Something that confuses people who know us, but makes total sense to me, is that our family occasionally attends the nearby Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. (There's a long, complicated explanation for this that I ended up writing an entire book about.) The short of it is that we attend a few times a month during the … Continue reading Day Four: We’ve won the lottery, my friends.
As I last wrote, I walked into the second training weekend feeling not like myself. But then again, isn't this how I walked into the first weekend? Keeping track of my crazy seems to be one of the purposes of this blog. If I'm "not feeling like myself" as much I seem to be, I … Continue reading Day Three: Riding the Waves
Nine months ago, in February, I had an emergency appendectomy. (Are appendectomies ever not emergencies? Does anyone ever think, I'm just gonna have my appendix removed as a preventative measure...? ) It was my first time in an emergency room, first time under general anesthesia, first surgery, first time as a patient in a hospital. It did … Continue reading Grieving on the Mat, Part One
That first Monday after the teacher training weekend was hard. It was a struggle to go from such an intense, transformative set of days to "regular" life. Child 3 woke up covered with a horrible case of poison oak, worse than what I'd had the week before that sent me to the doctor for prednisone, … Continue reading You Can’t Always Get What You Want
Natalie's second guided meditation towards the end of the second day is the one that really got me. For some context, I will say I was trying to pay better attention to the Upanishads lesson of the day than I had the day before. One of the things I picked up on was a similarity … Continue reading Day Two: Crazy Meditation Insight #2
Breath. Posture. Cue. 