My biggest realization is how easy it is to slip away from awareness.  I don’t mean to suggest that I’m conscious all of the time.  I spend most of my time in a semi?stupor state and only have brief moments of clarity; and I’m not entirely sure that those moments are truly conscious . . . I mean, really . . . how many levels of awareness are there? Okay, that’s not actually my biggest realization in this experiment.  My biggest realization is that I’m okay with not being aware all of the time.  I know that I can lessen the time spent in that semi? stupor state by sadhana; and I know that I can decide to experience the journey, be it difficult or easy.  I know that the separate part of me that finds all of this hilarious helps me through those difficult times as if I am pulling me forward, asking myself the entire time “do you get it yet?”  I’m still answering myself “Nope, not yet.”  Still, I choose to practice.  I choose to work toward experiencing every moment at whatever level of consciousness I am in that moment.  I am experiencing the journey.

My Yoga Training started out with an intent, to figure out what makes me happy, my passion and my purpose.  I was looking for something but I didn’t know what.  I started taking yoga classes in my pursuit of health and fitness but instead I found something more, something deeper.  This is my journey, my […]

So here I am with my ultimate goal in mind, to help others.  And where is this more applicable than in my own home.  The place where I see the problems that arise and the place I can make the most impact.  That place is in my home, with my daughter.  Recently we had parent […]

So we started out talking about yoga and talking about putting together a nightly routine for her.  She was very excited as she’s been watching me do my do my practice and likes to imitate me.  Then we moved on to picking out a routine, I would show her some poses and she would pick […]

I began with the fact that I’m sick every couple of weeks and set out to correct that by only eating organic foods that are also good for my constitution (vata/kapha) and using eliminating lotions, shampoos anything with chemicals in them or unknown ingredients.  I used oil instead of lotion and for shampoo I put […]