Transition during class

Linking Asana (pose), Pranayama (life force control) & Intention (prayer) in the physical practice link body, spirit & mind together. The integrity you maintain during an physical yoga class (asana/pranayama class) is a reflection of how much integrity you have in life. The way you approach each class & the poses themselves is a reflection of you. How you handle the tough & easy poses. Its how you handle the tough & easy situations in life. Make contact with how you engage in each pose & how you transition from one pose to the next because that is how you engage & move from one tough moment to the next in life. These poses & transitions are mirrors to us. Making a change enables you to make a change in your life.

Fear

Our mats reflect our fears.
Fear of letting go,
moving forward,
seeing the full truth without judgment.

Rain Inspired Poem - Esalen, Oct 2010 Work Study Month

Welcome Rain!
Wash away my dicontentment so that I may be made new.
Free to create a life that serves me.
Everything is exactly as it should be.
I am meant to have these feelings.
Everything that enters my sacred space is a blessing.
A breadcrumb or clue from one moment to the next.
Let my story unfold
Let my story unfold
Let my story unfold
Live my truth
Find the courage
Be a warrior for truth
Go home
Each breath born from truth leads me into my next moment of pure truth.
Along my path I go
A righteous way
I know the way
But, sometimes am averted
sometimes attached to old ways
Hoping for full surrender & release, unnatachment, strength & true beauty
He is the breath beneath my breath
Untterly inspired by Self
Mislaya Kolo!

-Self

Frustration

Frustration with discontentment stems from frustration with false self projected into existence.

Creative Process

Enjoy the creative process without attachment to its outcome. The creative process of life must not be controlled or you and your life will become stagnant & eventually break down. - Self

Forgiveness

When we are unable to experience the world in our own authentic way as children, conflict arises. This conflict results in a non-physical wound and becomes a part of us. A wound can become a strength or a weakness.
Developing our strengths as well as our weaknesses is part of our greater purpose. To find your wounds, look to your deepest and most persistent frustrations and ask yourself honestly what you have done with each of them. For example, does it annoy you when people are late? How do you feel and react? Does it remind of a conflict that arose during childhood? Have your frustrations become your greatest strength or your greatest weakness?
Each feeling, thought, and action holds a particular vibration. To Forgive is to let go of the past to live in the present. To begin the path of forgiveness is to raise your vibration and must start with yourself and then those who have unconsciously wounded you. Confront your past with honesty, openness and willingness to forgive, and grow from the experience.
The next step is change. If you often put off low vibrations such as hate, judgement, fear, shame, guilt and control you can change by simply switching to higher vibrations such as divine connectedness, joy, love, acceptance, truth, compassion and forgiveness. The universal law of attraction states that what goes around comes around or like attracts like. Happy Holidays and may your path be filled with love, light and lots of forgiveness!

Gratitude & Abundance Go Hand In Hand

There have been many periods in my life where the flow of gratitude feels kinked. A gentle reminder of how good it feels to be grateful along with the embarrassment of all the moments I was not usually snaps me back into place. Easy enough when life is good but it takes a lot more courage & strength to remain grateful when life gives you lemons.
I have just returned from the land of manifestation, beauty and abundance...the land of Esalen located in Big Sur, CA. There I spent 28 surrounded by jagged cliffs met by majestic redwoods on sacred Indian grounds. Esalen is the meeting point of three waters: sulfur hot springs, fresh mountain creeks and the cold Northern Pacific ocean water. Everywhere I looked, I was reminded of why it is so awesome to be alive! Being surrounded by all this beauty was the perfect foreground for cultivating an attitude of gratitude.
Upon arriving back home in Southern California, I was able to let out a delicious mmmmmmm...when driving up my street in Rancho Santa Margarita finding the purple Saddleback mountains, multi-colored maple leaves, warm but ever-so present Santa Ana winds and the flock of Canada geese talking up a storm across the street from my house. I reflected back to all those moments of beauty that I had missed and not been grateful for in the past few years. How embarrassing! I invite you to live in gratitude and enjoy the abundance all around you. Make a commitment to yourself to find the drop of nectar in each moment of your life and you will be surprised how appreciation is almost always met with abundance.