"The Guest House"

"This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they're a crowd of sorrows who violently sweep your house empty of it's furniture still treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight." - 'The Essential Rumi'

In the coming season we are looking back on the year that has passed and looking forward to the New Year to come. It is a time of reflection for ourselves, no matter what emotions pass through your door this year, great each one with open arms, they may not have been invited, but they have come and unless we take them in, give them an ear and nourish them, they will pass and the learning and inner awareness of growth will pass through with them unentertained.
It is in the entertaining of all these guests that we learn to be receptive, accepting and kind despite circumstances. May this coming season fill your soul with an eminating warmth that leaves all your guests welcome and entertained.

Namaste

Yoga Today

Yoga today is what you want it to be, everyone is in a differnet stage and we are all on the search for greater harmony and peace in the body, mind and spirit. It has been my finding that most people in the West today, start a Yoga practice for the physical aspect of the poses, to create a healthier, stronger body. Once you start it quickly becomes clear that the mind and the spirit are right along for the ride. Not only the obvious, that you start to look better and feel more confident but you start to notice a change in your thoughts. Your thoughts on your practice, your thoughts on your life. Why am I doing this? where do I want to go? how can I put so much effort into learning the technique of such an old and wise practice and not take a deeper look within? But it is through this looking within that it all starts to unfold, what started as a physical practice becomes a physical, emotional and spiritual journey. And isn't that what life is all about. THE JOURNEY!!! No matter where we end up don't we at least want to know that we were the captain of our own ship? Well to me that's what Yoga has given me, the orr's to my own boat. And whether I set sail for a short and sweet row through the still, calm water's or I end up fighting the largest storm you can imagine. I am in control, and I will be in charge of my own destiny. No one can ask for more than that. So whether you find your way to Yoga to master the physical, tame the mind or to find your soul, be assured your ship will pass all these along the way and each time it does, you will come that much closer to your destination.
HARMONY within.