This past week in my yoga classes I have been talking about the yama “asteya,” which means not stealing, but also realizing that we don’t have to hold back or live in a place of fear, scarcity and lack, because the universe is abundant and will provide for us. I have been working with this …
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My Stroke Of Insight
This is the name of the book by Jill Bolte Taylor (a brain scientist) that we are reading for The Yoga Room’s October book club. As someone who has been doing a lot of self-reflection lately, I am finding parts of this book really interesting. One of my own insights upon reading the book is …
Mindfulness as a Way to Liberation
This past weekend I attended a Mindfulness Yoga workshop at the Ann Arbor Zen Temple with instructor Frank Jude Boccio. He is both a Buddhist practitioner and a yoga teacher. He had a very easy-to-understand explanation of The Four Noble Truths which goes right to the heart of what I have been working on in …
Earth Day Tree Planting Project 2009
Each year Yoga Serves volunteers at an Ann Arbor park for Earth Day. This year, Yoga Serves members returned to the Leslie Science Center where we cleared brush and planted some more native trees and shrubs.
Fall Chore Day – Neighborhood Senior Services
Yoga Serves members helped out some local senior citizens in our community by raking their leaves and checking the smoke alarms in their homes.
Tending Local Gardens
Yoga Serves members tended to a recently planted rain garden at the entrance to Bird Hills Nature Area, which helps to mitigate water erosion problems. We also got to take a leisurely walk through the woods!
Earth Day Tree Planting Project 2008
A small group of us did some work in the gardens and planted some native shrubs and trees at the Leslie Science Center in Ann Arbor, and then stayed afterwards to enjoy their Earth Day festivities!