Book Review: Peace and Where to Find It

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peace and Where to Find It

Like all journey's we must begin with an idea of what we are looking for.  Chapter one begins with The Search for Peace.  In the search for peace we must become more attune to our inner awareness to bring us to the deeper reality of how to actually come to this state of peaceful within even if you are maybe not having a peaceful day or in a peaceful place.

The book is mostly set in a question and answer set up which can be helpful if you have certain questions arise as this book answers many of them. 

Below is from the Namaste Publishing website about the book:

In a world rife with turmoil and lives led in fear, this book is the road map that delivers us from our angst, sense of separateness, and fear to the place where true and lasting peace resides.  

The world has never created/manufactured peace and never will because peace is already here and everywhere, waiting for us to notice it. It is a fundamental characteristic of who we are, if we were only aware of this.


 This book reveals the deep relationship between peace and body awareness. Inhabiting the present moment through deep body awareness makes peace manifest in our lives and across the planet. Thus feeling our bodies – the outer and inner – is a radical and revolutionary act.

Giving our full and felt attention to the body helps us enter the present moment where we become aware of this ever-present peace. The body is always here in the present moment and our sensations can only be felt in the now. Presence through body awareness is the off switch to the incessant voice in our head that pretends to be us. The more present we are, the quieter our thoughts and reactions become, and we come to realize we are not our thoughts but are the peace-infused awareness that’s the source of everything.

 

Christopher Papadopoulos lives near Montreal, the city in which he was born. He holds bachelor degrees in education and history from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and has served as both a primary and high school teacher. Based on his desire to help create a better world, in 1993 he ran for parliament in the Canadian federal elections. Realizing that a world of peace and harmony begins within the individual, he then embarked on an inner journey toward greater self-awareness. He works with individuals and groups, guiding others to experience peace through the process of his own self-discovery.

I received this complementary copy of Peace and Where to Find It from Namaste Publishing. 

Check out their website for more inspiring books.

http://www.namastepublishing.com/

 

 

Namaste.

Pamela Nelson
Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor

www.plnyoga.BlogSpot.com
plnyogastudio@gmail.com

 

 

The Beauty about Dharma - May Peace Practice

Peace practices at yoga sublime studio are a way to generate compassion for ourselves and those around us. Monies raised this month are going to the Prince Albert women's shelter. 

Thank you to all that attended. It is always nice to share these practices with people from the community and know will be helping those in the community - whether that is near or far. 

During the class I read a little from an article by Birjoo H. Mehta, a long time student and teacher of B.K.S. Iyengar.  

In it he gives a few definitions of dharma but the one Guruji often used and I have read in a few other of his books is dharma is that which uplifts, sustains, upholds those who have fallen, are in the process of falling or will fall."

Birjoo tells a story of how a number of Brahim priests were called for a feast. 

He writes, "The host put a condition that while the priests could eat as much as they wanted they should do so without bending their elbows. So the priests being very smart fed each other.  Because of this action everything was sustainable. Each person was fed by the action of others. A Brahmin did not feed himself. A Brahmin did not feed others to feed himself. Even if someone stopped feeding him, he kept feeding others seeing that the feeding of others had no connection to the feeding of himself. 

No person is so independent as to be able to feed himself or herself. Every person is fed by others. And in turn if you feed others in a manner that it sustains this ecological state, the that action is dharmic.  The only way you can acknowledge the bounty of the universe is by doing dharmic actions or actions that sustain, that support the ecology, the ecosystem.  This happens only when you realize that you are entirely supported by the universe and not by yourself."

Thank you Birjoo for the wise words and for me a strong feeling of being part of something greater for the good of others. 

Next Peace Practice is June 3rd with donations going to the Prince Albert S.P.C.A.

Namaste, 

Pamela Nelson

Certified Iyengar yoga instructor

Www.plnyoga.blogspot.com

Plnyogastudio@gmail.com

New Noon Class - Thursday's May 5th til June 23rd

I have added a NEW Noon Class at Yoga Sublime studio

Noon Yoga - 12-1pm
8 weeks - sale pricing $99+gst
-4 pass or drop in also options

 

Also from June 2-June 23rd I will be having a Women's Health Class on Thursday's from 5:30-7:00p.m

 

Please pre-register by contacting me.

 

 

and looking to spend time with your mom, friends, daughter or just time to yourself.
I am having a Mother's Day Morning Class on Saturday, May 7th in Christopher Lake.
9:30-12:30
Includes:
Welcoming tea
About 2 hours of yoga
Organic as I can make it lunch
Parting gift
$50
Please pre-register by contacting me.

April peace practice - much gratitude

One Friday a month Yoga Sublime studio has donated space for a Peace Practice. 

Class is by donation with monies raised going to a charity. 

It is a class to promote inner peace, and loving kindness to one self and allowing yourself this time to relax and renew. 

People can see the peacefulness in you and you can share this with those around you, near and far. 

Last night was the Peace Practice for April. 

The donation will go to the Prince Albert Children's Haven.

I hope you can join me in May. Monies raised that evening will be donated to the Prince Albert women's shelter.

Thank you again. 

Pamela Nelson 

Mother's Day Morning class and Women's Health Classes

Attached are posters for a few upcoming special classes.

The Mother's Day Morning class is in Christopher Lake.  If you are from the city, don't let that stop you from attending.  It is a pretty drive in the early mornings of May.

You will be pampered with yoga, lunch and gifts.

I hope you can attend.  Pre-registration is required.

 

 

Join me Thursday's in June for a session on Women's Health at Yoga Sublime in Prince Albert.

 

Classes are designed to help balance hormones, improve sleep and improve vitality.

Pre-registration also required for this 4 week session.

 

 

 



Thank you.
Pamela Nelson

Certified Iyengar Yoga Instuctor 

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                  When eating fruit, think of the person who planted the tree.