Awesome Radio Station

Miami has a new and really awesome RADIO STATION!!! i just found it and i have to say it is awesome!!! Finally some good tunes on the RADIO in MIami!!!

107.9... they call it Shake 108  That is a pretty cool number for a station...108!!!

Thanksgiving & Good News, Bad News

There is an old ancient story called “Good News, Bad News.”

So if you’re in the spiritual world, you may have heard these stories.  There’s a Chinese farmer and the farmer has one horse and a strong young son. The son and the horse do all the work on the farm. The horse has the plough and the son does the thing. So all, the whole household relies on the son and the horse. Well, one day the horse jumps the fence and runs away. Now the son is without the horse, the whole village hears about this and the whole village comes over to them and offers them condolences, “Oh my god, it’s so bad, it’s such bad news, I’m so sorry for you, that you lost your horse, oh my gosh.” The farmer says, “Good news, bad news, who knows?”


The next day, the horse comes back and following the horse are five wild mustangs he pulled out of the mountains and they all jumped back in the pen. Now this guy has six horses. A horse is valuable back then. Six horses now. The village hears about it, they come running over to celebrate with him and happy, “Yes, good news, good news, celebration!” And he says, “Good news, bad news, who knows?”

These are wild horses and they have to get broken and have to tamed, right? Taming a wild horse requires breaking the will of the horse. You’re not allowed to be a horse anymore, you’re going to be mine, break the will, they don’t like it at first, and then the son hadn’t broken all five horses. Well one of them throws him really far and breaks. He says, “Good news, bad news, who knows?”

The next day, the army comes to town looking for all able body conscripts to go and fight some stupid war. Well, he isn’t an able body, so the son gets spared his entire life because he had broken his leg the day before.

So you see where we’re going with this? That which what you think might have been the problem, actually a lot of times becomes a blessing or an opportunity. And that which you thought was a blessing or an opportunity sometimes may not be. Things are not easily categorized so we don’t want to make any judgments about good or bad or right or wrong. We just want to experience, experience without judgment.

Have a wonderful, thankful week-
Fred Busch


Brickell Holiday Schedule - Thursday (Thksgv) ONLY 9am/10:30


Friday -ONLY 10:30am (with Fred)


Regular Schedule for WEEKEND

Did you know?

Did you know? Did you know that the most revealing characteristic of the enlightened person is Spontaneity. An enlightened Guru is rarely predictable and lives in the ever unfolding present. The ability to live without patterns and to be vigilantly aware of our freedom is the number one skill we all must practice.

Yoga Safari - New Years Power Yoga Retreat with Fred Busch - Africa Yoga Project Benefit

I am having trouble putting into words just what kind of life changing experience it is when one goes to Africa for the first time. It is not like other place i promise. Africa feels different, more primal, more powerful. Being able to spend time and share experiences with each other as a group and with Maraka Ewoi, Joseph Mboya, and Kwame Nyongo.

Mbobya, Kwame and I all agree that Maraka Ewoi may be possibly one of the greatest men we have ever known. I have known all these guys for over 15 Years and they are our guides!

The way it feels when you are on an actual safari is also something challenging to express. There is a silence out there that is awe inspiring. Sometimes the sounds are just sublime, like listening to the leaves rip off a tree as an elephant pulls down to eat them. Eagles calling from the trees and the grass blows and makes a gentle swaying sound in the wind.

As someone interested in yoga and maybe some bit of social change, it would be hard to go to Kenya with a better group! We travel with our own vegetarian chef named Hadington who has worked in Europe and now lives back home in Nairobi. He is a master chef and caters to all our wishes!

We are visiting and supporting by delivering yoga mats to Africa Yoga Project in Nairobi founded by Paige Elenson. We will get a tour of where they are teaching and maybe even get a sample class with a local teacher!

Our base-camp is in the bush like you can't believe! This lodge was built with money from UNESCO because the owners of this land are native Maasai Warriors who decided to conserve their VAST expanses of land and dedicate to wildlife conservation on private land. This trip and our staying at their lodge (hot showers--nice bathrooms-- nice cabins---not much else except the coolest place you have ever been in your life) is directly supporting their conservation efforts.

So if you want to travel in a way where you have the greatest time in your life with amazing people, with Yoga and amazing vegetarian food, with the ability to really support an amazing organization, and with the ability to help wildlife conservation in Kenya...well then this trip is for you!

you can see the page for our event on facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=148947428506800

I hope i have enticed you! If i am able to sway you to come somehow with us, i have a very strong feeling you will thank me.

if you are pretty interested please email me to fbusch911@gmail.com or just hit 'reply' and leave a phone number and i will call you myself!

blessings!!!

fred

Why do we breathe deep in Yoga?

The reason why we breathe deep in yoga is not because it is correct. The reason we breathe with awareness and deeply is because when our attention is yoked to the breath, the mind can begin to still. We are not interested in a still mind because it is the right technique, but rather because when the mind is still it is inherently blissful.

It is what Patanjali says, Yogas Citta Vrtti Nirodah - Yoga is found in the present moment when the fluctuations of the mind (thinking mind activity) have been suspended.

Taj Mahal at Yoga Retreat

Read the Blog about the Fred Busch India Retreat 2011

There are few words that can express the amazing time we all had together during the first annual Fred Busch India Retreat!

We learned and experienced and shared so much. There are many entries and some great pictures on the blog we created dedicated to share our experiences.

http://therupeeman.tumblr.com/

We are already scheduling the 2012 India Yoga Retreat to Rishikesh and Manali in the Himalayas.
Check it out! Our team, just like my team in Kenya for the upcoming New Years Retreat, is world class. We travel on the ground and with the people but with nice accommodations and really experience the countries we travel.

any questions you can email to fredb@miamiyoga.com