Finalized Fall Schedule

Thank you for your feedback last week to finalize the fall schedule. New class times start this week. I look forward to seeing you in class.

Boulder Mennonite Church
3910 Table Mesa Dr, Boulder, CO 80305
TUE 4pm and 6pm
WED 10:30am and Noon
FRI 10:30am and Noon
SAT 9:30am

Movement Climbing + Fitness
2845 Valmont Rd, Boulder, CO 80301
FRI 4pm Therapeutics (class time will be changing to 4:30pm in Nov)

Honoring Michael Trolier

Thoughts about Michael – Monday Oct 7, 2019
Prepared for his Celebration of Life Oct 13, 2019

I was remembering Michael in my practice today and suddenly very clear words came to me. And as you know, wordcrafting is an art: both expressing the activity of the brain and the nature of the thoughts, and also acting as a tool, or mantra, to help shift and repattern that very same brain. I had been searching for an accurate phrase to describe a feeling and result of regular yoga practice. I had been getting words like: exciting, worth fighting for, worth striving for, satisfying, powerful, inspiring, worth committing to, worth holding on to, worth chasing and going after. All imply either lack or aggression.

So here is what I hope to deliver as a teacher and what I hope you all experience, instead of continued losses and grief:

May you have the feeling of contented and peaceful, but without a doubt, victorious!!, satisfaction that comes from observing a dormant part of your system wake up and become available to you!

I am reminded of EMDR, affirmations, mantra repetition, and the ability of consciousness to actively change these patterns and therefore change outcomes.

Michael was such a brilliant wordsmith, and I realized how special and magical he made the fields that we shared together, which was at Studio Be with Wendy, in yoga classes with me, particularly Fri noon and Wed night, and more laterally – music and cranial work. Michael was always loving co-collaboration and spontaneous genius, and I know that he enriched all of your shared fields in similarly magical ways. I honor him as a very important person in my life who has helped shape me into the person I have become, AND that I hardly knew him, AND that he was doing his talent everywhere he was, and so, what a gift his life was.

We graced our classes with such themes as:

Hugge
is a Danish word used when acknowledging a feeling or moment, whether alone or with friends, at home or out, ordinary or extraordinary as cosy, charming or special. A feeling of well being and contentment.

“A state of mind where you are capable of momentarily suspending all worries and, despite being well aware of their existence, exist for the moment in the knowledge that, while the future is uncertain, this particular moment is perfect, and  will remain so in memory, no matter what the future may bring.”

AND

Zugunruhe
German compound word consisting of Zug (move, migration) and Unruhe (anxiety, restlessness). Describes anxious behavior in migratory animals, especially in birds during their normal migration period if these animals are enclosed.  Zugunruhe involves increased activity towards and after dusk with changes in the normal sleep pattern.

“In accordance with their inherited calendars, birds get an urge to move. When migratory birds are held in captivity, they hop about, flutter their wings and flit from perch to perch just as birds of the same species are migrating in the wild. The caged birds ‘know’ they should be travelling too. This migratory restlessness, or Zugunruhe, was first described by Johann Andreas Naumann…[who] interpreted Zugunruhe to be an expression of the migratory instinct in birds.” –William Fiennes, ‘The Snow Geese’

And to this, Michael recited to the class after savasana:

22 March, 2013
(The perfect flower of Zugunruhe)
When deep restless stirrings wash through ya’
And springtime is chaos abrew – ah,
Just ask any shaman –
Soon you’ll be jammin’
It time to indulge zugunruhe.

(This is the version he spoke in class)
Deep restless stirrings are common
In springtime, for yogi and shaman.
When it washes through ya’
Indulge zugunruhe
And soon you’ll be dancin’ and jammin’

AND, I found another one, of particular import:

29 August, 2014 
So your morning was .. catastrophic.
And your inner eye’s gone all myopic.
Remember that wiggling
Conduces to giggling
And let yourself move gyrosopic.

And now we dance.