Notice to all students: It is our policy not to prop open the outside door to the street. Please do not prop open the outside door if it is locked. Our neighbors upstairs have made many sincere requests to us that the door remain locked during off hours for security purposes. Please understand. If you see the door propped open will you please unprop it and tell anyone who is propping the door to stop. Thank you for you cooperation.
Peak Asana Class
with Jessie Meyer-Eisendrath
Sun Feb 7, 2010. 1:00 - 3:30 pm.
2.5 hour class for one stamp on class card
Meditation Series: A practical exploration of Mindfulness Meditation
on Feb 7 & 21, Mar 14 & 21, Apr 11 & 18.
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.)
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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."
Yogis for Haiti on Wed Jan 27 raised a combined total of $718 for Partners in Health. Blessings to all who participated.
57 Minute Miracle: Meet Laura Geraghty as seen on CNN. She tells her inspiring story of being dead for 57 minutes and how it changed her life. Sat Feb 27, 2010. 6 - 7:30 pm.
Mindfulness Meditation Series on Sunday Nights! One class stamp or drop in. Meditation Class only packages now available.
Yoga In Action: A Transformational Journey, Six Fridays 12:30 - 4:30 pm
"Yoga by Donation" class on Wed 3 pm.
"Level 2" Vinyaasa class
with Shannah and Jessie
Sun Mar 21, 2010 1:00 - 3:00 pm
2.5 hour class for one stamp on class card
music by Snatam Kaur
Julie Van Noppen won 6 free yoga classes and a pile of yoga gifts.
Laura Wixsted is runner up.
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.
You can still get your Bronze 2009 Meditation Minfulness Coin. Silver available.
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.
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?
Peak Asana Class
with Jessie Meyer-Eisendrath
Sun Feb 7, 2010. 1:00 - 3:30 pm.
2.5 hr class for one stamp on class card
Meditation Series: A practical exploration of Mindfulness Meditation
on Feb 7 & 21, Mar 14 & 21, Apr 11 & 18.
purchase
Thai Shiatsu Bodywork Program
with Debbie Bourque
Sun Feb 14, 1 - 4 pm purchase
57 Minute Miracle: Meet Laura Geraghty as seen on CNN. Sat Feb 27, 2010. 6 - 7:30 pm purchase
Yoga In Action: A Transformational Journey with Jenn Thomas and Jude Monserrato. Six Fridays: Feb 26, Mar 5, 12, 19, 26,
Haysa (Laughter Yoga)
with Rebecca Foster
Sundays Feb.28, Mar.28, Apr.25
Sound Healing Workshop
with Tricia MacDonald
Sun. Mar 7, 6:30 - 7:45pm. purchase
Sitar Event: Srinivas Reddy
Sat Mar 13, 7pm
"Level 2" Vinyaasa class
with Shannah and Jessie
Sun Mar 21, 2010 1:00 - 3:00 pm
2.5 hr class for one stamp on class card
Buy online: class cards, gift certificates, workshops and more.
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
Research: Yoga leads women to less self-objectification and greater satisfaction with their bodies, while aerobic activity was linked with greater disordered eating.
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