The purpose of the Global Mala is to unite the global yoga community from every continent, school or approach to form a "mala around the earth" through collective practices based upon the sacred cycle of 108. Join The Space Above Yoga Center and practitioners worldwide to raise awareness and funds. Please join us locally and ‘breathe the change you want to envision in the world.”

 WHERE:

Our home at The Space Above Yoga Center

WHEN:

Sunday, September 19, 2010 10AM – 11:48AM

WHAT:

108 minutes of Yoga Practice with a Variety of

Teachers, Sacred Music, Meditation, and Chanting!

WHY:

No class fee

*suggested donation of $20 to support a local family whose child has Cystic Fibrosis 

Saturday   September 12th  
1:00 PM - 5:30 PM
with
Cecelia Rice, 500hr RYT, RRC & Elaine Walters McFerron, MFA, LPC
Fee $90.00

Embraced by the energies of the Crescent Moon, this practice is a triad of PRANAYAMA, RESTORATIVE YOGA POSES (extended moments of stillness while fully supported with bolsters, blankets, blocks) and GUIDED BREATH IMAGERY with an orientation toward opening your heart. Each yoga segment will be accompanied byjournaling. Elaine will compassionately lead the journaling segments in a triad of OPENING, LISTENING and TENDING to the Heart. Cecelia and Elaine will weave together moments of yoga and journaling to create a safe and sacred space for opening and listening to the voice of your Heart. We will conclude with a ritual for tending to the Heart.

Please bring writing and sketching materials.
Space limited. Pre-registration required
For further information: contact Cecelia @ cmr.rice@gmail.com

REDUCED FEE FOR COMMITMENT TO ALL 3 CLASSES IN SERIES
Contact Cecelia directly at cmr.rice@gmail.com for further information *INCLUDING REDUCED FEE FOR COMMITMENT TO THE SERIES*

Cecelia Rice, a yoga instructor since 1998, is also nationally certified by Judith Hanson Lasater as Restorative Yoga teachera Relax & Renew Counselor. She is an Intuitive and Healing Touch Practitioner. She has worked in the Healing Arts for 20 years.

Elaine Walters McFerron is a writer and has kept a journal most of her life. She teaches creative writing and journaling at The Writer’s Studio in Virginia Beach. She has been a psychotherapist for over thirty years and practices at Wellspring also in Virginia Beach. She is the Alumni Liaison and Graduate Lecture Facilitator at The Bennington Writing Seminars, Bennington College, Vermont.

Restorative Yoga & Journaling from the Heart
Saturday, September 11 1:00pm-5:30pm $90

Restorative Yoga & Journaling from the Still Point
Saturday, October 16 1:00pm-5:30pm $90

Restorative Yoga & Journaling from the Seat of Wisdom
Saturday, November 20 1:00pm-5:30pm 

TriYoga with Yogini Kaliji  
2-Day Program
September 20th & 21st
at our place!

Kaliji is internationally renowned as a yogini and founder of TriYoga. She has presented 33 keynote addresses at yoga conferences. Guded by kriyavati siddhi (kundalini-inspired hatha yoga), she has systematized asana, pranayama and dharana , and over 1000 hasta mudras have expressed through her. TriYoga is now taught in over 30 countries. Kaliji’s presence, her mastery of the flow and the ageless wisdom inherent in TriYoga have inspired countless people worldwide.

Yogaflows ~ Yoga Nirdra ~ Prana Vidya ~ Mudra ~ Jnana ~ Pravachan (Q&A) Chanting


FEES $45.00 (*$40.00 per session)
All 4 sessions: $170.00 (*$150.00)

(*reduced fee is for *KRIYA* members. You must contact The Space Above or Gabrielle Gerard-Jenks to receive this discount)

Location & Registration:

www.thespaceabove.com

The Space Above Yoga Center  202 West 22nd St Norfolk VA 23517

Local Contact: Gabrielle Gerard-Jenks 757-409-2041  gabriellergerard@mac.com

By Kim Austin-Peterman

Ayurvedic Practitioner, RYT, CMT

by Renee Hudgins

“The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.”  Joanna Field

There is a butterfly garden in my backyard.  It was designed specifically to attract butterflies.   Butterflies are rather particular about where they lay their eggs, so if you want to attract butterflies to your backyard, host plants are essential.  Host plants are the plants that the caterpillar or larva stage of the butterfly eats to survive.  I have many host plants such as Butterfly Weed to attract the Monarch and Passion Flower to attract the Variegated and Gulf Fritillaries.  Throw in a lot of flowers for their dining pleasure and come hot weather, the garden is almost constantly aflutter.
 

The entire life cycle of a butterfly is pretty amazing.  The female lays eggs on the appropriate plants.  Each Black Swallowtail, for example, lays about 400 eggs in her adult life span of about one week.  The Black Swallowtail lays eggs on parsley, dill or fennel.   Any and all parsley that I plant is devoured by the resulting caterpillars.  They start off so small that you can barely see them and they spend their entire larva stage on that plant, growing as big as my pinkie finger in about 10 days.  During this stage, they are sitting targets and most don't survive.  Those that do survive begin looking for the perfect place to pupate.  Sometimes one will morph right on the plant, but usually it moves away from its host plant and builds a support for the chrysalis.  It then hangs from the support in a "j" shape until about 24 hours later, when it sheds its caterpillar skin. It remains in the chrysalis for another 7-10 days and then the paper thin shell of the chrysalis splits and a wet and scrunched butterfly emerges.  It literally hangs upside down to dry, allowing the wings to fall into shape.  After a few hours, the newly emerged butterfly flutters away in search of a mate, host plants and a meal.

Most everyone appreciates the beauty of a butterfly, but if you look, you will see that some of the chrysalises are stunning in their beauty and some of the caterpillars are pretty darn cool looking!   The Monarch chrysalis looks like a hand painted  jewel and the Spicebush caterpillar is  quite striking.  Some of the caterpillars have interesting disguise mechanisms that make them look like .. . well, like bird poop!   Others produce an unpleasant oder and display "horns" to scare predators.

It makes you wonder how it all works.  Here are fat, wormy looking creatures that disappear into their own packages and reveal themselves later as delicate, graceful, winged wonders.  And this is just one insect;  one tiny little creature in this vast universe.  Such an elegant design, such a miraculous metamorphosis.  I am absolutely awed by it.  There's a grand plan here and somehow these little butterflies are an intricate part of the plan.  How fortunate to be a part of all of this, to be able to share life with such miracles.  Just look around and you will find such miracles are everywhere.