October Oversights

Hello B~Yogis... 

Spring came a little unsprung there for a bit ... Cold snap, hail blankets like snow, SE winds like arctic flushes...but the profound dip into my own personal ocean was like a dive to the depths of the oceanic bottom ... My oxygen mask was leaking, my pressure mask was strained, my vision blotted and my scream for help wasn't heard, or perhaps ignored, most certainly fell upon ears to young to understand the magnitude of my situation 

.. My desperate desire to run into the night and never look back... Yep another one of THOSE moments, that attack of the normal that feeds the drained heart a double dose of anxiety and a side order of let's pretend my inside aren't cracking and folding into themselves. Breath in, breathe out, breath in, breath out...don't sigh...don't sigh again... They're listening ...someone's always listening, always watching, always needing something or wanting another slice of mama pie. 

I love my life, but even the slightest bit of extra pressure sometimes  makes it all fall down. Sometimes I forget that asana can expel the overused energy and pressure cooked anxiety. That focus of shifting the shapes into a beautiful dance of breath & awareness. A float into the ethers on a exhale that melts me back into myself. Like listening to Chet Faker in the bath..or sliding into a duvet surrounded by flannelette sheets and swollen pillows. Hugging me into serenity. Soothing me back to safety. 

Yep! My grand plans to live a simple life for a couple weeks while my man took the car north..crashed & burnt quite considerably. Walking & biking my children around town, up & down hills, crafting our way into frenzied messes all over the house, walking the dog and stoking the home fires until they lit up the entire house. No I didn't burn the house down. A lightbulb exploded, and the bike pump failed to inflate my one means of quickening the journeys to n fro, so we were safe, in the house, so very much in the house. The rain started , the holidays kicked in and the whole thing started to unravel. 

I have been trying my total and utter everything to stay clean, in thought, in action and service. It's the hardest damn thing I've ever done. One week this month took my count back to a big fat zero! 

So I'm hear to rock it all over again, back to day one I went. 

That's the nature of realisation. I could give it all up, but I've learned that it is better than before. I'm better than before. Once you learn of better things you don't go back to shite things. Clean eating..junk food just doesn't taste the same anymore. Knowledge guides us to the best bits of ourselves, and reveals those tender, crappy and vulnerable bits. The ones we avoid, the ones we try n forget. 

So as November sinks into our realities and the sun starts to sting our skin, remember as the sunrise tints our dusky sky a soft embering (yes I made it up) orange on a Saturday ..it means you've got time to sneak out of the house & come down to the Community Hall for some gentle (or deep digging) yoga to set the tone for your weekend. 

No Yin session on Sunday this week, I'm off to a yoga festival in Port Macquarie ... ;) sorry to my devoted Yinsters there will be a special offering next week to make up for it :)) 

 

If you haven't been back to B~Yoga in a while I'd love to know why, class times, style or whatever else it is ...(all feedback is helpful)... I would love to help you stay on your yoga path, either with me, a home practice or with another teacher open to your needs. 

Thursday nights over at East Maitland start on Nov 26. It's not B~Yoga branded..it's Yoga Undone! 

Great studio, great location & two weekday sessions will be starting next year. 

Come over n check out the new page .. Please share with friends & family in that community  & maybe even come over and support me & your yoga practice there if you're keen :) 

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Yoga-Undone/826583547374066

So for now, I hope you are settling into the 'bustling with beautiful energy' month ... So soothing after that big moon eh?

Enjoy some time out for you ...and until I see you on the mat or out in our community remember to 

 GIVE WHAT YOU WANT TO RECEIVE.

Don't expect what you are not willing to give.  Start practicing the golden rule.  If you want love, give love.  If you want friends, be friendly.  If you want money, provide value.  It works.  It really is this simple.

Namaste Peace & Shapes 

Lisette 

B & Undone