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Welcome to the October edition of our Conference Connection. This month we'll recap the recent Estes Park conference,
link to a delicious Hunan hot & sour soup recipe from our Editorial Director, Kathryn Arnold, offer conference alumni specials and more.
Additionally, this month's featured instructor, Seane Corn, shares some little known 'non-yoga' related facts about herself.
Including how this Jersey girl first worked at Yoga Works stuffing envelopes for free classes to becoming the
national yoga ambassador for YouthAIDS.
Speaking of YouthAIDS, we're extremely proud to announce that the benefit concert with Ben and Sally Taylor at the Estes Park conference raised $14,000 for YouthAIDS.
Thank you to all who made the event such a success!
Finally, don't forget the Early Bird discount for the 2006 San Francisco Conference ends November 18th.
Namaste,
The Yoga Journal Conference Team
Elana Maggal, Conference Director
Renee LaRose, Conference Manager
Casey Ruby, Conference Coordinator
Jenny Andrews, Conference Sponsorship Associate
San Francisco Conference
Registration is open for our annual San Francisco Conference! Early Bird rate ends November 18, 2005.
Click here for more information, including a faculty list and registration. Be sure to register early to get your first choice of classes and events.
The San Francisco message board is open for ride sharing and room sharing options.
Boston Conference
Our second Conference in Boston will be April 7-10, 2006 in the heart of downtown Boston at the Sheraton Boston.
Registration will open the first week in December 2005.
This year's 10th annual Estes Park Conference was an event to remember! With over 2,000 attendees and an amazing set of presenters, including the honoroable Sri B.K.S. Iyengar, it was a memorable week of yogic inspiration. The weather was beautiful and the elk were in full force, bugling beneath the starry skies.
In addition to the symphony of animals,
our attendees enjoyed outstanding performances by both Ben Taylor and Krishna Das as well as an inspirational conversation between Annette Bening and Sri B.K.S. Iyengar. For the fourth year in a row,
Yoga Journal hosted LUNAFEST which featured works made specifically for, by,
and about women, bringing in $1000 which was donated to the Breast Cancer Fund! In all, the conference was incredible, thanks to all who attended this week-long event.
Conference Blog
The Estes Park conference blog is still active and includes briefs and images from the Iyengar and main conference classes, as well as streaming audio and video of the Q&A with Sri B.K.S. Iyengar and Annette Bening.
blogs.yogajournal.com.
Photodocumentary
See the photodocumentary of the 2005 Estes Park Conference, complete with more than 300 candids of teachers, students, and behind-the-scenes peeks!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ tags/yogajournal2005/
DVD Set of the Iyengar Intensive Featuring Sri B.K.S. Iyengar
Be sure and order your archival full DVD set – featuring over 25 hours of the latest teachings from Sri B.K.S. Iyengar and his senior students.
Order now at: http://www. boulderbook store.com/DVD.html or call 800-561-9398.
Commemorative Conference T-Shirts
Conference t-shirts are still available directly from Goodness Design Group at a special post-conference discounted price of $18.
Email orders@
goodnessdesigngroup.com for more information.
Hunan Hot & Sour Soup
A popular appetizer in Chinese restaurants, hot & sour soup makes a great meal in itself with the addition of peas, corn, carrots, cabbage, and meaty shiitake mushrooms.
Click here for the recipe.
Editor's Note: Seane will be teaching at all three 2006 Yoga Journal Conferences. Click here to see her
San Francisco classes.
Raised in New Jersey by very young parents, she and her two brothers grew up in a very close and comfortable household. They were not brought up with any religion because of her mother's strict Jewish upbringing.
Instead, they put a Jewish star on top of the Christmas tree and were given the opportunity to decide for themselves what, if any, spiritual practice they wanted to adopt.
They were happy being "nothing" at that time.
Some little known non-yoga related facts about Seane:
- She was Pompton Lakes High School's "Most Popular Girl" in 1984. She was also voted "Class Flirt", which might explain her popularity!
- She moved to NYC as soon as she graduated high school. She studied acting.
- She worked in various trendy nightclubs as a bartender and door person including Limelight, Cat Club, MK and Peggy Sue's.
- One of her jobs was working as a bartender in an all male gay sex club.
Her favorite customers were Danny the Wonder Pony and a cross dresser who favored gray wigs, housedresses and sensible shoes.
- She was a vintage motorcycle enthusiast and owned (actually still does) a 1970 650cc Triumph motorcycle.
- She was a recurring character for one year on a soap opera called Guiding Light. She played Janet, a "tough waitress with a heart of gold". It was the same year she got into yoga.
She stopped acting soon after yoga sunk its fateful claws in her.
- She has a scar through her right eyebrow. She crawled into something sharp at 6 months old and needed stitches. She was self-conscious about it when she was young.
- She and her boyfriend Al Corley have been together for five years. He has three teen-age children and she has three cats.
She feels blessed to have them all as a part of her life.
- She loves to shop and she has a special fondness for pocketbooks.
She met Sharon Gannon and David Life in 1984, a meeting that would ultimately change her life and destiny.
She worked for David when he owned a small East Village cafe called Life.
In 1987 they got into yoga and their transformation was evident in their happiness.
She was inspired by the noticeable changes in their attitude and behaviors and began practicing yoga herself.
She liked it, she felt good, but it didn't seem to have the life-altering effect that she witnessed in David and Sharon...
at least not at first. In time, she stopped drinking, changed her diet and quit smoking.
She began to get more focused and interested in life outside of her own.
About four years into the practice of yoga, she began to notice true changes in her perceptions and beliefs.
The yoga, as it always seems to do, worked its magic on her.
She moved to Los Angeles in 1992 and took a job behind the desk at Yoga Works in Santa Monica stuffing envelopes in exchange for free classes.
They hired her part time, then full time. She took the teacher's training and began teaching publicly in 1994.
As an important and necessary extension of her yoga practice, she began doing social and political outreach as a member of the National Organization for Women and the Women's Action Coalition in the early 1990's.
Today she concentrates her energy on working with high-risk children and was named the national yoga ambassador for YouthAIDS.
She recently spearheaded the Off the Mat, Into the World awareness campaign.
It has been a successful project raising thousands of dollars for children with HIV/AIDS.
She believes that because she was given spiritual freedom as a child, she was able to be open-minded and curious in her pursuit of mystical understanding.
She no longer perceives that there is "nothing"; instead she believes in a "no-thing" and that understanding has changed her life and fills her heart with joy.
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FREE BIJA TEA
Bija Healing Teas would like to express its gratitude for the tremendous support and enthusiasm we received as a sponsor of the 10th Annual Yoga Journal Conference.
We have free tea samples available to all yogis and yoginis... just click here!
For more information about Bija Healing Teas please visit us at www.bijatea.com
Thanks for a wonderful conference!
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October 27th through November 27th.
Please enter promocode YJCC05 at the checkout (and be sure to hit the update button to recieve your dicount!)
A percentage of all sales go to benefit the Satya Foundation,
for more information please visit www.satyajewelry.com
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öm time - 10% off
öm time is happy to join with Yoga Journal as a sponsor for YJ San Francisco in January 2006.
As a gift to Yoga Journal customers mention this ad and receive 10% off any öm time yoga workshop or training.
For a complete listing of our fabulous 2006 - 2007 schedule visit www.omtime.com for all the details.
We are excited to offer events with Douglas Brooks, Sianna Sherman, Amy Ippoliti, Sean Corne, David Swenson, Judith Lasater and more.
While you are there be sure to subscribe so we can keep you up to date on all the latest öm time happenings.
Please call 1.877.omtime.1 to register. See you in San Francisco in January!
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Save the Dates
San Francisco Conference
Hyatt Regency
Jan. 13 - 16, 2006
Registration now open!
Early Bird Ends Nov. 18!
Boston Conference
Sheraton Boston
April 7 - 10, 2006
11th Annual Yoga Journal
Colorado Conference
Estes Park, CO
Sept. 25 - Oct. 1, 2006
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