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Welcome
to our NEW newsletter! We have been collaborating with Namaste
Interactive and Riyaz
Design to bring you this beautiful new format.
We
would like to thank everyone who has made this transition possible,
including you, for your continued support. Expect more exciting
goodness in the months to come as we update and add new features to the
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Greetings!
We
are making a brand transition from *Healing Gifts* to Body
Mind Gifts. Please add our new identity to your email account
so that you may continue to receive all the wholistic eclectic goodness
you have come to know and love over the past decade.
In
this issue:
1. FEATURED PRODUCTS
2. EVENTS & WORKSHOPS
3. YOGA CLASSES
4. HEALTH TIPS & UPDATES
5. WAZ UP ASTROLOGICALLY
6. FUN THINGS TO DO ABOUT TOWN
7. MEDIA BITES
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Wishing
you many meditative moments & blessings!
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Let us
love one another, for love is God. And every one that loveth is born of
God and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God, for God is
love...If we love one another, God dwelleth in us and his love is
perfected in us.
-- Saint
John
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| EVENTS &
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FIFTH ANNUAL MYSTIC PASSOVER CELEBRATION
Hosted
by Jeremy Safron
& Vanessa Kudrat - NYC
Tuesday April 3, 6pm
location TBA
$42 in advance
$63 at the door
call
(646) 205-4138 to register in advance by
04.01.07
As I was
contemplating whether or not to do a 5th Annual Raw Pesach, many of you
began to email wondering when it would be, and how you could help to
bring everything together. It was through the encouragement and support
of you all and my dear brother Jeremy Saffron that I am now committed
to continuing with our tradition of a Yoga inspired Multi-Ethnic
Mystical Passover Ceremony.
This will be an evening filled with singing, dancing, sharing,
creating, relaxing and enjoying our freedom. Passover, a celebration
whose roots are in Judaism, is open to all who wish to join in prayer
as a
community to set intentions that inspire a world where all may some day
feel and be at peace.
The evening will include a gourmet multiple course LIVE FOODS
ceremonial meal prepared with LOVE featuring organic sulphite free
wines!
WHAT
TO BRING:
- an empty stomach,
you may even wish to fast that day
- a cushion to sit on,
it is traditional to eat lounging
- friends, family,
& loved ones
- poems &
songs of freedom you wish to share
FULL MOON SPRING CLEANSING MEDITATION
Monday April 2
- FREE
5:30-6pm,
32
Mercer St. Princeton, NJ 08540
Celebrate
Spring. Set your intentions for freshness growth and abundance.
Meditate together with Vanessa Kudrat in Princeton, NJ. This
will
be in place of our regular Monday night class.
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| HEALTH
TIPS & UPDATES |
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Body Mind Gifts Wellness Services
Yoga, Reflexology, Body Toning for Athletes & Cross Trainers,
Aquatic Strengthening, Pre & Post Natal Yoga and more!
Offered in Princeton, NJ & New York City
call: 646.205.4138 to make an appointment.
Treat yourself or someone you love to a private wellness session. It
could change your life.
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Moss
Spa & Yoga, Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island
This beautiful multi
level spa, yoga
studio, and boutique offers many wonderful gifts. Experience everything
from a natural mani/pedi, to couples
massage, and prenatal yoga. Cold Spring Harbor is only 1 hour out of
NYC. If you would like to plan a day get away call 631.470.8090 for
more
information.
Yoga & Wellness practitioners can also call the number above if
you
are seeking employment.
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| WAZ
UP ASTROLOGICALLY |
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Star
Fire Astrology
excerpts from Katie Day
March Madness is not exclusively having its way with
College Basketball.
Cosmically we are in the midst of some heavy duty full court dunk and
slam. Two of our major players this month are Saturn and Neptune in
opposition. Since before the beginning of the year, Saturn, the Karma
King, has been in retrograde, slowing down operations and really making
us work hard, think hard, and question our purpose on the planet.
Neptune, the Water King, rules our dreams, visions, and
psychic/spirtual insight. This tug of war is along the fault line of
Leo, the ego/heart, and Aquarius, the revolutionary. We are in the
midst of a major see-saw of bringing our dreams and visions into
action. How do we cut through the bull-honk of karmic confusion and
manifest our destiny? And on a simpler level, how can we be practical,
loving, and creative all at the same time? This tug of war is a
re-heart-er: you do not have to be a basket case to be a visionary, you
do not have to be a PhD to be a business person. The context is
changing and so are we with it.
To usher in those changes we have two eclipses bookending one another
this month. As always, they come in pairs, creating a portal of
fertility for change, evolution, death of the old, resurrection of the
new. The first full lunar eclipse was on March 3rd at 13 degrees Virgo,
enlightening the darkness of the mundane details of physical existence.
In order to have a meditation practice or any practice for that matter,
including being a present parent, partner, friend, you have to organize
your underwear drawer, have your datebook in order, and clean out the
fridge. This eclipse is a potent time to take care of practicals, make
commitments to structure, re-shape your work, your time, and your life.
Take a look at what and where you are serving in your life. Is it
whole-hearted, steeped in truth, and rejuvenating for you? If the
answer is no, time to go back to the drawing board and focus your
precious energy in a new way.
On the other end, we have a partial solar eclipse on March 18th at 28
degrees Pisces. The last degrees of any particular sign are about the
fullest potential and expression of that archetypal energy. Pisces is
the last sign of the zodiac, the evolution into deep spiritual realms
beyond the structures and limitations of body/mind. The only way
beyond, however, as we know, is THROUGH. This new moon solar eclipse
has come as a propulsion jet into spiritual warriorhood (Pisces)
through service and grounded application of our skills (Virgo). Set
intentions, make wishes, drawings, prayers, songs, meditations, dances,
and love notes to yourself about the turning of a new season in your
life, the coming adulthood of your visions and relationships. Stay
tuned as your wishes become reality. April brings showers to feed your
newly planted seeds. More on that later ;) Amen.
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HAPPY SPRING EQUINOX
ASTRO READING SALE!
$10 off with code
words: Body Mind Gifts
EMAIL for
more info.
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| YOGA CLASSES WITH
VANESSA KUDRAT |
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*New Class* - Princeton, NJ
Mondays 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Email
for location information
$12
KUNDALINI
March 19 + April 2*, 16, 30
Similar
to martial arts this practice focuses on breathing techniques,
chanting, postures and meditations which increase your capacity for
joy, healthy metabolism, and youthful vigor.
VINYASA
March 26 + April 9, 23
With a focus on alignment, learn and practice postures that were
created over 4,000 years ago to maximize your health in this life time.
This form of Yoga is what is most familiar in the general public.
Classes are open
to all levels of experience!
*please note class on April 2 will only be 30 minutes and will be
offered as a
FREE workshop in honor of the first Full Moon of Spring. See details in
the EVENTS & WORKSHOPS section of this newsletter.
Monday Power Vinyasa
9:45am - 10:30am
Tuesday Intensive Cardio Aquatic Strengthening
9:00am - 10:00am
Tuesday Aqua Pilates
10:00am - 11:00am
Thursday Kundalini Yoga
& Meditation
12:00pm - 1:15pm
Friday Gentle Cardio
Aquatic Strengthening
10:30am - 11:15am
Friday Beginners Vinyasa
5:00pm - 6:15pm
Friday Power Vinyasa
6:15pm - 7:45pm |
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Enjoy this month's
featured media bites & remember to turn ON your SOUND.
TAMPONTIFICATION a website generated
by the all natural feminine care division of SEVENTH
GENERATION. Ladies from all over the globe can commune about
all things menstrual on this site which also offers great ways to help
homeless women through ...donations.
AL GORE will deliver a
worthy postcard message with your name on it - DO IT!
CONGRESS takes up complaints
on Credit Card Companies, as the docu-movie on America's excessiveness IN DEBT WE TRUST comes
to a screen near you.
SAY NO TO CLONED MEAT & DIARY
PRODUCTS!!!!!
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FUN THINGS
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Saturday
March 24
WHITE TANTRIC YOGA, NYC
8:30am check in
register by TUESDAY March 20
call (212) 995-0571 - $175
White
Tantric Yoga is done in pairs as a group meditation. You sit facing a
partner and follow instructions for meditation given on videotape by
the Mahan Tantric, Yogi Bhajan.
Each workshop
consists of between six and eight kriyas, a meditation incorporating a yoga posture
(asana), hand
position (mudra),
a mental focus, a mantra or a breathing technique
(pranayam).
Sometimes
the kriyas are accompanied by music. These kriyas vary in length from
thirty-one to sixty-two minutes. There are breaks between each kriya.
White Tantric Yoga events happen all over the US and Internationally.
For more information call the number above or visit here.
HEALING THE HEART
OF THE GODDESS NYC
Sat March 24, 10am-5pm, $55
An onsite learning as you walk through NYC with noted earth energies
pioneer, and author Christan Hummel.
THE
SECRET POWER OF YOGA
with Nischala Joy Devi
April 23, 2:30-5pm FREE
Integral Yoga
227 West 13,
NYC
This extraordinary one of a kind workshop provides a unique opportunity
to gain knowledge of and reinterpret Patanjali's Yoga Sutras from a
heart-centered intuitive approach.
Friends of BODY MIND GIFTS email
THE NEW YORK YOGA TEACHERS ASSOCIATION to attend this workshop for
free.
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