I thought I was settled and ready to start blogging again a couple of weeks ago. But, it turns out it's taken me some time to get settled. As many of you know, I began a new work opportunity this week with Exhale spa. I'm going to post the information I sent out in this month's newsletter so you are up-to-date with what's been happening to True Yoga these past few months. Many wonderful things are unfolding. As things begin to return to some degree of a consistent schedule, I will begin blogging again more regularly, i.e. at least two times a week. Until then, may you be filled with bliss with every breath of life you breathe.

"Embracing the Goddess energy within yourselves will bring all of you to a new understanding and valuing of Life. A vision that inspires you to live and love on Planet Earth. Like a priceless jewel buried in dark layers of soil and stone, Earth radiates her brilliant beauty into the caverns of space and time. Perhaps you are aware of those who watch over your home, and experience it as a place to visit and play with Reality. You are becoming aware of Yourself as a Gate Master..." - Enigma, Push the Limits

I have some wonderful news to share with you. But, before I get to it, which you can read all about it in the next section, I'd like to take a moment to talk about what I've learned and am learning from this experience. When I closed the True Yoga Studio last October, it was a difficult time not just for myself, but for many of us who felt like True Yoga was a home, a place to nurture us into being well in body, mind and spirit. The last ten months have been a time of intense soul searching. Often I would question if I was on the right path, doing the work I am meant to do. At times, I wanted to quit, give up, let it all go in search of something new. The first few months after the studio closed were the hardest. I enjoy being busy, and letting go of the responsibility of having a studio and all which that entails, while I patiently allowed new teaching opportunities to open up, was extremely challenging. But with time, I found myself busy again teaching throughout several studios and a corporate location in Dallas.

As many of you know, I created the first ever True Yoga DVDduring the last ten months. It still wasn't enough, though. I longed for something more. Something that would inspire me to grow to new places in myself, my practice, my teaching and awaken to my true potential. I think more than anything I was searching for a strong sense of community, peers I could share in the love, joys and challenges of growing on this amazing journey of Yoga with and together.

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men." - Herman Melville

So I searched, far and wide to find it. For the past ten months I had my sights set on Asia as I considered an opportunity I had to teach with Pure Yoga, the largest group of Yoga studios in the world. I pondered and wrestled with the decision of whether leaving everything, family, friends, all of the life I had created, work opportunities and developments, and heading to the Far East, was the right thing to do. Yet, feeling such an overwhelming absence of community here in Dallas, continued to have me look deeper and deeper into moving forward with the opportunity in Asia. Pure Yoga seemed to have it all, beautiful, state-of-the-art Yoga studios, an incredible team of the most talented teachers from around the world, and a passion for Yoga which is so dynamic and contagious, it's spreading exponentially throughout Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and beyond. I didn't believe it would be possible for me to find this here. And, in my past five years of being in Dallas, there was nothing happening on any level like that.

Then, at a party I was at in July, I had a conversation with a fellow Yogini friend of mine who shared with me about the new Exhale Spaopening here in Dallas. At the time, I didn't really think much about it, and wasn't really considering exploring what Exhale is all about. I had my sights set on Asia, and wasn't open to the opportunities right before my eyes. Nor, did I really want to see them. I wasn't happy here, really. It was ok. But, not great. This is how I'd been living my life for the past five years. Never fully content with the moment I was in and always searching for the thing that was going to make it better. The only thing I could see being better was moving out of Dallas, getting away. So, I was closed to experiencing the fullness of the moment. Even though, all that I teach is about awakening to each moment, fully and completely. Realizing that It's All Here Now. Yet, my eyes were closed and my heart was discontent, and so I looked everywhere but here.

"He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another." - Aesop

During this time of soul searching, one of the most powerful things I did was to really develop my own daily, personal Yoga practice. I began committing myself to learning poses which I had never before thought I'd be able to do. To my amazement, I began to be able to open up into these poses. In February of this year, I learned how to do a Handstand and actually hold it for a minute or more. Then, I began to explore King Pigeon Pose, and various other advanced postures. The development and commitment to my own practice has been one of the most life-changing experiences I've ever had, and the incredible thing is I didn't have to go anywhere to find it, but within my own self. Day after day, I would return to my mat and practice these poses which I had been so challenged by in the past and had stopped exploring as possibilities. These openings in my body transcended into my mind, my heart and my spirit. Breathing easier, feeling grounded, confident and content in the moment, and experiencing all of my life aligning and moving with this amazing Flow.

I began a new relationship with my self. I began to be in the moment that is NOW. I began to consider that moving away from Dallas, was not so much about what Dallas was missing, but what I was missing in connecting to mySelf. That it's not out there, or over there, but right here, right now, within me. One day as I drove down 75 to downtown, I saw largely and clearly the sign hanging from the Hotel Palomar off of Mockingbird. Exhale Spa, it said, largely, boldly. I decided in that moment, I would contact them. I began to look into their company, their vision and mission and all that they are about. Immediately, I was inspired and impressed. The more I learned, meeting the directors and founders of Exhale, the more I was amazed at how everything I was looking for on the other side of the world, was going to be arriving right here in Dallas.

So, here I am, writing this newsletter, sharing with you about this incredible gift I've found right here, right now. A gift which seems to offer everything I'd been looking for elsewhere, disbelieving in the possibility it could ever be here now, and yet here it is. Right on time, not a moment too soon, not a moment too late, but right at the moment I was ready to see it.

"Seeing is believing." - Harry Potter

"Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits." - Fulton J. Sheen
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