HOLY SMOKES! Do you know what TOMORROW is?

It's the FIRST day to PART TWO! Welcome to PART TWO of the second half of 2008 :D

Kudos to the Austin Chronicle who reminded me with this weeks edition of "Free Will Astrology"...

"Welcome to part two of your outlook for the second half of 2008, Pisces. I'm hoping that six months from now, you'll look back and make the following declaration: 'This year I was a real artist in the way I lived my life. Everything I did was like working on a beautiful masterpiece. I had a sixth sense about when to shut up and when to speak out, when to pull back and when to push on, when to recharge and when to ripen. Whenever my efforts were ready to climax, I brought them to a climax and moved on to the next adventure. So here's the next big question: What can I do to keep cultivating this adroit and graceful approach to being alive?'" 

Color me yellow that makes me smile and buzz inside like a bulldog on oatmeal! 

It's taken me all week working on it but I just sent out perhaps my first newsletter of real substance today :) It really did take me days because I am playing with a new professional newsletter service so if you found it in your inbox and with errors, don't hurt my feelings! OK scratch that...I promise to not take it personally if you promise to be patient with my lack of technical skills :)

*OH one error... I wrote that I had shirts going to print tomorrow...well, that was a lie. :) Well not a lie, but *I* misunderstood the sweet people at the printing place. The shirts will go to print once AA gets them sent and they arrive here! I do believe that will take 4 days i'm told... furthermore, 4 days from official order date, which is tomorrow :) What shirts you ask? Gotta get on the newsletter email list to find out! ;)

Note: If you have emailed me in the last week, (about anything really) I appreciate your patience and promise that I have read them all and am slowly getting replies out! It's somehow been a sleepless, yet highly productive last week to which I am thrilled about getting a full nights rest so that I will jump out of bed at 430am Tuesday morning preparing myself for my work week before hitting the SAND AND SURF IN VENICE BEACH on Saturday :))))) Yea baby!

Ahhhhhh life is good ;)

(Insert random factoid here): I had dinner with a friend last night at McCormick and Schmitt.... if you do nothing else in your food world, you must try their key lime pie. Enough said.

\OK- now I can sleep :)

love, light, liberation
Sanieh
www.saniehyoga.com

...You might not have a PULSE!

Let us DANCE!


http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ds2xRZ4t9hg

(Jake?! Someone?! show me how to hyper link!)

I am flying out tomorrow for a week so this will more than likely be my last post until I return but I HAD to share!!!


I am humbled, eCiTeD, honored, proud, and FIRED UP! to be able to share that as of yesterday (last night if I'm being specific),I have accepted the invitation and signed the dottted line to partner and represent the incredible internationally recognized clothing line and even more important; the incredible insprirational MANIFESTO

http://lululemon.com/culture/manifesto

being named a LULULEMON AMBASSADOR for 2008-2009 for the New Store opening up in Austin, TX at the end of OCT.

I believe we are scheduling a photo shoot for 2 weeks from now and then there will be a little something posted on the Autin Ambassador's page as they update http://lululemon.com/austin/austinshowroom/ambassadors

I am beside myself excited and while I LOVELOVELOVE the clothes, I love what they represent when it comes to Positivity, lifestyle, way of living, loving, and being! I am more than proud to be able to stand beside and represent the vision that is Lululemon Althetica in the community!

LOVELOVELOVE
Sanieh
www.saniehyoga.com

I arrived home around midnight last night for a short week-long intermission. I always love the return HOME especially when home is flying in over the UT tower and the beautiful Austin.

There are many questions the past 8 days has me asking of myself. This experience was far deeper and the many experiences that I witnessed and lived in myself simply cannot be put on paper... but what I CAN share is this...

I have come into this incarnation to realize that it doesn't matter if someone else supports you or praises your efforts or congratulates you or your successes, what matters is that you always move from anahata, your heart space and energy wheel always no matter if anyone else does or not. I've come into this incarnation to realize that the dimples on my tush, the size of my breasts, the many scars on my body, the color of my skin or the genetics of my teeth do not in any way show others what my SOUL looks like. I've learned that sometimes a smile heals and can save lives without our ever knowing it. I've realized that beauty is a soul thing, not a skin thing.

I've learned that coming clean and being CLEAR on who we are is what is most important no matter what society says or thinks. I've learned that love comes in all colors, sizes and sexes and that the world needs more of it however it may manifest itself. I've learned that friends can be found in all places and manifestations and that they might have a beautiful mohawk or they may bark and that forgiveness frees not the person we have been carrying on our back the whole time, but it frees our self. I've come into this incarnation to learn that sometimes a long full body contact hug can nourish the soul almost instantly and that the longer the embrace, the more food you receive and give. I'm still learning the power of NO and that if we are able, we should always say YES to someone in need. I'm learning that forgiveness of ourselves is key and that happiness can only be found in truthfulness of freely living and showing our true colors and being unafraid to do so; and if we ARE afraid, we must find courage.

I've come into this incarnation to realize that sometimes someone's best love isn't enough and that being true to ourselves makes us better people and better able to love the world around us. I've learned the power of a simple gesture and the importance of kindness and thoughtfulness. I'm learning that we should always do and say things without expectation of getting something back; that we should always move from a space of authenticity and that pure love is doing so simply because we want to, not for any kind of return.

I've learned to say "I love you." without a question mark at the end trying to hear it back; I'm learning that love is an action, not a verb.

I'm learning that sometimes love looks like a beautiful Goddess friend sitting next to you on an old bench outside of a smoothie bar on Barton Springs while you tear up over the little girl within you who lost her mother or that it looks like a loved one picking you up late night from the airport with a cooler in the back seat with a weeks worth of healthy fresh fruits, food, and great love prepared for you so you don't have to grocery shop before your next flight 7 days later.

I'm learning that sometimes loves means letting go so that we can reinvent ourselves! I've learned that we must know in all things, when it's time to go, even when we don't want to and I'm learning to trust that we should, (in my teachers beautiful words) "dare to risk not knowing until its time to know and until then; learn learn learn".

I've come into this incarnation to know that whatever it is that I practice I must be fully committed to really live the essence of it. I've realized the true meaning of PUJA! I've come into this incarnation to realize that I really am not my name yet my name has history and roots and heritage and divine meaning and that I should care if it is mispronounced or misspelled.

I've come into this incarnation to realize that I AM lovable!

I've come into this incarnation to explore music, to write poetry and to SING and to TEACH because I have a story to tell...

I've come into this incarnation to be the eternal student and not to be submissive, but to surrender to the source that I see as my Ishta Devata that is the Sun, grass, nature, and the ocean.

I've come into this incarnation to realize and  fulfill my righteous duty and purpose as a soul in this body, my DHARMA.

More to come...

Love, Light, and Liberation
Sanieh
http://www.saniehyoga.com/

Yay! Shirts are in and that makes even a sleepy girl smile big for the camera :) I have no idea how to bring this info to my shop page on my website since I cannot figure out how to upload pics on that page like I do on the photos page...hmmm

There are 3 different "arts" or sayings on the fronts. American Apparel, American made, sweat shop free, non-toxic ink... and 10% of proceeds will go to www.womanforwoman.org

Tanks Guys ribbed , Unisex & Gals ribbed : What's Your Dharma? (Font as shown above)

Tanks Guys ribbed & Gals ribbed :
Less Explanation (Font as shown above)
More Exploration

Vintage Ts Guys/Unisex & Gals: Choose Joy. (Papyrus)

I love the stamp on the back that is located a few fingers below the neck hem with the beautiful mantra written in Tibetan that is "Om Mani Padme Hum" or "the jewel is in the heart of the lotus" with a tiny "saniehyoga" just below it :)

These will look rockin' with your favorite Lululemon pants ;) .... or jeans :)

I actually have a lot of colors, especially in the ladies because the men's only offer a few choices... next time, I'm keeping it simple though- real simple! Ha!

hearts.
Sanieh
www.saniehyoga.com

Above are the font prints on the new saniehyoga shirts/tanks with the stamp that is on the back of each one (these are not the colors, just  for display of what they look like :)

"The greatest way to create is to get out of your own way and be the vessel for something greater than yourself to move through you." - Jeremy Pivan

My soul wants to sing. I mean that in a multitude of ways. I love my guitars and I love bringing that into my yoga. I recently manifested a lovely harmonium (eastern) into my path as well (Pranams, Suresh!) and something about that harmonium that lets me go there! It's different than my guitar although I love and appreciate them both equally so... but the harmonium allows me to get lost in the expression and run organic "riffs" of bhakti/devotion, or better expressed, it deeply allows me to get out of my own way and let my body and voice be the vessel for something greater to move THROUGH me. I'm *so* into this space that within the last 2 days, I have ordered a Shruti box (think of a 4 lb harmonium) from India and a Ghungroos from Germany :) It's going to be a one (wo)man show ;)

Shiva asked me last week "what do you know, with absolute certainty, you are suppose to explore in your lifetime? I knew the answer before that early morning question and I know it most clearly now. It's part of my yogic path and that path that I am walking is my dharma. I know this to be certain.

Today I wear my new "Choose Joy." shirt and I smile because I have chosen just that, as a result of answering the call that has been put on my life. Who knows what that will look like later in a year from now in this sense, should the keeper of breath grant me that many more. I'll keep working with allowing myself to be the "vessel" through which goodness; and all things auspicious move through...

CHOOSE Joy.
Sanieh
www.saniehyoga.com