Just got back from a wonderful week in Costa Rica. If you have ever been to Nosara you will understand when I say that there is something so magical about this place. We had an amazing retreat and one of the reasons it was so amazing is because several of the people that came last year Re-treated again this year!!! And, we had some incredble other people join this year. After 3 plane rides and a 2 hour car ride to get home my brain is pulsating with all of the new experiences that we had there and how I can bring that back here to where I live.
The food will be tough to match here. Fresh bananas and other juicy fruits, no proccessed foods at all, the magical juice bar at Harmony, yep it’s gonna be a tough day at the grocery store today. Doing yoga everyday with the same people is an experience firmly recommend. Community in yoga will allow you to deepen your practice on and off your mat. Sure it’s a lot easier to handle power differientials and stuff when your in paradise but you are certainly going to learn about yourself and how you hold relationships with other people.
Last year was a year chock full of transitions for me and many others. I closed my yoga studio and I’m embracing my new direction in life. I had my heart opened wide and broken apart sometime in the same day. When I look back on last year it has been an incredible time of spanda, pulsing with contraction and wild expansion. So for this year I can already see where my practice needs some beefing up!!! I have no problem admitting I’m a highly sensitive person that has to work hard not to take things personally and after being Nosara what I need to work on for 2012 was easily channeled. This year I am going to focus on “staying strong and moving on!”
It’s not news to me that I have some people or events in my past that well frankly SUCK, but it’s not my dharma to spend energy on what happened or what others think of me. So whenever I feel the drama taking over I am going to use my new mantra “STAY STRONG AND MOVE ON!” Letting go is the most healing and freeing thing that I can do for myself.
This past year I had the opportunity to study with John Friend, founder of Anusara Yoga and more specifically was attended his 5 day workshop on the Dharma of Relationships. Something huge was planted in me in New Jersey and I am going to culitvate what I took from the workshop and put it into action in my life. John stated very clearly that there are some people that “hate him” and that he doesn’t spend any energy on them, he wishes them blessings and moves on! How inspiring!
That’s HUGE, and that is how I want to align myself for this year. Out with the old mental samskaras that I am not a nice person or that people have a legitamate reason to “hate” or dislike me. Although I’m not always perfect I’m doing the very best that I can and over the years the level of integrety I expect from who I live my life around has certainly risen but I see that as a postive.
STAY STRONG AND MOVE ON FRIENDS!!
Love to you!