A Beautiful Picture

This picture was taken by Joyce Cooley - I just thought it was so beautiful it should be on our blog.

Support a Bainbridge Family

A Bainbridge family is dealing with the recent diagnosis of their husband and father with cancer. As a community, we have an opportunity to help them. One of the family’s neighbors set up a Meal Train site so that people can nourish for the family with homemade meals. You can use the following link to access the meal train site.

http://www.mealtrain.com?id=mump4x2aveot

There will be a donation basket for this family at the Kirtan on October 6 at 7:30

Grace Church.

August 20 Meeting Summary

A small meeting with Jen, Ann, Katie Zonoff and Helen. We discussed how to try to connect the needs of our BYH community members with the support and resources we can provide for each other. It can be hard to discuss much of anything significant in the short time before and after class. Specifically, we discussed how to get the childcare "Yoga Nannies" project going. The logical first step will be to collect names of those interested in being involved in the project, either on the giving or receiving end. Jen will send out a newsletter soon and will let people know about the project and ask people who are interested in either giving or receiving childcare to contact Helen. If you or someone you know needs help with childcare or is interested in providing childcare, contact Helen (hburke8@gmail.com).

We also discussed the Kirtan nights starting up in the fall as a way to allow for more conversation and connection with each other. Ways to do this might include incorporating meditation, scripture readings and discussion into the Kirtan sessions. We would also like to invite and welcome the teen yoga community to the sessions.

As a way to communicate what is happening with the Karma Yoga Project, we plan to have a bulletin board in the studio beginning in September. There will be sign ups for the Yoga Nannies as well as information about the Kirtan nights and other relevant information. Please feel free to send us your ideas and suggestions.

Next Meeting Monday, August 22

Our next meeting will be held at BYH on Monday, August 22 right after yoga class - about 11:00.

Hope to see you there. If you can't make it but have ideas you'd like to share, please post a comment here or e-mail Helen at hburke8@gmail.com.

July 21 Meeting Summary

Present at the meeting were Jen, Ann, Joyce, Denise and Helen. If you are interested in receiving e-mail updates from the blog but did not receive the meeting notice be sure you have signed up by inputting your e-mail address at the very bottom of the blog. Please feel free to send us your ideas and suggestions via comment or e-mail - we know there are many of you out there who can't make the meetings but who are a part of the Karma Yoga Project.

Unfortunately the Karma Yoga Car Wash won't happen this year because the Chevron is completely booked for the rest of the car wash season. We discussed a few other ideas in a similar vein:

1. Community Yoga in the Park August 5: Jen was planning to lead a free yoga class at Battlepoint Park August 5 from 9:00 - 10:15 so we decided to open the event to the community. Ann will create a flyer and Joyce will post it around town. We hope people from the BYH community who come might bring some brunch-type food items to share after class - fruit, muffins, hot drinks, etc. Please let Helen know via comment or e-mail (hburke8@gmail.com) if you are interested in bringing some goodies to share after the yoga class.

2. Karma Yoga Nannies: We discussed setting up a way for BYH members to care for children of parents who need childcare to attend yoga classes. Ideas included watching children at Jen's house or watching them at their own house. If you are interested in helping watch kids or if you need help with your kids so you can come to yoga please let us know.

3. Creating personal altars: We talked about creating and delivering personal altars for BYH community members and family members who might need extra love, support and healing during difficult times.

Happy Summer to everyone and we will meet again in August.

Next Karma Yoga Meeting July 21

Wanted to remind everyone about our next gathering to talk about the BYH Karma Yoga Project. We will meet Thursday July 21 right after yoga class at BYH. If you can't make it but have ideas you'd like to share please post a comment or e-mail Helen or Jen - we'd love to hear from you!