Give yourself the gift of love by taking 15 minutes to watch my yoga class video that explores the power of opening your heart. It includes kind and gentle yoga poses that you can do while sitting in a chair or in your bed. Click here to watch the video: http://stickam.com/anandaleeke.
FYI – My yoga class honors women’s heart health month (celebrated in February) and the people of Haiti. If you learned something from the class, please consider making a donation to Doctors Without Borders to support their work in Haiti: www.doctorswithoutborders.org.
I am teaching two more online yoga classes on February 19 and 26 at 7:00 a.m. EST: http://stickam.com/anandaleeke. I hope you can join me for the classes.
I hope my class makes you smile OMs inside and teaches you something you can do to take better care of yourself. If you like my class, please consider making a donation to Doctors Without Borders (www.doctorswithoutborders.org) or another organization working to make the lives of Haitians better. Merci beaucoup! Gracias! Thanks so much!
FYI – I will be teaching a series of online yoga classes on February 5, 12, 19, and 26 to honor women’s heart health month and the people of Haiti. Each class will be held from 7:00 a.m. to 7:15 a.m. EST. If you miss the classes, you can watch the videos. They are all free! Click here to watch them: http://stickam.com/anandaleeke.
Listen to me celebrate Yoga Day USA (www.yogadayusa.org and www.yogaalliance.org) with a yoga breathing exercise and yoga-inspired poem “Present Moment Awareness” from my new book That Which Awakens Me: A Creative Woman’s Poetic Memoir of Self-Discovery (available on Amazon.com – http://tiny.cc/7uFsg).
Happy First Year Anniversary to President BarackObama and First Lady Michelle Obama!
Last year I was standing on the grounds of the Lincoln Memorial watching President Obama get sworn in. That day was filled with so much hope and joy. I shared it with my brother Mark and sisters Lu and Sylvia, and folks from all over America. My prayer is that we work together as a country to make America what it can be under the leadership of President Obama. We have got seven more years to make things happen. I say seven because I am affirming President Obama’s re-election in 2012!
Today I am sharing information about two free online yoga classes I am teaching to celebrate Yoga Day USA (www.yogadayusa.org), an annual campaign created by the Yoga Alliance (www.yogaalliance.org) that strives to make yoga more accessible. My class schedule is below.
The classes will focus on the practice of karuna (Sanskrit word that means compassion). They will also honor the people of Haiti and everyone affected by the January 12th earthquake. If you like the classes and learn something that helps you, please consider adopting the Charter for Compassion (http://charterforcompassion.org) in your daily life and making a donation to Doctors Without Borders, an international humanitarian organization that is working to make the lives of Haitians better. Visit www.doctorswithoutborders.org to learn more and make a donation.
Enjoy your week!
Peace, Creativity, Compassion, and Healing OMs to the people of Haiti,
kg yoga life practices’ online yoga class for computer users on Saturday, December 12 at 7am on http://stickam.com/anandaleeke.
kg yoga life practices’ Kind and Gentle C-OM-MUNITY Yoga Meetup class on Sunday, December 13 at 11:30am in Malcolm X-Meridian Hill Park. Click here for more details: http://yoga.meetup.com/584. If it rains, the class will be cancelled.
Hope you will join me for some yoga yummy moments!
Join me for my November online yoga class for computer users on Saturday, November 21 from 11:00 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. on Stickam.com: http://stickam.com/anandaleeke. The class will focus on the practice of compassion promoted by the Charter for Compassion: http://chartforcompassion.org. To learn more about my yoga services with kg yoga life practices, visit http://kgyoga.blogspot.com.
Join me for Pink October Yoga, a kind and gentle online yoga class, on October 6 from 6:45 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. EST on http://www.stickam.com/anandaleeke. I will offer tips on how to create awareness, balance, and calm in your body, mind, spirit, heart, and breath. The class will be dedicated to everyone impacted by breast cancer and my grandmothers Frederica Stanley Roberts Leeke and Dorothy Mae Johnson Gartin.
Pink October Yoga classes will also be offered on October 13, 20, and 27 from 8:15 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. EST on www.stickam.com/anandaleeke. If you miss the live classes, you can watch a recording of them after they air.
Leslie Kersha, founder of Creative Space Yoga (and one of my favorite yoga bloggers!), will join me for a discussion about yoga and creativity tonite on Go Green Sangha Radio at 7:00 p.m. EST on Talkshoe.com – http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/21325. For more information about Leslie, visit http://creativespaceyoga.blogspot.com.
Happy Tuesday! Happy Autumn! Happy OneWebDay! Happy National Yoga Month!
As you can see, I have a lot to be happy about this month. It is a really sweet September because I am joining the Next Chapter Book Blogging Group (http://tnc-thejoydiet.blogspot.com). Our latest reading adventure is with The Joy Diet by Martha Beck. I love Martha’s column in The O Magazine. Click here to read Martha’s blog: http://marthabeck.com/blog.
The Next Chapter Book Blogging Group was established by Jamie Ridler, an amazing woman who shares her gifts as a certified professional co-active coach. Click here to learn more about Jamie: http://jamieridlerstudios.ca.
I started reading The Joy Dieton September 11. The first chapter encourages readers to do nothing for 15 minutes. I call it my do-nothing experience. So far, I have been doing no-thing in the morning as a pre-meditation session. I wake up and allow myself 15 minutes to just be. In this state, I don’t resist the whirling thoughts moving through my brain. I just let them go where they want to go. I start my 15 minutes in one of my favorite yoga poses called Balasana (child’s pose) and move into Savasana (corpse pose).
On September 12, I filmed a webisode about reading The Joy Diet and the Next Chapter Book Blogging Group for my OneWebDay 22 Countdown Campaign sponsored by kg yoga life practices (http://kgyoga.blogspot.com). See the video above. OneWebDay was established in 2006 on September 22 honor the presence and power of the Internet in our lives. Click here for more information: www.onewebday.org.
I’ll be posting another blog post about my adventures for Week 2 later in the week.
to me read an excerpt from my yoga-inspired novel, Love’s Troubadours-Karma: Book One – 
Ananda Leeke 
