Kundalini Dance: Grounding and Centering

Learn specific breath, movement, and sound techniques that will allow you to gently let go of energy blockages and manifest the life you desire. Connect with yourself and others in this safe, sacred, and play-filled space. There is no better way to start your weekend in Robert's Creek! To find out more about Kundalini Dance and its creator Leyolah Antara, visit www.kundalini-dance.com. For more info about this class or to reserve a spot, email ivy@inklingarts.org or call 604-885-2722.

This eight-week series runs from Friday May 9 - Friday June 27, 2008 7:30 - 9:30 pm
(Drop-ins welcome) $170 for 8 classes if you register by May 1, discounts and trades available to lower income participants, or $20 drop-in for returning students
Introductory class: Friday May 9, 2008

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Body Love
An interactive workshop with Diane Loebl and Ivy Michelle on the theme of nourishment and balancing.

Nourish your natural rhythm with movement, dance, body-work, toning, creative arts, and meditation. Pay at the door or save a spot for yourself and a friend by emailing dianecat@mail2goddess.com or by calling 604-885-2722. Sunday May 11 - Sunday June 29, 2008, 4:00 - 5:30 pm Space is limited to 13 people. $13- 20 sliding scale per class. Drop-ins welcome.

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Anusara-Inspired Yoga

Anusara Yoga's growing popularity is due in large part to its uplifting philosophy, epitomized by a "celebration of the heart," that looks for the good in all people and all things. Students of all levels of ability and yoga experience will benefit from this gentle practice. For more information, contact Ivy by emailing ivy@inklingarts.org or by calling 604-885-2722.

Sunday May 11 - Sunday June 22, 2008 Time: 1 - 2:30 pm
Drop-in: $13 per class. 10-class cards accepted.

BIOS:
Ivy has a gentle, playful, and heart-centred approach to facilitating yoga and dance. She is a registered Kundalini Dance facilitator, a dance therapist in-training, a certified yoga teacher, and a teacher in the creative writing program at UBC. For more information, visit www.inklingarts.org.

Diane Loebl has been working in the healing arts for over ten years. She has a certificate in Integrative Energy Healing from Langara College, and is a compassionate, grounded facilitator. Her studies have included aromatherapy, biology, psychology, crystals, and care.

RISE

i choose to choose
and lose this fear
of miss-steps--the steps,
like an escher painting
up and down,
three dimensional, this life--
thank God--this life
and its many doors to open
behind Door One, Two and Three
is a gift but i need to choose
in order to receive,
a teaching reflected.
i point with one thumb up
hitch a ride to heaven
earth, heaven, earth, i give birth
to light as it trickles
down from the crown
popping corks
that kept the good stuff in
light pours out, takes shape
forms a moving staircase
a conscious escalator
i hold the railing and wait
witness the easy breezy glide
to the top, and at the top
is a room with friends
some tea to sip,
a choice to be here and dig it.
beside the teapot is a deck of cards
the card i pull reads "get down"
so i choose to move
no longer from the head--
that weathervain in anywhere wind--
but from the heart--a red arrow
indicating the way up.


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ENTWINED WITH THE VINE

become strong and know and know and know
that we are lovers divinely entwined
and aligned with the vine. We grind together,
making diamonds with our lips, potential life
between our hips, so many trips, so many lives,
so much light alighting the moon at night,
and i moan with your wolf medicine
i want to come home to it every day
greet with grace the place we make in presence
a pleasant life, i want to be your wife
our life together a gift, i am thirtsy for it
the tag on my tea bag says “patience pays”
so i will curtsy and walk this electric line
until we dine together with our desire,
i’m on fire, feel it, and you are higher and higher
let’s ignite, leave behind whose wrong and right
make a place to dance, morning and night
a meditation to the earth and to spirit who grants
everything.


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LOVE MOVEMENT

i am the beloved, the one
i’ve been looking for and you are the mirror
offered because you reflect so perfectly
the things I need to learn about myself
for this concious evolution
the rising temperature of anger or impatience
is the ego’s trick whispering
and all i need do is open to receive
and it will arrive: flowering grace
laden with dewy perfume, you drink
your own delight, then notice that (s)he
who is on the other side is also me
with a different backdrop to the photograph
identical wor(l)ds, we meet
we greet ourselves, we find the path
we wake to love, we burn the ego
and open our daily calendars to the flow
that is love, and know and know and know
the heart will guide. Family. The concept
of family is one i am interested in
redefining with you, love does not equal
betrayal, and this door I’ve opened to you
although creaky, will never shut
I want to commit to the path of love and
know that every conflict is a shadow
from the past (chopra said this).
spirit chose us to rise in love
it was a gift of highest order
we meet the faces that we need to meet
oh i do not want to go but I will because
what is on the other side is Hello Love
a greeting from that unwavering state
that is me, that is my natural constitution,
heiress am I to the contemporary gift of it
centre skull i feel the warmth swell
it’s swell all right to feel it and then suddenly
there you are, magic divine at the core
i see you there i see you there i feel
you rocking beneath me, hip bones a bedframe
for these giving thighs, it is night
we are lying together, the children to bed
and your feet are cold, press them close
we have all the warmth we need.