“Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” - Leonard Cohen’s Anthem
Join Anahata for the month of May as we find our way back into the sun.
Saturday, May 7th is our monthly volunteer potluck. This month’s potluck is back in Malcolm X park! Anahata’s Program Director and lovely teacher, Shawn Parell, will be teaching the community class open to all from 11am to noon. A volunteer meeting will follow from 12 to 12:30pm. Guest speaker, Jill Hall will be joining at 12:30pm to speak about the new ear acupuncture resource created by Nicole Mires and provided to the women at the wellness room. Please join and bring friends!
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Dear Volunteer,
“At this time of the turning point between the dark and light, what is churnning, shedding and breaking through for you?” - Shiva Rea’s Meditation on the Spring Equinox.
Join Anahata for the month of April as we come out of winter caves and face into the blossoming energy of Spring.
- Saturday, April 2nd is our monthly volunteer potluck. In light of the tragedy that occurred at the Lululemon in Bethesda a few weeks ago, we will be joining Faith Hunter’s class on the mall to honor Jayna T. Murray at 10:30 to 11:30am @ the Sylvan Theater (15th and Constitution – details here). Post-class we will all meet at noon @ Penn Quarter Teaism (map) to discuss Anahata and join Dr. Lauren Rubenstein, a clinical psychologist and yoga teacher, as she discusses her new Anahata trauma resource and answers questions you have regarding this topic. Please join and bring friends.
Do you have a topic that you’d like more info on regarding wellness therapeutic services? Please post suggested topics on our facebook page or send us an email.
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The inmates of William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility breathe life into the mission of Anahta Grace by demonstrating, yet again, the impact mindfulness makes on the soul.
Vipassana meditation is an offering made to those inhabiting this end of the line prison as an alternative to the daily grind of a life sentence. Vipassana simply means “seeing things as they are,” an offer that some would rather forget. This particular correctional facility, named after an officer killed at the prison, is reserved for the worst of the worst who have committed the ultimate egregious crimes. Some have chosen to try and regain some sort of balance back in their lives as an attempt to reconcile the horrible things they have done.
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Are you interested in becoming a part of Team Grace? Below is the text from this month’s volunteer newsletter which you can receive by signing up here.
“Everything that we see is a shadow cast by what we don’t see.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Join Anahata for the month of February and beyond as we examine what we don’t see through somatic connections.
- Saturday, February 5th is our monthly volunteer potluck! The topic for this month is Trauma and Yoga. With this nip in the air, we have found a winter home for our meetings (1113 Rhode Island Ave NW 20005). The yoga class (11am to noon) is open to anyone who would like to start their day with some flowing yoga, then stay for an Anahata meeting (noon to 1pm). This month, join Dr. Lauren Rubenstein, a clinical psychologist and yoga teacher, as she discusses her new Anahata trauma resource and answers questions you have regarding this topic. Please join and bring friends – more details can be found here.
Do you have a topic that you’d like more info on regarding wellness therapeutic services? Please post suggested topics on our facebook page or send us an email at findinggraceyoga@gmail.com.
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It finally feels like winter and along with that comes the Anahata December volunteer opportunities and events. Grab some tea, and take a look at what’s happening in our world and let us know if you can join.
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| While we aim to cultivate a sense of gratitude on a daily basis, it doesn’t hurt that we receive an annual reminder, just to reemphasize the importance of such a practice. Thanksgiving allows us to refocus our attention on that which makes our lives worth living, on the every day wonders we encounter by simply being present and living fully in each and every breath we take.So tomorrow, remember to take the time and bring awareness to that which you are most thankful for and, in doing so, don’t forget the reason why you are overflowing with gratitude – because you are you. As Walt Whitman notes: “O I could sing such grandeurs and glories about you! You have not known what you are – you have slumber’d upon yourself all your life.” |
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We hope to see you tomorrow at Megan Davis’ Thanksgiving Day workshop where as a community we can take pause to give thanks.
Warm oms,
Team Grace |
Please join Anahata Grace guest teacher Sierra Weaver for this Saturday’s Flow Yoga Center community meditation class. Let this Fall begin with restoration and self-nurturing through a mindful connection with our bodies – it all starts November 13th at 9:30 am.
Hard to believe that November is around the corner, but as we start to think about this year’s Halloween costume, please take a moment to check out our November volunteer opportunities. We run because of your generous support of time and commitment to our mission.
Saturday, November 6th is our monthly potluck in the park! This month, the lovely Shawn Parell will be teaching the yoga class starting at 11am on the upper level of Meridian Hill Park. The class is open to anyone who would like to start their day with some flowing yoga under the trees, then stay for a special meeting lead by Michell Stanley focused on Anahata’s Wellness Room in a domestic violence shelter in NE DC. She will have details about the schedule, volunteer opportunities and answer questions you may have. Please join and bring friends – more details can be found here.Volunteer opportunities: if you’d like to learn more about one of the opportunities below, please email findinggraceyoga@gmail.com.
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Anahata is changing the face of it’s Flow Yoga Center donation class. This time around, the hour will be infused with restoritive and therapeutic moving meditation with a focus on scanning one’s body while allowing the mind to simply be observant. This will all take place in the stillness and silence of honoring one’s own personal meditation.
This weekly donation class benefits our non-profit which allows us to continue to provide yoga and wellness services to vulnerable populations in DC and abroad in post-conflict countries. We couldn’t do it without your support, so please join Joline McGoldrick this Saturday, October 22nd at 9:30 a.m. in honor of your personal yogic travels and those whom we aim to serve.
To kick off the change in season and the unexpected that’s left in 2010, yoga lover, activist, andnew DC resident Laura Randeles speaks to the beauty of being present within the unknown.
Lately, I have been inspired by the unknown. Making best friends with the unknown has been a wonderful blessing in my life since moving to DC last year. There are many days when I’m unsure of where my next job assignment will be, how long it will last, whether it will have a stable salary, or if there will even be another assignment. My wonderful meditation teacher, who survives off donation-based classes and workshops, calls this living by the “wisdom of uncertainty.” I think in the beginning of being confronted by Mr. Unknown there was less wisdom and more, um…freaking out, but over the last 6 months a welcoming shift of acceptance and peace has occurred and I couldn’t be more grateful.
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