RED LOTUS YOGA  1900 S. Livernois Ste A, Rochester Hills, MI 48307

Friday April 27th~ 7:30pm till 9:30pm

$20-adv/$25-door- call before April 27th  to get advance pricing! (248) 601-9642

Osho was known for his active meditations, not just in India but all across the globe. These meditations are fun,easy, and help alleviate stress, tension, and negativity from the body. Afterwards the body feels lighter, the mind clearer, ready to move forward into new possibilities, free of the things that hold us back.
Lynne spent a month in Osho’s main ashram in Pune, India in 2008 practicing all of Osho’s meditations. Day and night students of all ages, sizes and shapes would sit, shake, dance and move their bodies to get energy flowing again. When energy gets stuck along the channels of the body it creates a place for dis-ease and illness to manifest. How do we know energy is stuck? We feel tired, tight, uninspired. These meditations were created exactly for this reason. As we focus the mind and move the body all that is not healthy slips away.Our internal system is constantly trying to bring us to balance. Stress stops that process. These simple and very effective meditations carry stress away, open your energy system so your body can move towards physical well-being! Come and feel what it’s like to come back to balance and harmony in your body! Your mind will surely follow!

This workshop will begin with Yin Yoga. If you have tight hips, a sore lower back, an inflexible spine, this class is for you. Next we will sit using the wall for support and hum. Yes, I said HUM! Humming meditation gently pushes toxins out so fresh energy can move through you. It’s easy and very effective. Next there are simple hand movements; first a releasing movement, followed by one that brings in the healing energy. Afterwards, we lay down for a nice, long sivasana to sacred music that will integrate everything you just did.

You are guaranteed to feel energized and totally clear and relaxed at the end of this workshop. There will be some drinks and snacks (including Lynne’s famous raw fudge) in the lobby afterwards!

For a New Beginning

By John O’Donohue
(1956 – 2008)

In out-of-the-way places of the heart,
Where your thoughts never think to wander,
This beginning has been quietly forming,
Waiting until you were ready to emerge.

For a long time it has watched your desire,
Feeling the emptiness growing inside you,
Noticing how you willed yourself on,
Still unable to leave what you had outgrown.

It watched you play with the seduction of safety
And the gray promises that sameness whispered,
Heard the waves of turmoil rise and relent,
Wondered would you always live like this.

Then the delight, when your courage kindled,
And out you stepped onto new ground,
Your eyes young again with energy and dream,
A path of plenitude opening before you.

Though your destination is not yet clear
You can trust the promise of this opening;
Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning
That is at one with your life’s desire.

Awaken your spirit to adventure;
Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk;
Soon you will be home in a new rhythm,
For your soul senses the world that awaits you.

Ready to share the depth of her knowledge and passion with others, Lynne opened her first yoga studio in the small, university town of Bemidji, Minnesota. She named it Moksha Yoga, which means “freedom” or “spiritual liberation.” To no surprise, the studio quickly gained a devoted following, and was an unqualified success. Four years and over 2000 yoga classes later, Lynne closed the studio and traveled to India for the first time. For three months she traveled alone on an inspired, inward journey to find her Satguru, or “true teacher.” Among the memorable and lasting highlights of this personal journey of self-discovery, Lynne was blessed by Amma in Kerala; chanted at Papa Ram Das’ Ashram in Karnatika; sang, danced and rode a camel in the deserts of Rajastan; attended the International Yoga Festival in Rishikesh; sat silent for a ten day Vipassana meditation in Dehradun; and hiked the Himalayan mountains. A degree of enlightenment from these life-changing experiences allowed Lynne to conclude that for her, the Satguru exists within.

In 2006, Lynne discovered her father was seriously ill and immediately returned home from India to care for him. A devoted daughter, who loved and adored her father, Lynne was able to “be present” on so many levels during this emotionally challenging time …a true gift that allowed her to fully process the rite of care and passing of a loved family member. Since her father’s death she has returned to India twice.

Currently, Lynne is a full-time yoga teacher in the Detroit area. She also guides annual yoga and meditation retreats to the sacred country of India, where she feels most truly at home in mind, body and spirit. Next journey is Feb. 2010 www.travelightindia.com

India was a place I had wanted to visit since I met my first teacher and fell in love with yoga. She had traveled there many times in her seventy-three years and even had a Sankrit name, Madage, which means sacred mother. It was 1996 and most of the students in her class were new to yoga, like myself. But somehow we knew that we were in the presence of a true teacher: someone who had become a sannyasin and taken vows of poverty, someone who trusted that God would take care of her, someone who had been touched by this holy land and returned to it whenever the universe provided. For me, I’ve always been a rebel, doing things differently than most. I enjoy the challenge of silence for a day, a weekend or longer. I look forward to weekends with friends, sharing homemade Indian food and lively conversation about spirituality. Or a Saturday night celebration of sacred Kirtan chanting. I knew I was ready to go deeper and I knew that India could take me there. I had done months of therapy to uncover and discard many layers of Avidya from this lifetime. I read all the books my teachers suggested on yoga and meditation. Six months after I finished my certification in 2001 I opened a yoga studio in a small town in Minnesota and plunged right into teaching full-time.  Wow, had my life changed. How had all of this happened? I used to be like everyone else, getting up every morning and going to my “dead end job”, as Lama Marut would say. But I always knew there was something more for me and when I stumbled into my first yoga class, I knew I had found it.