Luminous Lotus~

Okay, so it has been a while since my last post. It has been busy with friends coming in from out of town for a visit, a teacher training with Darren and Noah, another friend staying with me and my family during the training, and a surprise visit from my sister who lives in Denver. Even this weeks has been full. I taught on Sunday following the teacher training and it felt great. My Sunday group has really grown in size but also keeps growing together. It is a special class all because of the people. Anyway, I shared with them my experience and the realization I had at the end of the TT, which was my theme for the day. Let me share... During the training, I learned that I knew a lot but that there is still so much to learn. I got some great guidance from Noah during our group teaching sessions about just remembering to pause, breathe, and see if the directions are being received by the students. Also, just remembering to walk around in order to observe the room, the group ...

And this is what I learned from class tonight... or this is what is on my mind tonight. Transitions always require a period of adjustment,  adjustment to a new energetic environment, a new rhythm, a new feeling, a new way.  Along with the morphing of things on the outside comes some subtle or not so subtle changes on the inside.  Resistance is not uncommon especially when we expect things to go the way we know.   I think that getting to that place where the magic happens is not always easy or smooth.  In fact, at times, it can feel quite the opposite. I think the key to a graceful transition is a sincere willingness and openness in the process of  the experience.   But, as the word transition implies, the changing of form and/or moving from one plane or place to the next can bring up a lot of emotions.   Sometimes at the beginning of new things or in the middle of the moment when things feel still is when the impatience shows up. The emotions rise to the surface and the clarity of th...

This Life is such a gift. Don't waste a single minute of it!

  Perseverance   is the quiet voice in your heart that tells you to keep going despite the fact that the voice in your head says to run the other direction. Stay the course or be courageous enough to create a new path. Create a new path that has not been traveled before because it just may be that that is what you are meant to do.  Just keep going.  Continue to go in the direction you feel intuitively drawn to go and know that you don't need to know all the details. What you need to know for the next step will come when the time is right.  There is a real art to learning to maintain true faith and trusting in the possibility that all things will fall into place and all that you really need will arrive precisely on time.   This is no easy time with the world I know feeling slightly wobbly and in limbo.  Odd thing is, I feel steady. Even with the heavy energy and uncertainty in the air, my heart feels light and my outlook positive. My practice and connection to Spirit has a lot to...

The Invitation It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing. It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive. It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon.  I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it, or fix it. I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human. It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to k...

Paul Muller Ortega often gives a teaching about the grace in the learning process. He reminds us that while we, as student's, are held in the grace of the teacher, the teacher is held in the grace of the student.  The above piece is copied from my teacher Christina Sell's blog. As soon as I read her entry for today, I knew I was meant to and it spoke to me on so many levels. In fact, in what was supposed to be a short comment, I came out with what follows. I decided that this was way to long for a comment and seemed perfect for today's entry. Please, read on... In her blog, Christina spoke of the difference between teaching a yoga class and leading a yoga class. She also spoke of the challenge of really teaching Anusara yoga well and why it takes such a long time to develop this skill and get certified. As teacher's we are really learning the art of connection, observation,inner exploration and expression in all forms.  I find that really teaching Anusara Yo...

Jason left for France this morning, and I miss him.  The first day he is gone is the strangest.  Life in our little house is quieter and the rhythm is different.  Liam is asleep and did pretty well going down tonight, so here I am in the living room and it's  9:45 on Friday night.  I am wide awake instead of nearly falling asleep.  I think my practice and the thunderstorm might have a little something to do with this.   I am so glad it poured and the water drenched the dry earth cause there is nothing like the rain on a hot summer's night to set things right.  And the smell of the desert after it rains is so fresh and unforgettable.   So here I am trying to figure out what is I do when Jason is not home.  Time alone at night always seems to lend itself to thinking about things...  Things here in Tucson have been really good.  My classes at YO are going really well and have been full.  The connection with the students has been out this world and the way I feel after I teach is...