kat mansfield's yoga sangha

Sunday, February 14th, 2010, 1-3 PM at Yoga Spirit Studios, Hamilton. Cost: $40/couple

Here’s a different way to celebrate with your Valentine: explore your partnership through yoga. This is NOT group therapy, but rather a fun exploration into mindful and creative partnership through the modality of yoga. Your level of yoga expertise is not a factor here. Bring your open heart, sense of humor and holiday baggage. With humor, accessible yoga postures, courage, sankalpa (intention) and lightness of heart, we’ll look at love, romance, partnership, balance, boundaries and what it takes to be truly present with your Better Half.

Register with Kat at the Studio or by calling Yoga Spirit Studios at 978 927 0099.

What is troubling the mind can be removed with meditation so our mind can exist in its purity. If our mind is distracted, we can change it into an undistracted mind through meditation. We can change bad habits into good habits through meditation. Then when we manage to change our mental habits, we can change our physical actions and verbal behavior. Once we have changed these, we can reach the ultimate goal of our practice, Buddhahood. –The Venerable Thrangu Rinpoche

Steady the body and the mind, in these long mid-winter weeks, on your mat in a warm room with your yoga sangha. In addition to regular classes, there are 4 additional opportunities for practice this week:

Tuesday and Thursday, 4-5 PM Vinyasa Hour at Yoga Sakti, Salem.
Sunday 9:30-11 Yoga Collaborative at Union Studio Yoga, Andover
Sunday, 4-5:30 Vinyasa at Yoga Sakti, Salem

Please note that Yoga Sakti is right over the bridge in Salem, very nearby. While they offer the convenience of registering on line ahead of time, you can drop in any time, no membership or sign up required.

See you on the mat!

. . . are a pretty good mix. YES THERE IS CLASS TODAY AT 12:15-1:15 PM at Yoga Spirit Studio in Hamilton. Heart-centering dharma and asana flow. See you there.

Make sure you click on CLASSES to check out the new, expanded schedule. In addition to great classes at Yoga Loft (Marblehead), Yoga Spirit (Hamilton) and Union Studio (Andover), Kat Mansfield’s Yoga Sangha is expanding to Yoga Sakti in Salem, with extensive class offerings on Tuesdays and Thursdays starting next week, and Mondays and Fridays in February and March. Yoga Sakti is the North Shore’s newest, largest and most complete yoga facility, with a large yoga room, fitness facilities, commodious locker rooms for both men and women, showers, massage,  retail options and a full roster of classes taught by dynamic teachers. I’m delighted to be coming on staff at Yoga Sakti and hope to see you on your mat at Yoga Sakti (say Shakti)!

Wishing all of you a peaceful and abundant 2010, full of grace and love.

With gratitude and love,

Kat

If the weather outside is frightful, please be sure to check individual studio websites for cancellation notifications. Links to studios are posted on both the CONTACT and CLASSES pages of this website. Yoga Loft posts cancellations on their front page. Yoga Spirit, Yoga Sakti and Union Studio Yoga post cancellations directly on the schedule, noting cancellations on individual class posts. I will also try to keep you posted on the front page of www.katmansfield.com

As Marc St. Pierre said in class yesterday morning — and I’m paraphrasing here — “Grace is like snow falling. It is so subtle and beautiful, you have to get very still to hear it. But it is potent, heavy as it accumulates and covers everything.” Kind of a new way to look at things as you bundle up to go outside and shovel.

Schedule tweaks and changes galore. Look carefully! Mercury is in retrograde and schedule management is the hardest!

Monday 12:15-1:15 @ Yoga Spirit in Hamilton
Tuesday 9-10:15 AM and 7:30-9 PM @ Yoga Spirit in Hamilton
Wednesday 12:15-1:15 @ Yoga Spirit and YES, there is class at 5:30-6:45 PM @ Yoga Loft, Marblehead
Thursday New Year’s Eve Vinyasa Puja. 8:30-10 AM @ Yoga Loft, Marblehead. This is the only class of the day, so be sure to get there in good time to put down your mat.
Friday Happy New Year! NO CLASSES at Union Studio Yoga, Andover.
Saturday 1/2/10 NEW TIME! 9-10:30 AM @ Yoga Spirit, Hamilton

See you on the mat, dear Ones.

The lead up to Christmas was pretty intense this year. On my end, there were scheduling glitches, unresolved holiday plans and everyone in our house came down with a full range of maladies-sore throats, fevers, ear infections–the gamut.

Those were the red letter days, leading up to the last Mercury retrograde of 2009–and the first of 2010. Mercury retrograde is an ancient astrological observation where, from the Earth, Mercury appears to slow in the sky and actually looks like it is going backwards for 10-15 days.

Saturday, at 9:38 AM, Mercury will go retro until January 15th. Everything will be a bit sticky for a couple of weeks and, to navigate it successfully, we’ll need to by ultra-aware and mindful. Sounds like Another Job for Yoga, doesn’t it?

See you on the mat Saturday morning at 8 AM in Hamilton. We’ll gird our loins (and our inner groins) for what’s ahead.

I am currently on an involuntary silent retreat. Laryngitis has struck and I am without voice to teach today.

Kim Valeri will sub at noon at Yoga Spirit (you are in for a treat) and keep posted at Yoga Loft, Marblehead as Randy and Laurel find a sub for you.

And thanks to all the participants of last night’s class, for listening from the heart to my barely-audible, whispered instructions. Oddly enough, it made for a very beautiful class and I appreciate so much your generosity of spirit.

I’m teaching this afternoon 4-5:30 at Yoga Sakti in Salem, if the weather lets up. Warm, juicy Vinyasa in their beautiful facility will be just the tonic after a day of snow-induced indolence.

Check the website www.yogasakti.com just before you set out to make sure we’re still on, weather-wise.