RECOMMENDATIONS

RECOMMENDATIONS

**RECOMMENDED WORKSHOPS/MASTER CLASSES/SERVICES:

**JOHNNY GILLESPIE & ROLF GATES will be at the Menla Mountain retreat center for a week in August. I will be there some of the time. I can't wait. My time with them last year provided major growth for me. I can't recommend this enough. check out www.rolfgates.com for details.

**DAVID VENDETTI and Todd Skoglund of South Boston Yoga are almost full on their teacher training. I will be doing their weeklong in September. Hope to see you there! check out: www.southbostonyoga.net for more details.

**PAT IYER is my reiki master and I highly recommend her for a reiki treatment. She's a pretty amazing woman. Contact her at: ramblingrose35@aol.com

**ADENA MUNCEY is a local acupuncturist (and yoga teacher!) who treated me regularly in my first pregnancy. I highly recommend her for acupuncture (www.yogaacu.com)

**RECOMMENDED READINGS:

--"Living a Life That Mattersa" by Harold S. Kushner

--"How God Changes Your Brain" by Andrew Newborg

**RECOMMENDED WEBSITES:

--www.yogareachesout.org
This website is for the YogaThon I will be teaching at on September 19th at Foxboro Stadium. Join me and a slew of other great Boston yoga teachers...in addition to Ana Forrest and Wade Morrisette. You can go online and register for the event for Children's Hospital.

**RECOMMENDED MUSIC:

--"In Rainbows" by Radiohead

--"At Folsom Prison" by Johnny Cash

**RECOMMENDED RESTAURANTS:

--The "PRANA CAFE" in Newton 2 doors down from Prana Power Yoga in Newton is open for dinner now--I HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend!! I call Taylor's recipes the organic version of my great grandmother--very good, nurturing, made with love food like my great grandma used to make--but my grandma's recipes certainly were not raw--they were hard core italian!! Both very nurturing in their own way!

**RECOMMENDED MEDITATION:
--Sit in comfortable seated position with your palms facing up towards the sun. Similar to alternate nostril breathing, this is alternate hand breathing. Hands are extensions of heart energy. The yoga sutras tell us that our greatest consciousness lies in our heart, and at our heart center (chpt. 3) Inhale through your left palm, holding your breath at your heart center for 3-7 breaths and exhale through your right palm. Inhale through your right palm, hold at your heart, and exhale through your left. Repeat this for as long as you possible can. When your heart has breathing room, this allows for you to become a much more tolerant, compassionate, patient and loving person. Our society needs this kind of balance more than ever and needs more people to be operating from this kind of place.