fallin in love ...fast!

nothing has felt as easy and effortless as this...

this is probably how it is supposed to feel...

she makes me laugh, she understands me, she supports me and she can hold her own. She offers, strength and yet a safe haven. We can dream together, talk about what we want, where we are going and how to get there...all the elements of what seems to be a future with someone else.

Its still early days and at times i think I should pinch myself to check if this is real...but shes real! totally real!

the body does not lie

ouch!

Monday morning!

practice really hurt this morning! though I was really glad to get up and get on to my mat more than anything. I mostly felt rigid, inflamed, puffy and in need of a good detox!

Whilst falling in love is bliss. staying true and honest to an Ashtanga yoga practice with a full time life to go along with it, is proving to be difficult.

I think I need to start disciplining myself to do what I can remember at home.

Meditation and knowing the chant will help bring me to stillness calm and focus sooner.

date night

its my first official date in a long time, but its mine and georgies 3rd time to hang out. The plan was, no sex until we had a date (my idea) bad idea...total epic fail. but as a result and maybe as our punishment we both got scabies. Totally her fault!

Im writing this post as I am a little excited. Even thought I have called her, seen her twice this week and been texting regularly. I still feel really excited to be spending time with such a like minded soul.

Trust in the universe and know that things are the way they are supposed to be, because thats how it was meant to be.

Make it happen

Wise wisdom from my friend Yogi Ben, just make it happen! made me chuckle quiet a bit before our amazing practice this morning with Eileen Hall.

WOW! what a woman! what a teacher! what being!

Friday morning led Ashtanga classes are most definitely life changing.

Moving energy together...breathing together...experiencing this experience together!

Yoga and what it means to me has definitely changed and am sure it will continue to change as my practice evolves. But now I understand that turning up to your mat is only 1/8th of my practice.

attitude, steadiness, practice and more practice is how I will improve my practice.

ask and you shall receive

2 weeks ago, I finally admitted to myself that I am ready for commitment, ready to share my life and all of me with someone deserving...then as serendipity plays it part "bam", in floats this special gal that totally catches my attention effortlessly and reciprocating...meaning she too is ready to receive who i am and what i have learnt from life. In other words to be each others mirror to reflect, who are, what we have learnt and what we need to learn. Be it for a short time, a long time or a life time. Someone appeared when I acknowledged and accepted who I am and where I am.

3 weeks of Ashtanga

Time sure is flying. Stuff. As usual constantly changing. The ups and down of the mundane. Maybe its a little to harsh to call it mundane, but when it keeps happening this is what it feels like!!

I am soon learning though, that as stuff changes on the mat (the way I practice), stuff is surely changing in my day to day life. What these changes do surface is allot of emotion and feeling. i can feel old responses wanting to react and carry on in an old story, but what I can suddenly see is my desire and attachment to hang on to what may no longer be necessary in my life. Friendships included.

Ashtanga Journey begins...Australia Day 2014

Stepping on to the mat for the first time in a mysore style shala in urban sydney was more than it cracked up to be...I had heard about this place a year ago via a yogini i met on teacher training. My intention was to one day visit this place. But like all things we get there in the end if it is meant for us.

12 months later I meet a teachers assistant, Ben. He also practices at this mysore style shala and suggested I come with him. again and again until finally I said ok.

Cutting the blog short.

Eileen Hall, places me right at the front of the shala and practice commences. I go with the flow, ask no questions, move with grace and breathe whilst listening to her few, but clear instructions.

I spend barely hour on the mat and am sent to the back of the room for savasana....yes! it was the perfect amount for day 1.

I leave feeling, clear, overwhelmed by what I saw from other practitioners but the level of dedication and discipline that a yogi lives by.

I have never been so passionate about something in my whole life. This is my path.

2014

not quite sure how to set the tone for this post...many times I come into the New Year with a warrior attitude ready to kick and smash goals...not saying that this year I am less motivated or don't have any goals...I am just feeling a little...indifferent, overwhelmed, expectation-less if you can even use it in such a way...

When I was on a high yesterday and a few days before that at a friends little house party, I thought to my self while looking over the city lights...what do you want? what makes you happy? the same questions that tick over and over in peoples minds quite possibly on a minute to minute basis every where, all the time, through out the universe.

While I was in this state, I did think, I am nor excited nor fearful of the future and what lies ahead in 2014...I suppose this is probably a good thing considering that life is about going with the flow...

So I thought whilst I am in this scatty headspace (new years day party) I would exercise my little brain muscle and ask it some striking life like questions...(bad idea, im sure...) but sometimes...the most insight.

love, friends and relationships...keep company with good peeps.
love is free
study...love learning...
work + save
holiday in June and Dec.

simple really.

thats all.

best wishes to me in 2014 xo