Winter Newsletter!

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Building your Immunity with Your Yoga Practice

Using supported and inverted poses can help with circulation of your lymphatic system. Lymph is a fluid that moves through the body picking up bacteria and viruses and filtering them out of the body via the lymph nodes.

Physical exercise, such as yoga, is key for keeping the lymph moving by using muscular contractions. The movement of lymph is also affected by gravity, so any time your go upside down the lymph moves to the respiratory organs, and when you return to an upright position, gravity drains the lymph, sending it through your lymph nodes for cleansing.

Try these poses to build your immunity:

* Adho Mukha Svanasana (Downward Facing Dog) with your head on a bolster.

* Uttanasana (Standing Forward Bend) with your head on a chair or blocks.

* Prasarita Padottanasana (Wide Leg Forward Bend) with your head on a chair or blocks.

* Setu Bandha Sarvangasana (Bridge Shoulderstand) with a block or bolster under the sacrum.

Women's Body Stories

Hello My Friends,
Please come join me and my life coach, Cynthia Morris, on March 7th for an incredible workshop, Women's Body Stories. Check it out below:
www.studiobeyoga.com/pages/workshops_specialevents2.html

Extend/Expand

As yoga practitioners many of us know to extend our physical asana and postures. But the real work comes from expanding from our dynamic core to our skin. From the core to the periphery and then that informs back to our core.

Sit with your arms reaching out to your sides. Reach your arms out making the muscles and bones long, yet active. Extend.

Now reach you arms again and imagine that you are reaching from the ocean of your heart to the rivers of your arms and to the smaller rivers of your fingers. Radiate like the sun from your center out to your skin. Focus on the cylindrical energy of your arms. Expand!

"If extending is from the intelligence of your brain, than expanding is from the intelligence of the heart." BKS Iyengar

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This week I'll be giving away The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook and a 5lb bag of Almond Flour from Honeyville. To be entered into this Holiday Deluxe Giveaway follow these 3 steps:

1. create a blog or Facebook post mentioning this giveaway
2. in your post link back to The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook page (http://www.elanaspantry.com/cookbook/), if you like you can also add an almond flour recipe (of mine, yours, or someone else's) to your post, but that's entirely optional
3. leave a comment below with a link to your blog post or Facebook page by January 11th so that I know you entered the contest! If you win, I'd be happy to sign your book

New Year's Day

How do we veil ourselves? What is your ultimate potential? We plan to explore these questions in the New Year's Day practice for all levels at Studio Be Yoga from 10-11:45am. I will be co-teaching this class with Michelle Anderson to ring in the New Year. We will start with some chanting together and move through a practice to explore the past to discover the present moment. I hope you can join us.

My 2010 Schedule

Lots of Choices for 2010!
Teaching Schedule for 2010


Many of you have asked for me to share with you my January 2010 teaching schedule. So here it is. I am very excited at the depth and variety of teaching (and locations) that I will have available.

I will also be offering many workshop opportunities in 2010 at The Yoga Workshop and Studio Be. Please continue to check their websites and I will send you notices via newsletters.

This Spring I will again teach the Prenatal Yoga Teacher Intensive! Please spread the word to caregivers, pregnant mothers or yoga students that are interested in the field of Yoga and Pregnancy/Postpartum care! There will be an incredible group of women gathered to teach it again. I am firming up plans but it looks like it will be in April.


Thank you in advance and hope to see you soon and again in 2010!

Namaste,
De



North Boulder Recreation Center
3170 Broadway, Boulder, CO

Tuesday:
10am-11:30am
Continuing
*childcare available

Wednesday: 5:30pm-7pm
Prenatal/Postpartum

Friday:
8:50am-10:20am
Beginning
*childcare available

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Studio Be:

2077 30th Street
Boulder, CO


Monday:
9am-10:30am
Beginner Foundation

Monday:
6pm-7:30pm Intermediate
Flow

Tuesday:
6pm -7:30pm
Beginner Foundation

Friday:
4:30pm-6pm
All Levels Flow
Friday Afternoon Club

Saturday:
Noon-1:15pm
Prenatal/Postpartum


Colorado Athletic Club

1821 30th Street
Boulder, CO

Tuesday:
7am-8:15am
Warm Vinyasa
Level 1/2

Wednesday:
Noon-1:15pm
Vinyasa
Level 1/2

Thursday:
5pm-6:15pm
Advanced Alignment
Level 2/3

*If you are not a member of the club you can still drop in to the yoga classes!




Introducing Purnam Wellness:

Stephen and I have joined together to create Purnam Wellness. Purnam means whole or perfect. We will be kicking off our website this new year!

I have been offering private yoga therapy in Boulder since 2001. I offer sessions working on various issues including building home practice sequences to balance heath issues, digestive health, and muscular/skeletal challenges.

I offer a number of sessions times a week in our quiet office in North Boulder. I also am available for group or private sessions at other locations.

Call or email me to schedule yourself or give the gift of wellness for the holidays!
303-818-2169
dewestyoga@yahoo.com