I will my own destiny. I am firm in my resolve. I do it all with my heart.   Tiger Woods

October 27, 2004

Registration is open for our 5 week session:  November 15-December 18, 2004  Only $63 + gst

Our next session of pre-registered classes commences the week of November 15 - it is only a 5 week session this time (instead of our usual 8 week) so that we finish up just a week before Christmas.  Our pre-registered classes include, Pilates, Beginner Hatha Yoga, Beginner Power Yoga, Gentle Yoga for 50+, Prenatal Yoga, Baby & Mom Yoga, Children/Teen Yoga - the 5 week programs are only $63 + gst!!  Traditionally, our November session is always a busy one, so please be sure to register early to confirm your spot in the class!  For more information or to register www.yogabysarah.com
 
FREE Introductory Yoga and Pilates class!!  Tell your friends and family!
We are offering a FREE Introductory Pilates Class on Tuesday, November 9 @ 8:10p and a FREE Introductory Hatha Yoga Class on Thursday, November 11 @ 8:10p for our members' friends and family.  Please pass this information along!  There is of course limited space, so please call or e-mail us to reserve your spot in the class.  We thought this is a good way to get people in the door to see what it's all about with no commitment and no obligation!
 
Drop-In Yoga Schedule Membership Promotions - Some Great Deals!
Back again for a limited time!! *until November 15*  It's a good opportunity to renew or to stock up on extra classes with these great deals!
 
Community Care Food Bin in the Studio
Please remember to bring in some non-perishable food items for the bin next time you come in.  We would like to fill the bin up and send it back to them!  The Food Bank is always in desperate need of donations, especially this time of year as we approach the Holiday
Season.
 
The Yoga Show and Conference November 19-21 in Toronto!
The Yoga Show is back this year at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.  A big success last year with almost 20 000 attendees, it promises to be even bigger and better this year with 32 amazing teachers, 75 classes of all different styles and levels, and a tradeshow with 250 exhibitors!  Again this year, most of our staff and instructors are planning on attending for at least a portion of the weekend.  We hope to run into you there!  www.theyogashow.com
 
New yoga mats and other products have come in!
If you have been wanting to purchase a yoga mat, now is the time!  We have lots of different styles and colours of yoga mats in stock now, as well as several videos, DVD's, Children's Yoga Kits (very fun!), blocks, straps, eyepillows and other fun yoga items - so come on in to check them out! 
 
Weekend Power Yoga???
I have had a few requests recently to reinstate the Sunday morning Power Yoga class at 10am or 10:30am, as well as a couple requests to have a Friday 4:15p Power Yoga.  I would like to add a weekend Power Yoga class into the schedule, however in the past attendance has been so-so.  So, please e-mail me or call with suggestions on what time throughout the weekend you would be interested in having a Power Yoga class.  Please keep in mind that we need to work around our schedule of our regular drop-in yoga classes, our pre-registered yoga classes and our Pilates schedule.  I was thinking perhaps if we do reinstate it, we could have a sign-up sheet for it each week, and if we don't have enough participants on a particular week we would call you to let you know 12 hours prior - and if you don't show up when you said you would we could revoke your membership (hehe, just joking) or at least charge you a fee to donate to a charity - or something like that... I'm just throwing ideas out there - let me know what your thoughts are!  The more I hear from you, the more likely you are to get that class added back in! 
 
Ron Mann's documentary - Go Further - starring Woody Harrelson playing at Brock University, November 21
BUFS (Brock University Film Society) is playing this film on Sunday, November 21 (I believe at 7pm).  For exact details on the showing at Brock you can visit their website http://www.brocku.ca/cpcf/bufs/BUFSmain.html  It's playing the same weekend as The Yoga Show, so we'll have to rush home from Toronto on Sunday to see it!
Many of you have probably heard me speaking of this film - it stars Woody Harrelson (and my new friend, Steve "Jedi" Clark!).  I pulled a description of the film off the Sphinx Productions website:
Go Further”, the new film by award-winning documentary filmmaker Ron Mann, explores the idea that the single individual is the key to large-scale transformational change.

The film follows actor Woody Harrelson as he takes a small group of friends on a bio-fuelled bus-ride down the Pacific Coast Highway. Their goal? To show the people they encounter that there are viable alternatives to our habitual, environmentally-destructive behaviors.

The travellers include a yoga-teacher, a raw food chef, a hemp-activist, a junk-food addict, and a college student who suspends her life to impulsively hop aboard. We see the hostility these pilgrims encounter, and watch as their ideas are challenged from within and without.

We meet an entrepreneur who runs a paper company that does not harm trees; an organic farmer who believes Nature is his partner; a man who teaches environmental activists to use humor as a strategic weapon. And throughout, we see Harrelson test his belief that the transformation of our planet begins with the small personal transformations that are within the grasp of each and every one of us, after which… we’ll go further.
 
For more information on the film visit www.sphinxproductions.com or Woody's website www.voiceyourself.com
This is a very inspiring film which can change the way you look at things, or at least reaffirm and remind you!  The film is coming out on DVD in December sometime so I do hope to organize a showing of it at the studio with some raw-food snacks!
 
Flower Pot Update
As you may have noticed, the flower pot has once again disappeared.  But, not due to theft this time!  The City of St. Catharines has come to reclaim it for the winter months - it was still beautiful!!  I'm sure the City will run the same program next spring, so stay tuned! 
 
Wishing you a Safe and Happy Halloween...
Namaste
 
 
Sarah L. Giovannone
Yoga by Sarah
105 Queenston St
St. Catharines, ON
L2R 2Z5
www.yogabysarah.com
yoga@yogabysarah.com
Tel.905 682-4469
Fax.905 682-1936