“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

(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.

***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

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

• 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”

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.  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.

YIN/RESTORATIVE YOGA with Alice Robison

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

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

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

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

*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

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