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~ We'll meet at the point our paths cross.

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Monthly Archives: May 2016

Frozen cheese

31 Tuesday May 2016

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I have to admit something here – this is not my first blog.  I’ll pause while folks pick up their mouths from disbelief.  My first blog is more personal and about recovery/steps forward from a life that I remember well.  And I do not use it much – because I’m not really the man I was when I started it.  The link below will take you there if you want to check it out, but as I thought about that blog tonight and if I want to keep it active or discontinue it, I read some posts.

And the post “Frozen Cheese” stopped me in my tracks.  Not because of the title or the content.  But because I still have that cheese, in my freezer.  I see it every time I get ice or food.  And every fucking time, I smile.  Because it reminds me of a time when I was unsure and a student (that I became a student with) walked into my life.  It reminded me of how far I’ve come,,,,and far I have yet to go.

My path, this journey, that I’m on is crazy exciting.  I see and feel such big things ahead that I can’t believe I’m still at a point when I’m figuring out where my path is leading.  Short answer is I don’t know.  Long answer is that I think it’s time that I start the shift in myself.  And to step into the future self I saw and hang out with on a beach in Hawaii.

In my journals, I frequently write about finding who I am in the greater world of yoga and what my place is.  I’m a little fish in a medium pond so to speak.  But that cheese is a frozen reminder – I touch lives daily and those lives touch me in return.  It’s the four ladies that went to my downtown DC class on a holiday not for the yoga only, but because I was teaching it.  It’s the teachers that I respect and hold in their space, knowing that regardless of our training, we are each on a path.  I think of the Forrest tribe in DC, growing as I type this.  And I’m humbled in each situation.

Who am I?  I’m a man, on my path, standing in strength from the lessons I’ve learned, and looking toward the sun.  Who’s with me?

Just an update,,,

26 Thursday May 2016

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Not really sexy, huh?  But I’ve been quiet for the past few weeks and I want to let everyone know I’m still here, I’m still teaching, and I’m still loving every second of it.  I think there’s a moment in most everyone’s life when we go inward and stop looking outside.  I took a yoga bodywork training taught by two of my best friends and mentors, along with an amazing cast/crew of yogis, magicians, wolves, unicorns, fairies, and other.

And honestly surprising to me – some big shit came out of me.  I’m still processing it.  It feels so right now that the only way I’ve been able to work through is by looking at me, by feeling me, and by focusing on my own needs.  It sounds selfish but really isn’t.  Imagine if we all think we’re worth it.  Working through crap that holds us back and allows a better version of self to step in.

My spirit has called this the lull before the storm.  I feel strong.  It’s been a weird week with daily intentions set around how I see myself and from that, allow others to see me.  To those that were in Asheville with me – wow, no words.  I’m so humbled to think of the space you held for me.  When you all want some light, let me know.  I’ll gladly shine it your way.  And more specifically, speaking to a few of you — JT, BC, AD, CR, RV, KWV, CT, LR, and to EW — you all saw and felt.  And yet you still held me up.  Hopefully our paths continue to cross and I can be of service to you as well.

There’s another point coming out here – we are human.  Because we care for and connect with others.  Find not only the love but the lightness in everyone you meet.  Change your world by actually interacting with the person in front of you.  There’s a new bad yogi coming.  Focused on helping all of us to heal.  And not caring what we heal from.  #Aho!

My right eye sees it all

15 Sunday May 2016

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My right eye started irritating me yesterday.  What I thought started as a piece of dust turned into full blown itching and some pain.  I told a friend about it and she (snarkily?) asked me what my book said about it.  The book in reference is an energetic medical book with too many conditions to count and the energetics behind each.  So far, that book has been spot on accurate for me, her, and a few other friends.

So I looked today at eye ailments and most specifically, the right eye.  And those issues of the right eye deal with how we see the world – namely how we’ve grown frustrated to sad to angry about injustices, cruelty, and the state of humanity.

The book was right again.  I’m deeply saddened by the state of humans and that sadness is turning into anger.  It’s the presidential race where candidates are being disrespectful not to their opponents but to entire segments of the population; it’s friends that talk behind backs in ways that are fitting not even any real housewife; it’s religious individuals taking aim at other religions or people because they are different; and it’s even happening in yoga, where some students and teachers of a certain practice think their way is the only way to samedhi, or bliss.

I’m hoping that by voicing my truth, my eye will ease up on the pain.  And that we can start proudly holding up things we learned as kids – to play nice and with fairness; to hold hands when crossing the street; to laugh from a place of joy and not contempt; and to see other people for who they really are — another human.  Living, breathing.  With each of use looking for our own path to happiness.

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