WHAT IS A PERSONAL REVOLUTION, AND WHY DO WE NEED ONE?

“Many of us are searching without knowing exactly what we are looking for. Some of us go on a diet to lose weight and try all kinds of programs and workshops to make ourselves feel better, or perhaps we throw ourselves into our work and seek wealth and status to fill the void, but underneath, an emotional emptiness remains. No matter how much we try to gloss over that yearning with temporary fixes, it is still there, whispering the truth: that what we need isn’t another quick fix, but rather a rebirth – a whole-life revolution. ”

– Baron Baptiste,

from his book 40 Days to Personal Revolution

Cape Ann Power Yoga studio owner and one of the leaders of our 40 Day Program – Elizabteh DeAngelis assisting a Global Summit of Baptiste yoga teachers in Park City, Utah this weekend in a class taught by Baron Baptiste.

ASANA – 6 practices a week – 5 in studio – at Cape Ann Power Yoga* and 1 home practice                                                  *talk to us about any special work or travel circumstances, you may practice at an out of town studio or do home practice.

MEDITATION – 2 times a day – This will start at five minutes and build to thirty.

SELF INQUIRY – Each week you will answer questions from Baron’s book. This journaling work is profound and will open doors in your heart and mind.

YOUR SUPPORT:  Weekly meetings with CAPY leaders: Sundays 11:00am-12:00pm or Mondays 7:30-8:30pm. You go to one meeting a week, pick the day that is convenient for you.

Group connection: you’ll have a FaceBook group as well as access to email with one of your CAPY leaders.

Buddies: you’ll have a 40 Day Buddy so that you can keep each other motivated and on track. Buddies, team leaders, and fellow 40 Dayers can let you know when they’ll be at the studio so you’ll know you’ll have friends on the mat.

COST: $200 for the program and unlimited classes for the duration/ $175 for YMCA members/ $50 for autopay, six month and year members. One month and YMCA members will have their months put on hold; class cards will be put on hold.

You’ll buy your own copy of “40 Days to Personal Revolution” and you’ll need a great new journal!

THE KICKOFF:  PRE PROGRAM INFORMATIONAL MEETING Friday, October 6, 7:00-8:00pm PROGRAM BEGINS Sunday, October 8 (if you’re out of town you may begin on the 9th). FINAL CELEBRATION Friday, November 17, 7:00-8:30….. or later!

NEW FOR FALL 2017 – 40 Days EXPRESS – this option is for students brand new to power yoga, returning from an injury or long hiatus, or with extenuating work, travel, or life circumstances (like a new baby!) You’ll do 3 studio practices a week with our Wednesday night Basics class highly recommended and your meditation will cap at 10 minutes. All other aspects of the program will be the same. Of course you’ll be welcome to do more, you may just find that your energy and motivation bump you right up into the regular program! The prices are the same and you’ll have unlimited access to classes.

Click HERE to Sign Up!

Please email, call, or text with any questions or concerns about this program. Elizabeth has been participating and leading this program and ones like it for years and we continute to offer it because it is PROVEN to be EFFECTIVE. Also – this specific program wraps up just in time for Thanksgiving so when you see your friends and family they’ll get to see you at your best self – and you can feel good about having an exstra helping at dinner : )

Dave DeAngelis 617 – 821 – 6734

capeannpoweryoga@gmail.com

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  I started with the door a tiny bit ajar, just enough open, pushed by curiosity.  A bit skeptical of a design laid out by a book promising change. Things have never been that clear cut, that easy for me to find inner peace, joy, balance. But because I’m gifted with enough courage and insanity mixed together in my winded fire proposition I joined 40 Days to Personal Revolution at Cape Ann Power Yoga.

  I came weekly, daily, and eventually moment by moment. Wondering…what would, what could happen if I looked inside, if I opened that door wider. Together with a group of new strangers, soon to be friends, fellow seekers, journeyed each week with a designated intention to find change. And when I least expected it, in the most simple ordinary moments, change found her way in like a soft-pawed cat through the crack between the door and the wall. There were simple changes like; breathing an inch deeper, taking a moment before reaction, finding grace in my daily agenda, doing a forward bend. Change continued to teach me in the gentlest and most loving ways a new dance, a deeper strength, a new way to move my body. Grace, Mercy, Peace and Presence practiced next me on my mat. And I started to get to know them a little better so that I could take them with me.

For me personally, the most profound change came during week five. You see I have spent many days, years, wandering; wondering what direction my life should go. A year and half ago I was forced to stop my old ways of doing things and with the help of many, started to transform the lies that robbed me of so much joy.  The lies that said “I wasn’t good enough.” “I need to do more.”  “I am not loved.”  And all of these were held in my chest alongside a grapefruit sized cancerous tumor

Today, a year later, newly healed of many things, my heart lay open with more space, space left where the cancer sat heavy. But space uncertain of what to be filled with.

My husband and I went to marriage counseling because living, breathing, sharing, loving  another person can be really hard. Our therapist talked about my forehead. This is the place where I store all my energy, often it shoots out from a horn causing movement and rapid emotion. He says it also holds the gift that can see things in the future and connect the pieces. Basically I have a great executive functioning skills.  But here is where the most amazing part happened during all my 40 days of yoga – as calmly and simply like the cat that snuck in through my  doorway. He told me to turn my horn around so that it became a funnel. To receive all the gifts before me. And just like that, in a moment everything came into alignment. Everything came home.

I became a Receiver

I have always loved the book The Giver.  I have taught it to students, read it over and over again, even wrote the author Lois Lowry a letter about it. Jonas the main character, is born into a colorless world of order and sameness, void of emotion, feeling, longing. At age 12 all the children get assigned their vocation. Some are nurtures, teachers, healers. Jonas was given the rare job of being the Receiver.  Jonas was sent to the house of the Giver, his apprentice, to learn his craft. And during this time, Jonas’s job was to receive all the memories of this community that no one else but the Giver had.  These are memories of love, red, speed, snow, war, pain. Over time Jonas develops a hunger for more, he craves and likes this new way of life. One baby in particular, Gabriel, has trouble learning to sleep through the night.  After an allotted time, the community decided baby Gabriel needed to be dismissed, a nice term for being killed. In haste and passion Jonas takes baby Gabriel and bikes as fast as he can out of his community. They hide during the day and ride at night. They lie still in the grass when the helicopters circle looking for them. But eventually full of hunger and cold, they make it to a new community, a new house, a home, to Christmas, to Love.

I have spent the majority of my life giving.  I know how to give really well, so well that the weight of need presses on back, curving my shoulders inward.

Receiving is new. At first uncomfortable.  

And I am waking up, realizing life can and will be different. I have so much space now in my hollow chest to receive. Change, transformation, is free and always ready to be given.  But as my pastor said last Sunday, we have to claim it; we have to believe. It doesn’t take 40 days of yoga to change. There are no clear set plans to follow. But for me, yoga is a place to routinely practice opening up my concave chest, breathing in life, daring to believe and receive.

Come roll down your mat next to mine at 5:30 am. I am the one with her pants on inside out. I often have come crawling from the darkness. Unlock the door, let your kitten crack it open.  Light will come in.  And let us journey together and see what glories lay ahead.

We’re teamed up with our friends at the Beauport Hotel to bring you Beauport Beach Yoga! A truly unique yoga experience you will not want to miss! Unroll your mat, soak in the ocean breeze and the sun while listening to the rhythm of the ocean waves.

At the end of the 1 hour class, enjoy the breakfast buffet. You’ll find a delicious selection of smoked salmon, house granola, scrambled eggs, fruit salad and more. This class also includes a Beauport Hotel water bottle! Please be sure to bring your own yoga mat.

8-9:30 AM
$30 per person.

Sign up at Evenrbrite using key words “Beauport Beach Yoga” in Gloucester, or click here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beauport-beach-yoga-tickets-35856132658?aff=eac2

Rain Date is August 5th. We don’t normally cancel in light mist or fog but for heavy rain, we will change the date to August 5th. If the event is to be moved, you will receive an email on the evening prior.

This class is instructed by Stacey Apple of Cape Ann Power Yoga.