May and June Classes and Seminars in Dallas

May 2009 -- Two more special events in May!

The Comprehensive Science of Aging, Rejuvenation and Brilliance
-- A Special Study Group based on Yoga Science and Ayurveda
Thursday Evenings 7:00 – 9:00 pm
By Donation Only, Suggested Donation: $15.00 All are welcome!
This ongoing group meets for three weekly sessions each month.
This group, led by Blair Lewis, will explore topics related to:
• Aging (from birth to adulthood to final graduation)
• Rejuvenation (how we can be healthy, happy, kind and courageous)
• Brilliance (neuroplasticity, meditation, contemplation as tools to solve attention deficit problems of youth and cognitive decline in aging)
• the full science of Yoga (including Ayurvedic herbs and nutrition; food as medicine; meditation and contemplation; the lineage of the Himalayan Sages and the vast library of Vedic literature)

FIRST MEETING: Contemplation and Meditation – Getting to Know Ourselves
May 28th 7:00 – 9:00 pm
This first meeting of the study group will introduce the entire range of study for the summer. We will then explore the traditions and foundations of contemplation and meditation practices.

Registration: Call us toll-free at 1-888-414-9500 or email Gabrielle at:
gabrielle.l.kahn@gmail.com

Seating is limited, please call us today and register now. Thank you so much!
We look forward to seeing you real soon!

Urban Detox – The Mind
Saturday, May 30, 2009
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Hosted by: UPTOWN YOGA
2636 Thomas Ave.
Dallas, Texas 75204
214-965-9642
Details online at: http://www.uptownyoga.com/pages/news.htm
Please join Kendall Inman and Blair Lewis for third phase of Urban Detox!


June 2009 Events

Tuesday Morning Homeopathy Study Group
9 am – 12 noon on Tuesdays
Break-out sessions for the general public: 10:30 am – 12 noon
This ongoing group meets for three weekly sessions each month.
This group, led by Blair Lewis, will explore topics on homeopathy. The format of this presentation is academic and designed to provide thorough instruction in the science and case-taking skills of classical homeopathy. The first 90 minutes of each meeting will be for serious students of homeopathy. The last 90 minutes of class will be open to the general public as we focus on the homeopathic care of specific conditions and ailments. You can attend the entire three hours or pick and choose session break-out topics.
Recommended textbooks and supplies will be posted to all inquiries.
Fees: to be posted online soon

Homeopathic break-out sessions (10:30 – 12 noon) for June:
June 2nd The Principles and Philosophical Foundation of Homeopathic Medicine

June 9th Sinus and Ear Infections – the Homeopathic Treatment Options

June 16th Coughs and Asthma – the Homeopathic Treatment Options

Registration: Call us toll-free at 1-888-414-9500 or email Gabrielle at:
gabrielle.l.kahn@gmail.com

Seating is limited, please call us today and register now. Thank you so much!
We look forward to seeing you real soon!

The Comprehensive Science of Aging, Rejuvenation and Brilliance
-- A Special Study Group based on Yoga Science and Ayurveda
Thursday Evenings 7:00 – 9:00 pm
By Donation Only, Suggested Donation: $15.00 All are welcome!
This ongoing group meets for three weekly sessions each month.
This group, led by Blair Lewis, will explore topics related to:
• Aging (from birth to adulthood to final graduation)
• Rejuvenation (how we can be healthy, happy, kind and courageous)
• Brilliance (neuroplasticity, meditation, contemplation as tools to solve attention deficit problems of youth and cognitive decline in aging)
• the full science of Yoga (including Ayurvedic herbs and nutrition; food as medicine; meditation and contemplation; the lineage of the Himalayan Sages and the vast library of Vedic literature)

June 4th The Principles and Philosophical Foundation of Yoga Science and Ayurvedic Medicine – connecting the dots between your internist, your yoga classes and your yearning to stay happy and healthy.

June 11th, Thursday and June 12, Friday Two Special Events!
The Yoga of Menopause & Conscious Living Seminars -- details online at:
http://www.aliveandhealthy.com/2009/05/yoga-of-menopause-conscious-living.html

June 18th Aging and Rejuvenation – Examining the Myths, Magic, Medicines and Methodology of Rejuvenation. A fascinating look at how to stay young and how to recover after a major health challenge to your body, your mind and/or your relationships

Registration: Call us toll-free at 1-888-414-9500 or email Gabrielle at:
gabrielle.l.kahn@gmail.com

Seating is limited, please call us today and register now. Thank you so much!
We look forward to seeing you real soon!

Urban Detox Seminar
Saturday, June 6, 2009
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Host: A BREATH OF YOGA
1101 S. Broadway St., Suite 120
Carrollton, Texas 75006
214-770-4095
Details online at: http://www.abreathofyoga.net/workshops.php
And at: http://www.livingyogadallas.com/upcoming_ud09.html


URBAN DETOX Goes to PLAYA DEL CARMEN, MEXICO
A Three Day Event Friday, Saturday and Sunday, June 26, 27 & 28, 2009
10:30 am - 1:30 pm
Host: YOGA BY THE WAY
Calle 26 Nte.#128 5y10
Playa del Carmen, Mexico
(+52) 984 7457 881
[Price: MN $500 or MN $1300 for all three weekend sessions]
Details online at: http://www.yogabytheway.com/index.html
And at: http://www.livingyogadallas.com/upcoming_ud09.html

Yoga of Menopause & Conscious Living Seminars

Special Announcement!

TWO SPECIAL EVENING EVENTS – JUNE 11 & 12th, 2009
with Theresa Oswald, MD, Anne Schanz, PhD, and Blair Lewis, PA

Conscious Living -- creating a lifestyle that is truly your own.
Thursday, June 11th, 7 pm - 9 pm
• Conscious living will help you gain access to more energy and more focus in your life.
• Creating success by eliminating or ignoring defeating behaviors is a valuable skill you can learn tonight.
• You can learn to thrive in the daily chaos at home and work! This will help you find power and joy in the midst of massive stress wherever you are.
• You will learn fast, easy ways to respond to stress by living responsibly instead of just re-actively. Our flexible, adaptive response strategies to stress will please you and amaze your family!
Tuition: $25.00 per household, scholarships available, everyone is welcome!
Location: Our office at the Alive and Healthy Institute & the Connections of Body Mind, Suite 260 in the Chase Bank Building at 14114 Dallas Parkway. The northeast corner of Spring Valley Road and the Dallas Tollway.
Registration: Call us toll-free at 1-888-414-9500 or email Gabrielle at:
gabrielle.l.kahn@gmail.com

Seating is limited, please call us today and register now. Thank you so much!
We look forward to seeing you real soon!

The Yoga of Menopause
Friday, June 12th, 7 pm - 9 pm
with Theresa Oswald, MD, Anne Schanz, PhD, and Blair Lewis, PA
• Anatomy of a Hot Flash – the modern and ancient views of causes and solutions
• Transitional Nutrition – the Ayurvedic insights of diet and nutrition for the four major life transitions, tonight we will focus on male and female menopause
• Homeopathic options for menopausal syndrome
Tuition: $25.00 per household, scholarships available, everyone is welcome!
Location: Our office at the Alive and Healthy Institute & the Connections of Body Mind, Suite 260 in the Chase Bank Building at 14114 Dallas Parkway. The northeast corner of Spring Valley Road and the Dallas Tollway.
Registration: Call us toll-free at 1-888-414-9500 or email Gabrielle at:
gabrielle.l.kahn@gmail.com

Seating is limited, please call us today and register now. Thank you so much!
We look forward to seeing you real soon!

Special Upcoming Green Bay Event

This Spring, we grow again!

Before I return to Africa, I am coming back to Wisconsin for a very special seminar!

A new seminar series of the most ancient healing arts will begin:
The Alive and Healthy Series™ -- An Experiential Course in Yoga Science and Ayurveda for Practitioners and Laypeople.

There will be a Special Introductory Course to be held in De Pere, Wisconsin on March 14-16, 2008. Then next Fall, the six weekends of seminars will begin.

To our past graduates, readers and seminar attendees, this new seminar will bring life to all that you have read in my books. Your emails filled with difficult questions seeking help for fatigue, fear and chronic pain…. about what to eat and who to trust for advice. This course will answer your questions and yield health benefits and happiness not seen in recent times.

To our colleagues in the healing arts, this course will help you expand and fine-tune your options for helping clients with complex issues. When their lifestyle and emotional habits are not supportive of their own healing, that is when yoga and Ayurveda bring powerful solutions to your practice.

It is time to come back and learn more. For over thirty years we have been privately practicing, training, studying and traveling.

We invite you to come back and study with us. Details of the introductory course are posted at the end of this letter.

By the way, I will also be available for private consultations before the seminar. Please call my office at 570-251-8592 if you would like to schedule an appointment.

Please join me!

Blair Lewis
Founder of the Alive and Healthy Institute

PS If you are new to massage, you are invited to enroll in the most comprehensive professional massage school – the Blue Sky School of Professional Massage and Therapeutic Bodywork. Located in three major cities of Wisconsin. Spring classes are now starting. You still have time to enroll. Call Blue Sky at 262-692-9500.

PSS And to our friends around the globe, we will do our best to capture this course on audio CD’s. And remember, I am always happy to come to your hometown. Invitations are always welcome.




The Alive and Healthy Series™
An Experiential Course in Yoga Science and Ayurveda for Practitioners and Laypeople

March 14, 15, 16, 2008 at the Blue Sky Massage School in De Pere, Wisc.

When your family, friends, and clients are asking difficult questions about fatigue, fear and chronic pain. The answers need to be simple and straight-forward. When people are confused about what to eat and who to trust for advice, it is a sign of inner poverty. For over five thousand years, the yogis have perfected Ayurvedic therapies to resolve these problems and restore the inner wealth of every human heart.

The Alive and Healthy Series™ offers a comprehensive time-tested strategy proven to yield health benefits and happiness not seen in recent times. The goal of this seminar is to bring healing and joy into the practitioner's life and the lives of those whom they love and serve.

If you have never explored the world of Yoga Science and Ayurveda for the total health and wellbeing, then this is the course for you! This introductory weekend seminar will help you understand and gain access to ancient yogic therapies that can prevent and resolve many of our modern ills.

Below is an overview of what you will learn. We begin with a history lesson of yoga, Ayurveda and modern medicine. Including:

The state of health care today – the problems and the type of solutions needed.

The lineage of teachers and students, beginning with the primordial teachers.

The essence of the teachings of all the ancient sages in the Tradition.
…and we progress from there. Here is the course outline:



March 14, 2008

Friday night: 6:30 to 9:00 pm

Introduction to the Weekend and the Series
Medicine Today
Disease Today

Lineage of Yoga and Ayurveda
The Sages and the Science
The Four Goals of Life

Yoga Science
Raja Yoga and Hatha Yoga
Yoga Sutras – the textbook of yoga





March 15, 2008

Saturday morning: 8:00 am to 12 noon

Foundations of Therapeutic Relationships
Self - Family - Workplace
Therapist – Client relationship
Student – Teacher relationship
Guru – Disciple relationship

Making of a Therapist (A Truly Happy Person)
Knowledge
Mantra Meditation
Personal Practice

Introduction to Tantra
Three Schools of Tantra
Kaula, Mishra, Samaya



Saturday afternoon: 1:00 to 5:00 pm

Introduction to Svarodaya
The Science of Breath - Pranayama as Therapy
Alternate Nostril Breathing, Kapalabhati, Bhastrika and Beyond

Introduction to Self
Dynamics of Meditation and Contemplation
Dharana, Dhyana, Samadhi





March 16, 2008
Sunday morning: 8:00 am to 12 noon

Science of Fire -- Agni Vidya
The Fire of the Mind and Metabolism
Inflammatory Diseases – An Ayurvedic Perspective

Science of Health and Longevity
Pathology – Modern and Ancient Views
The Anatomy of Prevention and Disease
Exploring the Foundations of Rejuvenation
Myth, Magic, Miracle or Medicine



Sunday afternoon: 1:00 pm to 4:30 pm

Science of Correct Timing of Actions and Activities
Principles of Time
An Introduction to Jyotish (Vedic Astrology)

The Science of Sleep and Rest
Yoga Nidra

Prevention and Lifestyle Therapies
How to Live in the World Today
Creating a Diet that Works for You!





Instructor: Blair Lewis is a physician assistant who has practiced holistic medicine for over twenty-five years. Trained in the tradition of the Himalayan Institute in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, Blair continues to study with Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, PhD and the Institute faculty. He has been a yoga student for over thirty years and has traveled widely in northern India. His medical practice consists of classical homeopathy, nutrition and Ayurveda.

Location:
Blue Sky School of Massage in De Pere
2200 American Boulevard
De Pere, Wisconsin 54115

Tuition: $275 at the door; $250 with 7 days advance

To Register, please call Kathleen at Bay Area Yoga Center at 920-445-7221.

Six weekend seminars are planned for 2008 - 2009. This first seminar is an introduction to the entire series of weekend training seminars. Details of the entire Alive and Healthy Series™ will be available at the March 2008 seminar.




Author of Happiness: The Real Medicine and How it Works

&

The Happiness Revolution - Now Available!

Another shipping container leaves for Africa

I had promised to keep you up-to-date on the African projects, so .....

Yesterday we loaded a 40’ container bound for Africa. And just in time- it was a beautiful day and about 80 people turned out to help load the container. One day later and we would have been working in snow!

The story was the lead on WNEP at 5:30 yesterday evening, channel 13 at 5:00 and in the Times Leader today.

Times Leader Story:
http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19321330&BRD=2185&PAG=461&dept_id=416046&rfi=6

WNEP:
http://www.wnep.com/Global/story.asp?S=7907051&nav=menu158_2

Things are going very well - the promo video is being translated into Japanese and will have a voice over taped March 15th.

You will definitely see generosity in action at the Grand Open House in June!! You are most welcome and invited to attend. I will leave on April 19th!!

To learn more about these projects specifically, you can go to these links:

http://www.aliveandhealthy.com/growingacure.html

http://www.himalayaninstitute.org/Humanitarian/HumanitarianGateway.aspx

http://www.honesdalerotary.com/projects/AfricaHumanitarianProjects.htm

http://honesdalerotary.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/honesdale-rotary-announces-support-for-himalayan-institute-humanitarian-project-in-africa/

Thank you very much for your love and support!

Best Wishes,

Blair

URBAN DETOX 2008 in Dallas, Texas

URBAN DETOX 2008
with Kendall Inman
and Blair Lewis

DATE: February 9, 2008
TIME: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
LOCATION: Sammons Center for the Arts
PRICE: $75

Get a jump start on your year! Join us for an amazing master class taught by Kendall Inman and Blair Lewis. This class is specifically designed to offer each participant information, inspiration and insight to cleanse the body, ignite the fire of digestion and remove old stagnant energy.

Blair will start this class off with a discussion on detox diets and menu planning. With his extensive background in medicine and nutrition, you will learn the yogic secrets of healthy living. You will learn how to safely and thoroughly cleanse your entire system and reevaluate the way you approach your diet and health. You will have the option to start a simple eight-day cleanse at this class.

To support this simple digestive cleanse, Kendall will then teach you a tantric method of purifying the lymph channels to allow your inner radiance to rise to your skin. This vinyasa flow yoga class will be sequenced, specifically designed to stimulate and purify the internal organs, increase respiration and circulation and improve digestion. Prepare to heat up from the inside out with her breathing exercises, sun salutations A and B, and twisting poses. These asanas will further assist your body to detoxify, purify, and re-gain an inner balance of the pranas and metabolism.

Each participant will receive a copy of Blair’s newest book, The Happiness Revolution.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
For any additional questions on this or other events, please contact Living Yoga Dallas at 214-366-2217 or email info@livingyogadallas.com.

Blair Lewis will also be available February 7th and 8th for private health consultation. Please call 570-251-8592 for fees and available appointment times.

WHAT TO BRING:
A well rested and well hydrated body; an open mind, body and spirit.
Your own yoga mat, towel and any props that you utilize in your practice.
Please bring your own bottled water.

LODGING:
There is no lodging or meals provided for this weekend. Visit our Resources section for hotel recommendations with special rates for Living Yoga Dallas workshop participants.

LOCATION:
Sammons Center for the Arts
3630 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75219
Phone: 214-520-7788

CANCELLATION POLICY:
Due to the special nature of this workshop, no refunds are available.
Click here to review our full event policies.

The Happiness Revolution comes to Yoga One

YOGA ONE WELLNESS

Charlotte, North Carolina
On Saturday, March 1 & Sunday, March 2
The Happiness Revolution Weekend comes to Yoga One

Please join me at Yoga One on March 1st!

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Saturday SESSION 1

The Happiness Revolution: 10:00am - 12:30pm

• It is time for a revolution
• What would happen if you designed your life around the goal of happiness for you and your family?

An introduction to the life and lifestyle that is the very promise of yoga science. You will not get any more or less freedom after death, then what you have achieved in life. This weekend learn how to live a great life and connect to the true source of happiness within you.


Connecting the Dots in Your Life -- Yoga off the Mat and into the Heart

• The 5 principles of living with purpose
• The 5 daily observances of living with purpose

Patanjali, the Codifier of the Yoga Sutras, left us a textbook on how to connect all the parts of our life into a beautiful mala (necklace). Learn the very thread (sutra) of yoga and re-weave your life. This is a "bring your spouse, co-worker, teenagers and parents" special event!


SESSION 2

The Happiness Diet: 1:00pm - 4:00pm

• Foods and moods (the real "happy meal")
• Food as pharmacy/therapy
• Bio-food-back

The yogic diet is pure psychiatry. It is the nutrition of both happiness and courage. It is not anti-meat, nor anti-booze, but rather it is pro-happiness and pro-self understanding. The palate can be one of the fastest pathways to lasting joy and endurance. When you learn the dynamics of food, then it becomes easy to choose healthier options for yourself and your family.
Once you are drinking and dining for optimal insight, then learning the science of self-reflection is a must! On Sunday, Blair continues with the methodology of meditation and self-understanding to lead you to the summit - self-realization.


Sunday SESSION 1

Unveiling the Mind, Expanding the Conscience: 10:00am - 12:30pm

• Meditation: a life of balance and harmony
• Acquiring a joyful mind
• Effective filters to protect the mind and succeed in life

Today people seek happiness without knowing anything about the nature of the mind, the capacity of the mind, nor the structure of the mind. They want a clear, calm and tranquil mind, but too much of the mind is unknown.
Yoga science is a philosophy, a psychology and a science of how to create a union between the individual mind and one's conscience. This union, this yoga, is the path to happiness and meditation is the key.

SESSION 2

Tantric Pranayama - Pain, Prana and Pleasure: 1:00pm - 4:00pm

• Creating more space for happiness
• Self-expansion and Pranayama
• Filling your day with happiness
• Tantric time management

Space is the final frontier. To create and have access to more space in your life is the ultimate solution to stress. Life should not be consumed by the same unpleasant thought or habit over and over again. To expand your world is to experience a higher reality.

"To be born again and never uncover the highest joy in life would be a great loss."

Time and Cost

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Date: Saturday March 1 and Sunday March 2

Times:
Saturday Session I 10am - 12:30pm
Saturday Session II 1pm - 4pm

Sunday Session I 10am - 12:30pm
Sunday Session II 1pm - 4pm

Cost:
Sign up before February 1st: $30 per session / $115 for the weekend
Sign up between February 1st and March 1st: $35 per session / $135 for the weekend
Sign up day of event: $40 per session / $150 for the weekend

Register Online! for individual sessions.
To register for the full weekend with a discount, stop by the studio or call 704.332.9911

Please join me if you can!

My Lesson in Rural Empowerment and Social Regeneration

When I became involved in the Himalayan Institute’s campaign called “Growing a Cure,” all I knew were a few simple facts. We were growing an herb called Artemisia that can cure malaria – the largest killer in Africa – and we were going to help rural communities regenerate. I had no idea what this last action item meant.

Growing foods or medicinal herbs in any third world country is usually a very lucrative commercial venture. A foreign corporation or a group of savvy businessmen come in to exploit the people and resources of a distant land. This scenario fills my mind with pictures of yellow or brown faces laboring in fields under the hot sun. Poor people laboring and rich people relaxing – this was the image I had. And in regard to the regeneration of rural communities – my mind was completely blank.

You see, socially responsible businesses are rarely created in third world countries because this type of exploitation is so common and so easy. It takes more time and extreme thoughtfulness to learn how to partner with local communities and recognize both their traditional leaders and governmental authorities. The learning curve is quite steep for all parties involved.

The Himalayan Institute’s School of Energy Farming has created a revolutionary curriculum and socially responsible business model that will forever alter the failed methods of exploitation. This new model of sustainability includes: teaching and creating market linkage; introducing new tools and technologies; cultural preservation; micro-financing and basic business skills. A socially responsible business can offer the enlightened leadership for the melding of the business community, the cultural values of the indigenous society and the superimposed layer of modern government.

The picture of this model shows people coming to learn highly effective, yet eco-safe, agricultural methodologies. Graduates of the energy farming school participate in a collective effort to grow high value herbs and foods. They understand all aspects of their agrarian trade -- from soil cultivation, planting, nursing, harvesting, processing and marketing. Using their new skills coupled with the availability of micro-financing, new rural enterprises are developed where the village farmer becomes a true partner, a stake-holder – a title of dignity and pride. This new model encourages participation and can offer ownership at many levels.

In contrast, the contract farmers and plantation workers have little dignity in their life. They are simply worker bees that never see the global contribution that comes from their labor. This is a lineage of dependency and has no place in a sustainable model.

The School of Energy Farming is growing Artemisia as a means for this kind of social regeneration and rural empowerment. The herb, Artemisia, can bring an end to decades of tragic deaths from Malaria.

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Growing a Cure!

The Sponsor and Founder:
Himalayan Institute – in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, USA
Himalayan Institute Cameroon – in Kumbo, Cameroon, Africa

The School:
The Himalayan Institute’s School of Energy Farming
A Model School and Demonstration Farm in the rural regions around Kumbo, Cameroon.

The Project:
Growing a Cure! – the Artemisia herbal plantation and processing plant. Artemisia is a medicinal herb that can cure and prevent deaths and disability from malaria. Malaria is the largest killer on the continent of Africa.