Overcoming the Odds From the Inside Out
The Worry Less She, Happy Lovely She While writing the following story, the letters “t wl shls” collected in the Title Bar. (A WordPress glitch if the author continues to type while it’s saving.) The last line of this story was a typo, so I decided to go with the type-extra-letters to form a title. Who’s…
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If someone, or something, relieves you of pain and suffering, they become something like an angel. Angels, beacons of Light where was once dim, I like to fill my life with them. Having Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, and who knows what else, I’m constantly uncovering health issues. Some of which have existed for some time, but became buried…
Read MoreI DID IT! I DID IT! YAY!!!!!!!!! I finished my Yoga Teacher Training!!! Please understand that I haven’t “accomplished anything” in years! To be standing at the top of the mountain: I forgot what this feels like! Even though I am very passionate about yoga, and I selected a very gentle program, completing this training…
Read MoreSometimes it seems as if life can be likened to a big game of chess: Pieces being moved about, each with their own attributes and capabilities. Forces from above, calculating: which way, and when to move. Black, white. Moving ahead, falling back. Last night I spent an hour with a Meditation Master, for the fourth time in the past…
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“Ask, and you shall receive.” Standing just ten feet within the front door of the nearest “New Age” store, I was amazed to find exactly what I wanted. Even though I did not come to this store for them, there they were, all four of them: Babaji, Lahiri Mahasaya, Sri Yukteswar Giri, and Paramahansa Yogananda. Just the other week…
Read MoreWe’re all so accustomed to looking outside of ourselves for answers, for direction, even for stimulation, but happens when one decides to practice one of the most introverted exercises out there? When I started my own yoga practice, it was nine years before I even stepped foot into a yoga studio. Why was that? Well, for…
Read MoreMind never ceases to amaze me. If we are open enough, we are able to realize that mind is not just what is in our heads. Mind is universal: an open field of consciousness. In moments of deep mediation, usually after a yoga practice where I am able to let go of every fiber of my…
Read MoreProfundity has pulled me from what I thought was a simple path. For quite some time I innocently drifted along. Feeling a strong urge to take myself into my next stage, I asked the universe to deliver: “I want to be trained in yoga professionally. I want to attend Yoga Teacher Certification Training.” Within a…
Read More“If only we would let ourselves be dominated, like by some immense storm, then we would not need names.” -Rainer Maria Rilke This quote was shared by my new instructor during Savasana in my first class with her. It hit me so deeply. Once it hit, I removed my eye pillow in fear that I might…
Read MoreWhile on the road to Self discovery, layers of reality miraculously appear with every step you take. Some layers material, some spiritual. For me, one of these layers, known as fascia, uncovered a greater understanding of the overall network of my body, and possibly my soul. This matrix-like web of tissue should become a household…
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