All art forms ask for cultivation of the senses. Your embodied


life is nature’s incredible work of art...treat it as such! You can ripen and refine with age! When the accomplished cellist, Pablo Casals was asked why, at age 81 he was still practicing many hours a day, he replied—“because I think I’m making progress.”


As Awareness blossoms you find yourself in an interior world of sensation and image where the boundaries between body and mind and spirit soften. In this realm you live in the moving, sens- ing, feeling, thinking organism that you are. Believe me, this is rich, sensuous terrain, ripe for imaginative input, for new learning. Here you touch into your poetry and music...


And that’s not all...come along deeper into this realm where


body and psyche are one. In the words of renowned Jungian ana- lyst, Marion Woodman: “the body is the unconscious in its most direct and immediate form”.


Te Center


Great Location - just off Baxter Blvd.


FREE PARKING 774-YOGA


449 Forest Ave. Plaza maineyoga.com


• Yoga – all levels • Yin and Nidra • Therapeutic yoga • Restorative yoga • Meditation • Feldenkrais®


• Yamuna Body Rolling®


• Equipped Studios


• Yoga vacations in Mexico


Portland’s Original


Yoga Center Bringing the Community Quality Instruction for 40 years


Directors Vickie Labbe & Jennifer Cooper


The body is the most tangible and direct way to the treasures of the unconscious. Moving below the surface into the sensate realm you gain access to your dreaming body. Your body holds memories of your personal history... and of collective, transpersonal realms as well. We are like exquisite tapestries, with colorful threads and multilayered textures spanning lifetimes and life forms. We are so much more than we think we are, filled with stories and images that reach out beyond time and space.


Ageless? Here we find mythology, not pathology...our symp- toms become messengers, mentors...portals to other worlds.


What if the sensations of energy moving through you, riding


your breath, your voice, your actions are emotions wanting to be expressed or creative works wanting to be birthed through you. What if...when you enter your interior depths you discover your connection to everything else? What if the sun and moon and the entire universe can be accessed through you?


How did we forget we are part of the earth and stars?


Here’s a worldview you can enter with your whole self, alive and pulsating with meaning and possibility. Here you belong to something much greater.... Feel it... Sink down... deeper... You’re as fresh and close as your next breath; you’re as old and grand as a distant galaxy. Inhale, expand your thinking, your heart, your mov- ing self-image..This is truly what it means to Grace Age Fully.


“Ah, not to be cut off,


not through the slightest partition shut out from the law of the stars. The inner—what is it? if not the intensified sky...”


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Marilyn Hardy, MS, GCFP, has a background in Somatic Education (The Feldenkrais Method®), Body- Centered Psychotherapy and other bodymind modali- ties. Her embodied, integrative orientation to life led to an interest in Ecopsychology, the interface between the personal and planetary, and ultimately to our place and purpose in the greater story of our universe. She offers an ongoing weekly class at The Yoga Center, 449 Forest Ave Plaza, Portland. www.maineyoga.com 774-9642. See ad on this page.


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