Most exercise programs, and just going to the gym in general were always prefaced with an inventory, leading to a choice. Was I tired? Do I ache from the day before? Tomorrow is going to be a tough day. I’ve got a lot to do. And, after all that kind of stuff there was still . . . → Read More: Just Go, And Be Open
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Usually my daily Bikram yoga class is a wonderful 90 minute, undisturbed, get away for my mind. My body gets lost in the rhythm of moving through the poses automatically through the instructor's dialogue, which gives the cues to begin and end each pose. My mind is free to relax and let thoughts come as . . . → Read More: Listening – Day 2 – Arghh! Yesterday I had a few wavering moments, falling back into old issues I had dealt with last winter and spring. Luckily I had a good friend, with a listening ear. I was telling her that it was another October gauntlet flung in my path and once again I had to draw on my values, pick . . . → Read More: Stop, Look, and…LISTEN Those words, “just as they are”, cropped up in two different places today, and in another place last week. I figured there was a message in that. The first time I saw them, it said, “We don’t see things just as they are, we see them as we are.” Then, within fifteen minutes, in a . . . → Read More: Just As They Are It’s here. No, really here. I know the first day of fall occurred weeks ago, but the weather has been so warm and forgiving, I’ve been denying summer really just turned and walked away. Then this morning the weatherman said it : snow. It’s a bit of a flurry that has a mere chance of . . . → Read More: With Autumn We Turn Inside Get out of the boat. Out here? Yes. Get out of the boat. Now? Yes. Now. Get out of the boat. It’s time. Just don’t look down. Get out of the boat and walk to the shore. You have great things waiting right at your fingertips that you can only embrace after you get out . . . → Read More: Get Out Of The Boat As horrible and painful the first six months of this journey were, it definitely happened for a reason. We all move through the decades of our lives between the twenties and the sixties by going through cycles, much as the seasons do. Usually at the end of each decade something happens in our lives to . . . → Read More: There’s Something In the Journey Last January, those are the last two words I thought I’d ever write about, and today, ten months later, they are dominating my thoughts. For the longest time I used those two words interchangeably. Many times over this ten month journey they have shown up separately. Just what is the difference? Every morning at approximately . . . → Read More: Happy Happy, Joy Joy Everybody knows yoga is about flexibility and now, going into my second straight year of practicing 4 to 5 times a week, I can turn my body into a few good pretzels. Yoga challenges my flexibility everyday. And everyday I rise to the challenge and give it my best shot. Until today. Mr. Sleek . . . → Read More: Flexibility …Like I Never Imagined This week was so beautiful that I took an extra long beach walk. I read in my Sea Glass Hunter’s Handbook about all the quips and quirks people have for hunting beach glass. It said each person has their own “way” to find these treasures. I wondered what my own particular “way” was, so I . . . → Read More: Life, For Me, Really IS A Beach |
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