Poetry and Inspiration

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You are a bird of fine wings And so well seated on the earth Fill the space with your light And fill the sky with your glow. Flood the quarters with your sheen. Yajurveda, book XVI Inside This Clay Jug Inside this clay jug there are canyons and pine mountains, and the maker of canyons and pine mountains! All seven oceans are inside, and hundreds of millions of stars. The acid that tests gold is here, and the one who judges jewels. And the music that comes from the strings that no one touche...
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WORKSHOPS, RETREATS & SPECIAL OFFERINGS

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Sutra Sadhana a 7-month Immersion with Karen Sprute-Francovich There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change.…… While you hold it you can’t get lost ……... ~~ William Stafford Sutra - a Sanskrit word for thread; a strand of wisdom teachings strung together, like a string of pearls, to make up a wisdom text. We will follow  the pearls of sutras in the Pratyabijna Hrydaya - The Heart of Recognition. According to the Yoga tradition, one cannot unlock the mag...
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Welcome to Yoga

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The Garden Street Yoga Method We teach Anusara Yoga, an alignment-based method, which includes held poses, core strengthening and skillful flow (vinyasa). We feel that this combined approach, of form and flow, offers a method of asana that stabilizes, strengthens and moves body, mind and heart. Garden Street Yoga is grounded in a practical and life affirming Yogic philosophy, which believes embodiment to be a gift and the body to be a perfect vehicle for devotion, transformation and service...
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