Quotes from Class about embracing darkness ... rest & reflect 12/19/20

“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.” - Nietzsche

”A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness” -Jean Genet

“What hurts you blesses you. Darkness is your candle” - Rumi

“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious". - Carl Jung

Rumi - Leave Yourself (Read in Class Saturday 12/5/20)

Leave Yourself - RUMI

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river
moving in you, a joy.

When actions come from another section, the feeling
disappears.

Don’t let others lead you. They may be blind or, worse, vultures.

Reach for the rope of God. And what is that? Putting aside self-will.

Because of willfulness people sit in jail, the trapped bird’s wings are tied,
fish sizzle in the skillet.

The anger of police is willfulness. You’ve seen a magistrate
inflict visible punishment.

Now see the invisible. If you could leave your selfishness, you
would see how you’ve been torturing your soul. We are born and live inside black water in a well.

How could we know what an open field of sunlight is?

Don’t insist on going where you think you want to go. Ask the way to the spring. Your living pieces will form a harmony.

There is a moving palace that floats in the air with balconies and clear water flowing through, infinity everywhere, yet contained under a single tent.

Gratitude Poem from Today's Class

Say thank you, until you mean it.

Thank God, life, and the universe for everyone and everything sent your way.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. It turns problems into gifts, failures into successes, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. It can turn an existence into a real life, and disconnected situations into important and beneficial lessons. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Gratitude makes things right.

Gratitude turns negative energy into positive energy. There is no situation or circumstance so small or large that it is not susceptible to gratitude’s power. We can start with who we are and what we have today, apply gratitude, then let it work its magic.

Say thank you, until you mean it. If you say it long enough, you will believe it.

Today, I will shine the transforming light of gratitude on all the circumstances of my life.

From the book: The Language of Letting Go: Hazelden Meditation Series by Melanie Beattie

The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry

The Peace of Wild Things

Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

TIFFANY'S ZOOM CLASS INFO: TUESDAY & SATURDAY @ 10:30AM PST

Dear Friends and Students,

I hope you are coping well during this time in quarantine.  My family and I are doing well but it is definitely a challenge to stay sane at times.

Since March 17th I have been teaching weekly classes on Zoom. Here are the details:

Tuesday & Saturday 10:30am-12noon PST

Classes are INT Level but all are welcome to attend.

You have the option of turning your camera off so I won’t see you or keeping it on (everyone in the class will see one another if their camera is on).  I will most likely mute you all after we get class started but you also have the option of muting yourself on your side.  If you want to be anonymous you can change your name on the Zoom App to anything you want (but please identify yourself to me in the chat link)!

In the top right corner of the Zoom page you can choose how you display the class. Gallery View will show everyone (though we will be on multiple pages most likely) and Speaker View will keep your screen mostly on me (unless someone else is speaking).

Those of you with your video ON please make sure you have your mat and iPad/Phone/Computer set up so I can see you - side view is best for me if possible. Please have a blanket or a towel you can roll up to use as a blanket.  If you have a strap and a block, that would be great, if not a robe belt and a large book will work!

If you are able to pay for class, suggested donation is $5.00.

Venmo: @Tiffany-Fraser-4

Zelle:  tiffanyfraser11@gmail.com

Paypal: 323-251-8564.

Or send me a check! Old school style. E-mail me for my address.

All instructions for Zoom are below.  The same meeting ID should work for all my classes (if I set this up right). Try testing out the link to make sure you can access.  If you have trouble, try downloading the Zoom.US APP from the App Store. 

Please e-mail me if you have any questions or any special requests for what I might teach in class.

Love to you all!  Hope everyone is healthy!

Xoxoxo

Tiffany Fraser's Zoom Yoga Class - TUESDAYS & SATURDAYS 10:30-12N.

Join Zoom Meeting

https://zoom.us/j/7129847214?pwd=aDFsYWlNRUxxekREeVRHZUFPTzhEdz09

Meeting ID: 712 984 7214

Password: 12345

My favorite classes to take during quarantine!!

Hi Everyone…. I just wanted to share a list of my favorite classes to take online at this time.

Yogahour with Mackie Osborne!
Donation Zoom Yogahour Class.  Venmo: Mackie-Osborne
One hour fun flow-form yoga with germ free social distancing.
Every Monday, Wednesday, & Friday. 12:30-1:30 Pacific Time
Please come, breathe, play, practice.
Meeting ID: 870 8373 8702 PW: yoga108

https://us02web.zoom.us/s/87083738702?pwd=d0RXNUNKRkZnSkVyampSZ0VnOGZpUT09

Mat Pilates w/Mary O’Malley $10 suggested donation. Every Thursday 5pm-6pm

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/524804364?pwd=a3dUaDZibG44MWtnb2VJUkV4VUVUdz09
Meeting ID: 524 804 364
Password: mary2020

Yoga with Jenny Brill

Wednesday-Friday and Sunday at 10:30am pst  link is below. My Venmo is Jenny-Brill-2 class is by donation and if you cannot donate at this time please take class anyway. I appreciate you all. 

Join URL :
https://zoom.us/j/726991042

Yoga with Georgina Purple

Tuesday 9-10:15am, Thursday 9-10:15am & Sat: 9-10:15am. PST
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/583119239?pwd=TFhlZnVYSzJkRVNmbWlINTlrQUQ2Zz09
Meeting ID: 583 119 239
Password: Breathe

She is asking for anywhere from $5-10 per person, per class. Whatever you are comfortable paying. She wants it to be accessible and affordable. If your kids 10 and younger join you, they are free. Please reach out with any questions or confusion. 

Venmo: @georgina-purple
PayPal: georginapurple@mac.com

**please select paying a friend and not for a service as they will take out a fee.

Iyengar Yoga with Paul Cabanis

can be found on You Tube by searching his name!!! He is a master teacher and worth investigating. I try to study with him once a week in “normal” times, and his You Tube classes are fantastic!

HIT Workout Class With Stephanie Wilberding - EVERYDAY 35-40 minutes

ZOOM Workouts Link *

Mon, Weds & Friday @ 12noon PST, Tues, Thurs & Friday @ 9am PST

Bodyweight, donation-based workouts.

Venmo: @Stephanie-Wilberding

Tiffany's First Blog … EVER!

Hi Friends, Students and Fellow Yogis,

I am so thrilled to launch my new website.  After 12 years of the old one, I was advised by my dear friend Mackie Osborne that the time had come to join the future.  A year and a half after her sound advice, here we are.  My deepest thanks to Michael Sieger at my brother-in-law Brett's company BWP Communications in Utah for his beautiful design, patience and guidance in this endeavor.  

I have an interesting relationship with the web, blogs, Instagram, Facebook, etc…  I feel like an old person when it comes to these things and don't quite understand the point or the benefit while at the same time I greatly enjoy reading other peoples' stuff.  I guess I feel that there is so much information available that I am constantly behind the 8 ball and have been reluctant to add more information that people might feel the need to digest.  But, I am often asked to share quotes and poses that I taught in classes and this forum will be a great place to do that.  Blogging also gives me the impetus to write and to find my voice and thoughts in ways that I hope can be of service to others (and to myself).  I have been told by so many teachers and friends over many many years that I should be a writer.  I appreciate the vote of confidence while at the same time feeling a sense of "really? why?".  I love what I do and often feel that there is no room for more.  But, when I am challenged to do more, magically space and time seem to appear.

I am excited to launch this site and hope that more people are inspired to study with me at Black Dog Yoga.  I greatly enjoy teaching my classes there and getting to know all the wonderful students who walk through the door into "intermediate yoga" on tuesdays and saturdays.

Thanks for reading and visiting my new and improved site.

Namaste,

Tiffany