Back to blogging here again... It's been awhile!  I'm grooving right now on the sounds of a ferocious thunderstorm.  The rain is coming down in buckets and the thunder and lightening so majestic! 

I love the rain and thunderstorms especially.  Summer storms are the BEST.  Everything is so clear and clean afterwards.  I may just have to disengage from this machine and take myself outside for a little dance in the rain.  Clearing, cleansing the auric field, releasing the toxins of excessive online indulgence! 

Important to balance the inward and the outward.  To commune with nature as much as we commune with bits and bytes.  Love one another - I'm going outside to play!

I love New England, if you don't like the weather here just wait a minute!  Today I'm enjoying a totally lazy day.  Spent almost the whole morning in bed.  James snuggled in with me last night.  He's not a little boy anymore but still likes an occasional night with mom in the big bed!  It's so sweet to just share the love.  Anyway, today is shaping up to be a scorcher and I'm really going to enjoy just lying out and soaking up some rays for a while. 

Father Sun is activating all of us for our next level of growth now and it's important to store up the energy for the coming harvest season.  Harvesting our dreams, the seeds that we planted in the spring that we are caring for and tending now.  Make sure you weed out your garden and thin the dream seeds that no longer serve.  Check for the hardiest plants, those that are truly going to nurture your soul's calling and feed you in more ways than one. 

Weeding and thinning are important signs of mastery.  Focus on the love - not just the food ($$) that might be produced in the process.  Do you have a balance of both working in harmony?  Or are you merely indulging your passions on the one hand or only focused on survival on the other?  STOP.  Sit with your heart center.  Listen for the small still voice that will surely guide you to the next level of your own perfect unfoldment. 

The seeds of light are spreading now and the Rainbow Children are unveiling their mastery in many realms.   Trigger the light, the light, the light.  Trigger the love, the love, the love.

 Until next time!  Enjoy the day.....

Peace and blessings,

Amethyst

Yoga has been such an amazing part of my journey to wholeness and balance and I am so grateful to myself for making and sticking with my committment to the practice.  This week I was reading Yoga Journal and there was an article about having a home practice.  I started my practice at a gym a little over 5 years ago and about 4 years ago I brought it home with a video that a friend had given me of Rodney Yee.

Rodney and I have a date now just about every morning for AM Stretch.  I love this video because its only 20 minutes.  Heck anybody can squeeze 20 minutes in right?  "They" say that 20 minutes of practice several times a week is as good for you if not better than a full hour and a half practice.

So I'm reading this article and it's talking about different sequences you can try and different times of the day that you can practice and how having a home practice can seem a little daunting at first to most people because they just can't figure out how to do yoga with out a little help and guidance from a teacher. 

This is why I love Rodney, he's with me every morning - by now I've actually memorized the entire video.  He's consistent, always there and he's my favorite way to start the day.  The thing that's nice about doing the same video every morning is I really get to see where I'm at. Some days I'm not on the mat at all and I catch myself doing my leg stretch about 10 seconds ahead of Rodney - this would be a day where I'm ahead of myself.  Other days I listen to my body and give myself extra time in Down Dog - this is where I'm really in touch with what my body needs.  Then we have days like today.  The funny thing about home practice is of course you are doing it at home!

So here we go starting out with a little relaxation to get present:

Rodney - "Surrender to the Earth"

Upstairs - CRAAASH ("Sorry Ms. Wyldfyre - I dropped the chair", says Nate my son's buddy who slept over)

Now we move through the relaxation process and we are really cooking - moving our legs left, and right, stretching the arms out to the side, now we're in bridge pose.  What a great morning!  Moving along now we roll over into cobra, now back to the mat, now updog - What's that?  Updog???? 

Kack, Kack, Kack  - It's the sound of my 17 year old labrador making vomit on the floor - quick off the mat, run to the kitchen, shoo the cat away, grab the paper towels!  Bend, stretch, squat, wipe, run for the rubbish barrel, Ack out of paper towels - shoo kitty get away from the there, wipe some more, ok all cleaned up!  Now where were we?

Oops - missed Downdog, missed Lunge, missed Supported Chair Pose - God Rodney's already back on the floor, no standing poses today.

Alright, lets get focused and back on the mat again - Staff Pose into the twist, moving right along twisting to the left, twisting to the right, cleanse those toxins, now cross legged, now up on the pillow for the final forward bends and prepare for meditation.

Closing the eyes, feeling the head right over the chest (WOOF!) ,  focusing on the breath (WOORF!),  feeling the eyes relax back into the head (WOOF! WOOF! WOOF! Pukey dog wants in but he's going to have to wait) Now entering into 2 minutes of meditation to center the mind (WOOF! WOORF! WOORF!)  (MEOW, MRow - now Kitty is joining the chorus).

And me?  I'm in the silence.  Centered, balanced, focused, and serene - WHAT??? My 2 minutes is up?  Thank you God for Yoga, for Rodney, for Kids and Cats and Dogs and Life.  It's all good.  Wonder what my practice will be like tomorrow.......


Have a great day!

A