FOLD / give yourself permission

"Yoga is the breaking of contact with pain (duka - separation)."  - Rod Stryker

Freedom. It's funny how one conversation can release from the cage you built around yourself. One conversation can give you the permission you need to let go, surrender, and trust. One conversation to stay, it's okay dearest one, to just let it be. You can always adjust, alter, shift, move, cry, be joyful, all the time and ways in which you need. It was so beautiful to be reminded of choice in a moment when I wasn't able; couldn't see myself clearly, it was good to be reminded that I chose this life, this place, this job, this man, this home, this moment. It was good to feel humbled and honored and loved, deeply. I am going to stop using violent words against this place, this home. I am going to honor my choices and shift when necessary. I am going to listen deeper and lean into joy and love and honesty. I am going to be here, now. I am going to try to honor myself enough to shift my self-care, to speak to myself in soft whispers of compassion. I've ben quietly calling in freedom this month, ushered in by one of my teachers, and already feel such a clarity of space given, space received, and space yet to be created. I felt a lightness that I wasn't able to acknowledge or surrender to until his quiet and steady voice begged me to remember, to listen. Life is a steady commitment to take a single step at a time; there's no need to rush, it's all coming.

How are you honoring your internal whispering?

How can you turn up the volume on your self-care?

How can you be with yourself exactly where you are?

GATHER / crafting intention into your daily routine

Welcome to 2016. It seems like the entire internet, blogosphere and podcast airwaves are buzzing this month on crafting intentions, feeling all the feelings, and creating the visions and goals we want to cultivate this time of year. I love the New Year for it's sense of renewal, refocus and inward questioning. It's a universally recognized month of hitting the reset button, which I think we all sometimes desperately need and yearn for. It's a month of levity and lightness fueled by this sense that good things are on the horizon. I love love love that. I love that as adults this time of year gives us a chance to take a collective deep breath and say this is how I want things to go this year. Intention fills up manifestation and then create our reality. And, let's face it, it's easier to craft new intentions when the universe is spending the moment aligning and conspiring with you.

For me, this is going to be the year of 

 CLARITY

Clarity really struck a cord with me this year. It's defined as the quality of being expressed, remembered, or understood. This year I want to use clarity to define and own my purpose, defend my definable values, illuminate my core purpose, cultivate my continued financial freedom, create and not be afraid to ask and call in abundance, expanded as a private at-home yoga teacher, what studentship means to me, continuing education with my chosen teachers, acknowledgment of space and dedicated time for the tribe i love, continue to define what home has come to mean. 

and also, for good measure and pleasure I'm adding in 

CURIOSITY

just because this word just feels good in my bones. 

It's has an air of playfulness that I am always running the opposite direction from. I want to bring a sense of curiosity into every interaction, struggle, joy, and change this year.