Currently, feeling irritated due to a Facebook posting by a former high school teacher (who was/is uber-conservative-Christian in the somewhat scary kind of way) expressing his "deep concern" regarding the number of Christians practicing. . . (wait for it). . . yoga.  He then had 23 comments, most of which agreed with this idea that yoga, being a ( Read more... )

Lucas woke me up roughly five or six times last night.  After having a few nights here and there where he was waking up only once or twice, this was a bit of a shock.  When my alarm went off this morning for me to get up for yoga, I shut it off and thought that perhaps I should just skip, reasoning that I needed sleep, after all.  About five ( Read more... )

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Something I really want to see. I think K and I might be going to see it this weekend.

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I got my first ongoing yoga-teaching job this week!  I'll be teaching at a new gym downtown.  Of course, they had to give me the 6:30AM class (once a week) which, of course, the fact that it was available is no mystery to me.  However, I'm excited to have at least one regular yoga job.  Hopefully, I can keep adding a few more here and there.  There ( Read more... )

A yoga teacher subbing at North End Yoga the other day read this at the end of the class while we were in savasana and it really resonated with me so I wanted to share:

Courage and Patience

Courage is not grim determination, boastful arrogance, or uncontrolled aggression.  True courage comes from quiet conviction, which shows itself in self-control ( Read more... )

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I  haven't fallen off the face of the earth but I do feel like I'm in some kind of alternate universe.  I've been at Kripalu for 3 1/2 weeks now.  I didn't have any internet access for the first two weeks I was here because I didn't have the laptop with me but K came to visit me last weekend and brought me the laptop.  However, I can only access ( Read more... )

While I was browsing the internet for yoga related images for yesterday's post, I came across a Christian blog that was discussing the "spiritual dangers" of yoga and why "Christians should NOT practice yoga."  I was so shocked and puzzled by it but then I recalled that this is the world I came from and though my parents never expressed strong ( Read more... )