Here I go

I am so grateful for the opportunities and blessings in my life.  All that is, that which sustains my life and this conscious experience.  I am ready for this next adventure!  Off to yoga school...

Get creative

5:51 AM- coffee and Paul Grilley.  Yoga next.  Perhaps caffeine before yoga isnt recommended...but I am a modern Western yogi who pretty much picks amd chooses my combination of practices.  :D 

Taking Care

Self care is one of the tools that has changed my life the most (along with mindfulness).  Since I discovered that I have Personal Power, I've been realizing how much control I do have in my life.  I'm the hero of this plot, my life-movie.  Other people come on the scene and do their thing (each the hero of their own story) but still, this movie is mine.  Literally empowering.  

5:30AM

I'm still getting up early early.  It's one of the few chances I really have consistently to practice.  So, morning person or not, I've been doing it.  Last night I went to sleep at 9:30 though to make up for it.  Here's rag doll.  

Willful Practice

I like yoga because it is so practical and it's a system with such a broad range of tools.

There are a lot of things I want to learn, balance, attain.  It's about dedicating myself to my own self understanding with the relentless unconditional love of a parent to a child.  Or the rapt attention of new lovers for one another.  

Feel like it or not, I'm intending to commit willfully to a daily practice of Hatha yoga (the poses), meditation, study, conscious breathing and yogic devotion to my own path.  It's excited and intimidating.

I have everything I need to do this.  And I even made a teeny closet into my own teeny private study place.  Setting aside space and time for myself!  It feels great.  

Making Time

I love my sleep.  Always have.  In fact I'm typically a 9-10 hour a night kind of girl.  But with a new full-time job that starts at 8:30 AM, yoga therapy training, a partner and a child if I'm going to fit in any serious yoga and meditation it has to be carved out of my sleeping time.  New habits!   So here I am at 6:30AM having just did a solid hour of practices.  Feeling good!  

Not a Morning Person

Didn't get to post this yesterday...developing a routine that involves getting up when it is dark is against my natural inclinations to party til midnight and sleep til 9.  Oh self-control how you challenge me... :/. This is me starting out with an in-bed child's pose at something ungodly like 5:30 in the morning.  Wtf??  But yeah...it really does feel good to work toward my goals.