The Ebb of Yoga

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We are currently in a time when Yogadenada is functioning at a very skeletal level, it is the ebb. I am only working on my Wednesday afterschool class right now but am building up to the summer when I will once again offer Sunday morning classes and Thursday classes at the platform.  I'll be building up to start yoga at Lamar.  I hope to teach to the middle school girls and work on self-confidence during the most emotionally turbulent times of their lives.

Rope-swinging in PJ's at Old Settler's!

So, please forgive.  I've been working building up my personal practice and I'm hoping to return to classes outside of my home at some point soon, after the Danskin Triathlon I'm currently training for. I have committed to buying a class-pass at YogaYoga.  Down the street and easy access, we can trash the whole concept of corporate style yoga or embrace it and enjoy the fact that their long-term experience and wide variety of teachers and workshops just might be what the doctor ordered. I've tried the smaller studios and could not find a good fit for the life of me.

So, once again, I promise a deck in the back yard, once again I hope to have the opportunity to teach more classes.  Once again, I hope to flow with yoga.

Your patience is a virtue. Namaste.

Autism Ride and Domain, Oh My!

This Sunday's class will not be happening because my family will be riding in the Austin Ride for Autism, see link.  I will be back on Easter, which should be fun.  The covered tarp at Brentwood Elementary is gone right now, so we want it back to make yoga pleasurable.  We can always do it in the grass, but I love the flat surface. 

Last week's Self Defense Seminar was a blast and we had an amazing turnout.  Stay tuned for future events occurring, hopefully in the Fall.

Last but not least, I now have a domain for this blog...wooohooo.  Within 24 hours, www.yogadenada.com will redirect to this blog...so excited.

Out for now as I need to plan my K-2 aftercare yoga class, but I'll be back.

Namaste.....

Self-Defense Seminar

Please come out to the Brentwood Elementary Basketball Slab on Sunday, March 25th, 10-12noon.  We will learn how to protect ourselves in the case of an attack and also learn skills on how to be aware of your surroundings.  This is our second seminar and the first one was a blast.  I'll be treating everyone to a short yoga session afterwards.  Please bring a donation for Parker, our instructor, to make her time worthwhile.  Come on out, you will enjoy it.

Waiting for Spring Weather

That is a fib.  In truth, I've decided to take my son to the Sherwood Forest Faire this Sunday and have decided to cancel class.  In addition, I'm out of town the next weekend. So, CLASSES CANCELLED 3/4 AND 3/11. I apologize but I feel certain the weather will happily comply by the time we all return. 

Class was lovely last Sunday but it was a little windy and chilly.  It seems that our last batch of winds caused the tarp to rip off at the slab so hopefully by the time we return, that will be repaired. I do look forward to spending time with all of you in the Spring. I apologize for the cancellations but a mama has got to do what a mama has got to do and I hear tell that they have a fake version of Riptide there.

What!  YOU DON'T KNOW WHO RIPTIDE IS?  Get yourself some Percy Jackson books.

Namaste Ya'll!  I'll be teaching yoga to cowboys next weekend! Yeehaw!

Yoga, Sunday, 2/26

It looks like the weather will be in the 60's and perfect for a little outdoor yoga.  Meet me at the covered slab at Brentwood Elementary.  More hip-opening asanas and a little check-in on acceptance. 

Namaste.

Post-Valentine's Day Blues

It can happen, you know, after all that sugar and love in the air.  Then, sadly, we fall back into our regular routine.  But....what.....if.....we didn't.....What if every day was Valentine's Day. What if every day you did something small for someone you love. It doesn't have to be your husband or wife (that should happen no matter what), it could be your mom, or your child, or your pet, or someone you work with or maybe someone walking down the street.  Simply by setting aside your own personal misery for just a moment and take a breath and...and...and....wait for it....S-M-I-L-E.  Engage.  Say hello and go one step further and say, "how are you today?".  One of my favorite things to do when I go into any business establishment is to say "have a nice day" before the employee has a chance to. Because they ought to do it, but I always beat them.  I love it because it makes me feel good. 

Sweet Utoka Red!

Spring is slowly coming.  Slowly, slowly, slowly.  We keep having to cancel classes because of weather but it will come, I know, like I know that tomorrow is Thursday.  It will warm up, you can believe that.  Spring is a time of renewal and rebirth but today, as I walked my little dogs on my sittings, I pondered for a moment why I was a little sad, why I'd been having pangs of emotion, like something lost.  I tracked back over time.....trying to note why Spring would affect me and there is was, that thorn, a broken heart.  It was Spring that I lost my best friend, Red.  She was a beautiful, loyal, love of a dog and she was my companion at one of the loneliest times of my life.  A year before I lost her, I lost my daughter Sophia.  I was eight months pregnant when she slipped away from our lives, we hadn't even had a chance to know her.  That loss is a deep hollowness in our lives as Jake would have been an amazing brother and though sometimes we laughingly imagine what it would be like for me to have a child at 47, each month a little part of me wishes I would get pregnant.  But, it won't happen.  So, this is when I pull out a few words of wisdom that were sewn into a fun apron my mother-in-law gave me one Christmas, "Put your big girl panties on and deal".  And, deal I will.

And so, I start my afterschool yoga program next week and for 90 minutes or so every Wednesday I am surrounded by girls and I get to see a little of what Sophia might have been in each one of them.  So, if you happen to notice me looking a little distant or not always smiling, remember that my heart is a little heavy, but I always bounce back.

So, with loss in mind, a friend ours lost his mother recently.  We will be headed out to the Pedernales to hang with him and give him our love.  NO CLASS ON SUNDAY, 2/19.  Please forgive and know that we will get steady very soon.

Namaste my beautiful friends.  Happy Every Day is Love Day! 

SELF-DEFENSE CLASS CANCELLED/MOVED TO MARCH 25th

I made the call that the self-defense class would be moved to March 25th.  That was the first open weekend that I have that I feel confident the weather would comply.  (whisper)...Word on the street is that it may snow.  WOW.  I apologize for even considering planning it now.  I got caught up in the attacks and thought it would be a good idea.  By March it will be lovely and we will have a good time.  I am hoping classes will resume soon, though we won't have class next week because I'll be out of town so hang in there and keep on practicing.  Remember Yogaglo, it's amazing.  www.yogaglo.com.  Meanwhile, let's all visualize snow.