Letting go can be defined as: "A combination of accepting, but not denying; living in the present and looking forward to the future without regret for the past, and a willingness to move on and beyond.

Embarking on my 30th birthday this week, I will be starting what is called a Forgivness Project ... Working towards letting go and understanding what Forgivness truly means... 

“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and realize that prisoner was you.” ~Lewis B. Smedes

The ability to achieve forgiveness and let go of past hurts is one of

the most critical challenges many of us face on the road to attaining

personal peace and happiness.

While it certainly isn't easy, it is absolutely necessary for

long-term mental and emotional heath.

“Yoga: Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.”


~Anon

I work within

"Forgiveness is not something you do solely for the person who hurt you. 

It is something you do for yourself, for the sake of your own inner freedom. 

You forgive so that you can live in the present instead of being stuck in the past. 

You forgive because your grievances and grudges—even more than hopes and attachments and fears—bind you to old patterns, old identities, and especially to old stories."

true challenges serve for us true freedom

I continuously work towards this freedom and try to release the tensions that hold me back,,,,

 today it was letting go and forgiving..

 if we all did this every day wouldn't we be happier? 

And today I choose happiness

seek a connection rather than meet an expectation ....

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Its amazing when

Yoga Sutra 1.20- Faith, strength and profound 
meditation will lead you further.

I think about meditation

and goals
perspective
The view from where I am now is so much different than where I was.

So I sit with things, I practice yoga, and it creates more space within me to realize what makes life exactly what it should be.

my teacher Jacqui Bonwell said
"As you read this remember it's the only moment in your life that's real...everything else is 

memory & fantasy. 'Life is what happens when you're busy making plans'."

But what about making that fantasy into reality?
as I was looking into avenues towards my dreams I found a website that had this little inspiration.

If money were no object, what would I do?

I’m happiest when I ________________.

Where would I like to be in ten years?

I’d like to see myself as someone who _________.

What is my definition of success?

What am I most passionate about?

What do I value?

So I sit with this 

and I can feel the spark within me grow stronger

Passionate about what I do and what I love. 

So truly grateful for being close to that place where I know I can be who I was meant to be.

I was never that girl that knew what she wanted to be when she grew-up. 

I was not that girl that knew if she would, or could, be a mother or wife. 

When I open my self up to healthy possibilities and positive people in my life I found a piece of passion within me that I never knew I had.  Growth.

When I found that spark inside me through yoga and teaching, healing and helping, I knew that this is exactly where I should be. 

I knew I had been chasing, working towards happiness my whole life.  

Fog rolled in once in awhile and I couldn't see my way 

but it always lifted so I could have the courage to go where I needed to go.

Yoga teaches us that even the most beautiful flowers are grown from rocks

In life

We may have been given a story 

but we choose to put our best foot forward

This is the starting line to my dreams.

How I get there, I have no idea 

but the fog is starting to lift

again

and we practice

You See Be the Change

Change happens

Yoga just gives us a little more space to allow room for the shift. 

Creating space, allowing for more room to

breathe. 

Yoga teaches that the only thing we truly have control over,

 the only thing we can change, is ourselves. 

"Yoga teaches us how to respond to stress patiently. We must experience the physical challenge of the postures without fear, and use deep, calm breaths to move through them. If we can take that lesson off the mat and into our  lives, we will move closer to the goal of responding to stress in a careful and considered way." 


I take the theory behind the pose through my daily life.  
Creating 
a connection with my constant breath as my body continuously changes.  
Through this change I feel connected to who I really am.  
The person that I was meant to be. 
Before influence, Before beliefs. 
I connect to who I am naturally. 
And I breathe. 
Allowing something greater to happen... and I become just a little bit lighter... 
a little more free...
a little more balanced...

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