Yoga

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • ‘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