JC Peters

I’m shocked and awed that my most recent article, published on elephantjournal.com, has received over 37,000 views at last count. This article is about the beauty in the breakdown: how being stuck on your floor crying in a pile, lost, uncertain, and fearful, is potentially the best thing that’s ever happened to you. I’ve had so many personal messages come through this article, and I think it must say something good about the world that folks read it, sent it to their friends and brothers and moms and on and on. This article is about the pain of being human, about hope when everything sucks, and I think it’s pretty awesome that so many people chose this over, say, Brangelina’s latest bowel movement. We must be getting better as a species. We are evolving, and it’s a beautiful thing.

I’d love for you to read it here.

I should say, I wrote this article when I was already going through a bit of a rough time, and THEN i got hit by a car. Having added injury to insult, I’m laid up at home, unable to teach or practice (much, yet) with a hurt knee and a broken heart, so it’s given me a lot of warm fuzzies to talk to so many people and hear how they are choosing, now, to start changing their stories of insult and injury and turning it into connection and hope and kicking ass on the back of a crocodile (read the article to get that joke!)

And I really miss my students/teachers. I’d love to see you this Saturday at Highgate YYOGA in Burnaby BC to learn about Yin Yoga and the Poetry of the Body. We’ll be going deep into a physical meditation to learn about the stories we’ve been holding onto in our bodies and how we can start to tease them out and create space to tell newer, more interesting, juicier stories about our lives and our bodies. Bring a journal!

Learn more here, and preregister for this event here.

In the meantime, do go to my facebook page, facebook.com/juliejcp, and you will be able to hear/read two new poems and get a bunch of other stuff so it’s more like I’m hanging out with you and less like I’m sitting on my couch icing my knee and eating chocolate ice cream.

See you soon lovelies!

peace, love and unicorns,

jcp

Hey everyone!

Summer brings news of things, floods of things, yoga, poetry, a new season, who knows what else.

In case you haven’t already seen it, my latest article on elephant journal is called Why Yoga Can’t Fix Your Broken Life, and it’s true, trust me. Life breaks, but it’s going to be okay. Read it here.

And we just had our first East Side OmFest this past weekend–almost 30 aumers showed up and created a sea of aum for 45 minutes. It was seriously one of the most magical things that’s ever happened to me. I stayed for Tara’s Yin class afterwards and it was ridiculous–after savasana I starting laughing like a maniac, and then crying. Who needs drugs when you have yoga? Seriously. Look out for the next one of those real soon.

Next weekend, May 28th, we are having our first East Van Poetry Salon with RC Weslowski and the Wet Dream Catcher. RC will be debuting his one man show and I’ll be doing a few poems on the theme of shame and the body. 8pm at East Side Yoga Studio, everyone welcome to come discuss the show, the poetry, and whatever else.

On June 18th I’ll be teaching a Yin Yoga workshop at Highgate YYOGA that I am really excited about. We will approach the entire practice as a meditation with lots of silence and focus on the body. We will become still enough to listen to the stories our bodies want to tell us, and we will have an opportunity to write them down at the end of the practice. This will be a good one: it’s only $30, and you can preregister for it here.

Then on July 23rd and 24th, I’ll be teaching a 4 hour Teacher Training on the art and science of sequencing Vinyasa Yoga. I’ll be teaching several Secrets of Sequencing on the first day, rules of thumb you can use to teach creatively, safely, and on the fly. Day two will look at how to sequence your classes like you were telling a story and put all the basics from Day One into a beautiful and fun Vinyasa class.
$80 for the full workshop.
More information and preregister here: http://eastsideyogastudio.com/studio/Events.html

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peace,
jcp