Important Schedule Notes!
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Friday evening class and Saturday classes are replaced with the Anusara workshop led by Holly and Nova. Sign-up TODAY!
Sunday class at 4:30 taught by Charity will no longer offered beginning in July.
Thomas will be on a trip from Wednesday the 24th of June to Wednesday the 1st of July.His classes will continue, but his 5:45 am class will be canceled on the 25th, 30th, & 2nd. Lisa Munger's 6-7 am class throughout this time period is a great option!
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Free Yoga Passes!
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Do you have friends or relatives you've been wanting to introduce to yoga?
We have free passes available for you to give to them!
Come in and pick up as many as you'd like. You're welcome to take a stack and place them in places you frequent. It's a great way to share what we love!
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 Quotation of the Month
"To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom."
~ Andrew Gide
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Recipe of the Month:
Raw Ice Cream
feel free to indulge
occasionally
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Ingrid's offering at last month's potluck --
requested recipe!
from
RAW:
The UNcook Book
New Vegetarian Food For Life by Juliano 1 cup of frozen mango (you can dice & freeze your own)
2 cups fresh-squeezed orange juice
1 cup raw cashews
1 cup banana, frozen
2 cups soft or soaked dates
blend & eat (or chill in the freezer).
(Ingrid says, "I always at least double the recipe though -- it goes fast.")
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Book of the Month
Midnights With the Mystic: A Little Guide to Freedom and Bliss
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"Extraordinary wisdom, the insight and clarity of logic, the language
of a poet. If you read this powerful book, you will discover who you
really are, who we all are."
~ Neale Donald Walsch, author of Conversations with God
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If you would like to write a testimonial about your experiences and practices at YBB, we would welcome it! Please send to the editor using this link. If you would prefer to answer specific questions, let us know.
Thank you!
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Taking the Teacher Training these past weeks has been a truly transformational process for me. So much juicy stuff coming up -- discussions, philosophies, techniques, chakras and energy work -- mhhh simply delicious.  One of the things that Shakti asked the first day was, "What does Yoga mean to you?" What an amazing question! And she said, "Find just one word that most resonates with you." My word was "Freedom" because yoga is the way I experience freedom within myself and the way I can express and share my highest potential with an open, bright, free spirit. It is through yoga that I find my light and I am able to help others find their own light too! So maybe you would like to answer Shakti's question for yourself, "What does yoga mean to you? And how can you would you like to celebrate your path on this grandiose 4th of July?" With joy and gratitude! Tataya |
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Health Tip from Thomas
 OK, so this really isn't a health tip for us exactly, more for wildlife and the planet. I was surprised to see a sign at the Lincoln Zoo last weekend about recycling cell phones. I always thought it was a good idea, especially because these days new ones are available every few months with no thought seemingly given to where the old ones might go. Currently the United States alone has up to 500 million unused cell phones with 100 million added each year. I learned that the mineral coltan, critical in the production of cell phones, is being mined out of Africa at an alarming rate causing a loss of habitat to gorillas and many other creatures. Recycling cell phones would protect not only African wildlife, but would also protect landfills from the many potentially
hazardous chemicals found in the phones, including antimony, arsenic,
copper, cadmium, lead, and zinc. Long story short, recycle your cell phone, save a gorilla and his home, or better yet keep the cell phone you have. It probably works just fine, and as Americans we can be more responsible and aware of our lifestyle and its impact on the rest of the planet. To read more visit National Geographic online.
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What's Happening in July
Note: the potluck is vegetarian
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No evening class Friday, July 3 
Saturday, July 4 - 8:30-10:00 A.M.
FIREWORKS PRACTICE!
all levels
NOT hot yoga
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Yoga as Therapy with r.r. Shakti
Did you know that yoga can help aid low back pain, shoulder and knee injuries, hip degeneration, carpal tunnel syndrome, tendonitis, headache, and TMJ pain? And that is just the  beginning! If you are challenged by chronic pain, working with a certified Yoga Therapist to create a custom designed yoga practice may be the key to releasing some of the pain you currently live with. Yoga helps strengthen and increase mobility in your joints at the same
time. This balance leads to freedom from chronic pain!
Yoga World Reach Director and certified Yoga Therapist, r.r. Shakti, has been teaching "the blissipline" of Inner Power Yoga since 2000. She has
traveled extensively throughout the world gaining insight, experience, and inspiration; bringing yoga and hope to people from all walks of life. Sharing the practice with people who have disabilities, survivors of invasive trauma, cancer patients, those struggling with substance abuse challenges, and others with special needs, Shakti is a firm believer in the power of yoga to awaken the body's own healing process by aligning to Grace and empowering one's unique expression of Divine Light.
r.r. Shakti will be in Lincoln for a limited time. If you would like to make an appointment for a private Yoga Therapy consultation, please call Yoga Body and Balance at: 402-489-9642. Or you may contact Shakti directly at: 970-331-9039.
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Learning Trust from Oliva and YOU!
I was playing a game with Oliva last week. She would take a bite out of her arepa (corn biscuit) and then hold it up for me to see. My job was to tell her what animal it looked like. I was glad the game was helping her eat while I was preparing lunches, but I felt my nerves firing up, and I wanted it to be over. You see, every time Oliva held up the arepa, I had to let go of every drop of control and trust I'd see some animal she would approve of. Sounds like a trivial, control freak moment, right? But it opened the window to my anxieties and uncomfortabilities in the rest of my life. I've seen before that many of the stresses in my life can be traced to lack of trust, trust that life is always serving me and my agenda may not be.
As a yoga teacher, if I'm not trusting, or if my agenda is too strong, if I can't let the class evolve in the moment, I don't enjoy the practice (or what I'm doing with my life), and you probably don't either. When I'm trusting, the teaching of yoga comes in the moment. I adjust to the people who are there, to the time of day, the temperature, etc. All are factors that create the class. Teaching yoga has kept me very much in the
practice of trust. I'm glad to be reminded of this virtue and through something as simple as a child's game. A great lesson, again from my greatest teacher.
Fourth of July is time to play games, to celebrate! May you live in the moment, let life teach you! Trust yourself, your own independence, be surprised, and share!
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Tataya and Thomas Radtke
Yoga Body and Balance
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