Frisbeeeeeee

On January 23rd, 1957, the Wham-O toy company rolled out the first batch of their aerodynamic plastic discs known around the world as the Frisbee!

William Frisbee opened the Frisbie Pie Company in 1871 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. College kids would throw their empty pie tins at each other yelling, Frisbeeeee as they let go.

The definition of levity is lightness or buoyancy.

Like the Frisbee that coasts lightly through the air and connects the hand of one to the hand of another, find the levity in the connection with yourself and those around you as you come to mat and practice yoga.

Enjoy the silliness of some of the poses, the glide of your limbs as they create shape and holding of a posture that is rooted in the camaraderie of connection.

It is, after all, just yoga. And yoga is designed to move the body to a place of stillness.

Frisbees are meant to soar until they are reached.

Yup, I can even find yoga in the frisbee.

You can find yoga in everything and it takes looking at our history, our actions and interactions to find the bliss and balance in it all.

Have fun and breathe deeply,

Lady

February 2012 - beat the winter blaaaaahs!

Grand Canyon 1/11/12

Darlings,
Happy 1/11/11...did you make a wish at 1:11? Did you miss it at the AM? Well you had the PM!! Make a wish now on 1 and celebrate.

In Lady Yoga fashion, it is my goal to look back in history to see where we have come from, find the yoga in the moments past to keep us rooted in the present and passionate about where we are going in the future.
On that note...

On January 11th, 1908 President Roosevelt declared the Grand Canyon a National Monument stating, “Let this great wonder of nature remain as it is. You cannot improve upon it…but keep it for your children, your children’s children and all who come after you.”

More than 5 million people visit this pocket of earth that has virtually unchanged for 400 years. (80K acres, 7K above sea level)

Immovable, strong and marvelous - it stays virtually the same no matter what the weather or how many people walk all over it.

As individuals, we ARE movable. But we’re strong and stable in our foundation and determination in practice - staying balanced no matter what weather, people and challenges come into our life.

Observe and ride the peaks and valleys of this practice like the ebbs and flow of life. Let the breath serve you in and out as you move and hold postures.

The wind at the Grand Canyon is magnificent and it's mobile force supports the ground it fills and flows throughout.

Enjoy the playfulness as you explore the stillness between the movements, holding and letting go. Compression postures to detoxify, heat to let go, standing postures to strengthen, breathing to stay true to your intention and stretches to open up. Savor it all and stay steady.

“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. – Carl Jung

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance. –Brian Tracy

“Let the wave of memory, the storm of desire, the fire of emotion pass through without affecting your equanimity.”Sri Sathya Sai Baba

“The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.” – Euripedes


“Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life – learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.” ~ Robert Fulghum

“Take the time it takes so it takes less time” ~ Unknown

“Trust your hunches. They’re usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.” ~ Joyce Brothers

A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.” ~ William Shedd

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” ~Albert Einstein

“They can because they think they can.” ~ Virgil

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

“Do not wait for your ship to come in. Swim out to it.” ~ Unknown

Accept challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.” ~ George S. Patton

Life is ten percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.” ~ Lou Holtz

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe the mind can achieve.” ~ Napoleon Hill


The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty. - Zig Ziglar

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. – Albert Einstein

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but I almost always end up where I need to be. – Douglas Adams

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. –Albert Camus

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. – Coco Chanel

Yours in balance and in-balance, stability in stillness and movement,
Lady Yoga

Home - just in time for the holidays...

Dear Lovies,

The last of the U.S. troops from Iraq came home Wednesday Dec. 14^th , a symbolic end to the second longest war in American history.

Lasting more than eight years, the deeply unpopular war has cost the lives of more than 4,400 U.S. soldiers and another 32,000 wounded.

Many people will be traveling home for the holidays and there's no place like home during this time.

There's yoga in that.

Home is anywhere you feel present and loved. Find home in your breath and on your mat and you'll be home.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action. Mother Teresa

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. Maya Angelou

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost

“We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character” Henry David Thoreau

Where we love is home, Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Homesick in Heaven

Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye? ~Author Unknown

Homecoming means coming home to what is in your heart. ~Author Unknown

You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you. ~Frederick Buechner

I'm on my way

Home sweet home

Tonight, tonight

I'm on my way

Home sweet home Just set me free Home Sweet Home –Motley Crue

Times have changed and times are strange

Here I come but I aint the same

Mama, Im coming home – Ozzy Osborne

Well, I'm going home, back to the place where I belong

And where your love has always been enough for me – Daughtry

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. ~Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. ~Carl Sandburg

Distance between two hearts is not an obstacle, rather a beautiful reminder of just how strong true love can be. ~Author Unknown

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith. ~Author Unknown

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. ~Kay Knudsen

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age. ~John Dryden

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven. ~Tryon Edwards

Missing someone gets easier every day because even though it's one day further from the last time you saw each other, it's one day closer to the next time you will. ~Author Unknown

In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged. ~Hans Nouwens

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night. ~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

A part of you has grown in me. And so you see, it's you and me together forever and never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart. ~Author Unknown

Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. ~From the television show The Wonder Years

We only part to meet again. ~John Gay

Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell. ~Jean Paul Richter

Can miles truly separate you from friends.... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? ~Richard Bach

I'll be home for Christmas

You can plan on me – Bing Crosby

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~Attributed to Claudia Ghandi

Another aeroplane

Another sunny place

I’m lucky, I know

But I wanna go home

Mmmm, I’ve got to go home – Michael Buble

Ahh, Home

Let me come Home

Home is wherever I’m with you (2x) – Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

Wish I were with you

I couldn't stay

Every direction

Leads me away

Pray for tomorrow

But for today

All I want is to be home – Foo Fighters

I’m coming home

Tell the World I’m coming home

Let the rain wash away all the pain of yesterday

Back where I belong, yeah I never felt so strong Diddy

Weave in faith and God will find the thread. ~Author Unknown

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. ~Anthony Brandt

On my way,

Lady

Magellan! Discover this...

Hey lovies,

After sailing through the dangerous straits below South America that now bear his name, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan enters the Pacific Ocean on November 28 in the year 1520, becoming the first European explorer to reach the Pacific from the Atlantic.

There's yoga in that.

Set the intention as you practice whatever your yoga is today to discover and go into the depths of your body and mind like an explorer in new territory.

Your body and mind will always surprise you with new findings.

Go into the unknown with what you think and come out with what you don't expect and be open to it all

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

Christopher Columbus

We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. TS Eliot

Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit. Frank Borman

I prefer to explore the most infinite moments the smaller crystallized details we all hinge our lives on. -Rita Dove

Music is what feelings sound like. - Anon

What moves those of genius, what inspires the work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already happened. Eugene Delacroix

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacles to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of two personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. John W. Gardner

Do not fear risk. All exploration, all growth is calculated without challenge people cannot reach their higher selves. Only if we are willing to walk over the edge can we become winners.

That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping starss and studying nebula but charting the unknown possibilities of existence - Leaonard Nemoy

In wisdom gathered over time, I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. Ansel Adams

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we don't understand. - Frank Herbert

We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. - Samuel Smiles

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking enw landscapes by in having new eyes. - Marcel Proust

Failure is in a sense the highway to success in as much as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek ernestly after what is true. John Keats

Yours in exploration and GPS,

Lady

Lady Yoga November 2011/Yoga for Healthy Hands and Wrists

Steve Jobs Connect the Dots/Steve Jobs Day

Darlings,

Steve Jobs 'Connect the Dots' speech he delivered at Stanford University in '05 was the first time I used quotes in my yoga class.

I noticed how nicely the words of a 'non yogi' fit into class and from then on, I did, Historyoga, taking an historical moment, finding an intention for a whole class to focus on and supporting that intention by using quotes from 'non yogi's' to show how yoga is everywhere and in everyone.

I've been doing it now for over a year and although some people don't 'get it' when I describe it, I think of Jobs and how people didn't necessarily 'get him' when he first came on the technical scene.

I love creating new ways to look at things. I'm no steve jobs, but I'm Lady Yoga and I'm always thinking outside the mat.

In honor of one of my favorite role models, along with Loren Michaels, Carol Burnett, Tracey Ullman, Winston Churchill, Goethe, Henry Ford, Mother Teresa, Albert Camus, Antoine De Saint-Exupéry, Picasso, Denise Austin and, well, Oprah. Here's to those who blaze paths and inspire yoga in everything.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” SJ

Trust yourself to think big, make a difference and have an impact in everything you do every day for the betterment of a healthier whole. You can’t do this alone. SJ

"Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do."-SJ

“That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.” SJ

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.” SJ

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. Benjamin Franklin

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. Nelson Mandela

Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you. Oprah Winfrey

Passion is the genesis of genius. Tony Robbins

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. Napoleon Bonaparte

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. Edgar Allan Poe

With out passion you dont have energy, with out energy you have nothing. Donald Trump

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

Harriet Tubman

Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” Carl W. Buechner

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.
- Chin-Ning Chu

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what he loves. 
– Blaine Pascal

Nobody can be successful unless he loves his work. 
David Sarnoff

When you set yourself on fire, people love to come and see you burn. 
— John Wesley

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested. 
— E. M. Forster

Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself… 
-Horace

Chase your passion, not your pension. 
— Denis Waitley

Anyone can dabble, but once you've made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it's very hard for people to stop you. 
- Bill Cosby

There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson. 
— Anthony Robbins

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. 
— Field Marshal Ferdinand Foch

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark. 
- Henri Frederic Amiel

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the things that may get in the way of people being lifelong learners is that they’re not in touch with their passion. If you’re passionate about what it is you do, then you’re going to be looking for everything you can to get better at it. 
- Jack Canfield

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for. 
— Ray Bradbury

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got. 
- Walter Cronkite

Passion is the element in which we live; without it, we hardly vegetate. 
– Lord Bryron

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire. 
- Aristotle

Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost. 
– Proverbs

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. 
- Albert Einstein

I didn't want to repeat my parents' life. I saw in their lives a routine and a lack of dreaming, a lack of the possibilities, a lack of passion. And I didn't want to live without passion. 
- Hugh Hefner

And in me wake hope, fear, boundless desire. 
– George Macdonald

What I got from Steve Jobs - that your past failures are tomorrows success. You CAN have it all by connecting the dots from your past passions and believing in them. People still might not get my historyoga or Lady Yoga but they still come to my classes and it still works.

'It' will always work if you believe in it.

What's next?

Lady