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Newsletter of SATYA (Svaroopa® Association of Teachers & Yogis)Fall 2012 Volume 15, Issue #8

EDITOR — Marlene Gast CSYTPUBLISHER — Master Yoga Foundation www.svaroopayoga.orgASSOCIATE EDITOR — Carolyn (Karuna) Beaver CSYT

CONTRIBUTORS:

Betsy Ayers

Carolyn (Karuna) Beaver

Charles (Chaitanya) Beckjord

Nora Beckjord

Ruth Brown

Mitch Cohen

Solveig Corbin

Donna Criscuolo

Cheryl Davis

Ilene Fischman

Yogeshwari (Lissa) Fountain

Margo Gebraski

Rob Gold

Saguna (Kelly) Goss

Michelle (Kamala) Gross

Bhakta (Leslie) Johnson

Naranjan (Nathan) Matanich

Barbara McCarthy

Devi (Elizabeth) McKenty

Sheilagh McLean

Tanmayee (Theresa) Reynolds

Tish Roy

Karobi Sachs

Swami Nirmalananda Saraswati

Kelly Sharp

James Sweet

Diane (Ekamati) Tsurutani

Susan Warden


TABLE OF CONTENTS Editor’s Note ....................................................................................................................... 4

Executive Director’s Letter ............................................................................................... 5

1. MASTER YOGA NEWS Bulletin from the Board: Who We Are and What We Do............................................ 6

The Evolution of Svaroopa® Yoga Weekends at Kripalu ................................................ 8

Celebrating Our Foundations Teachers ........................................................................ 10

Alignment with Grace — Svaroopa® Yoga Conference 2013 ..................................... 12

Products to Support Practice ......................................................................................... 12

The Business of Yoga — Social Media........................................................................... 14

2. TEACHER TALK Why Continue on to YTT Level 3? ............................................................................... 16

This Stuff Works ............................................................................................................... 19

Certificates Awarded: 18 June – 12 September, 2012 .................................................. 20

3. GEOCENTER REPORT: MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL A River Runs Through It ................................................................................................. 21

4. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT Assistant Teachers ............................................................................................................ 25

Behind-the-Scenes and Ongoing Support .................................................................... 25

Personal Donations Received In Honor Of .................................................................. 26

Personal Donations ......................................................................................................... 26

Non-Cash Donations ...................................................................................................... 27

Community Support of the Shopping List ................................................................... 27


Editor’s Note Marlene Gast CSYT, Editor [email protected]

E pluribus unum — “Out of many, one” — is one of several Latin phrases on the seal of the United States. When I thought of writing my note for this September issue of Tadaa! this motto became a tune stuck in my mind. The reason is that the phrase absolutely describes this issue, to which so many individual Svaroopis contributed. A visit to Wikipedia revealed that, in fact, the phrase was first used by a magazine or two in the 18th Century. They collected articles from many sources into one periodical. And that arcane fact brings us back to Tadaa! — we have become an online magazine — an “ezine” — full of the contributions from so many Svaroopis. Tadaa! is a great river fed by myriad tributaries.

First, we thank Swami Nirmalananda for continuing to provide the final review of each issue — to keep Tadaa! aligned with the teachings of Svaroopa® yoga. For the elegant and inviting “look and feel” of Tadaa! as a true ezine, we thank graphics artist (and Svaroopa® yoga teacher) Kemm Sarver.

Since the spring of 2008, when I began as editor, a sevite staff has emerged to offer service to Master Yoga Foundation and our Svaroopa® yoga community via Tadaa! Associate Editor Carolyn (Karuna) Beaver, with a background in journalism, has taken on the responsibility of writing the “Business of Yoga” articles as well as helping to shape the content, focus and format of each issue. Saguna (Kelly) Goss and Chaitanya (Charles) Beckjord, both members of the Board of Directors, ensure that the channels of communication from the Board to the community are free and flowing. Now, as well, we have a new staff writer — Rob Gold, who teaches Svaroopa® yoga on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state; we welcome Rob with deep gratitude for his seva!

Master Yoga Foundation staff members are equally integral to Tadaa! Executive Director Donna Criscuolo keeps gentle and expert fingers on the pulse of the organization and identifies the content that Tadaa! needs to convey to serve the information needs of the Svaroopa® yoga community. Communications Coordinator Kristin Lewis sets our production schedule, and with tact and infinite kindness keeps us on track. Each quarter, Community Relations Manager Kelly Sharp contributes news about non-cash donations and the organization-wide contributions of sevites as well as special articles on products to support your practice and events such as the biennial Conference, which she so masterfully manages. Cheryl Davis and James Sweet, who have long served Master Yoga in administration and accounting, keep the records of certifications, donors and teaching assistants — and graciously provide this information for each issue.

Pouring into the heart of each issue are the contributions of each of you who so willing allow us to interview you and write up your stories. This is what set the tune of E pluribus unum so insistently in my mind: Each of the seven members of the Minneapolis-St. Paul GeoCenter made time to be interviewed on the phone for their GeoCenter profile; new Foundations teachers did the same; and several members of the recent YTT Level 3 class kept journals and contributed them for an article on YTT Level 3, for which Teacher Trainer Karobi Sachs provided the introduction via an interview. Yogeshwari (Lissa) Fountain was interviewed for an article on teaching Svaroopa® yoga at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, and then she deftly edited it as well.

Yes, from all of these diverse yet harmonious voices, we hear the richness of being together in the Svaroopa® yoga community.


Executive Director’s LetterDonna Criscuolo, Leading CSYT, RYT-500 Executive [email protected]

Expansion is what we do naturally as Svaroopis. We open ourselves through our practice and we expand more fully into our Selves. That is the promise of yoga that Svaroopa® yoga is so effective at delivering. As Svaroopis, we simply can’t help but bring our practices into how we live our lives. Our practices teach us how to Be.

This issue of Tadda! speaks to this inherent expansion. Our presence at Kripalu continues to expand through the presence there of Vidyadevi, Polly DiBella and Yogeshwari Fountain. They are expanding their teaching presence and Svaroopa® yoga by carrying on what Swami Nirmalananda began many years ago. Svaroopa® yoga’s presence at Kripalu is an important one because it gives us a wonderful opportunity to share our programs with people who may not have an opportunity otherwise. Let’s extend our congratulations and support to Yogeshwari as she leads her first solo program at Kripalu this November.

Our Faculty continues to expand with the addition of three new Foundations Trainers. All of the Foundations Trainers are working to expand Svaroopa® yoga out into the world by bringing it to your backyard. And, with the completion of the course Leading Weekend Workshops last month, MYF will be expanding its offering of Weekend Workshops (MYX) in 2013.

There is so much to look forward to including the 2013 Svaroopa® yoga Conference “Alignment with Grace”. Stay tuned for more details on this wonderfully expansive event. As always, thank you for your continued dedication and support.


1. MASTER YOGA NEWSBulletin from the Board: Who We Are and What We DoSaguna (Kelly) Goss MYF Board Governance Committee Chair

In this section of Tadaa! the Master Yoga Foundation Board of Directors aims to keep you informed about who we are and what we do. Our membership is listed here in two side bars, and below we profile Tish Roy, Chair, Master Yoga Foundation Board. To provide context for our work, this Bulletin explores seva — itself a wonderful and powerful yogic practice — since the work of all Board members is offered as seva.

In this issue as well as upcoming issues, we will be describing what we do as decision-makers. We hope to keep the community informed of the decisions we make as well as how the Board works to make these decisions and how that aspect of our work fits within the whole structure of Master Yoga Foundation. So in this Bulletin, we tell the story of how the Teacher Training Track (TTT) came to be.

Featured Board Member: Tish Roy It’s time to acknowledge the incredible contribution that Tish Roy has made to Master Yoga Foundation in her role as Chair for the past three and a half years and as Secretary for nine months prior to that. Tish has tirelessly devoted herself to her leadership role as Chair and

is an inspiration to the rest of the Board Members.

At the beginning of her service, Tish worked hard with other members to bring professionalism to the Board. She strived to focus the Board on policy-making, and setting the strategic plan for Master Yoga. This provided a strong foundation for the organizational transition of Master Yoga when the role of Swami Nirmalananda changed in the course of establishing the Svaroopa® Vidya Ashram.

But, even more than what Tish has been able to accomplish, what makes Tish’s contribution incredible is the way in which she does it. She truly practices seva in her role as Board Chair. She continuously guides the Board in making decisions that are for the benefit of organization and ultimately the students we serve. Tish also embraces tapas. During challenging transitions Tish is the first to step up and stand in the fire! The Board would like to express its sincere gratitude to Tish and all that she has devoted to Master Yoga. Thank you Tish!

Current Board MembersTish Roy Chair

Chaitanya (Charles) Beckjord Secretary

Sally Broadhurst Education Chairperson

Donna Gaspard Public Relations Chairperson

Saguna (Kelly) Goss Governance Chairperson

Current Committee MembersMangala (Cayla) Allen Governance Committee

Yogeshwari (Lissa) Fountain Education Committee

Cyndy Gribskov Education Committee


The Purpose of SevaAll Board members offer their time, talent and skills to Master Yoga Foundation as seva. “To integrate your own higher inner state into your life; to bring divinity into your life” — this is how Swami Nirmalananda has defined the purpose of seva. When you are engaged in seva, your yoga practice is no longer restricted to those wonderful plaid blankets! Those blissful moments on the blankets can be, and need to be, brought into your day-to-day living. Just think how much healing, transformation and illumination you could experience if you were practicing yoga all day long, in every moment, through every action, every word and every thought! It is possible and the practice of seva is for that purpose.

For example, Saguna (Kelly) explains her experience of seva this way:

“ Practicing seva is teaching me how to let go of my expectations at work and instead focus on the task at hand and learning to apply myself whole-heartedly. This has completely changed my experience and inner-state at work. Now even doing engineering work opens up my heart to the Bliss within!”

Birth of the Teacher Training Track (TTT)This year a second group of students graduated from the Teacher Training Track A. Since the start of the program, Master Yoga Foundation has increased the number of TTT Foundation Teachers from 2 to 5. This exciting growth (of more than 100%!) will ensure the legacy of Master Yoga. It began many years ago with the Board of Directors as a strategic plan for Master Yoga’s future. We needed to get the training to the students’ doorstep, and the plan was to start with Foundations.

Once the Board thus set the direction, the process unfolded organically. Swami Nirmalananda created a teaching program to train Foundations teachers, and then the Executive Director and staff of Master Yoga implemented the plan. After the first set of students

went through the program, it came back to the Board for review and enhancement. Decisions were made, and again the staff made it a reality. We now have a growing program that will help us better serve our Vision & Mission of cultivating and supporting conscious community through the practices of Svaroopa® yoga.

Open Board Position: TreasurerThe Treasurer leads the Board in ensuring the financial responsibility of the organization. With the support of Master Yoga staff, the Treasurer is responsible for overseeing the creation, monitoring and reporting of the budget. The Treasurer also works on strategic plans to ensure Master Yoga’s long-term financial stability and success.

Do you have financial experience? Are you interested in offering your skills and practicing seva on the Board in this role? Please contact Saguna (Kelly) Goss ([email protected]) for more details.

Former Treasurer Annette Bongiorno says, “As the Treasurer of Master Yoga Foundation I was able to give back to to Svaroopa® yoga in a very specific way. I had the skill set that was needed, so the decision to serve was easy. I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to serve such a powerful group of yogis. While serving on the Board, I worked with an amazing group of sevites, and together we worked as a team to support the organization both inside (Teacher Trainers, Administative Staff and Swamiji) and outside (teachers-in-training, students and CSYTs). What I received from working on the Board was seeing first hand how to incorporate yogic principles into the running of a company as well as how to apply them to all the areas of my life.”

Interested in Serving on the Board in Another Role?If you are interested in serving on the Board in any capacity, let Saguna Goss know at [email protected].

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The Evolution of Svaroopa® Yoga Weekends at KripaluEditor’s Note: For this interview, Tadaa! thanks Master Yoga Foundation faculty member Yogeshwari (Lissa) Fountain.

Over the weekend of November 2 – 4, 2012, Yogeshwari (Lissa) Fountain will lead the Svaroopa® yoga “yogimmersion” Happy Body — Peaceful Mind at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health in Lenox MA. Yogeshwari is a Svaroopa® yoga Leading Teacher, yoga therapist and meditation teacher. She discovered Svaroopa® yoga during the Experiential Anatomy course at Kripalu in 1997, and has been studying and refining her skills at progressively more advanced levels for 15 years. She teaches in her own studio as well as throughout the Boston area. For the past four years she has been traveling the country offering yogimmersions as part Master Yoga eXtension (MYX) programs. With compassion, humor, and knowledge, she intends to inspire students to dive into the depths of yoga’s promise to know their own essence as the Self, and live a fully embodied life.

Tadaa! In respect to offering a Svaroopa® yogimmersion, how does the Kripalu venue differ from the studios of other Svaroopa® yoga teachers across the country? Is the mix of newcomers and existing Svaroopa® yoga practitioners the same?

Yogeshwari In local studios devoted to teaching Svaroopa® yoga, most of the attendees are already Svaroopa® yoga students, and newcomers usually have links to Svaroopa® yoga. Newcomers are spouses, sisters, brothers or friends of Svaroopis. In these venues, there’s a supportive Bhav: it’s all Svaroopa® yoga, all the way. And you get to practice staying in the Self while going back and forth into your life with the commuting aspect of most MYX programs.

At Kripalu a couple of factors make a Svaroopa® yoga weekend immersion different from that held at a local studio. First is the schedule: instead of two full days at a Master Yoga program, at Kripalu, you follow their hours and have to format the teachings to fit a Friday night through Sunday morning. There is a cohesiveness that must be re-invented by adapting lesson plans and talks. Secondly, over the years, Kripalu’s focus has changed from being an ashram to a center that includes general health and wellness programs. In the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts, Kripalu serves the whole of the

East Coast of the US, with a dozen different programs on any given weekend. In addition to yoga immersions in different styles, programs can range from yoga and golf to mindful eating to healing from depression to dissolving your writer’s block. All this is great, but there is an inherent distraction in all that activity, so we presenters have to keep our students on the “Svaroopa® straight and narrow.” Despite this, there is tremendous benefit in leaving the family and home “stuff ” behind and hiding out at a retreat center. And at Kripalu, you really get this. Despite all its changes, I still love being there.

Tadaa! What are some of the special challenges of teaching newcomers at these programs?

Yogeshwari Those students who have no experience of or links to Svaroopa® yoga are often drawn to the catalog listing, by its description or its availability. Typically, these newcomers have backgrounds in other yoga styles. They come in with tight bodies, and minds that are easily activated by comparing Svaroopa® yoga poses and protocols to their previous practices. Initially, all the blankets are just bewildering! As their workshop leader, I begin with meeting them where they are at, and offering them the promise of what is possible: a taste of tailbone opening and an experience of the Self. It’s the experience of a quiet mind, and not just the poses, that they will remember when they return home.

Typically, the newcomers come in guarded, but by Sunday afternoon, leave much more open. Even if the overall Kripalu environment may feel somewhat fragmented, it still offers a much needed retreat from a person’s daily demands of home and work. By the end of the weekend, it is clear that the effects of Svaroopa® yoga have sunk in. The furrow between their brows has softened, and their frowns have turned into smiles; they just seem easier in their whole sense of beingness!

Tadaa! What is important about teaching Svaroopa® yoga at Kripalu?

Yogeshwari Growth and expansion! By offering programs that are open to everyone, we expose a large yoga population to this unique style of Hatha Yoga. Over the past 15 years, Swami Nirmalananda sowed the seeds of Svaroopa® yoga at Kripalu through weekend immersions as well as the Foundations and Experiential

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Anatomy courses. She saw to it that Svaroopa® yoga’s roots at Kripalu are strong and deep. Large crowds came to her programs and courses. People who had no yoga experience or experience in other styles had read or heard about her and were drawn to her celebrity. What they found of course, was a teacher of profound depth and authenticity, not one of star power or celebrity. It is in those footsteps, with great respect, I aspire to follow. Now that Swamiji has less time for traveling to teach, Vidyadevi Stillman, as Svaroopa® yoga’s premier Teacher Trainer, now offers Foundations at Kripalu, as well as meditation and specialty courses. I will be teaching the weekend workshops Immersions. I am committed to keeping Svaroopa® yoga on the national stage by supporting and continuing Svaroopa® yoga’s presence and visibility nationally.

Tadaa! How have you prepared for offering yogimmersions at Kripalu?

Yogeshwari It seems like the most natural transition in the world. It feels completely organic. With each MYX weekend I have taught, and assisting in Swamiji’s courses over 13 years, I have been preparing.

In the first place, my introduction to Svaroopa® yoga was at Kripalu in 1997. I was a Phoenix Rising Yoga therapist and taught hatha yoga. I had come for a Power Yoga weekend. By coincidence, in the program room next door, Swamiji (then Rama Berch) was teaching Experiential Anatomy, and one of my students who had already discovered Svaroopa® yoga and had taken YTT in La Jolla CA was assisting. After the first morning of my “power” program, I ran into that student at lunch and asked her whether there was any way that I could get into Experiential Anatomy instead. She asked Rama, and Rama said, “Yes, of course.” That “yes” changed my life forever, and I knew I had found home as soon as I heard her describe the tucked under, twisted tailbone and the fear of death.

After YTT, I completed the ATT courses through Vinyasa I, and continue to teach deeper classes and weekly Bliss classes. As my initial preparation was being in the presence of my teacher — Swami Nirmalananda,

I carried that experience into teaching my own Bliss Weekends starting in 2002. Over the years, I also took every possible workshop with Swami Nirmalananda, and assisted her often. In 2007, Swami Nirmalananda invited me as well as Addie Alex to join the Master Yoga Foundation Faculty as Master Yoga Extension (MYX) Weekend Workshop Leaders. At that point, we each began to travel nationwide to offer workshops at the studios of our host Svaroopa® yoga teachers.

To complete the transition to offering workshops on the “national stage” of Kripalu, you might say that I have had unique “on the job” training. I have co-taught with Swamiji in one week-long, and two weekend programs at Kripalu. I also feel prepared by the varied MYX programs I have led over the past few years, my own ATT-based Bliss weekends, and all that I have learned from assisting Swamiji and observing how she works with students, their minds and bodies.

To prepare me as an intern, Swamiji met with me privately, let me know her intent for the workshop, the poses that she had selected to develop her theme, and the points to drive home. Then she left it to me to prepare the lesson plans for the asana portions of the workshop and teach them. During the classes she would sometimes stay in the room to supervise me; at other times she would leave the room, so that I could find my own voice, and spread my wings.

The real turning point came for me when we discussed plans for the Gateway to Freedom weekend at Kripalu in April. This time instead of telling me her intent, Swamiji asked me, “What do you want to do? What does the title Gateway to Freedom mean to you? What will take them there?” It was very empowering to choose the poses and delve into their effects and purpose with her guidance. I have always felt drawn to the weekend format as a laboratory of illumination, transformation and healing. I enjoy bringing the students on this journey to the Self, and look forward with great anticipation to my solo flight this coming November.

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Celebrating Our Foundations TeachersBy Carolyn (Karuna) Beaver, Associate Editor, Tadaa!

Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of articles on Master Yoga Foundation’s (MYF) newest faculty members, the Primary and Secondary Foundations of Svaroopa® Yoga Teacher Trainers. MYF is extending its reach, bringing Foundations to more communities with the assistance of these gifted and well-trained teachers. In articles to follow, we’ll track their journey as they bring Foundations to more students and provide more information about the process of becoming a Teacher Trainer.

Cast your memory back to your experience as a student in Foundations of Svaroopa® Yoga. Whether that experience was 1, 5, 10 or more years ago, chances are you have a memory of a shift, a change, an opening with a profound impact. And chances are there was a teacher who had a profound impact on you.

Such is the power of Foundations. Such is the power of Svaroopa® Yoga Teacher Trainers. This powerful practice has drawn five Certified Svaroopa® Yoga Teachers to a new level. It’s drawn them to become Foundations Teacher Trainers.

Bhakta (Leslie) Johnson and Tish Roy were the first to enter the program almost three years ago. Kamala (Michelle ) Gross, Devi (Elizabeth) McKenty and Margo Gebraski joined them on the journey last December. While they all had slightly different inspirations and motivations prompting their start on this path, they have something in common: their love of Svaroopa® Yoga and their desire to usher in new generations of teachers.

Bhakta says from her very first Svaroopa® experience, a workshop with Swami Nirmalananda, “I discovered myself in my body in a whole new way.” That discovery allowed her “to move through the world differently,” and to “be satiated in a world of insatiability.” She says it inspired her “to empower other people to open their bodies and take care of themselves, physically, mentally and spiritually — to become capital-S-Self-reliant.”

Love and devotion for the Svaroopa® yoga practice has led Bhakta all the way from being a student in weekly classes to becoming a Teacher Trainer herself. Through her many years of yoga teacher training, Bhakta felt this yoga becoming more and more her way of life. She felt a part of the MYF family, and thought it was a “natural

progression of being part of the family” to become a Teacher Trainer herself. “It felt like an inner command.”

Tish was equally involved in MYF as a long-time teacher as well as a member of the MYF Board of Directors. “It may seem ironic, but my serving as Board Chair for MYF is the reason I decided to become a Foundations teacher. Yes, I wanted to support this new TTT program. Yet, it was through the profound practice of seva that I started to see how my actions had a different perspective. The focus became serving. The question became how could I do that more deeply and on an expanded scale?”

The answer for Tish was to become a Foundations Teacher Trainer. “Teaching Foundations has opened me more fully to what I see as my dharma: to serve Svaroopa® Yoga and the teachings on an expanded scale, where the teachings can make a more significant impact in the world.”

Kamala is also well aware of the need for Svaroopa® yoga to have a larger impact in the world. “I don’t want to see Master Yoga disappear,” she said. “I don’t want to see us without new Teacher Trainers” to carry forward the depth of this yoga style. She felt a calling to help “strengthen the base.”

Margo’s local community of Svaroopa® yoga teachers helped her heed the call. “They saw in me a source of inspiration in their practices, and in moving forward in their YTT process. They encouraged me to move forward with TTT to bring more to our community and so many others.” While other teachers urged her on, Margo said she also made the decision because helping new students “understand the way Svaroopa® yoga works is a treat, and to see their bodies and minds change is truly magnificent.”

Devi first took Foundations 11 years ago and knew even then that she wanted to take students through the same process. As a yogi who had studied in other styles, she was “impressed to see the level of professionalism and organization,” as well as the profound changes the program created in her and the other students. “I saw something then, but it wasn’t until years later that I recognized how much more is going on. For most students Foundations is the most profound experience they have ever gone through in their life and I want to support them in their process.”

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Devi says she feels that in 11 years of being a student at MYF, she has received more than just instruction on how to teach poses and function as a yoga teacher. She has felt nurtured and nourished by the entire staff. “I want to offer this kind of support to others who are taking this journey. I don’t know of another place on earth that offers this kind of package.”

Bhakta and Tish have guided students through the Foundations experience for more than two years now. They have qualified as both Secondary Teacher and Primary Teachers in Foundations. As Primary Teachers, they teach about 60 percent of each Foundations course they offer. Bhakta said that on a personal level moving from being a Secondary to Primary Foundations Teacher helped her feel more connected to her students’ process. “As a Secondary Teacher, your emphasis is on the poses. As a Primary Teacher, it’s on the poses, the teachings on Consciousness and the process of helping students put it all together.”

Margo, Kamala and Devi have completed the Secondary Teacher training and the two internships in Foundations courses required afterwards. They are now qualified as Secondary Foundations Teachers. Kamala has already taught one course as a Secondary Teacher, and was pleased to find that the same steady state she observed in her Teacher Trainers seemed to flow within her. “It was amazing to see students transform, and to be the one helping to take them there,” she said.

Tish said “what I love most about teaching Foundations is that for five days a group of students come together to intimately journey on the path of Consciousness. I feel privileged each time to be a part of their transformation, experience and process. At the same time,” she said, “I feel blessed to be able to educate others over and over again about Consciousness, which expands myself and the Svaroopa® yoga community.”

Expanding the teaching staff expands the number of courses offered and the number of people taking the course. As important as that is, there is so much more: expanding the Svaroopa® community, expanding new students’ sense of them Selves, expanding Consciousness. Be a part of that expansion. Bring Foundations to your community.

Interested in hosting a Foundations course in your community? It’s a chance to earn income as a host, and more importantly, to be a part of taking students into a deeper experience of them Selves. Contact one of the teachers below, and she will walk you through all the details.

Bhakta (Leslie) JohnsonSt. Paul [email protected]

Devi (Elizabeth) McKentyMiddletown [email protected]

Janaki (Janet) MurrayQLD [email protected]

Kamala (Michelle) GrossWestborough [email protected]

Kris MontignyNiantic [email protected]

Margo GebraskiLisle [email protected]

Tish RoyWoodstock [email protected]

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Alignment with Grace — Svaroopa® Yoga Conference 2013…Can you believe that we are well into the planning stages for our 2013 conference already? It is just over a year away, and Alignment with Grace is shaping up to be a transformational event! In 2013, for the first time, the Conference will be co-sponsored with Svaroopa® Vidya Ashram, so you will have the depth of all of the teachings from the Svaroopa® Vidya Ashram as well as Svaroopa® yoga available in one place.

The Conference will be held at the Philadelphia Airport Renaissance Hotel again, so prepare for the friendly faces and warm welcome back from their team. All of the fine amenities that come with a four-diamond hotel will be at your fingertips, including free wireless internet on the conference floor, outstanding meals, and over-the-top service. You can begin making your room reservations at the Renaissance October 4th, 2012. It’s never too early to claim your spot!

We will again be offering an extended Teachers’ Track, which will keep teachers current with their Continuing Education and offer classroom time comparable to other Continuing Education courses, woven into the celebration of the 2013 Conference, and the incredible experience of the Svaroopa® yoga community — our kula in its largest and most dynamic form.

In addition to the Teachers’ Track, there will be an Ashram Track for participants that want to dive deeper into meditation and the other practices of Svaroopa® Vidya Ashram. And there will be a myriad of other course offerings that will meet experienced teachers and students, as well as yogis newer to Svaroopa® yoga, right where they are and plumb the depths of experience and understanding for moments of immersion in the Self.

Be on the lookout for specialized pricing plans and discounts, including a Group Discount, Day Pass, and a Payment Plan option. We are committed to making this conference accessible to as many people as possible! We will have a seva team supporting the Conference again, and there will be a call for applications early next year. Be sure to mark your calendar now for the Svaroopa® Yoga 2013 Conference — Alignment with Grace — October 4 – 6, 2013. We’ll see you at the Conference!

Products To Support Your PracticeNew and Improved Foundations Handouts Are Available in the ShopAlong with the vertical orientation of pages comes the new organization and numbering system:

Page 1 is for Safety (e.g., cautions and contraindications; common errors — what to look for and what to do)Page 2 is for Lesson Planning (e.g., pose directions of movement, part of the spine released, essential before and after poses, etc.)

Page 3 contains information for teaching the pose.

Page 4 lists props and provides the section on alignments, organized into two categories: a) those done by the student (e.g., “scoot”), and 2) those done by the teacher (e.g., the extended leg alignment in Half Frog). Finally, adjustments, some familiar and some new, are described.

Discounts are available: For those of you who have purchased the Foundations handouts published in 2009 at any time over the past three years, you will receive a $5 discount on this new and improved set.


It’s Time for the Triple Alert TimerBy Kelly Sharp, Master Yoga Community Relations Manager

The Triple Alert Timer is a wonderful addition to any yogi’s prop collection. With three different alert settings, this timer is perfect for a multitude of situations. Time your asana and Ujjayi Pranayama practice on the audible or vibrating setting, depending on where you are. Track your Embodyment® and Yoga Therapy sessions on the vibrating or flash settings so that you do not disturb your client. Time your meditation on the audible or vibrating setting, depending on your preference. In class, time your poses on the vibrating setting, and then clip the timer to your waistband. With the buttons on the back of the timer, you can set one, two or all three of the different types of alerts easily.

The Triple Alert Timer tracks time by counting up or counting down, which offers even more flexibility in how and where you use it. You can monitor hours and minutes, or minutes and seconds with a button on the back. In addition to the clip for your waistband, there is a magnet on the back of the clip, so you can place and find your timer easily. And the timer runs on two AA batteries, which last through many uses.

The Triple Alert Timer is also a great way to support your students in their home practice. By selling the timers, and providing your students with some basic time guidelines in their poses, you make it easy for them to start doing yoga at home, or you inspire them to do more! SATYA members can purchase five or more timers at the 30% bulk discount, making them $16.10 apiece.

Here’s what other yogis are saying:

“ The Triple Alert timer is the best timer I have ever used. I’ve been using this timer for five years, and I won’t go anywhere without it. I have one at home, one in my purse, and one at the studio. I never give an Embodyment® session without it. I love my Triple Alert timer!” — Karobi Sachs

“ I want my students to buy the Triple Alert timer because it is a great support to their home practice. They can turn over the job of clock watcher to the Triple Alert timer and drop in deeper. I love the timer for me because of the million ways it supports me.” — Catherine Fiesleman

“ I love my Triple Alert timer! I use it at home to time my asana and meditation practice, I use it at my studio to time my poses, my adjustments and my private sessions. It has so many great uses!” — Polly DiBella

“ Personally I love my Triple Alert timer. I use it for asana practice (prevention from staying more than 7 minutes in Supported Matsyasana), for daily meditation, for delivering Embodyment® sessions and for teaching meditation classes. I also carry it with me so that I can time japa or “mini-meditations” at odd moments when I have to wait for an appointment, get stuck on a customer service call, etc. I had resisted purchasing one, because it seemed expensive compared to kitchen timers from the supermarket. But my supermarket timer broke, and I broke down and ordered the Triple Alert Timer. I love its portability with its streamlined shape and the three options for the alert — the silent flashing light, the vibration, and the audible but still subtle beep. I don’t know how I ever did without it!” — Marlene Gast


The Business of YogaSocial MediaBy Carolyn (Karuna) Beaver, Associate Editor, Tadaa!

For those of us of a certain age, myself included, “social networking” means going to a party or event and making conversation to form connections with other people. But we live in an age where communication and connection take so many different forms, and the party has gone electric. Now social networking has a much broader definition: “The use of a dedicated web site (social media) to communicate informally with other members of the site, by posting messages, photographs, etc.” (Google.com)

Social media sites such as Facebook, blogs, microblogs (e.g.,Twitter), and YouTube, are just a few of the popular communication forms, and more sites arise daily. They give users the opportunity to reach and teach others. As 21st Century yogis, we too have that opportunity.

As 21st Century yogis, we also have a responsibility to use these sites effectively and appropriately. An article on social media in Yoga Journal gave this advice:

“Approach your content in a spirit of seva, or offering to your readers. Follow the yamas (restraints) of ahimsa (nonharming), asteya (nonstealing), and aparigraha (nongrasping) by keeping your tone positive, by respecting and crediting others’ intellectual property, and by cross-promoting your fellow teachers.”

From “A Yoga Teacher’s Guide to Social Networking,” http://www.yogajournal.com/forteachers/2687

Brook McCarthy, a writer and marketer from Australia specializing in yoga and wellbeing, says on her web site Yoga Reach, that “the digital landscape is exciting, treacherous, ubiquitous and unstoppable. Successful online marketing engages your current and potential customers by collaborating on a story. Your story. The rise of the internet means that what others say about you is just as important, if not more important, than what you say about yourself.”

One of the things to consider is how your web presence relates to your teaching and just how you want to communicate, whether through words, images, video or audio. You are reaching out to others, but what is it exactly that you want to say, and to what purpose? Another consideration is time, and the lure of spending too much of it online! Always come back to your reason for social networking, whether it’s marketing, education or building community, and evaluate whether the time you spend with social media is meeting your goal.

The Yoga Journal article quoted above points out that in the teacher-student model of social networking “you establish yourself as an authority on a subject, whether through your profile, through serving as a group moderator, or through posting content on a subject. Students then have the opportunity to engage through comments or targeted small forums, asking questions and giving feedback.”

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Many SATYA members participate in one of the oldest forms of social networking, the online forum. Svaroopa® Yoga has had such a forum for many years. But do you “tweet” or blog or use Facebook to connect with current or potential students? Many of us use social media in our personal lives, but haven’t branched out in our business lives.

Editor’s Note: To find out about and/or join the SATYA E-Forum, contact sevite moderator Sarvataa Christie at [email protected].

So take yet another lesson from one of the best communicators I know, Swami Nirmalananda. She has a Facebook page and a Twitter account. In scrolling through her most recent posts, one will see that she uses photos, text and audios to let us know where she is and what she is doing — and Swamiji always returns to the source of her inspiration, her Guru. Here is her post from August 29th:

“Today I am missing the monsoon. I didn’t make my usual August pilgrimage to see Bhagavan Nityananda on his Punyatithi, but today I’m noticing I didn’t get that sweet treat... and the monsoon...

In love and devotion to my Guru, and to His Guru,

Swami Nirmalananda”

Another adept Svaroopi social networker is Tanmayee (Theresa) Reynolds, CSYT, RYT 500, the owner and primary teacher at her studio, The Yoga Within, in Groton CT. Tanmayee says that most of her new students hear about her studio from word of mouth, and that her web site, signage and an occasional print marketing campaign sometimes attract newcomers. The beautiful Facebook page for her studio displays inspira-tional quotations and images and provides links for happenings at the studio. But, while she uses Facebook, Tanmayee says, “It’s very rare to hear a new student say that’s how they heard about us initially — unless they saw a post from a friend of theirs on our page.”

Theresa says, “We use Twitter off and on, but heard from just a single new student that we gained their

business from it. My personal LinkedIn page notes that I am currently the owner of the studio, but again, no direct business has been gained from it as far as I know.”

She continues, “The point of putting our business out there on social media outlets is to spread the word, starting with those who know us, and working outward to those who know them. In that case, we still usually hear that they found us ‘through a friend.’”

A search on Facebook for Svaroopa® yoga immediately brought up eight sites, including one moderated by Anita Strittmater, a Svaroopa® teacher from Baltimore, MD, This Facebook page is entitled “How has Svaroopa® Yoga helped you?” It has about a hundred members, and many of the postings are from people who are not teachers, but simply enthusiastic about this style of yoga. A view of all listings in the search also brought up many Svaroopa® teachers with Facebook pages.

On her web site Yoga Reach, Brooke McCarthy says, “The benefit of any network lies in its use. Be sure to point your potential community members to the site by mentioning it in class, in your newsletter, and on your blog and web site. Establish a vibrant online community, and you’ll be serving your students in establishing connections — to yoga and to each other — beyond the studio.

“This is a relationship — not a brochure,” she continues. “You need to talk with people not to them, create value and rapport, and be helpful — just like a friend.”

Mitch Cohen, a recent Foundations graduate from Massachusetts, has a Facebook page and uses LinkedIn for his yoga business. “However,” he says, “like anything else, nothing is better than word of mouth from satisfied students.”

While internet communications can expand the reach of Svaroopa® yoga, and your own business, it still comes down to you, and the authentic way you present your Self.

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2. TEACHER TALKWhy Continue on to YTT Level 3?Editor’s note: This article was made possible by the willingness of Svaroopa® Yoga Teacher Trainer Karobi Sachs to be interviewed, and by YTT Level 3 students who kept and shared journals during YTT 3: Betsy Ayers, Ruth Brown, Ilene Fischman, Sheilagh McLean and Barbara McCarthy.

A Teacher Trainer AnswersSvaroopa® Yoga Teacher Trainer Karobi Sachs answers this question readily: “YTT Level 3 takes you to places that you can’t even understand until you have completed it. It’s a big leap from YTT Level 2. That immense change takes place in your mind as well as your body. In Level 3, while you experience new ways of working with the body, your experience of the power of Consciousness expands. You delve into the juicier areas of the mind. You explore mind and karma. In Level 3, you are then ready through this opening to take in and integrate the understanding of deeper levels of yoga philosophy.

“When teachers-in-training come into Level 3, they have a maturity as yogis! They are no longer yoga-babies. The whole bhav is different, just as though they have left behind elementary school and high school, and now they’re going to college. After Levels 1 and 2, they know Svaroopa® yoga works; that does not need to be proven. And their capacity for hands-on alignments and adjustments has developed as well. They know how to teach. They know how to prop themselves in Sukhasana and Vajrasana. There’s no struggle, no fighting with the mind that has old ways of doing things, and resists the reliable protocols for spinal opening.

“YTT Levels 1 and 2 get you ready for Level 3. In Level 1 you get initial opening. In Level 2 you use that opening to release in the poses that can tighten you. You have learned, even into the cellular level of your body, how to open from tail to top. In Level 3, you learn how to open from the top of your spine down. You use all of what you have learned in Levels 1 and 2, including engaging your abdominal muscles for release, to open through your neck. Then the more challenging opening from the top down is initiated.

“In this way, Level 3 is truly a paradigm shift. With Level 2, of course, there is so much more to learn than

in Level 1 — but you master it all. And that makes you ready for Level 3; even more than a paradigm shift, it’s a jump — a whole new way of looking at the yoga — so much deeper, so much more profound.”

Teachers-in-Training AnswerBefore YTT Level 3 began at Master Yoga Training Institute in Exton PA this summer, we invited those enrolled to keep a journal and share it in this issue of Tadaa!

First, we asked our journalists to tell us what motivated them to sign up for YTT Level 3. Service to their students, personal and spiritual transformation and personal accomplishment propelled them. Here’s what they said:

SERVICE TO STUDENTS• Want to be qualified to teach some favorite poses

such as Downward Dog, Plough, Shoulder Stand…(and eventually Triangle etc.) which have been in my personal practice from other hatha yoga traditions, and occasionally taught in the Deeper classes I am fortunate to attend.

• Fresh learning = fresh energy to share/teach/inspire:

– I really enjoyed the boost to my teaching enthusiasm that I got from Level 1 and again from Level 2, and now feel ready for a new wave of energy.

– I got such an energy boost teaching a large class last night with new students. I know it is not about my energy but I believe that if I have energy, the students feel that energy and may want those changes for themselves. They come back to class, they may begin a home practice, they may attend Satsang, etc.

PERSONAL AND SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION• Part of a spiritual journey

– For personal growth and unfolding; go deeper in my yoga body practice, and understanding.

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• Experience the transition that happens as you progress in training.

– I have always noted that it is so noticeable in someone who has graduated from Level 4. It’s not necessarily describable but definitely tangible and palpable.

– I am open and seeking the journey…to going deeper into the journey; the transformation; desiring a deeper knowledge of my true Self. And, oh yeah, more poses — but guess what…they are so totally last on my list…not first, and not the only reason.

• Increased capacity to bring “more” to myself

– I want to dig deeper.

– My favorite quote, from Anais Nin, says it all so well: “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” Here’s to blossoming!

ACCOMPLISHMENT• Going all the way: It was always my basic intention

to go to “full certification.” Not because this would make any difference to the “business” side for me. It’s not a formal requirement, and it probably won’t make any difference to what I earn as a teacher. No doubt my understanding will deepen. I believe I will be a stronger, more effective ambassador of Svaroopa® yoga. And I will be taking another significant step towards a goal (CSYT) which, when reached, will signify real work, real learning, and worthwhile accomplishment.

And how did YTT Level 3 unfold? Teachers-in-training found new ease and comfort in familiar poses and, often, beneficial challenge in new poses. They found new appreciation of propping, deeper experiences in chanting and meditation, and accomplishment and new learning in practicing teaching. Journal entries below take you into the world of YTT Level 3 as it was lived for nine days during the summer of 2012.

BEGINNINGSWhat I noticed today is the seamlessness of the return ...from the familiar smells from the kitchen to the same door pass code. What comfort to return to the Pink Sheets, Anatomy coloring book and purple chant pages. A mixture of familiar faces, new yoga friends, past classmates and reams of new information.

POSES AND ANGLESWhat I noticed today was the fun of YTT3 ... And it is only day 2. Don’t think for a minute that fun means no work. But there has been oodles of laughter amidst the 100 or so forward bends. (It is all the openings that cause one to exaggerate.) There have been uproarious discus-sions about body-part placements being a nib-bit or just a smidge away. All this in the pursuit of learning more.

What I noticed today, really it was reminded, is the “magical” qualities of our yoga. As class progressed through the day, knees straightened, backs got long and shoulders softened. There were uuhs and aahs as once untwisting legs easily crossed and rested. There were cries of amazement as chests came to rest on thighs. Just magical.

How do you spell relief (from Konasana)? Lunge. Ahh, lunge. Never thought it would feel soooo good. Lunge — getting to be a crowd-pleaser. “Saved by a lunge”…who would ever have thunk that?

A couple of the poses are definitely kicking in some “fear factors.” Downward facing dog today…a kick-my-butt forward bend for me. “Is one of the teachers close by to receive our demo?…Can’t get into this pose too soon. Hurry, get in and get out….I’m going down. That would be knees to the ground vs. up into the pose. Definitely a pride-swallowing pose — or a pose to cultivate humility?

We have been doing tailbone/sacrum poses after tailbone/sacrum poses — I felt tons of release in my jaw/head with each pose and lengthening of spine.

Summer 2012 Level 3

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Monday: I loved the poses today.

Tuesday: I notice that I’m achy and my left wrist is sore, until after Konasana. Then I feel taller and much more comfortable. By mid afternoon I’m feeling more energy than the previous days.

Wednesday: I’m noticing new experiences in Downward Facing Dog and other poses: feeling muscles around my tailbone in a way I haven’t before. By late afternoon I’m VERY relaxed and content, no need to DO. Lots of giggling and laughter in the kitchen (from the whole group) at meal time.

Thursday: About an hour or so after learning Hare Pose, as our group of 3 starts to plan our teaching session for Saturday, I am on the floor moaning with sharp pain spine upper ribs area (relapse). Am I going to be able function the rest of the day? I worry. Kris reminds me of what to do to re-release. By lunchtime I am feeling fine.

PROPS1. What I noticed today was my attitude. At other

trainings and classes, I had felt judged and singled out when I needed extra props. Now I really get it- the props are not good or bad, just needed for an effective release — so simple today — so difficult yesterday! I can surrender into the props/support.”

2. Blankets, blankets, and more blankets….wow. I can’t believe how many you can use in certain poses. Eleven blankets total for Virasana. My mind of course wants less and less. “Are you sure the reason I can’t cross my legs over and align my knees isn’t because I’m on too many blankets?

3. Sunday, 11:04 a.m. Six blankets plus a wedge for Vajrasana !!!???!!!!!

GETTING CHANGE & GOING DEEPERToday I noticed a new level in Shavasana/Guided Awareness. In hearing the words I discovered a new inner physical body awareness of organs. In addition and more significant was the arising bliss…Also, same blissful arising during our yoga class today. Definitely a shift of some sort. It was palpable in the moment and I could even hear the words…today is the day. I can’t say that sweet bliss lasted all day; however, even in my being me, scanning back over the day’s events, I’d say something is different. Inside. Still same sarcastic me.

Still wanting to get up and get out as soon as class is done for the night but I’m noticing there is less angst, less hurry up & go and excitement about getting my carpoolies moving. Do so — but in a slightly “easier” manner — both for them and me. At lunch today at Swami’s Ashram, I noticed it easy to linger in her gaze, where before I shied away. And I know that is me…Today it was sweet to hold the gaze, rest into the ease, knowing, and solitude that lies there. Lies there in the Guru and pointing to/opening the doorway to lie there in my Self.

The phrase for today, “change maybe painful at times, but you would not be in Level 3 unless you are ready for change — body and mind,” Kris M, paraphrased…

I experienced Kundalini today — my low back got very warm, areas of bright sparks in my arms and jerkiness and swaying of my torso during meditation. The area between my hips felt full and then sloshed as if a bowl of water would be sloshed from side to side. It was pretty amazing to have my body move without my direction. Then the tears came — flood gate opened with jerky sobs. I went into Shavasana and my peers piled four blankets on my belly and chest and elevated my head. I continued to sob for a bit while rest of class had am break. Can’t really remember what triggered tears. The tears subsided, I asked peer to do Embodyment® seal while I was completely covered up. It just felt like that would feel good and it did. I noticed feeling a strong sense of community and feeling very safe. I was able to come up and continue class. The same heat and swaying happened during evening philosophy discussion and during dharana.

CHANTINGWhat I learned today is the power of the chant. Being slow on the up-take, just 3 years later and hundreds of sung chants floating in the universe, I heard the power of the group chant and heard my own voice. It vibrated, it rolled around in my head and created an emotional reaction. Didn’t even have to know the meaning of the words ... It was Power of the sounds. OM.

TEACHING THE NEWCOMERS CLASS1. There’s no angst about tomorrow’s teaching. I’m in

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2. Got our teaching groups and lesson plan today. Couldn’t decide if I wanted to choose the easier path or the more challenging path. Accepted the more challenging part. One pose that I can’t do, Downward Facing Dog…the marker pose, and one pose that takes me 10 blankets to be in the alignment. Never taught in YTT the first leg …always thought for me it was easy but not this time.

3. Teaching day. Shoo, it’s over. I made it. All I have to do is just show up tomorrow (well, maybe a little more than that but). Still get a bit nervous and fumble when you know you are being assessed and wondering how that assessment will be handled. But my leading team teacher was very gracious in how she handled all the feedback. And she met Karobi’s “teaching methodology”…always end with a positive.

4. It seemed like the key enlightenment for most of us students today was “verbiage”. How to clean up directions, how to make the instructions personal, active, without any extras.

5. I learned something from everybody and regardless of what we think of ourselves — or how we thought we taught today — we are 22 forms of Shiva bringing Svaroopa® yoga into the world!! I can’t say it any more simply than That. And what else needs to be said?

6. I did it: I passed teaching newcomers class!!! I was much less nervous than the last two levels. I was prepared with notes that I had written. I could get the students in and out of poses effectively. I didn’t remember to say which part of spine is affected, even though I did know. (How so is knowing important to you-self? Vichara …) I have moved on, realizing that I do speak about the spine when I am at teaching in the studio. Nervousness/anxiety prevented me from sharing the knowledge of the yoga in the newcomers class.

GOING HOMEI am ready to “sink in” at home and the studio, I am ready to ‘lean” into my family, teachers and friends using support to continue to get the much needed release...

This Stuff WorksA Picture Is Worth a Thousand WordsBy Ekamati (Diane) Tsurutani, Tadaa!

For more than 15 years I have known that I have low bone density, so I have had bone density scans done regularly annually or biannually, and with the same doctor, since 1998. Over that time, even with changes in diet, supplements, etc., my bone density remained mostly steady, with only a tiny increase (usually less than .5%).

But last week it became apparent that things had changed. I had another scheduled scan done. It showed increases in all scanned areas, and (no surprise) the spine showed the greatest increase in density — by 7.4% since 2010!

A review of my previous scans shows that the spine’s density has increased overall 10.3% since 2008. That puts the density of the spine in the normal range (which is based on the bone density of a 35-year-old person).

Not coincidentally, 2008 is the year I began Svaroopa® Yoga Teacher Training with YTT Level 1. I know the doctors can’t figure it out. But, as we all know, “this stuff works,” especially when you “do more yoga”!

Svaroopa® Yoga and JoyBy Rob Gold, Staff Writer, Tadaa!

I met and began working with Joy in late February of this year, just after she had visited an orthopedic surgeon who said the pain in her hips was from degeneration of the joints. The left hip was bone-on-bone, though the right one was more painful for her. The doctor told her full joint replacements on both sides were in her future, but the timing was up to her, based on her pain threshold and mobility.

At the same time Joy saw my ad in the paper, thought it “serendipitous,” and began attending weekly classes as well as doing weekly Embodyment® and yoga therapy sessions.

Joy says, “I’ve never been an athlete, but I walked everywhere on the island I grew up on, which had about a 1.5 mile circumference. From age 12 to 45 I wasn’t very active. At 44, I married a ‘Colorado


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Mountain Man,’ so for the next seven or eight years we did a lot of hiking, cross-country skiing and such, but I never really had injuries.”

“I first had problems with my hips 15 years ago,” recalls Joy. “Going up and down steep hills, I would experience what I call ‘give-way’ pain, feeling that if I did put any weight on my right leg it wouldn’t support me. Eventually the pain subsided on its own, and I chalked it up having ‘stiff woman syndrome’ and being part of getting older. Six months ago, however, it started up again, and I that’s when I started doing Svaroopa® yoga.”

In addition to weekly classes and sessions, Joy began a home practice of Ujjayi Pranayama in March. She soon bought a set of blankets and then began doing Four-on-the-Floor at home as well. At the same time she changed her diet — to help “unweight my hips,” she explains. Having lost 31 pounds so far, Joy has reduced the load on her hips with the aim of prolonging the need for surgery.

“Before that,” she says, “I could walk two blocks max, hurting after just one, and was almost immobile at that point, with bending and everything else as well. Now, unless it’s a low chair, I can get up without using hands. In the beginning that wasn’t the case. I’d have to push up with my arms. I just feel stronger than I was when I started.”

“Oddly enough,” she continues, “my nails have started growing like mad, needing attention almost four times as often! From being almost ‘locked up’ six months ago to now, it’s amazing to me. I still have times where I overdo it and get sore, but last weekend at the balloon festival I was on my feet for four hours on uneven terrain and was largely fine. There’s no way I would have been able to do that six months ago. It’s been gradual, but incremental improvement.”

Joy’s range of motion in the medial angle is slowly improving and in lunge she still has some difficulty getting her foot between her hands. “But,” she says, “Once I’m in and out I feel much better. It really pulls on that section of my right hip and I have a hard time relaxing into it, but it feels better afterwards.”

Of her experience of opening and “the feeling of Embodyment®,” Joy says, “I’m really in my body and aware of what’s going on and where. Not that I put any big importance on it, but I notice it and where the releases are.

“Now I also notice how I’m standing, how I’m walking. For instance I now strike on my heel first and roll forward on my foot when I walk. I’ve never done it that way. Before yoga my toe always came down first. If I put my foot down wrong now, it can hurt, and it’s a sign to make a correction. It usually happens when I’m not standing tall. When I correct that, it makes a big difference: how I’m holding my body, how I’m using it.”

Yes, This Stuff Works!

Certificates Awarded: 18 June – 12 September, 2012

Deeper Yoga — Level 1: Yoga for Your Back & Gentle Yoga TeacherDeepa Maria Mazzi

Pregnancy Yoga TeacherPrudy Costa

Certified Svaroopa® Yoga TeacherSandra Van Oosten

Deepa Maria Mazzi

Victoria Fanning

Svaroopa® Yoga Basics TeacherSusan Wardle-Mitchell

Jackie Parker

Patricia L. Spencer

Marie Levit

Melissa Hoffman

Peggy Fluett

Svaroopa® Yoga Introductory TeacherJillian Shotzbarger

Mehryn C. Galardi

Lisa Davis

Sarah Scrivani

Raine Williams

Patricia FitzGerald

Sarah Hunter

Diane Kahler

Judith Scoville

Roz Fell

Laurie Hradec

Kerryn Godfrey

Embodyment® Yoga TherapistLaura St. George

Marie Levit

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3. GeoCenter Report: Minneapolis-St. PaulA River Runs Through ItThe Mississippi River flows between Minneapolis and St. Paul MN. Known as the Twin Cities, they are more like fraternal twins, with their individually distinct features — modern skyscrapers in Minneapolis, and in St. Paul the Victorian architecture of quaint neighborhoods. It is even said that Minneapolis is the first city of the US West, while St. Paul is the last city of the East.

Today, this vital metropolis comprises a community of seven active Svaroopa® yoga teachers. With their diverse backgrounds, the members of the Minneapolis-St. Paul GeoCenter include Nora and Chaitanya (Charles) Beckjord, Solveig Corbin, Bhakta (Leslie) Johnson, Niranjan (Nathan) Matanich, Ekamati (Diane) Tsurutani and Susan Warden. These teachers and their students have been nurtured on their Svaroopa® yoga path by a steady stream of MYX Yogimmersions over the past decade. The GeoCenter has hosted Swami Nirmalananda twice as well as a Bliss Weekend; Yoga, Life and Breath; and Meditation Made Easy. Three Foundations courses have also been held, and the next program will be a fourth Foundations, planned for October 26 – 30 2012.

Nora Beckjord, who completed YTT Level 3 this summer, is the current GeoCenter Liaison to Master Yoga Foundation. With professional background in international sales and marketing, Nora is looking for ways to tap into new markets for Svaroopa® yoga in the Twin Cities. To this end, she has taken the Yoga without Props EYTS (Enhance Your Teaching Skills) program. Nora is also spearheading the development of a GeoCenter newsletter to educate the Twin Cities about the biographies of Svaroopa® yoga teachers and their specific locations in various sections of the area, which encompasses 86 cities and townships built around the Mississippi, Minnesota and St. Croix rivers. A website, being developed by Solveig Corbin, is also in process. Its purpose is to bring Svaroopa® yoga to the attention of more potential students and inform them of the availability of classes throughout Minneapolis-St. Paul.

Nora points out that the rich variety of professional backgrounds among GeoCenter members also opens up avenues into new potential student populations. For example, Ekamati has experience as an art museum curator, a computer software engineer, and textile artist.

With a master’s degree in technical communication, Solveig is a web developer as well as owner of Nokomis Yoga, in South Minneapolis, where she teaches the studio’s Svaroopa® yoga classes. Even with diversity of backgrounds, Minneapolis-St. Paul members mention being in community with others who “speak the same language” as one of the best aspects of being formally organized as a GeoCenter. Susan Warden puts it this way: “There are no blank looks, no trying to get the idea across.” This linguistic bond easily opens the way to receiving and giving mutual support regarding teaching challenges etc. Nora says, “We all want to grow our own businesses and support each other at the same time.”

Svaroopa® yoga in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area began with Tammy Lazaro. Although she no longer teaches Svaroopa® yoga, this pioneer planted the seeds for Svaroopa® yoga in the late 1990s. Before moving to MN, Tammy had trained as a Svaroopa® yoga teacher at Master Yoga in La Jolla CA in 1998. Once she re-located to the Twin Cities, Tammy co-hosted Swami Nirmalananda (then Rama) for a weekend Svaroopa® yoga immersion in 1999. And that’s how Bhakta Johnson first discovered Svaroopa® yoga — a discovery that has led to the abiding presence of Svaroopa® yoga in the Twin Cities today.

In 1999, Bhakta was working in the photo business and participating in a local meditation group, which also included her mother’s friend from NY. That friend had learned of the upcoming Svaroopa® yoga weekend and invited Bhakta. Even though she only attended a two-hour segment, Bhakta experienced such profound openings that she began attending Tammy’s weekly Saturday morning classes. Bhakta recalls that, although Saturdays had been her time to sleep in, she faithfully arose early enough each Saturday to be able to leave her house at 8:30 am and arrive in time for Tammy’s 9 am class. Bhakta says, “I was just driven to go to her class. Then it was as though a Divine conspiracy arose that led me to take Foundations.”

That happened when Tammy took a break from teaching, and Bhakta explored other yoga styles looking for a teacher. “After the pure stuff,” says Bhakta, “I didn’t want ‘diluted’!” So that exploration ultimately led to Bhakta to take Foundations of Svaroopa® Yoga. After Foundations, Bhakta began teaching first in a dance

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studio. Blankets were stored in crates on wheels. The dance teacher topped the crates with cushions for seating during her own classes. Next, Bhakta rented an oval room in a healing arts center. Then a year or so later, Bhakta partnered with a wellness center, and taught her classes there. Here she hosted the first MYX program with Karobi Sachs.Highland Yoga & Meditation Center in St. Paul came into being when the wellness center owner decided to let go of their lease, and Bhakta decided to look for a larger space. She had already “sampled” the space that now holds Highland Yoga, having rented it for the first Foundations ever to be held in the Twin Cities. A few blocks east of the Mississippi River, this space has since hosted two Foundations and will host the fourth Foundations in October.

Now herself on the Master Yoga Foundation Faculty as a Foundations Trainer, Bhakta has constantly cultivated the Svaroopa® yoga seeds that Tammy Lazaro carried from La Jolla nearly 15 years ago. That Svaroopa® yoga now flourishes in the Twin Cities is a testament to Bhakta’s service in the GeoCenter as a Leading Svaroopa® Yoga Teacher as well as the owner of Highland Yoga & Meditation Center in St. Paul.

Bhakta thus ensured that Svaroopa® yoga took root in the Twin Cities. Ekamati, Niranjan, and Susan all found

Svaroopa® yoga through Bhakta at her first teaching location, the healing arts center. Then Solveig found this yoga through Bhakta at the wellness center. Finally, Chaitanya and Nora were students first at Highland Yoga. Now all six are teaching Svaroopa® yoga. While Niranjan has stayed at Highland Yoga as a teacher, the others have branched out into other areas of Twin Cities.

Bhakta adds, “Hosting Foundations has been a big factor in growing the community. When Foundations can be hosted locally, it saves travel costs and makes this introduction to Svaroopa® Yoga Teacher Training much more accessible to those who are drawn to this path. Then they can foresee the value of future YTT, which does include their travel.”

With the Ayurvedic pitta nature of the born leader, Nora Beckjord as Liaison is bringing a more formal structure to the GeoCenter, through the GeoCenter newsletter and the community website as well as establishing quarterly meetings. Recent meetings, held at Solveig Corbin’s studio, Susan Warden’s home, and — in mid-September — Ekamati (Diane) Tsurutani’s home, have provided opportunities for the group to brainstorm new ways to continue to spread the word about Svaroopa® yoga. These gatherings have also featured potlucks and Embodyment® exchanges — the mainstay of Svaroopis everywhere.

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Profiles of the Twin Cities SvaroopisNow teaching in her home studio northeast of the Twin Cities, Susan Warden was the first of Bhakta’s students to take Foundations and then graduate as a Certified Svaroopa® Yoga Teacher. When Susan moved to Minneapolis 13 years ago, she had been practicing many different styles of yoga over the previous 20 years, having begun when her son, now 33, was born.

One day she was walking with a friend, who had moved from Fairfield IA, and chatting about her yoga experience. “I’ve been doing yoga forever, but something is missing. I want something that gets into my core, something beyond the physical. I have had great teachers, good teachers — but something is missing.”

Susan’s friend, who had taken Svaroopa® yoga in Fairfield IA, said, “I know what you need — Svaroopa® yoga!”

“How do you spell that?” asked Susan, and then her friend explained a bit about it. When Susan searched the Internet for Svaroopa® yoga in Minnesota, she found Bhakta. In the first class, Susan says, she knew that this yoga was about “coming home to your Self.”

When Susan took Foundations in 2004 it was to learn more about the yoga, but afterwards she felt that she wanted to teach after all. It happened that Swami Nirmalananda (then Rama) was to be hosted by teachers in the Fairfield IA, a location close enough to Minneapolis for Susan to drive. She arrived early, and set blankets up in front of Swami Nirmalananda. Later, Susan told Swami Nirmalananda that she was considering teaching and asked how she should start. “Teach the Magic Four to friends and family to see how you feel about teaching,” was Rama’s advice.

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think all of the time — there was just this natural flow up the spine.” When she took YTT Level 1 a few years later, Susan could tell that her “warm, gentle” Teacher Trainers loved teaching. “Now,” she says, “I am in the same boat. I love teaching.”

“The best part of belonging to a GeoCenter,” says Susan, “is knowing that you have a group with you —your sisters and brothers — that supports you. You know you’re not on your own. When you have the support of your Svaroopa® yoga teacher friends, you can talk about challenges with clients and situations. You can ask, ‘What do you do here?’ If you can’t teach, you know someone else can come in and teach exactly what you’re teaching. And Embodyment® trades at meetings! All in all, this support helps me with the four Bs —Breathe, Believe, Be, Bhakti. And when you come home from training, you can get an Embodyment® session to stay open!”

Susan teaches in her local community education program as well as in her home studio in a section of Minneapolis that is a mosaic of lakes. Her space is a walk-out basement, which holds seven consistent, committed students, and backs up to forest preserve. The community ed setting, where she teaches eight-week sessions for beginners, features desks and chairs in a schoolroom with no ambience. Yet she loves to teach there. Introducing the practice to new students, Susan tells them, “You’ve found a real gem here.” Susan says, “Sukhasana as a marker is the pose that really gets them. When they open their eyes, they are shining. I ask them, ‘Do you think you could sit here forever?’ They reply Yesss…. Then I tell them ‘Go look in the mirror!’” Reflectively, she says, “Everyone’s story is a different facet of the gem.”

Svaroopa® yoga has been priceless to Susan personally as well. In 2003 after Susan’s husband’s first class with Bhakta, he said, “Wow, this is great.” Once Susan began teaching in her home studio, her husband began taking class there. The fact that her husband thus became a dedicated Svaroopa® yoga student likely saved his life.

A few years ago, after a long hike in the country, he and Susan were driving home when he felt strange and then worse and worse (with symptoms of heart attack). Susan took over the driving, and in a small town she parked outside a restaurant where she used a land line to call 911. As they waited for medical assistance, Susan says that she and her husband were able to communicate without talking and without panic, and, together, to enter the state of the Divine within. In the midst of this trauma, her husband practiced Ujjayi Pranayama and rested within himself in a deep place of opening that he had experienced reliably and consistently in Svaroopa® yoga classes. “He remembered the Truth of his own Being,” Susan says. Her husband now likes to tell people that she saved his life. But Susan likes to counter with, “The Svaroopa® yoga saved your life!”

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After Susan Warden, Niranjan Matanich was the next Twin Cities Svaroopi to become a teacher. He began practicing Svaroopa® yoga in 2004. He recalls, “I was invited to attend a class having no idea what it would be like. After that class I knew something felt different, but I wasn’t sure what it was. I was intrigued enough to keep attending. The more I practiced, the more I noticed change in my life, not just physically but mentally and emotionally. I started to have the experience of living life from a place of being open and present in all activities and was inspired to start teaching. Now a Certified Svaroopa® Yoga Teacher, I’ve been teaching since April of 2007.” In addition to teaching asana classes, Niranjan teaches Svaroopa® Vidya Meditation and is certified as a Meditation Group Leader. At Highland Yoga & Meditation Center, Niranjan leads the weekly Satsang for a steady group of six to eight on Friday evenings. Niranjan says he is drawn to this service because he is “fired up about chanting, japa and meditation.” Outside of teaching, Niranjan works as a manufacturing engineer in a foam fabrication plant.

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When Ekamati (Diane) Tsurutani took Foundations and then Embodyment® Yoga Therapy training, she did so to meet prerequisites for Meditation Teacher Training, which she completed in 2007 before beginning the YTT track. Having practiced a Taoist meditation, Ekamati was attracted to Svaroopa® yoga, because, she says, “I couldn’t sit.” In a Yoga Journal Teachers Directory, Ekamati saw a list of yoga styles that included Svaroopa® yoga. It “jumped out” at her as the remedy for her difficulty. When she searched the Internet for Svaroopa® yoga, Ekamati found that Bhakta was the only teacher in Minnesota at that time.

Arriving at her first class carrying a yoga mat, Ekamati nevertheless knew right away, “This is it.” She says, “The class had a wonderful Shavasana,” and she recognized, “This is the quiet mind I’ve been looking for.” In taking Foundations as well as Yoga Sutra phone courses with Swami Nirmalananda, Ekamati also knew that Swami Nirmalananda was the teacher who could teach her about the spiritual life. So, as Ekamati puts it, she “stayed in the groove” and began YTT in 2008 and graduated in 2011. Today, teaching in her home studio west of the Mississippi near Minneapolis, Ekamati feels that she is lucky to have found Bhakta, with her extensive training and expertise. The best part of belonging to this GeoCenter, says Ekamati is “being part of a group of like-minded yogis, who mutually support one another, whether it’s through understanding of the technicalities of the asana practice or the deeper experiences that emerge through it and through meditation.” Ekamati also appreciates deeply Bhakta’s support


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About a decade ago, Solveig Corbin found Svaroopa® yoga through a free class offered by Bhakta when she was teaching in the wellness center. Solveig had been taking regular hatha yoga in a studio for a while to deal with severe chronic pain. But when that teacher closed her studio and rented space for her classes in a church basement, Solveig thought of giving up on yoga. The classes took place on a basketball court in that basement, and Solveig was not finding any improvement in the physical condition that had led her to yoga.

A pharmacist at that time, Solveig had a stressful job, working long shifts, always on her feet, and experiencing repetitive motion injury to her hands. In fact, she could no longer feel her hands, which prevented her from performing her job efficiently, thus creating more stress. Because she was working in the medical system, says Solveig, she first tried to find answers there. But physicians she consulted told her there was nothing wrong — a response that led to more pain and depression. At that point, Solveig says, she decided to try everything — chiropractors, massage, neurologists, acupuncture, two Feldenkrais appointments each week — and yoga as well. When Solveig found Bhakta’s classes, she noticed there was “something a little different about this type of yoga.”

She recalls, “I just kept going and going, noticing that something was really happening. I had an awareness of it even though I didn’t feel it for a long time. I remember lying in Shavasana and thinking ‘this is absolutely what I need’. In time Svaroopa® yoga made a huge difference in my life — and I could feel my hands!” Solveig says, “I didn’t expect anything — but it was the only thing that helped.”

Solveig took Bhakta’s Svaroopa® yoga classes from Bhakta for two years, and then signed up for Foundations to deepen her personal practice. She did not want to become a teacher, and did not attend the meeting that the Foundations teachers arranged for those students who did intend to begin teaching. Feeling that her “body was still really stuck,” Solveig says that she doubted that she could do the poses well enough herself to teach others. But she did sub for Bhakta and liked doing it, and within another year took Foundations Review and then YTT

Level 1. “Now,” says Solveig, “I can’t imagine not having done it. It was a gradual process. At this point I have completed YTT Level 3 and plan to take Level 4 in January 2013.”

Three and a half years ago, after Solveig completed YTT Level 2 and Embodyment® Yoga Therapy training, an appealing space became available for lease near Solveig’s home in South Minneapolis. She says, “It was so perfect that it was hard to not do it. And I thought, ‘I’ll just try it and see how it goes.’” So Nokomis Yoga was born, and it is thriving.

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The two newest teachers, Chaitanya (Charles) and Nora Beckjord, began teaching at Highland Yoga as substitute teachers for Bhakta when she needed to travel for training or as a Foundations teacher. Now Chaitanya and Nora teach at other studios in the Twin Cities, so they are introducing many new people to Svaroopa® yoga. Since taking Half-Day Workshops earlier this year, Nora offers three-hour workshops in various studios around the Twin Cities once or twice each month. Chaitanya, who is an attorney, also serves on the Master Yoga Board as Secretary, while Nora serves as GeoCenter Liaison.

Bhakta recalls that Chaitanya and Nora, who live near the Highland Yoga & Meditation Center, first began with private classes and were dedicated students from the start. Dealing with psoriatic arthritis first motivated Chaitanya to try Svaroopa® yoga. Chaitanya says that he immediately felt changes. Because of internal tension, however, it took more than a year before he could directly feel his tailbone and sacrum open. With the aim of relieving his condition, he took an “aggressive approach” to his practice. He remembers hearing Swami Nirmalananda saying at the last convention that Svaroopa® yoga could be described as slow but not gentle yoga. He believes that that is a very apt description of the subtle power of this yoga, and found it to be especially true in YTT Level 3 in experiencing deep lower spinal and heart opening.

Through Svaroopa® yoga Nora has also experienced profound healing in that she no longer has the symptoms of fibromyalgia or requires medication for high blood pressure. These results have led her to study the sister science of yoga — Ayurveda — to sustain and promote health and wellbeing further, and to have these practices as well to share with students.



4. Thank You for Your Support Master Yoga Foundation would not exist without the support of so many generous yogis, including those who offer seva. The following people deserve our special thanks for their hard work, time, and effort.

Assistant TeachersUnpaid Assistants

Sally Broadhurst YTT Level 3 July 27, 2012 Exton PA

Linda Jones Foundations June 18, 2012 Brisbane, Australia

Sandy Rushton Foundations July 4, 2012 Atlanta GA

Unpaid Assistants

Kelly Sharp Embodyment® Weekend July 6, 2012 Exton PA

Cyndy Gribskov Foundations August 10, 2012 Exton PA

Kelly Sharp Embodyment® Yoga Therapy August 21, 2012 Exton PA

Tahira Haroon YTT Level 2 September 7, 2012 Exton PA

Margo Gebraski Embodyment® Weekend July 20, 2012 Chicago IL

Behind-the-Scenes and Ongoing SupportName Seva

Adell Kochubka and Nora Beckjord Typing comments from feedback forms

Niranjan Matanich Editor of SATYA Q & A

Marlene Gast, Carolyn Beaver, and Rob Gold Tadaa! team

Sarvataa Christie Moderating our e-group

Kamala (Michelle) Gross Sending thank you notes to honorees of donations

Polly DiBella Posting Master Yoga listings on Philly Area Yoga website

Michele Gordon Organizing Master Yoga’s Photo Server

Andrea Wasserman Assisting with production for Spotlight on Your Yoga

Jeanne Marie Plourde Managing Google alerts

David Falbaum Assisting with production for Spotlight on Your Yoga

Linda Bliss Link checking

Gratitude to the BoardWe especially acknowledge the members of the Master Yoga Foundation Board of Directors and their committees for their time, commitment and dedication.


Personal Donations Received In Honor OfDonor In Honor of:

Sally Broadhurst Cyndy Gribskov

Kate Lipsky Honoring The Teacher

John White Tish Roy

Personal Donations Received Dedicated ToDonor Dedicated to:

Susan Beers For Studio Supplies

Peggy Trainor For Printer Exton

Mazie Zdandowich For Hinge Change

Group Donations• From Grace-Full Openings Students

• From Long Neck Shores Residents via Mary Jean Skinner

Personal DonationsCayla Allen

Lloyd Apirian

Debra Baker

Kathy Biasotti

Betsy Bommer

Annette Bongiorno

Tammy Browning

Mary Carpenter

Melinda Carpenter

Ellan Catacchio

Beth Cunningham

Lizabeth Darling

Lisa Davis

Muriel Desjardins

David Falbaum

Judy Fontaine

Nicholas Francis

Terry Gardner

Donna Gaspard

Marlene Gast

Kelly Goss

Cyndy Gribskov

Kirsten Hale

Alan Harmon

Christine Hernandez

Susan Hollister-Schell

Tomi Horne

Mari Anne Jayme

Lynda Jones

Chelsea King

Caroline Kutil

Frances Light

Michael Newman

Rosemary Nogue

Sue Normandin

Jeanne Ormiston

Sandy Peace

Alison Pyott

Tish Roy

Jennifer Sebastian

Maria Sichel

Elizabeth Siekierski

Sharon Tennant

Peggy Trainor

Sandy Van Oosten

Constance Vineyard

Christine Washington

Andrea Wasserman

Julie Watson

Ruth Winslow

Deborah Woodward

Evy Zavolas

Annette Zucco


Non-Cash DonationsBy Kelly Sharp Leading CSYT Community Relations Manager

For recent donations, we thank… for…

Kelly Park Small food chopper, extension cord and printer paper

Mary Lou Sheaffer & Devi McKenty Paper products and supplies

Phil Milgrom and Nancy Nowak, The Centered Place, Warren MA

Phil works for HP, and arranged for us to obtain a printer through their giving program at a deep discount; Peggy Trainor made a cash donation to cover the remaining purchase price

HP Printer and ink

Community Support of the Shopping ListBy Kelly Sharp Leading CSYT Community Relations Manager

Thanks to all the yogis who saw a need at the Exton studio and met it, publicly or anonymously. Your generosity is woven into the bhav of the studio… it is a tangible feeling that supports and uplifts all who enter the space! With deep gratitude, we thank you.

The following are items used regularly at the Exton studio and elsewhere in our country-wide organization. To let me know of your donation of shopping list items, please contact me ([email protected]); I welcome your donation of any of these items for the Exton studio.

Shopping List Items

• White multipurpose printer paper

• Tissues

• AA batteries

• Coffee

• Honey

• Raw Sugar

• Swiffer duster refills

• Swiffer wet mop refills

• Glass cleaner

• Sponges and SOS pads

• Toilet paper

• Paper towels

• Dish Detergent

• 40 gallon trash bags

• 4 gallon trash bags

Documents

FALL 2012 - Svaroopa · 2016. 2. 9. · Fall 2012 Volume 15, Issue #8 EDITOR — Marlene Gast CSYT PUBLISHER — Master Yoga Foundation ASSOCIATE EDITOR — Carolyn (Karuna) Beaver