Read & Discuss

LIGHT ON LIFE: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace,
and Ultimate Freedom

By BKS Iyengar

Your yoga practice can bring insight and a sense of well-being that extend off the mat and into your life.

This book conveys Mr. Iyengar's discoveries from a lifetime of intensive yoga practice and teaching. Using humor, stories from his own life and examples from modern culture to illustrate the profound gifts that yoga offers, he addresses the goal of aligning the different aspects of the self. The book clearly investigates the role that yoga postures and breathing techniques play in our search for wholeness and the external and internal obstacles that keep us from progressing along the path.

Mr. Iyengar writes about the inner-workings of yoga, and does so in an accessible style.

Find out how yoga can help us live in harmony with the world around us.

Our next reading will focus on Chapter 6 -- through page 200.

Copies of the book will be available at Evergreen Yoga Center, online at amazon.com and at local bookstores.

Saturday, July 31, 4:30 to 6pm (no charge)

Mindful Communication Workshop

with Jean Handley

Saturday, August 21; 12:30 to 6pm

Come join us as we develop a consciousness and practice practical skills that promote clear communication, deep understand, and vital compassion with oneself and between people.  It provides effective strategies for meeting needs, and progress towards reaching personal or group goals and promotes a mindfulness that decreases the likelihood of conflict, defensiveness, depression and anger.  It is more than a communication technique for at the heart of MC is the experience of empathic connection between people.

.       Enhanced speaking and listening to one another in a way that improves clarity and mutual understanding

.       Increased ability to understand feelings, needs and requests that are not always clearly expressed within one’s self and with others.

.       More fully developed ability to translate criticism, judgment, blame and other hard-to-hear messages into feelings and needs.

.       Deepened empathic attitude and mutual respect.

.       Improved ability to transform anger-one’s own and others-safely and respectfully.

.       Reduced resistance and defensiveness with more overall cooperation.

Call Jean Handley to register at 722-8619 or email

$60 for individuals or $100 for couples participating in the workshop together.

Jean Handley and her work with Mindful Communication was featured in the Memphis daily newspaper, The Commercial Appeal.  Click on photo for article.

Workshop with Jaki Nett

November 5 - 7, 2010

Jaki teaches Iyengar Yoga in the Napa Valley. She is head of the Advanced Studies Program at the Iyengar Institute of San Francisco. She has made many extended trips to India to study with the Iyengar family. A senior Iyengar teacher, Jaki is knowledgeable and experienced, and is also known as a down-to-earth and accessible teacher and lecturer. Her teaching style is personal, methodical and insightful. For more info about her, go to www.iynv.com. More info on this workshop coming soon!

Starting Yoga from Scratch: For Beginners

Date and time TBA

*For beginners, including those who have never tried yoga

Teacher: Becca Franklin

Come see what all the hoopla over yoga is about. Is it stretching? Is it relaxation? Will it tone my muscles and improve my game? Find out how your tight muscles actually help you practice yoga. Bring your body just as it is, dressed comfortably for movement. We will look at basic active yoga poses and end the class with relaxation. No matter where you are starting, you will be surprised how good yoga can make you feel. Cost: $15. To register, contact or (901) 726-1115.