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Satsang and Kirtan with Swami B.V. Tripurari

Join us Friday May 11th from 6-8 for a delightful lecture and kirtan with our dear friend and teacher, Swami B.V. Tripurari. Our most influential guide on the path of bhakti, he joins us again in satsang to speak about the path of devotion for one and all. This is a real opportunity to deepen your understanding of bhakti, and we hope you will join us. By donation.

Memorial Day Schedule!

This year we are offering up three classes on Memorial Day, Monday May 28th.
Get your yoga on at:
8:30am with Audra
10am with Hari-bhakti
12 noon with Monicka
We are closed all afternoon and evening, so get into class early!

Asana Summer Camp!

May 29th â€“June 28th, 6:15-8am! Join resident anatomy geeks Lisa Mae and Monicka for a journey into the depths of some of the more sophisticated Level 2 poses, the ones that bridge the gap between Level 2 and Level 3. Open to teachers and teachers-to-be, as well as any other students that want to go deeply into asana in a laboratory-like environment. Expect much breakdown and bio-mechanical nerdiness, and a loving and supportive environment for all! Register in advance please...

Yoga Foundations Retreat to Breitenbush

Wow! A Beginner's Retreat to Breitenbush this summer with Jeannie and Tasha! Sunday August 19-Tuesday August 21, Jeannie and Tasha bring you the gifts of Yoga Foundations 1 in the wilds of Breitenbush Hot Springs. Register early, as this is sure to be a sell-out, since no one has ever, in the history of the whole wide world, done a retreat solely for Level 1. Yeah! Call Breitenbush directly to register at (503)854-3320

Co-operative Yoga! A New approach to Partner Yoga with Tasha and Monicka, Sat. June 9, 3-6pm

Are you interested in partner yoga, supporting and being supported in asana, and co-operative practice, but afraid of Acro Yoga or a strictly couples-focused practice? Fear not, this workshop is for you! Designed to be playful, light and open to ALL levels, we'll use the support of each other, extra eyes and our collective spirit to help with some of the various shapes of yoga, in order to help lift the weight of gravity. All are welcome!

Pitta Cool-off: The Ayurveda and Yoga Series with Hari-bhakti, Sat. July 21, 3-6pm

All fired up? Join Hari-bhakti in this practical, pitta-pacifying extravaganza. But summer may leave some of us feeling flushed and overheated, like we are burning our candles at both ends. Learn how to keep the reins of your fiery nature held close with lifestyle ideas, dietary suggestions, and some radical recipes you can make at home to help reduce the summertime burn. We will also dedicate an hour of this workshop to the joyful adventure of relaxed effort in pure pitta-pacifying asana and pranayama practice!

Farewell

The only constant is change...after co-creating The Bhaktishop with me, and sharing her life and love of yoga with you all in a creative and passionate way, Uma has decided to leave us in pursuit of other teaching and community in Portland and beyond. You can still find her at umadeviyoga.com as of June 1st. I am grateful for her vision and her dedication to making this place the warm, happy yoga home that we have all come to love. Join me please is wishing her well in her new endeavors!

Also, after 4 years of teaching and dedicated service, we say goodbye to our beloved friend and teacher, Tally Thomas. She is getting married, moving to warmer climes, and making an exciting new journey out of this life, starting this summer. We are sad for us but delighted for her next steps! You will find her subbing still, all summer. Say goodbye while you can!

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!

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!

Family Kirtan for One and All

Join Mala, our house kirtan band, every second Sunday as we sing and chant with the Divine breath in sweet and heart-lifting kirtans each month from 6-8pm. By donation to various spiritually uplifiting causes and organizations, we welcome you all into the bliss onÂ 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.

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.

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Private Instruction

We offer high-quality, technically precise, and amazingly helpful private and semi-private instruction for those seeking additional help with jump-starting a practice, working therapeutically with and injury, or just because you want a little bit of extra attention with your own practice at any level.

We would be delighted to talk with you about what your needs are, and assist you with getting the right teacher and timeframe for your private or semi-private class.

Please email us at weloveyou@thebhaktishop.com to inquire!

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

"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