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Yoga Class Carolee Clark


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believe that everyone is creative in different ways,” says Oregon artist Carolee Clark. “It might manifest itself in cooking, gardening or other creative activities. I am a visual person, and my learning experience throughout my schooling was influenced by this proclivity. I view the world as spatial, noticing colors and patterns.” A full-time artist since 1998, Clark began painting with watercolors, experimented with pastels and now works mainly with acrylics, favoring landscapes and figures as subject matter. “My friends tease me about how I continually try new directions and am never satisfied with the work I’m doing at the moment,” she con- fides, “but I like to push myself to explore bold, new ideas.” One element of Clark’s ever- evolving passion has remained unchanged: her love of drawing, which enables her to quickly capture her ideas as realistically or abstractly as she desires, and then concentrate on color choices and the application of paints. She explains, “I like to exaggerate forms in a playful manner and use unusual colors and intriguing calligraphic brushwork and patterns.”


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Clark’s artwork is held in private collec- tions throughout North America, Europe and Australia. View her portfolio at CaroleeClark.com.


6 Austin Area Edition


xplore natural health, personal growth and receive readings and


healings at the winter Body Mind Spirit Expo, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. January 25, and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on January 26, at the Palmer Events Center, in Austin. Off ering over 40 presentations


and 80 exhibitors, Body Mind Spirit Expo creates a future-focused environment for the exploration of alternative thought. Explore and renew within a positive healing environment. Showcasing national vendors along with the best from the Austin area, the expo


provides essential tools for discovering overall health and well-being. Retail exhibitors off er everything from natural and holistic health products to spiritual books and enlightened art. Healers at the expo provide treatments ranging from massages and yoga techniques to intuitive readings. Weekend admission includes free lectures and demos as well as admission to the


Exhibit Hall. Rejuvenate—receive a relaxing massage, have an aura photo taken and open to new ideas. T e expo off ers a safe environment for growth and exploration, so mark your calendar for the entire weekend.


Cost: $12. Location: 900 Barton Springs Rd. For more information, call 541-482-3722 or visit BMSE.net. See ad on page 3 for $1 off coupon for admission.


Free Lecture on the Teachings of Yogananda T


he Austin Meditation Group of Self-Realization Fellowship will sponsor a talk on the teachings of


Paramahansa Yogananda and the science of Kriya Yoga meditation from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. on January 29 at T e Norris Center, in Austin. T is talk will be presented by Brother Balananda, a long-time monk of Self-Realization Fellowship monastic order. Author of the bestselling spiritual classic Autobiogra-


phy of a Yogi, Yogananda came to America in 1920 from his native India and was the fi rst great Master of Yoga to live and teach in the West for an extended period (more than 30 years). He is now widely recognized as the Father of Yoga in


Paramahansa Yogananda


the West and was recently the subject of an award-winning documentary fi lm, AWAKE: T e Life of Yogananda. He founded the Yogoda Satsanga Society of India in 1917 and the Self-Realization Fellowship in 1920, both of which con- tinue to carry on his spiritual legacy worldwide. Paramahansa Yogananda’s teachings include a system of powerful meditation tech-


niques as part of the science of Kriya Yoga. T ese techniques are available through the Self-Realization Fellowship Lessons. A question and answer session will immediately follow the talk. Refreshments will


be available.


Cost: Free. Location: 2525 W. Anderson Ln. For information about the Austin meditation group, visit SRFAustin.org. For information about meditation and the teachings of Self- Realization Fellowship, visit Yogananda-SRF.org. See ad, page 8.


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