Spring and Summer Outdoor Classes starting May 13th!

Ok Friends, it’s almost that time of year again, Spring has sprung and Summer is on the way! Looking to get outside and enjoy the beautiful weather and get in shape? Come join one of my public outdoor Yoga classes starting sunday May 13th at 4 pm on the Grass in Deep Cove next to the Kayak Shack. This will be running every sunday at the same time for the Spring and Summer. Drop in’s welcome, it’s $10/ per class, with $2 dollars from each $10 being donated to the Greater Vancouver Habitat for Humanity.

For more information on this charity you can see the website: http://www.vancouverhabitat.bc.ca/.

Really don’t need to bring much, comfy work out clothes, a Yoga mat and water bottle.

Hope to see you there!

Namaste,

Tanya

 

And the answer is…

Yes, I said yes, it would be nice to join him and his friends for a bite to eat.  He was friendly and outgoing and I always enjoy meeting new people and seeing what they’re about.  As we pulled up to the dock, we gathered our bags again as we made our arrival.  His friends were already seated on a restaurant patio near the dock of Sairee beach, and sent out a friendly wave as they spotted Dominik.  After sitting down and being introduced to Florian, Daniel, and Ole, we indulged in some fabulous Pad Thai and Singha’s.  They were funny guys and reminded me of friends back home, outgoing, friendly and love to laugh.  After the lunch, I said my farewell and nice to meet you all, maybe I’ll see you guys around on the island (it’s pretty small).   Dominik asked me if I wanted to join them again that evening for some drinks on the beach at the Big Blue diving resort.  I said I would think about it, and maybe, if he was lucky.

After dumping my bags at the hostel, I wandered down to the beach for a Yoga sesh.  It was beautiful, watching the long tail boats lap against the waves and children played in the surf.  Vendors walked by selling roasted pineapple and selling sarongs.  I like that even though it was the main beach, Sairee beach, it really wasn’t that crowded.

After hanging out for a while there I headed back to the hostel to shower and start to think about dinner.  I met some Scandinavian girls that were also in my room that invited me out to a Drag show that night.  I said that sounds like fun and I would think about it, and let them know after dinner.   I wandered down shortly after to Big Blue diving, to sign up for a diving course.  While there, Ole, and Florian were hanging out having some beers on the patio.  They waved over and asked what I was up to, and I told them that I wanted to go diving and was signing up for a course.  We hung out for a little bit and I had a drink with them, but went back to the hostel to meet the girls.  Turns out they had already gone out for dinner and were going to the show.  I decided to go over to the bar where the show was going to be, but they weren’t there and I didn’t want to wander around the whole island trying to find them, so I went back to Big Blue.  Dominik had showed up at this point, and seemed to be pleased to see me.  He said he heard I had signed up for diving and that he said that’s awesome, and is looking forward to getting into the water too.

From ‘Cave in the Snow’

While I was in Sanur, Bali, a Kiwi that was staying in the same compound gave me a book, called ‘Cave in the Snow’, it’s about a western woman’s quest for enlightment and her time spent in a cave in Tibet.  I am still reading it and I came across this pretty interesting part the other day;

“What the meditator is doing in those long retreats is a very technical thing.  He’s not just sitting there communing with the Great Oneness.  He’s technically going down, pulling apart his own nervous system to become self-aware from out his own cells.  It’s like you are using Word Perfect  and you are in the chip.  And you are self aware of being in the chip.  The way you have done that is by stabilizing the mind where you can go down to the dots and dashes and you’ve gone down and down even into that.  In other words the Mahayana Buddhist, filled with the technical understanding of tantra, has become a quantum physicist of inner reality,’ he continued. ‘ What he has done is disidentified from the coarse conceptual and perceptual process.  He’s gone down to the neuronal level, and from inside the neuronal level he’s gone down to the most subtle neuronal level, or supra-neuronal level and he’s become where it is like the comptuer is self-cousciously aware of itself.  The yogi goes right down to below machine-language- below the sub atomic level.

‘When you have done this what you have achieved is not some kind of mystical thing but some very concrete, evolutionary thing.  It’s the highest level of evolution.  That’s what the Buddha is defined as.  The highest level of evolution.”

-Dr. Robert Thurman, Professor of Indo-Tibetan studies at Columbia University, New York

 

Back at it, getting grounded

Well,  It’s been a while,  too long actually.  I’m resurrecting my blog hear me roar!

What’s happened since uhh January?  Well a whole lot.  I recieved my diploma in Communications, and become a Registered Yoga Teacher, specializing in Vinyasa Flow and Restorative yoga.  I was living in a great little place on 20th with a great view of the mountains.  Hit up the slopes in the winter and early spring and then May rolled around I I left to go travel for 5 months in South east Asia, India and Australia.  I just got back a few weeks ago and decided to carry on with what I started here.  So oh, did you want to read about my trip?  🙂  Well here’s a start…

May 3rd I left on the trip.  I didn’t know how long I was going for, I just know I had a one way ticket.  Destination: Bangkok with a 3 hour lay-over in Beijing.  Now I just had a one way ticket and really wasn’t too sure how long I was going to go for.  Initially the plan was to go for 6 months and go and work in Australia and then over to New Zealand.

It was a long flight about 21 hours in total. I didn’t really sleep on the plane as I was too worked up and excited/nervous.  However I was seated in the back next to a friendly Filipino fellow named Saturno, I was glad I had the window seat, although because it was at the back of the plane I think my seat was a bit smaller, but for the price I payed for the ticket I’m not compaining….to be continued…