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Dynamic Yoga Retreat with Louisa Raszyk in Bali, 21st – 27th July, 2013
I am thrilled to announce that I am organising a yoga retreat on the beautiful island of Bali! Come and practice yoga daily with me at the secluded and stunning Villa Boreh retreat centre.
We will start the day with gentle deep awakening into movement through a three hour breath awareness, sitting, and postural class. For three afternooons I will offer restorative/therapeutic class. Re-store, re-source, re-connect.
Deep yoga, freshly prepared vegetarian meals, ocean, lush tropical gardens, childcare available…what more could you want?
The retreat is appropriate for all levels of practice.
I hope to see you there!
Yoga and Shiatsu for Spring – Energy and Inspiration!
Spring is coming ! Are you feeling inspired about life ? Excited ? Do you feel like breaking out of old ruts, starting new projects and embarking on new adventures ?
All of these feelings are, according to Chinese medicine, related to the spring element of wood, and the liver and gall bladder meridians.
Nourish your need for change, your inspiration and your enthusiasm for life with a spring detox and inspire workshop. We will explore the enormous potential of spring energy in our bodies with yoga and shiatsu techniques specifically developed for nourishing the liver and gall bladder ; shaking off the old winter energy and opening up to the new year ahead smoothly and effectively !
With Louisa Raszyk, shiatsu and yoga practitioner with over 20 years’ experience, and founder of Red Earth Centre.
Saturday 13th April 2013, 2pm-5.30pm at Red Earth Centre. 45€.
Contact Louisa Raszyk to reserve your place: 0610897604 / redearthcentre@yahoo.com
One Billion Rising (and one)
« one in three women on the planet will be raped or beaten in her lifetime…one billion women, one billion rising »
It’s been a few weeks now I’ve been hearing about an event called One Billion Rising : a global event inviting women to dance together, to come together in an expression of soldarity against the phenomenal global violence against women.
In November last year I gave birth to my beautiful daughter, Lila. I often talk to her, tell her stories, tell her my thoughts. I often tell her that she is a lucky one, born in Paris in the 21st century. She is welcome as a girl ; she will have an education ; she will be able to love and marry whomever she chooses ; she will be able to wear whatever she chooses ; she will be able to choose and express her religion, her beliefs, her opinions ; whether or not to have a family ; she will be able to walk in the street, catch a bus, travel, without fear of attack.
Things could so easily have been very different.
For myself and for my daughter, and in an effort to support all these millions of women around the planet in their daily struggle, I will be rising (with Lila !) on Thursday 14th February.
Please rise with us !
www.onebillionrising.org
Happy End of the Year and Beginning of a New One!!
19th December
Hello everyone !
Wishing you lots of love and fun for Christmas and New Year, here snuggled up with my lovely little girl Lila Star, four weeks old today !
The schedule will continue as usual except there will be no classes on Monday 24th December, nor Monday, 31st December.
The commercialisation of Christmas is tiring, even offensive for many people, but it’s nice to give a gift, right ?! So, Red Earth Centre has some ideas !! Who would not love a shiatsu or yoga session, especially after the festive season ?? See the « boutique » on the Red Earth Centre site for Red Earth gift vouchers online – shiatsu, yoga or Bushflower essence consultations.
And if you prefer something beautiful and literary, the outstanding publishing house Synchronique Editions has some new releases (please see below).
Voilà ! Have a wonderful Christmas and I look forward to seeing you in 2013, when I will return progressively to work from mid/end February.
With love,
Louisa
Les Bouddhas de la Galerie Céleste:
Album grand format (35,5 x 25 cm) de peintures de tanka et mandalas tibétains de Romio Shrestha, supports visuels à la méditation. Les commentaires de Ian Baker sont une introduction aux concepts-clés et aux déités du bouddhisme tibétain. (28,50€)
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Tao Te King (édition illustrée de calligraphies originales, format poche, reliée)
Lao-tseu – Traduction de Stephen Mitchell – Calligraphies de Ou Yang Jiao Jia
Le Tao Te King, le Livre de la Voie et de la Vertu, écrit au VIe siècle avant J.-C. par Lao-tseu, est un classique de la sagesse chinoise, l’ouvrage fondateur du taoïsme. La superbe traduction de Stephen Mitchell est ici proposée dans un format poche pour l’emmener partout avec soi. Les calligraphies originales de Ou Yang Jiao Jia donnent encore plus de sens et de beauté au texte. L’esprit de Lao-tseu prend forme dans les gestes du calligraphe…(12,90€)
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Le Tao Te King des parents – Sagesse ancienne pour parents d’aujourd’hui
Lao-tseu, William Martin
William Martin réinterprète avec fraîcheur et finesse le Tao Te King pour répondre clairement et directement au plus grand défi d´aujourd´hui: être parents, et propose une alternative revigorante aux livres pratiques qui assènent au lecteur d’innombrables «tu dois» et «il ne faut pas». (14€)
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Le Tao Te King du couple – Sagesse ancienne pour amants d’aujourd’hui
Lao-tseu, William Martin
William Martin, pour qui “La relation d´amour entre deux êtres peut être l´aventure la plus enrichissante et la plus belle récompense qui soit”, réinterprète le Tao Te King de Lao-tseu au profit de la vie à deux. Le Tao Te King du couple va droit à l´essentiel : sans multiplier les règles et les marches à suivre, il propose dans un texte teinté de poésie une réflexion sur l´amour et ce qui importe vraiment au sein d´un couple. (14€)
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Amy Hollowell: Zen and Poetry
For those of you that don’t know, the wonderful Zen teacher who leads zazen every Friday night at Red Earth Centre, is also a wonderful poet! She will be reading from her newly published “Giacommetrics”, alongside renowned poet Alice Notley and Joe Ross tonight Tuesday November 6th 19H00 at Le Bal Café, 6 Impasse de la Défense 75018.Autumn
When autumn comes around, the air begins to dry, leaves fall ;we reflect on time passing, things changing, we let go of what we no longer need.
The capacity (or not) to eliminate and let go is closely associated with the metal element in Chinese medical theory ; holding on to things, stifling grief, and a lack of ability to turn towards new opportunities have a negative effect on this element in our bodies, potentially adversely affecting the lung and large intestine meridians and their associated functions.
Typical dis-ease associated with these meridians include frequent colds, asthma, allergies, and as the lung meridian rules the skin such disorders as rashes, excessive sweating, eczema are also possible; dysfunctions of the large intestine meridian include chronic constipation, diarrhea and other bowel disorders.
Metal element in our lives and bodies is like an interface of exchange with the world around us. If it’s functioning well we feel clear and present, we are able to make clear boundaries, and let go easily and gracefully when needed. We neither cling to our possessions and relationships, nor do we lose them too easily and readily.
This capacity for exchange and energetic clarity impart a vitality to the life force in our bodies, and lays a firm foundation for the immune system. The capacity for oxygenisation from a clear functioning respiratory system is a great boon to the immune system.
Deepening the capacity of the breath and eating slightly more pungent foods (the flavour associated with the autumn) such as onions, garlic, ginger, shallots and mild chillis, help us release the misty fogginess of grief and suppressed emotion.
Practicing yoga at this time of the year, it’s a good time to put a gentle emphasis on chest-opening and gentle backbending postures that release the respiratory system and encourage us to engage more deeply with the world around us through the breath.
The « Resistance » workshop on Saturday 6th October from 2pm – 5.30pm addresses the functioning of the metal element in our lives through shiatsu and yoga. We experience the placement of these meridians in the body through basic shiatsu techniques and look at pressure points that can help alleviate seasonal illnesses. We will practice agentle, accessible yoga sequence aimed to tonify and balance the lung and large intestine meridians.
Call Louisa on 0610 89 76 04 or email redearthcentre@yahoo.com for further information or to make a reservation.
Yoga – a journey into intimacy. Self-inquiry rather than self-improvement.
Many practices can bring us into the present, integrated state of awareness known vaguely as « yoga » (« link, union, connection »). However it is worth noting that the yoga asana method has developed over millenia as a system of movement and breath awareness specifically designed for nourishing consciousness.
You are your body. Your body is the sum total physical expression of all experiences you have ever had. It is an obvious pathway through which to experience the present moment and everything that has brought you to it.
Practice yoga sensitively , honestly, nonviolently, and the inherent interconnectedness that is the basis for intelligent life and evolution is revealed. Nothing is wrong, nothing is imperfect or out of place , or to quote Byron Katie : « Loving what is. EVERYTHING is here to enlighten you « .
Whether you are flexible, stiff, young, old, skinny, fat, in good health or in bad health, in crisis or in calm, in any stage of life you can practice yoga : mindfully, generously making simple movements (for some the only movement possible is the breath – breathe in, breathe out : the basis for life and our only common denominator) and observing , accepting their impacts.
Discover Dynamic Yoga at Red Earth Centre with Louisa Raszyk. Weekly classes, see schedule.
FREE CLASS SUNDAY 30TH SEPTEMBER 11am, Open Day.
Open Day Sun. 30th Sept. 10am – 7pm
FREE CLASSES ALL DAY 10am – 7pm
Come along, bring your friends, total beginners through to advanced students welcome.
Tea, snacks and interesting people in the courtyard all day!
INFO /RESA : 06 10 89 76 04 / redearthcentre@yahoo.com
Red Earth Centre, 235, rue Lafayette Paris 10
10H Shiatsu (Louisa Raszyk)
11H Yoga Dynamique (Louisa Raszyk)
12H Hatha Yoga (Eric Zaoui)
13H Essences de Fleurs du Bush Australien (Louisa Raszyk)
14H Méditation Zen (Amy Hollowell)
15H Yoga prénatal (Tatiana Abbey)
16H Relaxation pour la Naissance (Elizabeth Echlin)
17H Hatha Yoga (Aloys Berdoll)
18H Yoga Irano (Aloys Berdoll)
Welcome!
Welcome to the new blog/site of the Red Earth Centre, that little gem of well-being in Paris ! Here you can find all the up-to-date info for the many classes, treatments and workshops offered at the studio in Paris by Louisa Raszyk and the team at the centre ; and the boutique (expanding each week !) to offer you the best in well-being products, information and treatments. An eclectic blog which aims to inspire, connect, and open up new horizons.
Enjoy !