Transformations at Hollow Tree

July 25th, 2011

Dear Friends,

This message comes to you with much gratitude for all the ways each of you has helped to create a safe and loving place here at Hollow Tree for our shared yoga practice and caring community.  I have been blessed over the past three years to serve yoga students here in Arnprior: it has been a great journey of learning, discovery, and meaningful connection.

As this journey continues, my daughter Sheilah and I are forging a new path for ourselves with plans to move to Ottawa at the end of August.  We are very happy and excited about the possibilites this change opens up for us.  I intend to continue teaching ‘on the mat’ yoga on a smaller scale, keeping my website as a blog to share reflections and let you know of workshops and classes I will be offering in the area.  I am hopeful that the adage, “when a door closes, a window opens” will hold true for the yoga community in Arnprior, that with my departure a space is created for other wonderful teachers to appear.

This past year has been one of much change in my personal life.  Nesting up here in the Hollow Tree has provided a time of being, allowing, integrating, shifting, transforming.  Thank you all for the support you have offered with positive feedback and insights, enthusiasm for happenings here at the studio, and the simple yet profound grace of your presence.  Both Sheilah and I are feeling well rooted in ourselves and ready to rise up in joyful appreciation and embrace of the new opportunities in store for us.

Our class schedule will continue as outlined on the ‘Schedule & Fees’ page until August 26th.  I look forward to our time together in the coming weeks, to sharing with you the experience of Yin II at Omega, and to being in this place where we are right now.

With love and blessings,
Susan

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    When I Am Among the Trees

    When I am among the trees,
    especially the willows and the honey locust,
    equally the beech, the oaks and the pines,
    they give off such hints of gladness,
    I would almost say that they save me, and daily.

    I am so distant from the hope of myself,
    in which I have goodness, and discernment,
    and never hurry through the world
    but walk slowly, and bow often.

    Around me the trees stir in their leaves
    and call out, "Stay awhile."
    The light flows from their branches.

    And they call again, "It's simple," they say,
    "and you too have come
    into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
    with light, and to shine."

    ~Mary Oliver