Cyanobacteria, by Ina Schuppe Koistinen. Read more below!

Hello Folks,

Here's what's up with Yoga at the temple over the next week - and a question for you all at the bottom of the email! 

Thursday

Mysore with Sheetal and Manavi 7 am - 10:30 am 

Sivananda Yoga with Don 10:45 am- 12 Noon 

Deep Rest: Yoga and Sound with Raf and Anuj  8 pm - 9 pm 

Friday 

Yoga and Strength with Eddie 7 am - 8:15 am 

Yoga and Strength with Eddie 8:45 am - 10 am 

(Full Moon - no Mysore practice)

Saturday 

Led Primary Series with Carly  9:30 am - 11 am 

Intro to Pranayama with Julie  12:30 pm - 1:30 pm 

Sunday 

Yoga Sangraha, Dynamic Practices, and Kriyas with Eddie 8:30 am - 10:15 am 

Yoga Sangraha Level 1, Intro Level, with Eddie (for Bianca) 10:30 am - 11: 30am 

Sivananda Yoga with Don Noon - 1:30 pm 

Monday 

Mysore with Carly  7 am - 10:30 am 

Sivananda Yoga with Don 10:45 am - 12 Noon

Rhythm Flow with Raf 7 pm - 8 pm 

Tuesday 

Morning mantras with Eddie 7 am - 7:45 am 

Mysore with Sheetal 7 am - 10:30 am 

Wednesday 

Mysore with Sheetal 7 am - 10:30 am 

Sivananda Yoga with Don 10:45 am - 12 Noon

Yoga Sangraha Level 1, Intro Level, with Eddie (covering for Bianca)  7 pm - 8 pm

Note: for the Sunday class, I'll be teaching the kriyas (like we have been doing each week), followed by some of the dynamic practices from Yoga Sangraha. This is an active, energetic class, with postures from various Hatha Yoga traditions, some from Ashtanga Yoga, and other yoga lineages. In this class, I'll continue to share my current practices that I am enthusiastic about and love teaching. For the Ashtanga Yoga program, Carly will teach led Primary on Saturdays, and the Mysore practice will continue Monday through Thursday. 

Question: As the focus of the yoga school has broadened, I've been thinking about a name change to reflect the range of practices we are teaching, and also to align the yoga program with the temple. The names I am thinking about are:

Broome Street Yoga School 

               or                      

Broome Street Yoga Shala 

What do you think? Please send in your preference. The most amount of votes win! 

Also, we'd get to make new t-shirts, so there's that, too :) 

Best,

Eddie 

About cyanobacteria, from Healing Through Breathing:

For the first half of our planet’s life there was no oxygen, and no biosphere. The atmosphere of the earth was made up largely of methane, hydrogen, and carbon dioxide spewed from volcanos. Oxygen molecules were present, but they were not in the atmosphere as air, they were contained in the cooling oceans, and trapped in seabed rock. About 2.4 billion years ago, something occurred called the “Great Oxidation Event” (also called the Great Oxygenation Event). Primitive, single-celled blue-green algae called cyanobacteria that inhabited the liquid oceans of the earth in large amounts, and which still inhabit the earth in large quantities, developed the ability to photosynthesize energy from water, and the byproduct of this synthesizing of energy was oxygen. This off-gas of oxygen was released into the atmosphere. Over about two million more years, the levels of oxygen rose, the levels of carbon dioxide lowered, and around 600 million years ago, earth became the breathable environment that we know it to be today. The advent of oxygen allowed for the single-cell organisms that inhabited the earth to band together into multicellular, complex organisms that were able to make use of oxygen in different ways.