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A Bit About...
...Tracey Currie. She is a very versatile certified yoga teacher who teaches vinyasa flow - gentle to vigorous classes - and also maintains a focus in prenatal, postnatal and restorative teaching. Tracey has been teaching in Toronto for almost a decade now. She likes to personalize each class and makes a point of working with individual needs preferring smaller group classes.
Alongside her yoga practise and teaching, Tracey is an experienced practitioner and Senior Teacher of Thai Yoga Massage. She maintains a private practise in the City of Toronto. As well, Tracey teaches the Prenatal Thai Yoga Massage course for the internationally known school - Lotus Palm School - in Montreal and Toronto.
This combination of work has taken her to the Yoga Conference & Show in Toronto for the past few years. Tracey has been interviewed about pre/postnatal yoga for local print media and appeared with Breathe Yoga Studio on City TV's Breakfast Television. Check out her most recent interview about Thai Yoga Massage in the Eye Weekly newspaper: www.eyeweekly.com/style/wellness/article/63378.
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A Bit About...
I have walked!!! This year's Weekend to End Breast Cancer (WEBC) 60km walk through the streets of Toronto was a great success! It was fun being a part of it for the first time. Over 4,600 people walked September 12/13, 2009 raising over $11.6 million. I walked in memory of my good friend and yogi, Dianna Barrett (Dayavati). I am very happy to announce I reached & surpassed my fundraising goal of $2500. Thanks so very much to all those who contributed to my fundraising efforts!!
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A Bit About...
...Mettā - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mettā (Pāli: मेत्ता) or maitrī (Sanskrit) has been translated as "loving-kindness," "friendliness," "benevolence," "amity," "friendship," "good will," "kindness," "love," "sympathy," and "active interest in others." It is one of the ten pāramitās of the Theravāda school of Buddhism, and the first of the four Brahmavihāras. The mettā bhāvanā ("cultivation of mettā") is a popular form of meditation in Buddhism.
The object of mettā meditation is loving kindness (love without attachment). Traditionally, the practice begins with the meditator cultivating loving kindness towards themselves, then their loved ones, friends, teachers, strangers, enemies, and finally towards all sentient beings. Commonly, it can be used as a greeting or closing to a letter or note.
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Some favourite quotes, expressions or prayers:
Om Loka Samasta Sukhino Bhavantu ~ May all beings experience the blessings of great happiness.
Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish caught will we realize we cannot eat money. ~ Southern Cheyenne 1909
Do not push the river, it will flow by itself. ~ Polish Proverb
Aum Trayumbakam Yajamahe Sughandhim Pushti Vardanam Urvar-ukamiva Bandhanan Mrityor Muksheeya Mamritat ~ Sanskrit mantra
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