**NOTICE:  Yoga Day & the Labyrinth Walk Postponed!**

This event has been postponed until Saturday, February 6th due to the prediction of winter weather for Greensboro. Please contact Mona Flynn at LifeFitYoga@bellsouth.net or call 580-5833 to reconfirm you class reservation or to be put on the reservation waiting list.  Thank you.

If you answered "yes" to any of these, then plan now to join us on Saturday, January 30 here at Christ Church for Yoga Day, USA 2010 and the next Labyrinth Walk.  

As we begin a New Year, we are offering a wonderful opportunity, in fact two wonderful opportunities, to have a new start in 2010. On January 30 our own Mona Flynn, along with our Labyrinth Committee, will offer several opportunities to experience the discipline of yoga along with the discipline of walking the labyrinth. Both disciplines or practices are a chance to make space for God in our lives by joining our mind, body, heart and spirit -- that is to be "fit" from the inside out -- to be open to God's call both for the inward and outward journey.

The following quote from Henri J.M. Nouwen speaks to this wonderful opportunity for making space for God in our lives by choosing a spiritual discipline for the New Year.

"...But in the spiritual life, the word discipline means 'the effort to create some space in which God can act.' Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on."

Schedule of Events

On Saturday, January 30, three yoga classes will be offered in Room 216 as part of this opportunity to observe Yoga Day, USA and to support the Christ Church Labyrinth Ministry. The church entrance for each class is on Wedgedale Avenue. Parking is on Christ Church Road, between Holden Road and Wedgedale Avenue.  *Please arrive 15 minutes prior to class time for registration!

• 9:00-9:50am  Hip & Shoulder Openers for Adults
• 10:00-10:50am  Back Care for Adults
• 11:00-11:50am  Kids Yoga (ages 6-12)

Down the hall in our gym, our own handmade canvas labyrinth will be set up and a member of the Labyrinth Committee, Anne Ralls Brackett, will be on hand to offer meditation and guidance for those who choose to walk and pray after each class.

Each adult and child attending a class is asked to make a minimum donation of $10.00 that will go to support our church’s Labyrinth Ministry. This will be the 4th year that proceeds from Yoga Day, USA have been designated to this ministry. Money raised over the past three years, along with a Circle #3 donation in memory of Carol Killian, enabled us to buy the materials to make our canvas labyrinth in the fall of 2009. It was dedicated on Sunday, October 19, 2009.

Please contact Mona Flynn to register and sign-up for specific classes at LifeFitYoga@bellsouth.net or call 580-5833. Donations can be made to CUMC. Each person is asked to wear comfortable clothes and bring a yoga mat and blanket. Light refreshments will be served. We look forward to this NEW YEAR...this NEW DAY!