Health & Fitness
Lost in the Sauce...
It's so easy to get lost in the sauce. Find out why letting your mind reel with thoughts and random songs can be detrimental to your life.
I had been singing the song for two days. I actually caught myself in the shower and realized it. To anyone else, it would have seemed like another “earworm” but to me, it was clutter. Moving along task to task, singing mindlessly + letting the mind jump thought to thought meant that my breath was shallow.
“Your breath is a reflection of your mind,” my friend and yoga teacher Cybele said.
The reflection I was seeing wasn’t the clearest. In fact, it was downright hazy. I slowly let my meditation and breathing practice fall by the wayside this last week. A casualty to business or busy-ness, maybe. I just know that it wasn’t a priority and when that is the case, anything can win out. In my case, more sleep.
And the result? Not being at the top of my game. Randomly singing songs + letting the monkey mind loose and not finding the words when I needed them [worse then my usual blonde moments].
When the mind has free reign to get carried away in a song or a thought, we are just clogging up the waterways. Like a beaver dam, each thought is a stick in the water. As we add more thoughts, we eventually stop the flow completely. The things that important to us will not flow within us, from us or to us. We may even find ourselves less likely to deal with challenges [i.e. the rocks in the water] because there is no space to wrap our head around the matter.
When we practice meditation and breathing [pranayama], we slow down. We remove the sticks one by one. The river flows once again + we are able to “go with the flow” when issues arise, be they pebbles or boulders.
“I’ve got news for you. When you’re NOT doing breathing and meditation work, you aren’t doing yoga,” says one of my favorite teachers Kelly Morris of Conquering Lion NYC. “You are doing what my guru calls Indian calisthenics.”
When you come to class, take a moment in your car or at your mat and sit quietly. Find your breath and clear the debris from the water. Those five minutes will be so beneficial and will help take your practice deeper. It will help make yoga more of a state of being in your life. And when you have a clear mind, you can have a better relationship with others --be it with God, your spouse, friends or yoga students. ;)
TEMPLE TOUR
We are awaiting confirmation for the date and time of our tour but it looks like we will be going through the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir on Saturday, September 29. Mark your calendar and email me if you are interested. Confirmed group members will receive an email with some general rules of our visit. Remember, join us at Chi Kwang Do for yoga is at 8:30 am just across the street!
HEALTH + AWARENESS SEMINAR
Join Adrian + Melissa Merrick to learn the truth about your drinking water and leave with free samples of Kangen Water. Come by Friday, August 31 at 6:30 pm at 375 Rockbridge Road NW, Lilburn, GA 30047. Start healing yourself + your water!
NEW CLASSES
New Vinyasa Flow class Mondays at 6:00-7:00 am at Meridian starting August 27.
All Levels Donation Class at Fleet Feet Johns Creek, Wednesdays at 9:00-10:00 am starting September 12.
CLASS CANCELLATIONS
Hopefully, regular yoga classes are helping you grow your practice at home. In an effort to stay current with the lastest modalities in yoga and for my balance of work, family and life, there will be some dates that we will not offer classes. I will try to give you notice far enough in advance so you can plan. When possible I will try to find substitute teachers but please note these dates until then:
Saturday, September 1
Sunday, September 9
Friday, October 19, Saturday, October 20 + Sunday, October 21 [training]
Wednesday, October 31
Friday, November 17 - Thursday, November 25 [Thanksgiving break]
THIS WEEK'S SCHEDULE
Monday, August 27, 2012
Vinyasa Flow
Meridian Community Center
105 Generation Blvd., Loganville 30052
6:00 am - 7:00 am
St. Oliver's Catholic Church
6:30 pm - 7:45 pm
No Class
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
All Levels
Meridian Community Center
105 Generation Blvd., Loganville 30052
8:45 - 9:45 am
All Levels
B&B Tae Kwon Do
258 Main Street, Loganville 30052
7:45 - 9:00 pm
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Intensive
Loganville Donation-Based Class*
7:00 - 8:30 pm
Thursday, August 30, 2012
All Levels
Meridian Community Center
105 Generation Blvd., Loganville 30052
8:45 - 9:45 am
Friday, August 31, 2012
All Levels
Bodyplex Grayson
2445 Moon Road, Grayson 30017
Fridays 9:00 - 10:00 am
Saturday, September 1
All Levels Yoga
Chi Kwang Do Lilburn
8:30 am - 9:45 am
No Class