New Year’s weekend schedule (2015-16)

Posted on December 28, 2015 by 4yoga

If you are ringing in the new year in Bowling Green, either as a resident or a guest, we invite you to join us for one of our several yoga classes.  If you have any questions about the style of class, please first see our Class Descriptions page and then drop us an email (4yoga.me@gmail.com) if we can help match a class to your needs.

  • Wednesday, 12/30:  5:30 p.m. Flow class with Susan.
  • Thursday, 12/31:  9 a.m. Mixed class with Angie (everyone is welcome).
  • Friday, 1/1:  10 a.m. Mixed class with Angie, followed by a casual potluck brunch to welcome 2016 together.  Please join us to celebrate the transition to the new year.
  • Saturday, 1/2:  9 a.m. Basics class with Angie.
  • Sunday, 1/3:  10 a.m. Basics class with Carly.
  • Sunday, 1/3:  4 p.m. Basics class with Chie.
  • Sunday, 1/3:  5:45 p.m. Restorative class with Chie.

For those of you visiting our studio for the first time, there is no need to pre-register for a class, although we do encourage new students to arrive about 15 minutes before class begins. Also, you are welcome to borrow mats and other props at no additional charge. Our class fee is $5/class, payable by cash or check.

Whether or not we see each other at the studio this holiday season, we hope that you are able to celebrate in all your favorite ways!

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Christmas weekend schedule (2015)

Posted on December 22, 2015 by 4yoga

If you are spending time in Bowling Green this Christmas, either as a resident or a guest, we invite you to join us for one of our several yoga classes.  If you have any questions about the style of class, please first see our Class Descriptions page and then drop us an email (4yoga.me@gmail.com) if we can help match a class to your needs.

  • Wednesday, 12/23:  5:30 p.m. Flow class with Susan.
  • Thursday, 12/24:  9:30 a.m. Mixed class with Angie (class just added for anyone who would enjoy a Christmas Eve practice).  Everyone is welcome, and class fees will be donated to the Bowling Green Warren County Humane Society.
  • Friday, 12/25:  no classes.
  • Saturday, 12/26:  9 a.m. Basics class with Angie.
  • Sunday, 12/27:  10 a.m. Basics class with Carly.
  • Sunday, 12/27:  4 p.m. Basics class with Susan.
  • Sunday, 12/27:  5:45 p.m. Restorative class with Susan.

For those of you visiting our studio for the first time, there is no need to pre-register for a class, although we do encourage new students to arrive about 15 minutes before class begins. Also, you are welcome to borrow mats and other props at no additional charge. Our class fee is $5/class, payable by cash or check.

Whether or not we see each other at the studio this holiday season, we hope that you are able to celebrate in all your favorite ways!

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Party for Eri (& week’s schedule adjustments)

Posted on December 14, 2015 by 4yoga

As we recently shared in an email, Eri will soon be leaving Bowling Green to move to Dallas.  We want to make sure everyone who wants to practice with Eri or wish her farewell has an opportunity to do so.  As a result, we have made a couple of schedule adjustments for this week:

  • Wednesday, 12/16, beginning around 7 p.m.:  goodbye gathering for Eri at the studio (at the conclusion of her final Flow class).  This casual gathering is a potluck with 4yoga providing some finger foods and beverages.  Please bring anything you would like to share–but, most importantly, your good wishes for Eri and her family.
  • Friday, 12/18, 5:30 p.m.:  Eri will teach the Yin class to provide another opportunity for us to join her in a practice.  The monthly talk/meditation session will not meet after the Yin class, as originally scheduled, which will provide extra time to socialize with Eri.

Please join us on one or both of these evenings to let Eri know how much we appreciate her contributions to the 4yoga community!

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December 2015 focus and class schedule

Posted on November 30, 2015 by 4yoga

This December, give yourself permission to open the most beautifully wrapped, the most dazzling, the most illuminated gift of all. You can find it in a moment of stillness and silence by hearing its sound: Anahata, Anahata, Anahata, Anahata. It is your own heart! Receive the spirit and life force that comes through this vessel to touch and join you to those around you. This is the season to celebrate the light of love. Love experienced through our heart center, the Anahata chakra, is not dependent on outside stimulation rooted in desire. Instead, it is experienced within as a state of being accompanied by a feeling of expansion that includes everything that comes into its field.

We have many triggers from our past and from the state of affairs in the world that can cloud the heart with fear and the accompanying darkness. A sense of contracting, of being squeezed, goes with fear, hate, and anger. Know, however, that your true essence is love, and do not take the bait to make you hate!

Join us for a class or meditation practice this month to get out of your head and into your body to practice mindful awareness of the moment. The mudra of the Anahata chakra can be practiced by holding your hands in front of the heart with palms touching. Then allow the thumbs and pinky fingers to remain touching while the hands open like a flower. Focus your attention there as you breathe deeply with gratitude to receive and give the gifts of your heart.

December updates:

  • Date for talk/meditation session. In December, Juanita will offer this session on Friday, December 18, at 6:45 p.m. As always, there is no charge for this gathering, which provides an opportunity to ask questions about and discuss meditation and experience a short meditation.
  • Holiday schedule. We will not hold classes on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. Otherwise, we maintain the usual class schedule during December, with one exception: on New Year’s Eve (Thurs., Dec. 31), we will host a single class at 9 a.m. Please join Angie to conclude 2015 with this practice that is appropriate for everyone.

For a full list of December classes, please see the calendar page of this site or a hard copy available at The Pots Place. Note, too, that we post daily updates on our Facebook page, should you prefer to keep up with us there.

Accessing studio after class has begun: Remember that even if you are running late when the gallery downstairs is closed, you can still join us for class. If the front door is locked, come to the back door of The Pots Place (look for the blue building) and ring the buzzer. The teacher will then unlock the door remotely for you to enter through the pottery studio.

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Thanksgiving weekend schedule (2015)

Posted on November 23, 2015 by 4yoga

We are delighted to offer a full line-up of yoga classes for the Thanksgiving weekend!  If your holiday finds you in Bowling Green, either as a resident or a guest, please join us for one or more of these opportunities to practice together.  If you have any questions about the style of class, please check out our Class Descriptions page.

  • Wednesday, 11/25:  5:30 p.m. Flow class with Eri.
  • Thursday, 11/26 (Thanksgiving):  9 a.m. Mixed class with Angie.  Students of all levels are welcome!
  • Friday, 11/27:  9:30 a.m. Gentle class with Angie.
  • Friday, 11/27:  5:30 p.m. Yin class with Angie.
  • Saturday, 11/28:  9 a.m. Basics class with Eri.
  • Sunday, 11/29:  10 a.m. Basics class with Carly.
  • Sunday, 11/29:  4 p.m. Basics class with Chie.
  • Sunday, 11/29:  5:45 p.m. Restorative class with Chie.

For folks who may be visiting our studio for the first time, there is no need to pre-register for a class, although we do encourage new students to arrive about 15 minutes early.  Also, you are welcome to borrow mats and other props at no additional charge.  Our class fee is $5/class, payable by cash or check.

Whether we see each other at the studio this weekend or not, know that all of us at 4yoga are grateful for our yoga community here in south-central Kentucky!

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SKYCTC Health & Wellness Fair: Thurs., 11/19, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

Posted on November 17, 2015 by 4yoga

Do you work or take classes at SKYCTC?  Then we hope you stop by the 4yoga table at the school’s Health & Wellness Fair held on the Main Campus on Thursday, November 19, 2015!  The event will take place in Building F from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m.  Kathie, Chie, Eri, and Susan P. will be staffing the 4yoga table throughout the day–please visit them to ask your yoga questions or to learn more about our classes.

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Busy weekend downtown: Fri., Nov. 6–Sun., Nov. 8, 2015

Posted on November 5, 2015 by 4yoga

For those of you heading downtown for class this weekend, we want to let you know about three events that will bring lively activity to the Fountain Square area.  We encourage you to leave a little extra time before class to find your way to the studio and/or after class to enjoy these activities.

  • Friday, November 6:  WKU’s Homecoming kicks off with its annual parade from campus down to Fountain Square, followed by a concert and Big Red’s Roar in Fountain Square Park.
  • Saturday, November 7:  The annual Veteran’s Day parade circles downtown in the morning.  According to the City of Bowling Green’s website, “The parade will start at 6th and College near Circus Square Park….The parade will begin at 10:00 AM and will start and end near Circus Square Park travelling up College Street, turning left onto 10th Avenue and the left onto State Street and ending at 6th and State Street.”
  • Saturday, November 7 & Sunday, November 8:  The World’s Greatest Studio Tour and Art Sale takes place in Bowling Green and surrounding areas.  Three studios on Main Street are participating, and The Pots Place is a sponsor.
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November 2015 focus and class schedule

Posted on October 30, 2015 by 4yoga

As autumn deepens in the month of November, we can reflect on the life-flowing energy of the natural world moving deeper into the core as an opportunity to practice self-reflection.  As Patanjali explains in the Yoga Sutras, the niyamas are the second of the eight-limbed system of Astanga yoga; they specifically address your relationship with yourself.  Svadhyaya, the fourth niyama, is translated as, “to get close to yourself” or “to study yourself.”

To explore svadhyaya in your next yoga practice, notice how the tendency to move into a forward fold or standing pose is to move from your face, to follow your eyes. Now, envision that you have a center tube of energy that follows your core in front of the spine, running both upward through the soft palate of the mouth and out of the crown of the head and downward through the tailbone into the legs and the earth.  Move from this tube, from a place deep within you.  With your awareness there, you will be much more able to sense the feedback from the plexus of nerves that extend out from the spine at the chakra centers.  There is a wealth of information available to us by sensing in.  All you have to do is just notice, just notice what comes.  You may be amazed.

November updates:

  • Time change for Sunday-morning class.  By request, we have adjusted the time of the Sunday-morning Basics class:  it will now begin at 10 a.m.
  • Hiatus for early Wednesday class.  We are placing the 5:30 a.m. Wednesday class on hiatus but will consider returning it to the schedule in January if there is interest.
  • Date for talk/meditation session.  In November, Juanita will offer this special session on Friday, November 20, at 6:45 p.m.  As always, there is no charge for this session, which provides an opportunity to ask questions about and discuss meditation and experience a short meditation.
  • Thanksgiving weekend schedule.  On Thanksgiving (Thursday, November 26), Angie will offer a 9 a.m. mixed-level class.  All students are welcome to join us for this practice, which will include modifications to make it accessible to everyone.  The rest of the weekend provides the usual class schedule (two classes on Friday, one class on Saturday, and three classes on Sunday), so if you are in town for the holiday, please join us.

For a full list of November classes, please see the calendar section of the site or pick up a hard copy at The Pots Place.

Accessing studio after class has begun:  Remember that even if you are running late when the gallery downstairs is closed, you can still join us for class.  If the front door is locked, come to the back door of The Pots Place (look for the blue building) and ring the buzzer.  The teacher will then unlock the door remotely for you to enter through the pottery studio.

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Beginner series (Community Ed) begins Sun., Oct. 18, 1:45-3 p.m.

Posted on October 10, 2015 by 4yoga

Are you hoping to begin or to re-start your yoga practice with a beginners series this fall?  If so, you are in luck:  the new Community Education 4-week session begins on Sunday, October 18!

This series meets at the 4yoga studio at The Pots Place from 1:45–3 p.m.  You can register at the Community Education website, or check out our previous blog post for more details, including bios of the teachers, Susan Polk and DeAnn Stanley.

And, for more information about other Community Education classes offered by Susan and DeAnn, follow these links:  Susan’s classes, DeAnn’s classes.

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October 2015 focus and class schedule

Posted on September 30, 2015 by 4yoga

The mood of October contains bittersweet overtones of sadness as the exhilarating colors and smells of the season signal what is next in the cycle, shutting down into the stillness of sleep. We can have the feeling of grasping to hold fleeting moments of beauty and warmth as we slide down this slope. Everyone knows these moments–when you become riveted in that split second, something clicks, and you are transported to another world.

As a practice, remember one of these moments and go into all the details, multi-dimensionally, with all the senses. Let the moment expand as you notice subtle nuances that you may have missed. The mind records everything; much more than we are normally aware of. Feel the sensations in your body. If you do this practice for a week, each day connecting to the aura of that moment, including the space around you, you may discover that a different time and dimension were present. Does this sound like woo woo? Our expanding knowledge of physics is telling us we ARE woo woo. Wow, now that is pretty amazing!

Enjoy the autumn harvest celebrations, bonfires, walks in the woods, and maybe add another evening yoga practice into your schedule so it can become routine before the holidays take over.

October updates:

  • Early-morning class–5:30 a.m. on Wednesdays. Calling all early risers! Chie’s 5:30 a.m. Basics class continues every Wednesday in October. Because of the early hour, please use the back door for access to the building: in fact, you may wish to park in the city parking lot behind the square and walk to the rear door (look for the blue building). Press the button to buzz the intercom into the studio, and Chie will let you in.
  • Three Sunday class options. Remember that we provide three opportunities to practice each Sunday: at 9 a.m. with Carly, at 4 p.m. with rotating teachers, and at 5:45 p.m. with Susan Polk and Richard. The 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. classes are both Basics level, so you can choose the one that best fits your schedule, and the 5:45 p.m. one is Restorative.
  • Monthly talk/meditation session. Juanita graciously continues to offer this special session in October, and it will take place on Friday, October 16, at 6:45 p.m. As always, there is no charge for this session, which provides a way to ask questions about and discuss meditation and experience a short meditation.
  • 4th anniversary celebration/wine and cheese party. As you know, 4yoga marked its 4th anniversary in September, and we will officially celebrate that milestone with a wine and cheese party on Friday, October 23. We hope you can join other members of our yoga community in the lounge that evening between 7 and 9 p.m.

For a full list of October classes, please see the calendar page or pick up a hard copy available at The Pots Place.

Accessing studio after class has begun: Remember that even if you are running late when the gallery downstairs is closed, you can still join us for class. If the front door is locked, come to the back door of The Pots Place (look for the blue building) and ring the buzzer. The teacher will then unlock the door remotely for you to enter through the pottery studio.

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