Yoga
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I Did Not Run Away!
“I did it,” I said as I completed the last pose, I did it and I felt this accomplishment deep within, I did it. The overwhelming emotional feeling of victory settled all around me as I was bathed in… Continue reading
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Reality’s Parade
While a friend continues each day enduring the affects of cancer treatment, I had told her I would yoga along with her until she was done. She thought she had until August, and while that seemed a long ways… Continue reading
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Going Beyond the Challenge
Deadlines and completing challenges seem to divert our attention to what is really going on. I have been doing Bikram Yoga for 113 days, I am in the middle of my second 60-day challenge, and in a week, I… Continue reading
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All the Gifts Awareness Brings!
One hundred and four days into a new habit, the habit of being aware, of being responsible for my response to life, of knowing that I will always get the results I want depending upon my actions. My actions… Continue reading
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Good Habits
“The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.” ~Somerset Maugham It really is true that the bad habits are much easier to keep doing and the… Continue reading
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Closer to Being
“Anyone who practices can obtain success in yoga but not one who is lazy. Constant practice alone is the secret of success.” ~Svatmarama, Hatha Yoga Pradipika Ninety-nine days have passed by since the first of the year, and… Continue reading
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A U-Turn In Your Life!
“A bend in the road is not the end of the road… unless you fail to make the turn.” ~Author Unknown Each morning a bend appears, as I contemplate doing yoga another day. I really only face… Continue reading
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Relaxation Response.
When I began doing yoga 92 days ago, the view was to make it to 60 days, yet I knew that 60 days of doing yoga and then returning to my old life, wasn’t what I needed. I needed to… Continue reading
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I Have A Life!
“To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves — there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.” Joan Didion Today was the 78th day in a row of doing Bikram yoga, and I… Continue reading
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‘Their inner knowing….’
I decided I was doing my 75th yoga class at 7am this morning, my nosebleed said, “It will be later.” Last night I went to bed to go to sleep, my mind went to bed to wrestle with other… Continue reading