Aroma
Boutique:
I am taking the last
orders this week, then the boutique will be closed: as long as
supply lasts.
There are only a few chakra kits
left, that I will bring tomorrow to class.
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Here you can find the products
used in the Aromayoga class. You can read about how the
products are made and what ingredients are used. The essential
oils help to open up the seven chakras or energy centers and
can help to release blocked areas of your chakras. They also
aid in releasing memory and emotion that are stored within
these centers of your body.
If you do have any allergies and
sensitivity to essential oils, please let me know before
class, or just do not participate in applying them during our
pratice. All ingredients used are complelety free of any
synthetic additives and chemicals and should not cause any
irritations, since they are diluted in a carrier oil. All
ingriedients are either organic or wild
crafted.
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Tuesday AromaYoga Class:
30. October 2007
All Hallows Eve
Namaste,
Within the
last few days we can really feel the temperature
dropping....the days getting shorter and people are
drawing to be more inside. Summer is definitely over. I
am looking forward to spending more time inside,
especially going within. Halloween is a reminder and the
beginning of this "new" time for me.
It is a time to
welcome the darkness with our inner light, to remember
all those who have passed before us and honor them.
Pausing for a moment, lighting a candle for the souls
dear to us, that have crossed the veils before us. Hence
the name: " All souls day" on 1. November.
Like
we have done it in last years class, you are welcome to
bring a special candle that we will light in class for a
dear person that you want to honor and dedicate Tuesdays
practice to.
We will anoint this candle with a
special oil that personally brings me right back into my
childhood: Frankincense
essential oil. When you take this candle home you
can relight it and hold the energy for the next few days
dedicated to that person or being that has left your
life. With your attention and focus to that person, you
may feel a closer connection to them, maybe even get a
sign or a message.
For your personal home yoga
practice, try to practice one asana that is a challenge
for you. And before you practice it, dedicate this asana
as an offering to that person or being.
This is your
gift to them. Do with joy, love and
gratitude.
- What is the deeper meaning
of Halloween for you?
- How can you adjust your
yoga practice to this special time of
year?
- Do you need to slow your
practice down, or do you feel you need to increase the
energy in your asanas?
- Is it a time to go within
or a time to reach out to others?
- What is your body telling
you?
- What kind of foods do you
feel are nurturing for you at this time?
- What plants do you feels
attracted to?
- What smells do you feel
are comforting you?
- What sounds?
- Which
Mantras?
Dedicate a page in your
journal for these special All Hallows Eve traits. Take a
few minutes to breathe throughout the day. (A big
reminder for myself in this super busy time, yoga is my
saviour right now).
Remember to bring a
special candle and remember to change your clocks back
one hour on Saturday night.
There are three more
AromaYoga classes, including this one. Then Bijana will
take over.
I am open to any
requests that you would like to practice for the next
two classes. Please let me
know!
I will see you on Tuesday
night, 6:30pm
Blessings and
Light,
Tanja
Indira
Devi
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HALLOWEEN
Halloween, or All Hallows
Eve, is a holiday celebrated on the night of October
31.
The
term Halloween (and its alternative rendering
Hallowe'en) is shortened from All-hallow-even, as it is
the eve of "All Hallows' Day", also which is now known
as All Saints' Day. It was a day of religious
festivities in various northern European Pagan
traditions, until Popes Gregory III and Gregory IV moved
the old Christian feast of All Saints' Day from May 13
to November 1. In the ninth century, the Church measured
the day as starting at sunset, in accordance with the
Florentine calendar. Although All Saints' Day is now
considered to occur one day after Halloween, the two
holidays were, at that time, celebrated on the same day.
It is said
to be the night when the veils are at its thinnest and
if we listen depply we can hear the sounds beneath it.
So take some time to become still and listen!!!
What
do you hear?
History:
The Festival of
Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest
season in Gaelic culture, and is erroneously regarded as
'The Celtic New Year'. Traditionally, the festival was a
time used by the ancient pagans to take stock of
supplies and slaughter livestock for winter stores.
The
Ancient Gaels believed that on October 31, the
boundaries between the worlds of the living and the dead
overlapped and the deceased would come back to life and
cause havoc such as sickness or damaged
crops.
The festivals would
frequently involve bonfires, where the bones of
slaughtered livestock were thrown. Costumes and masks
were also worn at the festivals in an attempt to mimic
the evil spirits or placate them.
The Celts, who lived
2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the
United Kingdom, and northern France, celebrated their
new year on November 1. This day marked the end of
summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark,
cold winter, a time of year that was often associated
with human death. Celts believed that on the night
before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of
the living and the dead became blurred. On the night of
October 31, they celebrated Samhain, when it was
believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth.
In addition to causing trouble and damaging crops, Celts
thought that the presence of the otherworldly spirits
made it easier for the Druids, or Celtic priests, to
make predictions about the future. For a people entirely
dependent on the volatile natural world, these
prophecies were an important source of comfort and
direction during the long, dark
winter.
Samhain was both the "end of
summer" and a commemoration of the dead. The spirits of
the departed were believed to visit their kinsmen in
search of warmth and good cheer as winter
approached. It was a time when evil, as well as
good, spirits returned to the living. Fairies were
believed to migrate from one home to another, and
Hallowe'en was the time when humans kidnapped by elfin
folk could reclaim their lost loves or
relatives.
Immigrants from Ireland, Scotland and
England, brought secular Halloween customs to the U.S.
but the festival did not become popular until the latter
part of the 19th century, at the time of the mass
immigration from Ireland after 1840. Halloween
grew and changed over the years, with people, including
those of other ethnic groups, adding (or subtracting)
things from it. The association with ghosts and spirits
goes back to older pagan customs. Germans took to
celebrating Halloween with gusto. For them dressing up
reminded them of "Fasnacht," "Karneval" and "Fasching"
in the old country with masks and costumes; and witches
and black cats reminded them of Walpurgisnacht and of
fairy tales like "Hansel and
Gretel."
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Please
come to Centerpoint Studios weekly ongoing
ChakraAromaYoga Class.
The level of this yoga class
is from advanced beginner to intermediate. I do try to
accommodate all levels. If you have no experience in
yoga at all, you are welcome to just join in and sit on
your mat. Observe, visualize, meditate and experience
the oils and the sounds. No one will be send away and
there is absolutely no judgement. This is a feel good
class and healing does occur from being part of the
circle. Its about healing from the inside out and not
about how many advanced poses you can do.
Please
always listen to your body and only do what feels right
at that certain moment. Please let me know about any
injuries that you have before we start class.
Class
is every Tuesday evening from 6:30pm to 7:55pm.
Centerpoint Studios are
located at: 324, Lafayette Street, 7th floor (just north
of Houston) By subway: take the 6 to Bleeker, or W/R to
Prince Street or V/ B/D/F to Broadway
Lafayette
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What are
chakras?
Chakras are
psychic centers that lie along the axis of the spine as
consciousness potentials. The chakras are not materially
real and are to be understood as situated, not in the
gross body, but in the subtle or etheric body.
Repositories of psychic energies, they govern the whole
condition of being. In the Hindy tradition they are
usually represented as lotuses.
As kundalini energy reaches
each chakra, that lotus opens and lift its flower; and
as soon as she leaves for a higher chakra, the lotus
closes its petals and hangs down, symbolizing the
activation of the energies of the chakra and their
assimilation to kundalini.
Each of the chakras,
according to the Tantras, corresponds to one of the
elements of which the known world is compounded.
Muladhara represents solidity; Svadhisthana, liquidity;
Manipura, the gaseous; Anahata, the aerial; Vishuddha,
the etheric, or space.
This ascent through the
chakras can be viewed as an upward journey through the
self.
Below is a beautiful link to a movie about the
chakras. Very informative. (Thanks
Jasmin)!!!
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As a
courtesy to other yogis, please try to be on time. If
you want to reserve your space you can do so by going to
www.mindbodyonline.com, click on yoga and then enter
centerpointstudios. Its easy.
Aromatic
Blessings,
Tanja
April
Aromatics
tanjab1@mac.com
http://www.aprilaromatics.com
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