Waneta Sunshine Rotary

Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat.

Jim Davis

Americans are incredibly inpatient. Someone once said that the shortest period of time in America is the time between when the light turns green and when you hear the first horn honk.
Jim Rohn

link to the Castlegar Rotary community bingo

The meeting was held on zoom at 7.15am with 5 members present and guest Monse Loteki.

Music: All for one-

• Business
• Thank you from Roll-a-hippo.
• Beavertails at Mazzocchi Park in Fruitvale was a success with us selling out within 1 1/2 hours. Thank you to Pat for doing the work. An article in the Trail times mentioned us. (A link is not available at this time.) Send Ingrid a thank you card for the printing.
• No news yet on Webster winter wonderland. Pat will chase them up.
• signage. What do we want? We have posters from making beaver tails that can be reused.
• Bingo. We are back to in helping in-person. Our date to provide 3 people is March 11th. Joan, Maddy and Juris will go. Graham is also available.
• Adirondack chair project.
• No date yet for the food bank at liberty – likely April 9th
• Camp Koolaree. We will discuss it next week.
• Program – Monse Loteki – yoga and its benefits
• Yoga has 8 limbs. Ethical disciplines, (without using the correct terminology) individual disciplines, postures (which is what we know in the west), breathe, withdrawal of senses, concentration and focus, meditation and then enlightenment. Not linear. In west is seen as a workout. If we truly practice we are using it all the time for all situations. It teaches us how to deal with the fact that everything is transient. It is a practice.
• From Upanishads: “Yoga is when the mind is stilled.” Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, but about detaching and watching the thoughts. Observing thoughts allows you to drop emotional triggers. Become a friend to the mind. The Mindfulness Research Centre in California is showing positive results from their research on the benefits of meditation. Yoga practice does not have to be extreme postures. Every body is different and at different places. Movement is to release energy and helps with sitting still. When we override our unconscious breath it is the start of meditation.
• When teaching she makes the posture fit each body, not forcing the body into the pose. Can use bolsters, straps and props to help get into poses.
• Questions: When we meditate it takes us beyond intellect. We are not just the body or the mind. We are beyond both of them. we do not get rid of our intellect but put it to one side. There are many teachers out there. The smarter we are the more we create resistance to the practice. Start the practice and see where it goes. Make it your own. Just do it.
• Would be willing to do a monthly meditation class on zoom as community service.
• Road clean April 2nd. Meet at Tim’s at 8.30am
• Happy and sad bucks (not) collected. Meeting adjourned at 8.15am