Thanks Giving

As Thanksgiving day moves close, I am sitting at the desk looking out at the rain.
What are we grateful for?
I was driving home from Palm Springs last night when the rain began and I realized my windshield wipers badly needed to be replaced. I moved into the slow lane and trudged from Redlands to Burbank at fifty miles an hour. It would have been easy to get annoyed & irritable but I moved into that Thanksgiving spirit. I gripped the jasper I keep in my car and uttered a little prayer.
"Thank you for my safe car, my new tires.. Thank you for the slow lane, that I can steadily and carefully make it home. Thank you for my new glasses that help me to see in the dark rain. Thank you for protecting me in this vehicle."

My boyfriend & I were watching "Zeitgeist, addendum" the other night. I had the pillow over my head most of the time because it was like, "I know. I KNOW how scary the world is. I know what a tentative spot we are in. I know there is pain and cruelty and greed and scarcity..." but then it started talking "solution" and my head came out from under.
Some guy was saying there is enough "prosperity, abundance & sustainability for all in this world."
Prosperity.
Abundance.
Sustainability.
So on Thanksgiving, I say THANK YOU for my prosperous, abundant, sustainable life.. because why not?? If I can start to believe it, we will all start to feel it, you know??? and Thanksgiving is not just about gratitude after all, it's also about hope.
So say thank you. for your life just as it is and for all it can be.

Namaste~

Sweet. Sassy. Sacred.

Yup. That is pretty much how I have been described by students and friends. Fitting words for a 25 year old yoga teacher/healer I suppose. How did I get myself into this you may wonder? Well, I believe everything (yes, everything) happens for a reason.

Don't believe me??? Then let's chat. In all my work as a student, teacher, apprentice, healer, guide, daughter, sister, friend, enemy, lover, addict and whatever other roles I have played I have found that I am always where I need to be. Through exploring and studying yoga& other spiritual texts, yoga poses, Native teachings, metaphysical healing and fashion magazines I have found tools to more peace, more joy and much less suffering. No matter what is going on or where I am.

Sound good?? You can too.

It takes willingness, commitment, endurance and oh yeah, faith.