVE YOGA

with Alice Robison

resumes Sept. 8th 5:30-7:00