After not blogging for a while, and having bought a new laptop in that time, the blogger app had changed and I had to learn how to put photos up. A picture is worth a thousand words so I don't want to blog without them. So, tadaah! I finally figured it out. Here are some photos of my morning walks last week at the marina in Thunder Bay. During this last year the morning walks to the marina have been enlivening. At first we didn't see as much, but then we started to see the little and then the big changes from day to day. Ice has many colours. The birds have many antics in different weather. We found the best spots to see the beaver, the muskrat, and the great blue heron. Spring is the best for listening to ice cracking and moving. I can't get over the amazing colours as weather changes. I live in paradise as I can walk to the marina from my home in just 10 minutes. I wouldn't exchange this for any tropical beach. I'm a northern chick. Though Don dreams of the surf in Tahiti in 33 C with sweaty armpits as he walks down the beach. He is a tropical bird? dude? Not I. Enjoy your mornings wherever you be.
Monday 12 April 2021
Tuesday 30 March 2021
YOU are a Phenomenal Woman
Hang in there!
These are my grand puppies (actually senior dogs). Whiski on the left and Karma on the right. Muddy spring weather sent them into the bathtub. They look so woebegone. I suppose that's how we're all feeling with more lockdowns and possibly more snow coming. Hang in there! Hang in there! This too shall pass.
Saturday 27 February 2021
Alive
Resting Frog Yoga Studio is closing on March 31, 2021
With another lockdown it's sort of closed already.
I have been musing on many thoughts.
This Covid pandemic has truly brought some focus to what is important. I haven't taught a class for almost one year. I've looked at the path of yoga and what it is. It is an individual path. It was originally taught one on one between teacher and student. For the past year I've gone back to this original teaching. Private or semi private sessions. It has been enormously wonderful to teach this way!
I recognize that all the really important things I have learned in yoga has been from my own experience of it, that is, when I've been sitting or lying on my own mat and paying attention to what is present. Yes, I have had many guides, the best guides, and I couldn't have experienced yoga as profoundly without them, yet, it's all happened while doing yoga. The most important thing is to step on the mat. And begin. It's not so important where, or how, or what, or even why. Stepping on the mat, breathing, moving, noticing, breathing, moving, noticing, letting go, letting go, letting go, noticing, breathing...........being absolutely attuned to the moment.
Yoga is about one simple thing - attention. This is awareness. This is here and now. This shows you the stillness that you are.
Monday 28 October 2019
Yoga routine
7. Warrior I
Being free
I know what I want more than anything - to be free of the little me, the voice (actually many voices) in my head which continuously tell me how things are, how they are supposed to be, what I should be doing, what I should have done, etc. Bossy, bossy, bossy. I have come a long way though. I can now chuckle and even laugh out loud at the stupidity that flows through my mind. I remember Anthony de Mello, in his book, Awareness, saying that he is crazy, I am crazy, we are all crazy, and the sooner we realize that the happier we will be. I like to think that we are all absolutely sane, naturally, innately, but we pay attention and believe the voice in our head. So, I am going away to continue to learn to not take the voice or any thoughts seriously. I've been there before yet I want more and more to rest in peace. Wuhuu!
Friday 8 February 2019
Snow ghosts
Blankets of snow everywhere. The beauty of the season is inside too. A great excuse to hibernate - watch television - drink hot chocolate with a little brandy - write - read.