Featured Pose: Vrksasana, Tree Pose

Featured Pose: Vrksasana, Tree Pose

//Vrksasana: Tree Pose

At the moment, life is moving in all sorts of directions.  Providing me with the opportunity, let’s be real, the challenge, of staying tuned into my center.  New opportunities and life changes that are worthy of pursual have the habit of arriving all at the same time. Keeping in alignment with my center, my truth, during the busier times of my life is a two-part act. Part one is being honest, and part two is being balanced.  In that order.  I have found, more often than not, that it is a very fine line between utter balanced bliss and fulfillment, and the feeling of being completely overwhelmed and out of sorts by the amount of to-dos.  We will always shift and move between both existences, back and forth, side to side, to some extent.  With a little self-awareness, honesty, and compassion for our journey we can dwell in our center and maintain our balance.

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Featured Pose: Anjaneyasana, Crescent Moon Lunge

Featured Pose: Anjaneyasana, Crescent Moon Lunge

//Anjaneyasana: Crescent moon lunge

I am feeling very full at the moment. The experiences from the last year, some joyful, some painful, are within me.  It is time for me to move inward, to reflect on the positive and negative transformations I have taken over the last 12 months, and begin the process of letting go.  Like a snake shedding her skin, or an aged phoenix turning into ash, I release the old ways and avail myself to rebirth. I practice forgiveness with myself and others, accept the imperfect, and extinguish beliefs that no longer serve me.  Like the moon in her fullness ready to retreat into the new, I am eager to enter into the New Year with a lightness of being, and the courage to try again at being me and a creature of this great world.

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