Summer Time Savasana : : : :

...You can hear the rain on the tin roof and the trains go by too.

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The sun is out.   It's warm.  It's another beautiful day...which makes 2 in a row.

We're Finally Moving

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_ _ _ _ STUDIO SPRING STYLE

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KNOWLEDGE is KNOWLEDGE

Knowledge is knowledge only when it takes a shape, 

when it can be put into words, or reduced to a principle 

— and it’s now up to you to go to work on your own gold mine, to refine the crude ore.

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I love this quote.  It's from another great list from an article in Brain Pickings called: "14 Ways to Acquire Knowledge: A Timeless Guide from 1936."  It reminds me of how we have to make what we know physical in order for it to be understood, seen and experienced.  Within the shape, form, letter, picture, pose we get to play and refine autonomously until we get to where we want to be and then we start again.  Link to the article here:

14 Ways to Acquire Knowledge

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Thank you to dullDiamond, Triangulum Jewelry and all who came out for a lovely afternoon in the studio.  I hope you are all enjoying your new jewels.

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HELLO BEAUTIFUL SUN

H E L L O

B E A U T I F U L  

S U N

It's so nice to see you and feel you again

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Stop By on Sunday > > > > >

I love getting to spend time in the studio during the day.  The light is amazing.

We're getting ready for our Open House on Sunday.  Picked up cut flowers, ordered cookies from Moose and Sadies and made a Target Run.  Stephanie is bringing the lemonade.

Stop by on Sunday Noon - 3:00

The girls from dullDiamond will be there and Triangulum Jewelry too.

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= An INVINCIBLE SUMMER =

In the depth of winter,

I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

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I bought this little book about 2 years ago at a summer pop up sale in Stevens Square.  I had to have it, the materials it's made of and it's construction were so interesting and pretty.

I wasn't sure what to do with it.  It's too fragile to throw in my everyday bag and carry around with me. It needed to be a project.  So I decided to take my love of text and shiny hardware store letters and make it a book about The Gita.  But keep it simple (if that's possible).  The idea is to distill each of the 18 chapters down in to a few simple words.  The words sum up each chapter and tell a story as a whole as you move through the book simply and visually.

A perfect project for yet another wintery day in April.  Thanks to Albert Camus for the quote.

Register for Christina Sell in MPLS > > >

CHRISTINA SELL will be in MINNEAPOLIS!

May 31-June 2

LIVE THE LIGHT OF YOGA

Asana Weekend with Christina Sell

•  "There is a light that shines beyond all things on Earth, beyond us all, beyond the heaven, beyond the highest, the very highest heavens.  This is the light that shines in our heart."-Chandogya Upanishad

Join Christina Sell for a weekend of asana study, practice and good company designed to help you gain clarity, strength and inspiration. Each session will work through an intelligent and progressive sequence of asanas to assist students of all levels in practicing yoga as a way to experience their inner light more fully through postural practice. The Group Practice is for intermediate and advanced students who wish to challenge their boundaries and explore poses beyond the basic syllabus. These sessions are not appropriate for people with injury or illness.

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Flier and Registration Details Here

The workshop will take place @ YOGA Garden 

This weekend is going to be great...I hope you all can make it.

Please let me know if you have questions or concerns, I am happy to answer, L 

Variations on GREEN

I got to get my hands dirty today, which makes it a good day.

And the sun was out, even better.

And it was warm, well warm enough for my first installation anyway.

It's so lovely to get to see variations of green again...more color on the way soon.

I love my jobs.

That's my little poem for what feels like the first day of Spring and happily so.

L

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SPRING Open House Party and Jewelry Sale ...

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We love our studio and want to share it w you...

Stop by next Sunday 4/21 from Noon - 3:00

Have a lemonade, chit-chat, shop a little

The girls from dullDiamond will be there selling their colorful jewels

  Jennifer Sweeny from Triangulum Jewelry will be there too.

We would love to see you and yours

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Whatever you choose, pick it now, 

start small,  and begin proving to yourself that you can become the type of person you want to become.

Tiny habits, when repeated consistently, 

can be the difference between success or failure, confidence or doubt, and even happiness or depression.

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From a great article written by James Clear called Natural Happiness: The Truth About Exercise and Depression.  He talks a lot about how proving to ourselves we can do something physically creates more capacity in our lives.  

It's a great article ...read it here: jamesclear.quora.com

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((( Greenhouse Spa )))

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Scenes from a day at the spa greenhouse style.  

I am a lucky girl...I got to spend the day yesterday shopping for spring inside my wholesalers greenhouses.  It was such a nice treat for the eyes to see so much green in one place and to feel and smell such lively, earthy air.  I love how this process of design begins in fields of 4" containers.

I now have a sunporch full of plant material and am dying to get my hands dirty.

"thy fingers make early flowers of all things..."

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MANHATTAN

A musical interlude while we're waiting for spring to get it's shit together. 

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April is the cruelest month, breeding

lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

memory and desire, stirring

dull roots with spring rain

― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land

  

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Blue Skies

Dreaming of Blue Skies until they get here next week.

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It Is Spring Right?

 I added this sweet little dish of jelly beans and chocolate bunny after Sarah used them as a part of her poetry reading.  It's a perfect addition for a Spring-time puja... and a much needed reminder that it is in fact Spring.

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Hang In ..

 
.. We're getting Closer

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< IMAGES Become SHAPES >

I never wanted color to be color.

I never wanted texture to be texture, or images to become shapes.

I wanted them all to fuse together into a living spirit.

Clyfford Still

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We work with these different shapes when we practice. I often like to think of them individually as letters.  They each have a unique pronunciation and visual identity which I love.  As we learn they move together into words, sentences, paragraphs, and eventually stories.

I think yoga is the same.  Each pose has an identity.  As we become more versed our practice becomes more fluid.  The details are always there but the practice becomes more alive.  And it gets easier to tell our stories.

 

PlayList w Latest Updates

Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Lykke Li seem to be the newest favorites.   I personally can't get enough of Trevor Green's cover of Talking Heads "This Must Be the Place".

Enjoy a new soundtrack for the beginning of a new season.  

L

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= ACT of BALANCE =

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My friend Linda Wu sent this to me with a little message for my birthday.  It was a sweet gift idea.  She lives in SF where I've never been and I plan to visit her there this summer.  Maybe all the buildings look like this there.

I LOVE it.  

Anyone know who the artist is?  Ben Eine maybe?

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YOGA Garden PRESENTS

Yoga Garden is changed forever.

I was wanting and waiting for something like this to happen.

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Sarah Fox, John Colburn and I had been talking about having an event based around the release of their new books of poetry, The First Flag and The Invisible Daughter for months.

We talked and picked a date.  We decided on last Saturday which was perfect.  Easter weekend and right before the day of The Fool (aka April Fool's Day).  A perfect day to talk about what we talk about so often in class, our words for the year and creating growth from the work we do in winter as we move toward spring.  The seeds, or eggs if you will according to the timing of Easter, we plant begin to grow.  We take a leap forward, like the fool, and start something new.

So, the whole night came together very organically.  I think in a way that reflects this process of growth.  Sarah and John both commented on how their comfort and familiarity with the studio contributed to the event.  They came prepared with music, images, flowers, chocolate bunnies and their courageous and beautiful words that just reflected such a powerful appreciation for life.  

And I can still feel it.  And this is why the studio has changed.  In a good way, like the fool leaping forward but only after he does his work, quietly, humbly in the dark and underground.  

This is what my message is for me and you and I feel is supported by Yoga Garden as it grows and comes together.  A safe, supported, community space that encourages growth through autonomy.

This will be the first of a series of YOGA Garden PRESENTS > > >

Thanks to all who made it, see the rest of you next time around.

: : Latest Song Obsession/Light : :

You guys have heard me play this in class a million times but I thought I would share the link.

It's just so pretty and perfect for this time of year.  

L I G H T

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START Something NEW

The Fool is the poetic imagination of life, as inexplicable as the essence of life itself.  

This poetic life, born in all human beings, lives in them while they are children, but is killed in them while they grow up by the abstract mechanization of contemporary society.

The saint, the artist and the poet are all one in the Fool, in him they live, in him the poetic imagination of live lives.

Cecil Collins by way of Sarah Fox

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Shiva represents the cycles of life, creativity.  

He dances creation, sustenance, dissolution, conceal and reveal into existence.

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Happy April Fool's Day to YOU

Om Namah Shivaya