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ONGOING: The Shri Ayurveda and Yoga Center now offers a complete mind-body detoxification and rejuvenation program consisting of an allied treatment of Panchakarma, Yoga Therapy and Nada Tantra with the renowned Ayurveda Physician, Yoga Therapist and Tantra practitioner Dr. Swaroop Verma. You can find out more from Really Long Link
12-14 FEB: Kids Yoga Teacher Training - 1-3yrs at Brisbane Australia
QUOTE: Yoga teacher training for 1-3yrs with age appropriate teaching methodology including ethics, anatomy and physiology, child development, breathing practices (pranayama), meditation, relaxation, visualisations, games, songs, activities, philosophy, partner and group work, class structuring, and practicums. The third module of the Samadhi Yoga RYT200 teacher training programme
more info at www.samadhi.co.nz
19-21 FEB: Apollo Bay Yoga Retreat at Apollo Bay Victoria Australia
details and bookings at stay@beaconpoint.com.au or 0427577993
27-28 FEB: Yoga Master Jun Po Denis Kelly at Sydney New South Wales Australia
QUOTE: Direct from the USA, Zen Master and Yoga Master Jun Po Denis Kelly will be visiting Australia to hold a 7 day retreat in Melbourne and a 2 workshop in Sydney. As well as being a recognised Rinzai Zen meditation master Jun Po has also practised Yoga for over three decades having personally trained with both BKS Iyengar and Pattabhi Jois in India.
more information: Really Long Link
21/28 FEB: Dharma and Meditation with Joe Mauricio, Senior Shambhala Teacher at Go Yoga Brooklyn USA.
QUOTE: Life is a series of changing phases navigated by a system that habitually avoids change. Part of our success as a species is an ability to adapt, and then rebalance, and find stasis. Our life is an episodic journey from event to event. But, this very basic fact is a great cause of irritation and strain for most of us. How can we remain personally calm and kind to others during this journey from change to change?
more info: http://www.goyoga.ws/
FEB 13: Va-Boom's Valentine Punk Rock Cabaret is on at Your House in Oakland and is all age. You can catch music from Knife Thru Head, Keep Sweet, Can-Cannibals, La Plebe, Tara Quinn, Rose Harden, Zig-Zag, Luna Del Fuego, Evil Eye Belly Dance, Fire Smoothie, and Dottie L for $10 or less. Meanwhile The Paranoids, Tokyo Raid, and Siddharta play Kimo's for $7 to the 21 group.
FEB 14: The Entrance Band, Sic Alps, and Lights play The Independent at 8pm.
FEB 15: Mirros, A Night In Hollywood, and If Looks Could Kill play BOTH tonight in an 18 show for $8.
FEB 16: Oceanography, The Pentacles, and Mumble Mumble play The Hemlock today.The 9pm show costs $6 and is listed as 21 .
FEB 17: The Uptown in Oakland have a free show from C U Next Weekend, The Blind, and Black Balloon at 9 tonight. The Elbo Room offers you Sister Grizzly, Big Blue Whale, and Meta for $6 at 9.
FEB 18: The Hemlock gives you the show that I would be attending if in town tonight - with music from Rykarda Parasol, Chambers, and Summer Blonde. Tickets are $8 and the show's on at 9. It is Bluegrass night at CDN where you can hear from The Cowlicks, The Whiskey Richards, Mad Cow String Band, and Lady A & Her Heel Draggers in a 21 show.
FEB 19: BOTH provides you with Birdmonster, reunited band GirlBand, a CD release from Boy In The Bubble, and Here Come The Saviors. The show is on at 9. Meanwhile, at The Elbo Room - you can catch Sweet Psychosis, Death Valley High, Blush My Dear, Goodbye Gadget, and DJ Hem-Dog for $8 at 9.
FEB 20: The Oakland Music & Art Extravaganza is on at The Warehouse, 416 26th Street tonight. You can hear from Beatworm, The Careerers, Million Star Hotel, Measures, Lunch, and DJ Don Guapo as well as catch an art show. The Hemlock gives you Hot Lunch, Sassy!, and Smoke Stacks for $7 at 9-30.
FEB 7: The Ali Weiss Band is playing at Thee Parkside tonight - in a free all age show from 4 til 7pm. There is to be a $5 BBQ for those hungry visitors... Meanwhile, Grains, Weatherbox, and Da Bears play a show at The Hemlock - tickets are $6 for the 9pm show.
FEB 8: BOTH have a 9pm show from Scott H. Biram, Dirt Daubers, and The Ferocious Few for you tonight. Tickets are $10.
FEB 9: The Knockout gives you a free show if you are 21 from Airfix Kits, Rank/Xerox, and La Corde tonight. Meanwhile, CDN gives you The Jolly Goodfellows, Erica Sunshine Lee, and The Golddigger for $10 tonight.
FEB 10: There is a Benefit for Haiti Disaster Relief going on at The Elbo Room tonight - it starts at 9 and gives you music from Houndsound, Eats Tapes, T.I.T.S., dand DJ's C.L.A.W.S., Kit Clayton, and Sutekh.
FEB 11: BOTH gives you The Hollyhocks, Hoi Polloi, and Hey Brontosaurus in an $8 show at 9 tonight.
FEB 12: 924 Gilman hosts a Benefit for Ananoi tonight, with music from Grass Moon, Fleabag, Dirty Marquse, Mutoid Men in an all ager. The Uptown in Oakland offers a Zombie Face Painting Booth along with music from Victoria & The Vaudvillains, Can Cannibals, and Culo A Boca in an $8 9pm show, if you prefer. BOTH is where I would be if in town tonight though - attending a CD release show from Cast Of Thousands, with Company Car and The Paper Sons also playing the $10/10pm show.
Yes, yet again I have made a change or two in my regular routine, Despite not being a set routine that always turns out the same, it generally follows a basic pattern - with just a few asana being added or taken out depending on the weather, my sinus-health, and my time available. Since encountering freezing cold English winters however, I have made a couple of more long-term changes.
The main change is that the warm up exercises for my neck and eyes that generally come at the start of a routine now come at the very end. I begin as I did before, with Savasana and leg raises followed by shoulderstand. I then go into the desk pose/fish pose, roll over for locust and scorpion or the bow, and then stand up. I perform my version of the sun salutation prior to triangle and THEN do my seated pranayama/meditation/neck and eye exercises before a final Savasana
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After studying both the live creature and a few books on the bird, I have learned some facts concerning the blackcap. Hopefully, I shall also have some photos to share in a month or so, when I can get them off my camera and onto a computer that I have yet to purchase.
Blackcaps come from the same family as the warbler. They are circa 14cm in length and make their nest from dried grasses. Their nests are situated in brambles and similar shurbs with undergrowth
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FEB 1:
S.F. IndieFest continues at BOTH tonight, where you can catch Please Do Not Fight, The Hundred Days, Luke Franks Or The Federalists, and Scene Of Action. Tickets cost $10 and it is a 21 event.
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A female blackcap is almost a sparrow in way of its looks - however, that rusty red 'hat' makes it stand out as not a sparrow and worth further investigation. After swatting through 3 bird identification books, I finally found out that this is what I was seeing landing on the dead-looking tree in my father's front yard recently and nibbling a few tiny purple berries.
It took me a time to identify, as the male blackcap has a black 'hat' and was shown in all the pictures without its female counterpart. Eventually however, I was able to swat up on the bird. Sparrow-sized, it is now the subject of a few photos - when I can get a computer at home, I will share them with you
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FEBRUARY 1: Breathing and the Brain at Anahata Yoga Retreat, Golden Bay, New Zealand.
From 10-5, a Yoga Workshop with Guest Swami Samnyasananda.
QUOTE: Special workshop for Yoga Teachers and advanced practitioners wishing to deepen their understanding and knowledge of the scientific applications of yoga
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JAN 26: Nero's Day At Disneyland, Mincemeat Or Tenspeed, and Teengirl Fantasy are all hearable at 21 Grand in Oakland tonight. It is an all ager.
JAN 27: Tomorrows Bad Seeds and The Supervillains play a show at Berkeley's Ashkenaz. This is an all ager
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Like the redwings mentioned in my last post, fieldfares munch berries - particularly in cold icy and snowy weather. They also eat seeds and bugs when weather permits. These birds have black eyes and orange-tan feet. They are frequently seen in all but the hottest of months in southern England.
They enjoy woodland districts but will venture into gardens when the weather hides their usual food sources. For year-round observation, you should head to Eastern Europe. The bird measures approximately 10 inches in length and has a 5-10 year life span
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