Ebb N Flow Movement

Well, I actually started this update last month and had entitled it “Change”. I just didn’t realize what kind of change was in store…on the 24th of August I managed to re-injure my left shoulder. I guess the Universe decided that I needed to practice my yoga in a bigger way. So, while I’m healing I will be taking a break from teaching Wednesdays at Synergy.
The good news is that I am still allowed to practice the Thai Yoga Therapy-thank goodness for feet and elbows☺. So, the new Thai schedule is up through October. Don’t forget to try out the reservation form.
Looking forward to seeing you all soon and take a deep inhale and exhale while this great cooler weather lasts.
With deep Metta, Tricia

Quick Upate!!! (and yes, coming soon the fall Thai schedule too:) Did you know that San Antonio now has its VERY own Tea Lounge??? It is located in The Craftiques Mall at 2375 NW Military, SAT 78231. It is called the Garden Tea Lounge and is currently open Tuesday thru Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m. They are having a special event this coming Tuesday August 23rd from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. There will be a Funky Retro fashion show, live music, and tapas and tea, all for only $23.00 per person. This is a ‘by reservation only’ event, so r.s.v.p. to 210.308.8327 to save your place!

Wow! I can’t believe that it’s August already. I hope that everyone has been having a wonderful summer and creating some special memories. I am very excited to report that Talia is coming back at the end of this month to share of her amazing wisdom. If you missed Talia in May, this workshop will be extra special. If you have any questions, contact Talia and we are looking forward to seeing you!
With deep Metta,
Tricia

FROM TALIA!!!
Hello! And happy Summer to you all. I m writing to let you all know that I will be doing a healing class in San Antonio, Tx. August 27-28, 2001. That’s only 24 days from now, but there were a few people asking for this sort of thing and that’s when it works to be there. I hope that you will join in the healing weekend.

The class will be two days, Saturday and Sunday. 9:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. with a lunch break each day. The class will focus entirely on the Auric dimension/energy field…unless I am guided to do any group healing in other dimensions, of course. We will spend Saturday going into deeper understanding of our personal energy fields, how to work with them, sense them, clear them and run energy through them more consciously. The second day we will focus on how to use our energy field to work on others. We will focus on how to charge the energy field of another as well as their chakra system. This is called an energy chelation.

The goal here is to have lots of self healing throughout the weekend and to leave with skills for bettering yourselves…AND so that you ll can get together and trade with one another whenever wanted/needed! You’ll be healers for yourself and others…and knowing that there will be more of you out there is such a wonderful thing. Fills my heart!

So, if you think you’d like to attend please get back to me and we can begin registration. Details below…

Class will be held at Trish Messinger’s home. Exact address will be provided after registration.

Sat. & Sun., August 27-28, 2001.

9:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.

$275 if paid in full by Sun., August 14, 2011
$300 if paid after August 14, 2011

Credit cards, cash, check or money order. I do most payments via PayPal.

There are no course requirements, but there may be some light reading to be assigned before the class. I want to be sure that we get the most out of our time together!

Feel free to pass this on to anyone whom you think might be interested or in need of this information at this time.

Looking sooooo forward to assisting in training all you lovely and powerful beings to be even more helpful/assistive to yourself and others!

Much love,
Talia
lynntalia@hotmail.com

Hello everyone! We had a wonderful time at the first Intro to Yogic Arts workshop. Many thanks to everyone who attended. The Tuesday 4:30 p.m. class is a lot of fun. If it works in your schedule, come and play!
My jigsaw puzzle of family, work and Thai Yoga is finally together for the summer. I have stopped the appointments in mid-August. As soon as I know my fall schedule at Northeast Lakeview, I will update the calendar. You may also notice that several of the spots are already full. This is because people are booking ahead. If you find that you would like to make a monthly appointment, please let me know and I can book you in ahead. If none of these times work for you, please let me know and I will see what I can do.
Hope that you all are staying hydrated and cool!
With deep Metta,
Tricia

Hey everyone! I hope that all is well with each of you. LOTS of change this month! I keep looking at my calendar and wondering, “What the heck happened to May”?! Has anyone else had this feeling?
First of all, THANK YOU to everyone who was able to make it to Talia’s workshop over Mother’s Day weekend. We had a hugely fun time and it went way too fast. If you weren’t able to attend or be there for the full time, or you want to spend more time with her, I would love to have Talia come again, so let me know and we will see what her schedule holds.
Finals and paperwork ended for me on the 17th of May with my community college classes, so Congratulations! to all my students and have a wonderful summer☺.
Then just this past Thursday the 26th, Eric and I slipped away to Santa Fe to get to spend some much needed one on one time, bask in that glorious high altitude sunshine with cool temperatures and see TONS of awesome art that had us up talking til late at night. Also on this road trip we had to opportunity to listen to Choice Point 2012 by Gregg Braden. We both really enjoyed these CDs and the alternative viewpoint they offer (read: NOT doom and gloom).
Not to be left out of all the fun, I am happy to report that there are also good new things happening with Ebb N Flow Movement. Starting Tuesday June 7th at 4:30 p.m. at The Synergy Studio I will be teaching a weekly Yogic Arts class. I am soooooo excited and honored that I get to share this. In anticipation of this new class, I am giving an “Intro to Yogic Arts” workshop on Sunday June 5th from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. (Also at Synergy). In this workshop we will sing, breathe and cover some of the differences between the vinyasa yoga class that you have been taking and a Yogic Arts class. For those of you that like one on one Thai Yoga we will also go over some of the hands-on adjustments. To sign up for the workshop– it’s only $20.00 –just click on the following link to reserve your space☺. https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/ASP/home.asp?studioid=2715
Finally this month I have started work on a sister site to Ebb N Flow. As you know, I LOVE food! I really enjoy creating healthy and tasty variations of what I enjoy eating. The new website is called I Love Heath N Food and this site will be a place to share our favorite recipes, what has worked or not worked for us, health and food resources and maybe become a small haven of community that you look forward to. I will let you know as soon as we are up and running!
Well, I guess I now know “What Happened to May”!
With deep Metta,
Tricia

So many changes! As the semester winds down, I always get excited with this transition time. Endings and beginnings, sometimes at the same time. The spring school semester and the students have been wonderful and I will miss them. The summer months bring new things. Talia is coming at the beginning of May (see previous entry) and starting in June I will be teaching a YogicArts class at the Synergy Studio on Tuesdays at 4:30 p.m. YAHOO! I will also be offering an Intro to YogicArts workshop to coordinate with the new class. And who knows what else these summer months will bring?! Hope you all have a wonderful time of change! With deep Metta, Tricia

What follows if from Talia:) For more information on Talia, please post me and I will send you the background information on these very special workshops.

With deep Metta, Trish

“Hello All! So it is that I am called to work with the energy of the beings in San Antonio, Texas. How exciting! I’ve not yet worked in this area. And I’ve not been there since 1996, I believe. I’m quite pleased.

This will be a 2 part class for some people…and a 1 day class for others. I will be doing a Friday night (May 6 from 6:30 p.m. – 8:30/9 p.m.) class specifically on the energy field and chakra system. I will be teaching the anatomy of the energy field. We will also be doing experiential exercises in how to clean, clear and charge the energy field and chakra system. If this is not something you are familiar with already, this part of the class is mandatory. If, however, you are already skilled in this area or have already taken classes with me where this was taught you do not have to attend…although you are welcome to do so if you wish.

The second part of the class will be Saturday, May 7. This is all day class. 9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (with a lunch break). This part of the class will be on the 4 dimensions of the human. It will include the physical, aura (energy field), hara (intention) and core star (the very seed of our being). We will learn a basic anatomy of these dimensions, how to work in and with them as well as how they are interconnected. We will look at how to be aware of which dimension we are currently working from, how to shift between them and how to support ourselves in each dimension.

While this class is for beginners – pros, we will all be receiving a lot of healing over the course of the day. If you are attending please be committed to being there and being hydrated.

You will need to bring pen and paper if you want to take notes on the lecture. The rest of the class will be experiential work…and that I cannot explain to you. I can say that you will receive much healing during these hours if you are open to it.

I look forward to being with those of you who are meant to attend. I am also excited that it is happening just before Mother’s Day! What a gift!!!

If you have any questions or if you are ready to sign-up please send me an email at lynntalia@gmail.com. I will then send you a Paypal link for payment options.

The cost for Friday night is $33. The cost for Saturday is $111. The cost for both is $144. I know that some of you have attended other one day classes that I have done and the cost was $99. The cost of classes varies depending on travel costs, rental spaces, car rentals, gas, etc. etc… So, you will all likely see variations in prices of classes depending on such things.

I am looking very forward to working with you all there in San Antonio!

Much love and excitement,
Talia”

My teacher training in February/March with Duncan Wong was amazing. I cherish those seven days. They were both strenuous and inspiring. We were a core group of 14 students from all over the U.S. including Houston and Corpus Christi, amazing people one and all. Duncan Sensei walked his own talk and would get up at 4 a.m. every morning to train with one of his masters and then come back to teach us all day. All of us worked as hard as we could to could cram as much as possible into our muscle memory.
What I have discovered through Duncan’s training is a whole new level of focus and muscle/bandha activation that I had never before experienced. To all of you with whom I have shared since I have been back, THANK YOU for your enthusiasm and your patience as I integrate these new places into our practice. I am continuing to work with Duncan’s methods in my own practice as well and hope to be able to offer a focused Yogic Arts class in the near future.
I hope you are all getting the opportunity to feel the sun on your face and feel the warmth and desire to move in your bodies. What a great time of year to stretch and open to new possibilities☺!
With deep Metta,
Tricia

I am excited to report that I will be doing the Yogic Arts Teacher training in Houston starting on February 28^th. Master Duncan Wong has developed a synthesis of movement that is part yoga, part martial arts and part Thai yoga. He doesn’t often teach in the U.S., so this is a pretty amazing opportunity to do something new and will bring together the different rhythms that I love.

While I am incredibly excited to be doing this, there is also a level of anxiety that I have noticed running underneath this excitement. This anxiety boils down to “Am I enough?” I find that this core question always haunts me when I try something new. It has come out more strongly this time because Master Wong has a beautiful practice and I want very much to be worthy of it. So, my daily practice right now, before I leave for the actual practice/learning, is to sit with myself in loving-kindness and simply be present to this worry/anxiety. It is to practice my breath, stay focused on the Now and be in gratitude for every movement I make, especially while practicing my postures.

If you would like to see more, Master Wong has a great website www.yogicarts.com

Wheee! Away I go on this big adventure:)!

So, the other day I was doing a yoga practice that required some support. A bolster and some blankets, that sort of thing. I went into a pose, started to breathe and found discomfort and some pain. So, I did a little fidgeting, did some more deep breathing and still no change. At this point my monkey mind entered the fray and I started to berate myself for wanting to add more support. I fidgeted, scrunched and adjusted for what seemed an eternity, before I finally told my mind to shut up and then got up and got myself the additional support I needed. Guess what? As soon as I settled back in and started to breathe again, my body relaxed and I was able to release the kink in my back that had been there since the day before.

That got me thinking, (after I got off my mat:)…If I resist and beat myself up on my  yoga mat, where else in my life do I do the same thing? How much more difficult am I making my life because very often I don’t treat myself with loving kindness and many times I resist change? As always, I seem to find too many hard edges and not enough softness. Life is always a learning experience, both on and off the mat.