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

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love. -Claude Monet

Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. -Margaret Mitchell

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. – Dalai Lama

The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree and through that bad companionship must perish with it. -Leonardo da Vinci

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use. -Emily Post

Humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. Without doubt, these dreamers do not deserve wealth, because they do not desire it. Even so, a well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research. -Marie Curie, scientist, Nobel laureate

“I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.” -Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha