tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65082553532232169012024-03-18T20:09:02.770-07:00ginger LOVES yoga!Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13989415010751895950noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6508255353223216901.post-48784961900156002962010-10-14T17:30:00.000-07:002010-10-14T17:30:48.441-07:00balasana<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">aka Child's Pose</span></div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3gpvZsDRrf0Es76Hnh9oQkrpFM_8Y19g9SwWgXPhjFwu8VeLWHKTjprniISTrnFVVkdCbM2pQNfRxRfal6QvFUeLg-fKz_JK9eQO_hK_ImxzMwk8MCOBRSCjk6lGYC9yvmPFWSsHYrSY/s1600/yoga-childs-pose.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3gpvZsDRrf0Es76Hnh9oQkrpFM_8Y19g9SwWgXPhjFwu8VeLWHKTjprniISTrnFVVkdCbM2pQNfRxRfal6QvFUeLg-fKz_JK9eQO_hK_ImxzMwk8MCOBRSCjk6lGYC9yvmPFWSsHYrSY/s320/yoga-childs-pose.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">*google images*</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Benefits;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">~ extremely restorative</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">~ gently stretches your thighs, hips & ankles</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">~ relieves neck & backaches</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">{particularly if performed with head & torso supported}</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">~ is known to calm down the brain, relieve stress & fatigue</span></div><br />
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<a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/320/B3840831EB4EE27E7A6ECED333986348.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" /></a>Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13989415010751895950noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6508255353223216901.post-41464691633286722392010-10-14T09:24:00.000-07:002010-10-14T09:24:15.957-07:00are you surprised?<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">really? noooooo you aren't.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it's the Irish in me. the impatient, indecisive Irish.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">yeah yeah, another blog re-do.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">i think it's my favourite, after Rocketgirl of course. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">for now.... ;)</span></div><br />
<a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/320/B3840831EB4EE27E7A6ECED333986348.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" /></a>Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13989415010751895950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6508255353223216901.post-69819047363990688122010-10-13T20:48:00.000-07:002010-10-13T20:49:19.787-07:002 more sleeps!!!<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Excited! Nervous!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Just sayin'!</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">PS. Bless all the hard workers who freed the Chilean miners! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">So moving & amazing to watch!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/320/B3840831EB4EE27E7A6ECED333986348.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" /></a>Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13989415010751895950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6508255353223216901.post-58995438993567368132010-10-12T16:50:00.000-07:002010-10-13T20:50:08.872-07:003 sleeps left!<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pinch me! Pinch me! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">3 sleeps left til my Yoga Retreat in Beautiful Shuswap Lake!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have been looking forward to this weekend of </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">PURE BLISS </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">with <a href="http://www.padmameditation.com/">Padma</a> & her signature workshop for months!</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"This October, refresh your inner strength and spend a weekend practicing wonderfully revitalizing yoga and meditation with us. We'll be exploring yoga philosophy about bliss and peace in life. Learn about the subtle energies of the body, the koshas and doshas, and practice ancient purification techniques from the classical Yoga Sutras. You'll come away completely replenished and full of knowledge of how you can maintain this excellent feeling every day. Practices will include meditation, yoga and philosophy, yogic psychology, and exercises to clear, align, and strengthen the praan or subtle life force in you."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Got my mat ready, my journal, a new Chopra book...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"><strong>P I N C H M E !!!!!</strong></span></div><br />
<a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/320/B3840831EB4EE27E7A6ECED333986348.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/></a>Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13989415010751895950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6508255353223216901.post-86436341652062655282010-10-10T05:17:00.000-07:002010-10-13T20:50:46.002-07:00Happy Thanksgiving!<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here we are...well, here I am. Another middle of the night post. 3 little hours separate me from my patients and my days off. The end of those 3 little hours also marks the end of my posting here on the unit. {tiny happy dance} It's a super tough unit to work on, but with super amazing staff, however...returning to casual status at the hospital will afford me a bit more of a "life" and I am looking forward to that!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Thanksgiving is upon us, one of my favourite holidays. Why? I'll admit, it's the food. Ok & family. In our family, Thanksgiving is just me, the hubby & the kids. No extended family. Just us. Pj's all day, food all day, movies all day, MNF & MLB {go phillies! go rays! show NY who's boss!}, & coffee all day ending with a perfect little holiday feast cooked by yours truly.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">What am I thankful for this year? Always so much; my perfect children who give me SO MUCH joy everyday, my very wonderful & supportive husband who lets me be me and keeps me in line {OY!}. I am so thankful that he loves all three of us beyond measure. I am thankful, although it has been the most difficult part of my days as of late, that I have the privilege to be a nurse, I have a fantastic & rewarding job. I am thankful for my family, and my amazing extended family, Roy & Rosy too. I am thankful that we are in a position to educate, feed, clothe and provide not only basic necessities, but can afford little luxuries for our family when others have not so much. I am lastly ever so thankful for my friends. Words cannot express how grateful I am to have the friends that I do. I love my new found buddies in Blogland , & The Trifecta is one of my greatest joys {even tho they have forced me on prior occasions into cardmaking ;) }. My list is so much longer than this, and truth be told, I am not just thankful for these people & things on this weekend only...I am thankful on a daily basis for all of the above. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">What are you thankful for? </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I hope this weekend finds you all in good company, in good health & well fed!</span></div><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/320/B3840831EB4EE27E7A6ECED333986348.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/></a>Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13989415010751895950noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6508255353223216901.post-83813316141720351532010-10-07T20:28:00.000-07:002010-10-13T20:51:11.820-07:00Happiness is...<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Coming home after a very terrible , long, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">frustrating 12 hour work day</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to a wonderful dinner. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I don't just mean any dinner...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I mean roast</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">with all the trimmings. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Thank you dear husband.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">You are a doll.</span></div><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/320/B3840831EB4EE27E7A6ECED333986348.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/></a>Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13989415010751895950noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6508255353223216901.post-12798307608577113312010-10-05T10:41:00.000-07:002010-10-05T10:57:02.247-07:00bored<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">yes. bored. trying to kick this cold before my set...i go back to work tomorrow.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">bored. so i figured i'd play around with a blog re-do...having minimal success. meh.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">still having VERY LIMITED success these days quieting my mind on my mat. yoga used to be so....calming...i must have lots of "stuff" to work thru...my mind is busier than ever during my practice. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">coffee. back to the blog redo. have a terrific tuesday!</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/311/2DC44E916DC1BE0838815275974B9711.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" /></a>Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13989415010751895950noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6508255353223216901.post-79068054009061798712010-10-04T13:08:00.000-07:002010-10-04T13:16:29.472-07:00Meatless Monday<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was blog-hopping avec my coffee this morning, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I came across a recipe site for a worldwide initiative if you will called, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.meatlessmonday.com/">Meatless Mondays</a>.</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I read the articles, applauding the great idea and all the benefits behind it...&</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> then i saw today's submitted recipe by a celebrity endorser. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> Um, ya, GORDON RAMSAY! </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Those of you who know me, know how much I LOVE Gordy!</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Inspired by his recipes and the Meatless Monday campaign, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I'm doin' it too! </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I'm sticking with my foolhardy meatless Indian meal...</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">home made roti, basmati rice and chana masala. </span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">MMMMMMM! What's on your Meatless Monday menu??</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/262/1E7D0B0D868979250ABAFA9E906697FD.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" /></a>Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13989415010751895950noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6508255353223216901.post-57652654824871536232010-09-30T01:13:00.000-07:002010-09-30T01:13:00.228-07:00Pledge for Peace<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When all people of <strong>CONSCIENCE</strong> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">do <strong>MORE</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> than we are currently d</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">oing </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">create peace </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and nonviolence, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">our collective actions will</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>GREATLY TRANSFORM</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the world in which we live.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/262/1E7D0B0D868979250ABAFA9E906697FD.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" /></a>Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13989415010751895950noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6508255353223216901.post-80034942475988420252010-09-29T11:23:00.000-07:002010-09-29T19:29:13.540-07:00Oooch, Ouch!<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So tell me, what do YOU think of when you hear the word "garland"?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think of Christmas, ribbons, lace, pretty things you know? </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Girlie happy things.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Enter</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Malasana. Aka <strong>Garland</strong> Pose. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Aka, pose from hell. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There's nothing lacey or happy about it.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And for the very first time EVER, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am faced with not really being able to do a pose. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">True story. </span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I can rock alotta poses you know. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I can hardly walk today. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Malasana. Don't tick her off!</span></div><br />
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<a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/262/1E7D0B0D868979250ABAFA9E906697FD.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" /></a></div></div>Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13989415010751895950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6508255353223216901.post-86062158071815345322010-09-27T07:35:00.000-07:002010-09-27T07:35:24.290-07:00a borrowed quote with many thanks from "The Devil Wears Prana..."<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">there can be no doubt. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But that is not what great ships are built for."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">{Clarissa Pinkola-Estes}</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/262/1E7D0B0D868979250ABAFA9E906697FD.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" /></a></div>Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13989415010751895950noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6508255353223216901.post-66410053870920641432010-09-26T10:39:00.000-07:002010-09-26T10:39:00.698-07:00i coud have scurvy<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">maybe it's not scurvy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">i still think i am dying.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">i blame my youngest child.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">and September. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">this ALWAYS happens in September.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">my skin is crawling.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">my head is pounding.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">i can't stop shivering. and sweating.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">ew.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">my nose is red & raw.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">i had plans mr. illness. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">you screwed me out of a sunny summer day yesterday,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">a night out last night,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">a glorious 1/2 day on fantastic unit @ work,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">and an afternoon party.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">i miss the boys.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">sniff. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/262/1E7D0B0D868979250ABAFA9E906697FD.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" /></a>Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13989415010751895950noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6508255353223216901.post-89536711944254790222010-09-24T17:31:00.000-07:002010-09-24T17:31:59.212-07:00i'm having one of those days...<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In through the nose, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">out through the mouth.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Repeat.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/262/1E7D0B0D868979250ABAFA9E906697FD.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" /></a>Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13989415010751895950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6508255353223216901.post-60579279037256943772010-09-23T09:46:00.000-07:002010-09-23T10:17:40.153-07:00Are you ready for some Yoga???<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sun Salutation</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(surya namaskar) </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Surya Namaskar, aka the Sun Salutation, is a series of 12 postures performed in a single, graceful flow. Each movement is coordinated with the breath. Inhale as you extend or stretch, and exhale as you fold or contract. The Sun Salutation builds strength and increases flexibility, it activates digestion, ventilates the lungs thereby oxygenating the body and calms the mind!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the series below, a single round consists of two complete sequences: one for the right side of the body and the other for the left. {do you know that some yogis practice 108 sun salutations?? oooh another good future post!}</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. Mountain Pose. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Begin by standing in Mountain pose, feet about hip width apart, hands at your heart. Take several deep breaths. In thru your nose, out thru your nose.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. Hands up, a gentle back bend, face to the sun! </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On your next inhale, in one sweeping movement, raise your arms up overhead and gently arch back as far as feels comfortable and safe. </span></div><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. Head to knees. </span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As you exhale, bend forward, bending the knees if necessary, and bring your hands to rest beside your feet. Hang your head loosely. No tension!</span><br />
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</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. Lunge. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Inhale and step the right leg back. Neck straight, heart raised & forward.</span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5. Plank {abs people! abs!} </span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Exhale and step the left leg back into plank position. Hold the position and inhale.</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Contract those abs! Oooh shaky!</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6. Stick. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Exhale and lower yourself as if coming down from a push up. Keep your elbows tucked in tight to your sides, neck in alignment with your spine.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7. Cobra. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Inhale and stretch forward and up, bending at the waist. Your hands should be resting lightly on the floor, not pushing you up. Raise just your chest off the floor for low cobra, extend your arms for high cobra. Be mindful of your back!</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">8. Downward facing dog. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Exhale, push into child's pose, lift from the hips and push back and up. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">11. Hands up, stretch it out, let the sun warm you.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Inhale and rise slowly, rag doll, one vertebrae at a time, extending your arms overhead. Be good to your back during this gentle back bend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, did you do it?</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Do you feel warm & limber? Peaceful? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Strong like you can do anything? </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Happy Thursday Yogi's!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Namaste.</span></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Ok, so what have I been up to...</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Yoga classes are back in session at <a href="http://www.unisonyoga.ca/">Unison Yoga</a>. WOOT!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I dragged Ms. Cupcake with me for this set....</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I think she likes it! She rocks the Eagle pose, & I'm secretly happy that her downward facing dog sucks as much as mine does! ;) I joke!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I have 7 shifts left on the Unit I work on...secretly happy again...& after that, the world...um, the hospital is my oyster.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Less than a month til my Yoga weekend getaway! BLISS!!! {i still have to pinch myself!}</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Next week is the Evening of Art Fundraiser for <a href="http://www.shantiuganda.org/">The Shanti Uganda Society</a>. SO PUMPED!!! I am just loving working with this organization...truly amazing!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">The boys are good, the dogs are good, the husband is, well isn't that just another blog post in itself! I kid! I kid! </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">What else...mmm, two things left for you....</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong>1) </strong>A lovely quote; </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">"I live in possibility."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">~ Emily Dickinson</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong>2)</strong> I have started my Christmas shopping!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And now I believe that this makes me officially....UPDATED!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I'm pretty sure that after last nights very lovely class, there is no light inside. That bright white light she always talks about during savasana, it's more like a white searing pain today! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It hasn't been THAT long since I was on my mat....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Funny thing about that...there was some giggling & joking about who HASN'T been on their mat while the studio was on "vacation". You could easily tell by the curly ends of their mats! I felt pretty proud that my mat was perfectly flat on the floor...I mean heck...I re-rolled it the night before so it WOULD lay flat...HAHAHAHAHA! Purely for purpose & function, not for the looks of awe I received last night for being the yogini who surely must have practised all summer! WINK!</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Namaste!</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span> </div><br />
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<a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/262/1E7D0B0D868979250ABAFA9E906697FD.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" /></a>Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13989415010751895950noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6508255353223216901.post-1159292947949078152010-09-08T18:58:00.000-07:002010-09-08T19:36:49.870-07:00I might pee!<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I cannot even contain myself! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I C A N N O T even contain my glee!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">With my husband's encouragement & bank account {wink!}</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I am registered for a Yoga Retreat in the Shuswap with PADMA!!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">SHREEEEEEEEEEIK!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Padma! Can you believe it???? The one & only.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><a href="http://www.padmameditation.com/">Padma</a> is a world renowned Yogini, she even lived & studied with her guru for 10 years in the Himalayas! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">She is the author of many books, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">has hosted her own TV programs & radio programs, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">and is responsible for the development of many learning & </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">education programs locally in Vancouver </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">and the world alike. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Oh the list is endless!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">{ps, she teaches yoga to Freida Pinto, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Uma Thurman and Charlize Theron...just sayin'}</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">And little ole me....I get to spend a Friday to Sunday doing </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">yoga classes, meditation classes, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">ayurveda & stress mgmt workshops, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">eating wonderful vegetarian food </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">& all blissfully away from the family </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">{i mean i will be crying the whole time}</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> in beautiful lovely serene Shuswap Lake.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">In all honesty, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I am looking SO forward to a total yogic weekend,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> just for me, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">totally just yoga, peace & balance. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I wasn't kiddin' when I said I might pee.</span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Today's Assignment:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">See what you are willing to give yourself to. </div><div style="text-align: center;">It doesn't have to be something big. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Wholeheartedness is a process and a habit.</div><br />
<a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/262/1E7D0B0D868979250ABAFA9E906697FD.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" /></a>Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13989415010751895950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6508255353223216901.post-75630771541689860302010-09-03T20:17:00.000-07:002010-09-03T20:17:30.593-07:00What to do first???<div style="text-align: center;">If I had an ENDLESS supply of</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: lime;">MoNeY</span>...</div><div style="text-align: center;">well, I would not know where to begin!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Money 4 everyone!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">But since this is the <span style="color: orange;">REAL</span> world....</div><div style="text-align: center;">and <span style="color: lime;">$$$</span> is limited...</div><div style="text-align: center;">I need to prioritize my <span style="color: red;">wants</span>...</div><div style="text-align: center;">{this is of course after all the necessary needs}</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Yoga teacher training?</div><div style="text-align: center;">Registered Holistic Nutritionist?</div><div style="text-align: center;">Breastfeeding Coach?</div><div style="text-align: center;">just to name a few...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">One thing at a time...</div><div style="text-align: center;">Perhaps I do not need limitless cash, </div><div style="text-align: center;">but limitless...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: large;">~ PATIENCE ~</span></span></div><br />
<a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/262/1E7D0B0D868979250ABAFA9E906697FD.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" /></a>Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13989415010751895950noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6508255353223216901.post-82985428552583191952010-09-02T10:05:00.000-07:002010-09-02T10:05:00.179-07:00September is National Yoga Month!<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">~10 Reasons to practice Yoga~</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. STRESS RELIEF: Yoga reduces the physical effects of stress on the body. By encouraging relaxation, yoga helps to </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">lower the levels of the stress hormone cortisol. Related benefits include lowering blood pressure and heart rate, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">improving digestion and boosting the immune system as well as easing symptoms of conditions such as anxiety, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">depression, fatigue, asthma and insomnia.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. PAIN RELIEF: Yoga can ease pain. Studies have demonstrated that practicing yoga asanas (postures), meditation </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">or a combination of the two, reduced pain for people with conditions such as cancer, multiple sclerosis, auto-immune </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">diseases and hypertension as well as arthritis, back and neck pain, and other chronic conditions. Some practitioners </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">report that even emotional pain can be eased through the practice of yoga.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. BETTER BREATHING: Yoga teaches people to take slower, deeper breaths. This helps to improve lung function, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">trigger the body’s relaxation response and increase the amount of oxygen available to the body.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. FLEXIBILITY: Yoga helps to improve flexibility and mobility, increasing range of movement and reducing aches </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and pains. Many people can’t touch their toes during their first yoga class. Gradually they begin to use the correct </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">muscles. Over time, the ligaments, tendons and muscles lengthen, increasing elasticity, making more poses possible. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yoga also helps to improve body alignment resulting in better posture and helping to relieve back, neck, joint and </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">muscle problems.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5. INCREASED STRENGTH: Yoga asanas (postures) use every muscle in the body, helping to increase strength </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">literally from head to toe. And, while these postures strengthen the body, they also provide an additional benefit of </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">helping to relieve muscular tension.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6. WEIGHT MANAGEMENT: Yoga (even less vigorous styles) can aid weight control efforts by reducing the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">cortisol levels as well as by burning excess calories and reducing stress. Yoga also encourages healthy eating habits and </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">provides a heightened sense of well-being and self-esteem.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7. IMPROVED CIRCULATION: Yoga helps to improve circulation and, as a result of various poses, more efficiently </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">moves oxygenated blood to the body’s cells.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">8. CARDIOVASCULAR CONDITIONING: Even gentle yoga practice can provide cardiovascular benefits by </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">lowering resting heart rate, increasing endurance and improving oxygen uptake during exercise.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">9. FOCUS ON THE PRESENT: Yoga helps us to focus on the present, to become more aware and to help create </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">mind body health. It opens the way to improved concentration, coordination, reaction time and memory.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">10. INNER PEACE: The meditative aspects of yoga help many to reach a deeper, more spiritual and more satisfying </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">place in their lives. Many who begin to practice for other reasons have reported this to be a key reason that yoga has </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">become an essential part of their daily lives.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">{Text courtesy of Yoga Alliance}</div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">It's not the supplies, it's the clothes, and the desire of the little men in my life to "look cool" I really want my children to be the kind that don't care...I want them to understand that it doesn't really matter what other people think. Having said that, we all know what other people think DOES matter to some extent, and when you are 9 & 12, it TOTALLY matters what other people think! I get that...I do...sigh...</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I'm getting right giddy for Unison to be up & running again...hands down the best yoga classes I have been to...ready to work on my cobra, and my downward dog. Giddy to lay still in savasana pose and work on my meditation skills...</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">My very VERY smart & beautiful sister in law said something today that made me laugh..."whoever said what doesn't kill you will make you stronger was a real asshole" I think she has a point...I hate hearing stuff like that myself, but I do believe it. I have learned in the past few weeks that through thick & think, crap & crappier, nothing killed me, and hopefully I will come out a bit better, a bit tougher & a bit wiser for it. I am starting to see some light at the end of the tunnel....{big satisfactory exhale}</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On a {sad for some, but not for me} side note, The Amazing Adventures of Rocketgirl was put to bed last night. Nothing more to comment on that so DON'T ASK if you know what's good for you!? ;)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lastly, I lost something. Actually, 7 of them somethings, and I'm pretty happy about it! heehee!</span></div><br />
<a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/262/1E7D0B0D868979250ABAFA9E906697FD.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" /></a>Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13989415010751895950noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6508255353223216901.post-85051414780800450142010-08-31T09:32:00.000-07:002010-08-31T09:32:32.190-07:00the brief guide to life<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I read, that the following quote of only 5 words make up the <em>shortest guide to life</em>...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Smile, breathe & go slowly"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thích Nhất Hạnh </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet & peace activist)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">If you need something a little more comprehensive, try the <em>brief guide to life</em>...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">less TV, more reading</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">less shopping, more outdoors</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">less clutter, more space</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">less rush, more slowness</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">less consuming, more creating</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">less junk, more real food</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">less busywork, more impact</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">less driving, more walking</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">less noise, more solitude</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">less focus on the future, more on the present</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">less work, more play</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">less worry, more smiles</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">breathe</span></div><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Easy peasy lemon squeezy???</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">It's been quite some time since I did a good ole fashioned blog post! Busy times. It's funny how life sneaks up on you, the passing of time is impossible to keep track of!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I've been busy diving head-on into my Treasurer role for <a href="http://www.shantiuganda.org/">The Shanti Uganda Society</a>. I am blown away with how inspirational all the Board members & volunteers are. And I have NEVER been more amazed and inspired by the women we are working with in Uganda (fingers crossed for a trip over in January 2012).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">September is mere days away, (what the heck?!) I JUST started on the back-to-school shopping for the boys. I <span style="color: #e06666;">love</span> fall. It is easily my most favourite season. Wind, leaves, cozy sweaters...I am SUPER PUMPED that my lovely friend Tracy has started up her Yoga studio again...<a href="http://www.unisonyoga.ca/">Unison Yoga</a>...classes back in session Sept 13. HALLELUJAH!!!!!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://tastylittleconfections.blogspot.com/">TLC</a> is finished with summer brides (phew), work is busy & home life is crazy...now let me leave you with this neat little quote I came across...something to think about;</div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="color: #e06666;">"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings."</span></em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="color: #e06666;">~ Eric Hoffer ~</span></em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="left" style="text-align: center;">Have a <strong><span style="color: #e06666;">WONDERFUL</span></strong> weekend!</div><br />
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</div><em>So many women default to self-loathing. Or, at the very least, self-neutrality. Pride is a sin, after all, and it’s more socially acceptable to trash-talk your own body than it is to praise it. Our society has conflated humility with self-deprecation, which makes open acknowledgment of your own beauty, power, and worth absolutely taboo.</em><br />
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<em>But there are so many reasons to cultivate self-love, so many reasons to let go of loathing. I talk a lot about how to love yourself here, but today let’s talk about why.</em><br />
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<em>Hating yourself and loathing your body sucks up energy. LOTS of energy. If you can diminish or eradicate those circular thought patterns, you’ll liberate that energy for other tasks, goals, and ruminations. I promise you’ll be amazed at how invigorated you feel once you’ve cast off that incessant fretting.</em><br />
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<em>Happiness is important, but serenity is vital. And it can feel impossible to achieve when you’re busily judging yourself. Because even when the more immediate worries clear out, self-loathing is still there, whirring busily in the background and keeping you agitated. Make it stop, and serenity is within reach. Learn to love yourself, and happiness follows close behind.</em><br />
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<em>Acceptance of your own beauty opens you up to a more diverse beauty ideal. Once you acknowledge that yes, indeed, you are a gorgeous, luminous creature, other equally gorgeous and luminous creatures appear all around you. Seeing beauty in others begins with recognizing it within yourself.</em><br />
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<em>Self-loathing often goes hand-in-hand with self-deprecation, which puts other people at a distance. It’s not your job to make everyone in the world comfortable with you, of course. But the more comfortable you are with yourself, the easier you are to talk to, relate to, love.</em><br />
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<em>When you’re trapped by your own self-hatred, it can make simple tasks seem impossible. It can fool you into believing that you’re not capable or strong, or that you couldn’t possibly put forth the effort required to meet your goals. Yes, hating your body affects your confidence in other areas of life and diminishes your overall self-worth. Letting go of that negativity allows you to reclaim the power to act and achieve. When you love yourself, you value yourself, and you act accordingly.</em><br />
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<em>People love you. They do, and they always will. But in the end, you must be your own champion. The only person who can truly teach the world about your marvelous, sensual, graceful, unique, lovely, and undeniably beautiful self is YOU. When you believe you’re beautiful, the world believes right along with you.</em><br />
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<em>Loving yourself is hard. It’s work. It’s never-ending and there are a thousand forces working against your success. But believe me when I say it is worth the effort. You are worth the effort. Put that effort forth and you will be dazzled by the world of opportunity that unfolds before you.</em><br />
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<a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/262/1E7D0B0D868979250ABAFA9E906697FD.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" /></a>Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13989415010751895950noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6508255353223216901.post-79867678080665583682010-08-21T14:59:00.000-07:002010-08-22T14:09:09.509-07:00Happy New Year!<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763;">{ GOAL SETTING! }</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Who says you have to wait for January 1st?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
I have been thinking alot lately about goals...<br />
and then stumbled across Valerie @ <a href="http://thegoaldiva.com/">The Goal Diva</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">You know, "THEY" say;</div><div style="text-align: center;">goals should be updated, refreshed & reviewed often.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Written out on post-it's from nightshifts, <br />
Starbucks napkins, <br />
SOF sales slips...<br />
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Here are my few, well thought out, <span style="color: #073763;">short term</span> goals...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763;">Practice yoga regularly</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763;">DAILY fitness regimen, be it walking, or the gym</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763;">{ shed a few? firm up }</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763;">Finish the master suite re-do</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Here are a few of my <span style="color: #073763;">long term</span> goals...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763;">Become a DONA International Certified Doula by </span><span style="color: #e06666;">2011</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763;">Become a 500 hr Registered Yoga Alliance teacher by </span><span style="color: #e06666;">2012</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763;">Become a Registered Holistic Nutritionist by </span><span style="color: #e06666;">2012</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763;">Visit The Shanti Uganda Birthing House in Uganda by </span><span style="color: #e06666;">2013</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I'm holding me to these! </div><div style="text-align: center;">Feel free to poke & prod and make sure I'm not slacking!</div><div style="text-align: center;">And I will keep you posted too!</div><br />
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