Okay so this is fun. This is a video that MiLo made and John just sent out in a newsletter. Lots of fun growth afoot in the world of Anusara Yoga... http://www.elephantjournal.com/2010/02/shiva-shakti-tantra-video-w-john-friend-of-anusara-yoga/ Check it out.

I had a great day home yesterday. Kelly and I took a walk in between the rains, I did a long deep hip opening and inversion practice and went down to see Ana in San Marcos and get my hair cut. She and I are still scheming about getting the San Marcos of School of Yoga back open which is kind of fun. I myself won't be teaching there any time soon but it can serve as a great resource for the yoga teachers in that area. Probably by May something should be in place. So that is a fun project to think about. Although I cannot think about it much more until April.

Then Kelly and I went to dinner with Mom and Dad at Vespaio on South Congress which was totally great. Good food, great conversation. Well, at least Dad and I had a great conversation. We after all, did most of the talking. He gave me some excellent advice on my writing projects and some good perspectives about moving forward on some things which was very helpful.

So today- I am going to do an asana practice and then get on a plane and head out to the advanced intensive in Hollywood with John Friend. It is kind of annual event for me. It was this week over 10 years ago when I first met John and I think I have only missed the event one year since then- when I first moved to Texas. This, however, is the first year it is going to be in California and not in Arizona. So it is the same tradition with a new face, which is fun. I am going to stay with Noah and his family which I am looking forward to and if all goes well, I will even get a chance to drop in on his class tonight. (all things meaning LA traffic and my plane landing on time and me being able to follow directions to City Yoga... See, a lot of things have to line up!)

Well, in order to get it all done and make my plane, time to go. I get back on Friday afternoon and will be there with bells on for our final Immersion weekend here in Austin, TX. Yippee.

Here in Tucson

So I got to Tucson last night and I can hardly believe all that has happened since we were all gathered here for Part One. So many lessons on so many fronts.

Lately, through a series of events that for various reasons I am not going to publish on the world wide web I got a wake up call around integrity. In the Fourth Way work there is this concept called "Shock". The idea is that sometimes we need a shock in order to break out of a habitual pattern, be it physical, psychological, emotional or so on. Well, I got a great shock recently- the shock waves of which filtered into just about every nook and cranny of my life and issues with which I have been struggling. Really, it is so fantastic. In one instance, instead of feeling trapped and stuck, I saw new avenues of creativity, new possibilities for myself and an invitation to greater integrity between my thoughts, words, deeds. So incredible.

The first thing I realized is that first and foremost I do not want to be an insane yoga teacher and that the pace of my work as of late is quickly taking me there. The second thing is that the answer to certain financial stress and strain I have been feeling is not to make more money. (Well, not only. It is an issue of faith, of trust of budgets and skillful means.) The third thing is a level of acceptance that teaching yoga is a high calling and will call me to root out and purify those things that are not aligned with my path. Period. Like it or hate it, this path is no longer a choice. So I can complain about it if I want, but really, it is what I am doing and what in some ways, is being done to me, so deal.

I could go on but at a certain point, the rest are probably variations on the theme. Landing in Tucson, Darren and I just jumped into a great two hour long catch up about our lives and planning session for the day. We have lots of folks returning from last time and some new folks joining us. I can't wait to meet everyone and get going.

Yippee!