The years continue to swish by. It almost feels like someone has waved their magic wand and – poof! – here we are in the present moment. Where does the time go? Sometimes I feel like it is hiding around some corner waiting to step out and surprise me. Maybe that is what I am wishing for, extra time for extra moments in my life.

As I continue to clear out my home and business of things that no longer “fit”, I see that many lifetimes have passed. Not just in mine, but in others around me as well. Funny how we view life as we move through all its stages. When we are children we see anyone over 30 as “old”; when we are in our 30’s, people in their 60’s seem “old”; then we are in our 50’s, and we look upon those in their 90’s as such. (more…)

So the time continues to fly by. My child is now 5 and learning at the speed of sound and light. I am continually reminded of how amazing a human being really is.

He only started Montessori Preschool 5 months ago. We chose to keep him out of school for as long as we could so that he could hone in on his language skills. I was a little concerned about how he would adapt once he started school.

Fear. . . oh yeah. Even though we had brought him there two afternoons to play with the kids after school, when the day came for him to stay for the whole day, it was traumatic.

He was amongst the older of the class. Being Montessori, the kids ranging in age from 2-5 are all in the same room learning together at their individual pace.
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I was presented with an important decision last weekend. The options were to withdraw from an activity in order to stay safe, or perform an activity that involved a certain amount of danger. Not only had I planned for and approached this activity with a sense of control and confidence, I had been preparing for it for a few months. In an instant, I questioned my capabilities, felt my body tense, my mind move towards panic, and decided that I would not let fear be the only deciding factor.

This scenario reminds me so much of ones faced by people in pain, every day. As much as we try to control our daily activities, and stay in our area of comfort and safety, along comes something or someone that shakes us up. As much as we pace ourselves, and make plans to progressively move forward, challenging our limitations a little at a time, life can throw us opportunities that require letting go of the plan and letting go of the pacing. (more…)

As someone who is always on the lookout for new students to walk into my studio, I am constantly talking to people about how much yoga can benefit their lives. I have talked to community groups, spoken to doctors at medical centers and am generally just trying to spread the word. But it seems that at least once every day I hear this statement “I can’t do yoga; my body doesn’t bend like that”! Now, I have to admit that before I started doing yoga I had the same idea about it, that you had to be super bendy and strong.

I had been misinformed about doing yoga; my only yoga experience had come from yoga magazines and books. I would see these people, beautiful people, doing these outrageous poses, and it scared me to try it. Fortunately I discovered a TV show called Yoga Zone on the health network and realized that I could do yoga, that anybody can do yoga. (more…)

Can you imagine that the only time I am able to find a moment of peace from the phones and the hustle and bustle is on a plane to Kona, Hawaii?

It’s been so long since I have been able to write, and believe me when I say that I have missed my journalling.

I know so many don’t enjoy flying, but for me it is a time when I can actually take a moment for me. . .well, sort of. I do have a child so I should say that I am able to take a moment for us.

Since the Virtual World Yoga and Meditation conference in February, we have been shifting non stop. Very exciting shifts. I feel like I am moving with the energetic waves that have been whirling and tossing us around for the past months. (more…)

Well, my son has finally reached the age where it is time for him to begin experiencing school. So many asked if I would home school him, but I don’t think that it would give him enough worldly experience if I were to do so, unless I was a world traveller.

So, after much time spent looking into all the different pre-schools in my district — there are over 100 to choose from — I finally found one that I felt would be a nice fit for him to begin his new experience.

The first day was traumatic. He had always said he didn’t want to go to school, even when he was alone at the park and all the other kids had already started school at 2 or 3 years of age. To this day, I still don’t know why he had this aversion to going to school.
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The sound I effortlessly found emitting from myself as I settled in to listen to Julie Dittmar and Matt Kahn give this presentation on the absence on the spiritual path was that of an extended “Ahhhh.” It feels so good to enter into the energy these two teachers emit and know that permission has been given to relax and simply “be.”

I first encountered Spiritual Teacher Matt and Yoga Teacher Julie at the 2011 YogaHub Conference. I found Matt’s teaching so different and so powerful that I sought him out afterwards for some of the one-on-one sessions he offers called “Direct Transmissions” — which can be done via (more…)

Imagine waking up each morning with only a few things to be aware of…

As a dolphin you are aware, through telepathic and feeling ‘sensors’, of the other members of your pod swimming around you. You are aware of the ‘plan’ for the pod that reveals itself as each moment presents itself. You are aware that when required, you will decide to rise to the surface of the water and take a breath.

And actually, while you were sleeping, you were also in a state of awareness. You were being guided in the water by your friends and family, literally gliding beside you. The part of you that had some physical consciousness was linked with the ‘awake’ parts of the pod, so that as you rested, you also moved in constant companionship, safe and protected, at the side of others.

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As far as the sun knows, it is now giving us, the inhabitants of the Northern hemisphere, a little more light every day. Every day will have a few more minutes of sunlight than the previous one.

I wonder if we notice this.

Do you notice this subtle change each day?
Or do you realize at some point that the sun is setting later than it was a month earlier?

Becoming aware of the subtle changes around us, as with the sun’s movement north, is a perfect reference point for an understanding of the amount of attention we apply to all things. What kinds of change attract your attention?

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Inspiration struck at the grocery store. I was heading for the checkout counter when my eye was caught by a photo on a greeting card: a darling baby with her bright, sparkling eyes peeping over the top of a bucket, above the words, “Give us dreams a size too big so that we can grow into them.”

I bought that cute card.

Dreams are never meant to be toned down to what is reasonable, comfortable, and in a size that fits you now. Dreams need to be bulky, unwieldy, a bit too big to hold, with plenty of room for a growth spurt or two.

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