Tuesday, November 3, 2009
a centerpiece
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Monday, November 2, 2009
Big Ass Yoga
— Krishna, Bhagavad Gita.
Big Ass Yoga.
Picked up my new apartment key, moved a few things in and went to my first teacher training class yesterday. I think this is the very best thing for me to be doing right now. I did a lot of research and picked the Yoga Center of Minneapolis.They have good teachers, impressive visiting instructors and the training covers different yoga philosophies, anatomy, asanas, mentoring, drop-in classes to observe beginning classes, etc. It's a very nice space, downtown, by the river. And yesterday I heard about a class unique to this studio called Big Ass Yoga! Or more properly, Big A#% Yoga. This is the place for me! Not like I have a big ass or anything . . .
Don't know much about the math I took.
I have homework: reading, studying and I have to present a pose next Sunday. A bit of a challenge while painting and moving in but challenging myself is the only way to make myself grow.
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Friday, October 30, 2009
gratitude revisited
After writing about dwelling in gratitude, I jumped into the black well of worry. It's a selfish place to be but hard to resist. I wake up in the night with worry because I am on another edge and I have to jump. I worry about how will I survive, what makes me think I can be a yoga teacher, I am old and worn out, I'll never find a job. I worry about my daughters, both far away. I worry about my dad, his new wife, my siblings, a friend embarking on yet another dangerous mission, the world, the universe. It's all pointless. Like a doctor once said to me when I had exhausted him with questions about a colonoscopy: "You're like my wife -- you live in the future and worry in the present."
But as soon as I think of all the things I can be grateful for, the worry disappears. The lightness of gratitude lifts the weight of worry.
And I came across this piece of poetry that always reminds me to get outside and breathe some fresh air, clear the mind.
and I wake in the middle of the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting for their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
best places for women
NORDIC COUNTRIES TOP GENDER GAP AGAIN
"Women remain far behind men in economic and political power, but the Nordic countries come closest to closing the gender gap, according to a survey of 134 nations released Tuesday."
Interesting and heartening to me because even though the US is not in the top ten, I am going to Minnesota, settled by Norwegians, Swedes and Finns.
Related trivia: After years of living on the east coast and training myself to say "soda" I fell immediately, without thinking, back into saying "pop".
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
perfect house for sale
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Friday, October 23, 2009
gratitude
if you don't pray when the sun shines."
Does the winged life destroy;
Lives in eternity's sun rise."
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
coincidence?
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