These were the messages received from this mornings summer solstice practice. I look forward to sharing this powerful practice in community next year.
.A wonderful way to honour the cycles of 108 sun salutations on summer solstice, is to pull a card or to write a personal reflection as you complete each cycle of 10, ending with a final cycle of 8. If 108 is not accessible for you, sometimes it’s nice to rest in child’s pose or in mountain and visualize yourself moving through one or a few of the cycles of 10. Remember your practice is always your practice, you are offered guidance, but your true teacher rests right in your heart.
Taking time to ponder between each cycle and integrate the messages received.
Listening. Understanding the deeper impact of sun salutations on your body, mind and spirit.
We continue to hold some zoom offerings through the summer, as well as some other special outdoor classes – don’t worry we’ll keep you posted!
We are actively looking for a new space for our studio for when we’re able to practice together in a socially responsible way. We look to this time as an opportunity for us to reassess how we can better serve our community and we know in our hearts a safe and supportive space is waiting to welcome all of us, allowing us to dive even deeper into these practices.
You can check our schedule weekly to register for our online classes and see what classes are being offered. This may change week to week through our summer so please keep checking on a weekly basis.
It is important to for us to continue to make our support and our yoga resources accessible and available to YOU, regardless of our present situation.
If you have been affected financially by COVID-19, and if it would be uncomfortable for you to have to start paying for our live classes, then we want you to simply register and show up – there is no pressure of payment.
Some of us have decided to continue to offer our online classes (live and recorded practices), even after we can reopen our new doors. We invite you to sign up for the classes you’d like to attend in the following way.
- To sign up for the Live Stream Class first go to our class schedule
- Second, just click on the class (es) you’d like to attend that week (or the weeks ahead) and the system will walk you through the registration process. Please note you do need to reserve your spot a minimum of 6 hours before the class start time. It’s easy, and only requires your name and email address to reserve your spot.
- Once you have signed up for, and reserved your spot for any of our classes, you will receive a confirmation email stating the Class Name, Date and Time you are signed up for.
- 20 minutes before the classes you have registered for, you will receive a second email with the Zoom access link and password for the class. Click on the link to join the class via Zoom.
Payment options
We do have several different tiers of consideration for payment for our live online classes. If you are able to contribute a little, we would ask you to consider our pay what you can model – where you can simply send us an etransfer to info@suryadaya.ca in the amount that you’re able, either class by class, or as a lump sum amount. As I mentioned, our primary intent is to help support you right now, whatever that needs to look like with your present situation.
- If you have an existing Class Pass in our system, we will be using those passes automatically (apart from the monthly unlimited passes unless you have directed us otherwise). Once you’re registered we can better keep track of your attendance and more efficiently use your pass. However, if you would prefer to NOT use your studio passes until we can do in person community classes, then please send us an email at info@suryadaya.ca and we will continue to keep your pass on hold during this time, but you still need to register.
- We have created a new Online live class option – with a drop – in fee of $7.00 to purchase click here or a 10 class live on-line pass package for $70 to purchase click here. These new online passes can be purchased through our website or you can send an e-transfer to info@suryadaya.ca. These passes do not expire and will extend beyond the closure to once we’re able to practice together again for our continued online options.
- If you don’t have a studio pass, no worries and no stress – remember we’re a yoga studio, the last thing we want to create for you is stress. We have our pay what you can option (these payments can be sent via e-transfer to info@suryadaya.ca or you can mail cheques made out to Surya Daya PO Box 867, Almonte, ON, K0A 1A0. Just send us an email to let us know, no amount is to small, here you get to choose.
AGAIN:
- Once you have signed up for, and reserved your spot for any of our classes, you will receive a confirmation email stating the Class Name, Date and Time you are signed up for.
- 20 minutes before the classes you have registered for, you will receive a second email with the Zoom access link and password for the class. Click on the link to join the class via Zoom.
- You will not be prompted to make a payment in the registration process, that is done either by etransfer, sending an email if you are mailing us a cheque, or by credit card on our website
- If you register for any of Amber’s classes (Tuesday afternoon or Saturday morning), even if you’re not able to attend, she is now sending out a link to a recorded version of the class for you to practice along with her at any time. These will be for personal practice only, but you are required to register to receive the recorded session.
If ANY of this is confusing, then please take a deep breath and take your time reading over all this information a second time. If it is still confusing, then please give me us a call at 613-451-2891 or send us an email at info@suryadaya.ca
We are here to support you, always. We acknowledge that our world has changed, but hopefully we are all being given this time of uncertainty to clarify what is truly important as we move forward in our lives.
Take good care, always,
With so much love, Amber, and all of us at Surya Daya.