LIGHT & COLOR MEDITATION

I’ve been working with and teaching a light and color meditation through the body.
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Close your eyes and see the light and color inside. Feel the light and color move through your form. Allow the light and color to softly move with the breath, in and out, light and color.
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May our days be filled with light and color. May awareness of this rainbow body within each of us bring us into deeper harmony with ourselves and one another.

 
Looking forward to our time together on the mat in group classes at Sama Yoga in Houston, TX:
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Tuesdays: 6:00PM Slow & Steady Yoga
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Wednesdays 7:30PM Candlelight Yoga & Yoga Nidra
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Sundays 10:30AM Slow & Steady Yoga
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Private yoga and meditation sessions also on tap and available…

One of my greatest life highlights is being an active volunteer in the Houston, TX Wellness Retreat for Caregivers of Alzeimer’s and Other Dementias. We have put together a sweet and short video from our 2019 retreat in Houston, TX. Please have a look and see what this all volunteer endeavor is doing to co-create wellness for caregivers and our communities. If you find yourself jamming to the music you’re in good company.

Two palms together for all our volunteers, and if you’re able to support our work, please know we have a Go Fund Me and would love some loving attention and donations!

Altars, Intentionality & Self-Care: 2019 Grounded in Spiritual Practice

Sunday, January 13, 2019 from 3-6PM at Sama Yoga

• What does it mean, look like and feel to create a sacred space for you to utilize in daily life?
• What do you use to ground your practice on the daily?
• How and why do you set intentions?
• How is spiritual practice a part of self-care?
• What support do you want to bring in in the New Year?
• How do you maintain your balance, understand what brings you stasis and support personal integration?

In this workshop, we will explore the practical experience of setting clear intentions for 2019 and create a personal altar to use in daily life as a reflective space for self-awareness and spiritual and personal practice. The intention and care used to create your altar at the beginning of the year supports spiritual practice and self-care throughout the next 52 weeks, and creates a space for continued intentional living and spiritual ground in life’s cycles.

In this workshop, we will take some time to set clear intentions for 2019, construct a small altar that reflects and supports the intentions set and practice together with our creations and intentions in place. You’ll then be given guidance and support to take your altar home and set it up as a sacred space for supporting pause, peace, ease, ground and daily practice in your life.

Advance RSVP is required for this intimate practice.

$30/person

Please bring: (1) 4-8 small personal objects that feel true and clear to you in the present moment, and that you want to utilize in a personal altar for the next year, (2) a small vase that can hold water and a few flowers (3) your yoga mat and (4) be ready to learn, create, move, breath and sit.

Suggestions for altar items: gemstones, pine cones, sand in a glass bottle, seashells, prayers/mantras, incense, deities (some people like to put them on their altars, not required at all), candles, photographs of spiritual teachers, dear ones, special rocks, feathers (some people like to put living items on their altars, some don’t—ultimately it’s your sacred space and you can put what you want on it), yantra or other spiritual art and mala beads. Items should be personal and have clear energy from your perspective.

Prep-work: Please start thinking now about your values and intentions—what do you want to bring into and ground your life in in 2019? What do you want to cultivate? What are you ready to release? What needs polishing? What needs cleaning? Start creating the space for clarity, purpose and passion. Take a deep breath, and as you exhale feel the preciousness and expansiveness of this life. Know there is specific power and access to energy when a group does this intentional practice. Yay!

See you soon.

Justine Fanarof has been teaching yoga and creating altars for many years. She enjoys utilizing the space of the New Year to curiously assess where she’s been, where she is and where she’s going. She super-enjoys bringing together beautiful and significant objects, which are used to construct a home altar that reflects and supports goals and intentions for personal, professional and spiritual practice. This altar is the grounding point in her every day life—a space that encourages peace, passion and pause, a place to reflect upon and to nurture. Ultimately the altar is a reflection of the self—its beauty, depth, change and dimensionality.

**Yoga For the Holidays Gift Packages**

Friends—I’ve got a few wonderful, fun, supportive and thoughtfully-put-together packages for you to consider for your holiday gifting and receiving:

Yoga Under the Mistletoe/Yoga Aphrodisiac: A Couples Package

Three 50-minute sessions for $350 or Five 50-minute sessions for $500

These build on one another and focus on specific partner work to improve connection, energy and subtle body awareness. Through the work you do on the mat you’ll learn more body awareness and have the opportunity to deepen the spaces of intimacy with yourself and your partner.

Stretch and Release

Three 50-minute sessions for $350 or Five 50-minute sessions for $500

Are you training for the Houston Marathon, or working your body really hard in other physical and mental aspects of your life? In this special series we will work together to bring stretching, ease, support and peace into your life. Together we’ll learn about the way you’re using your body and create an easy to remember/practice regimen for you to use in between training sessions. This series is perfect for that person who says, I cannot touch my toes, but secretly wishes they knew how to get there.

Mindfulness 101

Five 50-minute sessions for $500

This class provides the guidance and support to understand what a mindfulness practice is (and is not), teaches you how to find and take your seat, introduces you to the tools of mindfulness including the breath and mantra and gifts you with a solid foundation to bring these practices into your life. The five sessions are specifically tailored to you. They build on one another to support and develop a meditation practice that works for your needs and lifestyle.

Yoga Nidra for Everyone

One 90-minute session $250, group size up to ten people, please contact me for larger group pricing

If you’re looking for a different way to chillax and find deep rest with your friends, family or co-workers this holiday season let’s Yoga Nidra together. Yoga Nidra is a guided meditation practice that you do lying down on your back or side, supported by blankets and pillows! Through the practice of Yoga Nidra your brain effortlessly transitions into an altered state of consciousness that helps you relax, focus and sleep better. In this session you’ll be guided through a short, all level yoga practice, followed by full body relaxation mediation. Yoga Nidra can be effective at bringing the mind into a theta, delta state (the space of healing) or deeper state of relaxation and is endorsed by the US Army Surgeon General and Defense Centers of Excellence as a complementary and alternative medicine in the treatment of trauma and PTSD. If you haven’t experienced this practice before you are in for a deep and restorative experience. Some people say it is #lifechanging

Family Yoga

Three 50-minute sessions for $350 or Five 50-minute sessions for $500

Let’s do yoga together! In this special class we will practice yoga together with your beloved and crazy (yes, I said it/you know it!) family. We will have fun, bring in joy, cultivate laughter and loving attention, partner up and move into relaxed stillness together. This is a wonderful way to be together in a healing, supported and loving way.

Deepen My Practice
Three 50-minute sessions for $350 or Five 50-minute sessions for $500

In life and on the mat it’s helpful to have a teacher a few steps ahead of you to support practice and awareness. Let’s work together to support the deepening of your practice in a way that allows you to find more freedom and ease in your life. This series is for those who want to learn more about themselves through the physical and energetic body and through further developing their regularity in or want to establish a home practice, wherever they are in the world. Meditation, pranayama, asana, restorative, ethics, altars & intentionality, bhakti, mantra, japa, yoga nidra…let’s go deep into what you are curious about experiencing.

**Fine Print on All Sessions**

Location is in a mutually agreeable space—either your home or my home studio.

Yoga for the Holidays Packages are final sale; they can be transferred with mutual agreement.

Yoga for the Holidays Packages expire on August 30, 2019. The purpose of these sessions is to get into your body and develop a practice of self-care in 2019—please be ready to commit and get going towards the beginning of the new year!

Please contact Justine directly for more information: Justine@justineyoga.com

Grateful to have the opportunity this past weekend to share compassion and wisdom practices with the amazing students participating in Svasta Yoga School’s training program. It’s not everyday that we get to dig into ethical action and its impact on interdependence. Thank you to the students for showing with open heart and minds.

On Sunday, April 8, 2018 a lovely group of festive Houstonians gathered to raise funds so that women who work in the restaurant industry can access a continuum of health services, including preventive, diagnostic and treatment care. We drank locally harvested jasmine liquer cocktails, danced to one of the Houston’s best DJ’s and sax players and were led by Carla Hall of The Chew and Top Chef fame to feast, festivate and raise funds to support health services organizations. I am so proud of what everyone has done to make this happen; with women coming together, everything is possible. #ihwshtx #womenshealth #preventivemedicine #divinefeminine

a practice for our life. nice to teach and share with someone(s) you love.