3/9/09

now.

this week-end was chill. we had dinner with friends on friday night and went to a two-year old's birthday party on saturday afternoon (who doesn't love walking in on a darling little girl wearing a pink dress and carrying a handful of balloons???). :)
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yesterday we were at CY all day. i took two yoga classes - a 75 minute class in the afternoon (next to jennette - pictured above) and another 60 minute basics class in the evening. i also finally began my yoga teacher training home-work last night which are questions from a book called "Meditation and It's Practice" by Swami Rama. so far it's excellent. it's a small book and i would highly recommend it if you're at all interested in meditation.
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along with beginning my written home-work, i utilized my yoga instructor boyfriend and practiced teaching him in our family room on saturday. how lucky am i??? i have a personal tutor! i almost feel like i'm cheating. ;) he would stop me along the way and say, "you may want to say it like this..." or "don't forget to mention the alignment in child's pose" etc. it was exceptionally helpful and it has calmed my nerves for having to practice teaching the integration series to my fellow trainees on wednesday night!
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i want to share with you an excerpt from Eckhart Tolle's beautiful and life-changing book, The Power of Now. please read it with an open mind. i think it will inspire you this morning.
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cheers this monday to all of you lovelies out there!!! xo
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"If you find it hard to enter the Now directly, start by observing the habitual tendency of your mind to want to escape from the Now. You will observe that the future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory. Through self-observation, more presence comes into your life automatically. The moment you realize you are not present, you are present. Whenever you are able to observe your mind, you are no longer trapped in it. Another factor has come in, something that is not of the mind: the witnessing presence. Be present as the watcher of your mind - of your thoughts and emotions as well as your reactions in various situations. Be at least as intererested in your reactions as in the situation or person that causes you to react. Notice also how often your attention is in the past or future. Don't judge or analyze what you observe. Watch the thought, feel the emotion, observe the reaction. don't make a personal problem out of them. You will then feel something more powerful than any of those things that you observe: the still, observing presence itself behind the content of your mind, the silent watcher."
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go out and buy the book! it's full of powerful teaching... xo

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