Open level practice welcomes all ages/abilities, and may include meditation, inversions, back bends, and balancing poses. Listen to your own body, and go at your own pace. No judgment. Expect to hear some music, move through some sun salutations, and breathe in time with your movement.
Namaste,
Jim Ray RYT200
No yoga practices scheduled at this time.
to be announced
Join us on Sunday mornings from 10:30 AM until 12 PM at Fortnight in Cary, NC for free community yoga practice. Bring your own mat.
Sometimes, I try to think of something meaningful for my yoga practice. Something for a little dharma talk. Just a little nugget that folks might hold onto, and take with them off the mat and into life. I couldn’t think of a thing this morning for tomorrow’s Sunday Morning Free Community Yoga at Fortnight. Zilch. I just wanted to sit down, and shut up.
Then, it came to me. Sit down, and shut up. That was it. Not in a mean or nasty way. Just do it. Those little voices inside our heads with constant chatter also known as the monkey mind need to sit down, and shut up. It is part of the process to arrive on your mat, and purge thyself of all things that do not serve you. You do it by focusing on breathing because everyone has the ability to breathe, or you would not be here. Focus on the breath, and the monkey mind sits down, and shuts up.
We may use the physical asana to help us become more receptive to the meditative state of bliss where the monkey mind cannot be heard. Advanced yoga is all about the mind, and not just the body bending into some pretzel. It is all about the mind controlling and elongating the breath that regulates the heart rate throughout the asana and seated meditation.
Come breathe. Set yourself free. Kiss the monkey mind bye bye, and arrive.
Join me most any given Sunday morning for yoga at Fortnight in Cary, and go within. Tap into your mind, body, and soul to successfully arrive by letting go of the past, not worrying about the future, and being in the present moment to acknowledge your own divine nature. All you have to do is to bring your own mat, and breathe. It’s a free community practice that is open to all levels. I lean toward the gentle side instead of torture like Chaturanga Dandasana until your arms fall off yet also throw in a little optional spice. We start at 10:30 AM every Sunday at Fortnight in Cary, NC unless there is a holiday, or I am out of town at my additional teacher training at Asheville Yoga Center several times each year. Here’s where I will post any schedule changes, and where you may go for additional details:
Arrive. Be here now.
Regards,
Jim
Jim Ray RYT200 cell: 984-459-0458
Yoga is not about the fancy pose. It is about getting into your head, and your heart. It is about taking what you learn on the mat into your life off the mat. Jim completed RYT200 teacher training at Republic of Yoga in Cary, NC, and is currently enrolled in RYT300 teacher training at Asheville Yoga Center.
*** 6/18/2017 Sunday morning yoga has been cancelled. The Fortnight tap room will be closed. ***
Reasons not to do yoga are things we create in our own mind that are obstacles. I hurt my leg. I am too tight. I don’t have time. It is too expensive.
Let’s turn it around: Reasons *To* Do Yoga
It makes me happy. My body feels good afterward. Pretty simple stuff.
Join me most any given Sunday morning for yoga at Fortnight in Cary, and go within. Tap into your mind, body, and soul to successfully arrive by letting go of the past, not worrying about the future, and being in the present moment to acknowledge your own divine nature. All you have to do is to bring your own mat, and breathe. It’s a free community practice that is open to all levels. I lean toward the gentle side instead of torture like Chaturanga Dandasana until your arms fall off yet also throw in a little optional spice. We start at 10:30 AM every Sunday at Fortnight in Cary, NC unless there is a holiday, or I am out of town at my additional teacher training at Asheville Yoga Center several times each year. Here’s where I will post any schedule changes, and where you may go for additional details:
Arrive. Be here now.
Regards,
Jim
Jim Ray RYT200 cell: 984-459-0458
Yoga is not about the fancy pose. It is about getting into your head, and your heart. It is about taking what you learn on the mat into your life off the mat. Jim completed RYT200 teacher training at Republic of Yoga in Cary, NC, and is currently enrolled in RYT300 teacher training at Asheville Yoga Center.
Success with yoga is an internal job that is unique to each of us, and that comes from within. Join me most any given Sunday morning for yoga at Fortnight in Cary, and go within. Tap into your mind, body, and soul to successfully arrive by letting go of the past, not worrying about the future, and being in the present moment to acknowledge your own divine nature. All you have to do is to bring your own mat, and breathe. It’s a free community practice that is open to all levels. I lean toward the gentle side instead of torture like Chaturanga Dandasana until your arms fall off yet also throw in a little optional spice. We start at 10:30 AM every Sunday at Fortnight in Cary, NC unless there is a holiday, or I am out of town at my additional teacher training at Asheville Yoga Center several times each year. Here’s where I will post any schedule changes, and where you may go for additional details:
Arrive. Be here now.
Regards,
Jim
Jim Ray RYT200 cell: 984-459-0458
Yoga is not about the fancy pose. It is about getting into your head, and your heart. It is about taking what you learn on the mat into your life off the mat. Jim completed RYT200 teacher training at Republic of Yoga in Cary, NC, and is currently enrolled in RYT300 teacher training at Asheville Yoga Center.
Scheduling is daily for each individual with the one true teacher, the one within each and every one of us. Price is free. Description is what you decide. No judgment. Peace.
One of the folks that joined us for our first practice at my new home studio on Thursday had asked about my notes. We did not get to everything. Consequently, I am going to extend the next practice another 15 minutes so we do not feel rushed. My wife was surprised at the decidedly classic rock play list. So, I decided to post both. Click here to reserve your spot for our next practice:
YogaSequence-2015-11-19 Click here to download pdf with graphics: Yoga Sequence 2015-11-19
Here’s the play list:
Please join us Sunday mornings for Meditation Yoga with Smita Shah from 9-10 AM.
– Begin with Flex & Stretch for comfortable seated position to Meditate
– 10 – 15 minutes Meditation
– Gentle Yoga Poses: sitting down, lying on back, lying on stomach, & standing,
– End with Relaxation
Championship Martial Arts
1408 Village Market Place
Morrisville, NC 27560
Join us for community vinyasa slow flow yoga on most Thursdays from 5:45 PM to 7:15 PM. Show up at 5:45 PM if it is your first visit to Smiling Circle Yoga so you may complete the one-time registration form. We plan to practice from 6-7 PM and have buffer to clear the house for their next event. Class Passes for Smiling Circle Yoga and donations are accepted yet not required.
Namaste,
Jim
Jim Ray, President
Neuse Networks – Managed Services Behind the Scenes, After-Hours, and Out of Your Way since 1997
web: www.neuse.net phone: 919-838-1672 x100 email: jim@neuse.net
For service, email ticket@neuse.net and call 919-838-1672 option 1.
Jim, RYT 200, teaches yoga, practices yoga on a regular basis, and formed Neuse Networks in 1997 that specializes in managed services (MSP) to remotely automate IT maintenance and to take IT labor out of the equation. He focuses on combining conventional client/server technologies with virtualization, mobility, and cloud technologies to implement computer networks for voice, video, and data. His education includes Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from NC State 1985. He has been in IEEE since 1980 (Senior Member, past Chair for Eastern North Carolina Section 2010, past Chair for NC State Student Branch 1981). He lives in Cary, NC with his wife and two sons.
“I have been medically advised not to do yoga” said one of my very first yoga students that would come over to my house for free yoga for seniors on Saturday afternoons. She told me she quit in an email yesterday. Wtf?
It really hurt me. I always felt like she got it and could see the smile in her face. I call BS on the adviser. Here’s why.
One thing that one of my teachers told me helped more than anything else. Breathe. Bring pranayama into your daily home yoga practice. It is all about the mind and not so much the physical body. The meditation and introspection is key.
There are also restorative yoga classes that I personally love and that allow me to have practice even after I do something stupid and get hurt. I rarely go to any open level yoga class without substituting a child’s pose for any given pose and have never had anyone yell at me for doing so. I have been yelled at many times for doing stupid stuff above my pay grade. I don’t yell, though. I help others do stupid stuff, too, spot them so it is safe, and laugh when I fall.
I would like to go back to the person that gave the medical advice and get them to qualify their opinion like don’t do twists and back bends as opposed to don’t do yoga if you have something wrong with your back. Anyone that says don’t do yoga does not understand yoga.
I encourage folks to continue on the path even if the physical asana is not possible. The best thing I ever did is start yoga to train my mind after injury. We can’t prevent things from happening to us. We can change the way we feel about it.
Namaste,
Jim
Jim Ray, President
Neuse Networks – Managed Services Behind the Scenes, After-Hours, and Out of Your Way since 1997
web: www.neuse.net phone: 919-838-1672 x100 email: jim@neuse.net
For service, email ticket@neuse.net and call 919-838-1672 option 1.
Jim practices yoga daily and formed Neuse Networks in 1997 that specializes in managed services (MSP) to remotely automate IT maintenance and to take IT labor out of the equation. He focuses on combining conventional client/server technologies with virtualization, mobility, and cloud technologies to implement computer networks for voice, video, and data. His education includes Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from NC State 1985. He has been in IEEE since 1980 (Senior Member, past Chair for Eastern North Carolina Section 2010, past Chair for NC State Student Branch 1981). He lives in Cary, NC with his wife and two sons.
