Fundraiser for Autism at Drinkwater Flowers, Saturday, Dec. 8th

Drinkwater Flowers & Design is hosting a Holiday Centerpiece making event to benefit autism:

Saturday December 8th,
Schedule project time to work with a designer and create your own beautiful Holiday decorated boxwood tree.
Purchase your creation to help fight autism.

http://www.drinkwaterdesigns.com/

Art and Yoga Camp for Children

Check out the Art and Yoga Camp that I am co-leading with Jena Roberts, owner of Sangha Yoga and Michelle Graziano, Licensed NH art teacher! My daughter, Sydney will be participating and we would love to have some inspired artist and yoginis join us right here in Stratham at Sangha Yoga.
Tell your friends who have children ages 8-12.

Sangha Yoga Studio Presents:

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Camp

We are sooo excited to offer a Summer Camp for Kids. Yoga is an amazing tool to promote self-awareness, self-esteem, and body awareness. Similarly, these attributes are necessary for artists. Art and Yoga go hand in hand. In this day camp, we will discover the relationship between self and the production of artistic expression. Great for beginning yogi or yoginis, yoga will feature vinyasa flow, group activity and meditation/relaxation. Art projects range from exploring the naturalists, expressionists, impressionists and more. The program is developed and taught by Michelle Graziano, licensed NH Art Teacher, Jena Roberts, RYT-200 Yoga instructor & Nicolle Casey, RYT-500 Yoga Instructor. ill feature vinyasa (flow), group activity and meditation/relaxation. Art projects range from exploring naturalists, expressionists, impressionists and more. The program was developed and is taught by a licensed NH Art teacher and a RYT-200 yoga teacher. Runs July 16th – 21st, 10-2pm. $100. Per student, $15. Materials fee.

Who: Children Ages 8-12

Date: July 16-20, 2012

Time: 9.15am-2.15pm

Place: Sangha Yoga, 108 High St. Stratham,  

 Cost: $100. + $15. materials fee

www.facebook.com/SanghaYogaStudio

Contact: Jena Roberts, (603) 770-0473 jenap@comcast.net

One Day - Spring Renewal - Yoga Retreat!

Join me and a wonderful group of Yogis, May 12th - for a lovely day of great food, good folks, a lovely setting, yoga, meditation, chanting, nature walks, silence.... One day but it will feel like a week!
Yoga Retreat at Aryaloka - Newmarket
http://www.aryaloka.org

Namaste,
Nicolle

What Dr. Butera has to say about the ego

I love what Dr. Butera, one of my yoga teachers and founder of Yoga Life Institute of Penn.,  say's about the ego and how best, for us to come to peace with it;-)
Embrace the ego do not try to eradicate it:-) Ah, I feel better already.....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGgYU9zqHUw

Celebrating Life and the Earth!

My Daughter, Sydney asked yesterday, "Why do we celebrate Easter?" We discussed the Christian celebration of the rebirth of Christ and Mother Earth's celebration of the rebirth of nature. It all boils down to Spring being the time to celebrate new life, right? 

Happy Easter, however, and for whatever reason you celebrate, Love Life!;-)

Below is a post I wrote last year, I hope you can see the perennial purpose of me sharing this;-)

The Easter Bunny is  coming this weekend and my son asked, "Mom, what does the Easter Bunny have to do with eggs anyway. They don't lay eggs." So we had a conversation about Spring time, and the rebirth of nature, and new life and how the prolific bunny and eggs are symbols of the new life and rebirth that takes place in Spring.

The earth is teaming with new life and it is a perfect time to celebrate the season of rebirth, Easter, and "Earth Day"!  

So, get outside, go for a walk, practice Yoga on the lawn. (I hear the folks at the White House will be practicing on their front lawn, prior to hunting for Easter eggs this year.)

Anyway you celebrate, find a way to include our wonderful life giving Earth.

One Day Spring Renewal Retreat!

Please Join me and some of YogaLife Institutes most inspiring Yoga instructors for a One Day Spring Renewal Retreat!
I am so excited to spend the day with my lovely friends; practice yoga, eat amazing, fresh, local, organic and sometime Wild food and reconnect with myself and nature. I'm breathing deeper just thinking about it!
Bring your Mom (It's Mother's day weekend), sister, daughter, husband  
Saturday, May 12th
Aryaloka Buddhist Center, Newmarket, NH (This place is amazing, check it out under Links I Like...)
See link for more details and register online:
Spring Renewal Retreat

Prayer in Nature - Our Topic in Yoga/Meditation class this week

In "The American Scholar," Ralph Waldo Emerson defines three stages for the Transcendentalist's life.

1. One studies the wisdom of the past. In terms of meditation, a review of major mystics satisfies study of the past.
2. Spiritualize life by communing with nature and learning to listen to the divine from within one's self. This idea closely resembles the Yogic thought of stilling one's mind in order to gain an understanding of higher aspects of one's self and reality. Mystics assert that divinity can be found from within.
3. After self-renewal, one works toward the renewal of society at large.

Join Us: 6:00-7:30 at Blue Moon Yoga - Weather permitting, we will practice outside
Dress appropriately and bring a towel if you don't want to put you mat on the ground.