Hello, Revolution Therapy and Yoga Community.

Welcome to our newsletter.We have a few new classes to announce including an ongoing Saturday morning Yoga class on Zoom, and an outdoor class with Kate Morrissey Stahl.

VIRTUAL YOGA CLASSES

Meg, Heather, Nicole, Christiana and Crystal all have classes on Youtube and zoom. There is a new easy to use virtual yoga class tab on our website. Please check it out.

Our space is transforming!

Meg Brownstone

Nicole Bechill

Sarah Whitaker

"I've missed teaching yoga! But I'm keeping much of the same good stuff alive by continuing to work on mindfulness, teaching, and relationships professionally in other ways. I have been finishing up a project about mindfulness for teachers and preparing for a new job facilitating a newly developed attachment-based program for school teachers in our district. I've also been doing work on behalf of the educational nonprofit I run, Athens Forest Kindergarten, to help public schools around the country who want to utilize outdoor spaces to minimize coronavirus transmission when schools re-open. I am doing this work through Green Schoolyards America and am honored to be in such good company with nature educators volunteering from all over the United States to bring this initiative to life! There is a culture in the organization which is compassionate and aware of the importance of racial justice in every piece of the work. We do land acknowledgments at the beginning of every Zoom meeting, which means that each person in the meeting acknowledges verbally that they are on the stolen land of native people, and states the name(s) of the communities that once lived there. For those who didn't know, in Athens, Georgia we are on land stolen from Muscogee/Creek, Yuchi, and Cherokee, East people. In addition to a number of great websites and apps that can give this information, I have recently discovered that you can text your location to 907-312-5085 and receive an automated response with land acknowledgment information pertinent to your area. We have also been told to prepare all of our documents prioritizing the needs of marginalized folks, assuming that others can work around. It is a helpful mental shift and aligns well to our new goals at Revolution, to be trauma-sensitive in all of our offerings." 

Ginny's Corner

The Month of June

This recurring feature is dedicated to my mentor, June Gray, who spent her life in selfless service to girls and young women. The world is forever a better place because of June. 

Mantra:  Worry is wasted energy. 

Worrying, fretting, feeling anxious. Those are feelings that are familiar to many of us. Why do we worry and what does it accomplish?

The truth is, worry doesn’t accomplish anything. It’s a favorite hobby of the mind because it directs attention towards the past and the future, which are exclusively realms of the mind. 

But we live only in the present moment.  We cannot control the future or change the past. We can only root ourselves firmly in the now, and move forward from a place of acceptance. 

So the next time you feel overwhelmed with worry, remind yourself that it is wasted energy. Bring yourself back to the present. Notice your body, sit with your feelings, and allow. You are only ever responsible for doing the next right thing, so focus your attention on cultivating that wisdom. 
 

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