Jane Dobson has announced Angela and Victor will be sliding in a day-long practice at The Yoga Loft in SF on Monday, January 16th as a Benefit for the Hall in Lesvos! It will be 2-6pm ($125) at The Yoga Loft in San Francisco, CA. Contact Jane at 415.626.5638 or info@theloftsf.com
The following day, January 17th, will be another one day workhop in Berkeley sponsored by 4th Street Yoga and Studio Raza at 933 Parker Street in Berkeley. Contact Barbara Voinar at: 415.626.5638 or see both of these new workshop listings on the Workshops Page.

October 2005 - Angela and Victor's workshops continue through September and October in California, Washington DC, Baltimore, Wisconsin. The workshop in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, home area for your webmeister, is just finishing and we have a whole lot of photos. (The thumbnails are pretty quick. The linked pictures are about 1.3 MB each, several seconds over broadband, seven minutes or more each over dial-uup.)

August 2005 - The first year’s Summer Workshops in the new Yoga Hall in Eftalou on the island of Lesvos in Greece are complete and Angela and Victor are traveling again finishing out their workshops in England, Ireland and the United States. Several days ago I received a letter from Angela with a few pictures.

Letter from Angela and Victor...
    Looking out from the terrace upstairs we see these beautiful olive trees, their silver keaves like waves in the sea, moving with the summer breeze.

    From the other side of the terrace we see the sea and the coast of Turkey.

    This photo is similar but taken down at the beach. The open sea to the left is where our sun sets.

    You can lie in the warm water tha bubbles up in the sea in front of the Haman (the little chapel like building that contains the thermal pool) and watch the ‘big red ball” descend over the horizon! Or you can sit under the fig trees at our local Taverna (5 minutes walk from the Yoga Hall) and watch it there with a glass of wine or a plate of stuffed vine leaves!

    The Eftalou Yoga house seems to love people and lots of people came visiting. Besides all our students, almost everyday visitors (local and from abroad) stopped by to see the “beautiful building” that they had heard about! It is a happy house and the energy flows freely through it.

    We held some evening meditations on the terrace upstairs and enjoyed sitting on the warm flagstones and hearing the bird songs and sounds of the sheep bells. It was very hard to leave and now we are in London and I depart for the US tomorrow. This is the last big tour and next year we’ll be “at home” in Eftalou from Aprin to November! Come and see us!

Lots of Love,

The Front Entrance

Guest Studio to left, Yoga Hall on right, Apartment above.

Yoga Hall, ready for this Summer's classes

And classes begin

Angela and Victor's Apartment

View of Eftalou Valley

Meadow and Olive trees behind the Yoga Hall

Olive Tree

Angela is floating with happiness in the new yoga hall.

This Summer's workshops in the new Yoga Hall in Eftalou are possible because of over five years of effort and intention of many people who have participated in helping Angela and Victor bring the new Yoga Hall to fruition, buying Victor's watercolours, hosting benefit workshops, and in many other ways contributing to make this dream real.

DVDs, One Here Now, One on the Way
Angela's beautiful and inspirational "The Feminine Unfolding" is now available in DVD. It is beautiful, inspirational, spiritual, and deeply insightful. If you have not seen it yet, do yourself a kindness.
Angela's second DVD will be out soon. The working title is "Angela's Flow Class". It will be a guided class with special emphasis on "moving the belly", "flowing with the energy", resting and movement within the asanas. Victor's beautiful and illustrative watercolours are included to give extra illustration of the poses.

Victor's Third Yoga Notebook and Galleries
    As the Yoga Hall is underway, more good news is coming on Victor's third Yoga notebook. Ganesha Press, has told us that the book is now back from the printer and ON SALE now. Here is the review from Yoga Journal:
"... an idiosyncratic, uncompromising excursion. Van Kooten's own drawings illustrate dynamic principals in our bodies, our psyches, and the universe. His gift for illustration and penchant for poetic language is evident on every page." -Yoga Journal
And, Ellen Toomey of Ganesha Press tells us that Victor's book is a Finalist in the Independent Publisher Book Awards 2004. See more information about all three of the books in Victor's Yoga Notebook Trilogy
    Also, Victor has completed a new series of watercolours for his Thank-you Gallery. Victor's Galleries have been re-organized into a Ganesha Gallery, and Gallery One and Gallery Two.

Yoga Poetry
    New poems have been added, one from the Women of Wisdom Workshop, and several from Janet Hockfeld. These are added to an earlier poem Angela has sent from the Harbin workshop. This all started when a tall guy with wild hair and an infectious smile handed me two pieces of paper at the Chapel Hill 2003 workshop. And then there is the Ohio Poem from Yellow Springs several years back. Take a look...

Victor's Tea
At the Chapel Hill workshop last year, as he has done often in his travels, Victor brewed up his tea for the participants. Several people asked for the recipe. Here it is.

Background on the Yoga Hall:
    Angela and Victor have purchased just over an acre of land on the island of Lesvos, Greece and have started construction on a yoga hall. You can look the pictures from last month and the previous pictures of the final excavation showing the ancient walls and where the coins and pottery shards were found. Victor has been sending original water colors in appreciation to the support people are giving in this project.

    The Yoga Hall on Lesvos will be a place where many future yogis will be able to go to explore and expand their practice, as well as a home base for Angela and Victor.

Donations, pre-purchases of the Molivos Workshop on Lesvos, elections from Victor's Ganesha Gallery or Gallery 2, or just contributions from your overflow would be welcome.

Contributions can be sent to:
Angela and Victor
c/o Patricia Schneider
1350 President Street
Yellow Springs, OH 45387
Phone: 937-767-7727
Fax: 937-767-7366

Additional News:

June 2005 - The Yoga Hall Opens
April 2005 - Getting Ready for Summer workshops
9-Dec 2004 - Windows and Doors
15-Oct 2004 - Start of Stucco work
14 Aug 2004 - Angela and Victor see the progress
7 May 2004 - The roof is complete
19 Mar 2004 - Roof is started
18 Feb 2004 - Second Floor and Start of Roof / Sidney Wkshp
12 Dec 2003 - Enclosing the First Floor
20 Nov 2003 - First views of the inside of the Yoga Hall
10 Oct 2003 - The First and Second Floors take shape
25 Aug 2003 - The Foundation of the new Yoga Hall
9 July 2003 - Work Begins on the Lesvos Yoga Hall
15 Feb 2003 - Sidney Wkshp & New Yoga Hall Update
25- July 2002 - New Yoga Hall Update - July, 2002
05- June 2002 - New Yoga Hall Update - June, 2002
29- Jan 2002 - New Yoga Hall Update - February, 2002
10- Sept 2001 - New Yoga Hall Update - September, 2001
27- Oct 2000 - New Yoga Hall

-Owen Daly, Webmeister