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We'd like to welcome you to this month's Conference Connection.
We've just returned from our annual retreat in Estes Park - and what a great week it was!
If you were there (or even if you weren't), Jenny Andrews, Yoga Journal's sponsorship liaison has posted pictures from the event for you to enjoy.
The photos are online at homepage.mac.com/jpandrews_23/.
And if you missed it this year, our 10th Annual Colorado Conference is only 11 months away!!
Featured in this issue is one of our favorite Kundalini teachers, Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa.
And while we know Gurmukh is fun loving, we would never have guessed she's an avid rollerbladder and hosts a dinner for 75-100 people every Sunday.
Finally, if you have a healthy recipe you'd like to share, please send it to us at yoga_stories@yogajournal.com.
If we use your recipe, we'll send you one
of Yoga Journal's Yoga Step-by-Step videos (VHS or DVD).
Namaste,
The Yoga Journal Conference Team
Elana Maggal, Conference Director
Renee LaRose, Conference Manager
Jenny Bangert, Conference Coordinator
Jenny Andrews, Conference Sponorship Liaison
With all the excitement brewing about our upcoming conference in San Francisco, we're in the San Francisco spirit.
Here are some more great upcoming events and some trivia about the City By the Bay.
KCBS Health Watch 2004 presents Deepak Chopra M.D. and Dean Ornish M.D.
Co-sponsored by Yoga Journal's San Francisco Conference
HealthWatch 2004 is a wellness event being held in San Francisco on Saturday, November 13, 2004, at the Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium - 10:00am-5:00pm.
Presented by KCBS 740 AM, the event will feature keynote speeches from Deepak Chopra M.D., and Dean Ornish M.D.
This comprehensive event will provide insight on health trends and wellness issues.
The event will also include panel discussions with Yoga Journal's Editorial Director, Kathyrn Arnold.
For complete event information, visit www.kcbs.com.
Balanced Living at The Bay
A celebration of all things yoga
Join Cyndi Lee (founder of OM Yoga) on Thursday, November 11 at the Bay Club San Francisco for a master class-a unique blend of
flowing yoga asanas combined with mindfulness and fun.
Class from 5:30pm to 6:45pm. Reception with food, drink and door prizes
from 6pm to 8pm. RSVP by November 6 to jbangert@yogajournal.com.
A $15 donation benefiting Karma4Kids. All levels welcome.
San Francisco Trivia
Sure, we've all heard the famous Mark Twain expression, "the coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco."
But with temperatures in the 100's just miles further inshore, why is San Francisco so much colder -- upwelling.
Providing a cooling affect as much as 40 degrees Fahrenheit, the San Francisco fog is a weather phenomenon that, for lack of a better description, keeps the sweatshirt salesmen at Pier 39 in business!
But why does the fog form?
Unlike common valley fog, the fog in the San Francisco (and much of the Northern California Coast) is called advection fog and is caused by cooling of moist air over the water.
Because the continental slope lies right off the coast, "upwelling" or rising of deep, cold water to the surface occurs.
This cold water cools the moist air being pushed by the prevailing westerlies, causing it to cool, expand and condense into the thick fog we see on most hot summer days.
And did you know the fog is credited with saving the western part of the city from fire after the 1906 earthquake and aiding Patty Hearst and other SLA members escape during a bank robbery in the Sunset District?
Szechwan Ratatouille
This recipe comes from none other than Kathyrn Arnold, Yoga Journal's Editorial Director.
This variation of the traditional Mediterranean dish made with eggplant and zucchini, takes a spicy departure from the classic with the addition of Chinese spices.
Click here to get the recipe.
Editor's Note:
Baptized in 1972 with the Sikh spiritual name, "Gurmukh," which in Sanskrit means "one who helps people across the world ocean,"
Gurmukh has dedicated her life to fulfilling that responsibility.
Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa, lovingly known as "Gurmukh" in the yoga world, loves to celebrate life. And how?
One of her passions is to bring people together. People are always in her home, eating, meeting, talking, having fun. Every Sunday night after a hearty 2 hour yoga class,
anywhere from 75 to 100 people gather in her home for a Sunday night dinner, creating the feeling of the old time "family get together."
She feels we can bring peace to the world, by providing environments where people of spirit can gather as a family.
One of her greatest joys of the day is rising in the early morning, and meditating before the sun rises.
She loves to sit on her Indian swing, in her garden, and chant sacred scriptural hymns as the day awakens.
Her interests include rollerblading, swimming at the YMCA, and working in her garden.
She travels to India as many times as she can each year, to visit the land of her teachers.
She often hikes in the Hollywood Hills with her 20 year old daughter, her husband of 22 years, and their family dogs.
She is looking forward to the opening of her beautiful new yoga center in November of 2004.
There will be a restaurant, yoga studios, stores, as well as a 14 foot waterfall!
It will be a spiritual oasis in the heart of Hollwyood.
Gurmukh will be teaching at the upcoming San Francisco, Grand Geneva and Estes Park 2005 conferences.
Click here for specific information about her classes in San Francisco.
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Save the Dates
San Francisco Conference
Hyatt Regency San Francisco
Jan. 14 - 17, 2005
Registration now open
Lake Geneva Conference
Grand Geneva Resort & Spa
Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
May 13 - 16, 2005
Registration opens Dec. 2004
10th Annual YJ Conference
Colorado Conference
Estes Park, Colorado
Sept. 26 - Oct. 2, 2005
Registration opens Apr. 2005
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Entertainment News
Yoga advocate Woody Harrelson's new eco-documentary GO FURTHER opens in
select cities November 2004. Actor/activist Harrelson takes a small group
of friends (including a yoga teacher!) on a light-hearted journey to
promote transformation of the planet and ourselves.
www.gofurtherthemovie.com
www.landmarktheatres.com
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