The Lighter Side of the Moon
July was not a nice month for me. Mourning my dog hit a high. You would think i wouldn't be so upset about it still, that i would have gotten over it a bit more. It just hit more when a yoga student's dog who i was getting to know literally dropped dead. My room was a mess. Money was an issue. My brakes on the Escape weren't covered by the warrenty (how fucked up is that!) I was feeling fat and lonely. My body hurt, my hip was seriously in pain. I stopped going to my trainer, .basicly I was in a funk. Deep dark funk. Pig Pen has his dirt cloud, i had a stormy cloud hovering over me.
I went to the bookstore after class one day. I just hung out there, i didn't by anything. But it was nice to not be in the routine i set up. It was nice to enjoy the moment. That dark stormy cloud....started to clear up a bit with that one small action. Doing something different made me feel not so funky.
Trashbag in hand, boxes to give away to goodwill, bags to put stuff in to give away to friends and students who may want perfectly good books. My room started to feel lighter. I planned to go to IKEA to purchase some organizational storage stuff, but it had to be put off until this weekend when i am heading towards that direction anyway. Even thinking about organizing my stuff into business, personal, and crafts...I thought of feng shui to add to my space, here and in the office. i felt even lighter. Business ideas, marketing ideas, started to pop in my head. I felt energized. And not so surprisingly business started to pick up. My yoga classes didn't seem so stale to me anymore.I felt like playing.
Another out of the routine day after a class and to the bookstore looking for a book that K and i can share in our bookclub for two. This time i came home with Russell Simmon's Do You!. Unorthodox, not everyone's cup of tea. The man's bouncy Tigger ADD annoys me. I'm not a Hip Hop or Rap fan. But i admire the man for the empire he has built. Music, clothing, jewlery and a foundation to give back. I think what i admire the most is that he's a yogi who is trying hard to balance the principles of yoga and being a businessman. The principles in the book come from yoga. Most are common sense, but even common sense needs to be reminded of on occasion. I'll write more about the book when i finish it, but one thing that spoke to me....no, not spoke....YELLED at me was Law Number Three "Get Your Mind Right."
What did i want? When i got into a funk about money due to the expensive repair to the Escape, i seriously considered quiting to work a job that pays. A job that would suck the life and joy out of me, because of money. I read this book at the right time. Common sense advice, but i needed to stop sulking and figure out what i needed. Re find my passion. Re learn what i am good at. And this is it. I put the money issue aside, and as my room got cleaner, offers started to come in. As my mind got better in where i wanted to be, I found out where i needed to be.
For over a year i looked at various workshops i wanted to go to, droolled over taking classes at local studios, wanted to expand my yoga knowledge. I had a chance to go to Yoga Journal's Boston conference with a free place to stay, but money set me back. I looked at my schedule to justify new to the studio trial classes to see if i could milk the most out of my money. But my schedule is all over the place. I look at free classes, but honestly sometimes when they are schedule, i'm just to freakin tired in the evenings or the weekends to do them. Rolf Gates teacher training in October, Cyndi Lee in November, Omega in October, PreNatal at Kripalu, the list goes on and on and on. Money is the issue.
I look at journals of other yogis and wonder how the hell do they do it. And something clicked in me. Just Do It. Yeah so what, Nike my come down on my yogini booty for stealing it's line, but it's too true. In my right mind, i realized to capitalize on what i got and figure out where the universe is nudging me towards to get out of the financial funk. Two words. Children's yoga. It does seem to be a trend lately. But i've been doing it for a while. What pushed me more to this was a workshop that not only was offered locally, but cost three time's less than the workshop i was eyeing in NYC.
It was meant to be. The woman who run's it not only is allowing me to pay the amount when i get to the workshop (usually they want the payment ahead of time), but figuring that this is so last minute she's letting me into the workshop to begin with. The workshop is this weekend. After i made up my mind to do this workshop, i got an offer to teach yoga to parents and their kids for the Housing Authority. It was brought on by one of my students, who gave my name to the woman in charge. The energy there feels right. I've also recieved a lead for a preschool/daycare that is local and interested in yoga for it's kids.
I've also put it out in the universe to go to NYC for the Omega Yoga Conference in October even if i must take the train.
We'll see what August, my birthday month, holds for me.
I went to the bookstore after class one day. I just hung out there, i didn't by anything. But it was nice to not be in the routine i set up. It was nice to enjoy the moment. That dark stormy cloud....started to clear up a bit with that one small action. Doing something different made me feel not so funky.
Trashbag in hand, boxes to give away to goodwill, bags to put stuff in to give away to friends and students who may want perfectly good books. My room started to feel lighter. I planned to go to IKEA to purchase some organizational storage stuff, but it had to be put off until this weekend when i am heading towards that direction anyway. Even thinking about organizing my stuff into business, personal, and crafts...I thought of feng shui to add to my space, here and in the office. i felt even lighter. Business ideas, marketing ideas, started to pop in my head. I felt energized. And not so surprisingly business started to pick up. My yoga classes didn't seem so stale to me anymore.I felt like playing.
Another out of the routine day after a class and to the bookstore looking for a book that K and i can share in our bookclub for two. This time i came home with Russell Simmon's Do You!. Unorthodox, not everyone's cup of tea. The man's bouncy Tigger ADD annoys me. I'm not a Hip Hop or Rap fan. But i admire the man for the empire he has built. Music, clothing, jewlery and a foundation to give back. I think what i admire the most is that he's a yogi who is trying hard to balance the principles of yoga and being a businessman. The principles in the book come from yoga. Most are common sense, but even common sense needs to be reminded of on occasion. I'll write more about the book when i finish it, but one thing that spoke to me....no, not spoke....YELLED at me was Law Number Three "Get Your Mind Right."
What did i want? When i got into a funk about money due to the expensive repair to the Escape, i seriously considered quiting to work a job that pays. A job that would suck the life and joy out of me, because of money. I read this book at the right time. Common sense advice, but i needed to stop sulking and figure out what i needed. Re find my passion. Re learn what i am good at. And this is it. I put the money issue aside, and as my room got cleaner, offers started to come in. As my mind got better in where i wanted to be, I found out where i needed to be.
For over a year i looked at various workshops i wanted to go to, droolled over taking classes at local studios, wanted to expand my yoga knowledge. I had a chance to go to Yoga Journal's Boston conference with a free place to stay, but money set me back. I looked at my schedule to justify new to the studio trial classes to see if i could milk the most out of my money. But my schedule is all over the place. I look at free classes, but honestly sometimes when they are schedule, i'm just to freakin tired in the evenings or the weekends to do them. Rolf Gates teacher training in October, Cyndi Lee in November, Omega in October, PreNatal at Kripalu, the list goes on and on and on. Money is the issue.
I look at journals of other yogis and wonder how the hell do they do it. And something clicked in me. Just Do It. Yeah so what, Nike my come down on my yogini booty for stealing it's line, but it's too true. In my right mind, i realized to capitalize on what i got and figure out where the universe is nudging me towards to get out of the financial funk. Two words. Children's yoga. It does seem to be a trend lately. But i've been doing it for a while. What pushed me more to this was a workshop that not only was offered locally, but cost three time's less than the workshop i was eyeing in NYC.
It was meant to be. The woman who run's it not only is allowing me to pay the amount when i get to the workshop (usually they want the payment ahead of time), but figuring that this is so last minute she's letting me into the workshop to begin with. The workshop is this weekend. After i made up my mind to do this workshop, i got an offer to teach yoga to parents and their kids for the Housing Authority. It was brought on by one of my students, who gave my name to the woman in charge. The energy there feels right. I've also recieved a lead for a preschool/daycare that is local and interested in yoga for it's kids.
I've also put it out in the universe to go to NYC for the Omega Yoga Conference in October even if i must take the train.
We'll see what August, my birthday month, holds for me.