The intention's been set, It's time to walk the walk!!

Yoga yoga yoga!!!!

This incredible practice that I've dedicated my life to can transform us in so many ways, from the physical to the deeply spiritual.

I'm beginning to truly understand more and more that yoga is in everything, in every moment, in every breath, in every decision, in every exchange. It's in the moments when we're with our lovers, our children, our friends and our family. It's in the moment that you walk down the street and offer a friendly smile to the person walking by. It's in the moment that you decide child's pose is better than another downward facing dog.


Yoga offers this innate potential to unite, to move back to center, to witness and appreciate beauty, to be open and honest and respectful. This is something that I've known intellectually for quite some time but only now am I beginning to understand this concept on a different level. Only now am i beginning to feel a deep desire, a yearning to to align my intention with my words, my thoughts with my actions. I want to live in harmony, balanced and truthful.

I've fallen deeply into patterns over the years, acting from a place of habit rather than a place of presence, finding this most prevalent of course in relationships with those that i love the most. This experience always leaves me with a sour taste in my mouth and worse still it's left me feeling like a fraud. How can i practice yoga in one moment and then leave it behind in the next simply because I'm no longer on my yoga mat....!?!

My challenge to myself this year and every year thereafter is to live up to my full potential, to exist in the present!!!! To stop relating to others from what's happened in the past and focus on what is true in each and every moment. My challenge is to take yoga from out of the studio, off the mat and into each and every day and into each relationship.

Of course one of the best ways to harness this kind of awareness is to keep up a daily practice, whether it's 5 minutes or 105 minutes. Breathe, allow energy to move through me not stagnate, to connect in to center rather than be moved from something outside of myself, to commit, to be disciplined! All to serve a wonderful intention!!!!

It's just struck me......Am i seeking enlightenment???? Is this my intention for 2011???

No, not enlightenment, even thought that would be a welcomed state..... No, I'm simply moving back to presence, back to my practice, back to myself.

Come join me at The LifePod, on the mat.... rocking our yoga, our relationships, and rocking our intentions for 2011!!!!

Namaste,

Lauren