MISSION
Mystic Meadows Yoga envisions a healthy and happy lifestyle for people in their communities. We strive to inspire people to reconnect with themselves and explore an integrated approach to balanced living. Mystic Meadows Yoga is grounded in the original meaning of the Sanskrit word Prakriti as “nature, source” – everything is felt and experienced through the body, which is through nature. Prakriti is the creative energy where students unite with themselves through the body and move into a more natural state of being (i.e balanced, whole, happy). We offer a practice that cultivates love and happiness from within and in return, we plant seeds of happiness everywhere we go.
Mystic Meadows Yoga envisions a healthy and happy lifestyle for people in their communities. We strive to inspire people to reconnect with themselves and explore an integrated approach to balanced living. Mystic Meadows Yoga is grounded in the original meaning of the Sanskrit word Prakriti as “nature, source” – everything is felt and experienced through the body, which is through nature. Prakriti is the creative energy where students unite with themselves through the body and move into a more natural state of being (i.e balanced, whole, happy). We offer a practice that cultivates love and happiness from within and in return, we plant seeds of happiness everywhere we go.
STUDIO
Mystic Meadows Yoga Studio offers weekly yoga classes, workshops, and teacher training courses. The space features well-trained, certified instructors, progressive teaching methods, a non-competitive and encouraging atmosphere, and a beautiful facility.
Mystic Meadows Yoga Studio offers weekly yoga classes, workshops, and teacher training courses. The space features well-trained, certified instructors, progressive teaching methods, a non-competitive and encouraging atmosphere, and a beautiful facility.
PRINCIPLES
Mystic Meadows Yoga features a safe and ethical practice to support one's physical, mental, emotional and spiritual body.
Physical Body: People that are focused on physical wellness and may be drawn to the practice for physical fitness, supporting recovery from injury, surgery or an accident, improving balance, increasing flexibility and mobility in the skeletal system, strengthening the muscular system, developing stamina, and alleviating aches and pains.
Mental Body: People that may be focused on working through emotional stress and psychological challenges. They may be drawn to the practice to better understand the mind, learn how to control the mind and create new thought patterns.
Emotional Body: People that may be focused on emotional well-being. They may be drawn to the practice to process and release feelings such as anger, grief, sadness, uneasiness, stress, or fear.
Spiritual Body: People that may be looking for their path through life. They may be drawn to the practice to learn the traditions of uniting all aspects of themselves (body, mind, and spirit) with a higher power or spiritual force. You can believe in God or gods, or nothing at all. It’s a way of cultivating love (or wholeness) within and recognizing this love (or wholeness) everywhere.
Mystic Meadows Yoga features a safe and ethical practice to support one's physical, mental, emotional and spiritual body.
Physical Body: People that are focused on physical wellness and may be drawn to the practice for physical fitness, supporting recovery from injury, surgery or an accident, improving balance, increasing flexibility and mobility in the skeletal system, strengthening the muscular system, developing stamina, and alleviating aches and pains.
Mental Body: People that may be focused on working through emotional stress and psychological challenges. They may be drawn to the practice to better understand the mind, learn how to control the mind and create new thought patterns.
Emotional Body: People that may be focused on emotional well-being. They may be drawn to the practice to process and release feelings such as anger, grief, sadness, uneasiness, stress, or fear.
Spiritual Body: People that may be looking for their path through life. They may be drawn to the practice to learn the traditions of uniting all aspects of themselves (body, mind, and spirit) with a higher power or spiritual force. You can believe in God or gods, or nothing at all. It’s a way of cultivating love (or wholeness) within and recognizing this love (or wholeness) everywhere.
WHAT IS YOGA?
"Yoga is a school of practical philosophy. Yoga practices shift our identity away from the ego-personality and its struggles so that we can begin to reconnect with the essential nature of our being, which is bliss."
-Sharon Gannon
"Yoga is a school of practical philosophy. Yoga practices shift our identity away from the ego-personality and its struggles so that we can begin to reconnect with the essential nature of our being, which is bliss."
-Sharon Gannon
“Yoga” is derived from the Sanskrit root yui meaning yoke, union and oneness. Yet, with whom is the practitioner unifying? Yogic practices seek to yoke one’s individual soul with a cosmic consciousness—the Divine Source which breathes life into all things. As the individual will begins to merge with the will of the Divine, one begins to participate in the collective consciousness of all humanity and creation. This state of oneness with the Divine is our natural state, but because of various stimuli, we are not aware of the interconnectivity of the two. Yoga serves to re-orient us to our natural state of existence by revealing our resistance to this Divine union. Yet this revelation does not stem from an external Source, but is uncovered and realized within the self.
This self-revelation occurs through a balancing of activity (Karma yoga) and contemplation (Meditation yoga). Yogic postures, known as Asanas, awaken us to that which animates our physical form. Meditative practices allow us to look inward, and to contemplate ourselves as thinking minds. Yet one is ushered into Samadhi, or the union of the self with the universal Self, through an awareness of both mind and body. It is this awareness of our individual mind and body that allows us to go beyond it and unify with the collective, universal mind and body.
This self-revelation occurs through a balancing of activity (Karma yoga) and contemplation (Meditation yoga). Yogic postures, known as Asanas, awaken us to that which animates our physical form. Meditative practices allow us to look inward, and to contemplate ourselves as thinking minds. Yet one is ushered into Samadhi, or the union of the self with the universal Self, through an awareness of both mind and body. It is this awareness of our individual mind and body that allows us to go beyond it and unify with the collective, universal mind and body.
Gannon, Sharon, and David Life. "What Is Yoga?" Jivamukti Yoga. 1st ed. Random House Group, 2002. Print
REFLECTIVE STORY
"The new studio is a big leap into the unknown and it feels both exciting and scary. In Jaiya John’s words, “You will never feel ready for the blessings that scare you most. Readiness has nothing to do with it.” I share this because it has helped me recognize that blessings are something greater than logic or reason. Before making the final decision to take the big leap, I questioned, doubted, and told myself every reason why it wouldn’t work. Fear had me thinking “It’s not the right time”, “I don’t feel ready”, and all the “what ifs” you can think of. After several months of consistent practice and energy work, I understood that there is no such thing as the “right time.” The time is now. The universe doesn’t wait. It only responds to action. So, I am taking the big leap into the unknown. It doesn’t necessarily mean that all of my fears are gone. I am still scared, but when I feel fear, I look for the blessing alongside it and do my best to move forward with Universal love and support."
-Amanda Montgomery
"The new studio is a big leap into the unknown and it feels both exciting and scary. In Jaiya John’s words, “You will never feel ready for the blessings that scare you most. Readiness has nothing to do with it.” I share this because it has helped me recognize that blessings are something greater than logic or reason. Before making the final decision to take the big leap, I questioned, doubted, and told myself every reason why it wouldn’t work. Fear had me thinking “It’s not the right time”, “I don’t feel ready”, and all the “what ifs” you can think of. After several months of consistent practice and energy work, I understood that there is no such thing as the “right time.” The time is now. The universe doesn’t wait. It only responds to action. So, I am taking the big leap into the unknown. It doesn’t necessarily mean that all of my fears are gone. I am still scared, but when I feel fear, I look for the blessing alongside it and do my best to move forward with Universal love and support."
-Amanda Montgomery
Inspiring Thoughts
By cultivation of feelings of friendship and fellowship toward those who are happy, by great compassion and love toward those who are unhappy and suffering, by joy and entertainment toward those who are meritorious and virtuous, by neutrality and indifference toward those who are demeritorious and evil-natured, a yogin should attain undisturbed peace and happiness of mindstuff, chittam.
-Patanjali, Yoga Sutras
By cultivation of feelings of friendship and fellowship toward those who are happy, by great compassion and love toward those who are unhappy and suffering, by joy and entertainment toward those who are meritorious and virtuous, by neutrality and indifference toward those who are demeritorious and evil-natured, a yogin should attain undisturbed peace and happiness of mindstuff, chittam.
-Patanjali, Yoga Sutras
