~ Gravity : Power : Yoga ~

Archive for the ‘Uncategorized’ Category

Ocasionally in our lives we have the privilege of watching a close friend go through an amazing life transformation.  This is one of those times.  As I stand back and watch one of my favorite teachers find her stride, as she transforms from that fantastic yoga teacher we all know, to a truly great spiritual soul who shines on her students like a beacon of light.  It’s an amazing thing to watch, and makes me wonder if I will ever feel as comfortable in my skin as she is in hers.

What are the differences you may ask?  They are subtle, you might even miss them if you don’t pay close enough attention, but here’s what I see from the outside.   Start with a presence in the room, one of those types of presence that lets you know this is HER room but that you are her best friend and you are welcomed with open arms.  Mix in a dash of just the right music, hand picked the night before for just this class, and finish out with mood lighting and poetry, OMG the addition of poetry that seems as though it was hand picked to help me deal with the trials of MY day.  It leaves me wondering, is this class just for me?  Does everybody feel this way?

For the teacher who introduced me to the quote from Anais Nin – “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom”

You are the bud that has blossomed, thank you for touching my life and expanding my practice out of just the physical world and helping me on my spiritual journey.

• Check out my new venture, http://omblogger.com it's like blogspot for Yogi's! #

So about a week before our little one appeared I had this great idea to setup a blog called yogidad, the idea was to blog about being a first time parent, how it effected my practice, etc. What I did NOT count on was that Id be so freakishly sleep deprived that I wouldnt have the time or energy to lift a computer, much less write about my experiences in the first few weeks. So, untill I get the sleep and energy to get it going, all you power junkies will just have to deal with my baby pictures and rants here!!!! So stay tuned for some of the cutest pics of a baby youve ever seen!!!! Like this one from fathers day!

I won’t say that any of us are sleeping thru the night yet, but things seem to be getting easier.  Either that, or I’m just too delirious from the lack of sleep to know how tired I really am.   But here’s the point, we are starting to find a way to piece in enough sleep to be functional human beings once again, and part of that is finding a way to get yoga back into the daily schedule.

Keeping US up never looked so sweet

Being faced with the lack of time, severe lack of sleep, and overall lack of energy has forced me to dig deep… REALLY DEEP!  To find the memory of what I loved about a daily practice, why I did it before, and conjure up enough of that to get me thru a somewhat respectable asana practice.  I have found that in order to make it work within the new guidelines it has to be fast, quick, and good (did I mention fast?).  So 45 minutes of power, followed by light stretching, and a nap.. UH, ER… svasana that is.

I assume new father yogi’s do this all the time, am I right?   What’s the trick?  Then I look at this picture and all I want to do is snuggle up and cuddle the little pumpkin!

~ Namaste

look out, TT tonight