No class today!!! (16th October 2013)

Late reminder but I have been mentioning this over the last few weeks. There is no class today as the Hall was rebooked for an all-day client.

Ironically that client cancelled at the last minute but it was too late for me to reverse the decision to cancel this class.

Namaste all

Blood Collection tomorrow!!!

Hi all.

No class tomorrow since the hall is being used for it's quarterly blood collection.

So in the name of providing Vampires with much needed sustenance and to stop them attacking innocent people in the middle of the night, there will be no class for the 28th August 2013.

See you all the following week I hope (Vampires welcome)

Namaste
b

Class on this Wednesday

Just a short message to let people know there is a class on this Wednesday as St Andrew Church has been inspected and declared safe (after the recent earthquake)

Lets hope that this is the end of it and that what we have already experienced has created better stability rather than made it worse.

Namaste
b

Blood Collection 15th May 2013!! (tomorrow)

arrrrhhhh!! So sorry Yoga Peeps, some sort of 6th sense made me decide to check the NZ Blood Collection website and I am very sorry to have to provide this last minute blog entry to inform peeps there will be no Yoga class tomorrow due to blood collection.

I really should have been across this the week before and given people due notice, but this is the best I can do. Of course, I will say that I have mentioned on more than one occassion peeps should check my blog-spot before coming to class to confirm that it is on!

Namaste, and enjoy your day off!!
b

Open Circle Kinetics

After quite a lot of time thinking about this, I am officially announcing the rebranding of my classes to "Open Circle Kinetics"  There are a lot of reasons I have decided to drop the word Yoga from my classes but the main ones are:

• I want the freedom to evolve my class structure; methodology and underlying philosophy outside the already defined doctrine of Yoga. In many respects this is a retrospective assertion of what has already been happening for a long time anyway. There are a number of fundamental rules by which a yoga class is typically taught and I follow very few of them. In order to follow my own bliss, without a perceived conflict (from within and without) I have decided to let go of the very label that gave rise to this self-awareness.
• A desire to disassociate myself from forms of Yoga that are in direct conflict with my own personal belief systems. My classes are not competitive, at least not in any traditional sense of the word. I think it is a word that must be treated with a great deal of care because it has as much potential to destroy as it does to create. I don't personally believe competition is inherently bad (and for better and worse it has been a huge part of my own life) but it just so happens that humanity is already awash with competition so the conscious removal, or at the very least management of this concept is something that resonates with me very strongly.
• The escape from unrealistic aspirations. Yoga is and will always be a part of my life, but I have no interest in being judged as being a good or a bad yogi. It is hard enough just as a practitioner, but being identified as a teacher as well is really too much for me. I don't want to follow rules just because they are part of a doctrine I am apparently associated with. I follow my own rules, the ones that feel right to me with the full acknowledgement that I am a work in progress. I am far from perfect and I know it, yet ironically I believe I have a greater chance of evolving into a better (and more authentic) person if I'm not saddled with a system that expects far more from me than I am willing to give and in some cases don't even believe in.

I would like to finish by saying that I am not turning my back on Yoga or the many amazing people I have connected with through this beautiful system. I prefer to see it as a decision to stop turning my back on myself. I am genuinely excited about my classes and how they are continuing to evolve. They do not need a stereo-typed label to stand on, they are their own thing, and I believe they are beautiful and represent the light side of who I am as a person.

Namaste!!

 

no class 13th feb!!

I hate it when this happens. I was told some time ago that the St Andrews Church Hall has been booked for thr NZ Blood Services and will therefore not be available on the 13th feb.
I totally forgot about this myself until just now (day before class).
I realise that pretty much no one botherse to check this blog (which is a bit of a drag because I have stated at many classes people should do so to confirm the class is on)
But anyway, for those that don't read this you could always decide to give blood instead :)
Namaste
b

No class Wednesday 6th Feb

Just a quick note to state the fairly obvious: As it is Waitangi Day I've decided to generously give you all the day off from Lunchtime Yoga. The following week is a different story, be there or be square (and have stiff and inflexible joints and muscles)
Namaste
b