 We've got a spectacular couple weeks coming up! Our LoveYourBrain donation class will rock out on Wednesday, March 29 with me, Peri, & Dean Jeffreys leading the charge! We are suggesting a $10 donation to support LYB's work with traumatic brain injuries in communities across America; any amount will be gratefully accepted. If you have the ability to give a little more to support someone else who may not have the funds to contribute that would be awesome. NO ONE WILL BE TURNED AWAY WITHOUT ABILITY TO OFFER A DONATION. So please know you are welcome. We are simply offering those with the ability to donate a chance to give in a way they are inspired. Just because things may be 'free' for people to participate does not mean they are without cost. So let us offer our full hearts, a cash or check donation, and a bright beautiful practice dedicated to those who have been impacted by TBI and their care givers. This is a great opportunity to live into the 'DO good' portion of our mantra. Your gifts are valuable. You are valuable. Please show up & if you do.... you are also guaranteed to 'feel better.' This Embody movement works, you just gotta work with it! :) On April 5 Peri will be leading our community gathering while I am on spring break with my family. Please keep our spirit churning and our lights burning... I need you all to hold space for me in our circle of care. Because we are a community of gentleness, service and love. All goodness, dana
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March 29 - Love Your Brain Donation Class When: Wednesday, March 29th from 6:30-8pm Where: EmbodyGR Weekly Gathering Sign up HERE!!! April 5, 2017 Who: YOU! And you peeps! What: yoga, meditation, & service Where: FSC- Social Hall When: Wed. April 5, 2017 @ 6:30-8:00pm Why: To be community & part of the 'feel better do good' movement! April 28 - Function is Fashion Show & Luncheon When: Friday, April 28th from 11:30am - 1pm Where: Watermark Country Club What: Fundraiser for EmbodyGR Find more info or sign up HERE!!! Volunteers Needed! Volunteers are the heart of the Revive & Thrive Project and we need a few more helping hands. Volunteering with the Revive & Thrive is very rewarding and we will provide you with training and gratitude. Packaging Supervisor: Help us package our beautiful, delicious and nutritious meals and get them ready for delivery. Good organizational skills and the ability to work with teens helpful. Every Wednesday from 3:00 – 6:15 pmat Park Church. Free parking! Delivery Angel Driver: Deliver meals each Wednesday to our cancer patients on our healing meals program. In particular, we need a delivery angel driver in the Wyoming and NW area. Meals are picked up at Park Church each week and delivered to 1-3 homes. Prep Team: Join us in the kitchen at Park Church on Wednesdays from 12:30 – 3:30 to help prep/cook our healthy and delicious meals. Free parking and the opportunity to learn/share great recipes. Administrative Assistant: Help with administrative tasks as needed. Contact Wendy at[email protected] or 616-581-4103.
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 We have once again made it though our Michigan winter! The sun shines, the days are longer- oh yeah! You gotta join us this week at EmbodyGR because you will receive a special bonus! The fabulous Mimi Ray will be co-teaching with Dana to continue the month journey to raise awareness about traumatic brain injury. Together we will share the importance of yoga & meditation as a path to healing from brain injury, especially in a mindful, supportive community setting. And be sure to mark your calendars for our EmbodyGR & Love Your Brain Donation Class #mindfulmarch on March 29! We cannot wait to share the love with those who need support during a difficult transition in life from pre to post brain injury. Show up for you. Show up for each other. Show up to share the love for your brain and for others! Immediately following our gathering some of us will be heading to the Pyramid Scheme for the Shut Down Line 5 event. There is a $7.00 charge that is being donated to the efforts to protect our Great Lakes. The details are below. Hope to see you :) Spring love, dana  March 22, 2017 Who: YOU & all your people What: yoga, meditation, & service Where: FSC- Social Hall When: Wed. March 22, 2017 @ 6:30-8:00pm Why: To love your brain and each other! Upcoming EventsMarch
March 22 - Shut It Down: A Line 5 Awareness Show When: Wednesday, March 22nd from 8pm-11:55pm Where: The Pyramid Scheme What: The benefit concert is aimed to inform attendees about the dangers surrounding Line 5. Donations will be given to Food & Water Watch Michigan and Kent County Water Conservation for Line 5 campaign materials and other uses as needed! March 29 - Love Your Brain Donation Class When: Wednesday, March 29th from 6:30-8pm Where: EmbodyGR Weekly Gathering Sign up HERE!!! April April 28 - Function is Fashion Show & Luncheon When: Friday, April 28th from 11:30am - 1pm Where: Watermark Country Club What: Fundraiser for EmbodyGR Find more info or sign up HERE!!! Volunteers Needed! Volunteers are the heart of the Revive & Thrive Project and we need a few more helping hands. Volunteering with the Revive & Thrive is very rewarding and we will provide you with training and gratitude. Packaging Supervisor: Help us package our beautiful, delicious and nutritious meals and get them ready for delivery. Good organizational skills and the ability to work with teens helpful. Every Wednesday from 3:00 – 6:15 pmat Park Church. Free parking! Delivery Angel Driver: Deliver meals each Wednesday to our cancer patients on our healing meals program. In particular, we need a delivery angel driver in the Wyoming and NW area. Meals are picked up at Park Church each week and delivered to 1-3 homes. Prep Team: Join us in the kitchen at Park Church on Wednesdays from 12:30 – 3:30 to help prep/cook our healthy and delicious meals. Free parking and the opportunity to learn/share great recipes. Administrative Assistant: Help with administrative tasks as needed. Contact Wendy at [email protected] or 616-581-4103.  Tribe of mindfulness, With #mindfulmarch upon us, I want each of us to consider why we should bother to focus on brain injury awareness if we personally haven't experienced a traumatic brain injury. There are lots of reasons. This week at EmbodyGR we will learn more about TBI, watch a video about Love Your Brain, and discuss the importance of brain functionality in our daily lives. We will pay attention to our habitual thought patterns. We will unpack the fact that our thoughts shape our reality. We will LOVE our brains by using the power of our minds to improve the quality of our lives by reframing what we choose to focus upon. Individually we will create intentions (affirmations) from a state of positivity and put them into our meditation & yoga practices. At the end of the gathering we will create affirmation cards together at our new "Affirmation Station." What is an 'affirmation station' you may ask? Well, first an "affirmation" is declaring something to be true. And the affirmation station is an inspiration I had this weekend at a Street Yoga training in Flint. I had the vision for an art space in the social hall each week to design affirmation cards for yourself as well as for others. And we will make it so this week using paper, markers, crayons, our hearts, and various creative tools, to create a more positive world for ourselves and others.  On these cards we will be declaring all goodness- limitless possibility, love, compassion, truth, justice.... all things that wire our brains for amazingness while inspiring our lives in a positive direction. We can keep them for ourselves, share them with others, and we will even send them to community partners that may be incarcerated, in rehabilitation or homebound. We will start with a bundle of affirmation cards for the Love Your Brain community! I am excited to see where this project leads :) Bring your heart, your friends, and any art supplies you would might have to donate. The hardest part is showing up & you will be glad you did! Mindfully yours, dana  March 15, 2017 Who: YOU & all your people What: yoga, meditation, & service Where: FSC- Social Hall When: Wed. March 15, 2017 @ 6:30-8:00pm Why: To live a life of positivity!
 Upcoming Events! March March 29 - Love Your Brain Donation Class When: Wednesday, March 29th from 6:30-8pm Where: EmbodyGR Weekly Gathering Sign up HERE!!! April April 28 - Function is Fashion Show & Luncheon When: Friday, April 28th from 11:30am - 1pm Where: Watermark Country Club What: Fundraiser for EmbodyGR Find more info or sign up HERE!!!   “Everything is created twice, first in the mind and
then in reality.” ~ Robin S. Sharma  Greetings tribe! First off, I just have to say our 3 year celebration of EmbodyGR ROCKED! So much gratitude to Janga for sharing their music & each of you for sharing your hearts! Cannot wait to see what this next year holds. Remember... “We are the light bringers, the magic makers, the world shifters, the game shakers. WE challenge you, break you open, uplift & expand you. We don’t let you play small with your life. These heartbeats are your people. We are your tribe.”  Moving into March & into Spring... it will be a mindful one! EmbodyGR is partnering with the national organization Love Your Brain (LYB) for brain injury awareness month. They are a nonprofit that aims to improve the quality of life for people affected by traumatic brain injury through yoga & meditation. 3.2-5.3 million people in the US are currently living with a TBI-related disability. On Wednesday, March 28 we are offering a donation class for LYB led by myself, Peri Jill Phillips & local teacher/lululemon ambassador Dean Jeffrey. It will be during our regular weekly gathering time with an extra kick of goodness. Please sign up at the eventbrite link to reserve your space. We will also sell tickets and take donations at the door. I know finances can be an issue for people and do not want to veer from our weekly gatherings to be a free offering. If you cannot offer money, bring your full heart & offer your practice as your gift. If you can pay more than the suggested $10 donation, please give more for another. During March we will learn more about our personal mind/body connection, our own brains, and how we can be more mindful & skillful utilizing our super computers between our ears to create lives we LOVE while making the world better for others. Sound good? Well, you gotta show up to get the goodness. And bring a friend because the more yoga, meditation, & service there is, the better off we will all be! Mindfully yours, dana Love your brain  March 29, 2017 Who: YOU & all your people What: yoga, meditation, & service Where: Fountain Street Church Social Hall When: Wed. March 29, 2017 @ 6:30-8:00pm Why: To feel better, do good! For more on "Love your brain" and to sign up, Click Here. Exciting and energizing events coming soon!  March March 29 - Love Your Brain Donation Class When: Wednesday, March 29th from 6:30-8pm Where: EmbodyGR Weekly Gathering To learn more about "Love Your Brain" CLICK HERE!!! April April 28 - Function is Fashion Show & Luncheon When: Friday, April 28th from 11:30am - 1pm Where: Watermark Country Club What: Fundraiser for EmbodyGR Find more info or sign up HERE!!!  “Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different; enjoying the present without holding on when it changes (which it will); being with the unpleasant without fearing it will always be this way (which it won’t).” ~ James Baraz |
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