Explore
Gaia Soulmates
 Advertising keeps Gaia free! Interested in sponsoring us?

New Journeys await us all..

Posted on Jun 24th, 2009 by Sanieh : Lover of the Shakti Sanieh
It's so warm outside, even at almost 10 pm at night time. I have found myself feeling a little tired due to dehydration and have started to remedy that with purchasing another SIGG bottle and have decided I'll get a third and carry two liters with me at all times. Water, it's incredible that keeping my body nourished in this way makes up for so much and the degree of which it keeps me feeling WELL is priceless. Especially in this Texas heat, I need to be better about this!

LOTS of exciting news and changes coming up this summer... I need to get on my newsletter and get it sent out by the 1st! Some I will have to save for a few months until things are solidified with my schedule and others, but the Core Cultivation Workshop in July is a go and I need to prepare to push the notice of the require pre registration since there is a minimum required for it to be held... so don't wait... ( http://saniehyoga.com/classes.htm )

Also, I mentioned this in a "tweet" on my twitter (twitter.com/saniehyoga)... if you are NEW to Dharma Yoga (very close to Yoga Yoga Northwest...it takes me 20 min at 715 am going WITH traffic to get there in the mornings coming from North... the secret is to take the 360 exit and stay on the access road that curves onto Mopac, rather than Mopac itself...then I'm On the access for an exit then merge and 45th is just a few miles away...even when it seems sticky, it moves quickly!) where I teach Tuesday/Thurs 8am and Friday 12noon, your first class is free and you also get a nice discount off of a 5 or 10 class pass. If you have a bit of a financial situation, talk with me about it and we will see what we can do. It's such a lovely lovely Zen space down near the drag and Wheatsville Co-Op... as is the much warmer studio space, if you like a heated experience, that is Yoga Vida 707 where I teach on Wed afternoon at 430... I'm so blessed to be surrounded by such lovely spaces to practice and explore...

I haven't said too much about it since it's not officially in stone until tomorrow (YAY!) but I'm planning to go to Bali in July to spend some time surfing and of course
"yoga-ing" on a Surf Goddess retreat :) I am in desperate need of a cultured, serene, water/ocean-based get away where I can completely I can un-plug, restore and renew. I'm excited but it hasn't become "real" just yet... but even a super long (longer than going to India!) flight to get me there is sounding really really nice... just UNPLUG, reading, writing, collecting myself, letting go, setting new intentions and along the way, immersing myself in a new and celebrated culture, meeting completely new people, and reconnecting with the ocean (and another part of the India Ocean:) and to finally surf again; and to do so a LOT!

With surfing, I think of her (Mother nature) like this...

She'll kick your ass. Seriously. She can hurt me and I know this. So I face her force with respect when I swim out using my strength of upper body, I sit and await her yawn as her pranic swell flow carries me with speed, I use all that I've cultivated with my own power chakra to press/float/fly from prone to squat... all on HER time... and then I rise and ride her in. And sometimes, her force and even her beauty are too much to take and like life, she'll clean everything out from under my feet, to humble me and I crash into her strength never knowing when, where, or how I'll fall, furthermore, when, where, or how I'll rise up again from what may seem like a massive power clean cycle... but she teaches me to surrender; to trust. I actually fantasize about drinking in the fear of HER; her power but perhaps it's, in part, the knowing, that she restores, cleanses, wipes away and renews me to the complete and whole woman I always was even before I ever stepped foot into the initiation that is to receive her.

With all of this I feel the challenge coming on; the other half; the "test" if you will. The nature of the Universe usually works in such a timely fashion in my world. I manifest something and the forces of Universal consciousness as a collective bring it to me and I'm so blessed not FOR this as much as for the RECOGNITION of the works of it all unfolding... YET never is it without a hearty dose of "let me make even your greatest desires challenging to receive...how deeply, Sanieh, can you become present, let go, surrender and trust...?"

I'm working on it...even now, in this precious very moment...

love and sweet dream,
Sanieh
www.saniehyoga.com
Access_public Access: Public What do you think? Print views (232)  

You have to be a Gaia member to post comments.
Login or Join now!