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What are the contact details for your Yoga Center?
Yoga Dynamics (Calgary, Alberta)
yogajan@shaw.ca
403-366-2347
www.geocities.com/yoga_jan
What style(s) of Yoga is/are available?
Hatha yoga, Ashtanga Yoga, Iyengar influences, restorative, prenatal, meditation
Janice Skiffington is a warm, knowledgeable and compassionate Certified Yoga Instructor and Core Connexion Faciltiator with16 years of Hatha and Ashtanga yoga experience. She has a particular interest in helping to facilitate the deepening of one's connection with themselves, their bodies and Spirit.
What classes are currently running?
I'm currently taking a sabbatical from teaching yoga as focus on family life and the joys of parenting a toddler.
How long has your establishment been offering Yoga practice to the community?
5 years
How long have you been practicing Yoga?
16 years
What would you say is the most beneficial aspect of Yoga?
It allows us to connect with our truest selves, the oneness that connects us all.
Which is your personal favorite asana?
Backbends and twists, supported poses
Volt, Bella Morte, Everything Goes Cold, and Black Snake Moan play an 8pm show at The DNA Lounge on Thursday. It is a 21 show and starts at 8pm.
Boy In The Bubble and Leopold And His Fiction share an 8pm show at Red Devil Lounge on the tenth July.
The Genie play The Crucible 'Five Arts Festival' in Oakland on July 10 from 8pm.
The Uptones, Flipper, and DJ Malachi are amongst the many performers at a free all age show at The Museum of California, (100 Oak Street, Oakland) on Friday. Doors at 6, music from 7.
Castles In Spain, Lick, & The Passive Aggressives play a 9pm show at Broadway Studios, (435 Broadway) on Friday night.
Also on Friday, 20 Minute Loop have a CD release show with Caves and Man/Miracle also playing. It is 21 , at BOTH, and tickets cost $10.
Love & VooDoo, Anthem, and Fantasia play a 7pm for 8 show at Fat City, 314 11th Street, Friday night. Tickets will cost $10 for this 21 event.
Swann Danger are among the bands listed to play The Uptown in Oakland on the 12th July from 9pm. It is a 21 show and tickets will cost $10.
Bag Of Toys has a CD release at The Red Devil Lounge on July 12. Also playing the 8pm/21 show are Jimmy 2 Times.
Triple Cobra have a show on Saturday with The Kehoe Nation and Jessie Deluxe. It is set for BOTH with $12 tickets and is 21 .
Those pigeons know who to suck up to! If Smokey catches me in the yard, he will follow me about. Maybe I go to the front to check for mail - Smokey is half way walking down the path by the house towards me as I come back. Baby1 and Bebe2 are now doing likewise. I went to fetch my laundry inside from the hoist yesterday, and as I de-pegged the clothing, I spotted a pigeon standing under the hoist looking up at me. As I carried the clothes down the path to the house, I almost tripped over his twin brother!
If I had not had my fill of affection loving pigeons, sookingly parading under my feet, I did some washing up and spotted a pair of turtle doves necking in the poinsettia. There must be something about our yard, you would think. However, I recently took a walk along the coast to Corrimal. What did I see there? A paid of cockatoos preening one another lovingly in the high school grounds! Whilst I did not get a photo of them, I managed 2-3 pictures from my trip which I will share when I get them onto my computer from the camera.
The local cockatoos are not quite as affectionate, though one threw a half eaten mandarin onto my lawn as if leaving a gift behind. They had been chewing lemons from next door's tree - hmm, I never knew cockatoos ate lemons before!
The Scott Amendola Band and The Jim Campilongo Electric Trio play CDN on Monday night. Tickets for this 21 show cost $15 and doors open at 7 for the show from 8.
Tuesday finds Big Business, Triclops! and Totimoshi playing 12 Galaxies. This is a 21 show and starts at 9pm
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Anusara Yoga is a modern Yogic practice developed by John Friend a mere decade ago. Since 1997, this recently introduced style has reportedly spread rapidly across the Americas from Canada to Mexico, all around Europe, and also infiltrated Australia & Japan. Classes are now becoming available worldwide, with Anusara Yoga now one of the most popular styles of Yoga practiced today. For full details on this style of Yoga and practitioners near you, go to www.anusara.com.
Anusara refers to 'following your heart' or 'flowing gracefully' and comes from the text of the Kularnava Tantra. It is within the Hatha family of Yogic practices and combines internal Tantric philosophy with external alignment principles. Students of all abilities & levels are welcomed and accepted. Emphasis is placed on individuality and creativity, whilst appreciation is given to beauty, truth and divinity. Attitude, alignment and action are all paid attention. As with many forms of Yoga, Anusara practice is suitable for practitioners seeking to alleviate pain, stress, emotional blockages, and lack of purpose
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I did a little research and discovered that cataracts in birds are quite common and that a veterinary surgeon can operate to remove the cataract in some cases. I do not think that I will subject Baby1 to a stressful trip to the vets though. I think being stuffed in a cardboard box then bounced along a 20 minute walk and opened into a strange indoor room might upset him far more than a naturally and slow occurring blindness taking over one eye.
Apparently, in the wild, blindness only affects a bird in the realm of food provision and safety from predators. There will be no problem with our semi-wild 'pet' pigeon going hungry, but if the eye is completely covered in cataract I may start to 'stable' Baby1 in the dunny or entryway overnight for safety's sake
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'Tidalwave day 2' happens at John McLaren Park Amphitheater on the 6th July. It is all age and FREE. Bands play from noon thru 6pm and include Devourement, Embryonic, and Saros.
Also on Sunday, Todd Rundgren plays the Great American Music Hall in an all age performance
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Bhi Bhiman is to open for the Charlie Hunter Trio at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco on July 4th! It is an all age concert.
Starting from 1pm with a free BBQ, make.a.virus are amongst the bands playing live hiphop from 3pm. Additionally, there are art installations from Walleye & Beau Knight. Benflowz and The Dervish are also amongst the many bands playing. The event is to be held at The Broken Record, 1166 Geneva
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I managed to get a piccie of a red wattlebird & an almost photograph also. Alas, they are not yet locally tame, so I had to use the full zoom, meaning the picture is not great. However, it should give the general idea of the bird. It is something similar to a thrush for any English readers.
Here is the oops that was supposed to be the same bird - however, it jumped out of shot JUST as my camera focused and caught the image
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