Easter Schedule
Saturday, April 11
one class -- all levels 9:45 a.m.
Sunday, April 12
one class -- all levels 4:30 p.m.
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Raw Food Potluck
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April 24th 7:30
Radtke home
1639 South 48th Street
Bring a dish for 8-10 people. We will finish the movie Eating. Yes, it gets even better and more outrageous. if you want to see the first part talk to Thomas. We have the movie for sale, or we will lend it to you. Come and liberate yourself from the Standard American Diet (SAD). |
African Dance
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April 26th 1-2:30 $20 Show up barefoot, hydrated & unstoppable!
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Saturday April 25, 2009 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Yoga Body and Balance 2300 S. 48th St. Suite 2 Lincoln, NE This class is perfect for students just beginning their study as well as dancers who have already begun their journey. You will learn a spicy choreography to a Baladi rhythm taught with a strong emphasis on proper technique. Basharaat prides itself in hosting a fun filled class. Wear comfy clothing and be ready for a workout. See our website to register. |
Quotation of the Month
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"Twenty years from now you
will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Drea
ver."
~ Mark Twain
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Just for fun
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From Thomas: It makes me
laugh over and over!
Watch it!
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for Raw Food
Inspiration and Information
visit
my blog simply listing what I eat daily. Here you can see what is
possible, ask questions, and gain perspective on a raw food diet along
with its occasional trials and joys.
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It's already been a year since we opened our studio at our 48th Street location! So much has happened in that year and so much more is coming! We can't wait to share it with you! We'll be having a Grand Anniversary Celebration on April 25 so mark your calendars and watch for details coming soon! Thanks for all your support and encouragement, because if it weren't for you, we wouldn't be here!With love and appreciation, |
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Plenty to Celebrate!
Hot Yoga is Here!
We are so proud to introduce our latest achievement -- HOT YOGA IS HERE! -- with amazing radiant heating panels that allow the body to heat up -- not the room. Forget about dry hot air blowing at you. Come experience it for yourself. Let the body melt, release all that stress from your busy life. Prepare to sweat and then to sleep like a baby
Five New Teachers!
We're also very excited to announce our new teachers! We have five amazing new yoga instructors coming to YBB to share their love for yoga with you. Please welcome Lisa Munger, Waheeda Sulaman, Joette Byrd, Julie Brummer, and Charity Aldredge, and to learn more about them, don't forget to check out our website!
Membership Recruiting Month!
Since it's our anniversary month, we've decided to dedicate April to membership and call it Membership Recruiting Month! We hope you become an active part of it by bringing friends and family members you believe will benefit as you did when you started your own yoga practice. Invite them to experience the magnificence of yoga during our two weeks unlimited yoga promotion for all new clients, so they can embrace it for themselves! When you bring them along, you are helping us achieve our mission statement: " to empower people to awaken into a life they love."
How many people have you thought of would benefit so much? How many times have you thought , "Ah, this is exactly what she/he needs"? This is the time to bring them! It's the time to do something for them they will remember the rest of their lives and be grateful for -- the time to treat the people you love. And we will treat you! For every three friends or family members you bring to experience the two weeks unlimited promotion, we will treat you with a 60 minute nurturing massage! So call them up! Forward this email to them. Get them the two weeks unlimited online or at the studio, and we'll take care of the rest. We'll give them an experience that will always remain with them!
And
Coming June 1-July 10
First Ever in Lincoln Here at YBB
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Meet Our New Instructors
(See their full bios at our website)
Charity Aldridge
 Charity Aldridge is a devoted student of the path of Yoga and has been both studying and practicing the art for the last five years. She teaches classes in gentle, basic, restorative, and intermediate Yoga. When off the mat, Charity can usually be found spending time with her husband and two children.
Julie Brummer
 Julie, a student of yoga for over ten years, believes the breath and proper body alignment, pose structure, and internal sensing help open up each pose to the student meeting them where they are. Her passion for yoga spills over into her teaching and her warm and energetic manner encourages her students to embrace their own yoga path.
Joette Byrd
Jo is certified in Vinyasa and Hatha with an emphasis on alignment. Considering herself a lifelong student of yoga, Jo has studied with many world renowned instructors, but she says Thomas and Tataya are her most inspiring teachers!
Lisa Munger
Lisa Munger has been practicing yoga since 1997 and teaching since 2001. Lisa's classes feature a vinyasa style flow to develop strength, flexibility and balance, including standing asanas, sun and moon salutations, backbends, forward bends, arm balances among others.
Waheeda Sulamon
Waheeda , who grew up in Toronto, practices Hatha yoga influenced by Iyengar, Ashtanga, Forrest Yoga, and Boustany's Pralaya Yoga. She wants her classes to be a safe and supportive place where anyone can be gently challenged to find their inner strength and let their limits fall away.
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Fat Free Diet and Upcoming Adventure
Fat is a growing issue for Americans today. Quite simply, we are eating more of it than ever, and it is showing! You may remember the health tip article I wrote a few months ago about circulation in which I mentioned some of the virtues of fat including organ and bone cushioning, nerve insulation, and heat retention. Fat certainly has its benefits. Many health authorities are even suggesting the necessity of adding supplemental fat in our diet. However, fat also has tremendous dangers, and I would like to offer a contrary idea -- a fat free diet. OK, not exactly.
A completely fat free diet is an impossibility. Ranging from small
amounts to large amounts, fat is in everything. We can look at our food  and know when we are eating overt fats -- the ones that look fatty, slick, and creamy, but foods that do not seem to have fat at all still contain them. Believe it or not, there is fat even in romaine lettuce! We get fats in our diet, almost no matter what we eat. If you're over the age of 25, you may have noticed that what you could get away with in your diet doesn't still seem to work and those fats you're eating have begun to show. That's because the metabolism of fat slows down considerably sometime after our teens.
Are you ready for a fun fact? We don't use fat in the way we think. When a fat molecule comes into our body, we don't use it as such. We break it down into smaller fats, or fatty acid chains, to be utilized as energy, insulation, or to be stored. Our bodies deconstruct incoming fats and reconstruct them. We even construct many of the fats we need. Omega 3, 6 and 9 fats are simply different lengths of fatty acid chains, and although we need all three, we can make our own omega 9 and some omega 6s, and we can get the rest from nuts, seeds, and fatty fruits. Omega 3 and omega 6 fats balance blood viscosity so it doesn't clot when we need it to flow, and it doesn't flow when we need it to clot.
It may surprise you to know that specially formulated fats are overkill, unnecessary, and potentially dangerous. I'll vote that nature has made food to maintain that balance in the right proportions. Although we need fat in our diet, we only need small amounts. Oddly many people believe the opposite. I recently heard a respected doctor say since much of our brain is made of fat, we need to consume lots of healthy fat to keep it working properly. (This message was followed by his patented healthy oil for sale.) This is the equivalent of saying since our car is primarily steel, we need to put a lot of steel into it to keep it running properly. Cars run on gas; our brains run on sugar, and lots of it. Up to two-thirds of the calories you consume are for your brain. We are all structurally sound, and the amount of fat in our diet need not exceed 10% of our calories. We function better at lower levels and don't need to add many overt fats at all. Too much can cause slower absorption of nutrients and sugars out of the blood stream into the body and lead to all kinds of problems large and small. Women need more fats than men or hormones can become unbalanced, however imbalance only occurs when body fat is extremely low -- 5-7%. You'd need to work extremely hard to attain body fat that low. No findings have shown a reduction in men's health with low fat percentages.
So how can we move toward a fat free diet? We don't need fancy fat free processed products and fat free hoopla. We just need the foods naturally lower in fats and higher in vitamins and minerals -- fruits and vegetables. This is the perfect time of year to eat those delicious fresh foods that will be increasingly more available. All of our nuts, seeds, milks, cheeses, oils, specialty oils, oil pills, therapeutic grade oil supplements, low fat oil enriched beverages or breakfasts, etc. etc. etc. can be greatly reduced or completely thrown out.
Many of us are like little mad scientists taking things apart and then putting them back together again, in some weird proportion all in the name of health. Simple food always provides the means for health and well being. I can still remember friends eating rolled oats (the oil and nutrients rolled out along with oat bran) with flax oil as a healthy breakfast.
Next month we will be taking a group of people through a life changing event -- a raw food challenge! These people will experience first hand an extremely cleansing and life supporting protocol. They will be living a bit of the good life, learning all about what to do and what not to do and all the while getting ready for the summer. The promise: health has never tasted so good and been so naturally fat free! Keep an eye out for more information to come. Please don't use this as a diagnosis or a cure for any disease you may have. Consult your doctor about lowering your fat intake and getting the fat you do need from whole sources. Yes, I had to say that last part.
Never mind the subtle sales promotion, but do take control of your health, click and listen to some information about cooked food vs. raw.
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