Sexy controversy, sexy poetry, workshops, and teacher training with Julie Peters

[Julie Peters]

Hey everybody! Blog posts, poems, photos, and events below! Read as much or as little as you like, the headings say it all.

Sexy Controversy
There's always lots to argue about on the internet, but I'm not so used to being in the line of online comment fire. I wrote an article on why the now-famous/infamous Equinox Yoga Video made me feel uncomfortable, and lots of people have taken pains to tell me how much I am wrong to have these feelings.
The star of said video, though, Briohny Smyth, responded to my personal message to her with elegance and compassion, and we reopened ourselves, as a united front, to the mouth of the public to be kissed or eaten.
Here is a link to my article (which links to all the other stuff): http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/01/why-the-sexy-equinox-yoga-video-pissed-me-off/
and a link to an interview with Briohny by Jeannie Page (so we are truly a web). http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/01/briohny-smyth-the-full-story-straight-from-the-yoginis-mouth/
Briohny said it best in her Facebook repost of all this stuff: "No matter what, own it. It's your right to have an opinion."

Sexy Poetry
If firestorms are not your thing, and you prefer the divine and the erotic, check out this poem I posted on elephant journal. (Unless you are my parents or my brother. Then skip on to the next). http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/01/tantric-philosophy-sex-til-dawn-and-the-smell-of-your-armpits-poem/

Speaking Up
Amidst all this shoving myself into the public eye, I've been thinking about Ana Forrest's Warrior Heart from her book Fierce Medicine: a heart that is open, but grounded and steady, rather than a "flabby heart" which "lets all sorts of crap fly in." How to stay grounded when your online avatar is being attacked? Well, I haven't figured it out yet, but here are my thoughts on Spirituality and Health Magazine on How to Tone a Flabby Heart.

Pretty Things!
Tired of thinking and want to see something pretty? Have a look at Christoph Prevost's beautiful photographs on my website. There are more in the works, and I'll be posting them up there as he sends them to me. http://www.jcpeters.ca/2012/01/i-just-have-to-show-these-off/
 
Upcoming Workshops and Trainings
Don't care about this stuff and just want to come hang out with me? Okay, here's what I'm up to lately:

Creative Flow: Love Letters at Highgate YYOGA, Sunday February 5th, 1:30-4:00pm. $30
Learn how Flow and Yin yoga can spark your creativity and open up deep creative centres in your hips and low belly. Listen to the sensual poetry of Pablo Neruda, Hafiz, and Rumi, and explore writing a love letter to your lover. Or your liver. Or your own darn heart. Bring a journal, no experience required, sharing welcome but always optional. Sign up here:
http://www.yyoga.ca/programs-and-workshops/workshops-and-events/creative-flow-valentines-edition-with-julie-peters/
facebook event here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/275351945862823/

Supercharge your Originality: a Writing Workshop with Chris Gilpin and Julie Peters
Sunday February 12th, 2:30-4:30pm, $25
This 'pure' poetry workshop led by myself and Chris Gilpin will give you concrete tools for avoiding cliche and finding your own voice in both writing and performing poetry. Details and sign up:
facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/200739410018274/
Website and sign up (scroll down):
http://eastsideyogastudio.com/studio/Events.html

Creative Flow: The Poetry of Yoga at Maya Whole Health Studios in Renton, WA (near Seattle). Friday February 24th, 7-9pm and Saturday February 25th 2:00-6:00pm
Friday night, we will get deep into the flow and invite a freewrite, and just see what comes out. Learn the basics of Creative Flow theory, hear some poems, and change your brainwaves.
Saturday, spend a little more time exploring the theory of how yoga can affect your creative mind, and tease out writing and ideas through Flow and Yin styles of yoga. This workshop is more writing-intensive, but will balance between asana and writing exercises.
Sign up for both before February 1st for $108, $120 after. You can also do the workshops separately. See the Facebook event here for more information, and register here.

Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training March 11-14th at East Side Yoga Studio in Vancouver.
Are you interested in learning about how to teach yoga from a new perspective? Or are you already a teacher hoping to sophisticate your knowledge of how to teach Vinyasa yoga, specifically in terms of languaging and sequencing? Join me for for Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training this March, and learn how every class is just like a good story, and how you can learn to tell it really well. You can do the full training or just the Sunday introduction. More information and sign up here: http://eastsideyogastudio.com/studio/Teacher_Training.html
facebook:
 https://www.facebook.com/events/271199879607075/

My website is also new and improved, and lots of this information is on there. www.jcpeters.ca
Follow me on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/juliejcp

Lots of love! I'll work on the unicorns....

Julie

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Julie Peters
Studio Director
eastsideyogastudio.com
jcpeters.ca