a fitness professional's attempt at living a yoga life….one breath at a time
I've started reading through the information on the Playing/Working dimension on the Wellness Inventory....have no clue as to what I'm talking about? Read here. And I started to think about how grateful I am that my work is play to me. My work with students, with my children, with teaching in all aspects is enjoyable …
A lot of Gates' writing in this section of the book talks about discipline (tapas) and turning inward. In Day 82 he notes that we all start out learning from others, but eventually have to trust our own judgements. Thus is the story of life. Discipline is about creating our own path by following in …
In the Day 81 Reading Gates writes ....we always have everything we need. When we fail to believe this, we suffer. (p.109) How many times have I looked inward for the answer, seen it, and still kept searching? External validation doesn't equal internal happiness...yet, it's a hard cycle to break. Today when I was doing …
A short post for you today on Tapas.... In the Day 80 Reading Gates writes The desire that is tapas comes from wanting...a place of lack...yet yoga is about detaching from the outcome (paraphrased p.106) So, through the practice of yoga we become whole and fill the internal hole. Sometimes, in my life, there is …
It's Monday again! Did you have a great weekend? I did! We had our annual chili cookout on Saturday night. I squeezed in 46 Sun Salutations and a shower right before people started arriving. It was a wonderful night in which I learned a little something about making chili with dried beans.....don't cook them with …
I hope that this Thursday HABITS UPDATE will become a regular thing in my life and for the blog. It's necessary for me to have a regular posting schedule for my writing and for myself. And currently I'm undertaking the project of improving my habits. Today I'm also linking up with Amanda at Running With …
One of the newest posts I plan to do on the blog each week is to share my Words of the Day and what they're meaning to me. I randomly selected them and put them on days with no real plan in mind. Yesterday's word was FOCUS and it helped me to get a lot …
In the Day 78 reading Gates writes about being emboldened to try new things, but knowing that someone is there if we fail....someone to lean on and support us....like our yoga teachers. I wonder, with all of the new things I'm trying to accomplish in my life with habits, can I be there for myself …
This is by no means my last post on the subject of habits. I have found this topic of Gretchen Rubin's much easier to embrace than the idea of a Happiness Project.....it probably has to do a lot with my personality. She ends this book with a story of how her youngest daughter wrote a …
I think my computer is trying to tell me something.....the message on a picture of puffins was Be Great at What You Do Perhaps it knows that I'm thinking of getting rid of it? Well, today's post is going to be a little rambly.....it is Monday after all. What'd you do with your weekend? I …
