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New Yoga Classes with Lezlie Ward in Columbus IN

May 14th, 2012 . Posted in Contact Lezlie, Health, Peace, Self-care, Yoga, Yoga Class Schedule | 1 Comment »
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Very Exciting news! I am teaching yoga in Columbus. You can join me for yoga classes at several locations around town.
Zen Fitness Downtown, Franklin and 4th Streets
Total Fitness of Columbus IN on Middle Rd.
Class at my home
Individual Yoga Sessions

    Classes offered at Total Fitness

Monday 11 am- Gentle Yoga
Monday 7:15 pm- Stress-Reducing Yoga
Wednesday 11 am- Yoga with Lezlie

    Classes offered at Zen Fitness

Tuesdays 12:10-12:50 Lunch Bunch Yoga! Join us for a great break from work. You have time to stretch, relax, and get back to work in an hour. sign up at www.myzenfitness.com or drop in. You can also take a healthy sack lunch with you from the studio for $5.

You can also participate in yoga classes at my home. You can call me at (812) 457-1414 to check on the current Yoga at Home schedule.

Finally, remember that you can try yoga as an individual. I am availble to coach beginners into starting a yoga practice for stress reduction or greater flexibility. People also use individual sessions to address therapeutic issues such as back pain, or neck stiffness, or anxiety etc. A final way to take advantage of the one on one attention that you get with an individual yoga session is that ongoing students can tune up their practice and get questions answered, develop a home practice, or check their alignment. The beauty of a personal private yoga session is that it can be whatever will be most helpful and supportive to you.

I am enjoying teaching yoga in Columbus! If you have any questions about my yoga classes, feel free to call me at (812) 457-1414 cell or (812) 376-3330 home.

Hope to see you soon!
Namaste,
Lezlie Ward

Poem: The Keeper of the Pool

May 6th, 2012 . Posted in Poetry | No Comments »
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The Keeper of the Pool
by Lezlie Ward

This strange role of scooper, skimmer of life out of the watery depths.
How is it that some crickets, spiders, frogs climb in here and drown, seeking the water of life yet finding death. What arbitrary instinct chooses which will live and which will die?
And I keeper of the pool, find them, many dead, but some still clinging to life….
What in me takes mercy on spiders and knats that still struggle, have not yet given up.
Even a wasp, scooped out 3 times, each time to stupidly fall back in. Even as I scold him for his bad judgement, I lift him from the water yet again. How can I not?
Does that lack of survival skill deserve death?
Will I kill him later in a spray of Raid?
What perverse disconnect in me will kill the hive, but save one struggling wasp?

I feel a bit like God or Fate as The Keeper of the Pool. Watching mostly detached, as beings strive and swim or sink. Granting Mercy if I happen to turn my attention to this drama of Life and Death at the right time. It was that wasp’s lucky day. But what of the mouse yesterday, placid on the bottom of the pool. Dead while I was not watching.
Do other Keepers of the Pool feel as I do; that the hand of Fate takes shape as a long aluminum pole with a net on the end?
When I became the owner of this pool. I did not know I was keeper of a death trap. I did not expect to find existential grist at the bottom of my pool. I ask myself, ‘Is this batch of water that I keep for our entertainment worth the death it brings?’. Would they have died anyway and so I should ignore them, throw them out as debris from the bottom. Invite the children in to laugh and cool and swim, oblivious to the struggles of others, and the fleeting and fragile nature of Life.

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