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Yoga for Children
Many of us struggle our entire lives to free ourselves from the debilitating, limiting, and mostly false beliefs, perceptions, and patterns of our minds. Children do not initially have these patterns. They learn them by observation, trial, and error.
When a child is not limited by his or her mental patterns, his or her creativity, imagination, self-esteem, and natural wisdom and knowledge flourish. The child is removed from culturally inherited beliefs, fears, and negative conditioning. The child fully steps into his/her glory and radiance. Good manners, care and concern for others, positive morals, and values naturally manifest themselves.
Yoga is a means through which we can keep our children program-free. LakulishTM Yoga for Children helps children relax and focus. Each class employs the use of Yoga postures (Asana), deep diaphramatic breathing (Pranayama), and meditation.
There is a link between the cycles / habitual patterns of the mind and improper breathing. Deep diaphramatic breathing immediately calms and focuses the child’s mind. LakulishTM Yoga postures, which are done in combination with deep diaphramatic breathing, allow the child to breathe deeper into his or her lower abdomen, immediately eliminating stressful and more negative thoughts and emotions. Meditation helps children develop focus and concentration as well as become more observant of their own positive and negative behavior patterns.
Children who practice Yoga:
- sleep better
- are less anxious
- are more focused
- are more self-confident
- display good manners
- become role models for other chlidren
- avoid drugs and gangs
- are respectful of others
- are more creative
- get better grades in school
- perform better on quizzes and tests
For more information on how to get your child enrolled in LakulishTM Yoga for Children classes, please contact Jennifer at (904) 392-6588 or email lakulishyogaschool@gmail.com
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Children’s Yoga Classes Starting September 8th!
Lakulish School of Yoga (affiliated with Lakulish Yoga, LLC) is partnering for six weeks with the Cyprian Center For Expressive Arts to offer a series of Lakulish Yoga classes to children of all ages.
The classes will begin September 8, 2010 and will run through October 13, 2010. They will be held every Wednesday afternoon from 3:00pm until 4:00pm.
If you are interested in signing a child up for these Yoga classes, please visit the Cyprian Center website at http://www.cypriancenter.org or call (904) 829-8828.
City Yoga Is Now A Donation Based Community Yoga Center!
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PRLog (Press Release) – Jul 01, 2010 – St. Augustine, FL July 1, 2010 – When times get tough, the tough get innovative. In an effort to bring yoga to the people of St. Augustine, FL, City Yoga of St. Augustine now allows students to pay what they can having switched to a donation only business model.
City Yoga of St. Augustine is located in the historic downtown district of the Oldest City in the Nation, St. Augustine, FL. The yoga studio opened it’s doors to the public in October of 2009 and has been steadily growing ever since. Owner Angela Jones remarked “I initially wanted to open this business with a donation model, but feedback from my peers was strongly against it. I listened to their feedback, putting my heart’s voice to the side. I knew I’d revisit this decision, but I decided to wait until the studio was a little more financially stable. We have a healthy student base now. I feel certain this is the right time to change to a donation based model.”
Offering yoga by donation may seem to be a new trend in the United States; however, in it’s birthplace, yoga was always offered in this fashion. Yoga by donation allows the studio to maintain the integrity of this ancient art by offering their practice the way it was originally intended. Now, more than ever, it seems to make perfect sense. Growing a business through tough economic times means adapting and being willing to take risks, and that is exactly what City Yoga is doing. For a successful example of this model, look no further than “Yoga To The People”, a donation based yoga studio which has grown to be three locations strong.
Classes at City Yoga of St. Augustine are offered on a daily basis and every class is donation based. Often, City Yoga will hold specialized workshops and events – these workshops and events may have set fees, depending on the facilitator.
City Yoga is also hosting a DJ Yoga Party on Sunday, August 1, 2010 at 6:00PM – this event is free to the public and will be held at the St. Augustine Beach Ocean Pier Pavilion. The event will consist of a yoga class set to a live DJ as well as a short meditation. All ages, sizes and fitness levels are welcome to attend. (It is highly recommended attendees come well hydrated with a yoga mat, a long towel and some water – the floor is concrete so if possible bring two yoga mats to stack.) “We are holding this event to show the people how powerful, amazing and fun the experience of yoga can be. Yoga is for anyone regardless of age, weight or any other disposition. We encourage everyone to come and give it a try, it will be a great time – it may just change a life or two.”
When it comes to the donation based studio, City Yoga of St. Augustine, specifically, Owner Angela Jones had this to say: “It is important for our students to know that they are assisting members in the community who could not otherwise afford to participate in class. I believe that this is simply the right thing to do… taking a leap of faith may not be easy, but how can you betray your heart? How can you judge who should be able to participate solely based on financial status? The cost of yoga has become outrageous, it is time to make a change – no actually, it is time to BE the change. Plant a seed and watch it grow.”
For additional information about City Yoga of St. Augustine, including class descriptions, times and location visit http://www.cityyogastaug.com or call 904-825-0999.
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About City Yoga of St. Augustine:
City Yoga of St. Augustine is a community centered, donation based yoga studio located in St. Augustine, FL. City Yoga is dedicated to providing a safe, non-competitive and enjoyable environment for the practice of yoga. City Yoga offers a variety of yoga styles and classes.
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Several Upcoming Classes This Week
I am teaching many Yoga classes this week at CITY YOGA. Click the link for more info on where City Yoga is, rates, etc.
Upcoming Classes Are:
TONIGHT, Thursday June 17th: 7pm – 8:30pm Lakulish Yoga
Friday June 18th: 8:30am – 9:30am Gengle Yoga
10:00am – 11:30am Traditional Hatha Yoga
Sunday June 20th: 10:00am – 11:30am Lakulish Yoga
1:00pm – 3:30pm Chakra Workshop (must pre-register)
Monday June 21st: 10:00am – 11:30am Traditional Hatha Yoga
Hope to see you in class!!!!
Upcoming June Workshop: Exploring The Chakras
NEW WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT!
Exploring The Chakras
w/ Jennifer Jacobsen of Lakulish Yoga
SUNDAY, JUNE 20, 2010
1:00pm – 3:30pm
AT CITY YOGA
125-B King St., St. Augustine, FL 32084
Cost is $30 per person. Pre-registration online required.
This workshop will explore the chakra system. Students will learn:
* What the chakras are
* Where the chakras are located
* What the Sanskrit word chakra means
* Why the chakras are important for spiritual evolution
* What prana is and what its function is in the body
* What kundalini is and what its function is in the body
* What the three gunas are
* How the three gunas are embedded within each chakra
* The need to purify the chakras
* The relationship between the chakras and mantra
* The relationship between chakras and Yoga postures and breathing techniques
* The relationship between the chakras and the endocrine system
Please bring a comfertable cushion to sit on. You may also wish to bring a notebook and pen for taking notes. Food is not permitted in the workshop space. Bottled water only is allowed.
REGISTER ONLINE RIGHT NOW!
NEW! Thursday Evening Yoga!
THURSDAY EVENING YOGA
DATE: Every Thursday Evening
TIME: 7:00pm – 8:30pm
LOCATION: City Yoga, next to Flavors in downtown St. Augustine.
COST: See Rates
MORE: This class consists of basic Hatha Yoga postures, Pranayama, and ends with OM chanting and meditation. The Hatha Yoga focus is on developing a healthy body, mind, and spirit through postures that are stable, comfortable, and yet challenging enough to help build a strong foundation in the body. This class builds energy and heat (tapas) in the spinal column and body and cleanses the body’s energetic pathways through a set sequence of yoga postures performed in combination with certain guided breathing techniques. In class, Jennifer draws attention to Yamas and Niyamas as an important part of building and maintaining Prana (vital life energy) built in the practice.
For class, bring a yoga mat. You may wish to bring a towel as the heat will be on just slightly.
City Yoga is located at 125 B King St. Saint Augustine, FL
Private yoga classes are always available. Call (904) 392-6588 for more information.
Learning the Science of Spiritual Evolution
Jai Bhagwan.
A lot of people ask me … what is Lakulish Yoga? Who or what is Lakulish?
Lakulish is a Sanskrit name, and like most Sanskrit names and terms, Lakulish is a process. Lakulish is the very process by which Yoga happens. Lord Lakulish represents the very Energy into which all matter transforms through this amazing gift we call Yoga.
Yoga is very presicous and very sacred. It has been around since the beginning of time. Yoga is a lifetime commitment to certain eternal Truths.
We presently live in an age of darkness. The great texts of Sanatana Dharma (the Eternal Law that is Yoga) call this the age of Kali (Kali Yuga). This is the age of ignorance, for we have forgotten who we are. We have separated from God. We are hurtful to our own selves, our own systems, our friends, companions, neighbors, and our environment. We lie. We cheat. We steal. We possess. We covet. We exist with sickness, disease, and with rajasic (passionate, greedy, power-seeking, materialistic) and tamasic (dark, heavy, lazy, dull) negative imprints in our minds.
It is this negative mindset that causes the separation. It is the mind that makes us sick and diseased. It is the mind that hurts, that lies, that cheats, steals, possesses, and covets. What we are on the inside, we will project into our outside environment. Our world is on the verge of destruction because we are destroying ourselves inside our very beings.
What is worse than this, is that in this age, Yoga, the very means by which we undo this individual and global sickness, has been reduced to a fad. “False prophets” abound, and it seems there are gurus on every corner professing to teach spiritual enlightenment or transfer some kind of spiritual energy that will instantly “awaken” anyone. But I caution you: be very keen and careful. If anyone is going to sell anything having to do with Yoga, they should sell God 100% of the time. I encourage you to pay attention to any spiritual teacher’s actions, not just his or her fancy, charming words, spiritual powers, or supposed energetic state.
Sadly, in this day and age, Yoga has become “en vogue” and a cliche. Everywhere I turn, I am faced with this reality (or should I say illusion). We are so far into ignorance, that we have even forgotten what Yoga is. We have forgotten that Yoga is about Union with the energy of God (Consciousness, Source, Energy, Chi, Kundalini, Creator, etc). Yoga is about removing the negative imprints of the mind so that our vital life energy (Prana) will grow and build and take over our bodies.
Right now, our most negative mental tendencies control us. And look what has happened to us and to our world. We like to think we are decent people. Civilized. But the truth is we are all very uncivilized, barbaric people attempting to show some degree of outward decency. But we do not like to think of ourselves this way. We like living with our delusions and hallucinations.
The truth is, when we separate from God and we think we (our minds) can control the body God created and run it effectively and efficiently … we fail. We all get old, sick, diseased, frail, our bodies rot, and we eventually slowly decompose and die. But the truth is we do not have to. We don’t. It all depends on who is in control.
When we step foot on the path of Yoga and we awaken our vital life energy (Prana) to the point where it becomes stronger than our mental energy, God decends into the body. The body becomes a Temple. We become Living beings infused with Light. The mind becomes a friend. It becomes clear and sharp and slices away the negative energies that once ruled us. The mind becomes clear as crystal, and we become reflections of that inner Light, and we reflect that Light to the world.
Change happens one individual at a time, one Soul at a time. Right now we are experiencing an Energy crisis. We have strayed so far from our Maker that we have forgotten who we are. But we are never lost.
There is a science, a very precious science, that has been passed down from a Soul who has walked the path of Yoga successfully to a Soul who deeply desires to do so. That science is the path of Yoga itself. That science is Lakulish.
Yoga is not a religion. As a science, Yoga deals with the elements: fire, water, earth, air, and space/ether. It deals with physics and chemistry. It is the very science of learning how to convert matter into light. And this very science will bring you to the footsteps of God, should that be a place you wish to travel. If nothing else, Yoga will allow you to live a very happy, joyful, long and fulfilling life. God does not want us to be unhappy. God does not wish for us to live in a cave. God does not want us to suffer. God wants us to enjoy this life we have been given. Yoga enables us to enjoy life fully. When we live under the governance of our minds, we are not allowed to live fully and peacefully.
Yoga cannot be put into a box. It cannot be canned. It cannot be labeled. It most certainly is not exercise or mere postures and breath work and most certainly does not belong to anyone! While it may relieve stress and make a person feel peaceful, its purpose far exceeds these effects.
I am writing this to you because it is time. The way Yoga is depicted in this age is inaccurate and incomplete. The purpose of Lakulish Yoga is to bring change, individual change.
Yoga is a part of an Eight-Fold system:
1. Yamas
2. Niyamas
3. Asana
4. Pranyama
5. Pratyahara
6. Dharana
7. Dhyana
8. Samadhi
Yoga is meant to unfold systematically, in this exact sequence. If you practice Yoga, or think you are practicing Yoga, and you practice out of this order, you cannot practice and have what you are practicing still be called Yoga. Yet Yoga centers all around the globe do this every day.
This is a very important and key statement. The first two steps of Yoga are called “The Law”. It is the Dharma. It is the Code of Conduct, God’s Code of Conduct. The Law of building and maintaining Energy. A Niyama can only happen when a Yama has successfully happened. And an Asana can only happen when a Yama and a Niyama have successfully happened. Thus, the only way a Pranayama can occur is when the other 3 prerequesites have happened successfully (there is a Yama in Pranayama and a Yama in Niyama). All of these words may sound very foreign to you, and that is okay. The purpose of my classes is to help you understand and practice this Yoga system, to develop your own individual practice.
Meditation is 7th on the list. And we think we know what meditation is. Meditation happens to us. We cannot just sit down and meditate. Yet meditation has become a fad and is taught everywhere. We can practice and hope that one day meditation will happen to us. But that practice requires a lot of work.
Union is WORK. Yoga is WORK. It requires daily practice. It requires a constant, unwavering committment to certain Codes of Conduct, called the Yamas and Niyamas.
The Yamas and Niyamas are at the core of the Lakulish Yoga teachings because Yoga cannot even begin without them. They are not philosophies to be glanced over while we push ourselves through vinyasas and twist ourselves into pretzels in Yoga class. The very first phrase in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras begins with the word “atha”.
1.1 Atha Yoga Anusasanam
1.1 Now we begin Yoga
Atha implies that Yamas and Niyamas have successfully been implimented. Then Asana happens. Then Pranayama can happen. Then God appears in the body. Yoga postures are a gift to mankind. They are the very means by which the bodily energy channels and organs are cleansed of impurities in order for the body to become a Temple and for us to become Living beings of Light.
I teach Yamas and Niyamas in my Private Yoga classes. I also teach nutrition and diet, Yoga practices, scriptures, mantra, and postures. I tailor each class to my individual student’s needs. Each person is different. Each person is in a different place on his or her spiritual journey. I have been blessed with an amazing, out of this world teacher, Swami Sri Ashutosh Muniji (I call him “Bapuji”). He is the current lineage holder in the Muni Mundal Yoga line. Muni Mundal is an order has been around for a very long time. Lord Lakulish was a member of Muni Mundal. And so was Patanjali Muni.
Lakulish Yoga teachings thus rely heavily on teachings from Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras and from the Bhagavad Gita, as these texts are very dear to our Yoga Lineage.
If you are interested in learning Yoga as it was traditionally taught and should be taught, please contact me at (904) 392-6588 to set up a private session. If you have questions, I will be more than happy to sit down with you and discuss any concerns you may have.
I certainly do not have all the answers. And I do not profess to be a teacher nor a guru. God is the only Guru. I am a student, and like my Bapuji, I wish to remain a student. I want to walk this path of Yoga, and I aspire every day to do so. But it is time to pay it forward.
It is time for me to share what I have learned from my Bapuji. It is time for humanity to wake up. We have slumbered in ignorance far too long. It is time to reunite with that Energy from which we have strayed so far. It is our birth right. And it is our duty.
Jai Bhagwan. Jai means “victory” and Bhagwan is that Energy. Let us let the Energy of God prevail within our internal nation once more. Let us find our Freedom, our Liberty, and our Justice. Our Founding Fathers understood this Truth when our country was formed. May we too understand this Truth again.
In Love and Highest Light,
Jennifer Jacobsen (Urja)
$20 OFF Private Yoga Classes Through April 30th!
Have you wanted to try Yoga but do not know where to start?
Do you want to try something more one-on-one before moving to a group class?
Are you looking for more advanced, in-depth teachings?
Are you wanting to create a daily schedule and personal home practice for yourself?
Are you wanting to learn more about scriptures, meditation, pranayama or mantra?
IF SO, from now until the end of April, I am offering my PRIVATE YOGA CLASSES for $55!!
That’s a $20 savings!
SPRING INTO ACTION!
Call (904) 392-6588 for more information.
UPCOMING WORKSHOP: What Are Modifications Of Mind?
NEW WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT!
What Are Modifications Of Mind: Exploring The Vritti Cycle
w/ Jennifer Jacobsen of Lakulish Yoga
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2010
1:00pm – 3:30pm
AT CITY YOGA
125-B King St., St. Augustine, FL 32084
Cost is $30 per person. Please register online.
This workshop will explore the vritti cycle as explained by Patanjali in his Yoga Sutras. Students will learn:
* What “modifications of mind” are
* What the Sanskrit word vritti means
* Why the word vritti is THE key to Yoga
* What prana is and how to awaken it
* What the three gunas are and their significance
Please bring a comfertable cushion to sit on. You may also wish to bring a notebook and pen for taking notes. Food is not permitted in the workshop space. Bottled water only is allowed.
REGISTER ONLINE RIGHT NOW!
