Demonstration at the Tulip Festival

Dear friends,

This year Ryurei Aikido has been invited to provide a demonstration of Aikido and Shinkido (a mind-body-spirit discipline) for the organizers of the Japanese Pavilion at the Tulip Festival.

Shinkido teaches one about the natural internal energy, how to use it, how to feel it, how to develop it, how to make it stronger, how to help others to utilize it, and how to not waste it. I thought this would be of interest to you as yogi/yoginis.

We are going to have larger group of members taking part this year. With male and female, young and not so young, all taking part. Beginners and some with more experience.

The demonstration will be held on Saturday May 10th at 10:00am

I am looking forward to seeing you there.

Namaste,
Alex

Salutations To ALL

Hey everyone. Congradulations to all. I hope You all realize the strength you have gain throughout the last six months, and continue to grow in your path as a household Yogi. Thanking all of you for sharing in this magnificent experience. I'm moving to Toronto in the next couple of weeks to hopefully if any of you are coming down. Please to hesitate to contact me. Good luck to all.
Namaste
Jose M.

Yoga Teachers Ahoy!!!

Namaste to all of you Beautiful Beings!

I thank you for all the energy and enthusiasm that you each brought to this course. It wasn't always easy to show up, but we made it in the end, and what transformation. You are each so Lovely!
Let us keep in touch. Blessings to us all on this most extrordanary path. You will be in my heart for all time.
Grace and prosperous beauty to you each!
Much Love
Sami

This is Yannick

Hey!
Well, it's good to hear from you, now that you finally back in Victoria. Things here are a little rainy but we can't complain, it's been gorgeous for over 5 days. I got a new bike last week and I riding on Sunday. Wow! It was amazing out.

I've been looking at tickets for Victoria, best thing I found was $760 with Air Canada both ways, which is pretty descent. I just got to reserve with Salts Spring before I get the ticket.

So that's that. I'll write something soon.

Take care y'all

Yannick

Back in BC

After a very, very long week we are back on the other side of the country! The trip was fairly uneventful until I got the flu and we got snowed in at Calgary and had to stop there for a couple of days. I confess that although I brought my yoga mat on the trip, I was too sick to practice any asanas. I did, however, make an effort to remember my breath every half hour and to appreciate the drive no matter how tired or sick I was. I really noticed that my mind and my body reacted a lot better to the drive this time than earlier in the year. I was way less stiff and pretty peaceful all week.
Now we are in Victoria and I am really excited about getting back to my old studio and hopefully to start teaching a few classes here and there. I will be thinking about you all this weekend and wishing I were there for the celebration. Have a great time and congratulations!!!
xo Kaisha

Back IN BC

Hopefully everything went fine with the drive back to Victoria. That drive throught the Praries must have been depleting. I hope you pulled over a few times to re-energize your body with some yoga. I'm pretty sure Jemile booked the retreat in august. Still seeing if i can make out there too. Hopefully i can.
Later. Peace

Jose

Hooray for Blog

Finally got on now to wait and see who else posts.
Jose

Photos

As you all know, I made a big announcement in class offering to do photos for everyone. Unfortunately, I totally dropped the ball and only managed to get into the studio for one afternoon to take pictures of Rama Lotus for Robert and a couple of photos of Vero, Yannik and Jun. The cover page of the site is Vero in a nice forward bend. For a sample of the other pictures, from that afternoon, you can see them on my photo site: www.atomicphotography.com under my name and then yoga.
My apologies to everyone that I didn't manage to pull off the big photo shoot I was hoping for, time has a tendency to creep up on me. Or in other words, I am a poor time manager.
Kaisha

Ta Da!

Here it is, a little blog for all of us to keep in touch. I hope you all find this useful.