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*NEW SERVICE: Research and information assistance on yogic perspectives for you! Do you have a specific issue with which we can help you? We offer on-line or telephone assistance. Email your specific question or issue, with your telephone number and best time to call you. We will call or email you any questions to make sure we are clear on what you are seeking. We will research your question and provide an answer on what yogic practices and methodologies recommend. See Appropriate Health Care Professionals: We are not physicians, psychotherapists or medical care professionals. We are not a substitute in any way for your health support staff. We may find supplementary information for your issue from a yogic perspective, that is all. We are experienced yoga instructors who will find information to help you with your question. If you have serious physical issues or injuries, mental, emotional or any type of serious issues, please see your health care professional. We are here as instructors of yoga, offering what wisdom the ancients had on your specific issues, and sometimes our personal interpretations of things. Submission: sp Your query must be submitted and accepted, and initial payment received, before we begin work on it. We may not be able to accept your query due to time constraints – we receive many queries at times and are unable to handle them all. It may be out of our area of expertise, require a professional, or be in an area we do not cover. At the current time we are able to accommodate more requests. Please submit Queries to: elena@focalpointyoga.com Questions we can address may be in many categories: - physical (“how do I stretch my calves”) - emotional (“what yoga techniques address sudden fear?” – breathing, etc.), mental (“how do I draw on my meditation techniques to slow my thoughts enough to see the inaccuracies?”) - spiritual/philosophical (“how did the ancients say we can become enlightened” or “do I have to stop listening to rock music and dancing if I want to live the life of a yogi and find inner peace?” “does non-violence mean I can’t defend myself if attacked?”) - lifestyle questions (“how do I lead the life of a yogi in today’s day and age?” or “how do I eat in a healthy yogic manner?”) - developing your own personal practice (“where do I fit it into my day? do I need to devote hours to it? what should I do in my practice?”) - and many other areas such as coping with difficult people, relationships, letting go of attachment to loss, learning to choose how to respond to situations rather than simply react to them, asanas known to help with physical issues like Sciatica, low back problems, Non Denomination Spiritual Guidance to help you find your own connection to a divine or sense of something greater than yourself. Your question and information will be completely confidential between you and the researcher, and we are comfortable handling sensitive topics such as religion, sexuality, family problems, food issues, self-esteem, physical topics not often discussed in our culture (issues with gas in classes, etc.). You can feel comfortable and at ease with your researcher, knowing you will not be judged, your question will be taken seriously, and everything will be confidential. Billing: We focus on your issue and devote time to an appropriate response to you, through research, seeking advice from gurus, and contemplation. If we accept your question, we will find what information we can on it. We cannot fully answer all questions, we can only guide and provide what information we research and discover to you. We charge $35 per hour for this service, minimum charge $35 to be paid in advance. If we cannot find any pertinent date to your issue, we will refund $17.50, because our researchers are still paid and will have done work for you, even if no answer was found. We request the maximum you are willing to pay for this service also. Some items take over 1 hour and we can stop at 1 hour if that is all you want or continue if you would like a more thorough response. You will receive a call or email if we believe your item will go over whatever we estimated initially. We will provide a partial response (a 1 hour response) until we receive full payment for our time, and then you will receive a thorough response from us. We charge $35 minimum for 1 hour, prepaid. After that, we charge $35 per hour, billed in increments of 30 minutes (90 minutes would be $52.50, 2 hours would be $70, etc.) and we average up to the nearest half an hour, within reason. Clarifying your initial query is not billed but please be respectful of our time. Time spent on billing questions is not charged. Time is charged for research, if you call or write with additional questions or clarifications, consolidation of information, and a written or verbal report to you. We are extremely ethical and generous with our time, and will not charge you for any time we are not working diligently on your question. We do need you to know that we cannot answer all questions to everyone’s satisfaction, or you may not like the information and answers you receive. We are not “yes” men. We will honestly provide the information our research gathers and our experience has given us. We prefer you to know this in advance, although our experience is that people are delighted with our service. Declining Queries: We may not be able to answer some questions, either because the topic is best addressed by a medical professional, beyond our skills, is a topic we do not cover, or because our schedules are not conducive to devoting time to research at that moment. If we cannot address your issue we will notify you. Please submit Queries to: elena@focalpointyoga.com Regardless of topic or question, please use Subject Line: Yoga Research |
