Susan Frazier

Runners check this out! Open Doors in Hingham…

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:32:50 +0000

Yoga Workshop for Runners with Karen Donahue	Location: Hingham


Dates: Sun 3/14/2010
Time: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Cost is $35. EARLY REGISTRATION DISCOUNT! Pre-register by Tuesday, March 9, 2010 the cost is only $25 Spring ahead into marathons, road races or the passion to just run! Are you that runner who never stretches, or do you want to learn more about how you can become a stronger and more flexible runner through the yoga practice? Learn how to strengthen and open your body as a runner. Whether it be hips, hamstrings, IT bands, shoulders or lower back, inflexibility causes the majority of runner’s injuries. Come join Karen and share her passion for running. Both a 5 time marathoner and an injured runner because of over-use and under X-training, we will explore body alignment in postures, flexibility, balance, coordination, concentration and endurance. Go to Opendoors7.com to register.

Roslindale Yoga PYTT

admin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:16:13 +0000

I have been extremely lucky to work with a great group of Power Yoga Teacher Training students through Roslindale Yoga owned by Heather Ruiz. These woman are going to be amazing teachers. As they approach the conclusion of their program I have been impressed not only by their teaching abilities and knowledge in both power and hatha yoga, but also with the genuine warmth, caring and support these women have for each other.

Karma, Jen, Stephanie, Keshara, Misty, Ginger, Paula, Carol, Mary, Jocelyn and Mary… You guys rock! I truly enjoy the time I spend teaching your workshops and learning from you as well.

huh….

admin — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:13:09 +0000

Is it seriously 2 1/2 weeks before Christmas? And… when was the last time I posted? Thank God for New Year’s Resolutions

Coming up:

Boot Camp in Weymouth, Sunday 12/13 1:45 - 4:15

Partner Yoga in Weymouth, Sunday 1/10/2010! 2:00 - 4:00 (check out the photos I posted)

Boot Camp in Weymouth, Sunday 1/17, 1;45 - 4:15

Partner Yoga Workshop Coming Up!

admin — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:37:39 +0000

Save the date: Partner Yoga at Open Doors, Weymouth Landing, November 8th, 2:00 to 4:00. You can sign up now and save your spot using mindbody. Partner Yoga is all about trust and communication. Some of the poses are done in teams of two, some require spotters who assist the base and the flyer. You can sign up alone or bring a friend/significant other. Every time I teach this workshop we have so much fun! Here are some pictures from our last workshop.

Sunday Sun Salutations at Lululemon

admin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:53:35 +0000

I always love coming back to Lululemon and teach this Sunday morning class. Always a great group of students who really want to learn. This morning was cold and rainy (and, ugh…snow this afternoon…I mean, really?)

I highly recommend checking this class out. Sunday mornings at 10:00am, free yoga! Next week’s class will be taught by Kim Spear.

Smile! :)

admin — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:52:05 +0000

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
— Mother Tesesa

I used to teach an early morning spin class at Reebok headquarters (now just at noon). When I left the building after class, employees would be filing in to start their day. I gave myself the challenge of trying to look as many people in the eye as possible, and with a smile, say good morning. I wonder…did it change their attitude? I know it changed mine. Try to smile at as many people as possible today and watch the shift in energy.

Everything I Ever Was and Will Ever Be

admin — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:42:13 +0000

Yesterday’s reading, from the book “Yoga in America”. The book has 46 essays written by yoga teachers and devotees and celebrates the diversity of Yoga in America. There is even a chapter by local Maureen Spencer who owns Inner Peace. The chapter is Everything I ever was and will ever be, 1st page and last paragraph;

Every yoga class I’ve ever experienced has been the answer to the question “What is Yoga?” Because the more one practices yoga, the more understands that the question really isn’t what is yoga”, but rather, “what isn’t?”

I wake up to the sensation of warmth on my face and on instinct, without coffee or a digested newspaper article, I make my way to my mat to salute the sun that finds me day after day, no matter how far I’ve traveled or how much I’m sure I’ve changed. That’s yoga.

And sometimes, in the evening, when the moon is just so in the sky, when it’s shape eclipses my emotions and it’s luminosity shames the stars, I’ll salute it too, even though it’s way up there and I’m way down here, because it’s yoga.

When it’s coming down so hard, such that I can’t tell my tears from the rain, when everything that could be wrong, is wrong, despite my efforts or lack there of…that’s yoga.

And when everything fits together as though my life were a song or a plot from a book, when I smile despite myself, that’s yoga.

And when I close my eyes in Shivasana, and feel the rhythm of my last balanced breath, when my heart beats in time with the fan’s hum and the fly’s wings, this truth finds me. All that is yoga lays itself down before me so I can see that it is and has always been everything I ever was and will ever be.

Fall Sunrise

admin — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:42:02 +0000

Thanks to Neil Wood for this beautiful Sunrise photo at Nantasket Beach on our first day of Fall;

Ok, Mom, here you go :)

admin — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 01:54:28 +0000

So I loved getting an e-mail from my Mom that said;

Messsage: Hi There,

Haven’t seen a blog since 9/6. How about a posting!!!

Well, Mom knows best. I should have more to say because there has been a lot going on. I just got back from my second trip to the Dominican. What did I learn? I need to learn Spanish!!! Is there anyone out there who would like to barter some private yoga for Spanish tutoring?

Breakfast...Papaya, Watermelon and coffee!

My favorite part of visiting this remote part of the Dominican? (uh, we are talking NO stores for anything, no tv’s, no computers…no schedules) is the people. Here is one of my favorite persons, Jose’, getting ready to cook us some plantains.

Might be the only time Jose' wasn't smiling! Although you can see the smile in his eyes.

Sunsets…I can’t help it, they are so beautiful!

admin — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 01:02:18 +0000

No matter how my day goes, or how unsettled my mind is, at the end of the day a sunset makes me feel at peace. I am always amazed at how different they can be.

Saturday, 9/5/2009

Sunday, 9/6/2009: Boston skyline

Sunday, 9/6/2009, same time, different angle

Sunday 9/6/2009, same time, different angle