Author: Yoga With Brian

In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs. -Daniel J Boorstin

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. -Virginia Woolf

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. -Elie Wiesel

What: Retreat Yourself with Story and yogawithbrian

When: Every Saturday in January & February, 9:30-10:30am

Where: Story: Wellness, 144 10^th Avenue at 19^th Street, NYC

How much: Free

How: walk-in or RSVP online here: hello@thisisstory.com Classes are limited to 25 yogis and yoginis!

Why: “Calling all posers, Saturdays in January & February STORY becomes a place to retreat yourself. Join Brian Liem of yogawithbrian for a series of hour-long classes.  A practitioner of yoga and mediation for over 20-years and formerly a senior teacher and faculty member at one of NYCs oldest vinyasa-yoga centers, this is a special chance to break a sweat, stretch your limits, and connect to body and mind.”

For more info and press:

http://thisisstory.com/our-story/

http://thisisstory.com/category/blog/

http://www.psfk.com/2013/01/story-wellness-store.html

http://www.wellandgoodnyc.com/2013/01/15/a-shop-whose-story-is-wellness-at-least-for-the-next-six-weeks/

AND

What: Weekly benefit class for Doctors without Borders

When: Every Friday at 7:30-8:55pm

Where: The Shala, 816 Broadway, 2^nd flr, between 11^th & 12^th Streets, NYC

How much: Pay-what-you-wish donation class; $5-$10-$15-$20…more or less  

Why: After teaching a Doctors without Borders benefit class for Hurricane Sandy I thought it would be a good thing to continue.  In collaboration with the Shala, I’m donating my time and I hope you will donate too through yoga.  ALL proceeds go to Doctors without Borders.  Afterwards, let’s share dinner at a local restaurant; hope you’ll join in.  

Also, check out this mention in Yoga Journal magazine about the Doctors without Borders benefit class I taught for Hurricane Sandy:

http://blogs.yogajournal.com/yogabuzz/2012/12/passionate-about-a-cause-hold-a-yoga-fundraiser.html

http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/

Hope to see you in class!
Love,

Brian

Brian Liem

917-734-4719

For a complete yogawithbrian class schedule visit: www.yogawithbrian.com

If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair. Despair is for those who expect to live forever. I no longer do. -Erica Jong

Our perception that we have “no time” is one of the distinctive marks of modern Western culture. -Margaret Visser

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when you were not: that gives us no concern. Why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be? To die is only to be as we were before we were born. -William Hazlitt

When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders. -Rabindranath Tagore

The tragedy in the lives of most of us is that we go through life walking down a high-walled land with people of our own kind, the same economic situation, the same national background and education and religious outlook. And beyond those walls, all humanity lies, unknown and unseen, and untouched by our restricted and impoverished lives. -Florence Luscomb

Among men, it seems, historically at any rate, that processes of co-ordination and disintegration follow each other with great regularity, and the index of the co-ordination is the measure of the disintegration which follows. There is no mob like a group of well-drilled soldiers when they have thrown off their discipline. And there is no lostness like that which comes to a man when a perfect and certain pattern has dissolved about him. There is no hater like one who has greatly loved.  -John Steinbeck