The Green Yogi

Live Blood Cell Analysis at The Green Yogi in Sandwich

On August 6th, The Green Yogi yoga center (and Dorothy Torrey) will offer discounted Strategic Health Assessments including:

•  live blood cell analysis
• stress testing for heart disease
• hemoglobin A1c testing for diabetes blood sugar screening
• UV Skin Damage Assessment

These 4 Strategic Health Asessments are the wave of the future.  Each discounted test is $25, takes 15 minutes, and are then followed by an assessment.  These tests are excellent for putting you into effective action so that you make wiser choices more often.

WHERE:  The Green Yogi 4 Merchants Square, Sandwich (behind the post office, next to the deli)

WHEN:  Wednesday, August 6, 2008, from 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Pre-registration is required and space is limited, so call soon to reserve your place.

Call Dawn Gaynor at 508-681-8772

Please click on the Sandwich Yoga Studio link for poster and detailed description of each test.

New Yoga Studio in Sandwich Summer Sale

Bring a friend to class and the friend takes the class for free!  Click here for coupon.  See here for summer schedule.

How Svaroopa yoga changed my life. And more.

 It was raw vegan foods that led me to yoga.  I had been dabbling with raw foods for years - I believe I started reading about them and experimenting with going all or mostly raw in 2000 or 2001.  It didn't take me long to find David Wolfe's Sunfood Diet Success System (there weren't too many raw food books back then) - and I read that book at least 3-4 times - it was actually falling apart I read it and highlighted it so much.  In that book, he suggested to take up yoga.  So, in my local vegetarian restaurant at the time (back in 2002 I believe) in Middletown CT, It's Only Natural, (I love that restaurant - it's not raw, but raw-friendly and an excellent vegetarian restaurant near Wesleyan University.) I spotted a flyer for yoga classes, and I signed up with Elizabeth McKenty who was teaching Iyengar at the time.  So, I took a series of Iyengar classes - I really liked it, but it did flare up some old neck injuries (I had 3 whiplash car accidents in the early 90's) and I did get acute ear pain and head aches.  Elizabeth at the time was just starting to teach Svaroopa yoga, and I joined her second series of classes.  In the very first class, I felt so much relief of pain and tightness in my neck!  I was hooked. I had lived in fear of re-injuring my neck for over a decade, and my range of motion was almost non-existant.  I also started taking Embodyment Yoga Therapy with Elizabeth on a regular basis and this accelerated my healing significantly.  During the yoga classes and during the Embodyment I would also experience such a sense of calm and peace of mind that I had never experienced before.  My mind was becoming still - but I didn't know about that at the time.  I started taking weekend and weeklong retreats with Rama Berch, the founder of Svaroopa yoga at Kripalu in MA and in California.  I even drove to Ithaca NY for a Bliss weekend one time - I just couldn't get enough of the bliss and calm and the healing of my body and being.  During one weekend retreat at Kripalu with Rama Berch - perhaps my first one - all of the bitterness in my heart disappeared and it never came back.  During a weeklong retreat in February 2003 in LaJolla CA, I became so full of love, peace and joy from the deeper classes that my entire being was truly starting to change and be more present.  My fear about my neck was starting to go away.  My body was healing - after over a decade of living in fear and chronic neck and back pain, the fear was dissipating and the range of motion in my neck was coming back.  My mind was becoming open, still, and present.  My emotions were stabilizing, and I was becoming spiritually awakened on a very deep level.  (More about that another time.)  In Svaroopa yoga, the core tensions of the body are released and opened, and this opens the mind, calms the emotions, and opens the nadis. The yoga is relatively easy to do (anyone of any fitness level can do this yoga) and it appears subtle, yet powerful changes occur on every level of being.  I just love this yoga.  This style of yoga is not just about asana (poses and exercise).  In Svaroopa yoga we teach yoga philosophy, meditation, and chanting as well.  To most Americans, yoga is a form of exercise.  In Svaroopa yoga, I have learned that the true purpose of any yoga (asana - the poses), is to prepare one for meditation.  To prepare your body to sit for a long time so that you can meditate and find your true Self - the bliss of your own being. 

 

I no longer live in fear or pain.  I have good range of motion in my neck, and I love this style of yoga so much that I have become a yoga teacher.  I live my life in the world as a yogi - the sense of presence rarely leaves me.  If you have aches and pains, or if you've ever wanted to just try yoga, or if you'd like to relieve stress, or if you'd like calmness of being, or if you'd like to be more meditative or learn how to sit and prepare your body for meditation, come try a Svaroopa yoga class.  It has changed my life in profound ways on all levels of being.  It will change your life too in any way you are ready to change it. And more. 

Cape Cod Yoga at The Green Yogi

I have been spending the past few weeks setting up my new life in Cape Cod - unpacking, setting up a yoga studio, and setting up a new business.  This is the just the start of transforming my life to live a life that I love.  To love everything that I am doing and everything and everyone that is in my life.  I love to teach yoga, and I am thrilled to be finally opening my new studio in Sandwich, MA this weekend.  I am starting off with two free yoga classes this Sunday, July 13th, so that people can get a taste of the style of yoga that I teach - Svaroopa Yoga.  I also want people to have the opportunity to taste surprise live (raw) vegan drinks and/or food.  And, I'm looking forward to meet the people of the area who are interested in taking yoga (and more!) classes with me.  Or, if anyone is coming to visit Cape Cod this summer, come take a yoga class or a weekly series!  Be ready to experience deep relaxation, peace and clarity of mind, and melt the stress away!

The free classes on this Sunday are open to anyone of any fitness level who would love to give yoga a try.  Or, if you've done yoga before, give Svaroopa yoga a try. Practicing Svaroopa yoga and eating raw food has changed my life in profound magical (yes, magical!) ways.  All Svaroopa yogis that I know who have practiced Svaroopa yoga for a while have had significant changes for the better in their body, mind, emotions, and spirit.  All raw foodies that I know who have been eating raw food (not even 100% - although 100% ramps it up!) for a while have had significant changes for the better in their body, mind, emotions, and spirit. 

I feel so blessed and lucky every single day because I have had the opportunity to have both of these life changing gifts in my life as my passions.  I want to share my passions and help people find the way to heal themselves on every level.  There is a change in this world of an awareness of consciousness.  If you are at all interested in consciousness awareness (perhaps you listened to Oprah and Eckhart Tolle), and/or becoming healthy on any or every level, come to my class, or sign up for a coaching package and experience vitality, peace, wellness of being, and more!.

Come visit my studio and take a class at The Green Yogi in Sandwich, Cape Cod, MA.  The Place To Be. 

For more info or to register:

email: dawn@the-green-yogi.com

phone:  508-681-8772