This CFH Update contains info on:

• Cracking the Codes to Weight Loss Nov 8
• White Tantric Yoga offsite Nov 15
• Integration Yoga Latest Developments and FREE Q and As
• Meditation to MAKE THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE!

Our good wishes to you and hope you are enjoying this historic week.
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Reminders!

Cracking the Codes to Weight Loss
Saturday November 8

10–11.30 AM yoga for healthy weight with Helena Raghubir
$18 or $12 with your class pass
no pre-registration needed for yoga

12–3 PM Cracking the Codes to Weight Loss Seminar
with Kristin Volk Funk of New Health Visions, www.newhealthvisions.com
$35 pre-registered, $40 at the door.
mgmt@centerforhappiness.com to register or with questions.
 
WHITE TANTRIC YOGA
OFFSITE event Saturday November 15
Day of meditation to clear the subconscious mind
All levels welcome. Jen@centerforhappiness.com to register or with questions

Yoga schedule will run as usual onsite at CFH on 11/15.
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Integration Yoga, a Global Discussion and Experience of Yoga for Students and Teachers
begins January 2009 and runs one weekend a month for the whole year!

Give yourself career and personal development in yoga through an innovative program
that teaches you how similar and how different yoga forms are, and how to use them.

Teaching certification optional. Learn how yoga forms influence one anther,
when not to combine forms, and how to create a personal practice and class that REALLY work!

Latest developments in INTEGRATION Yoga
Helena Raghubir will TEAM-TEACH the entire first and last weekends of the program
Unique Yogi Bhajan legacy teachings presented throughout the program to encourage students to develop a relationship with him and his approach to yoga
Teachers familiar with multiple yoga forms will offer a cross-disciplinary approach to yoga throughout the program
Helena Raghubir will teach a yoga class EVERY PROGRAM DAY will lead discussion every Sat/Sun of the program as scheduled
Each month, the 4–5 PM Friday teacher certification training hour will feature a discussion of Sun Salutations forms A, B, C, D; question/answer; and many discussion topics with Helena Raghubir and other wonderful IY teachers
DEEP DISCOUNT extended through November 30 on Integration Yoga, and yes, you can pay with credit card!

Contact Jen@centerforhappiness.com for details or to register.

FREE Q and As for Integration Yoga
Friday Nov 22, 7.15 PM
Saturday, Dec 6, 11.45 AM
Sunday, Jan 4, 12.15 PM

If attending the Q and A, you can take the yoga class beforehand for FREE!

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Whatever our political inclinations,
we have seen this week that the IMPOSSIBLE is POSSIBLE.
Wahe Guru.

To bring that inspiring energy of making the impossible possible into your life even more,
we recommend the Ganesha meditation to remove obstacles.

This meditation combines the sounds of the mantra “Sat Nam,” I am truth, with the sounds of the healing mantra,
Ra Ma Da Sa Sa Say So Hung. Sing as in Kirtan Kriya or chant in monotone.
 
Four cycles with the thumb tips pressing the
Index fingers                Long fingers                  Ring fingers                   Little fingers
Sa                                Ta                                Na                               Ma
Ra                                Ma                               Da                                Sa
Sa                                Say                              So                                Hung
Eyes one-tenth open, focused at tip of nose, backs of wrists on knees. 11-­31 minutes.
To end, inhale, hold breath 20-­30 seconds, and shake every part of body. Repeat two additional times.
 End with one minute of silence and stillness, eyes one-tenth open and focused at tip of nose.

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Blessings to you from
The Center for Happiness
2645 SE Fourth Street
Minneapolis, MN  55414
www.centerforhappiness.com
CFH Cellular: 952-715-8982
NEW CFH LANDLINE! 612-208-0697
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
–His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Saturday November 1, 11.45 AM–12.15 PM
FREE Meet and Greet with Deb and Ajai
Deb and Ajai will be “working the room” at CFH during the same window of time.

Deb Saul of Edina Realty will answer your real estate questions FOR FREE and help
you strategize about how to approach realty options in these changing times.
Her website is www.deborahsaul.com and email is deborahsaul@edinarealty.com.

Ajai Singh Khalsa will offer the following FREE presentation with time for questions.
Uncertain economic times raise question that most of us never have to face:  What happens if I can’t pay my mortgage? 
What can a credit card company do to me if I stop paying?  What are my options if there is simply not enough money
to pay all my debts?  How do I prioritize my debts?  How can I stop being afraid to answer the phone?

Local attorney Ajai Singh Khalsa (formerly Mike Hellwich), has specialized debtor/creditor law and bankruptcy for over
twelve years, helping individuals, families and small businesses in financial crisis.  Ajai will answer your questions 
and discuss how to plan for, and survive, and recover from a financial crisis. 

Ajai Sigh Khalsa and the Khalsa Law Office, PA is located in Northeast Minneapolis and provides general commercial
and bankruptcy counsel to individuals and small business.  To learn more contact the Khalsa Law office or visit its
website at www.khalsalawoffice.com.

Contact info: (651) 206-9762 phone, (612) 435-1405 (fax), email ajai@khalsalawoffice.com

Notice Required by Federal Law: The Khalsa Law Office, PA is a debt relief agency pursuant to Federal Law §524 of Title 11 of the US Code and proudly provides legal assistance and help to people filing for bankruptcy relief under the Bankruptcy Code

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Sunday, 11/2, 12:15–12:45 PM
Ivonne Nelson of Enliiven Homes will offer a FREE mini-seminar

Intro to harmonious living spaces according to Vastu Shastra:
Ancient Indian science of harmonious design. Men and women welcome.

Looking to renovate/remodel, purchase a home and/or harmonize your existing space
according to spiritual and natural laws? This short intro on feng shui, Indian style (Vastu)
can assist you in creating the home of your dreams. Learn tips on creating a harmonious,
calming and centered home, how to maximize the flow of prosperity and abundance within a space,
and basics of Vastu Feng Shui design.

Questions or for more information, contact Ivonne, 612-237-2500, inelson@therealtyhouse.com

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Helena Raghubir writes a message to you in closing
My dear friends and colleagues. Blessings to you in these changing times.

I am thinking often of my father lately, one of the great influences of my life.
He is a pediatrician and spent his life helping children with birth defects, epilepsy,
and traumatic brain injuries. He worked to help the kids’ families, too, and since
he worked with indigent populations, he was often helping families manage
issues such as poverty so dire that they didn’t have a phone to call the hospital
to schedule appointments. It’s a whole different ball game than working in an
affluent suburban clinic, and with very different solutions.

Dad is mostly retired now, but still works as researcher and is called as an
expert witness for the prosecution in child abuse cases. I have to be honest
that I cannot imagine the strength it would take to stand in the witness box
for that kind of testimony, even once.

I see greatness of character, ethics, and accomplishment in my father.
I think one of the things that contributed to his greatness was his Quaker
education. Quakers believed in reaching out to those perceived as the enemy.
So in the years following World War II, my father’s community in Baltimore
encouraged their kids to have pen pals in Germany.

When you think back to the 1940s, if you lived through those years or studied them,
you remember that Germans were absolutely demonized by the press, by the American
cultural climate, and by politicians. Germans were seen as the worst extremists, similar
to the devils created by our current press, political climate, and politicians. This view was
not limited to those who participated in or knew about the horrifying political atrocities committed on
German soil but was extended to all people who happened to have German nationality. I’ll leave it
to you to draw your own parallels in today’s world. We certainly have created many
public distortions of perception in the last few years.

But the Quakers looked at individual German people as human beings who needed Friends,
and helped their children to connect with individual German Jewish and Christian children.

The 1940s were not an easy time to be a German. The country was ravaged by two world
wars, and many people were starving. An appalling number had died in the Holocaust and many
were trying to recover from staggering losses of family members. Larger cities were in ruins,
some of which in the east would not be fully repaired until the 1990s or even later.
Much German trade was stagnant, so resources were limited.
I remember a German friend born in Nuremberg in the mid-1940s telling me that she did not
know what a banana was until the 1960s, when she saw an American soldier eating one at a military base.

My father had a pen pal from Berlin in the 1940s and ’50s, Klaus, to whom he sent letters, 
care packages, and clothing. Klaus was a little smaller than Dad, so we have endearing
photos of my father wearing a winter jacket one year, and Klaus wearing it the next.
Chocolate was a rare and celebrated treat for Klaus to receive from America, too.

Klaus and my dad then lost touch, but their mothers stayed in sporadic communication
until my grandmother died in the year I was born. Klaus and my father reconnected in the
late 1980s and still write to each other now, in their seventies, sharing updates on health
and news of the children and grandchildren.They have met in person in Germany and in the
United States several times over the last two decades.

An enemy became a life-long connection of friendship.

Most of us have our enemies. Who is the enemy to you? Is it someone who votes differently?
Manages work differently? Perceives you differently than you would like to be seen?
Takes a role in your family that you don’t like? Practices a different religion?
Even someone who approaches yoga differently?

Sometimes, we feel justified in having enemies and loudly proclaim things like,
“I can’t believe anyone would be so stupid as to want that person in office!”
Sometimes, our enemies are our secret perceptions. We can barely admit to ourselves,
clandestinely, that we mistrust people of a certain race or background.
But whoever our enemies are, we can change the relationship by changing our behavior.

I invite you to reach out to someone from your enemy group this week as a Friend.
Who knows, it might even make you Great.

And please vote on Tuesday, November 4. The Center for Happiness is a non-partisan
organization, but we strongly support your right to representation and to the democratic
process. If you are an employer, consider giving your employees flex time on Tuesday
to get to the polls (and go early yourself as an example!). If you have an elderly person,
first-time voter, or handicapped person in your family or acquaintance, connect with him/her
over the weekend to be sure s/he knows where to go to vote and has transportation.

Blessings to you, and remember that you are all welcome at the Center for Happiness.

Helena Raghubir
CEO and Founder
Director of Education

The Center for Happiness
2645 SE Fourth Street
Minneapolis, MN  55414
www.centerforhappiness.com
mgmt@centerforhappiness.com
CFH Cellular: 952-715-8982
NEW CFH LANDLINE! 612-208-0697

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These restorative classes focus on:

• Breath techniques to relax and energize
• Yoga postures, pose modifications and prop usage
• Easy techniques to release fear, anxiety and tension
• Mantras and the healing power of sound
• Meditation
• Deep relaxation

WHEN: Sundays from 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Classes are Free of charge

WHO: Anyone living with cancer, including family, friends and care providers

WHY: To cultivate healing, relieve stress and release fear

No previous yoga experience necessary

All classes can be taken on a mat or seated in a chair

Drop-in once or attend regularly - whatever you like!

Questions? Call (612) 940-6510

Erika Peterson is a Certified Kundalini Yoga Teacher, holds a BA in Communications, is pursing a MS in Psychology and has worked in marketing and communications for over 10 years. “I started practicing Sivananda Yoga in 2000 and was immediately taken by yoga’s healing power. Several years later, I accompanied a friend with advanced brain cancer to a series of Hatha Yoga classes at Gilda’s Club Chicago and began to understand yoga’s impact on a much grander scale. Yoga has the capacity to offer unconditional grace, compassion and love to the mind, body and spirit. In 2006, I had the privilege of taking the Kundalini Yoga Advanced Training Program. Kundalini Yoga’s precision, dynamism and adaptability make for the perfect yoga experience - no matter the age or life stage. It is an honor and privilege to share the healing power of this sacred science with individuals living with cancer in the Twin Cities.”

Gilda’s Brochure
 

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Class Schedule September 2 to December 31st, 2008

View the Current Schedule (PDF)

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We are delighted to premiere INTEGRATION YOGA , a unique opportunity to study, explore, and compare yoga styles as a teacher or student in a Kundalini-based program of educational enrichment. This program features instruction and leadership from Helena Raghubir every day of the program and is a proprietary product only offered at the Center for Happiness!

TREAT YOURSELF…to one evening and one day a month for an entire year of health, exploration, learning, and growth… and a rare opportunity to INTEGRATE yoga styles in experience and study as you go deeper with your yoga experience and knowledge in several disciplines. This program honors specific requests from CFH students for a program of study that lasts a full year and respects your busy schedules with more reasonable weekend time commitments!

INTEGRATION YOGA blends Kundalini, Hatha, Iyengar, Vinyasa, Fitness, and Naam Yogas with contemplative awareness (Yoga Healing), Western Anatomy, and sound therapy yoga. This program literally has never existed before!

INTEGRATION YOGA offers students to chance to GO GREEN! in their yoga practice! Support our amazing local teachers!
Featuring, honoring, and supporting the rich excellence of our local yoga teachers, INTEGRATION YOGA will amaze you with the varied and exceptional resources available in your own backyard. Helena Raghubir, the program lead, is passionate to support the teaching talent we have here at home, for your great benefit as students.

Feel great knowing you’re “shopping local and organic” in your yoga studies. This is yoga with the instructors who can teach to and from the perspective of our home base. No fuss, no fancy divas, just wholesome and excellent “yoga with the face of the Midwest !”

INTEGRATION YOGA offers lots of student support, small classes, and class size limits to support students in connecting with teachers.
INTEGRATION YOGA respects each distinct tradition of yoga, and provides you with the opportunity to understand, integrate, and use each modality of yoga appropriately, safely, and with maximum effectiveness in your personal practice and for your students.

And you may not even BELIEVE the pricing we were able to create for this exceptional-quality program. In creating INTEGRATION YOGA, we worked to honor the CFH student request for a program that fit your budget. The great rates for INTEGRATION YOGA that we’re offering you, and the outstanding breath, depth, and skill-level of instruction of the program…well, let’s just say that an educational opportunity of this caliber at an impressively low rate like this will not come around every day!

Read more in the attachments, and please forward the word to your friends and colleagues who might be interested in this special opportunity.

Remember to register soon if interested to secure a place in our limited first-come, first-serve sign up. Once class sizes for INTEGRATION YOGA are met, registrants will be placed on a wait list. Jen@centerforhappiness.com can provide you with registration details, and more info will be posted at www.centerforhappiness.com in the blog section.

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Whole Relationship Coaching is not just for spouses. It works with self, couples, organizations,
and families. Every significant area of your life can be positively impacted by this innovative, new system.

Understanding how to bring health to your relationships is one of the most powerful skills a human being can attain, and it’s within your reach. YOU can learn to be a master builder of stronger and happier relationships through the tools of Whole Relationship Coaching.

Reduce conflict, tension, and confusion… Increase ease, communication, and solutions… You can begin today to enjoy healthier relationships in every area.

Contact Jason today to set up an initial complementary consultation.

Developing Self

Enhancing Couples

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Healing Beauties feature ALL precious and semi-precious stones with sterling silver clasps. No “regular” beading! Stones are chosen for their synergistic properties. Finished pieces are bathed in primal sounds for elevation (mantra) for up to two weeks, 24 hours a day. Using sophisticated healing techniques, Helena Raghubir seals a blessing or intent into the creations.

SPECIAL FEATURES
Helena Raghubir offers you the opportunity to co-create a custom Healing Beauties or Healing Earth piece with her, tailored to your needs, style, and desires. Complementary consultation for custom work.

Your Healing Beauties treasure will remember its “sealed in” healing intent. Helena Raghubir would also be glad to seal in a personalized intent of your very own to every piece you purchase.

Healing Beauties Jewelry

HEALER’S PIECES
By appointment only, arrange a time to experience our special selection of Healer’s jewelry pieces that support those who teach, meditate and practice healing. Email us to arrange a complementary viewing of these unique pieces that are only available by private viewing.

Healers Beauties Jewelry

Visit our store or email mgmt@centerforhappiness.com to learn more!

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Innovative Healing with Helena Raghubir

Helena Raghubir, CFH Director and CEO, is also our primary resident healer.

She offers unique healing in Sat Nam Rasayan contemplative awareness, Cellular Activation, Disconnection from the Collective Shadow, and innovative energy work.

Healing treatments with Helena Raghubir are $125 per session.
Sessions last 45-75 minutes based on processes used.

Cellular Activation/Disconnection from the Collective Shadow treatments with Helena Raghubir are $45 for 20 minutes. These are a performed in a series of treatments.

Helena Raghubir’s rate for off-site consultations is $150/hour.

To schedule or with questions, contact mgmt@centerforhappiness.com or 651.442.3538

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