COME TO SANTA MONICA YOGA FRI. 7:15 AM for Ashtanga
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Nancy Goodstein- teacher
my bio
I am 59 years old. I took my first class when I was 27 and then and there decided I would study yoga for the rest of my life.
my training
I am 500 AYRT trained and have studied with many masters, Alan Finger, Maty Ezraty, Dena Kingsburg to name a few, but what matters here is that I was given direct permission to teach Ashtanga from Sri K Pattabhi Jois in 1997.
why I feel confident in my teaching
For 30 years I have used yoga to enhance physical, mental, and emotional health, and to face life’s challenges with clarity, kindness, and joy.
me in the "olden" days
I use yogic philosophy for guidance in asana
THE SUNRISE RUBY
BY RUMI
In the early morning hour, just before dawn, lover and beloved wake
and take a drink of water.
She asks, “Do you love me or yourself more?
Really tell the absolute truth”
He says, “There’s nothing left of me.
I am like a ruby held up to the sunrise.
Is it still a stone or a world made of redness?
It has no resistance to sunlight.”
This is how Hallaj said, I am God, and told the truth.
The ruby and the sunrise are one.
Be courageous and discipline yourself.
Completely become hearing and ear,
and wear this sun-ruby as an earring
Work. Keep digging your well.
Don’t think about getting off from work.
Water is there somewhere.
Submit to a daily practice.
Your loyalty to that is a ring on the door.
Keep knocking, and the joy inside
will eventually open a window
and look out to see who’s there.