As I sit to write this week’s blog, I’m looking for the ergonomically perfect position to write and do work on my lap top…and to find the perfect pose, for my body at this time.  It is in the name of service.

“The more comfort in which I can find myself, the better people will feel when I give to them of what I am gifted.”

But it’s tricky.  Especially in a world that is ergonomically duh, stupid.  A world that just says the word ‘ergonomic’ and then builds the same dumb chairs and environments where we can do nothing but stand or sit out of good alignment in a chair.

Notice how hard it can be to hold your body in a way that genuinely supports your life force.

Support your body enough, and in the right way, for your body to relax unnecessary tension, using rolled blankets, cushions, books and other household items.  You know it’s working because it is soothing to the nerves and healing to the soul in its feeling of being free and weightless.  Proper ergonomic support reduces some of what gravity I call a “gravity stamp” on your body.

Service comes easily to some it seems.  There are those that naturally do nothing but give of themselves, care for others, and generally spend their time contributing to people’s well being.  These days I have friends and colleagues that come out of the wood work, and do a great deal of service for me.  Back over a decade ago, it was service to help save my life from cancer.  Today it is so that we can work together to bring people a higher quality of health, greater social consciousness and more expanded circle of care for each other.

Low and behold, by taking the leap of faith that would draw us deep over our heads into the ocean of service to others, I’m seeing many supports appearing from every unexpected corner.  Why is that?  In my own words, because people recognize when there is a train already going –  on a lifeline that doesn’t just connect two people, but connects many along lines that are genuinely rich – with the inspiration of nourishment and the food of inspiration that will really satisfy and make us, potentially all, feel full.

We find this subject of service come up in Step 3 (of my 6 Steps to Growing Full (in a) Circle system) in the 12 Week Yoga Challenge that is half way finished this week.  This step, focused on the means for healing, is for digging deep into the power and energy we need to fuel the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual, and never mind electronic, train of healing through the means of service.  This week we will learn how to use yoga to practice healing and be in service to humanity at the same time. Why is healing considered an act of service?  And vice versa?  Here’s some of my theories:

To the extent you have healed is the extent to which you can assist others to do the same.

Because giving of yourself, in the ways you are gifted, feels like a relaxing spa for the mind and graces you with unexpected energy infusions.  It’s healing for people to receive your gifts and it’s healing for you to give them (but it is always a surprise how and when the healing happens!).

Living in some dark days of humanity’s fall from power-and-control leadership structures, who only understand how to lead by force, have never learned from women how to cooperate and sustain life within the web of community.

But that shouldn’t stop you from trying to infect everyone with the joy of putting yourself in a role where you give the excess away, where it truly lives in your heart and lifestyle.

It took effort to set myself up in a truly comfortable way today, but it is so worth it!  Here’s how you can do service to your body too, with this yoga ergonomic tip for the week:

• If you use a lap top to do computer work and your body doesn’t feel good in front of it, do the following to make yourself feel more than halfway comfortable and leave your back feeling good!
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1. Sit on a soft, but firm surface with crossed legs with the option to stretch them out in front of you at the same height.

2. Put your lap top up on a breakfast tray, one half to a foot in front of somewhere you can put the unit up and back.

3.  Change your font size or screen magnification so your eyes don’t strain.

4. Put a rectangular bolster behind your back in a vertical position along the length of the spine, and place it on top of one that is perpendicular, lengthwise on the floor behind it, so the rectangular bolster sits at an angle upon which you can comfortably sit back.

5.  Before you get totally comfortable, diaper yourself so you never have to go the bathroom : )

6. Place a thin cushion or foam chip yoga block on top of your crossed legs for a remote keyboard that you USB plug into your lap top or which has Blue Tooth technology for going wireless.

7. Position the letters part of the keyboard in the centre of the body, even though this was never in a million years thought of, that you would put the keyboard on your lap, and not the electromagnetic polluter that the lap top (dumb name) is.  It should be called “Neck Wrecker,” “Convenient But Spine Crushing Electromagnetic Energy Nightmare,”…you get my meaning.

What is coming up on the horizon?

Here is my plan folks:

I have been invited to do kirtan for a retreat in the Brandon area at the end of April – I will send you a link to go when I get it.  This is when my current group of coaching clients and the 12 Week New Year Yoga Challenge will have finished.  Then I will be taking the month off to cool my jets and get ready for my own Next Step, that includes doing better getting good stuff out to more people, so I can focus on raising my son and being related to and participating in the community I care about – like you!

Here’s what i’ll be working on:

1> The launch of my Yoga for People Who Can’t Sleep Online Course.

2> The release of The Yoga Lullabies 2 that is about 3/4 done right now.

3> Electronic yoga self-care resources such as DVDs, practice CDs and video stream download.

4> Teleseminars, where I aspire to bring to you some amazing groups of experts in their yoga, mantra, and whole health fields.

In the mean time I’m going to launch a summer yoga program that takes advantage of today’s technological breakthroughs around podcasting and live streaming, to bring you an experimental 12 Week Online Yoga Challenge!!!  Dates to be announced.

Here is something I notice about service:

To do it properly and effectively, you have to understand what the return is on the investment into it, and who will benefit for what you’re putting out as service.  If possible, continuously revalue your time so you don’t slip into a lifestyle that is running at minimum meaning, but maximum output and consumption.  What happens naturally loop fed right back to you and affirmed that what you’re doing is not purely for your own satisfaction, but is truly desired by the community.

It just can’t hurt.

Here’s an example of one of my longer term students and coaching clients who has found herself in a fortunate and graceful situation where the family sustains itself, and children are mostly grown or have their own parents.  What does she do with her extra energy?  Honestly, I wouldn’t have imagined it, but she helps others to de-clutter their homes, something she genuinely enjoys doing and has often had her offer go unredeemed, even though she does it for free.

And why is this a huge service overall to humanity, even if this person charged big time for this valuable service?  Because some of the suffering of the world is actually reduced – the purpose of doing service in the first place – so we can all be more relaxed and not have to tune the world that is suffering out with the distractions of mass media and unhealthy addictions to name a few.

Now I’d like to develop that into a network of de-clutter angels who help moms and other caregivers with getting their junk out of the way so they have room to grow good stuff.

Here’s what’s going on live time right now:

The 3 Secrets of Keeping Self Care Promises is available for download at this link that can be shared:

Direct to Aweber Sign Up for The 3 Secrets of Keeping Self Care Promises MP3: (or copy and paste the URL below into your email or browser)

http://forms.aweber.com/form/86/2040145286.htm

Only one more week to get your yoga gear so you can get ergonomically better supported:

We are closing orders for Half Moon for yoga gear at the end of February, please bring your forms to class or go to this online version:

HALF MOON ORDER FORM:  (or copy and paste the following URL into your browser)

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1f_31cAOlLz8ERe-RtzK4UhL-kFl-BXyRBOTJ39FAgWQ

May we  recognize the Divine in each one,

Namaste,

Beth

The path to healing is never what we think it will be, and it will ask of us more than we are likely prepared to give or invest in order to get there, wherever exactly there is (more on that coming up next week!).

Ask yourself these questions, adapted from Carolin Myss’ book.  She shows you what the gate keeper of your healing is and asks you what you are willing to give up in order to heal:

1.  Would you give up your job?

2.  Would you move from your house or city?

3.  Would you stop giving your time to relationships that drain you?

4.  Are you willing to put your more superficial socializing and popular culture digestion on hold for a time?

5.  Are you willing to spend your savings on it?

6.  Would you do it anyway if it was complicated and took a long time and a great deal of inner work?

What is healing worth to you?  And can you be lucid about where you are at in your willingness to invest in a healing outcome?

As soon as (if) you see yourself not willing to walk through a transformational door – you are privilege to a great deal of self knowledge about what lays on the path between and barricading you from natures potential path to health and well being.

It’s more normal these days to resist healing than it is to receive it, from my perspective, though I’m honoured to work with so many people who are making effort in the right general direction.

As a teacher with much personal healing experience (way more than I’d hoped for!), I run into a very common thread of our culture every day – in family, friends, students and clients alike….and oh ya, myself.  This thread is to me an unconscious choice to pay the price of not healing, rather than the much smaller investment (when measured over time and factoring in others’ experiences) required to heal.

Healing doesn’t in fact mean you will live forever, as you may have noticed.  Healing doesn’t mean you will have no problems or challenges.  Healing doesn’t mean that things will magically fall into place with relationships or work.  And healing also doesn’t mean that you can look that mystery in the face and even begin to grasp the keys to unravelling it.

Rather healing does mean you will be at peace with mortality.  And it means you are willing to risk and take on challenges for the right reasons, such as for collective healings.  It means you will have to choose with greater discrimination who to give of your time and the unique blessing of your presence.  And it actually deepens the mystery of life at every mundane and miraculous turn, rather than serves to figure anything out…exactly.

Until developing my role as a teacher and healing music, sound and space facilitator, I connected with a world that was not only NOT able to receive my gifts, but which actually repelled them.  Now almost a decade into persisting with these roles full time, on the heels of healing from my own cancer journey, I see the world through completely different eyes, I still find myself bumping up against the mystery of human healing, and frankly, more than ever.

So here we are a fews days before Valentine’s and the time for embarking on this Step 3 of the 12 Week Yoga Challenge – Healing 101- is quite perfect.  Because at the depths of our love and affection for one another is this healing heart.

I was just speaking with a client this evening who has given me permission to share a part of her story that resonated with what I have also been through…and led me to be aware of one of the universal aspects of healing, despite all our unique experiences.

Paraphrasing and summing up her words tonight, she described having memories of sexual abuse that happened to her as a child, and how she is using yoga, meditation, breath awareness, diet observances, archetypal studies and community networking to learn how to heal and to bring to life the part of her that had to “die” in order to be spared the resulting pain.

Little did she know that the healing of various ailments would include giving a voice to that “part” of her, that had to be left behind in the emotional rubble of damage that sexual abuse causes.

Now if that weren’t already amazing enough to hear, while I am writing on this very subject, she concluded her experience by saying “…now I have this sudden awareness and compassion for others that have been through the same thing,” that she wasn’t previously aware of, but that came into focus with the release of emotional holdings, and with finding the voice of her inner child that could finally heal and bring into real time what got lost in the past.

And it reminded me of identical shifts that occurred when I worked to heal from cancer myself.  Every time I took a healing turn it gave me a new window with which to view – myself and everyone, but especially those who shared my life experiences and challenges.

It’s Hard to Go Back to Hallmark

So the reason almost no one has entered my now on Valentine’s draw for a couple’s yoga coaching is because I’ve framed it in a similarly deep context, from where it’s hard to go back to Hallmark for emotional references and celebrating relationship milestones.  This is because love has become something that includes, but by far transcends, the lure of romance that I have full appreciation for as well.

The question is are you, in the end, looking for romantic moments with those you love?

Yes you are, most deep down are.  Where do you really find it though?  To me the real and sustaining romance might begin with one other being, but then out of its generous nature expands and extend out towards the well being of potentially way more than just our own coupled units.

If it interests you to explore how your relationship is a potential take off point for doing service in community…I’d like to invite you to win, with so far very high odds of winning, because this contest is super NOT POPULAR.  Why is that?  I am getting an education on the subject right now.

Here’s some possibilities:

Because it raises the bar in a painful way – because there is a lot of struggle where relationship is concerned, just to get a foundation, never mind take off like a rocket ship and save the world.  As the Buddha said, “it is all pain.”  If we get used to it sooner than later, we will be getting to life’s truly good parts sooner than later too, and I promise you will attract the romance you may so naturally desire.  So I have some…

Advice for Men About Valentines

To the men who attend this forum, God bless you.  I’m putting it out there, to men everywhere, that trying to win this totally complimentary one-time-only-ever service, would be an excellent way for their partners, girl friends and spouses to be more attracted to having more sex with you, because this is in fact what turns women on, if I may speak on our womanly behalves.  No kidding guys.  Win this couples yoga coaching for your lady and she will be seriously into you.

Caution to the wind, throw your name in the hat to win this special Valentine’s Couples Yoga Coaching Session -  that includes eating chocolate, doing simple partner yoga and chill in’ to live music. Follow this link to the sign up form and there’s still time to share with any friends (or copy and paste this URL below into a new window of your browser):

http://forms.aweber.com/form/41/461628541.htm

Signing up here you will receive an email to send me your answer to this question and a submission will be randomly selected to win the free prize!

How are you making the world a better place for each other?

Your session will be a rich resource on how to move forward together with your goals as a couple and on a personal level while being mutually honoured and recognized.

Your Couple’s Coaching & Next Step Consultation will include

• getting to the heart of what you are hoping to accomplish as a couple and how to use your connection to make a greater impact on the well being of others.
• learning partner Yoga stretches to use in a home practice
• exquisite Chocolate Elixirs and Licorice Tea
• a goody bag with natural health products

Please watch your email February 14th to see who wins this special prize, but feel free to request an anonymous announcement for your privacy.

Check out Manitoba Hemp Harvest Website for some great food stuff – we are just about to make some Valentine’s treats that will incorporate hemp seeds.  Did you know they are considered safe from allergens in the school system?

Keeping Your 12 Week Yoga Challenge on Track!

How to observe, develop and work with your nervous system, and learn how to go to the edge of its capacity in a healthy way. This means how to exercise it, and invite it to rest often where it’s comfortable. But not too comfortable, because what happens when you get too comfortable, is that you no longer are growing. What is it that stops you from growing the nervous system and why is that so very important to the soul?

What holds you back is stopping you from taking those bigger leaps into your life. And how you do that is rooted in the fulfillment of your deepest desires.

Sample Practice: Ask Yourself This Question

What do you think you are going to be rejected about? Your hair, your car, your handset, your android phone? Or perhaps you fear the worst possible rejection of all, of your true self.

Luckily, your true self does not depend on being accepted, or even on the nervous system itself – rather the opposite. Getting over the jolt to the nervous system that rejection brings on requires practice.

Why do we need to overcome this fear of rejection? Because it is a major cause of not growing the nervous system and remaining stuck  - with much resulting limitation. You have to condition your nervous system, to accommodate more energy, and raise the bar, period. Your standards for yourself will go up. And the standards you hold for people around you will also.

And how do we find friends that won’t hate us, every time we raise the bar and grow to the next place? If we have even one connection in our life that can play this game of raising the bar, then we will stand a chance of enjoying the process. So this group is a chance to get connected with others online and real time:

The 3 Secrets of Keeping Self Care Promises Discussion Group for Facebook lovers:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/selfcarepromises/

I’m looking for feedback about The 3 Secrets of Keeping Self Care Promises as well, because there are about 100 of you currently signed up for it.

I’m hoping for a whole lot more people, to find a place for themselves on this Facebook group.  There will be support from other people just like you, who struggle to take care of themselves, while they take care of others. So please give me an opportunity to hear your point of view. AND I’d like to know what your experience was of hearing The 3 Secrets Keeping Self Care Promises and to let you know that it is now an MP3 free download available to anyone who signs up at the following URL link:

http://forms.aweber.com/form/86/2040145286.htm

PLEASE EMAIL ME BELOW IF YOU ALREADY SIGNED UP AND CANNOT DOWNLOAD THE MP3 FILE

And Go to Yoga for Some Yummy Treats:

Manitoba Harvest Hemp Foods & Oils Are On Board!!

Great news, I get to welcome a new sponsor that I will be hosting in my programs this year. I’m proud (like they are my own) to announce Manitoba Harvest Hemp Foods and Oils - an awesome grassroots company with whom I’ve had the privilege of being associated. I got to watch them go from sheer inspiration to a thriving and booming orchestrator of a good nutrition movement that is far reaching.

http://www.manitobaharvest.com/

Beginning this month, my students and clients the opportunity to sample some of the amazing products produced by Manitoba Harvest Hemp Foods & Oils. This Made in Manitoba company is led by three great guys with good hearts. Through their hard work and persistance they have brought a great thing into the mainstream in a big and healthy way.

Need Yoga Equipment?

If you are looking for yoga gear I have a trusted relationship with Half Moon, a small outlet in Vancouver.  They are a source for beautiful props – body furniture – that save our bodies from pain and grief.

Their bolsters are the ideal prop for restorative yoga so you can fully relax and get the full benefits from this type of yoga. At the end of February I will be submitting an order and my clients and students receive a 20% discount off of the Half Moon website . Please find an order form at this link:

(Or copy and paste this URL into your browser:

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1f_31cAOlLz8ERe-RtzK4UhL-kFl-BXyRBOTJ39FAgWQ

You can print out  and bring to class, or you could also mail it to me at this address:

Beth Martens
284 Arnold Avenue,
Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3L OW7
*You must be in the Winnipeg area to redeem 20% off of Half Moon yoga products.

Enter to Win a Free Personal Yoga Couples Coaching

And finally in honor of the coming Valentine’s Day, I am offering one couple to win a free personal yoga couples coaching session, just to say “thank you!” to everyone who contributes to this community self-health forum. In order to sign up to win a couple’s yoga package that includes chocolates and a natural health product goodie bag, and all the yoga pose sheets for the practice you will be able to take home.

To sign up to be the winner of this couples personal yoga coaching program session please  this URL with your friends:

(Or copy and paste this URL into your browser:

http://forms.aweber.com/form/41/461628541.htm

12 Week New Year Yoga Challenge

is On!

Welcome to Step 1.1 of the Challenge – Getting Your Feet on the Ground

Namaste and Congratulations! Congratulations to those of you who threw your hat over the fence to take on a new year commitment to wellness with the 12 Week Challenge.  Here’s how you can approach Step 1 (starting this week!) of the Six Steps to Growing on Purpose that we will be covering over the course of the New Year session. In class we will be focussing on each Step for two weeks, so that you’ve got lots of time to contemplate, practice and implement the life strategies. Foundation Building It’s so basic, but not that easy to remember, as you make your new year changes – include a plan to stand solidly, strongly and on purpose as the foundation for any life transformation. What is the basis for a transformation and why do we tend to jump without looking to see what’s there in the way of support?  Or worse, why do we stand at the back and just watch, never finding out how to have the joy of leaping? If the very ground of our efforts to grow is root-friendly, it can literally be built upon and serve a greater connectedness among us, then it can be far reaching in its benefit to the greater good. In the next two classes you can contemplate: The Simple Act of Grounding..is a Boost to Self-Esteem Becoming truly embodied, means first to be located within your own flesh and blood, right down to the cellular and DNA level. This is a first step towards creating: 1.  Self-confidence 2.  Self-esteem 3.  Spiritual Strength It sounds simple, but it’s not easy! Because we live day after day, and wake up, as if, the same person, it is easy to miss the very fabric of how life connects itself to the form of a body, mind & heart.  Your body is the doorway to basic self confidence and esteem, because it is life itself that gives us these basic qualities.  Still Want to Get on the Challenge Train? If you register for the 12 Week Yoga Challenge, and if you complete it, you will receive an additional self-care treatment value with acupressure expert (valued at $89), Carson Hill. The 12 Week Yoga Challenge Begins January 16, 17 & 19, and you can sign up for each class by going to my online store: http://www.bethmartens.com/beth-martens-online-store/ The Beginner class 6:30 Thursdays is NOT running, by the way, for those of you looking for make-ups. AND A REMINDER OF WHAT’S COMING UP JANUARY 29! The Three Secrets of Keeping Self-Care Promises to Yourself AND to share with your friends who would like to have a risk-free opportunity to get to know me and some valuable insights about using yoga to stay on track with innermost desires, I’m offering this guidance, starting with a Free Teles-eminar Yoga Training. Sign Up for the Free Tele-Seminar January 29 So you can Take a Stand that Sticks; Worry Less and Adapt More;  Shift to a Self-Spa Lifestyle Health Plan that includes improving the quality of your sleep, as one of five strategies to come over the year as free online training that can be downloaded for 30 days post events, or attended LIVE TIME on January 29 & April 1 to start. Life has very often asked me for less-than-relaxing opportunities to adapt.  And at some point I learned to stop “falling,” and began to experience more buoyancy, more weightlessness & fluidity- like nothing could actually take me down. Every time “I” rise to the surface it becomes easier to remember that that is happening, even if in slow motion. In my best moments I realize the play of this.  And it opens me to the vulnerability about and gratitude for all that it is to be alive and human for each one of us.  This makes me hug closely with love the yoga that always makes its way into my daily living ritual. And I wish that for you as well.

Here’s some dates you’ll want to put on your calendar for the new year: January 16 – First week of the 12 Week Yoga Challenge January 29 – FREE New Year Online Yoga Training:  Three Secrets for Keeping Resolution Promises to Yourself   February 5 - Yoga for People Who Can’t Sleep Workshop February 26 – Live Introduction to the Next Step on Feeling Good About Being Your Self April 1 – FREE Spring Online Yoga Training: Learn How to Recover From Spring Break & Detox from Stress and Comfort Food with Yoga Cream Pie Community (More info to follow!) Sending with a wish for simple ease in your new year, Beth

Sign Up for a Free Tele-Seminar January 29 *This tele-seminar will be free to download for anyone who signs up with their email to get the special URL where it will be posted for 30 days! What’s New?  Sneak Preview of Yoga and Kirtan Parties!  And Sacred Ceremony Music.. I’ve given birth to three new ways I offer love back to my community, in honour of what I have been given. Are you tired of getting together with really great people and having no clear focus despite HUGE potential?  Are you planning events by rote and need something fresh and new to bring a group truly together? Imagine doing sacred yoga gatherings with your own best friends and family instead of a bunch of strangers? 1) Yoga Cream Pie Parties: Do you and five of your best friends want to get a fully loaded Yoga Cream Pie Party experience delivered to your own house?* The host of the event who gathers and organizes gets to participate for free and will get extra free goodie bag bonuses.  More details to follow. 2) Kirtan Parties And for you and 15 of your tribe you can get your own private Kirtan Mantra & Live Music Party!!* The host of the event who gathers and organizes gets to participate for free and will get extra free goodie bag bonuses.  More details to follow. 3) Sacred Ceremonies Do you want to mark the occasion with something a little deeper than a DJ? Want your guests to dance, but not to something that means nothing to you?  Are you making a huge transition and would like to have it equalled in beauty? Here’s a recent testimonial from a wedding: Hire Beth for your wedding or special event and the angels will join you there. You will not find anyone else who can add an all-inclusive spiritual flavour to your event like Beth can. Her voice is fully beautiful, and combined with her guitar, it will send shivers up your guests’ spines.  Beth will also do whatever she can to ensure things will work smoothly on your special day. She has written much of her own music which is lovely and meaningful all at once, and she will work with you in a peaceful way, adding to the serenity of it all. If you want to add something special and different to your event, I strongly encourage you to check out Beth and what she has to offer. She performed for our wedding and her sincerely enriched our day and set the tone for lots more wonderful to come. ~Kristi Baily *Email me with inquires marked, SACRED PARTIES FOR FRIENDS AND FAMILY.  Can include officiant services as well. Sending all a kind namaste, Beth

12 Week New Year Yoga Challenge

is On!

Welcome to Step 1.1 of the Challenge – Getting Your Feet on the Ground

Dear Ones, Congratulations to those of you who threw your hat over the fence to take on a new year commitment to wellness with the 12 Week Challenge.  Here’s how you can approach Step 1 (starting this week!) of the Six Steps to Growing on Purpose that we will be covering over the course of the New Year session. In class we will be focussing on each Step for two weeks, so that you’ve got lots of time to contemplate, practice and implement the life strategies. Foundation Building It’s so basic, but not that easy to remember, as you make your new year changes – include a plan to stand solidly, strongly and on purpose as the foundation for any life transformation. What is the basis for a transformation and why do we tend to jump without looking to see what’s there in the way of support?  Or worse, why do we stand at the back and just watch, never finding out how to have the joy of leaping? If the very ground of our efforts to grow is root-friendly, it can literally be built upon and serve a greater connectedness among us, then it can be far reaching in its benefit to the greater good. In the next two classes you will become a primary experimenter. The Simple Act of Grounding..is a Boost to Self-Esteem Becoming truly embodied, means first to be located within your own flesh and blood, right down to the cellular and DNA level. This is a first step towards creating: 1.  Self-confidence 2.  Self-esteem 3.  Spiritual Strength It sounds simple, but it’s not easy! Because we live day after day, and wake up, as if, the same person, it is easy to miss the very fabric of how life connects itself to the form of a body, mind & heart.  Your body is the doorway to basic self confidence and esteem, because it is life itself that gives us these basic qualities.  Still Want to Get on the Challenge Train? If you register for the 12 Week Yoga Challenge, and if you complete it, you will receive an additional self-care treatment value with acupressure expert (valued at $89), Carson Hill. The 12 Week Yoga Challenge Begins January 16, 17 & 19, and you can sign up for each class by going to my online store: http://www.bethmartens.com/beth-martens-online-store/ The Beginner class 6:30 Thursdays is NOT running, by the way, for those of you looking for make-ups. AND A REMINDER OF WHAT’S COMING UP JANUARY 29! The Three Secrets of Keeping Self-Care Promises to Yourself AND to share with your friends who would like to have a risk-free opportunity to get to know me and some valuable insights about using yoga to stay on track with innermost desires, I’m offering this guidance, starting with a Free Teles-eminar Yoga Training. Sign Up for the Free Tele-Seminar January 29 So you can Take a Stand that Sticks; Worry Less and Adapt More;  Shift to a Self-Spa Lifestyle Health Plan that includes improving the quality of your sleep, as one of five strategies to come over the year as free online training that can be downloaded for 30 days post events, or attended LIVE TIME on January 29 & April 1 to start. Life has very often asked me for less-than-relaxing opportunities to adapt.  And at some point I learned to stop “falling,” and began to experience more buoyancy, more weightlessness & fluidity- like nothing could actually take me down. Every time “I” rise to the surface it becomes easier to remember that that is happening, even if in slow motion. In my best moments I realize the play of this.  And it opens me to the vulnerability about and gratitude for all that it is to be alive and human for each one of us.  This makes me hug closely with love the yoga that always makes its way into my daily living ritual. And I wish that for you as well.

Here’s some dates you’ll want to put on your calendar for the new year: January 16 – First week of the 12 Week Yoga Challenge January 29 – FREE New Year Online Yoga Training:  Three Secrets for Keeping Resolution Promises to Yourself   February 5 - Yoga for People Who Can’t Sleep Workshop February 26 – Live Introduction to the Next Step on Feeling Good About Being Your Self April 1 – FREE Spring Online Yoga Training: Learn How to Recover From Spring Break & Detox from Stress and Comfort Food with Yoga Cream Pie Community (More info to follow!) Sending with a wish for simple ease in your new year, Beth

Sign Up for a Free Tele-Seminar January 29 *This tele-seminar will be free to download for anyone who signs up with their email to get the special URL where it will be posted for 30 days! What’s New?  Sneak Preview of Yoga and Kirtan Parties!  And Sacred Ceremony Music.. I’ve given birth to three new ways I offer love back to my community, in honour of what I have been given. Are you tired of getting together with really great people and having no clear focus despite HUGE potential?  Are you planning events by rote and need something fresh and new to bring a group truly together? Imagine doing sacred yoga gatherings with your own best friends and family instead of a bunch of strangers? 1) Yoga Cream Pie Parties: Do you and five of your best friends want to get a fully loaded Yoga Cream Pie Party experience delivered to your own house?* The host of the event who gathers and organizes gets to participate for free and will get extra free goodie bag bonuses.  More details to follow. 2) Kirtan Parties And for you and 15 of your tribe you can get your own private Kirtan Mantra & Live Music Party!!* The host of the event who gathers and organizes gets to participate for free and will get extra free goodie bag bonuses.  More details to follow. 3) Sacred Ceremonies Do you want to mark the occasion with something a little deeper than a DJ? Want your guests to dance, but not to something that means nothing to you?  Are you making a huge transition and would like to have it equalled in beauty? Here’s a recent testimonial from a wedding: Hire Beth for your wedding or special event and the angels will join you there. You will not find anyone else who can add an all-inclusive spiritual flavour to your event like Beth can. Her voice is fully beautiful, and combined with her guitar, it will send shivers up your guests’ spines.  Beth will also do whatever she can to ensure things will work smoothly on your special day. She has written much of her own music which is lovely and meaningful all at once, and she will work with you in a peaceful way, adding to the serenity of it all. If you want to add something special and different to your event, I strongly encourage you to check out Beth and what she has to offer. She performed for our wedding and her sincerely enriched our day and set the tone for lots more wonderful to come. ~Kristi Baily *Email me with inquires marked, SACRED PARTIES FOR FRIENDS AND FAMILY.  Can include officiant services as well. To all a kind namaste, Beth

We Always Think We Can Do It Later

Live from the Death Bed – No Matter How Far Away Check out this article by a Palliative Care nurse who listened to many people discuss their regrets while they were on their death bed: http://www.empowernetwork.com/Caroline/blog/nurse-reveals-the-top-5-regrets-people-make-on-their-deathbed/ In light of helping you not have regrets about working too much, not connecting with friends and like-minded beings, and about not finding out who you truly are inside and living from that place, I’m making a special offer to sign up for the 12 Week Yoga Challenge, and putting the remaining spots on sale, for the next 48 hours only. If you register by midnight on Friday the 13th (!) then you can get the 12 Week training for only $147!  And if you complete the Challenge, you will receive an additional $89 self-care treatment value with acupressure expert, Carson Hill. At the end of my life, I want to know that I didn’t collapse in my efforts to help people make good choices and to bring the most important things to the forefront – those things that really matter to us, but for which we always feel there will be some other day to come. The 12 Week Yoga Challenge Begins January 16, 17 & 19, and you can sign up for each class by going to my online store: http://www.bethmartens.com/beth-martens-online-store/ The Three Secrets of Keeping Self-Care Promises to Yourself AND to share with your friends who would like to have a risk-free opportunity to get to know me and some valuable insights about using yoga to stay on track with innermost desires, I’m offering this guidance, starting with a FreeTeleseminar Yoga Training. Sign Up for the Free Tele-Seminar January 29 So you can Take a Stand that Sticks; Worry Less and Adapt More;  Shift to a Self-Spa Lifestyle Health Plan that includes improving the quality of your sleep, as one of five strategies to come over the year as free online training that can be downloaded for 30 days post events, or attended LIVE TIME on January 29 & April 1 to start. Life has very often asked me for less than relaxing opportunities to adapt.  And at some point I learned to stop “falling,” and began to experience more buoyancy, more weightlessness & fluidity- like nothing could actually take me down. Every time “I” rise to the surface it becomes easier to remember that that is happening, even if in slow motion. In my best moments I realize the play of this.  And it opens me to the vulnerability about and gratitude for all that it is to be alive and human for each one of us.  This makes me hug closely with love the yoga that always makes its way into my daily living ritual. And I wish that for you as well.

Here’s some dates you’ll want to put on your calendar for the new year: January 16 – First week of the 12 Week Yoga Challenge January 29 – FREE New Year Online Yoga Training:  Three Secrets for Keeping Resolution Promises to Yourself   February 5 - Yoga for People Who Can’t Sleep Workshop February 26 – Live Introduction to the Next Step on Feeling Good About Being Your Self April 1 – FREE Spring Online Yoga Training: Learn How to Recover From Spring Break & Detox from Stress and Comfort Food with Yoga Cream Pie Community (More info to follow!) Sending with a wish for simple ease in your new year, Beth

Sign Up for a Free Tele-Seminar January 29 *This tele-seminar will be free to download for anyone who signs up with their email to get the special URL where it will be posted for 30 days! What’s New?  Sneak Preview of Yoga and Kirtan Parties!  And Sacred Ceremony Music.. I’ve given birth to three new ways I offer love back to my community, in honour of what it has given to me. Are you tired of getting together with really great people and having no clear focus despite HUGE potential?  Are you planning events by rote and need something fresh and new to bring a group truly together? Imagine doing sacred yoga gatherings with your own best friends and family instead of a bunch of strangers? Do you and five of your best friends want to get a fully loaded Yoga Cream Pie Party experience delivered to your own house?* The host of the event who gathers and organizes gets to participate for free and will get extra free goodie bag bonuses.  More details to follow. And for you and 15 of your tribe you can get your own private Kirtan Mantra & Live Music Party!!* The host of the event who gathers and organizes gets to participate for free and will get extra free goodie bag bonuses.  More details to follow. *Email me with inquires marked, SACRED PARTIES FOR FRIENDS AND FAMILY. Do you want to mark the occasion with something a little deeper than a DJ? Want your guests to dance, but not to something that means nothing to you?  Are you making a huge transition and would like to have it equalled in beauty?   *Email me with inquires marked, SACRED PARTIES FOR FRIENDS AND FAMILY.  Can include officiant services as well. Sending with kind namaste, Beth

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Adaptation Resolutions Have you begun to already feel like you’re back-sliding away from the things you know you need to do for your self for 2012?  Do you already know what you need to do: So you can feel good this year; so you can give more to those who depend upon you; so you can bend and not break when the wind blows? So why isn’t it magically happening all by itself? This time of year we have a collective and heightened awareness about our innate ability to adapt to the circumstances in and around us.  But this doesn’t happen by itself. Successful adaptation requires particular circumstances, conscious choices and decisions, but because life wants nothing more than to adapt, rather than suffer needlessly, it is very natural to do, and with guidance easily turns into a lifestyle habit. I’m offering this guidance, starting with a Free Teleseminar Yoga Training called: The Three Secrets of Keeping Self-Care Promises to Yourself Sign Up for the Free Tele-Seminar January 29 So you can Take a Stand that Sticks; Worry Less and Adapt More;  Shift to a Self-Spa Lifestyle Health Plan that includes improving the quality of your sleep, as one of five strategies to come over the year as free online training that can be downloaded for 30 days post events, or attended LIVE TIME on January 29 & April 1 to start. Life has very often asked me for less than relaxing opportunities to adapt.  And at some point I learned to stop “falling,” and began to experience more buoyancy, more weightlessness & fluidity- like nothing could actually take me down. Every time “I” rise to the surface it becomes easier to remember that that is happening, even if in slow motion. In my best moments I realize the play of this.  And it opens me to the vulnerability about and gratitude for all that it is to be alive and human for each one of us.  This makes me hug closely with love the yoga that always makes its way into my daily living ritual. And I wish that for you as well.

Here’s some dates you’ll want to put on your calendar for the new year: January 16 – First week of the 12 Week Yoga Challenge January 29 – FREE New Year Online Yoga Training:  Three Secrets for Keeping Resolution Promises to Yourself   February 5 - Yoga for People Who Can’t Sleep Workshop February 26 – Live Introduction to the Next Step on Feeling Good About Being Your Self April 1 – FREE Spring Online Yoga Training: Learn How to Recover From Spring Break & Detox from Stress and Comfort Food with Yoga Cream Pie Community (More info to follow!) Sending with wish for simple ease in your new year, Beth

Sign Up for a Free Tele-Seminar January 29 *This tele-seminar will be free to download for anyone who signs up with their email to get the special URL where it will be posted for 30 days! What’s New?  Sneak Preview of Yoga and Kirtan Parties!  And Sacred Ceremony Music.. I’ve given birth to three new ways I offer love back to my community, in honour of what it has given to me. Are you tired of getting together with really great people and having no clear focus despite HUGE potential?  Are you planning events by rote and need something fresh and new to bring a group truly together? Imagine doing sacred yoga gatherings with your own best friends and family instead of a bunch of strangers? Do you and five of your best friends want to get a fully loaded Yoga Cream Pie Party experience delivered to your own house?* The host of the event who gathers and organizes gets to participate for free and will get extra free goodie bag bonuses.  More details to follow. And for you and 15 of your tribe you can get your own private Kirtan Mantra & Live Music Party!!* The host of the event who gathers and organizes gets to participate for free and will get extra free goodie bag bonuses.  More details to follow. *Email me with inquires marked, SACRED PARTIES FOR FRIENDS AND FAMILY. Do you want to mark to occasion with something a little deeper than a DJ? Want your guests to dance, but not to something that means nothing to you?  Are you making a huge transition and would like to have it equalled in beauty?   *Email me with inquires marked, SACRED PARTIES FOR FRIENDS AND FAMILY.  Can include officiant services as well. Sending with a kind namaste, Beth

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1. The Magic of Determination through Practicing Therapeutic Relaxation
2. How to Worry Less and Adapt More
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1.  Learn three simple and accessible yoga techniques for improving your health so you can adapt to the high speed changes through which the world is passing and continue living with your relative (or even improved!) ease.

2.  Flow more, have a better sense of humour and keep breathing so you can enjoy life, even when the rug gets pulled out from under you.

3.  Let yourself get to the next place in your journey, once and for all by standing up for who you are, and learn 5 practical fundamentals of getting grounded and clear on what you know you need to do and how you have to do it.

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