“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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3rd anual Vegan Bake Sale, DC Global Mala, Donation classes, flow yoga center, KidPower, Leonard Cohen, Malcolm X Park, May, megan davis, Memorial Day, new ear acupuncture, Nicole Mires, Past Tense, Shawn Parell, Street Yoga, Vinyasa Flow, Volunteer Opportunities
Sick of the same old new year’s scene and the feeling you wake up with the morning after? Connect with the intention of new beginnings and community in this sacred and celebratory evening.
Purify through a vigorous asana practice, release through deep yoga nidra, and reconnect with your spirit through sacred silence – come ring in the New Year with Jivamutki.
Celebrate and Elevate
New Year’s Eve 2010 with Agi Glowacki and Justin Blazejewski
Date: Fri 12/31/2010
Time: 9:00 PM – Midnight
Flow Yoga Center, Washington DC
Purify through a vigorous asana practice, release through deep yoga nidra, and reconnect with your spirit through sacred silence.
9-10:30pm – Special Jivamukti class with Agi Glowacki
10:30-11:30pm – Yoga Nidra practice with Justin Blazejewski
11:30-midnight – Mauna (sacred silence), with traditional Puja ceremony and meditation
Midnight – Sparkling cider toast!
REGISTER HERE.
Proceeds from this event will benefit the important work that Anahata Grace is doing in bring healing to soldiers. Specifically the money will go towards the next “Troop Retreat” for veterans where, at no cost to the veterans, a team of trauma therapists spend 3 days helping them heal from the trauma experienced in war.
DC Local Projects, Events, Fundraising & Outreach
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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.
Already thinking about Thanksgiving? We are too, as it’s just around the corner.
Yoga teaches us to be grateful for the present moment and unveils the primary principle of the universe, sri (abundance). So what better way to practice gratitude than for a Thanksgiving day workshop? Please join Megan Davis just for 2 hours this Thanksgiving day. The experience will entail 60 minutes of vinyasa and pranayama and 30 minutes of restorative poses followed by a 30 minute yoga nidra practice. All proceeds will go toward our mission here at Anahata Grace.
And don’t foget this Saturday’s community meditation/Anahata Grace donation class. This week Manisha Tare will honor us with her guidance through this practice at Flow Yoga Center 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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Fall is proving to be a busy time for Anahata. Below is a list of upcoming events and opportunities for our Anahata Friends to add some more seva to your day.
- September 4th, please join us in the upper level of Meridian Hill park for a yoga class open to all (and taught by the lovely Emilia) followed by a potluck/picnic for Anahata volunteers and those that are interested in becoming volunteers. It’s a great way to spend some time getting to know like-minded wellness activists + have some time outside doing what we love – moving with breath. More details about our monthly potlucks can be found here: http://www.anahatainternational.org/index.php/news/volunteer-potluck/
- September 12th, Flow will have a table up at this year’s Adams Morgan Day Festival – a crazy time on 18th street with lots of people and opportunity to spread the word about the yoga studio + Flow’s outreach which includes Anahata! I will be there but need a number of volunteers to take 2 hour shifts to help chat with folks as they stop by the table. All help is appreciated :).
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Events, Fundraising & Outreach, General
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What’s the one thing we just have to do every week? Why, host a class at Flow Yoga Center of course! We can’t get enough of this place and neither can this week’s 1:30 p.m. donation class teacher Dawn Hennessy.
As a child, Dawn was always fascinated by yoga and did an occasional shoulder stand and plow pose in her parent’s living room. In 2002, she began her yoga practice with Hatha and Kundalini and then discovered Jivamukti and Ashtanga along with an occasional Bikram class here and there. Dawn is now a dedicated Jivamukti and Ashtanga yogi and completed her 200 Hour Teacher Training at the District’s Flow Yoga Center in 2009.
This Saturday’s class is for level 1-2 full of asanas that can be modified depending on the student’s flexibility. Hopefully students will leave the class feeling both relaxed and energized.
What: An uplifting and energetic vinyasa class where breath and energy will flow with movement through intermediate asanas.
Where: Flow Yoga Center
When: Saturday, June 5th @ 1:30
Who: Jeffrey Horn’s first yoga experience was filled with the incredible impact that a hatha yoga class should have on the body.
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Not only does Anahata Grace have donation classes at Flow Yoga Center and Stroga, but we’re now branching out in the fitness realm reaching Fuel Pilates, a brand new DC pilates studio. Every 1st Sunday of the month, Karen Chan will teach a donation yoga class to benefit our organization. So join us for the beginning of this journey and attend the first community class 9:15-10:30 a.m. Sunday, June 6th, 2010.
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Events, Fundraising & Outreach, General
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While it feels as though we just left the snow behind, things are starting to heat up and we’re already in week 8 of donation classes at Flow Yoga Center - where has the time gone?
Saturday the 29th Dan Kapner will enlighten you with some moving meditation: an invigorating and fast paced vinyasa practice that’s also grounding, calming, and geared toward students of all levels, incorporating a bit of pranayama that will inspire the mind as well as challenge the body.
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