Why is February an exciting month?

For the month of February you can participate in our 30 Day or 4 For 4 Challenge. Take this opportunity to see how your mind and body can transform when practicing daily. For this amazing experience you do 30 classes in 30 days or 4 classes per week for 4 weeks. It is your choice – your level of commitment. For the 30 day challenge it may not always be possible to practice each day so you are able to come twice a day to make up for the classes you miss.

We also have a special deal for the month of February – $99 for 1 month of unlimited yoga!

What a great way to kick off your year! Read here about how Bikram Yoga can help with all your new year resolutions!

It is getting colder and colder out side. In our studio its warmer and warmer and hotter and hotter!
Come in to relax! Come take a class to fight away common colds!  Also check out our NEW LOGO!!!

SCHEDULE CHANGE

We are adding two classes in December. There will be a 12PM class on Tuesday and 12PM on Thursday.
We are changing the weekend class times. In December it will be 9.30AM and 4PM.

CHRISTMAS PARTY

Come to our Christmas party on the 9th of December. It is a Friday and it is in our studio. Party starts around 8 pm. Come enjoy good music, food and drinks. It is a perfect way to get to know your fellow yogis and share some stories. We are very excited about holidays

NEW CLOTHING

Our Shakti clothing is here! Come in while they are still here!  New shorts with patterns and also solid colors. Many nice tops – short and long. We also have new purple colored hot yoga towels. Make yourself a Christmas present or surprise a close one. It is so refreshing to do a class with new cute outfit!

TEACHERS

December is filled with many different teachers. We are having a guest teacher Becky. She is from Ontario and was teaching in Europe for few months. We are very excited to have her in. Robin is back from travelling with many great stories! Lesley is back from re-certification in L.A teachers training, and she has new tips for us! Ibolya is going full time teaching – Amazing! We love her calming voice!  Niki is back in our studio on Wednesday mornings. She has wonderful tips for you!  Don’t forget Jeff on Thursday nights and Friday mornings – He rocks the classes! And Tom has been very busy with being a dad to a baby girl! But don’t worry, he still has time to teach us a great few times a week.

Studio owner Tom Dowd and his wife Corinne had their second baby today morning! Congratulations for the parents and congratulations to Jude who now has a little sister! We are very excited to see them growing up! And her name is Anna Maeve

Tuesday morning at 9.30 we have a guest trainer coming from Toronto!! Come take her class!!

Ruzica experienced Bikram Yoga for the first time in 2002. From that first class, she knew Bikram Yoga was going to be a major part of her life. The powerful impact she felt from Bikram Yoga was undeniable, and she made it her goal to help others experience the benefits of Bikram. Having worked towards her goal for the past four years, Ruzica is pleased to open Bikram Yoga Toronto East, the first Bikram Yoga studio servicing Toronto East and Durham Region .Ruzica started her journey to opening the studio in the Spring of 2003 when she completed her certification directly under Bikram Choudhury at the school headquarters in Los Angeles, California. Following her training, Ruzica became an apprentice for six months and taught at a local Toronto yoga studio for 4 years.

In addition to teaching and practicing Bikram, Ruzica has studied and practices Vipassana Meditation, as Taught by S.N. Goenka in the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin. Ruzica is mom to three aspiring soccer players, Ryan, Adam and Aaron and currently resides in Pickering.

We are proud to present our Twitter page:    http://twitter.com/#!/BikramGuelph . So you can follow us @BikramGuelph.

We also are happy about our Facebook fan page:   https://www.facebook.com/pages/HotSpots-Guelph-Bikram-Yoga-Guelph/187074071352003

On both sites we give the latest schedule updates, health tips, funny and useful articles about almost anything!

We are now having a contest in Facebook and in Twitter. When we reach 100 followers in twitter and 100 Likes in Facebook – we are gonna give away free class card. And the contest will continue with more likes. Eventually there will be a One Year Membership to give out, for FREE! 

So, Like us in Facebook, Follow us in Twitter and you might be the next winner!

Several weeks ago I finally heeded the call of the instructors to breathe throughout the entire series of poses and what a difference! With greater ease I now go deeper into every pose than ever before. I have been practicing Bikram Yoga since March and I can say that breathing throughout the class, as simple as it sounds, has improved my practice, and life, dramatically.

‘You have the pose, you have the breathe and then you have the yoga’. This philosophy has also spread into my daily living and has helped improved my patience for solving and dissolving stressful situations.

‘I breathe in, and I am the flower. I breathe out, and I have its freshness.’

Zen meditation

Happy holidays,

Chris

Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life itself reveals again and again the opposite: that letting go is the path to real freedom.

Just as when the waves lash at the shore, the rocks suffer no damage but are sculpted and eroded into beautiful shapes, so our character can be moulded and our rough edges worn smooth by changes.

Through weathering changes we can learn how to develop a gentle but unshakable composure.

Our confidence in ourselves grows, and becomes so much greater that goodness and compassion begin naturally to radiate out from us and bring joy to others.

That goodness is what survives death, a fundamental goodness that is in every one of us. The whole of our life is a teaching of how to uncover that strong goodness, and a training towards realizing it.

- Excerpt from The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying By Sogyal Rinpoche

I love you for what you are
but I love you yet more for what you are going to be.
I love you not so much for you realities,
as for your ideas
I pray for your desires that they may be great,
rather than your satisfactions
which may be so hazardously little.
A satisfied flower is one whose petals are about to fall.
the most beautiful rose is one hardly more than a bud.
Where in the pangs and ecstasies of desire
are working for a larger and finer growth.
Not always shall you be what you are now.
You are going forward toward something great.
I am on the way with you and therefore I love you.

Carl Sandburg

People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.
What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway.
Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway.
In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.