Author: Yoga With Brian

Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way. -Martin Luther King Jr.

My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy. -George Eliot

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. -Alfred North Whitehead

Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use. -Charles Schulz

All men are brothers, we like to say, half-wishing sometimes in secret it were not true. But perhaps it is true. And is the evolutionary line from protozoan to Spinoza any less certain? That also may be true. We are obliged, therefore, to spread the news, painful and bitter though it may be for some to hear, that all living things on earth are kindred. -Edward Abbey

What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious. -Marcus Tullius Cicero

A ship in port is safe; but that is not what ships are built for. -Grace Hopper, computer scientist and US Navy Rear Admiral

In commemoration of Worlds AIDS Day: 

Someday, the AIDS crisis will be over. Remember that. And when that day comes — when that day has come and gone, there’ll be people alive on this earth — gay people and straight people, men and women, black and white, who will hear the story that once there was a terrible disease in this country and all over the world, and that a brave group of people stood up and fought and, in some cases, gave their lives, so that other people might live and be free.  -Vito Russo
From ACT UP demonstrations in ALBANY NY, May 9, 1988 and at the Department of Health and Human Services, Washington D.C. October 10, 1988

Visit the New York Public Library exhibition, Why We Fight: Remembering AIDS Activism 
http://www.nypl.org/events/exhibitions/why-we-fight?hspace=229091

Happy Holidays Everyone!

Hope you’re having a good Thanks/Hanukkah/Winter Solstice/Xmas/New Years season –  phew!   (You might also like to know that Dec 1 is World’s AIDS Awareness Day, Dec 10 is Human Rights Day, and Dec 24 is National Chocolate Day) – – Every day is a holiday, or a unique or special day.   Very yogic!   

To help celebrate whatever you celebrate and to say thank you, the first twelve people to message me back will get a free yogawithbrian class at the Shala in December.   Just send me a message or email and let me know which class you’d like to take.  Here’s my yogawithbrian winter schedule at the Shala, Union Sq, NYC:

Mondays, 6:15pm open (all levels)
Tuesday, 10:20am open (all levels)
Friday, 10:20am open (all levels)
Friday, 4:45pm open/restorative (all levels) 

AND check out these December class specials http://theshala.com/happenings.html
*12 classes for $120
*$25 for a week of unlimited classes for newbies to the Shala – – good for gift giving. 

Finally, everything I earn at the Shala in December will be donated to God’s Love We Deliver.  The more times you practice with me in December, the larger the donation will be!  Read more about their good work at: https://www.glwd.org/about/overview.jsp

Have a good holiday season, many thanks and much love,

Brian
yogawithbrian@yahoo.com

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in. -Alan Alda