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Restorative Yoga class in Vancouver

(Re-)Discovered that Vancouver is quite a cosmopolitan city – even after 2 weeks in Tokyo, the mega-city, step into Vancouver downtown area and one can appreciate this “city” with a rather international flair. Luck “fate” would have it that we were staying right across the street from a yoga studio and from our window, we could look down on Lululemon store down the block.IMG_0267_small
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A very clean and sleek yoga studio in downtown Vancouver. It’s Sunday morning at 9:45am, the studio is packed with 50+ students for this Restorative Yoga class.
Two studio rooms, one named “Earth”; the other named “Fire”… Earth room is very grounding with trees and greenery you can see out from the windows and lovely soft lantern lighting … whereas Fire studio is a smaller stark space (maybe because they heat it) with ShaktiShiva as display – so appropriate…no?
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This is the Earth Room …
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Greenery outside even though this is in the middle of the city full of concrete high-risers – nature is breathing alongside…
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Neat to see the books I have in their book shelves …
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IMG_9999_smallHad to take a photo of this because this is exactly what this guy was talking about – he said, “I would do yoga if there was a class called ‘yoga for inflexible guys’ – well, here it is … he just has to show up in Vancouver? No more excuses – Yoga4StiffGuys? Good idea for some with trepidation starting yoga…
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Bark Less … or Bark Softer:)

“Turn down the volume”?

Saw this shared on FB – so “LIKE” !!! or LOVE:) “Mame” (name of this dog means Tiny Bean or a Pea) is SOOOO cute!

Yes, Just Bark Less… Wag More for more treats:)
Then you might discover that …
Life is full of TREATS!

Woof, woof (“wan, wan”)

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“Way of Artist is Way of Buddha”

Shoko Kanazawa … she never grew up:) But nevertheless keeps evolving.
Guess she does not know that Michael Jackson has been long dead (apparently she can’t remember much – SO she totally lives IN THE MOMENT)
as at United Nations, New York, she says she loves Michael Jackson (& her mom) and her dream is to marry Michael !!!
My mother used to mutter something like, “ignorance is a bliss” but this is more like …

Living in the moment is a salvation.

Here’s an innocent pure child-like soul – She’s an artist, a messenger of HOPE:)