June 15, 2012 | 19:00-21:30 | $40

Don’t carry the weight of the world on your shoulders or shoulder any burden. Instead feel strong, balanced, free and open in this crucial area that many yoga practices seem to overlook give minimal attention at best.

In this workshop you will get a better understanding of proper shoulder functioning, get stronger and release from stress and tension that didn’t know existed.

You will also see how opening the shoulders contributes to better breathing, more joy, an even helps yoga poses like back bends and twists.

You will feel like you have come out of icy cold water and landed in a hot tub of ecstasy after learning and applying Blissology Alignment Principles followed by an experience of Vinyasa Flow.

Everything is within the framework of bringing more joy, awe, bliss and connection in the world. Come play!

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Join Eoin this summer for an inspirational, blissful and magical program at Hollyhock, Canada’s Lifelong Learning Centre, on Cortez Island, B.C. from July 18-22, 2012.

Cultivate more awe, joy, bliss and love. Discover Blissology Yoga, blending yoga teachings with the wisdom traditions and offering fresh insights toward nurturing a positive attitude. This all levels vinyasa yoga experience ranges from active, to technical, to slow and restorative, allowing time for stillness, flow, humour and lightness. Emphasis is on the intelligent alignment of your joints so your movements in yoga and all of life’s activities are fluid and bio-mechanically sound.

Blissology Yoga guides you to tune into the energy that connects us with each other and planet and to use it as a guide to achieving your goals while minimizing your impact on the web of life. Become a powerful conduit for love and transform your relationships with yourself, your community and our planet. This is the art of the Upward Spiral.

“love is the ultimate renewable resource” ™

Eoin Finn, BA, EYRT, is a yogi, surfer and blissologist who has been teaching his unique and transformative approach to yoga and Blissology across the world. His life mission is to stay in touch with the deep vibration of love so that he can be a conduit for love in all he does. He wants to inspire people to be continuously lit up by this mysterious, powerful force and believes that one of the best ways is to get out in nature and let its beauty fuel us.

Eoin’s passion for spreading his vision of body and mind coexisting in harmony with nature and community has led him to be featured in the “we like this guy” section of Oprah Magazine. An avid athlete and surfer, Eoin has worked with hundreds of pro athletes. It is his love of the ocean and the creatures within it that allowed Eoin to find the courage to follow the words of his greatest hero Joseph Campbell and “follow his Bliss” making the move from his highly popular yoga classes in Vancouver, BC, to the remote, wild and stunningly beautiful Canadian surf paradise of Tofino, BC. This powerful connection to Nature informs all of his teachings. www.blissology.com

Check out Eion’s Blissology Happy Map for more about his core philosophy.

TUITION: $495 CDN (meals & accommodation extra) / 4 nights

Click here to request a reservation with Hollyhock.

Every month as part of the of the Blissology Project Commitment #4, Food Awareness we are publishing easy, quick and healthy recipes for food high on the Blissology Pranameter.

Here Insiya checks in from Bombay India to show us how to make the perfect cup of Ayurvedic Chai. You can make it with or without caffeine or with or without milk. Check out how to make India’s ubiquitous and tasty drink. No, you don’t just add steamed milk to super-sweet syrup at a cafe. It’s done like this:

Whole Cardamom Pods – 6 to 7

Whole Black Peppercorns – 4 to 5

Cinnamon – ½ “ stick

Cloves – 2 or 3

Fennel – few seeds

Fresh Ginger – ¼ “ grated or thinly slicked

2 – 3 cups water

Organic milk – 2 cups or Organic Almond Milk if you’re vegan or milk intolerant

Tea – Robust English Breakfast or Assam Tea – 4 tsp
(Roiboos tea is a nice option if you prefer to drink a de-caf version of chai, and Green Tea works well too for a milder taste).

To make:

Crush the spices to a coarse consistency in a mortar and pestle. Add spices to ginger and water and bring to a boil. Let simmer for up to10 minutes or so. Then add milk, let simmer for five minutes more. Finally add tea-leaves, bring to a rolling boil. Strain and serve. (I like adding the tea at the end, so you don’t end up with a chai that tastes of bitter / over-steeped tea. Instead, I let the spices really sing).
Finally, to sweeten, you can add pure maple syrup; raw, organic sugar; or a bit of agave nectar. A little bit of sweetness helps bring out the flavor of the spices.
Serve in teacups with a garnish of a pinch of freshly ground cardamom or cinnamon powder. Enjoy!!!

Notes:

If you like a more milky chai, have the milk/water ratio be 1:1, if, as I do, you prefer a more watery chai, have your milk/water ratio be 1:2.
For tea, try the perfect blends at The Urban Tea Merchant.
For spices, I prefer using organic, non-irradiated spices: Whole Foods / Capers or any organic grocery store should have them. I also love shopping at theSouth China Seas Trading Company on Granville Island.

And if you’re just itching for some home-made chai that you didn’t slave over yourself, my favourite chai in the city is still at East is East with locations in Kitsilano and on South Main. However, do try a sample first, as the chai seems to vary each day!

How to make Amazing Chai from blissology on Vimeo.

this course has one or two spots left + is filled with incredible people from around the world on a mission to explore great yoga alignment, with a philosophy that blends ancient yoga teachings with the wisdom of nature and ecology. be a conduit for the force of love so we can make a huge contribution to the flow before we leave the planet!

session one: may 17-28, 2012
session two is in september

more info is here

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Friday| June 08, 2012|8:00 AM

Join Ocean Wise and SeaChoice this World Oceans Day for a beluga inspired yoga adventure. Led by yogi, blissologist and ocean lover, Eoin Finn, this once in a lifetime yoga class will take place in the underwater beluga whale viewing area of the Vancouver Aquarium.With live musical talent, inspirational speakers and breakfast, this is one event not to miss.

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Celebrate Earth Day with Vinyasa Earth Puja

Come enjoy this great celebration of the earth and the spirit that binds us to it.

Sunday, April 22, 11:30-13:30 | VINYASA EARTH PUJA Make your Yoga practice a ritual to honour our connection to the Earth at this crucial time in our planet’s existence with renowned Yogi, Blissologist and Ocean Workshipper Eoin Finn. Experience true interconnectedness, not just with our own body-mind, but also with our personal relationships, our communities and how we treat out larger environment. Expect a vigorous and fluid vinyasa practice infused with lightheartedness and depth, followed by Eoin’s unique earth-body meditation to leave us feeling plugged in to the source of deep awe, joy and bliss.

Bring something from the earth for this class – a flower, a branch, sea shells, etc.

see you there!

In Good Hands: Exploring the Arches with Eoin Finn

For all levels of practitioners, teachers and intermediate yogis will enjoy the presentation of this essential knowledge

Friday| July 6 |time/cost tbc
This session blends tried and tested biomechanical wisdom with Eoin’s unique insights to create a workshop of overarching significance in your yoga practice. We will discover how the arches contribute to a pose that is light, balanced and connected.
Most people learn about the arches by working first with the feet, but we will start our exploration with the hands. Since we have more motor control of our hands and can better grasp the principles of the arches there. We will work with simple hand balances like downward dog, handstand, crow, upward dog and backbends and then explore the feet and other arches of the body.
This workshop is guaranteed to present a small taste of the highly creative and effective Positive Force Yoga Alignment methodology, Eoin’s effective and creative presentation of alignment, anatomy and its relationship to yoga asana practice.

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Blissology Ayur-Flow (TM) : The Essentials, with Insiya Rasiwala-Finn

Monday | July 2| 7:00pm – 9:00 pm|Price tbc

Discover how ayurveda (the science of Life), a rich, ancient body of insights and principles has a resonance so essential to the ebb and flow of our modern lives. Learn how to apply ayurvedic insights to your yoga practice, making it more therapeutic, beneficial and a powerful tool to live your life with awareness, presence, balance and ease.
In this workshop, we will discuss the basic principles of ayurveda, determine our principal “doshas” or mind-body types and flow through a dynamic “tri-doshic” vinyasa practice that is both energizing and calming and leads us to a sattvic (whole) state of being.

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Blissology Project Tuesday at Some Like It Hot Oakville ON

July 10th| $40

Join Yoga and Blissologist Eoin Finn for a session of Yoga and Blissology. The Yoga will have plenty of challenges for advanced yogis and modifications for beginners in Eoin’s typical “All Levels, All Good.”
The Blissology Project is a 4 week commitment to Yoga, Meditation, Nature Appreciation, Food Awareness and Gratitude. As well, we want to get in touch with our Life Mission. Expect to leave feeling radiantly alive and charged with Positive Energy.

Hammock Enlightenment at Haliburton Canada Day July 1st  (time tbc)

Participation is by donation to the Haliburton County Food for Kids Program.

Come get Hammockly Enlightened, relax and see what a simple joy life can be. Meet others or simple chill and take in the splendor of a tree. The Big Reset awaits.

“We want to make the world a better place
By slowing down our frenetic pace
By doing so we make a space
To open up to love and grace”

For more information and registration click here