Liberating Your Natural Joy
with Tom Gillette. Nov 14-16, 2008
(2 nights, Fri – Sun)
Kripalu Center, Lenox, MA
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."
Class price increases $1 on Sept 1.
No Sat 3pm class Aug 23, 30. Resumes Sept 6. see other summer cancelations.
Shannah returns Thu Aug 28, 6pm.
2008-2009 Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training dates are up on the web. 2007- 2008 graduates.
Stay posted about the Summer Schedule. Upcoming summer teacher changes: Also see the sunday summer schedule as to who is teaching on any given Sunday. Shannah comes back Sun Aug 31.
Survey results: fascinating. Claim your free gift. Grand Prize won by Deenie Pacik.
Class Card Contest Winner: Dotty Calvano. Runner Up Dan Danielson.
Oregon launches first solar highway in the US
DOE: Wind energy due to run out in 2038
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.
Scientists genetically modify E. Coli to eat waste and excrete petrol that a car can burn. Its cheap and carbon negative.
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
The China Study: buy this book.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. This is the hard science that has gone through 30 years of extensive peer review and has been published in the scientific journals. The other popular best seller diets are not based in the scientific method.
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
"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
What you focus on, gets bigger,
What you keep doing is who you become."