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The Bhaktishop
2500 SE 26th Ave
Portland, Oregon 97202

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Inner Space: A Subtle Body Anatomy Course For Teachers And The Curious

Sat Feb 4 3-7pm

Please join local subtle body legend Emily Soiney, P.T. as she maps the ins and outs of the chakras, the nadis, and many other mysterious components of the yogi's vast inner workings! All are welcome to explore this workshop, and we are lucky to have Emily guest star in this course! Counts as a YS500 Partial Anatomy Module.

Holy Fiesta! "Costa Rica" Retreat with Lisa Mae and Marianne

Feb 25-Mar 3

Join us for the 6th year of radical jungle and ocean adventure in this high-vibration paradise of all the yoga you can eat, tons of relaxation time, and a life-altering perspective on this beautiful world. Treat yourself to an unforgettable trip of unimaginable fun and depth. We promise you will be forever changed. Not to be missed! Email family@thebhatkishop.com for all the details.

Micro-mega retreat w/ Uma and Jessica 3/10

How does yoga, Loyly Sauna, organic food, & radical self-care sound? Join Uma and Jessica for this 1/2 day micro-retreat, the perfect way to get away.

Harmonium Huggers' Workshop! 3/17

Join resident harmonium-hugger Lisa Mae on an easy, rewarding trip into the beauty of this Indian instrument. Working from simple Western musical notation (no experience required) we will sort through the care and feeding of a harmie, the ease of accompanying yourself, and some simple mantras that you know and love. Come away from this workshop playing and singing!

Ayurveda and Yoga Series: Kapha 3/24

Clear out the mucus, the crud, the sludgy dullness with this clarifying workshop to get us leaping freely and lightly into Spring time! Join Nancy and Marianne, one of our steady and soulful kapha spirits at the Shop in this course that is open to the public, but will be useful for teachers learning how to understand sequencing with the seasons, and to teach with some of the basic language of Ayurveda.

Strong Foundations: Transitioning from Level 1 to Level 2 with Monicka 3/25

The key to a healthy and balanced yoga practice is the foundation upon which it is built. Find the freedom to move with more ease by unlocking real strength and support in your own body. Find comfort and efficiency with breath supporting your movement, and take a closer look at some of the most common yoga postures, deconstructed and rebuilt in a way that best suits our own individual needs.

Sanskrit: Language of Yoga with Joshua Michaell 3/31 and 4/1

Since ancient times the practice of yoga has included the study of Sanskrit and the chanting of Sanskrit mantras. Sanskrit is integral to the practice of asana: it is a helpful adjunct for harmonizing and balancing the mind. Knowledge of Sanskrit, even at the most beginning level, makes it possible to grasp more of the subtleties of yoga philosophy. Open to all seekers, join our charming, funny and excellent new Sanskrit teacher for a super-fun weekend of vibration and light.

Bloom True! Art and Yoga in Bali with Lisa Mae and Flora 5/18-5/25

Together, Lisa Mae and Flora offer a playful, supported, and forgiving approach to both yoga and art. They are delighted for the opportunity to share this luxurious week with you in Bali. Not to be missed!

Family Kirtan for One and All

Join Mala, our house kirtan band, all summer long as we sing and sway with the divine breath in sweet and heart-lifting second Sunday kirtans each month from 6-8pm. By donation directly to the community, we welcome you all into the bliss on 1/8, 2/12, 3/11, 4/8, and 5/13. And, as if that weren't enough, our Live CD, I Love You, is on sale at The Bhaktishop as a benefit for Hospice of Washington County.

The Bhaktishop's Grad School 500

Continuing Ed for Teachers (and serious yoga geeks) is being offered year-round now! All manner of asana, anatomy, philosophy and architectural details for those of you hungry to go deeper into your practice is available, starting anytime you want to begin. Check here for details, and pick up a flyer at the Shop!

Mala: I Love You Live CD Available now at The Bhaktishop and online!

Come celebrate the release of our first live album, I Love You, with all proceeds going to support Hospice of Washington County. A slim $8 lets you chant in the car or anywhere on your pod with us.

Mala

On Our Walls...

A deep bow to our dear friend Flora Bowley, because we are thrilled to show a rotating collection of 5-8 original paintings, prints and giclee pieces by this fabulously talented local artist. Her painting express the vibrant and colorful world we dream up, and her webiste is www.florasbowley.com. Check out the beauty that helps adorn our lovely walls, and you might even spot Flora on the mat next to you...

"If anyone offers me with devotion and purity a leaf, a flower, a fruit, or water, I accept that offering of devotion." —Bhagavad Gita 9:26

"The easy road is also the most mediocre and boring. What is difficult to attain is the most cherished. The greatest gain is demanding of the greatest risk. We must be willing to climb out onto a limb--that is where the fruit is." —Swami B.V. Tripurari

"Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time." —B.K.S. Iyengar

"We do one thing or another; we stay the same, or we change. Congratulations, if you have changed." —Mary Oliver

"I would be dead without discipline." —Christina Sell

"Now is a dance that requires you to stand up, embrace yourself, and cast the rusty old shackles away." —Phillip M. Berk

"Human nature has no better helper than love." —Socrates

"Because it is so plain to my soul that God has shouted Yes! Yes! Yes!, to Every luminous movement in Existence." —Hafiz

"I like to live in the sound of water, in the feel of mountain air....the world is alive, it stretches out there shivering toward its own creation And I am a part of it. Even my breathing enters into this elaborate give and take, this bowing to moon and sun..." —William Stafford

"Be silent now. Say fewer and fewer praise poems. Let yourself become the living poetry." —Rumi

"Even if you travel everywhere you will not find the limits of the soul, so great is its nature. " —Heraclitus

"Oh you who are trying to learn of the marvel of love from the text book of reason, I am very much afraid that you will never really see the point" —Hafiz

"On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day." —Rumi

"The earth and sky will open their purse for you and your life will change if with all your heart you say these words each day, Teach me, divine One, all that you know." —St.Teresa of Avila

"Let me say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by feelings of great love." —Che Guevara

"I saw that the divine beauty in every heart is the root of all time and space." —Rabia

"Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out." —Rumi

"We have not come here to take prisoners, but to surrender ever more deeply to freedom and joy. To experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom, and Light!" —Hafiz

"We can make our mind so still like water that beings gather about us that they might see, it may be, their own images and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet." —WB Yeats