Gentle Yoga ~ Tuesdays & Thursdays ~ 5:00 - 6:15 pm  at  the Burke Mountain Clubhouse.

Trapeze Yoga ~  Wednesdays 6:30 - 7:30 pm and Saturdays 9:00 - 10 am at Trail2Wellness ~ You MUST book in advance!

Private Classes available on Request

      Reiki and Restorative  Yoga Workshops

Saturday, February 2, 2019

 OR

 Saturday, February 9, 2019

10:00 - 11:30 am

at

Trail2Wellness Fitness & Spa

Kirby Road, East Burke, VT

This workshop is being held by Karen Zaun Kennedy and Janice Narey. While

Karen leads participants into restorative yoga poses, Janice will provide Reiki while

the poses are held. The workshop is limited to 12 participants, and the fee is $30.

Please contact Janice Narey by calling or texting 802-274-2130 or emailing

edjangs@charter.net to register.

    “Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.”                           

~Mary Lou Cook

      The spectacular view from Sweetwater Lane continues to amaze me. I love the fact that I regularly stop to appreciate this view and continue to photograph it even after living here for more than 30 years. 

I am now booking trapeze yoga sessions for Wednesdays and Saturdays or other times by appointment. The trapeze is a fun and challenging way to increase grip strength, flexibility and core strength.

The trapeze also provides traction to relieve back pain or discomfort.

Book  through the website or contact me to schedule your next session.

 Giving, Gratitude, Grace

I recently read an article by Deepak Chopra in which he suggested a mindful meditation to “think in terms of things you can do that benefit you while at the same time connecting with others at a deep level.” It seems a timely message during the holiday season. 

As you think about giving at a time that can seem all too commercialized, imagine giving more of yourself and less of material things. During your interaction with others strive to be more present, letting people know that you really care for or appreciate them. Let them know the extent of your love for them in a deep and heartfelt way. While this can be difficult for many of us at times you can achieve this through simple awareness. Recognize the wonderful love or appreciation you have for another and visualize that person as you offer them whatever it is you have to give by mentally forming the words ~ “I care”, “I am here for you”, “I appreciate you” or whatever words are in your heart. 

Consider the quality of your gratitude and using similar messages from above shift from giving to appreciation. Visualize someone or something that you are particularly thankful for and then connect with that by focusing all your attention there as you form the words directed toward that recipient ~ “You are here for me”, You let me know that I matter”, “You give me love” ~ again words from your heart. By practicing this type of giving and gratitude you open a direct path to others and perhaps open the opportunity to release judgments or negative ideas. 

Grace, as Chopra describes it “belongs to the purest level of awareness, where a single spirit embraces everyone and everything.” When you feel grace you feel uninhibited love and blessings toward yourself and others and for yourself from the world around you. To feel your own grace sit quietly and focus on the area of your heart and feel the light that resides there. Imagine that light of love and caring spreading throughout your body and embrace its warmth. Perhaps you are even able to imagine that love and light shining beyond the self to others or throughout the universe. By simply being you can live in grace ~ allowing it to guide you on your journey.