I know how to care for my back because of my years of yoga experience, but this took things to a whole new level.  I've never experienced pain like that from an injury before.  ......

Yoga is a place to experiment, to test, and to let yourself get messy, knowing that it is giving you feedback about what works and what doesn't.  Feedback that you can build your LIFE on if you really listen. 

And the question came: Where are the women?  Where are the women's ways? What did and do the women know that has not come along with that lineage?

But the reality is that this is one of the ways Shakti has of helping us to Open.  And goodness knows, this is way more enjoyable than grief and anger.  I mean, if opening can come with pleasure, joy and delight, I will take that any day.

How can we have the question  if there is too much noise to hear it?

How can we hear anything  if we never become Quiet?

During dinner my uncle yelled out: "Rainbow!"  We all hopped up and ran to the window.  

The workings of the Universe seems mysterious... I advocate removing as many blocks as you can within yourself and seeing what happens.   I encourage you to shift your perspective on your so-called problems.  

Here is someone that I value very much in my life. Someone I want to continue to get to know and to have know me.  And how do I show him that I value what he has to say? I talk over him every time he opens his mouth.  Gee Wiz girl.  I'm pretty embarrassed.

Your path to quiet may be meditation. It could be painting.  It could be dancing.  Your path to quiet could be sitting under a tree, or by a river, or the ocean.  It might be cooking or cleaning or folding the laundry.  Your path to quiet is your own.  

Can I say that I BELIEVE this too?  The way that I believe my body steered me into healing old trauma, my body can be a vehicle to transcendent experiences. Can I believe that my body can be an access point into the unseen, to deep layers of knowing, to community with beings my path has not yet crossed? Or was I just visualizing?  

When I take a well-themed class I get the chance to remember and recollect some forgotten part of myself.  I walk away feeling more whole than when I went in.  The themes help us to remember.

Your soul is EVERYthing.  Your soul holds the key to your ultimate peace and enjoyment of life on this planet.  Your soul's work needs to be done and it will be restless and undermining until you get sick --- or get on it.

As adults its easy to forget what made our hearts sing.  It's easier to get caught up in what needs doing rather than making time for what doesn't HAVE to be done but only wants to be done.  But I firmly believe in the need to make, to create... and to fully engage in that process.

I spent the last week in New England as an apprentice in the 200-hr Ashaya Yoga Teacher Training run by my longtime teacher, Todd Norian. I want to end at that sentence because it made my heart, mind, body and spirit so incredibly happy and peaceful to be there, that's all I really have to say.

Only, actually there is more.

What I want you to know is, you have everything you need to engage with your life beautifully.  And you need everything you have.