Renew your commitment to well-being through yoga with these two new 12 week series:
Yoga to Manage Stress
Downtown Ft. Myers
When: Tuesdays, January 12th thru March 30, 5:30 - 6:30pm.
Where: 2115 2nd Street, 1st floor conference room at the Lee County Administrative Building.
Cost: $125/12 classes, $100/8 or $15 per class.
Gentle Yoga
South Ft. Myers at Siesta Bay
When: Thursdays, January 7th thru March 25, 9:30-10:30am.
Where: 19333 Summerlin Rd. in the Fiesta Room.
Cost: $125/12 classes, $100/8 or $15 per class.
Call Debbie at 239-851-9642 or e-mail here to sign up or for more information.
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Green Market
Saturdays, 9-1pm at The Alliance for the Arts
Support local growers by shopping at the new green market, every Saturday at The Alliance for the Arts. There is organic produce, bread, cheese and more.
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Good Reads
Let Your Body Win: Stress Management Plain & Simple
Local author and stress coach Jackie Ferguson presents a clear and simple strategy to reduce the effects of stress on the body. Not surprisingly, she highly recommends yoga!
Click here to learn more.
Saved by a Poem
by Kim Rosen
This new book is a wonderful exploration of the transformative power of words. A bonus CD is included of several spiritual teachers & poets, each reading their favorite poem and describing its impact on their lives.
Click here to learn more about Kim and her new book.
LISTENING
a poem by Rumi
What is the deep listening? Sama is
a greeeting from the secret ones inside
the heart, a letter. The branches of
your intelligence grow new leaves in
the wind of this listening. The body
reaches a peace. Rooster sound comes,
reminding you of your love for dawn.
The reed flute and the singer's lips:
the knack of how spirit breathes into
us becomes as simple and ordinary as
eating and drinking. The dead rise with
the pleasure of listening. If someone
can't hear a trumpet melody, sprinkle
dirt on his head and declare him dead.
Listen, and feel the beauty of your
separation, the unsayable absence.
There's a moon inside every human being.
Learn to be companions with it. Give
more of your life to this listening. As
brightness is to time, so you are to
the one who talks to the deep ear in
your chest. I should sell my tongue
and buy a thousand ears when that
one steps near and begins to speak.
— Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-1273)
The Glance: Songs of Soul-Meeting
translated by Coleman Barks
Viking Penguin, NY (1999)