Yea!

I am so excited about going to training class tomorrow. I have had a wonderful day today. As I write we just went through a hail storm. It was over in about 3 minutes and now the fields look all refreshed. The sky is a beautiful pink and orange and filled with clouds. It is such a nice way to finish off the day.

It started with yoga on the porch. Cameron came out and joined me.I lead him though Tier 1 of the Bodhi Yoga flow and I just love it. He is an amazing kid and I love to spend time with him. I love that he takes an interest in what I am doing. He asked if we could do it again tomorrow and of course I said yes. We talked about making it part of our daily routine before we start school classes we would have yoga class. Sounds great to me.

Family time

We went backpacking. It was so great to go as a family. Cameron and Jesse go camping a lot and I usually stay home. I think that in the past I have not gone or said no to something and I don't even know why. I am now working on going with the flow a lot more. When my hubby says lets go for a bike ride I say... lets go. So this past weekend I was the one that said lets go camping

We left later in the afternoon and drove up to Spirit lake. We parked and got our backpacks on and headed out. Wow did we ever have fun. We didn't find the trail right away so we followed the stream because we knew it would lead to the lake sooner or later. We did find the trail and kept on it and ran into a momma moose and her baby. We just stood together as a family and stared at her little family. So cute!!

We made it to Jessen lake and set up the tent. It is a snug 3 person tent and I was excited. I was really tired and could have skipped dinner but the boys were dying to have me try the freeze dried veggie lasagna, how could I resist.

When we were finished we went right to bed on it was really cozy. I was so thankful to be there with my boys and the dog. The next morning was beautiful. As I got up the little birds and squirrels were there to welcome me. The lake had some fish jumping and the mountains behind the lake were truly picturesque.

Since starting my yoga teacher training I really feel as if my eyes are open to everything. I think of all the times I have said no to something and really missed out. I think that I was being ruled by fear. I am now ready for adventure, I am glad that my family waited for me to catch up to all the fun they have been experiencing. I look so forward to all of our new adventures.

Yoga

Yoga means "to yoke". The more I realize this the more wonderful my days are. I know that for the most part when someone says yoga a person pictures tree pose or triangle pose which is something that I have pictured for years. As I study I find that I am practicing yoga more than I ever realized.

The days since my last class have been so amazing for me and my family. I find that I have had more fun than we have had in a long time. We have gone on several bike rides lately. We leave and go all around town and I really feel the "yoga" in our rides.

We learned about the three gunas in our training and they are the three energies that direct anything that is happening on a physical aspect and they are all around us. I try to notice them as I go through the day. Today was a good example because they seemed very apparent to me. As I walked outside to my porch the dog was following me and he had a little bee that was following him. This bee was having a lot of fun with Luke and he chased it all around as he wound up in circles and was jumping up in the air over and over, I realized I was watching all this Rajasic energy coming from both the dog and the bee. I noticed the Sattvic energy in the field as it sat so still, not one thing disturbing it. The trees in the field that stand so tall were expressing their Tamasic energy. It was at that moment that I realized within a matter of moments I was surrounded by all these different energies that I had not taken the time to notice before. I love learning new things and then seeing them in my day to day life.

The beginning

I have started this post over and over...in my head. I can not imagine that I would ever forget one single moment of my yoga training and journey, but I love the idea of blogging it so that I can see the changes in myself as I go along on this new path.

I feel like I finally took my first breath, a real breathe, a cleansing breath on Aug 11th 2011. That was my first day of Yoga Teacher Training at Bodhi Yoga. The day was so amazing!! 27 years ago on that exact date was the day that my mom died. My whole little world was turned upside down. As I walked into class I found myself being turned right side up as everything had aligned for me to be here. My spirit was so excited that I couldn't even speak, which I decided to honor.

We started with some intros and then moved into a Kundalini class which was amazing. I hadn't been in a Kundalini class since Sarabjot left Vernal. It was in Sarabjot's class that I realized that some day I would love to teach. She was such a wonderful teacher and I thoroughly enjoyed her classes. Well here I was in this class having an experience of connecting mind, body and spirit and I couldn't help but just breath in gratitude with every breath. I am grateful for the journey I have been on that has led me to Syl and Bodhi Yoga. I am grateful to Syl and all the countless hours that she has put into Bodhi Yoga Teacher Training, I truly know that I am in the right place at the right time. I look so forward to this new journey! Friday and Saturday seemed to go by with such a great peace. We had a Bodhi Flow class Saturday morning that was so enjoyable, it really set the mood for the whole day.

As I left I had a long drive ahead to think things over, and over. It was a beautiful time to soak it in and realize that I really am that one that I have been waiting for.