Sometimes I need
only to stand
wherever I am
to be blessed.”
― Mary Oliver

Dearest students of Saraswati’s Yoga Joint,

After many years, Tracy and Mitchel have decided to move on and explore new opportunities . I and all our teachers are so grateful for the time, energy and creativity that both Tracy and Mb have poured within these walls and we wish them much success in their new endeavors.

For our beloved SYJ students, we are here for you. The class schedule remains the same, with some tweaking in the summer as usual. Your talented open hearted teachers are all standing here blessed to be in your presence and as poised as ever to keep the conversation of yoga happening. The possibilities are endless and we are truly inspired by them so look forward to some new workshops and events. Think collaboration, think new, think inspired and get ready for beautiful changes to come.

It is spring and it is time to plant some new seeds and to stand wherever we are and be blessed.

I thank you for your trust and all the love you have shown us.

See you at the joint.

With love,

Donna and the SYJ Teacher kula

I crave quiet. And this is not just since I have become a mother. I often find myself driving in silence, asking my husband to turn the tv down, sitting in peace in a nook of my house where the sun shines so brightly even on a cold day I can imagine I am sitting on a beach. I practice in the same sunny room without music. I jog, or shall I say when I jog, I do sans headphones. This is slightly ironic. Music nourishes my soul. But maybe not so ironic. I come from a long line of loud.

By Vicky Cook

How is this?

The proof is in the pudding, my very first Vision Board all came true!  Vision boards work because they are based on the law of attraction, that  which you can see and believe you can attract to you.  I like to think of it  as “Ask, Believe and Receive” concept. Every great structure has a  blueprint, consider your Vision Board the plan for your life.  I was  skeptical the first time I did one and it took some time before all of my  “visions” came true, but each day I saw this beautiful creation (the asking)  and I began to  believe these things were possible, they were in my mind’s  eye each and every day.  Then slowly one of my dreams materialized and then  another and then it was like the snowball effect, they all manifested. By  focusing my mind with positive thoughts about my goals and dreams, I could  then imagine myself doing these things, getting really excited about it, I  was led to fulfilling my  deepest desires by being led by the images  themselves.  The messages we receive every day dictate our lives, if you are  receiving messages that say I am not good enough, I do not deserve, then  that is what you will continue to get.  BUT if you feed your mind positive  messages every day it delivers these messages to your sub conscious mind,  where your intuition lives and you begin to believe that you can have what  you most desire.  If you have a choice on what messages you continue to  receive, wouldn’t you like to choose what those messages are???  That is  where the Vision Board comes in.  I hope you’ll join me in daring to dream  big!

By Tracy Bleier

Around sophomore year of college I called my father in a complete fit over the fact that I got shut out of a course I needed to fulfill the expectations on my transcript. I was in the common area of my dorm in full meltdown mode – tears, hysterics, I think I was even screaming. At that time and in my eyes,  my whole life was hinging on the perfection of my transcript. The anxiety I endured to get into the right courses, to pin point the right teachers, to matriculate all the appropriate credits was paramount to anything. It was a personal catastrophe when this didn’t happen and when I realized my father or I could not do a thing about it,  I panicked.   Little did I realize then that things would work out eventually. And that whatever did threaten or terrify me about my future really did not exist. All the panic and tantruming in the world was a true waste of my time and my energy. Yoga was clearly not a cornerstone of my life as yet. I was like most young college women I knew, high strung, type A and a little anxious about all the uncertainties a girl my age had to cope with.

By Jenna Leamy

When you feel joy, sing. When you feel beautiful, sing. When you feel pain, sing. When you feel sadness, sing. When you feel suffocated, sing. When you feel free, sing. When you feel love, sing. When you feel like a stranger in your own body, sing. When you feel at home, sing. When you feel ecstasy, sing. There are many beautiful things in life which require nothing but yourself in order to experience their splendor.