Yoga of Joy:
Soft Palate Yoga: Nov 19 - 21
...........................3 rooms sold...............................
Cuttyhunk Retreat!!!
Sept 17 - 19, 2010
The Upanishads and Yoga
with Tom Gillette
Free Unlimited Yoga Classes on Thursday 6 pm, Sat 10 am and Sat 3 pm for people in the training, while section one is in progress. (20% off class cards for all other classes.) YTT class 2010.
Eyes of the World
2009: Best Advanced Yoga
(We are honored to receive this award, but it in no way diminishes the other experienced and excellent yoga centers and teachers of RI.)
Sign up for our newsletter. New email address: eyesyoga@gmail.com
schedule
purchases
directions
parking
class descriptions
prices
Thai Shiatsu bodywork
gift certificates
testimonials
about us
links
photos
Yoga Teacher Training eyesyoga@gmail.com
How did you come up with the name Eyes of the World?
Game: Can you find Eyes of the World?
Rhode Island Monthly: "For the Devoted Practitioner...this crowd knows how to have fun."
Yoga Journal "Eyes of the World is an oasis amid the frenzy of downtown Providence."
Shannah is back teaching classes.
6 Class Meditation Series! Sundays Sept 19, Oct & 17, Nov 7 & 21, Dec 5 with Jenn Thomas and Rebecca Foster. Drop in or take them all!
20 Letters Contest: My apologies. This contest did not get the attention and promotion it needed this summer. We got a few lovely letters. Thank you. We will pick this contest up in the fall. We are redoing the website and would love to use quotes from your letters with your permission. Those who have already entered, you are still in the contest.
Write a letter and tell a friend what yoga has done for you and why they should come take yoga at Eyes of the World. 20 winners win free classes. Grand prize: 6 free classes and much more.
Angela's Recipes from Cuttyhunk Pumpkin Muffins, Farro Jambalaya, Chickpea Fries, Edamame Ragout, Hummus Soup, Vegan Caesar Dressing.
Cuttyhunk Retreat! Sept 17 - 19, 2010
3 rooms sold......
Yin Yoga class with Jenn Thomas at 7pm on Friday, Aug 20, Sept 17, and Oct 15.
Thai Shiatsu Bodywork now offered on Monday and Tuesday afternoons with Debbie Bourque. Debbie is awesome. You want to schedule a session before the word gets out and then there won't be a space.
What's past
Living Essence Physical Therapy breathespirit.com
"This is your brain on bliss" (article on meditation.)
Biocentrism, definition,7 principles
Biocentrism, by Robert Lanza. Book recommendation.
Eckhart Tolle on enlightenment explained more clearly than ever before.
27 Dresses & Eyes of the World
Survey results: fascinating.
RI Food Bank Charity class on Nov 17, 2008 raised $964. Won't you please consider giving a donation to feed local families in need?
Yoga Charity Event on July 26, 2008 for Doctors Without Borders: raised $3727. Donors
Stephanie Castellone, born and raised in RI, an old time friend of Eyes of the World, has a cool contortonist site and show in Vegas. Her new arial show.
Heart attack deaths down 26% after public ban on smoking.
Recent find: Cheesecake Factory has an excellent vegan (95% raw) option. The beets are roasted.
New restaurant recommendation: Ebisu
New research from Oxford: High fat diets decrease treadmill endurance by 50% in only 9 days. Reduces cognitive abilities, then leads to obesity, diabetes, heart disease. High fat diets make us "stupid and lazy." D'oh.
Have you seen this bus?
Watch THIS!
NYTimes: Osteoporosis and low acid diets. Correlation between high animal protein and osteoporosis.
Good News! Only 64% of the chickens tested were contaminated with Salmonella and Campylobacter viruses (down from 80% in 2007.) Bad News: 68% of infected birds had new strains resistant to antibiotics. If you don't know about Factory farms....you might want to be informed.
New bathroom makeover by Carolyn Schmitz.
Guru Osho on Laughter and its health benefits and a doorway into no thinking Awareness, Presence, Being.
25 ways to reuse your old yoga mat
Yogis for Haiti on Wed Jan 27 raised a combined total of $718 for Partners in Health. Blessings to all who participated.
Cuttyhunk Retreat!!!
Sept 17 - 19, 2010
The Upanishads and Yoga
with Tom Gillette purchase
Jenn Thomas and Rebecca Foster
Meditation Series
Sundays Sept 19, Oct & 17, Nov 7 & 21, Dec 5
Shannah Green
Mindfulness in Action
Sun Sept 26. 1- 4 pm. purchase
Buy online: class cards, gift certificates, workshops and more.
2053 nuclear explosions: watch the whole way through.
MIT breakthrough Dec 3, 09: Power generation from cheap plentiful Natural gas wihout burning it. Zero CO2 emissions. Costs less than coal.
Mythbusters gets 11% better fuel mileage by putting golfball dimples on a car. (golf balls fly 33% farther with dimples.) 11% is a huge number!!!!
First Solar Inc. announces they have broken the $1 per watt threshold.
Please sign up for New England Green Start, a non-profit energy consumer's alliance. They are moving RI toward a sustainable and environmentally responsible future. Find out more RIPower.org
Jan 30: Low-cost LEDs (Light emitting diodes) may slash lighting bills by 75% within 5 years. These silicon LEDs last 60 years, cost one tenth the price of current sapphire LEDs and contain no mercury like "energy efficient" bulbs today. Science rocks.
Jan 26: 45% of all high fructose corn syrup contains Mercury which is toxic in all forms and at low levels. HFCS is in nearly every processed food product in the US. Most of the cases were in yogurt, dairy products, dressings and condiments.
Jan 22: It is not complicated. Peanut butter does not cause Salmonella. Chickens etc. do.
Aug 1, 08: 'Major Discovery' announced by MIT researchers in solar power energy storage, splitting hydrogen and oxygen cheaply and efficiently.
Its the meat stupid! Not the tomatos
Giant grass miscanthus is 10 times more efficient than corn or switchgrass in producing ethanol.
Innovation: NREL US National Renewable Energy laboratory increases thin film solar (Nanopowersheet) from 6.7% to 19.7% making it 3 times cheaper per watt.
Love after Love by Derek Walcott
Love, Death and the purpose of life
Yoga Saved Our Lives, True life story by Deb Goeschel
Shri Brahmananda Saraswati offers some encouragement on the path of Yoga
Research: Happiness spreads from person to person
American Journal of Clincal Nutrition: Low protein diets associated with reduced cancer risk.
American Journal of Clincal Nutrition: High protein diets associated with cardiovascular disease.
American Journal of Clincal Nutrition: Vegan diet decreases enzymes and toxic products implicated in colon cancer.
Vegan diet significantly reduces moderate to severe Rheumatoid Arthritis.
Vegan diet is more effective in controlling type 2 diabetes than oral medications.
Vegan diet reduces cardiometabolic risk and lowers blood pressure.
The China Study: The largest and longest scientific study of nutrition ever conducted. Startling conclusions about human health, diet, cancer, heart diease and weightloss. This 30 year research by Cornell University condradicts most of the concepts commonly promoted about what is healthy nutrition (eg. eats lots of protein, drink cow's milk.)
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Breathing research: slow and deep is better
Yoga more effective than aerobics and conventional exercise for back pain.
Meditation shown to grow new gray matter, as well as improve the immune system and memory
Brain scans of monks versus novices
Meditation builds up the brain
An ordinary person can concentrate for 2.6 seconds before the mind shifts. Find out how long monks can concentrate.
New Weightloss and Yoga Research
Meditation makes workers more productive, have fewer accidents
Community is stronger than willpower.
anonymous
What you focus on, gets bigger,
What you keep doing is who you become."
"We cannot neglect our bodies, even if we recognize that we must not identify with them exclusively. In our search for the true self, our physical existence is the best place to start....It takes a wise person to both maintain the body and look beyond it."
Deng Ming Dao, Taoist Chinese master