In This Issue

• New Faculty Additions for 2009 Yoga Teacher Training •

• New! Vibrant Living Yoga Podcasts •

• Six Tips for Shining Bright into 2009 •

• Astrological Tidbits•

• Upcoming Events•

• Vibrant Living Yoga Workshops in Bali and Jakarta •

• YTT Graduate Assistant Applications •

• Raw recipe:
Mayan Cacao •

Upcoming Events

Vibrant Living Yoga Weekly Classes
with Daniel,
Thurs 5:15pm
The Yoga Shala Kerobokan, Bali

Vibrant Living Yoga
Weekly Classes
with Gabrielle,
Tues/Thurs 10:30am
The Yoga Shala
Kerobokan, Bali

• March 7 - 9, 2009 •
Vibrant Living Yoga
Jakarta Workshop,
Carin's Studio
Jakarta, Indonesia

• May 10 – June 7, 2009 •
Vibrant Living Yoga Teacher Training,
Ubud - Bali

• Oct 18 – Nov 15, 2009 •
Vibrant Living Yoga Teacher Training,
Ubud - Bali

• Nov 18 – Dec 3, 2009 •
Vibrant Living Yoga Intermediate Module,
Ubud - Bali

In love and service, Daniel Aaron Radiantly Alive Ubud, Bali, Indonesia www.RadiantlyAlive.com

New Faculty for the 2009 Yoga Teacher Training

Exciting new additions to our faculty for the Vibrant Living Yoga Teacher Trainings in Bali have just been confirmed! Anthony 'Prem' Carlisi and Heather Duplex (Astanga) and Jill Miller (Yoga Tune Up) will join the Intermediate Module in November. Prem (Authorized and Certified Astanga) and Heather (Authorized Astanga) bring over fifty years combined of practice and teaching experience in Astanga yoga, Ayurveda and Tantra to the classes and workshops they share around the world. Jill's 23 years of expertise includes Modern Dance, Pilates, and Shiatsu, and she teaches her unique style, Yoga Tune Up® internationally. She has been featured in Fit Yoga, Yoga Journal, Better Health and Living, and on NPR; the LA Times calls her “kinetically arresting.” Applications are still being accepted for the 2009 Foundation courses (May and October), and the Intermediate Module (November). To see a video on last year's training, or for more information, visit our site at www.RadiantlyAlive.com/training.php, or contact us at ytt@radiantlyalive.com

Vibrant Living Yoga Podcasts - available for download

It's a new year, and we're extremely excited about launching the new Podcast section on Radiantly Alive.com. We've compiled a set of live Vibrant Living Yoga classes - both general classes as well as longer classes from our teacher training - and these are now available for free download on our website. You can also subscribe to the Vibrant Living Yoga podcast on Itunes (search "Vibrant Living Yoga" or "Daniel Aaron"). Download these mp3s to your computer or portable music player, and enjoy challenging, fun, inspiring and uplifting Vibrant Living Yoga classes at home, or while traveling. Lots more changes and fun projects are in the works....stay tuned.....

Six Tips for Shining Bright into 2009

Here we are, just a few days into the New Year - how many resolutions have you made? And how many have you already abandoned? A resolution literally means a firm decision to do or not do something. They can be powerful. Yet if we don’t work with them effectively, or know how to make them work for us, they can be undermining. The following six tips are a short education in how to make your resolutions change your life – and our world. 1. Dream. Henry David Thoreau said, “If you advance confidently in the directions of your dreams, and endeavor to live the life you have imagined, you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." Too often we shortcut our dreams by allowing the ‘critic’ or the ‘realist’ to get in the way. For fantastic creations, we do need the contributions of all three of these parts of us – the dreamer, critic and realist; yet each needs space apart from the others. To prevent one part from short-circuiting another, Walt Disney kept three separate rooms at his headquarters for each of these three essential processes. So, while dreaming…just dream. And write. Spend some time to list everything you would like to feel, accomplish, see, experience. Don’t think of how these things could come to be, or even why. Just write out dreams. This alone is a powerful exercise, and when combined with further actions, it will change your life. 2. Ask why. With whatever dream or resolution you’ve created, ask yourself why you want to do or not do it. And then ask again. Keep asking until you get to the bottom of why you really desire it. If your goal is to get in better shape, find out what getting in better shape will really do for you. Most resolutions fail because they’re not sufficiently leveraged – meaning that we haven’t linked enough motivation to the achievement of the resolution. Once we do, though, the resolutions can become effortless, even fun. 3. Write your goals. I give an entire seminar on how to use goals to create the life we want. There’s actually a clear and helpful science to goal setting. In simplest terms, the mere act of writing our goals – in present tense, stated in the positive, ensuring that the achievement of these goals will affect us (and others) in the way we want, and with the ability to know when we’ve reached our goals – powerfully sets them in motion. The next step is to create an action plan for realizing the goals. The thousand-mile journey begins with one step. See the article I wrote for Yoga Magazine on Creating the Life You Want. 4. Keep on! The biggest sabotage to our new visions (resolutions, goals) is giving up. And it sometimes happens just before we’ve achieved what we are aiming toward. In yoga philosophy, it’s said that the sadhaka (spiritual practitioner) understands one percent of their sadhana (spiritual practice). In the same vein, we often don’t know the effects our goals and efforts are creating. We must leave room for magic, for the ripples of our actions to go out and come back. Reading your goals daily, reminding yourself of people you admire, taking a moment to fantasize what it will be like once you’ve achieved it – these all help. Find ways to stay inspired. 5. Change beliefs. Resolutions can also fail because at our core we don’t believe we can do it. We think we’re not worthy, or able, or that it’s not possible. None of these are true, yet the illusions can be fatal to our inspirations. The solution? Replace old, untrue beliefs with new ones that are more resourceful. Many methods can accomplish this: simply inquire into the root of the untrue belief and recognize the error, use affirmations or fake it ‘til you make it. I’m a fan of the ‘whatever works’ philosophy. I’m excited these days about a technology that’s new to me called Paraliminals. They involve listening to short audio tracks with stereo headphones. Paraliminals utilize sound frequencies, NLP (neurolinguistic programming) and specific audio messages spoken simultaneously into each ear so as to overwhelm the conscious mind and speak directly to the ‘other than conscious mind.’ We can actually upgrade our beliefs effortlessly, even while we sleep. I’ve been using them for a few months, and am impressed. 6. Invest in yourself. The Japanese culture contains a concept called Kaizen, which translates as ‘continuous improvement’. Through steady, daily progress, one achieves big results. It’s a basic principle inherent in the message of every success philosophy. And it’s especially pertinent right now as our world is so rapidly changing. Whatever job one is trained for, the market and economy could make it redundant in a moment. Yet one who continues to invest in themselves becomes ever more adaptable, resilient and valuable regardless of the conditions around them. If we grow a little every day – through learning, listening to audio books, reading, study, meditation, self-study – we are guaranteed to evolve into mastery. We all can find 5 or 10 minutes a day to grow and improve in whatever realm we wish. And from time to time, we might create an entire hour, day, week, month or year to devote ourselves to investing in ourselves. It’s the only investment we can count on. Remember it’s up to us to dream a new dream. For ourselves and for the world. It starts with the dream, with commitment – and then creativity and stick-to-it-ness are needed to accomplish the goal. We can do and achieve anything we set our mind to.

Astrological Tidbits - Love Eclipses Dichotomy

The major theme of the next period of time continues to be change versus stability. Or is it change along with stability? Hint: the latter is more resourceful. This apparent dichotomy stay with us for most of the next two years, and it will be especially active this January and February. The question to ask is: ‘what must change, and what must stay the same?’ We need a healthy dose of both – now more than ever – in our lives. Things that must change are those that have become stale, limiting or boring. Those that must stay the same are those that serve our discipline and structure, those which keep us grounded enough to make the other changes. A particularly helpful window into this theme opens between January 7-14. You might pay attention for opportunities to shake up routines in the first few days of this window, and then see more opportunities for implementing change in a structured way in the last few days. January 20 begins another interesting few days, especially in the area of love and relationships. You’re likely to see unexpected opportunities –perhaps something out of the usual (whatever the usual is for you) – along with some challenge, or some aspect of relating that requires some work or process for you. Perhaps it’s a new relationship, or a new phase of a relationship, that seems fortuitous and fun, and yet also requires some effort and work. If events emerge in this realm for you, they are likely to peak in some way on the solar eclipse on January 26. Relationships, especially of the romantic nature, are likely to intensify between February 5-7. Though there may be challenge, or even some pain, emerging here, there’s opportunity to deepen and transform. February 15-19 sees a sweet opportunity to find more lightness and play in relationships, and likely a new phase of relating opens up. Remember, the movement of the planets indicates an energy that is affecting all of us. Far more powerful is how that particular (and other) symbolism is operating through our individual charts. Especially pertinent these days is which houses in your natal chart are now hosting transiting Saturn and Uranus. Learning more about your chart – on your own or with a qualified astrologer – pays rich dividends in self-awareness. “The person who understands themselves can accomplish anything.”

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