The Dancing Cat Yoga Centre
704 6th St # 4 V3L 3C5 New Westminster, BC, Canada

hmmmm...I'm just re-reading my early COVID messages & feeling much the same as I did then. We need inspiration, inspiration & more inspiration...why not be inspired by the intelligence of our organic bodies?...especially the work that the lungs are doing for us every day despite a virus & now smoke....place your hands on the top of your lungs & feel your energy moving to the back of the Brain so you're not thinking as much as feeling & experiencing the cellular consciousness & wisdom of the Lungs... can you feel the Lungs breathing you? can you feel the expanse & beauty of them?.... place your hands in the middle & then the lower Lungs & allow sensations to come to you....continue to be inspired over & over & whenever you need more inspiration....go to the wisdom of Body & feel free...

My prayer & meditation this morning is that all the ones who have died without the physical presence of their loved ones knew in their hearts & minds that they were seen & heard & deeply loved even & especially because they were alone......

My daily meditation practice is always helpful but even more so in these times. You may not feel that you can meditate or when you try you may be frustrated that your brain becomes very busy. You may get distracted & give up feeling worse for even trying.This is where a Mantra (a word or phrase repeated to aid in concentration) may be very helpful. Sit in a favorite part of your house in a comfortable chair with a long spine & your feet flat on the floor. Gently close your ...eyes & repeat one or more of these affirmations below anywhere from 1-15 minutes and there you are meditating! May I be safe & protected from inner & outer harm May I be happy & peaceful May I be free from worry & fear May I be healthy & strong May I accept myself just as I am May I live in this world with ease & well-being May I love & respect myself completely

It's been 11 days since I closed the Dancing Cat down & we now abruptly find ourselves in what feels like brand new territory. The world is rapidly evolving & devolving at the very same time. Everything feels different but really at some level nothing has changed. Our planet & ourselves are always in a struggle to create & maintain balance, homeostasis & equanimity. Many of us have felt the world to be way too far out of whack for a long time. I can't help but think that this virus may not be our friend but is here to challenge us to begin to tip the scales back. Don't you feel it's already happening? Let's collectively bang our pots at 7:00 pm tonight to thank our front line workers over & over....

p.s. and remember "better 3 hours too soon than a minute too late"- Shakespeare or is it "punctuality is the thief of time"- Oscar Wilde?! (those of you who do not have a card for yoga can attend the class & the talk for a total of $20.00)

So this Sat Feb 29 (Leap Year) is a good time to talk about time out of our ordinary time! Let's have tea & a talk . You can just come for the yoga class (9:00- 10:30 a,m.) or just for the talk (10:30-noon) or to both. Hope to see you at #4-704 6th St New West-drop in fee is $15.00 cash or cheque

"How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?" Dr. Suess Because Sat Feb 29th is like a day out of time let's have our Seasonal Dialogue from 10:30-noon (yoga will be 15 minutes earlier from 9:00-10:30 a.m.) We can discuss Tolkien's quote, All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

I'm taking some moments to celebrate Ram Dass & his life of healing & service & also to mourn his recent passing. On this Christmas Eve, 2019 may we all feel & experience one of his profound teachings.... "We're all just walking each other home."

There is one more week of Yoga at the Dancing Cat & then we will be closed from Mon Dec 23 & re-open on Mon Jan 6th. However, Mike Reed will create a Sound Bath for us on Sun Dec 29th 7:00-8:30 pm. This session will be timely for those of us who want to make intentions for 2020 because no purpose is too small & every positive single act is significant . www.newwestsoundbath.eventbrite.ca

"In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change." Thich Nhat Hanh I hope you join us for our Late Fall Dialogue at the Dancing Cat Yoga Centre on Sat Nov 30th 1:00-2:30 pm Drop in Fee of $15.00

I'm looking forward to another dialogue at the Dancing Cat on Sat Nov 30 from 1:00-2:30 pm. I hope you mark this time on your calendar & join us. I'll pick an interesting theme to help move us into a discussion which I'm sure will prove to be not only interesting but meaningful as well. Drop in fee is $15.00

I'm noticing that Event Brite has an incorrect time for Mike Reed's Sound Bath on Sun Nov 24. It is not at 7:00 pm but from 3:00-4:30 pm for this month. Please note the correct time.

...on the 11th day of the 11th month at the 11th hour we remember, remember & remember not just today but as often as we are able to create Peace, Love & Light.....

We are right in the middle of Fall Equinox & Winter Solstice! Feel the support of the earth & let its cycles enhance your shiny, tremulous, vibrating nervous system....Mike Reed will be back to create a Sound Bath on Sunday, Nov 24 at the Dancing Cat from 3:00-4:30 pm www.newwestsoundbath.eventbrite.ca

....swirling leaves, falling acorns & crisp apples help to ease us thankfully into Fall....after a sold out Sound Bath session last month, Mike Reed will be coming back to the Dancing Cat 7:00-8:30 pm on Sunday Oct 27th. Tickets are well worth the $35.00 & can be purchased at: newwestsoundbath.eventbrite.ca Come & be bathed in harmonizing & restoring sounds....

Check out Mike Reed's Facebook page for more info on the Gong Bath coming to the Dancing Cat on Sun Sept 29th!

This is Rumi's poem that Lynne Mossey will sing for us this Sunday at our mid-summer dialogue: "Come, come whoever you are.Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again , come."

On Sun. Aug 11 Lynne Mossey, a longtime fellow yogini, is bringing her guitar to sing us into our group dialogue-mmmm-think of the last time a favorite song or melody has stirred your soul & relaxed your mind into peace...

....When I was sitting on my balcony the other morning, I almost wanted to change the Henry Jame's quote that I used in my last post to Summer Morning - Summer Morning the two most beautiful words in the English language...I hope you're considering attending our MID-SUMMER DIALOGUE ON SUN SEPT 11 FROM 1-2:30 PM. at the Dancing Cat !

According to our calendar we have 13 weeks of Summer! Let's meet & have a MID-SUMMER DIALOGUE together on SUNDAY, AUG 11, 1:00 - 2:30 pm at the Dancing Cat for a drop in fee of $15.00. " Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; the two most beautiful words in the English language." Henry James

...just a friendly reminder that the first Sunday morning dialogue is this Sunday May 5 staring at 9:15 am at the Dancing Cat Yoga Centre ...to begin, we will do some breath work then pass a talking stone around our circle to invite us to speak about something that really matters to us..."There are thousands of worlds in all of us. Gorgeous, terrible, wild, contradictory, imaginative, fascinating worlds. To know someone deeply is to know a universe contained in skin"...Victoria Erickson (drop in fee of $15.00)