Two posts in 2 days... movin' on up! 

REMEMBER! NEW CLASS: I've ADDED FRIDAY 12-1:15pm STARTING THIS WEEK at Dharma Yoga on Guadalupe in addition to my already existing 8am Tues/Thurs classes... and the new location is BEAU-TI-FUL!

Saturday presented INDIA in my FACE over and over and over again it seemed... it was slightly unbelievable just how much and I couldn't help but stand in the wonder of the message or hint I was suppose to be taking from it...  

I was coming home from the Round Rock outlets Sunday evening driving up Parmer when I thought I saw a store called "Gandhi" something so I turned around to check it out. Ends up it's called "Ghandi Bazar" with all kinds of Indian imports from herbs and spices to Ayurvedic products of all sorts and much, much more. I actually found soaps and ointments and creams etc that I either used in Kerala or things that I  purchased at the Ayurvedic Pharmacy there. While the prices aren't *as* cheap as they are in India, they are still very inexpensive. Check it out! I thought for sure, Austin had to have an Indian import store... well I found it and it's doesn't disappoint!  

I believe I shared the story of the closing beach ceremony of the last day in India where Shiva has us hand out closed, rather "tired" looking, un-opened lotus flowers to everyone (if not, here goes again...:).  

I remember her words as she spoke about the path wearing us down at times. She went on to remind everyone that there will be those days where we will all look into the mirror and think to ourselves, "*I'M* a lotus flower? ME?" as we feel tired, busted, un-loved, beat up, used and broken down.

The answer to that is YES... No matter how you may look or feel on the outside or within.  

So we all have this tired looking long and skinny closed up un-identifiable lotus in "captivity" of dirty leaves as shes asked us to slowly start to carefully peel back the leaves and petals...  

I carried that story and reminder with me for a while and forgot about it. Saturday morning, Stephannie, who attended the experience with us, sent me the photo I took (with her camera) of my hand holding the magnificance that was this blossomed lotus flower just over the Indian sand beore I sent it off into the ocean with a prayer that warm Indian morning.

What I love about this photo is that its so symbolic capturing my inked reminder that it's all changing; nothing will stay the same; I'm not the thought or feelings as they are just visitors, like myself in this body. Nothing is permanent but impermanance and all that matters is this moment... right now... presense.  

How will I LIVE today?
How will I love TODAY?
How deeply will I learn to breathe and BE?
What will I do IN THIS MOMENT to leave kisses of the beauty held so deeply in my heart; the lotus flower within, on everything that crosses or walks beside my path?  

"Today there is no practice. No doing of practice. No moving, no breathing, and no doing of moving/breathing/ No distinctions or duality. Just breath moving through me. No struggle. No me. Only this one gift of breath, Taking flight."  

lovelovelove,
Sanieh
www.saniehyoga.com
www.twitter.com/saniehyoga

(4 Pics: It's been a HuGe blessing to have a 3 ft x 4 ft promotional pic of me hanging inside Lululemon on the big wall since the store opened late last year...and when I thought they couldn't out do it, they recently blew up another to pretty good size... this time of David, myself and Carey to promote this event... and hung all 3 OUTSIDE the window for passer-byers to see... very cool, especially in person :)   

Sunday, June 14th 10am is the big "ROCK YOUR BODY, SHOCK YOUR BODY" event behind Lululemon on 6th and Lamar that I've been planning with Lululemon and 2 other Ambassador friends! GET THERE EARLY (for parking etc)

LULULEMON WILL BE GIVING AWAY 2 complimentary tops to some super sweaty participants in the SWEAT T-SHIRT CONTEST (and if you haven't heard, this is some kick a$$ clothing we are talking about!)

You'll get 20 minutes of Carey's rockin' cross fit, 20 minutes of me and you KNOW I'm gonna serve it to ya;), and 20 minutes of David with what's bound to be some kick butt cardio kick boxing... all back to back. Show us your cross athleticism and we will show you free clothes and free waterloo breakfast tacos with what's expected to be about 150 of Austin's finest and fittest community party people :)  

YOGA---I beg of you! Come out and support ME and THIS EVENT. YOU WILL LOVE IT! I KNOWKNOWKNOW Carey and David's people are going to come and they are sure to be LOUD so show one of your favorite yoga teachers (ummm, that would be muah) some love and support...! You can do ANYTHING for 20 minutes...(This is my own personal mantra and self campaign slogan... only I change it to "45 minutes"... true story-more on that later). Nothing to be scared of (now going to an actual Cross Fit class after you have been through their mandatory Elements sessions outside of community events where you learn the movements etc... now that's no joke but it can be done as I do it twice a week... secretly LOVING IT! *still having difficulty walking today due to tabata squatting, sore quad madness; but that's besides the point*) but this... you will be asking when the next event is! Cardio kick box... we ALL have to love some power behind a leg strike!   So write it down, bring a friend of 10 win your free Lulu digs and get your waterloo grub on, on Lululemon!    

Note: I have printed flyers for this that include Discounted private yoga and Transmission Yoga Programs session handouts there as well as a flyer for the newly scheduled :

CORE CULTIVATION, PART 3
WITH SANIEH
930-11:30 Saturday July 11.
Write it DOWN!  It's going to be fierce and with CORE ON FIRE! :D

Where: Shirley McPhail School of Dance- 183 and Spicewood Springs Road-in the southwest corner of the shopping center
Investment: $30.00 PRE REGISTRATION REQUIRED by Tuesday July 7

In this 2 hour yoga class, we will warm the body and prepare to cultivate our core strength through different and innovative means encouraging us th ability to tap into the inner most layer of muscle required to invert and balance our bodies with strength, grace and ease. Bring a towel, your yoga mat, blocks if you have them and hydration! Come prepared, ready and wiling to work...this is NOT going to be your grandma's yoga class!

okay, I've got packing to do for my Venice Beach Weekend... See everyone in Class on Tuesday...

lovelovelove,
Sanieh
www.saniehyoga.com (revamp in progress...with some excellent stuff coming!!!)
www.twitter.com/saniehyoga (for your random 140 Character max Sanieh Yoga thoughts throughout the day...)
(still working on the facebook thing)

Big thanks to everyone who came out to support the big Sizzlin Summer Sampler event at Lululemon... 140 people came out in the heat (note to self-next time, 10am heat is still powerful-aim for earlier start time!) and gave it their all and every single person there experienced a new aspect of athleticism therefore everyone experiencing challenge in different areas per the individual. All of the events were scaled down a bit to best fit the community yet were still incredibly challenging! It was a fantastic and crowded time and I am SO grateful and PROUD to share that yoga had a super large collective representing! The 2 "sweatiest t-shirt" contest winners wre/are student friends of mine as well! YES! Congrats, guys!   Humble thanks to you all!

Also huge thanks and love to the participants of the summer Texas Yoga Retreat! We had a lovely time at Barsana Dham Hindu Temple on Saturday and the evening kirtan with my friend, Chris was so incredible and took a life of it's own! So sweet of everyone to share their devotion in the call and response experience!

What this weekend taught me:
*Teaching yoga to 140 people is only slightly different than teach to 30
*A day spent in the sun can nourish my soul in a way that lingers and lingers and lingers *Acknowledging someone Else's beautiful essence feels good in my own heart
*Awakening to the stirring of "something more" within myself lights my entire being
*The things I've judge myself on, I'd never think twice about in another. Its time I cut myself some slack.
*"Someone is waiting to receive your gifts"
*I am in control of what I chose to give free rent" to in the container that is my mind
*Never leave home without sun protection on my person-never know when the Texas rays will feel as though we are sitting on the equator.
*A perfect day comes in many, many forms.

All Love,
Sanieh
www.saniehyoga.com
www.twitter.com/saniehyoga

It's so warm outside, even at almost 10 pm at night time. I have found myself feeling a little tired due to dehydration and have started to remedy that with purchasing another SIGG bottle and have decided I'll get a third and carry two liters with me at all times. Water, it's incredible that keeping my body nourished in this way makes up for so much and the degree of which it keeps me feeling WELL is priceless. Especially in this Texas heat, I need to be better about this!

LOTS of exciting news and changes coming up this summer... I need to get on my newsletter and get it sent out by the 1st! Some I will have to save for a few months until things are solidified with my schedule and others, but the Core Cultivation Workshop in July is a go and I need to prepare to push the notice of the require pre registration since there is a minimum required for it to be held... so don't wait... ( http://saniehyoga.com/classes.htm )

Also, I mentioned this in a "tweet" on my twitter (twitter.com/saniehyoga)... if you are NEW to Dharma Yoga (very close to Yoga Yoga Northwest...it takes me 20 min at 715 am going WITH traffic to get there in the mornings coming from North... the secret is to take the 360 exit and stay on the access road that curves onto Mopac, rather than Mopac itself...then I'm On the access for an exit then merge and 45th is just a few miles away...even when it seems sticky, it moves quickly!) where I teach Tuesday/Thurs 8am and Friday 12noon, your first class is free and you also get a nice discount off of a 5 or 10 class pass. If you have a bit of a financial situation, talk with me about it and we will see what we can do. It's such a lovely lovely Zen space down near the drag and Wheatsville Co-Op... as is the much warmer studio space, if you like a heated experience, that is Yoga Vida 707 where I teach on Wed afternoon at 430... I'm so blessed to be surrounded by such lovely spaces to practice and explore...

I haven't said too much about it since it's not officially in stone until tomorrow (YAY!) but I'm planning to go to Bali in July to spend some time surfing and of course
"yoga-ing" on a Surf Goddess retreat :) I am in desperate need of a cultured, serene, water/ocean-based get away where I can completely I can un-plug, restore and renew. I'm excited but it hasn't become "real" just yet... but even a super long (longer than going to India!) flight to get me there is sounding really really nice... just UNPLUG, reading, writing, collecting myself, letting go, setting new intentions and along the way, immersing myself in a new and celebrated culture, meeting completely new people, and reconnecting with the ocean (and another part of the India Ocean:) and to finally surf again; and to do so a LOT!

With surfing, I think of her (Mother nature) like this...

She'll kick your ass. Seriously. She can hurt me and I know this. So I face her force with respect when I swim out using my strength of upper body, I sit and await her yawn as her pranic swell flow carries me with speed, I use all that I've cultivated with my own power chakra to press/float/fly from prone to squat... all on HER time... and then I rise and ride her in. And sometimes, her force and even her beauty are too much to take and like life, she'll clean everything out from under my feet, to humble me and I crash into her strength never knowing when, where, or how I'll fall, furthermore, when, where, or how I'll rise up again from what may seem like a massive power clean cycle... but she teaches me to surrender; to trust. I actually fantasize about drinking in the fear of HER; her power but perhaps it's, in part, the knowing, that she restores, cleanses, wipes away and renews me to the complete and whole woman I always was even before I ever stepped foot into the initiation that is to receive her.

With all of this I feel the challenge coming on; the other half; the "test" if you will. The nature of the Universe usually works in such a timely fashion in my world. I manifest something and the forces of Universal consciousness as a collective bring it to me and I'm so blessed not FOR this as much as for the RECOGNITION of the works of it all unfolding... YET never is it without a hearty dose of "let me make even your greatest desires challenging to receive...how deeply, Sanieh, can you become present, let go, surrender and trust...?"

I'm working on it...even now, in this precious very moment...

love and sweet dream,
Sanieh
www.saniehyoga.com

(Pic: This is from earlier today... with Coach Crystal (aka: the beautiful Nazi) after conquering the benchmark workout, "Angie" which consists of 100 pulls ups/100 push ups/ 100 sit ups/ 100 deep air squats...in that order, for time. Last time/the first time I did it, I was newer and I thought I was going to die...today, I meditated during the entire thing:)) Feeling strong, feeling strong indeed!

I'm feeling so good today. I've got SO much energy, knocking out my list of errands, feeling gratitude for SO many things... both delightful and even those that aren't so much.

Every 'thing' and every person has its role in my life... there are no exceptions.

Outside of the few main staples of commitments I had this weekend, I got to enjoy some time at Barton Springs which I am so loving! Soon (the end of Aug.) I will be moving to the "04" zip code after years of living north (even after moving away then returning) and I will be a bike ride from the springs... SO excited :)

I'm looking forward the rest of my evening, cranking out this newsletter, starting my "work week" tomorrow morning at Dharma Yoga, of course some personal practice time and then catching up with Leah for a movie after Yoga Vida 707 class Wed., then heading into a July 4th weekend with some family all followed by short and spontaneous trip to Dallas on Sunday. :))

Chris and I will be connecting this week I think to discuss possible dates for a very special yoga workshop that will be happening at the lovely Dharma Yoga soon... stay tuned :)

What else, what else?... getting very close to finalizing my first ever "SaniehYoga" logo with John... very excited... and he's been so helpful, user friendly and patient! Thanks, Johnny :X

BALI!!!!

...is official and all there is left to do is to be present until It's time to go on July 21st! Oh I am subbing a handful of nights and weekend classes the week prior to make up for my absence and will have that schedule (which is in addition to my existing public class schedule) in my newsletter that I am sending out, hopefully tonight. IF you want the scoop on the "play by play" of my yoga world, send me an email sanieh@saniehyoga.com with "newsletter" in the subject line and I'll add you :)

Reminder: Core Cultivaton Pre-Reg (required) is due next Tueday, July 7th!

lovelovelove,
Sanieh
www.saniehyoga.com