stay tuned...

We'll be back to posting regularly very shortly. Our seven day teacher training course was amazing - and pictures will be posted shortly... we're having a bit of computer trouble at the moment... but should be up and running in a day or two...

Jivamukti focus

Each month, Jivamukti founders Sharon Gannon and David Life offer a focus of the month for their teachers and classes throughout the world. July's focus, Planting a Sound Garden speaks of our actions as vibrations or sounds and the way in which "the content of our own minds has a direct effect on the harmony or disharmony we find in the world around us".
Given the chaos of the world today, seemingly insurmountable and overwhelming, we can easily fall into a feeling of futility, with that can come a sense of detachment from responsibility. We must not surrender our power in a time of crisis. Our thoughts and actions do bear fruit. We are reminded of the significance of our individual yoga practice. Of the practices of many. Of consistent and commited practice right here in Burlington, and around the world.
Sofi leads Jivamukti Yoga Classes four times a week at the studio. Summer Schedule:Sundays at 5pm, Wednesday and Fridays at Noon and Thursdays at 5:40pm. Today at the studio, Kripalu (Emily) at noon, Jivamukti (Sofi), Ashtanga (Kathy), Kripalu (John) at 5:40pm this evening and Vinyasa (Sheehan) at 7:30pm.
Your practice generates change in the world. Believe that.

Fall Restorative Sessions

YVT Kids this fall

Six Week Sessions

The next Intro to Ashtanga Six Week Session will start on Tuesday, August 8. The next series of YVT Kids Sessions begins Sept 11 and 13.

july 13

cool down

An Inconvenient Truth

Do something important this week.
Go see An Inconvenient Truth.

july 12

july 10

Kathy on the Winooski

berry time

The most lucious berries are on the way to the studio and you can pick em yourself! Stop by Adams Berry Farm on Intervale Road before or after a class. They grow strawberries, blueberries and raspberries and are Chittenden County's only full scale certified organic berry farm. Open Tuesday through Sunday 10-7. Also of note, and right across the river from the studio, Winooski's Farmer's Market is in front of the Champlain Mill, Thursdays from 3:30-6:30pm. If you are looking for more local, farm to table organic - NOFA's website has a lot of great info including a handy list of all the local farmers' markets. Not local? Check out Local Harvest for local organic near you.

Diva?

A new talk show debuting this fall has invited supporters of the Humane Society of the United States to record and submit videos of pets. Show producers will choose videos to be featured as part of a regular spotlight on pets. Closer to home, The Franklin County Humane Society has a new website. Esmeredla's (photo) humble beginnings... and while she might have better things to do that evening that don't include dogs, you might be interested in the Chittenden Humane Society's Canine's & Cocktails benefit on Thursday, July 20.

David on the Winooski

Thank you thank you thank you David for a wonderful week. All our love.

I'll yoga for you -WHBW

This Saturday, July 15 is I'll Yoga for You. Michele Cranwell Schmidt will lead the noon vinyasa class in support of Women Helping Battered Women. Read more about opportunities for volunteer involvement and please join us this Saturday!

thursday 7/6

Bhagavad Gita July 15

Saturday, July 15 from 6:30-8:30pm, the Four Classics Series continues with a discussion on the Bhagavad Gita. Please come having read the text. Several translations are available at the studio and a number of translations can be downloaded from the web.

When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day. - Mahatma Gandhi

Read other famous reflections on the Bhagavad Gita.

Second Series

Intermediate Series on our minds as David's weekend workshop begins... found this great.. German Asthanga Site. And bonus... he even has everything as pdfs. Very nice.

David Swenson Weekend

There is still room in David's Ashtanga Second Series Weekend Workshop that begins tomorrow night. Friday night will start the weekend with a Mysore style Primary Series practice. Saturday morning will include full Primary Series Practice and work on various approaches into the Intermediate Series postures and a flowing practice through as much of the Series as seems appropriate. Saturday afternoon there will be discussion of the dynamics inherent to Intermediate Series and a time for questions. Sunday, David, will lead a flowing practice through Intermediate Series. This is a very rare opportunity to practice Asthanga in a small group setting with a few dozen other dedicated pracitioners under David's eye. If you have an active Ashtanga practice - we highly recommend you attend. The Mysore practice on Friday evening from 6-8pm alone is something very unique and assists from David will no doubt bring you to new understandings within your practice. David Swenson is recognized today as one of the worlds foremost practitioners and instructors of Ashtanga Yoga. Please join us.

4th of july

All classes will be held as scheduled on the 4th.

pradipika

This evening at YVT- Nico Jenkins leads a discussion on the Hatha Yoga Pradipika as part of our special series Four Classic Texts of Yoga Philosophy. Join us at 6:30, please bring your copy of the text. Here's a preview: Chapter 1.12 - 13 The student of hatha yoga should practice in a solitary place, in a temple or a hermitage, an arrow shot away from rocks, water, and fire. The land should be fertile and well governed. (13) The hermitage should have a small door and no windows. It should be level with the ground and have no holes in the wall. [It should be] neither too high nor too long, and clean and free from insects. It should be laid daily with cow dung. Outside there should be a raised platform with an elevated seat and a water tank. The whole should be surrounded by a wall. See you tonight!