Yoga

  • Sprouting Self Hatred

    As I headed to my room to do yoga with my belly unsettled, images of the laughing sisters, my demeanor glum, I wondered how yoga would be. The standing poses went by without a hitch, but as I lay on… Continue reading

  • Puzzle Called Me.

    “The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.”  ~Thomas Carlyle   Putting together our lives is like a puzzle without a picture, we find what goes together and what doesn’t.   Some… Continue reading

  • 254 days and counting….

    Today is day 260 on my yoga every day this year, and I missed 6 in the last two weeks.    Each of those days seemed impossible for me to either gather the mental strength or the physical stamina needed… Continue reading

  • Serves Me!

    In Waking, by Matthew Sanford, he writes again about his experience with yoga.   “Maha mudra is a strange pose.  In yogic lore, if a yogi practices it enough, he or she can eat anything, even something poisonous. Regardless, it… Continue reading

  • As I Yoga Along

    “A monk sits cross-legged in the middle of the road, meditating on existence.  A powerful insight consumes him: He and the Universe are One.  He intuits further that the Universe, being One, would never harm him itself.  And as long… Continue reading

  • Affirmed by His Experiences

    Maha Mudra, a chapter from Waking by Matthew Sanford.   “When I return home from the hospital, everything seems the same – my blue velvet chair, the sounds of my fridge, the creaking of my wood floors.  Everything except for… Continue reading

  • Naturally relaxed….

    The more yoga I do, the deeper I go, the more places of stored tightness I find.  It is like there is a bottomless pit of resistance. When it comes time to relax and go to sleep these muscles flex… Continue reading

  • The Sunny Side of Life!

    “Nothing we can do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.”           Ashleigh Brilliant   Living life forward is all we can do, and the power that lies in each action sets in… Continue reading

  • Where I want to go…

    “Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it.  I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.”     ~Charles F. Kettering   Today was my 132nd… 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