I recently learned about a new yoga in the park project in Des Moines. Free and open to the public every Saturday morning at 9:00 (weather permitting I'm sure.) You can check out details here.
I'm thinking this yoga junkie is going to have to plan an early Saturday morning trip to Des Moines soon!
namaste
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
A Different Kind of Practice...
Summer has fallen upon my household and with it a shift in our normal routine. A welcome shift. A more relaxed pace of life. No school for my oldest. Fewer classes for me. Activities that require us to be outside more...softball, gardening, lawn work. I love the ease of summer.
With the shift I find myself THINKING less about the yoga of life, and simply PRACTICING it day to day. In fact, I'm finding myself needing to remind myself to practice patience, compassion and non-attachment a lot these days. My brother is living with us for the summer into the early fall and with him has come a friend's dog. Both welcome additions to our family, but anytime you introduce someone new into a well established family there's adjustments to be made. And as someone who often over offers, over extends, and then at times feels overwhelmed when those offers are accepted, I have had to remind myself to find balance before things feel completely off kilter.
Additionally I am in the midst of figuring out how to move forward professionally. That direction involves returning to school. It's actually a direction I've been exploring for 9 years, only the little road bumps that one has to cross when making arrangements to return to school with a young family has kept me from seriously taking steps until now. I feel as though this is the right time to make this jump, but it doesn't mean everything is simply falling into place. I have to remind myself it will not be the end of the world if in 8 weeks I'm not packing my back-pack for my first night of class. I need to trust that with good honest effort, if now is indeed the right time, it will happen.
Change isn't always easy for me, even when those changes are exciting and welcome. And so my practice continues this summer to be more about my yoga off the mat...although I did start teaching a new "power flow" vinyasa class at the studio for the summer and I'm so enjoying the physicality and the heat and the fluidity of our practice. It's been a wonderful reminder of how I first came to know and why I first fell in love with the practice. It's been a nice (maybe even needed) change to my practice on the mat.
In unrelated news...many thanks to Brenda over at Grounding Thru the Sit Bones for interviewing me for her latest Yoga Journal article! I'm so honored to be included in her fabulous discussion of using, or not using as the case may be, chant in classes. As always, Brenda's piece is both thoughtful and thought provoking. Give it a read!
namaste
With the shift I find myself THINKING less about the yoga of life, and simply PRACTICING it day to day. In fact, I'm finding myself needing to remind myself to practice patience, compassion and non-attachment a lot these days. My brother is living with us for the summer into the early fall and with him has come a friend's dog. Both welcome additions to our family, but anytime you introduce someone new into a well established family there's adjustments to be made. And as someone who often over offers, over extends, and then at times feels overwhelmed when those offers are accepted, I have had to remind myself to find balance before things feel completely off kilter.
Additionally I am in the midst of figuring out how to move forward professionally. That direction involves returning to school. It's actually a direction I've been exploring for 9 years, only the little road bumps that one has to cross when making arrangements to return to school with a young family has kept me from seriously taking steps until now. I feel as though this is the right time to make this jump, but it doesn't mean everything is simply falling into place. I have to remind myself it will not be the end of the world if in 8 weeks I'm not packing my back-pack for my first night of class. I need to trust that with good honest effort, if now is indeed the right time, it will happen.
Change isn't always easy for me, even when those changes are exciting and welcome. And so my practice continues this summer to be more about my yoga off the mat...although I did start teaching a new "power flow" vinyasa class at the studio for the summer and I'm so enjoying the physicality and the heat and the fluidity of our practice. It's been a wonderful reminder of how I first came to know and why I first fell in love with the practice. It's been a nice (maybe even needed) change to my practice on the mat.
In unrelated news...many thanks to Brenda over at Grounding Thru the Sit Bones for interviewing me for her latest Yoga Journal article! I'm so honored to be included in her fabulous discussion of using, or not using as the case may be, chant in classes. As always, Brenda's piece is both thoughtful and thought provoking. Give it a read!
namaste
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