In This Issue

• A Weekend of Vibrant Living: Dec 12-14 •

• Retreat Recap •

• Weekly Vibrant Living Yoga Classes •

• Five Ways to Enliven Your Holidays •

• Astrological Tidbits•

• Upcoming Events•

• Raw recipe: Rawnog and Cookies•



Upcoming Events

• Dec 12-14, 2008 •
A Weekend of
Vibrant Living,
Ubud - Bali

Vibrant Living Yoga
Weekly Classes
The Yoga Shala
Kerobokan, Bali

• 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

A Weekend of Vibrant Living: Dec 12 - 14, 2008

Detox, cleanse and strengthen your body, mind, and soul with a weekend of Vibrant Living Yoga and organic living foods at the Yoga Barn in Ubud. The gateway to better living is just in front of us. The door is ajar. Greater health, happiness, strength and vitality await. All that’s required is choosing it, stepping through. Join us for a weekend of Vibrant Living Yoga at the Yoga Barn in Ubud, and enjoy fun challenge, international community, fantastic organic living foods and tapping into a more radiant you. Friday     4:30-6:30pm Yoga/7:30pm Dinner Saturday 7-9:30am Yoga/9:30am Breakfast               4-6pm Yoga/7pm Dinner Sunday   7-10am Yoga/10am Brunch Pricing: Early Registration Rp 3,000,000 rupiah* Includes yoga classes, healthy breakfasts, chocolate smoothies, organic living food dinners, transportation to/from airport, and certificate. Flight and accommodations not included, see our site for hotel recommendations. Group discounts and local expat pricing available at our site, or contact us for details. *Special Offer: Registration deadline has been extended two more days. Sign up before Wed Dec 10 to enjoy early registration discount pricing. After Dec 10, pricing: 3,300,000 rupiah. Please see our site to register or for more information, or contact Heather: +62 81 337 823 719, workshops@radiantlyalive.com.

Retreat Recap - November 2008

Retreats are a chance for us to break out of our old routines and way of life, and become more connected with our inner vibrant self. Our 2008 retreat was wildly successful - we dove into twice daily yoga classes, summitted mountains (both literal and figurative), were nourished by Simone's incredibly delicious meals, trekked through villages and rice fields, soared and blanced with Acro-Yoga, and more. We've posted a photo album on our Facebook page - come check it out! If you've yet to connect with us on Facebook, sign on and send a friend request to "Radiantly Alive". It's another great way to keep up to date on events and our latest news.

Five Ways to Enliven Your Flexibility and Creativity

1. Notice your thoughts about how you handle change and what change means. No thought is right or wrong, though some are helpful and some less than helpful. If you’ve tended to see yourself as less than resourceful, unable to cope well with new situations…or if you look into the future and assume that things are getting worse, NOW might be the perfect time to change your thoughts. It’s virtually cliche – yet nonetheless true – that what we believe we create. Energy follows thought. 2. If everyone around you is choosing something that you know is not in your best interest – whether it’s food, media, attitude, lifestyle – don’t be pulled down by them. Be a pioneer instead. Model another possibility for them. Without preaching, without insisting anyone join you – simply out of the joy and knowledge of how energizing it is to choose what supports your Vitality. 3. Five minutes is better than none. If you’re extra busy, if you’re traveling, if you’re out of your usual routines, simply taking five minutes to center yourself can be enormously helpful. Five minutes of yoga is exponentially better than none. Whether it’s sitting still, exercising, writing in a gratitude journal or whatever way you have to connect to your source (and maybe you’ll find more than five minutes), it will be time well invested. 4. Remember to fully enjoy whatever you’re doing, and that you can start new at any point. Many of us are conditioned to think that we simply give up on health and spiritual pursuits over the holidays. We’ll overeat and stop meditating and then go back to our endeavors in January. And, of course, we’ll feel guilty. We could – instead – love our rich meals. Enjoy them fully without remorse. And then at the next meal choose to eat how we know will serve our Radiance best. There’s even some physiological benefit to overeating once in a while. No matter what we did yesterday, we can choose something different today. 5. Find inspiration. One of the quickest easiest ways to succeed (at whatever you wish) is to find role models. Simply remembering that someone has achieved what you’d like to achieve is a reminder that you can do it to. And if they’ve done it, already, they’ve paved the way for you. When we’re inspired we have unlimited energy. WE can accomplish anything. You could place a photo of someone who is a hero to you in a place where you’ll see it daily. Perhaps a loved one helps you stay motivated and focused. I find the words of great achievers very powerful. “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it now. Boldness has genius, magic and power in it. Begin it now!” In every depressed period in history, the quality of some people's lives deteriorated, and the quality of some lives improved. What makes the difference? Your thinking. Which option are you voting for? And then your actions. In what outcome are you investing your energy? When we add more and more value into the world, we are rewarded.

Astrological Tidbits

The major astrological news in the near future continues to focus on the opposition of Saturn and Uranus, the two principles of stability and change that are apparently in a conflicted relationship. Our mission is to find out how to use Saturn’s appreciation of structure, status quo and discipline in a creative synergy with Uranus’s need for rebellion, freedom and routine-busting. This major theme will be strongly in affect through March, and then off and on again through 2010. A couple of smaller astro news flashes to consider are the full moon on Dec 12, as it’s going to provoke more of the Saturn/Uranus challenge with some extra fire as Mars and the Sun are together (conjunct) and opposite the moon. That Sun/mars/moon axis is directly square to the Saturn/Uranus axis, creating a 4-square configuration in the sky. We may see it in our lives as extra vehemence and charge to the aforementioned ‘battle’ between stability and change. Pluto has recently re-entered the sign of Capricorn, where it remains for the next 16 years. Pluto, who demands deep transformation, in the Saturnian sign of Capricorn means some deep restructuring of what might have seemed rigid. We may find this restructuring in our own lives (more info available by finding what house in your chart Pluto moves through now) and in our common lives – the world around us. We’ll likely find the urge to burn the old and birth the new stronger than usual from December 19- 24 – as the sun joins Pluto – and December 26 – January 2 – when Mars joins Pluto. 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.

Contact us
I hope our newsletter provides you with some inspiration or education – that it’s useful. If you’d like to hear about something in particular, or have questions, we welcome your input
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