New Blog Post

I keep thinking that I should write a new blog post, since my back is feeling better which means my practice has been better. I even finally was able to return to the led classes this morning and even enjoyed it.

But I just don't have much to say right now. I'm not sure why but I haven't even been writing in my journal for the past two weeks.

I've another month and two weeks left here, which I'm grateful for since my body is just now ready to move forward but this week there are many friends leaving and it's not necessarily making me sad, but maybe it is making me sad a little bit. Also it's Christmas, which I'm notorious for not liking and try to get out of parts of it at every turn, but maybe I'm missing that I won't be with my family a little bit and the people at home who I've known for years and am very close with, maybe.

I'm not sad really, just contemplative I think. Thinking a lot about this past year as it comes soon to a close, and on Facebook everyone is posting videos of their year (which I've not watched any, nor do I have any inkling of wanting to watch any!). But it has stirred up a thought process around my experiences this year. It's been a bit of a doozy, I've spent from February 17th to April 8th and then again from October 27th til the end of the year and beyond that, in India, a place I've wanted to come for a very long time, even way before yoga. So that's pretty awesome. Of course all that time I've spent not making money, so I'm sure that I've made less this year than any other in the recent past, but that's okay too because I'm happy.

I've rededicated myself to my Ashtanga practice, so it's become a part of my path again. My path that has woven quite and interesting and twisted tapestry, but it's all mine and there is no denying it. It has changed me for the better.

I also wonder at the changes that will come up in me after I'm home from this trip, the last was hard to re=assimilate back into what they call "normal" in St. Louis, normal for me has never been anything but... But we'll see, can't worry about that right now. I'm still here and have another month and a half to go, which I'm still excited about, not dreading as some do going into their third month. Many only do 1-2 months now because of that, but I'm glad I chose to do three, three is just right for me right now.

So, we'll see how it goes. Have a great holiday season all, and enjoy it, relax about it don't tense up around it. Hug people and give them a kiss. Say I love you more easily, and mean it, even if you don't know them so well. Love is okay to feel and will make you feel better than the converse, so open up that crusty gate around your heart and feel it!

More soon...