shiva tt conclusion part ii February 15, 2009
My training is officially over and I am home after my 3 hour drive from LA back to my lovely home in San Luis Obispo. I really enjoyed my last day to the fullest extent! I wandered to the Venice Beach Farmer’s Market for a little raw food from this booth I stopped by last week. Yum. Our last hour of training Shiva shared some practical tips for taking the flow back with us into our lives, wherever our lives are. She created space for paparazzi rituals which I thought was pretty freaking cool.
In the end I really need to share my gratitude! I feel so blessed to be able to spend time learning from someone whom I honor, respect, and want to learn so much from. I feel so thankful that my life path has brought me right here, right now; living in SLO, working at MINDBODY, teaching yoga, with so many great people in my past, present, and future. I have to concur with Shiva’s teaching philosophy of sharing and paying it forward and I want to do the same in whatever ways I can. I believe in the impermanence of life and I know that my life situation may change at any time. I also know in my heart that I manifested many of the situations I’ve been blessed with and I pray (for lack of a better word) that I can continue to do this and teach others how to do the same. I say this with confidence not cockiness. I don’t share much of my past life situations because I feel like I have their stories in my heart and soul and I’m not sure how much of it is necessary to share. I have lived life, felt pain, felt utterly alone for long periods of time, had no idea what I was doing wrong but realized that I was indeed living some things very wrong, broken hearts, participated in cheap love, forgiven when I didn’t really want to, meditated when my hips throbbed, saved when I’d rather spend, smiled when I wanted to cry, hurt people, hurt myself, been selfish. So it goes.
Thank you Shiva for teaching me how to breathe again. For teaching me how to honor and love my body where it is today. For teaching me how to feel and love the flow and cyclical nature of life.
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