September and beyond...

Everyone I've talked to is super busy this September - and it really does seem like there is a lot happening in our community. Lucy is at Plum Tree School for pre-school where she gets to do yoga with Amy from Spokane Youth Yoga, and Grace is keeping busy eating Pirate's Booty and working on her switch from bottles to sippy cups. All these new yoga studios opening ( I think there are four new studios that have opened in Spokane in the last six months), which is just a testament to the growing interst in yoga in Spokane. Most of the Spokane studios are working together in support of the Global Mala Project. Our goal is to have 108 people down there at RiverFront Park on September 23rd. By attending, not only will you be supporting efforts to raise money for children affected by war through War Child - but you will also be supporting the growing yoga community that you are a part of!

For us here there are just a couple of things / changes to note, and to put on your calendars in the upcoming months.

• Maybe you've seen our beautiful new brochures (I call it the City Yoga Manifesto) at the studio. The pictures were taken by Maryellen Cooley who, a long time student of yoga herself, is able to capture the essense of what I think is the feel of the studio with her photos. I am so grateful for her work. Please feel free to take a brochure or two or three. I will be printing monthly schedules with all the dates of upcoming events etc... so the brochure will work as our main explanation of what the studiuo is about, but it does not have any dates on it - so be sure to pick up one of the monthly schedules and/or continue to check the website on a regular basis.
• Schedule changes in September - the main change is that the Sunday 9am class has gone back to a Mysore class, and doors will open at 8:30am. I am sort of unsure of what to do with this class. Because I'm going to be teaching an Introduction to Second Series class once a month on Sunday nights, and a Restorative class also once a month, and because that Sunday morning class isn't one of the most popular classes I'm leaning towards cancelling it altogether in October (and giving myself a weekend morning off). Any thoughts about this? The second change was to the 6:15am class - it went to 6am, but we are going to change it back to 6:15am - keeping it a sixty minute class! Sorry for the confusion if there was any.
• Judy's yoga philosophy study group meets this month on Tuesday,September 25th, right after the 5:40pm class. Anyone is welcome to attend. Please call or email Judy if you would like more information. The fee is $10, so you can use your class cards, unlimited monthly members can take one class per day with their membership, so we would ask that you pay $5 if you attend this class in addition to another class that day.
  
• Karma Yoga Class to Benefit the Spokane Humane Society October 26th.5:30pm


• Shantala is a husband and wife kirtan duo from Portland. I had the pleasure of seeing them when I was in Seattle at David's. They were amazing, and I'm so excited that they will be coming to Spokane. We've been playing their kirtan cd at the studio and a couple other of their instrumental cd's as well. When: November 4th at 7pm - tickets will be $15 in advance and $18 at the door. Tickets will be available to purchase after October 1st.
• Last but not least... David Garrigues In-Depth study November 7-11 - will include classes on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday night, as well as two master classes for teachers and experienced practitioners on Thursday and Friday from 10-3pm and Saturday and Sunday sessions.I am almost finished with the flier so I'll have all details very soon.